Tommaso d'Aquino: Filosofia politica La filosofia politica di Tommaso d'Aquino (1225-1274), insieme al più ampio insegnamento filosofico di cui fa parte, si trova al crocevia tra il vangelo cristiano e la dottrina politica aristotelica che fu, ai tempi dell’Aquino, recentemente scoperto nel mondo occidentale. Infatti, L’intero sistema sviluppato dall’Aquinate è spesso inteso come semplicemente una modifica della filosofia aristotelica alla luce

Predicative and Impredicative Definitions The distinction between predicative and impredicative definitions is today widely regarded as an important watershed in logic and the philosophy of mathematics. A definition is said to be impredicative if it generalizes over a totality to which the entity being defined belongs. Otherwise the definition is said to be predicative. In the examples below, (2) e (4) are impredicative. Let π be

Existentialism Existentialism is a catch-all term for those philosophers who consider the nature of the human condition as a key philosophical problem and who share the view that this problem is best addressed through ontology. This very broad definition will be clarified by discussing seven key themes that existentialist thinkers address. Those philosophers considered existentialists are mostly from the continent of Europe, and date from

Totalitarianism Totalitarianism is best understood as any system of political ideas that is both thoroughly dictatorial and utopian. It is an ideal type of governing notion, and as such, it cannot be realised perfectly. Faced with the brutal reality of paradigmatic cases like Stalin’s USSR and Nazi Germany, philosophers, political theorists and social scientists have felt not just intellectually motivated but morally compelled to explain

Chinese Room Argument The Chinese room argument is a thought experiment of John Searle. It is one of the best known and widely credited counters to claims of artificial intelligence (AI), questo è, to claims that computers do or at least can (or someday might) pensare. According to Searle’s original presentation, the argument is based on two key claims: brains cause minds and syntax doesn’t suffice

Platone: The Laws The Laws is Plato’s last, longest, e, Forse, most loathed work. The book is a conversation on political philosophy between three elderly men: an unnamed Athenian, a Spartan named Megillus, and a Cretan named Clinias. These men work to create a constitution for Magnesia, a new Cretan colony. The government of Magnesia is a mixture of democratic and authoritarian principles that aim