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

Laws of Nature Laws of Nature are to be distinguished both from Scientific Laws and from Natural Laws. Neither Natural Laws, as invoked in legal or ethical theories, nor Scientific Laws, which some researchers consider to be scientists’ attempts to state or approximate the Laws of Nature, will be discussed in this article. Invece, it explores issues in contemporary metaphysics. Within metaphysics, there are two competing

Logical Problem of Evil The existence of evil and suffering in our world seems to pose a serious challenge to belief in the existence of a perfect God. If God were all-knowing, it seems that God would know about all of the horrible things that happen in our world. If God were all-powerful, God would be able to do something about all of the evil

Eventi Gli eventi sono avvenimenti particolari, avvenimenti o cambiamenti, come Rob che beve l'espresso forte a mezzogiorno, la rielezione di Abraham Lincoln nel 1864 negli Stati Uniti, e così via. Almeno a prima vista, tutti gli eventi sembrano avere qualcosa in comune, metafisicamente parlando, e alcuni filosofi hanno indagato su quale sia questa natura comune. Lo scopo principale di una teoria degli eventi è quello di

The Safety Condition for Knowledge A number of epistemologists have defended a necessary condition for knowledge that has come to be labeled as the “safety” condition. Timothy Williamson, Duncan Pritchard, and Ernest Sosa are the foremost defenders of safety. According to these authors an agent S knows a true proposition P only if S could not easily have falsely believed P. Disagreement arises, Tuttavia, con