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Vor einem Tag · His theological studies were inseparable from his thinking on politics; he is grouped with Hobbes, John Locke, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, and Immanuel Kant, who "helped establish the genre of political writing called secular theology." Spinoza's philosophy encompasses nearly every area of philosophical discourse, including metaphysics ...
Vor 13 Stunden · Bidez’s thesis presents us with a striking example of how a “maximalist” approach can inspire greater insights, even if later studies ultimately, fundamentally challenge the original hypothesis. Van Nuffelen’s desire to curb such explorations could impoverish future discourse and undermine theories that, while in and of themselves are open to criticism, nonetheless lead to universally ...
Vor 13 Stunden · You can read St. Thomas’s own exposition in a short early work of his, On Being and Essence (De Ente et Essentia in Latin), especially chapter 4.This contains the famous man/phoenix argument: one can know what a man or phoenix is (essence) without knowing whether either of them really exists (has “to be” (esse), i.e. existence); therefore essence is distinct from esse.
Vor 13 Stunden · Zoroaster's religious philosophy divided the early Iranian gods of Proto-Indo-Iranian paganism into emanations of the natural world, known as ahuras and daevas, the latter of which were not considered to be worthy of worship. Zoroaster proclaimed that Ahura Mazda was the supreme creator; the creative and sustaining force of the universe, and that human beings are given a choice between ...
Vor 13 Stunden · Ryan S. Schellenberg recaptures a more human version of the Apostle Paul by challenging the mainstream understandings of boasting and joy as rhetorical. This essay, with reference to the concept of “rhetorical framing”, suggests that Schellenberg is right in what he affirms but wrong in what he denies and that a “strategic” understanding of boasting and joy language in Philippians is ...
Vor 13 Stunden · Butler attended Bennington College before transferring to Yale University, where they studied philosophy and received a Bachelor of Arts in 1978 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1984. Their studies fell primarily under the traditions of German Idealism and phenomenology , [16] and they spent one academic year at Heidelberg University as a Fulbright Scholar in 1979. [17]
Vor 13 Stunden · Methodology. Ethical reasoning. Ethical decision-making. Ethics is the branch of philosophy that examines the concepts of right and wrong behavior, attitudes, or actions. There is no universally accepted method for arriving at what is ethically right. However, certain approaches have gained global recognition.
