Currents of philosopical ideas in the first two centuries AD

Nothing is more confused than the history of intellectual thought in the first two centuries of our era; these two centuries saw the last brilliance of the great post-Aristotelian dogmatisms shine with Seneca, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius, then disappear. Conversely, … Read More

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Henri Bergson: Half-relativity – Michelson-Morley experiment (8) – Dislocation of simultaneity

What will happen when operators respectively placed at 0 and at A want to measure the speed of light by noting, on the clocks tuned together which are at these two points, the moment of departure, the moment of arrival, … Read More

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Isaac Newton on the action at a distance in gravity: With or without God?

The interpretation of Isaac Newton’s texts has sparked controversy to this day. One of the most heated debates relates to the action between two bodies distant from each other (the gravitational attraction), and to what extent Newton involved God in … Read More

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