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  • the orthodox or astika schools of Indian philosophy that recognizes the authority ... Since its philosophy regards the universe as consisting of two eternal ...
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  • works on a variety of topics including philosophy, religion, grammar and ... #039;s most influential contribution to philosophy, the Introduction to Categories ...
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  • to the term "common sense" in philosophy. One is a sense that is ... of subjectivity, with the result that philosophy became mere skepticism. ...
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  • In Christian theology and philosophy, the absolute is understood in ... === Ancient Greek Philosophy === Ancient Greek philosophers pursued ...
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  • Ontology is a major branch of philosophy and a central part of metaphysics ... The conceptual division of this branch of philosophy was established ...
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  • and commentator. A professor of philosophy at the University of Padua ... before proceeding to Padua to study philosophy and medicine. While at ...
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  • one of the oldest and most continuous in philosophy. Some of Plato's most ... reason is that the very business of philosophy is to achieve knowledge ...
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  • to the epistemological approach of his philosophy. Kant presents it as the ... as series of changes, have no independent, self-subsistent existence apart ...
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  • of the work). In John Locke's philosophy, tabula rasa was the theory ... of inborn mental structures. In classic philosophy, this amounts to the confrontation ...
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  • ===General Philosophy Sources=== *[http://plato.stanford.edu/ Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy] ...
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  • and studied law, then devoted himself to philosophy. In 1741 he was appointed ... period of his life he began the study of philosophy, and was especially attracted ...
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  • that the sense of vision itself must be self-aware, and concluded by proposing ... has been popular in the history of philosophy and has been developed ...
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  • philosopher on aesthetics and moral philosophy. Sometimes referred to ... numerous dialogues and essays on moral philosophy brought him into contact ...
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  • mystic, who wrote on politics, religion, philosophy and Christian life. He ... of the Quakers and his own Ideal Philosophy, which provoked an angry ...
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  • and did much to shape the course of modern philosophy. was an adamant defender of Cartesian philosophy in the days when Scholastic ...
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  • began as a reconciliation of the philosophy of the ancient classical ... Ockham. Scholasticism dominated European philosophy from the time of Peter ...
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  • doctrine, Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy. God, Origin of Evil, Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, Darwinism and Other Essays ...
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  • *Blackburn, Simon. Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy. Oxford University ... syllogism/ Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Medieval Theories ...
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  • of panpsychism as presented in the philosophy of Leibniz. ... Craig (Ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. London: Routledge. ...
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  • what is now known as its golden age of philosophy. He broke away from the ... today mostly unknown outside of academic philosophy. As an essayist, Moore ...
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  • Formen, 3 vol. (1923–29; The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms), Cassirer ... traditions of twentieth-century academic philosophy, the “analytic” and ...
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  • but it has had two central roles in philosophy: describing a certain type ... of one cognitive subject, ‘I’ or ‘Self.’ Kant called the structural ...
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  • in, many areas: Epistemology, history of philosophy, moral philosophy, philosophy ... rate in those fields, so he turned to philosophy and took first-class honors ...
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  • over one hundred works on history, literature and philosophy. a more practical and realistic system of philosophy. He maintained all reality ...
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  • reforms based on the Hegelian philosophy of education. Although ... Harris became interested in German philosophy, particularly Hegel. Brockmeyer ...
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  • A Posteriori,” in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, vol. 1. Edited by Paul ... in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] *[http://plato.stanford ...
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  • for the Scottish school of Common Sense philosophy, founded by Thomas Reid ... the Scottish tradition which influenced philosophy in America for half a century. ...
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  • Most reductionist claims in philosophy can be divided between two ... ==Reductionism in the philosophy of mind== Though reductionist theses ...
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  • Lycée Charlemagne, majoring in music, philosophy, and natural science. He ... Lévy-Bruhl published his first book, History of Modern Philosophy ...
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  • Lifeworld (German: Lebenswelt) is a concept used in philosophy and ... which had its roots in Greece and its philosophy. It was a mistaken rationalism ...
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  • In 1488 he was elected professor of philosophy at Padua, where he was ... Paris. After the thirteenth century, the philosophy of Aristotle penetrated ...
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  • as theology, metaphysics, and natural philosophy. Later skeptics devoted ... Roman elders. Cato, who did not like philosophy, was annoyed and concerned ...
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  • the works of Democritus, he changed to philosophy and, according to Diogenes ... adopted a life of solitude from Oriental philosophy. Returning to Elis, he ...
