Material Composition A material composite object is an object composed of two or more material parts. Il mondo, sembra, is simply awash with such things. The Eiffel Tower, per esempio, is composed of iron girders, nuts and bolts, e così via. You and I, as human beings, are composed of flesh and bone, and various organs. Inoltre, these parts themselves are composed of further

Sopravvenienza e determinazione Il termine “sopravvenienza” ha guadagnato importanza nel ventesimo secolo quando è stato suggerito che le proprietà morali sopravvengono alle proprietà naturali e che le nostre caratteristiche mentali sopravvengono alle nostre caratteristiche fisiche come le proprietà del nostro sistema nervoso.. Il termine può essere definito come segue. Per due insiemi di proprietà, UN (l'insieme sopravveniente) e B (l’insieme subveniente o base di sopravvenienza),

Gabriele Marcel (1889—1973) The philosophical approach known as existentialism is commonly recognized for its view that life’s experiences and interactions are meaningless. Many existentialist thinkers are led to conclude that life is only something to be tolerated, and that close or intimate relationships with others should be avoided. Heard distinctly among this despair and dread was the original philosophical voice of Gabriel Marcel. Marcel, a World

Cyrenaics The Cyrenaics are one of the minor Socratic schools. The school was founded by Aristippus, a follower of Socrates. The Cyrenaics are notable mainly for their empiricist and skeptical epistemology and their sensualist hedonism. They believe that we can have certain knowledge of our immediate states of perceptual awareness, Per esempio, that I am seeing white now. Tuttavia, we cannot go beyond these experiences

Paradigm Case Arguments From time to time philosophers and scientists have made sensational, provocative claims that certain things do not exist or never happen that, in everyday life, we unquestioningly take for granted as existing or happening. These claims have included denying the existence of matter, spazio, Ore, the self, free will, and other sturdy and basic elements of our common-sense or naïve world-view. Around

Hippocrates (c. 450—c. 380 B.C.E.) Hippocrates of Cos was said to have lived sometime between 450 BCE to 380 BCE. He was a physician, and the writings of the Corpus Hippocraticum provide a wealth of information on biomedical methodology and offer one of the first reflective codes of professional ethics. Though Plato (a contemporary) makes reference to Hippocrates (Phaedrus 270a and elsewhere), it is generally