In this essay, Steven Burik discusses Jacques Derrick's position with regard to the place of education in philosophy within the university system, and then relates these thoughts to comparative philosophy. Philosophers find themselves constantly having to defend philosophy and the importance of teaching...
What's the purpose of philosophy? Alfred North Whitehead characterized it as a series of footnotes to Plato. On the surface, we don't seem 1 (progress)much in the two and a half millennia since Plato wrote his dialogues. Today's philosophers still struggle with many of the same issues 2...
The bestphilosophyis to change your food habits to a low-sugar, high-fibre diet... 最好的生活方式是改变饮食习惯,食用低糖、高纤维食品。 柯林斯高阶英语词典 When I interviewed Shakira I felt in tune with herphilosophyof life... 采访莎基拉时,我觉得自己和她的人生哲学很合拍。
There are as many parts of philosophy as there are distinct domains in the order submitted to the philosophers reflection. Now there is an order which the intelligence does not form but only considers; such is the order realized in nature. Another order, the practical, is formed either by th...
Epistemological questions do not seem to have concerned the ancients until the subject is addressed by the Pre-Socratic philosophers of Greece and Plato after them. Ethics–The Study of Behavior/Action (from the Greekta ethika, on character), a term popularized by Aristotle in hisNichomachean ...
Byzantine philosophy refers to the distinctive philosophical ideas of the philosophers and scholars of the Byzantine Empire, especially between the 8th and 15th centuries. It was characterised by a …
There are two explanations, according to the author of the survey, of such relative inhospitality of Italian political philosophy to its American homologue. The first is a general difference over the way to understand philosophy itself. Whereas American philosophers subscribe to what might be ...
(Thanks to Rick Garnett for the pointer to the first link.) UPDATE: Professor MacIntyre came in 9th in this poll of readers about the most important moral philosophers since WWII; I would guess outside academic philosophy, Professor MacIntyre would have come in first. Posted by Brian Leiter...
The three most important pragmatists of this period were the American philosophers Charles Peirce (1839-1914), considered to be the first of the American pragmatists, William James (1842-1910), the first great American psychologist, and John Dewey (1859 ~ 1952), who further developed the ...
But philosophers dating back to Plato a n d th e Ancient Greeks hav e given th e ar e a mu ch thought an d emphasis, an d ther e is littl e d oubt that their work has help e d shap e th e prac tic e of education over th e millennia.Plato is th e earliest important ...