Zhu Xi (Chu Hsi, 1130-1200) Uno studioso eminente, classicista e pensatore analitico e sintetico di prim'ordine, Zhu Xi (Chu Hsi) creò la sintesi suprema della dinastia Song-Ming (960-1628 d.C) Neo-confucianesimo. Inoltre, selezionando i testi classici confuciani essenziali: i Dialoghi (Scivoloso) di Confucio, il Libro di Mencio (Mengzi, il Grande Apprendimento (Daxue) e la dottrina della media (Zhongyong)- quindi modificandoli e compilandoli, con commento, come i Quattro Libri

Guglielmo Giacomo (1842-1910) William James is considered by many to be the most insightful and stimulating of American philosophers, as well as the second of the three great pragmatists (the middle link between Charles Sanders Peirce and John Dewey). As a professor of psychology and of philosophy at Harvard University, he became the most famous living American psychologist and later the most famous living American

Animism Animism is a religious and ontological perspective common to many indigenous cultures across the globe. According to an oft-quoted definition from the Victorian anthropologist E. B. Tylor, animists believe in the “animation of all nature”, and are characterized as having “a sense of spiritual beings…inhabiting trees and rocks and waterfalls”. Più recentemente, ethnographers and anthropologists have moved beyond Tylor’s initial definition, and have sought

The Semantic Theory of Truth The semantic theory of truth (STT, di seguito) was developed by Alfred Tarski in the 1930s. The theory has two separate, although interconnected, aspects. Primo, it is a formal mathematical theory of truth as a central concept of model theory, one of the most important branches of mathematical logic. Secondo, it is also a philosophical doctrine which elaborates the notion of

Confucio (551—479 B.C.E.) Better known in China as “Master Kong” (cinese: Kongzi), Confucius was a fifth-century BCE Chinese thinker whose influence upon East Asian intellectual and social history is immeasurable. As a culturally symbolic figure, he has been alternately idealized, deified, licenziato, vilified, and rehabilitated over the millennia by both Asian and non-Asian thinkers and regimes. Given his extraordinary impact on Chinese, coreano, Japanese, e

Teodoro Adorno (1903-1969) Theodor Adorno è stato uno dei principali filosofi continentali del XX secolo. Sebbene abbia scritto su una vasta gamma di argomenti, la sua preoccupazione fondamentale era la sofferenza umana, in particolare gli effetti delle società moderne sulla condizione umana. Fu influenzato soprattutto da Hegel, Marx, e Nietzsche. È stato associato all'Istituto per la ricerca sociale, nella Scuola di Francoforte, che era una scienza sociale