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Freud and Marx without scientific rigor

Johnson, Paul, Modern Times: A History of the World From the 1920s to the Year 2000 (English Edition). Moreover, as the young Karl Popper correctly noted at the time, Freud’s attitude to scientific proof was very different to Einstein’s and … Seguir leyendo

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Philosophical progress: Why not consensus

Nicholas Rescher, 2014. Philosophical Progress: And Other Philosophical Studies. Ontos, Berlín: 12-13. There is a good reason why the “big questions” of philosophy are in the final analysis consensus precluding. It roots in the observation, already made by Aristotle, the father of … Seguir leyendo

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Metaphysical tradition: Aquinas

Alasdair MacIntyre, 2007, After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, Third Edition, University of Notre Dame Press. Prologue: After Virtue after a Quarter of Century. I had now learned from Aquinas that my attempt to provide an account of the human … Seguir leyendo

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