Nearly all studies conducted to date on the work of the Spanish moralist Baltasar Gracian (1601-1658) are either literary or philosophical, so that they have hardly analyzed its educational dimension. In order to present ...

Though Wittgenstein’s On Certainty has been influential in analytic epistemology, its interpretation has been enormously controversial. It is true that exegesis has been mainly concerned with the proper characterization ...

In this paper, I try to facilitate the understanding of the concept of 'omniscience' by taking into account the terminology developed in Ludwig Wittgenstein's On Certainty. Thus, I start by explaining why omniscience can ...

In this paper, I argue that the certainty about the wrongness of killing must not be considered as a universal, but as a local one. Initially, I show that there exist communities in which the wrongness of killing innocents ...