Elia Benamozegh (born—1823 in Livorno and died—1900 Livorno)—philosopher, biblical exegete, teacher at the Rabbinical College—was an original fruitful thinker. At a time when Jewish kabbalah, or esoteric tradition, was considered by protagonists of studies as result era intellectual religious decadence, indicated it to be authentic theology Judaism. In numerous works varying nature, Italian, Fr...

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Hegel's view of poetry clarifies the overall role of language in his system and allows him to makes sense of a difficult linguistic issue: how to distinguish between poetry and prose. For Hegel, this distinction is crucial because it illuminates the different ways poetry and prose allow us to understand ourselves as members of an ethical community. In this paper, I argue, using Hegel, that the ...

Following a long-standing philosophical tradition, impartiality is a distinctive and determining feature of moral judgments, especially in matters of distributive justice. This broad ethical tradition was revived in welfare economics by Vickrey, and above all, Harsanyi, under the form of the so-called Impartial Observer Theorem. The paper offers an analytical reconstruction of this argument and...

Barry Smith In previous work, I have drawn attention to certain systematic differences among philosophical traditions as regards to the literary forms that are prevalent In each. In this paper, however, I focus on the commentary form. I raise the question of why the use of commentaries abounds In most traditions except those transmitted In the English language and suggest that problems of trans...

This paper explores the intertwinement of ontology and history that happened after idealist turn Kantian transcendentalism, particularly in classic German idealism later American pragmatism. The focuses on less remarked-upon consequence this intertwinement, namely possibility a new reading based changes concepts habitual mentality. proposes take historiography vindicates Hegel’s insight but his...

Wilhelm Dilthey was one of the first thinkers whose philosophy centred on the reflection of the nature of human sciences. These sciences had evolved into academic disciplines already within the context of the concept of scientificalness (Wissenschaftlichkeit) of German Idealism. They underwent a certain crisis of foundations in the nineteenth century in connection with the general rise of empir...

Analytic philosophy and modern logic are intimately connected, both historically and systematically. Thinkers such as Frege, Russell, and Wittgenstein were major contributors to the early development of both; and the fruitful use of modern logic in addressing philosophical problems was, and still is, definitive for large parts of the analytic tradition. More specifically, Frege's analysis of th...