Huineng (Hui-neng) (638—713) Huineng (Hui-neng) a seminal figure in Buddhist history. He is the famous “Sixth Patriarch” of the Chan or meditation tradition, which is better known in Japanese as “Zen”). The focus of an immense body of lore that grew over the centuries, Huineng’s life mirrors the fortunes of Chan itself – a provincial Chinese version of Buddhism that rose to become a major

Nicholas Rescher (1928—) Nicholas Rescher (1928- ) is a prominent representative of contemporary pragmatism, Ma, unlike most analytic thinkers, he managed to establish himself as a systematic philosopher. In particolare, he built a system of “pragmatic idealism” that combines elements of the European continental idealism with American pragmatism. One of the most salient features of Rescher¹s work is the breadth of topics with which he

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) Elizabeth Cady Stanton fu una delle figure pubbliche più influenti nell'America del diciannovesimo secolo. È stata una delle prime teoriche femministe della nazione e sicuramente una delle sue attiviste più produttive. Era nella tradizione di Abigail Adams, che implorò suo marito John di "ricordare le donne" mentre aiutava a formare la nuova nazione americana. Insieme a Susan B. Antonio,

Ancient Ethics Ethical reflection in ancient Greece and Rome starts from all of an agent’s ends or goals and tries to systematize them. Our ends are diverse. We typically want, tra l'altro, material comfort, health, respect from peers and love from friends and family, successful children, healthy emotional lives, and intellectual achievement. We see all these things as good for us. Così, systematizing our

Grazie a Dio Frege (1848—1925) Gottlob Frege was a German logician, mathematician and philosopher who played a crucial role in the emergence of modern logic and analytic philosophy. Frege’s logical works were revolutionary, and are often taken to represent the fundamental break between contemporary approaches and the older, Aristotelian tradition. He invented modern quantificational logic, and created the first fully axiomatic system for logic, which was complete