This essay historically explores philosophical views about the nature and significance of human sexuality, starting with the Ancient Greeks and ending with late 20th-century Western philosophy. Important figures from the history of philosophy (and theology) discussed include Sappho, Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, St. Jerome, the Pelagians, St. Thomas Aquinas, Michel de Montaigne, Rene Descart...

Neste artigo analisamos o estatuto da compaixão na filosofia de Schopenhauer, e que modo tal experiência ocorre ação prática humana desembocando em ações justas caritativas, mediante a compreensão unidade metafísica perpassa todos os seres humanos, para além das limitações fenomênicas próprias do princípio individuação. Veremos ainda implicações perspectiva relação ser humano com mundo circunda...

In this paper, I have explored the genesis of modern tragedy through a comparison between t Aeschylus’ Oresteia and Eugene O’Neill’s Mourning Becomes Electra. O’Neill has reworked the Oresteian Trilogy by placing his characters in the modern cultural context. Although there are similarities in both the tragic narratives yet I have focused on the points of departure to highlight the differences ...

This is an inquiry into the background and the origins of bias and disinformation as viewed from the philosophical perspective. This paper demonstrates the undeniable analogy between the philosophical framework defined by Schopenhauer and the informational model of decision situations as viewed today in operations research, management sciences, and decision sciences. Bias, and disinformation—th...

Starting, at first, from some little known but notable formal remarks made by the mathematician Gabriele Darbo about the qualitative dimensional analysis of the physical quantities, for then, above all, take into account some latest science education (d’après diSessa) and philosophy (d’après Gärdenfors) research results, it shall be possible, paraphrasing a celebrated 1851 work of Arthur Schope...