This thesis investigates the relation between the concepts of nature and nurture (culture) in the philosophy of Henri Bergson (1859-1941). Starting from the diagnosis of the "crisis of philosophy" at the turn of the ...

The purpose of this dissertation is to study the concept of history in Voltaire. Therefore the research embraces the conception of historical narration, the methodological resources established to verify them, and also the ...

Our thesis is a response/comment to the question raised by Michel Foucault about what the link of psychoanalysis with the theme of spirituality would be. To that end, we begin our discussion with an analysis of a description ...

Notre hypothèse de travail est de comprendre la formulation du concept de l'homme en trois périodes différentes de l'œuvre de Rousseau. Le point de départ est la comparaison entre l'homme sauvage et l'homme social; dans ...

This work aims to discuss how, by an articulation between tree essays of Górgias, "On Nature", "Encomium of Helen" and "Defense of Palamedes", we can see logos as a central but even so problematic concept meaning, depending ...

The main objective of this dissertation is to understand the error and transcendental illusion in the paralogism of the substantiality of the second edition in the Critique of Pure Reason. Paralogisms, as part of the ...

This work explores the tension between Philosophy and Rhetoric in Plato's Gorgias dialogue. For this, the work seeks to understand what Plato is talking about the activity performed by Gorgias and his pupils and the reason ...

In the Phaedo Plato presents his notion of philosophy through an appropriation of the orphic mysteries: through an elaborate mimetic work, the philosopher adapts to his thought elements of both sacred discourses (hieroi ...

Aristotle's account of sensation starts from two main sense objects that actualize the senses, namely, those proper to each sense and those common to all the senses. Proper as color to sight, sound to hear, and so on; and ...

This study analyzes the relationships between physiology and aesthetics in some of Diderot's works, deeming itself certain elements of an anthropology. The proposal consists in investigating how these relationships are ...