Benedetto di Spinoza (1632-1677) Benedict de Spinoza was among the most important of the post-Cartesian philosophers who flourished in the second half of the 17th century. Ha dato contributi significativi praticamente in ogni area della filosofia, ei suoi scritti rivelano l'influenza di fonti così divergenti come lo stoicismo, razionalismo ebraico, Macchiavelli, Hobbes, Cartesio, e una varietà di pensatori religiosi eterodossi del suo tempo. For this

Paolo Freire (1921—1997) Di Slobodan Dimitrov – opera propria CC BY-SA 3.0 Paulo Freire è stato uno dei filosofi dell’educazione più influenti del XX secolo. Ha lavorato con tutto il cuore per aiutare le persone sia attraverso la sua filosofia che attraverso la sua pratica di pedagogia critica. Originario del Brasile, L’obiettivo di Freire era quello di sradicare l’analfabetismo tra le persone provenienti da paesi e continenti precedentemente colonizzati. Le sue intuizioni erano radicate

Thomas Hobbes: Methodology Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) is one of England’s most influential political philosophers. According to his own estimation, he was probably the most important philosopher of his time, if not of history, since he believed himself to be the first to discover a genuine “science of politics.” Modeled on the surefire method of geometry, his political science was supposed to demonstrate political truths with

Models The word “model” is highly ambiguous, and there is no uniform terminology used by either scientists or philosophers. Qui, a model is considered to be a representation of some object, comportamento, or system that one wants to understand. This article presents the most common type of models found in science as well as the different relations—traditionally called “analogies”—between models and between a given model

Stoic Philosophy of Mind Stoicism was one of the most important and enduring philosophies to emerge from the Greek and Roman world. The Stoics are well known for their contributions to moral philosophy, and more recently they have also been recognized for their work in logic, grammar, filosofia del linguaggio, and epistemology. This article examines the Stoics’ contributions to philosophy of mind. The Stoics constructed

Cheng Yi (1033—1107) Cheng Yi was one of the leading philosophers of Neo-Confucianism in the Song (Sung dynasty (960-1279). Together with his elder brother Cheng Hao (1032-1085), he strove to restore the tradition of Confucius and Mencius in the name of “the study of dao” (dao xue), which eventually became the main thread of Neo-Confucianism. Despite diverse disagreements between them, the two brothers are usually