In 1884 William James described a two-stage model of free will: in the first stage the mind develops random alternative possibilities for action, and in the second an adequately determined will select ...
The underlying issue is: Do we have some control over our actions, and if so, what sort of control, and to what extent?On one hand, humans have a strong sense of freedom, which leads us to believe tha ...
Jean-Paul Sartre was born in Paris as the only child of Jean-Baptiste Sartre, an officer of the French Navy, and Anne-Marie Schweitzer. His mother was of Alsatian origin and the first cousin of Nobel ...
The first translation, published in 1896, of Thus Spoke Zarathustra into English was by Alexander Tille, who translated ?bermensch as Beyond-Man. In the Thomas Common translation, published in 1909, ...
Some of the misconceptions of the will to power, including Nazi appropriation of Nietzsche's philosophy, arise from overlooking Nietzsche's distinction between Kraft (force) and Macht (power). Kraft i ...
Kierkegaard began to write again in 1847. His first work in this period was Edifying Discourses in Diverse Spirits, which included Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing. That book along with Works of L ...
S?ren Kierkegaard was born to an affluent family in Copenhagen. His mother, Ane S?rensdatter Lund Kierkegaard, had served as a maid in the household before marrying his father, Michael Pedersen Kier ...
Thomas Hobbes famously said that in the "state of nature", human life would be "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short". In the absence of political order and law, everyone would have unlimited natu ...
Tabula rasa is a Latin phrase often translated as "blank slate" in English and originates from the Roman tabula or wax tablet used for notes, which was blanked by heating the wax and then smoothing it ...
In his Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, Ibn Tufail was the first to demonstrate Avicenna's theories of empiricism and tabula rasa as a thought experiment in his novel, as he depicted the development of the mind of a ...
Born in Guadix, near Granada, and belonging to the Qays Arab tribe, he was educated by Ibn Bajjah (Avempace). He served as a secretary for the ruler of Granada, and later as vizier and physician for A ...
Most of Hume's followers have disagreed with his conclusion that belief in an external world is rationally unjustifiable, contending that Hume's own principles implicitly contained the rational justif ...
Artificial personality, juridical personality, or juristic personality is the characteristic of a non-living entity regarded by law to have the status of personhood.A juridical or artificial person (L ...
In jurisprudence, a natural person is a real human being, as opposed to a legal person, which may be a private (i.e., business entity or non-governmental organization) or public (i.e., government) org ...
Segregation (during the Civil Rights era in the United States)De facto racial discrimination and segregation in the USA during the 1950s and 1960s was simply discrimination that was not segregation by ...
