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Vor 2 Tagen · Ethics or moral philosophy is the philosophical study of moral phenomena. It investigates normative questions about what people ought to do or which behavior is morally right. It is usually divided into three major fields: normative ethics, applied ethics, and metaethics.
Vor einem Tag · Philosophy ( φιλοσοφία, 'love of wisdom', in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language. It is a rational and critical inquiry that reflects on its own methods and assumptions. Historically, many of the individual sciences ...
Vor 3 Tagen · natural law, in philosophy, system of right or justice held to be common to all humans and derived from nature rather than from the rules of society, or positive law. Early formulations of the concept of natural law. There have been several disagreements over the meaning of natural law and its relation to positive law.
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Vor 4 Tagen · Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) was a German philosopher whose groundbreaking work in ontology and metaphysics determined the course of 20th-century philosophy on the European continent and exerted an enormous influence on virtually every other humanistic discipline, including literary criticism, hermeneutics, psychology, and theology.
- Martin Heidegger studied theology and then philosophy at the University of Freiburg, where he completed a dissertation on psychologism in 1913 and...
- Martin Heidegger’s magnum opus was Being and Time (1927), a revolutionary work that made him internationally famous and changed the course of 20th-...
- Martin Heidegger adapted the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl to an analysis of the being of humans, or Dasein (“being there”). His approach overtur...
- Martin Heidegger’s radical break with traditional philosophical assumptions and language, and the novel themes and problems treated in his work, re...
Vor 5 Tagen · Ethan Kovnat ’24, a philosophy major, centered his work on autism and moral psychology, responding to a paper by philosopher Jeanette Kennett, who argued that since people with autism experience empathy in a different way, they cannot be considered “moral agents” under the traditional philosophical definition put forth by philosopher David Hume.
Vor 3 Tagen · Objectivism is a system of philosophy created by philosopher and novelist Ayn Rand which holds that reality exists independent of consciousness; human beings gain knowledge rationally from perception through the process of concept formation and inductive and deductive logic; the moral purpose of one's life is the pursuit of one's own ...
Vor 4 Tagen · Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher, economist, and theoretical jurist, the earliest and chief expounder of utilitarianism, which states that an action is right if it tends to promote happiness and wrong if it tends to produce the reverse of happiness. Learn more about Bentham in this article.
