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Fukuzawa tra scienza occidentale e tradizione confuciana

Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835-1901) è un altro filosofo dell’epoca influenzato dal positivismo. La sua opera fondamentale è il Profilo della civiltà (1875); da ricordare, Incoraggiamento al sapere (1880).6 Egli si oppone al nazionalismo ottuso dei suoi contemporanei, e caldeggia la necessità che il Giappone si adegui agli standard scientifici occidentali. Nonostante questa convinzione e il suo liberalismo democratico, tuttavia, Fukuzawa si sforza di conservare le antiche tradizioni confuciane, nella misura in cui siano compatibili con l’evoluzione sociale e il progresso scientifico.

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#Western-philosophy #confucianism #science #nationalism

Against Hegel's westering as bestering

My approach is therefore deeply at odds with that of Hegel. I do not see the history of philosophy as the progressive logical unfolding of ‘Spirit’, which…

The Book Of Dead Philosophers (critchley, Simon) #philosophy #history #Western-philosophy #self

Eastern and western philosophies

Nishida once suggested that we can distinguish traditional Eastern and Western philosophies by the East's prioritizing of nothingness and the West's reliance…

Nishida Kitarō (stanford Encyclopedia Of Philosophy) #Nishida #Western-philosophy #philosophy #nothingness

Philosophy engines

The material processes for doing philosophy-speaking, gesturing, writing in alphabetic or ideogrammatic form, or in any symbol system-have a deep effect on…

Philosophy Engines: Technology And Reading/writing/thinking Philosophy #philosophy #thinking #reasoning #Western-philosophy

Tiedemann's history of philosophy starts with the Greeks

The idea that philosophy has a uniquely Greek source and that everything prior to the Greeks is simply not philosophy finds its most powerful modern…

The Book Of Dead Philosophers (critchley, Simon) #philosophy #history #Western-philosophy #culture

A citation index is better than manually selected indexing terms

When Eugene Garfield introduced the concept of a citation index for the sciences in 1955, he emphasized its several advantages over traditional subject…

Research Fronts 2014 : 100 Top Ranked Specialties In The Sciences And Social #Garfield #concept #index #science

AI is still building wing-flapping machines

However, when studying human thought and artificial intelligence we do not have something like aerodynamics. We do not know the right physical principles and…

Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #artificial-intelligence #metaphor #brain #science