Angelico di San Giovanni Arnauld di Andilly (1624–1684) Angelico di San Giovanni Arnauld di Andilly, badessa del convento di Port-Royal, fu un leader del partito intransigente del movimento giansenista. Un autore prolifico, Mère Angélique de Saint-Jean tradusse la sua determinata opposizione alle autorità civili ed ecclesiastiche nella controversia giansenista in una versione militante della filosofia neoagostiniana condivisa con altri giansenisti. Spesso citando

The Knowledge Argument Against Physicalism The knowledge argument is one of the main challenges to physicalism, the doctrine that the world is entirely physical. The argument begins with the claim that there are truths about consciousness that cannot be deduced from the complete physical truth. Per esempio, Frank Jackson’s Mary learns all the physical truths from within a black-and-white room. Then she leaves the room,

Maurizio Blondel (1861-1949) L’importanza di Blondel è stata in gran parte nei circoli filosofici teologici e cattolici in Francia, Germania, Spagna, Italia, e Québec. Tra molti altri autori importanti del XX secolo, Blondel è responsabile della “nuova teologia”, che ha avuto un ruolo tanto importante nelle deliberazioni e nelle argomentazioni del Concilio Vaticano II. Anche le letture di Blondel di altre figure filosofiche presentano una sorprendente somiglianza con il tipo di

George Berkeley (1685—1753) George Berkeley was one of the three most famous British Empiricists. (The other two are John Locke and David Hume.) Berkeley is best known for his early works on vision (An Essay towards a New Theory of Vision, 1709) and metaphysics (A Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, 1710; Tre dialoghi tra Hylas e Philonous, 1713). Berkeley’s empirical theory of vision challenged the then-standard

Buddha (c. 500s B.C.E.) The historical Buddha, also known as Gotama Buddha, Siddhārtha Gautama, and Buddha Śākyamuni, was born in Lumbini, in the Nepalese region of Terai, near the Indian border. He is one of the most important Asian thinkers and spiritual masters of all time, and he contributed to many areas of philosophy, including epistemology, metaphysics and ethics. The Buddha’s teaching formed the foundation

Aesop’s Fables With the possible exception of the New Testament, no works written in Greek are more widespread and better known than Aesop’s Fables. For at least 2500 years they have been teaching people of all ages and every social status lessons how to choose correct actions and the likely consequences of choosing incorrect actions. Tuttavia, because the fables do not fit the model of