Evolution or progress of philosophy (4)

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Before Auguste Comte, Hegel had an equal concern to make the apology of systems, by showing that their diversity is not opposed to the unity of the spirit: “The history of philosophy, says he, makes manifest, in the various philosophies … Read More

Evolution or progress of philosophy (3)

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Hellenism is no longer seen as a decadence, but as a beginning. Thus a framework of the historical development of philosophy is fixed, where we see a purely Western philosophy beginning with the Greek thinkers of Ionia, finding its type … Read More

Evolution or progress of philosophy (2)

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It is in the works of the “sectarians” rather than in the works of pure erudition that we must look for the proper history of doctrines. One of these sects has, from the point of view which occupies us, a … Read More

Manuscript preparation of a book in Google Docs

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A good word processing software needs to be used for the manuscript preparation on the computer for publishing. If the author himself inputs the content into the word processor, chances are rare to have typos in the document. If the author … Read More

Evolution or progress of philosophy (1)

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Does philosophy have a law of development, or is the succession of systems contingent and dependent on the chance of individual temperaments? This question is among all important; the history of philosophy has a long past behind it, which weighs … Read More

Is the history of philosophy distinct from that of other disciplines?

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What is the degree of independence of the history of philosophy with regard to the history of other intellectual disciplines? We refuse to pose it dogmatically, as if it were a question of settling the question of the relationship of … Read More

What are the origins and boundaries of philosophy?

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The first question, that of origins, remains unresolved. Alongside those who, with Aristotle, made Thales the first philosopher in the sixth century, there were already historians in Greece who traced back beyond Hellenism, to the barbarians, the origins of the … Read More

Free will in philosophy of science

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The two scientific disciplines that seem most likely to be able to bring elements to the question of free will are physics (which studies the laws of nature) and neurosciences (which studies the functioning of the nervous system and therefore … Read More

Types of relativism. Critics of relativism.

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Epistemological relativism Epistemological relativism, before being asserted, was an accusation, formulated in particular against Thomas Samuel Kuhn (challenge taken up by Paul Feyerabend). George Lakoff defines relativism in his book Metaphors We Live By, as a rejection of subjectivism and … Read More

Criticisms of falsifiability

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Criticisms (Scientific method in the three worlds. ) To introduce this section, it is useful to recall the central points of Popperian philosophy which are conducive to a critical analysis of refutability. For Popper, falsifiability concerns only the logical relationship … Read More

Forms of civil disobedience

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Different cases and forms of civil disobedience The material forms of the claimed actions of civil disobedience are very diverse. A distinction can be made in particular between those that are essentially passive, those that are more offensive and, among … Read More

The supremacy of IT&C technologies

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Sfetcu, Nicolae (2022). The supremacy of IT&C technologies, DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.33253.27362, in Telework, https://www.telework.ro/en/the-supremacy-of-itc-technologies/   Abstract Over the last 60 years, computing power has grown explosively, mainly due to space, military and industrial research, and forced by the recent COVID-19 pandemic … Read More

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