Volume 66 (2011), 3

Condemned to exist beyond his essence, since he is only what he does and can always become what he is not or not to be what he is any more, man is, for Sartre, condemned to freedom without condition which constitutes, not his nature, but his condition. Free of anything apart from not being free, since he chooses neither to be, nor the necessity to choose the being… Read more

In line with the empiricist project, Locke tries to describe how unconscious encounters with environment yield to the emergence of consciousness. For Locke the self is identical with consciousness and consciousness is accessible empirically. As far as the identity of human is concerned, identity of the self depends on the consciousness of the person. The person is… Read more

In The Riddle of Hume’s Treatise, Paul Russell claims that scholars describing Hume simply as a skeptic or agnostic fail to recognize his irreligious objectives. Russell summarizes Hume’s philosophy in three points. First, Hume endorses thin theism which is theoretically empty and of little practical use. Second, Hume’s outlook is characterized by a permanent and… Read more

In his theory of society Protagoras, one of the most influential sophists thinkers, applies a contractarian approach, similar in many respects to those of Locke, Hobbes and Rousseau. Protagoras, unlike Aristotle or Plato, was convinced that individual perceptions and beliefs as well as those of the body political are relative, because there is no uniform ground on… Read more