Kant’s Philosophy: Perpetual Peace, Politics, and Morality
Kant’s Philosophy on Perpetual Peace
Kant asks if the republican constitution is the government most appropriate to achieve peace. The answer is yes. In the republican constitution, the consent of the citizens is necessary to decide whether to go to war or not. Since the citizens are the ones who are going to suffer the worst calamities of war, they would normally choose not to provoke it. However, when a state is the property of a monarch, it does not cost him anything to send his subjects to war.
Read MoreNietzsche on Philosophers’ Idiosyncrasies: Deconstructing Reality
Nietzsche on Philosophers’ Idiosyncrasies
1. The Rejection of Becoming
“You ask what things are idiosyncrasies of philosophers? … For example, its lack of historical sense, their hatred of the very notion of becoming, its Egyptianism. They believe an honor is given to a thing when they dehistoricize it, sub specie aeterni, when they make it a mummy. All that philosophers have been handling for thousands of years have been conceptual mummies; nothing real left their hands alive. They kill, they stuff
Read MoreUnderstanding and Nurturing Adolescents: A Parent’s Guide
Understanding Adolescence
One of the most challenging phases in a child’s education is adolescence. During this time, a teenager begins to discover their own personality and feels the need to assert it.
Navigating the Rebellious Spirit
It’s crucial to understand how to guide them effectively. This period often influences them to rebel at various levels. However, education, virtue, and good character can help master this rebellious spirit. It’s beneficial to gain the child’s friendship without losing
Read MoreDescartes and Hume: A Comparison of Philosophical Ideas
Descartes: The Method of Doubt
DESCARTES: The aim is to establish certain knowledge against strong doubt. He insists on science, mathematics, and science in particular. * The search for unity: The human way of knowing is unique. Descartes escapes skepticism, deductively constructing a system of indubitable truths. * The problem of ideas: What the spirit or consciousness perceives directly can be: a representation of things in the external world, a memory, or a feeling. Ideas differ in 3 types: “adventitious”
Read MoreAquinas’ Aristotelianism: Synthesis of Faith and Reason
I. The Aristotelianism of Aquinas
The works of Aristotle, lost to the West for centuries, gained prominence in the Middle Ages thanks to the appearance of Arab and Jewish thought. This caused a great stir in European thought, which at the time was dominated by a Platonic interpretation of the world and humanity. With the rediscovery of the full Aristotelian work and the commentaries of Averroes (Ibn Rushd, 1126-Córdoba, Morocco 1198), a philosophically connected movement known as Latin Averroism
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