OF AN ENLIGHTENMENT-CONSERVATIVE TONE RECENTLY ADOPTED IN PHILOSOPHY

Cabanis. Enlightenment and medical philosophy in the French Revolution

incredible diversity of explanatory systems (some heuristic, others theoretic) dauntingly facing the young medical thinker or natural philosopher in the mid-eighteenth century. Thus Hutton opted for belief in five chemical principles (for Hutton principles were ad hoc labellings rather than ultimate constituents of Nature): salt, water, sulfur, earth, and air. It was as good a classification as...

Beyond Cross- Cultural Philosophy: Towards a New Enlightenment

The acculturalization of humanities from the late 1980ies onwards led not only to imagined different worlds (e.g. West / Islam), postmodernity overshadowed also common grounds of world`s philosophies. Christianity and Islam share far more than what might separate them, and we find Islam in „the West “as Christianity „in the East“. The Logos of Life Philosophy as developed by Anna-Teresa Tymieni...

development and implementation of an optimized control strategy for induction machine in an electric vehicle

in the area of automotive engineering there is a tendency to more electrification of power train. in this work control of an induction machine for the application of electric vehicle is investigated. through the changing operating point of the machine, adapting the rotor magnetization current seems to be useful to increase the machines efficiency. in the literature there are many approaches wh...

Perception of birth language tone contrasts by adopted Chinese children

The present study investigates how long after adoption adoptees forget the phonology of their birth language. Chinese children who were adopted by Dutch families were tested on the perception of birth language tone contrasts before, during, and after perceptual training. Experiment 1 investigated Cantonese tone 2 (High-Rising) and tone 5 (Low-Rising), and Experiment 2 investigated Mandarin tone...

Rethinking Philosophy in an Oriental Way