"Buku Kant, Menuju Perdamaian Abadi, adalah usulan filsafat paling mengesankan dan realistis untuk menciptakan perdamaian di antara bangsa-bangsa." Franz Magnis-Suseno SJ Tentang Penulis Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) adalah salah satu filosof terbesar dalam sejarah. Dia lahir di Kanigsberg, Jerman, dalam sebuah keluarga Protestan yang taat. Kontribusinya yang paling menonjol termuat dalam buku…
Michel Foucault adalah salah satu dari sekian banyak pemikir postmodernisme yang turut menyumbangkan ide-ide kritisnya dalam sejarah pengetahuan manusia. Analisisnya tentang sejarah, episteme, wacana, seksualitas, kekuasaan dan pengetahuan merupakan sumbangan khas Foucault dalam diskursus postmodernisme, sekaligus dinilai turut memperteguh bangunan filsafat postmodernisme. Seksualitas merupaka…
"Who or what the other is, I never know. But the other who is forever unknowable is the one who differs from me sexually. This feeling of surprise, astonishment, and wonder in the face of the unknowable ought to be returned to its locus: that of sexual difference." Thus Luce Irigaray undertakes a searching inquiry into what may be the philosophical problem of our age. Irigaray approaches the…
The general consensus among philosophers is that the use of torture is never justified. In Terrorism, Ticking Time-Bombs, and Torture, Fritz Allhoff demonstrates the weakness of the case against torture; while allowing that torture constitutes a moral wrong, he nevertheless argues that, in exceptional cases, it represents the lesser of two evils. Allhoff does not take this position lightly.…
In recent years, bioethicists have worked on government commissions, on ethics committees in hospitals and nursing homes, and as bedside consultants. Because ethical knowledge is based on experience within the field rather than on universal theoretical propositions, it is open to criticism for its lack of theoretical foundation. Once in the clinic, however, ethicists noted the extent to which m…