This means situating Chinese philosophies and philosophers in their native context, and making a conscious effort not to express Chinese philosophy using Western philosophical terms. Western philosophy is not the only philosophy. Western religion is not the only religion. Translating Chinese philosophical ...
【题目】 Philosophers sometimes pay a high pr ice for standing by their philosophies.Socrates drank hemlock after being convicted o f(被定罪) corrupting the youth of ancient At hens. Civilly(谦恭的) disobedient(不服从的)Henry David T horeau went to jail rather than pay his tares.And Assy a...
Firstly, much of the historical literature on the idea of the university – over the past two hundred years – has been written by philosophers and their thinking has largely gone unmined. Second, and perhaps even more importantly, many of the issues in the higher education debate are either ...
immunise yourself against authors who have imagined Plato through the lens of a modern schoolroom. When you read of Plato’s master and his disciples, inoculate yourself against authors with a different distorted lens: medieval monasteries with their religious adherents. John Dewey railed against “t...
Ben-Ami Scharfstein contends that personal experience, especially that of childhood, affects philosophers' sense of reality and hence the content of their philosophies. He bases his argument on biographical studies of twenty great philosophers, beginning with Descartes and ending with Wittgenstein and ...
Famous philosophers like Socrates, Karl Marx, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Ayn Rand have challenged the way we consider the world and our place in it.
The Search for Order and Stability: Chinese philosophers during this period were preoccupied with the question of how to achieve social order and stability in a time of chaos and upheaval. This led to the development of ethical and moral philosophies, which emphasized the importance of individual ...
How did the intimate lives of major philosophers shape their ideas? Did their closest relationships with families, spouses, life partners and secret lovers influence their philosophies? These are the questionsWarren Wardsets out to answer in his new book, Lovers of Philosophy: How the Intimate Live...
with logic and reason. Either way, many famous philosophers have made their contributions known to the world through their writings and their students. Below is a list of the greatest thinkers of all time along with their most important theories about human nature and other ponderings of the ...
and philosophers. Ben-Ami Scharfstein contends that personal experience, especially that of childhood, affects philosophers' sense of reality and hence the content of their philosophies. He bases his argument on biographical studies of twenty great philosophers, beginning with Descartes and ending with....