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Hace 2 días · The philosophy of education is the branch of applied philosophy that investigates the nature of education as well as its aims and problems. It also examines the concepts and presuppositions of education theories. It is an interdisciplinary field that draws inspiration from various disciplines both within and outside philosophy, like ethics ...
Hace 9 horas · Abstract. The Handmaid’s Tale depicts a United States taken over by a fundamentalist dictatorship called Gilead that also resembles Plato’s ideal city. Attempts to explain Gilead’s debt to Plato face two challenges. First, aspects of Gilead that recall Plato also contain features that differ, at times dramatically, from the Platonic original.
Hace 5 días · Although the term is now generally used as a name for any educational strategy that involves the cross-examination of students by their teacher, the method used by Socrates in the conversations re-created by his student Plato (428/427–348/347 bce) follows a more specific pattern: Socrates describes himself not as a teacher but as ...
Hace 1 día · The subsequent medieval period in the West discussed the nature of universals as shaped by ancient Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle. The modern period saw the emergence of various comprehensive systems of metaphysics, many of which embraced idealism.
Hace 2 días · Idealism in philosophy, also known as philosophical idealism or metaphysical idealism, is the set of metaphysical perspectives asserting that, most fundamentally, reality is equivalent to mind, spirit, or consciousness; that reality is entirely a mental construct; or that ideas are the highest type of reality or have the greatest claim to being ...
Hace 2 días · Abstract. The project of realist moral naturalism is desirable for many philosophers. Proponents of realist moral naturalism believe that ordinary commonsense assumptions about moral claims are cognitively truth-apt. Realist moral naturalism, in this context, is shown to have developed through the works of Moore, Kripke, Putnam, Boyd, Horgans ...
Hace 5 días · Averroes (Ibn Rushd), influential Islamic religious philosopher who integrated Islamic traditions with ancient Greek thought. He wrote commentaries on Plato and Aristotle and defended philosophical study of religion against theologians such as al-Ghazali, who had attacked Muslim philosophers Avicenna and al-Farabi.
