By comparison, the relatively new field of organizational change has not yet explored the influence of early Greek thought, specifically with regard to emotions. Addressing this prospect, this chapter explores the journey of philosophers in search of what emotion is and how it manifests behaviour. ...
While the figures of the Enlightenment were diverse in their views, there are several recurring principles that emerge throughout the era. Some of them include 1) a belief in scientific practice over faith, 2) a belief in the rational powers of the human individual, 3) a belief in the reg...
One of the pillars of the Scottish Enlightenment, philosopher David Hume is credited with the “founding document of cognitive science” in his bookA Treatise of Human Nature. Hume made every attempt to establish a naturalistic approach in understanding “man”. One of his arguments,“Reason is,...
His political philosophy influenced the progress of the Enlightenment throughout Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolution and the development of modern political, economic and educational thought. His Discourse on Inequality and The Social Contract are cornerstones in modern politica...
The one hundred years that preceded the French Revolution witnessed the rise of kings to unmatched power and influence in European affairs. These years also encompassed the birth, maturation, and waning of the Enlightenment. Leonard Krieger shows how the monarchical tradition and the new intellectual...
A festering melange of Enlightenment bigotry, Protestant papism-bashing, French anti-clericism, and Classicist snobbery have all combined to make the Medieval period a by-word for backwardness, superstition and primitivism, and the opposite of everything the average person associates with science and...
In Buddhism, Ai was seen as capable of being either selfish or selfless, the latter being a key element towards enlightenment. Birthplace: China Zhai Zhenming Age: 68 Zhai Zhenming (Chinese: 翟振明; pinyin: Zhái Zhènmíng; Wade–Giles: Chai Chenming, born 1957), also Philip, is a ...
And the postgraduate subjects are: Plato and Aristotle; Advising the Prince: Thinking Critically about Political Advice; Varieties of Enlightenment European Philosophy 1680–1832; and Contemporary European Philosophy. In 2000, the undergraduate subjects were: Life, Death and Morality; Thinking about ...
The vocabulary of modernity with its liberating enlightenment ideas was translated into, and transformed fundamentally, the vernacular languages of East Asia, prompting these cultures themselves, then and today, to theorize their own traditions through a largely Western conceptual structure. The complexity...
The teachings of the wise are bound by deceit.” Pierre Bayle (1647 - 1706). Bayle was a French philosopher and writer whose work influenced the Enlightenment. He was converted to Romanism while studying at the Jesuit College in Toulouse in 1669, but his new faith lasted only seventeen ...