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Hace 16 horas · This study challenges the conventional boundaries of philosophy by asserting that organizations can function as legitimate subjects within philosophical discourse. Western philosophy, epitomized by Descartes, has long assumed that individual human beings are the fundamental units of thought and moral agency. However, in a significant oversight, this belief overlooks the idea that organizations ...
Hace 2 días · The goal of action is The Good – transcendent version. Here the idea is that there is something (The Good) that transcends our world and that all action is in some sense oriented towards – some kind of broadly Platonic or theological position. The goal of action is The Good – immanent version. Here the idea is that different categories of ...
Hace 16 horas · Aristotle (Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs, pronounced [aristotélɛːs]; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath.His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the arts.As the founder of the Peripatetic school of philosophy in the Lyceum in Athens, he began the wider ...
Hace 2 días · Principles of Ethics exists in an English translation made by English-speaking members of his religious order 6, which unfortunately is not very good: in addition to many mistakes and omissions within the body of the text, it even mistranslates the title and the epigraph of the work (which should actually be, respectively, Principles of Moral Science, and “You have often heard that the IDEA ...
Hace 2 días · Christianity and Resistance to Nihilism. June 1, 2024 Diego Fusaro. The market society cannot accept the religion of transcendence and, in the European case, its specific form which is Christianity; among many other considerations, because it inevitably carries with it a social message incompatible with the civilization of markets and with the ...
Hace 1 día · Recovering the Idea of Statesmanship. Regnery Gateway, 2024. Paperback, 300 pages, $19.99. Reviewed by Daniel J. Mahoney. Statesmanship is an old-fashioned category if an indispensable one. It connotes dignity, elevation, self-control, and ambition within the humanizing boundaries set by honor, self-respect, and concern for the common good.
Hace 4 días · Table of contents. The theory of Forms or theory of Ideas is a philosophical theory, concept, or world-view, attributed to Plato, that the physical world is not as real or true as timeless, absolute, unchangeable ideas. According to this theory, ideas in this sense, often capitalized and translated as "Ideas" or "Forms", are the non-physical ...
