Our aim with the present research is a "genealogy of governmentality" based on the investigations undertaken by Michel Foucault in the last years of the Collège de France, when notions of "spirituality", "ascesis" and ...

B. F. Skinner describes and explains the human behavior through the causal model of selection by consequences. According to this model, the human behavior is the product of the interaction among three levels of variability ...

From the description of Skinner's theory since its beginning, we can understand the course which falls into ethical questions. Skinner asserts that the science of behavior can also be the science of values, that is, it ...

Analyzing the ethical works of Peter Abelard, i.e., Ethica or Scito te Ipsum and Collationes or Dialogus inter Philosophum, Iudaeum et Christianum, it can be said that the Palatine contemplates both the general (theoretical) ...

L’investigation de la liberté qui inaugure la philosophie de Bergson est, elle aussi, l’origine d’une nouvelle conception sur l'existence. Définie comme source de création, la durée interne de la conscience qui émerge dans ...

The aim of this dissertation is to present Schopenhauer's Metaphysics with a view to analysing the categorical imperative, a key concept of kantian morality. Our analysis shall indicate that the reason is merely an instrument ...

RÉSUMÉ Selon Aristote le but de l'homme et de la cité est l´eudaimonia, but que seulement peut être atteint par l'exercice d'une vie vertueuse dans la cité. Parmi les importants instruments politique sur lesquels la cité ...

The Freudian conception of the unconscious is based on the idea that the human beings and the human actions are essentially determined by the instincts. This notion of instinct , taken from modern biology, refers to the ...

The aim of this thesis is to understand Blaise Pascal's philosophical conception of science and morality on the basis of a more fundamental notion the notion of perspectivism. By not basing knowledge on ultimate and ...