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‘Becoming’, understood as an endlessly scroll of reality, was one of the most important and complex philosophical concept that was opposed by ontological vision of static essence and dynamic one...
21 February 2016 978 27 View
Language, as an expression of the various 'knowledge' is subject to continuous transformations. I’d like to focus in particular on one of them in the field of scientific research. As science can...
09 February 2016 5,088 11 View
In general, the eclecticism, a philosophy defined wise, practiced by the first men of genius long before to have a name, remained buried in oblivion until the end of the sixteenth century. Then,...
09 February 2016 5,324 3 View
Irrationalism is that way of thinking in opposition to the doctrines that relate to reason as the only instrument which, through distinctions, definitions and deductions, is able to give a...
27 January 2016 9,224 54 View
For 'case' in philosophy it means what characterizes either an event that occurs without a defined and identifiable cause, thus contradicting each deterministic theory that assigns to each event a...
19 January 2016 3,885 2 View
Conventionalism is a philosophical concept whereby some principles or propositions, both cognitive and ethical- political are conventions, based on an agreement or a choice (even implicitly), can...
15 January 2016 3,132 5 View
Cosmology is a matter of philosophical and scientific knowledge that studies the material structure and the laws governing the universe conceived as an ordered set. The cosmology of the universe...
12 January 2016 9,749 10 View
The purpose of philosophy is to perform a critique of knowledge in order to eliminate all nonsensical propositions that claim to be cognitive. The philosopher must be able to use the language both...
28 December 2015 4,708 3 View
The term regeneration (creation, birth "or" born again ") is found in the Stoic philosophy to indicate the rebirth of the universe after its destruction through the fire. The conception of...
10 November 2015 7,749 3 View
There are several meanings and philosophical systems of the term idealism. The most common is that - according to Wikipedia - equates life to a dream even if this statement is not intended to...
08 October 2015 7,243 16 View
In the nineteenth century the problem of the universal was considered as the central theme of medieval philosophy. One meets a typical medieval form of comparison between Platonism and...
12 September 2015 7,628 1 View
Consciousness concerns the feelings that accompany science and therefore signifies the awareness of what is happening in us. It is that inner knowledge that each has of good and evil; it forms the...
10 September 2015 6,521 15 View
Psychology indicates consciousness as a function of human capacity to assimilate knowledge. First there is awareness; When does conscience enter the scene ? Consciousness concerns the feelings...
10 September 2015 4,254 5 View
With the term 'relativism' we indicate two things. First, an ideology whereby it is stated that there is nothing that has the character of absoluteness and immutability, but that everything is...
07 September 2015 6,134 43 View
Naive realism is the theory that supports the position closer to common sense, that which every man adheres spontaneously before any philosophical reflection on knowledge: the bodies exist, they...
06 September 2015 6,060 8 View
In constructivism the subject, driven by his own interests, builds actively his own concept of reality through a process of integration of multiple perspectives offered. Constructivism regains...
04 September 2015 5,714 15 View
The term nihilism is often used in combination with an ‘anomie’ to explain a general feeling of despair under a perception that the existence has no purpose, realizing that there is no need for...
31 August 2015 2,275 2 View
Descartes intends for ‘attribute’ the fundamental characteristics of the infinite substances. The only ones that we can actually get to know are: thinking and extension (res cogitans and res...
29 August 2015 9,663 10 View
Scientism is, first of all, an ideology, in the sense that claim, ‘a priori’, to be able to understand all of reality. The accusation is authoritative because it comes from the words of Mauro...
27 August 2015 947 13 View
Simplicity is the key to the interpretation of physics. Nothing more simple in the analysis than supposing the existence of some parameter "hidden," invisible and not measurable which is an...
19 August 2015 7,460 77 View
The term comes from having taken the Kantian distinction between practical (the rational in its autonomy as a priori principle of the moral law) and pragmatic (the rational as a means to an end)....
12 August 2015 9,189 4 View
“The analytical approach to ontology stems from the fact that the question "What exists?" presents a fundamental ambiguity. " In a sense, as Quine wrote in 1948, it is a simple question that can...
09 August 2015 1,392 19 View
Compassion is a sentiment by which an individual feels emotionally the suffering of others and tries to alleviate pain. In the fifth century BC the sophist Gorgias used the ‘word’ as a tool of...
05 August 2015 6,859 3 View
04 August 2015 6,606 18 View
The categories are the attribution of a predicate to a subject. They are specifically supreme classes of every possible predicate, with which it is possible to order the whole reality. For...
03 August 2015 7,740 6 View
The issue must be addressed, I think, starting from 'criticism', i.e. from that philosophical school that aims to study and judge the problems of philosophical knowledge decomposing them into...
31 July 2015 7,567 3 View
Conventionalism is a philosophical concept whereby some principles or propositions, both cognitive and ethical-political are based on conventions , agreements or choice (even implicitly) that can...
29 July 2015 9,497 5 View
As I said in a previous RG occasion, the notion of space in physics is not easy to describe. Some philosophical questions concerning the subject include: • Space is absolute or purely...
28 July 2015 7,016 14 View
The perfect action that has its end in itself is called by Aristotle: final act or final realization (entelechia). While the movement is the process that leads gradually to acting what was only...
23 July 2015 1,803 9 View
The ‘I’ in philosophy is the principle of subjectivity, thinking activities to which has been often attributed a particular value because it is the hub from which the same philosophical reflection...
17 July 2015 6,484 5 View
We can point out that abstraction is a process by which the human intellect draws universal concepts out of individual object, regardless of their spatial-temporal characteristics. Plato placed...
14 July 2015 9,299 7 View
Plato, especially in the dialectic dialogues (f.i. Sofists), moving from the eleatic opposition of ‘Being’ and not ‘Being’ or, more exactly, of «what it is» to «what it is not », recognizes...
03 July 2015 9,977 4 View
The philosophical system of Hegel falls within logical idealism or panlogism since reducing all reality to rationality, it excludes and represses the individual aspects, and particularly the...
30 June 2015 1,843 3 View
Public opinion is the sum of individual opinions, that interconnect in various ways using the tools of communication: in this way each person becomes maker of the decisions of those who represent...
25 June 2015 1,009 4 View
Absolutism is that perspective for which all the statements in that domain are either absolutely true or absolutely false: nothing is true only for some cultures or false for others. The binding...
24 June 2015 656 8 View
Ideas - said Plato - represent the absolute and universal objects of sense knowledge, the particular and the contingent. Between particular and universal there are two relationships: of mimesis,...
12 June 2015 4,347 4 View
In the modern age, hermeneutics is characterized by a progressive transformation, using the new concept of language by philosophers such as Herder, Hamann, Humboldt, concepts that will prepare the...
07 June 2015 8,324 8 View
In the late nineteenth century the structure of knowledge was being defined in such a way as to suggest that philosophy could definitely disappear. In the course of the century some key...
01 June 2015 3,799 34 View
The scientific experience has a broader conception of the traditional one because it includes both the direct understanding, the immediately observable in its evidence from sensitive topic, and...
31 May 2015 1,736 16 View
The need to find a unifying principle for all knowledge, an original synthesis meant as an ‘a priori’ representation of all a man knows and as such precedes the consciousness itself of...
30 May 2015 3,971 10 View
In the long route along which science and culture walk on the two edges of a road, they keep calling upon each other, confront and provoke as a ‘dueling duet’. In broad terms, the wide variety of...
13 December 2012 6,889 98 View
In the field of transport infrastructures, a significant participation of private capital through project financing still represents a determining factor for their construction, provided that it...
30 October 2012 3,062 1 View
