political

Long understudied, Plato’s „Laws” has been the object of renewed attention in the past decade and is now considered to be his major work of political philosophy besides „The Republic”. In his last dialogue, Plato returns to the project of describing the foundation of a just city and sketches in considerable detail its constitution, laws and other social institutions. In it, Plato describes in fascinating...

This book critically examines philosophical naturalism, evaluates the prospects for naturalizing such normative properties as being a reason, and proposes a theory of action-explanation.  This theory accommodates an explanatory role for both psychological properties such as intention and normative properties such as having an obligation or being intrinsically good.  This overall project requires distinguishing...

Wybitny psycholog poznawczy Paul Bloom twierdzi, że zdolność do odróżniania dobra i zła jest w człowieku głęboko zakodowana. Przez wieki, od Johna Locke’a po Zygmunta Freuda , filozofowie i psychologowie uważali, że pod względem moralnym człowiek przychodzi na świat jako tabula rasa , niezapisana tablica. Wielu z nas zakłada, że dzieci są z natury egoistyczne, a rolą społeczeństwa – zwłaszcza rodziców...