Essays about: "ancient philosophy"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 essays containing the words ancient philosophy.

  1. 1. What the Sceptics Believed : On the notion of belief in Sextus Empiricus’ Pyrrhoniai hypotyposeis

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Avdelningen för teoretisk filosofi

    Author : Vincent Flink Amble-Naess; [2021]
    Keywords : Sextus Empiricus; sceptics; epistemology; ancient philosophy; history of philosophy;

    Abstract : In this thesis I try to answer the question of what attitude the ancient sceptics had towards the notion of belief. I concern myself exclusively with Pyrrhonic scepticism, as it was described by Sextus Empiricus in his book Pyrrhoniai hypotyposeis. READ MORE

  3. 2. Arguments for and against acceptance of Qigong in Swedish Healthcare

    University essay from Örebro universitet/Institutionen för medicinska vetenskaper

    Author : Victoria Hogrell; [2021]
    Keywords : Complementary and Alternative Medicine; Integrative Medicine; Traditional Chinese Medicine; Qigong; Ethics;

    Abstract : Introduction Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is an ancient medical practice, performed since approximately 2000 B.C. Qigong constitutes one of five main pillars in TCM and is a method of meditation, exercise as well as self-medication. READ MORE

  4. 3. Ethics in Artificial Intelligence : How Relativism is Still Relevant

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

    Author : Loukas Piloidis; [2020]
    Keywords : artificial intelligence; ethics; Ancient Greek philosophy;

    Abstract : This essay tries to demarcate and analyse Artificial Intelligence ethics. Going away from the traditional distinction in normative, meta, and applied ethics, a different split is executed, inspired by the three most prominent schools of thought: deontology, consequentialism, and Aristotelian virtue ethics. READ MORE

  5. 4. Ancient Egyptian Philosophy : or a chimaera of the popular significance

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Egyptologi

    Author : Christofer Sandström; [2019]
    Keywords : Ancient Egyptian Philosophy;

    Abstract : The thesis investigates a continuously held assumption, within the field of Egyptology, that undertakes to derive classical Hellenic philosophy from a previous philosophical tradition, initiated centuries before in ancient Egypt. The study will proceed with an initial clarification of ancient Greek philosophy, and a brief outline of some topics from its main research fields: metaphysics, epistemology, ethics and philosophy of mind. READ MORE

  6. 5. Convention or Nature? : The Correctness of Names in Plato's Cratylus

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier

    Author : Rickard Gustavsson; [2018]
    Keywords : Cratylus; Plato; Philosophy of language; Ancient Greek philosophy; etymology;

    Abstract : This thesis is about Plato‘s dialogue Cratylus, which is one of the earliest texts in the history ofphilosophy of language and has generated much interpretive controversy. In the dialogue, Platoexamines two theories on the correctness of names; conventionalism and naturalism. READ MORE