Voltaire’s Philosophy
Voltaire (also known as Francois-Marie Arouet) is one of the most famous enlightenment philosophers. Voltaire is even often seen as the representative of the…
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Descartes: Meditations 1
The Meditations (or Meditations on first philosophy) is a philosophical work by René Descartes, first published in Latin in 1641. From the perspective of…
Descartes: Meditations II
We continue the review of Descartes’ Meditations : after Meditations 1, here is an analysis of Medidations 2. At the heart of the second Meditations…
The Second Sex – Simone De Beauvoir
The Second Sex has been published in 1949 by a french existentialist philosopher, Simone De Beauvoir. Some critics consider this essay as the greatest manifesto…
Descartes: Discourse on Method (Summary)
The discourse on method is a work by René Descartes published in 1637. It is the first book of philosophy published in French current…
Descartes: Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world
“Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world: because everyone thinks he is so well endowed, that even those who are…
Levinas and Face
The human face in Emmanuel Levinas Our century has seen the man’s face disappear behind the multiplicity of determinations (biological, social and linguistic) that…
Emile Durkheim’s Theory on Anomie and Religion
Durkheim‘s sociology marked the French sociology school. Mauss recognized the influence of the most major French sociologists. Emile Dukheim is the inventor, the main…
Essays by Montaigne
Essays are a work by Michel de Montaigne published from 1580 to 1588. It is the work of a fifty year old man , returning…
Pascal: Heart has its reasons of which reasons knows nothing
This sentence by Pascal, a philosopher of the seventeenth century , is best known for Pascal‘s thought. It is now used indiscriminately to justify all the…
Bachelard’s Philosophy
Bachelard’s Philosophy: Science and Poetics The French philosopher Gaston Bachelard has worked on two main themes: the philosophy of science and imagination. In the…
The philosophy of Sade: Sex, Morality and Evil
Father of sadism, writer and philosopher, the Marquis de Sade is a mythological figure of the French literature. Advocating a moral subversion, atheism and…
Pascal : Man is a thinking reed
This is the most famous quote by Blaise Pascal, a French philosopher. This is an excerpt of Thoughts: “Man is a reed, the weakest…
Sartre: Existence precedes essence
This quote is from the conference Existentialism is a Humanism where Sartre defines his views on existentialism. We shall not repeat the context of…
Descartes and Doubt
What is cartesian doubt? In the Discorse on Method, Descartes draws a distinction between one side the practical life, a field of action, and…
Sartre’s morality : Choice and Responsibility
Near the post about the conference Existentialism is a humanism by Sartre, let’s look at the Sartre‘s moral existentialist, mainly expressed in three books:…