Contemporary Approaches on Ethics
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Socrates (470-399 BC):
Marks a before and after in philosophy. Although he did not write anything, is considered the father of philosophy.
Plato (427-347 BC):
He was a pupil of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle. His vast work, always in the genre of dialogue, bought most of the themes on which he has devoted the subsequent philosophical reflection.
Aristotle (384-322 BC):
He was a pupil of Plato and mstre of Alexander the Great. His extensive work beyond the purely philosophical. Was devoted to biology, logic, rhetoric, physics ...
St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274):
For many historians, is considered the greatest exponent of the scholastic philosophy. In its extensive production are theological and philosophical embrace the Aristotelian and Christian thought. Therefore, it is one of the thinkers who had and still has a great influence on the Catholic philosophy.
Maria Zambrano (1907-1991):
Eminent disciple of Ortega y Gasset, Spanish is seguramet the renowned thinker. Highlights its espiacial sensibiliat and his work on philosophy and poetry.
Schopenhauer (1788-1860):
It was very contemporary and rival of Hegel and his philosophical system. Schopenhauer was an original thinker extrahordinàriament because he did not partake in any of the philosophical trends that existed at that time. The irrationalism and deep pesimisme influenced his philosophy, however, in such important thinkers as Nietzsche and Hartmann.
Epicurus (341-270 BC):
He was the founder of Epicureanism, a philosophical ethics which is characterized by hedonism (identification of happiness and pleasure). The pleasure is conceived as a balance and serenity, so the fact was very important to eliminate concerns of the mind as the fear of death and the gods.
Sartre (1905-1980):
Its philosophy focuses primarily on metaphysical issues, ethical and political. It is considered the main represetant of French existentialism. Not only highlighted as a philosopher, so too has as an author of novels and plays, through which to spread part of seupensament philosophical.