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Senofane e il “non sapere di sapere”

Peitho
An examination of Xenophanes’ fragment DK 21 B 34 shows how it to some extent anticipates what is known in contemporary epistemological debate as the “Gettier problem.” According to the argument underlying this problem, it is not enough to have a ...
Massimo Pulpito
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Human perfectibility and social communication: A study of William Godwin's "Political Justice".

, 1999
British philosopher William Godwin (1756--1836), in the tradition of the French Enlightenment, held a supreme faith in the power of reason and truth to improve Society and the human condition.
Barrett, Mark Alan
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Relocating Stevenson: From a Victorian to a post/modern world

Literacy Trek, 2020
Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) appears to be a Victorian novel. Yet, the highly acclaimed novella experiments with traditional concept of dualism and rejects the notion of dependent entities within a ...
Azer Banu Kemaloğlu
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Winston (Michael E.). From Perfectibility to Perversion. Meliorism in Eighteenth-Century France, (The Age of Revolution and Romanticism : Interdisciplinary Studies, 34) 2005

, 2014
Banderier Gilles. Winston (Michael E.). From Perfectibility to Perversion. Meliorism in Eighteenth-Century France, (The Age of Revolution and Romanticism : Interdisciplinary Studies, 34) 2005. In: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, tome 92, fasc. 3,
Banderier, Gilles
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Rousseau, Educational Happiness, and Institutional Mediation: Reinterpreting Émile for Contemporary Vietnamese School Reform

Philosophies
This article reinterprets Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Émile as a philosophical resource for clarifying the normative meaning and institutional limits of educational happiness in contemporary Vietnamese school reform.
Nam Van Lai, Thuy Thu Thi Nguyen, Quyet Thi Nguyen   +2 more
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The Law Challenged and the Critique of Identity with Emmanuel Levinas. [PDF]

Int J Semiot Law, 2022
Petrilli S.
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‘Perfettibilità’ e ‘incivilimento’ nella «Biblioteca Italiana» e negli «Annali Universali di Statistica». La figura femminile nell’immaginario coevo

Peloro
Quello dell’incontro-scontro è un tema vivo e sentito nell’Ottocento, come ci dimostrano l’uso e l’abuso dei termini ‘perfettibilità’ e ‘incivilimento’ nella «Biblioteca italiana» e negli «Annali universali di statistica», due riviste milanesi, al centro
Margherita Pinzani
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On clique-perfect and K-perfect graphs.

Ars Comb., 2006
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Bonomo, Flavia, Duran, Guillermo, Groshaus, Marina, Szwarcfiter, Jayme L.   +3 more
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"Wells's Martians as Godwin's Future Humans: A Critique of Human Perfectibility in the Darwinian Era"

, 2016
In H.G. Wells’s 1897 novel The War of the Worlds, England is invaded by monstrous Martians who have giant brains and virtually no bodies. The narrator speculates that these bodiless beings are a highly-evolved species that was once much like humans but ...
Braham, Kira Renee
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On the ludicrousness of humanism: the critique of human perfectibility in Pascal and Luther

Kriterion
The text has three levels. On the first level, we follow the semantic construction of the philosophical concept of "humanism", from the artiens in the 13 th Century up to Pico de La Mirandola and his mysticism of "human nature dignity and sufficiency" in
Luiz Felipe Pondé, Carlos Afonso Malferrari   +1 more
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