Plant biologists widely accept plants demonstrate capacities for intelligence. However, they disagree over the interpretive, ethical and nomenclatural questions arising from these findings: how to frame issue signify implications. Through trope of 'plant neurobiology' describing plant root systems as analogous animal brains nervous systems, intelligence is mobilised raise status plants. In doin...

In the beginning of his essay on Thomas Hobbes in What is Political Philosophy, Leo Strauss asks the rather salient question of why we, as students of political philosophy in contemporary times, should read Hobbes?29 [1] The simplicity of this question, to say nothing of its relevance, cannot be overlooked. To study Hobbesian political philosophy is to say that it is relevant to us in some way;...

The paper presents the latest achievements of analytic philosophers religion in Christology. My goal is to defend literal/metaphysical reading Chalcedonian dogma hypostatic union. Some contemporary Christian thinkers claim that doctrine Jesus Christ as both perfectly divine and human self-contradictory (I present this point view on example John Hick) and, therefore, it should be understood meta...

The cultural dimension of sustainability as the fourth pillar overall sustainable development framework encompasses both tangible and intangible cultures. In this study, culture refers to home environments Chinese residents in China North America, while their faiths belief systems, other words, philosophy religion, reflected (or not) environments. paper argues that religion have historically co...

I will argue for three points. The first is on the need to make Chinese philosophy a world philosophy. second point that, in order promote as we should not historicize Philosophy and history are two different disciplines. As important historical context is, overemphasizing it or even taking merely matter of intellectual makes difficult non-specialists study philosophy, therefore counter-product...