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  • the history of ideas. As a professor of philosophy at Johns Hopkins University ... interests changed from religion to philosophy. After graduating from ...
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  • It follows the Hegelian principle of the philosophy of history, namely the ... known as diamat. It became the official philosophy of the Soviet state and ...
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  • *Frankena, W. 1963. Ethics. Foundations of Philosophy Series. Englewood ... to Ethics. (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy) Blackwell Publishing. ...
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  • In philosophy and theology, eclecticism is the practice of selecting ... they constructed their new system of philosophy. (see Diogenes Laertius ...
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  • assumed in European mathematics and philosophy (for example in Spinoza ... That approach, in which axioms were supposed to be self-evident and ...
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  • ethics and his intuitivism. His philosophy represents a Neoplatonism ... and subsequently Assistant Professor of philosophy at St Petersburg. Lossky ...
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  • soul. Socrates understood the purpose of philosophy as the cultivation of the ... When modern philosophy, however, gave up theistic, Christian frameworks ...
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  • became an increasingly important field of philosophy. Because of the ... and human existence. In the history of philosophy, however, philosophers ...
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  • truths,” one arrived at through philosophy and science, and one arrived ... as if there were two truths, one of philosophy and another of faith. A ...
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  • imperium) is a key concept in political philosophy. Authority is a power based ... They are also usually required to be self-supporting through property ...
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  • post of White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford ... views, particularly his view that moral philosophy has an obligation to help ...
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  • educated her in literature, science and philosophy, and gave her credit for ... , where she lectured on mathematics and philosophy, and counted many prominent ...
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  • cultural activities including religion, philosophy, language, customs, arts ... literature and history, and religion and philosophy, established Huizinga as ...
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  • to prove the existence of a deity. His philosophy of science emphasized sense ... for Francis Bowen's teaching of philosophy at Harvard. Later he was ...
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  • examination of the various schools of philosophy, none of which offered ... books of Against the Mathematicians form a self-contained whole that is often ...
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  • to Geneva by 1670. He continued to study philosophy and theology in Geneva ... The overall suggestion on Bayle's part seems to be that the self ...
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  • to read classics, ancient history, and philosophy at Somerville College, ... having previously published essays on philosophy, including the first study ...
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  • or Universal Treatise), on natural philosophy, metaphysics, ethics, psychology ... at his trial, he said that wherever the philosophy which he suggested as “probable” ...
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  • view on ethics and knowledge. Their philosophy contains criticism of religion ... of logical discourse and is, in fact, a self-justifying act of sophistry. ...
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  • of their day, looked for support in philosophy, and are one of the first ... economy, intellectual and moral philosophy, and natural theology. ...
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  • Oxford, where he researched and taught philosophy. He participated in an ... his studies as a tutor and lecturer in philosophy at Oxford, where he spent ...
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  • 1900–1925 have all been settled; but philosophy of mathematics was greatly ... of" in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy Vol. 5. edited by Paul ...
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  • Despite the materialistic ontology of Hartley's philosophy, this ... David Hartley, Journal of the History of Philosophy. vol. 19, no. 2. April ...
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  • The essentially devotional nature of Plotinus' philosophy may ... heaven with stars. Paracelsus's philosophy of correspondences was ...
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  • of Jesus at Salamanca, and studied philosophy and theology there for ... they occur? These had been problems of philosophy for centuries; during the ...
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  • #039; most significant contribution in philosophy was his work on non-categorical ... unfairly forgotten today. His work in philosophy remains mostly noted for ...
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  • Substance, in philosophy, has to do with the question or problem of ... influential in the history of western philosophy. He used both the terms ...
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  • have differed throughout the history of philosophy; hence a precise definition ... form and matter derive from classical philosophy, most significantly from ...
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  • on Aristotle’s writings on natural philosophy, an introduction to the ... astronomike and the Study of Natural Philosophy and Mathematics in Early ...
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  • father of Neoplatonism. Plotinus' philosophy drew upon a mystical element ... Plotinus took up the study of philosophy at the age of twenty-seven ...
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  • scholars of comparative religion and philosophy in his day. He built a ... He engaged creatively with Western philosophy, demonstrating that Eastern ...
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  • Philosophy of action is chiefly concerned with human action, intending ... amount to a survey of nearly all of philosophy. A brief note must therefore ...
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  • to metaphysics and, especially, the philosophy of mind. ... *Cartwright, Nancy, et al. Otto Neurath: Philosophy Between Science ...
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  • #039;s Vienna 1895-1930: Or Phenomenalism as Philosophy of Science (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science). Springer, 2001. ISBN 0792371224 ...
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  • The interest of determinism in analytic philosophy primarily lies in whether ... to this question in the history of philosophy: occasionalism and pre ...
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  • affairs. Siger’s importance to philosophy lies in his acceptance ... ” Like other Arabic thinkers, his philosophy included elements of Neoplatonism ...
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  • African philosophy is a disputed term, used in different ways by different ... The study of African philosophy was taken up by West African universities ...
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  • is known for his attempt to unite Greek philosophy with Christian teachings ... the ancient Greek philosophers. He was a self-proclaimed eclectic as can ...
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  • with three major areas; logic, natural philosophy (physics), and ethics. ... life. His teachings on logic, natural philosophy and ethics did not vary ...
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  • of the technical issues of analytic philosophy. This resulted in his first ... interest in and study of political philosophy within the American analytic ...
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  • She was best known for her 1942 book Philosophy in a New Key in which she ... she was interested in difficult works of philosophy from the start. "In ...
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  • of the several traditions of Vedānta philosophy in India. “Bhedābheda” ... as the understanding that the individual self (jīvātman) is both different ...
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  • the Scottish Enlightenment. Although his philosophy covers a wide range of ... of Glasgow, first in the study of philosophy, classics, and general ...
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  • general history, political and moral philosophy, and philosophy of mind ... mill/ Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry]. *[http://www.capitalism ...
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  • in an effort to translate Eastern philosophy, especially Zen Buddhism ... Zen Buddhism and began to specialize in philosophy. He left the Fourth Higher ...
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  • important work is on poetics and on the philosophy of science. To the latter ... before finally becoming interested in philosophy. He was a professor at ...
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  • erudition, thoroughly versed not only in philosophy but also in the other studies ... theology. They help to interpret Greek philosophy for Roman audiences, and ...
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  • and Free will, which are subjects in the philosophy of religion ... *Cahn, Steven M. Philosophy of Religion. New York: Harper & Row, 1970. ...
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  • the next ten years. Krochmal was completely self-educated and often regretted ... partially recovered, he again took up philosophy, reading Kant, Johann Gottlieb ...
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  • Jewish law and in his picture of philosophy and rational inquiry as ... apparent conflict between religion and philosophy (primarily, Aristotelian ...
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  • as other legal terms and concepts into philosophy. With the term "antinomy ... been discussed throughout the history of philosophy. Kant argued that we cannot ...
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  • fields. For instance, in linguistics and philosophy of language, the general ... ==Linguistics and philosophy of language== In linguistics and philosophy ...
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  • in the reaction against scholastic philosophy which took place during ... the mystic reaction against scholastic philosophy which took place during ...
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  • entitled "Recent work in the philosophy of mathematics." He ... little on mathematical logic and the philosophy of mathematics. ...
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  • The term Indian philosophy may refer to any of several traditions ... All the schools of Indian philosophy are characterized by some common ...
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  • === Political Philosophy after World War I === events, three types of political philosophy developed. Political pragmatism ...
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  • contributed in diverse areas of philosophy, and his problematic is ... When he first began to study philosophy, Collingwood was influenced ...
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  • Church, thereby guaranteeing a place for philosophy in the study of theology ... a complete separation between dogma and philosophy. The book was a ...
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  • former definition is more common both in philosophy and computing. ... In the philosophy of science, abduction has been the key inference ...
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  • was an American scholar, a professor of philosophy and prolific author. He ... so he took courses in psychology and philosophy. Realizing his true interest ...
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  • contributions in physics, mathematics, philosophy, and literature. He was ... name Collège Mazarin). Here he studied philosophy, law, and art, graduating ...
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  • was a serious student of science and philosophy and a keen observer of ... with Epicurean principles of moderation and self-control would have fallen ...
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  • Saint Augustine incorporated Plato's philosophy, and later, after ... and the Seven virtues. For more see Christian philosophy. ...
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  • six orthodox (astika) schools of Hindu philosophy that focuses on logic. ... Indian equivalent to contemporary analytic philosophy. ==Origins== ...
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  • His most influential work in the philosophy of science came in his ... Duhem’s fervor for science blossomed into an interest in philosophy ...
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  • to the development of analytic philosophy and phenomenology. In his ... University where he studied mathematics, philosophy, and physics. He was especially ...
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  • by many philosophers and observers of philosophy to have been one of the ... to a large number of fields of philosophy. Indeed, a significant ...
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