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- system of thought by assimilating Western philosophy into the traditions ... issues in the fresh light of Western philosophy. Nishida's original ...15 KB (2,299 words) - 05:02, 15 November 2022
- of intelligence as a boy. He studied Western philosophy, such as Kant, as well ... and eventually arrived at a personal philosophy that combined Ramakrishna’s ...10 KB (1,573 words) - 15:56, 18 June 2022
- before his execution, is Consolation of Philosophy, which became one of the ... in prison, Boethius wrote Consolation of Philosophy, which later became one ...11 KB (1,637 words) - 06:07, 28 July 2023
- Protestant theologian and writer on philosophy of religion and philosophy ... 1914, he switched to become professor of philosophy in Berlin. This change ...9 KB (1,343 words) - 21:23, 20 March 2024
- the orthodox or astika schools of Indian philosophy that recognizes the authority ... and other forms of dualism. In Western philosophy, dualism usually refers ...12 KB (1,797 words) - 02:13, 23 December 2022
- rise of Christianity and the fall of the Western Roman Empire (fifth century ... * Irwin, Terence. Classical Thought. A History of Western philosophy ...12 KB (1,801 words) - 12:38, 5 May 2024
- The book was first made available to Western scholars in Latin with the ... ===General Philosophy Sources=== *[http://plato.stanford.edu/ Stanford ...7 KB (941 words) - 15:25, 29 January 2024
- historian. He studied and wrote about both Western and Eastern philosophy, ... Imperial University with a degree in philosophy. For his graduation thesis ...13 KB (1,961 words) - 23:19, 3 May 2023
- modified Stoicism became the dominant philosophy in Rome and later influenced ... in which the appalling conditions of the Western Front led to apathy, or ...9 KB (1,363 words) - 05:58, 11 August 2023
- and doesn't have to imitate and mimic Western institutions. The Russian ... his first extended critique of Western philosophy and values. ...10 KB (1,426 words) - 07:38, 12 March 2024
- Banyankore, Banyoro, Batooro and Bakiga of Western Uganda and also the Bahaya ... emphasized three maxims which shape the philosophy of Hunhuism or Ubuntuism: ...14 KB (2,195 words) - 01:24, 3 May 2023
- Cartesianism is the school of philosophy based on the fundamental ... Though, contrary to Descartes' hopes, his philosophy was poorly ...11 KB (1,731 words) - 00:41, 29 November 2023
- regeneration. He believed that Western philosophy and civilization had ... of little interest to contemporary Western philosophy, involving himself ...15 KB (2,232 words) - 20:48, 3 May 2023
- self-identity as the first principle of philosophy. In other words, Parmenides ... effects on the subsequent history of Western philosophy. ...11 KB (1,608 words) - 08:52, 18 November 2022
- with varied meanings in the fields of philosophy, analytical psychology ... Similar concepts are found in non-western traditions, such as Dao ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 21:00, 3 November 2022
- discussion group in the history of Western philosophy after Plato's ... the most important turning point in Western philosophy. In that year Schlick ...16 KB (2,366 words) - 21:22, 9 November 2022
- and presented it to his disciples. "Western Inscription" was originally ... chapter, and were titled "The Western Inscription" and "The ...12 KB (1,847 words) - 01:17, 4 December 2023
- and also neo-positivism) is a philosophy that combines positivism ... Logical positivism held that philosophy should aspire to the same ...13 KB (1,922 words) - 21:00, 3 November 2022
- Thomas Aquinas in the shaping of Western attitudes towards faith ... affairs. Siger’s importance to philosophy lies in his acceptance ...10 KB (1,606 words) - 14:38, 27 January 2023
- الكندي) (also known in the Western world by the Latinized version ... consistently tried to demonstrate that philosophy is compatible with orthodox ...12 KB (1,748 words) - 04:13, 17 June 2023
- father of Neoplatonism. Plotinus' philosophy drew upon a mystical element ... Plotinus took up the study of philosophy at the age of twenty-seven ...12 KB (1,813 words) - 08:05, 24 November 2022
- Philosophy of action is chiefly concerned with human action, intending ... amount to a survey of nearly all of philosophy. A brief note must therefore ...15 KB (2,383 words) - 05:40, 15 June 2023
- region = Western Philosophy | era = 20th-century philosophy | ... developed a unique theistic existential philosophy. He began his career as ...13 KB (1,830 words) - 07:16, 5 October 2022
- 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 ...12 KB (1,850 words) - 01:30, 8 December 2022
- the comparative study of Chinese and Western aesthetics. He was also ... which synthesized Schopenhauer’s philosophy of art with Daoism. His ...12 KB (1,844 words) - 18:49, 17 April 2023
- of the most prominent philosophers in western Europe (Descartes, Malebranche ... was an adamant defender of Cartesian philosophy in the days when Scholastic ...12 KB (1,896 words) - 06:41, 31 July 2023
- Ontology is a major branch of philosophy and a central part of metaphysics ... as well the entire tradition of Western philosophy. His quest for a new ...15 KB (2,218 words) - 00:43, 18 November 2022
- the history of ideas. As a professor of philosophy at Johns Hopkins University ... of plenitude” in the history of Western philosophy. Aristotle originally ...10 KB (1,444 words) - 17:35, 16 August 2023
- region = Western Philosophy | era = 19th-century philosophy | ... He abhored the rational religion of Western philosophy (for example, Immanuel ...16 KB (2,451 words) - 22:05, 25 October 2022
- over one hundred works on history, literature and philosophy. a more practical and realistic system of philosophy. He maintained all reality ...11 KB (1,753 words) - 22:51, 3 May 2023
- began as a reconciliation of the philosophy of the ancient classical ... Ockham. Scholasticism dominated European philosophy from the time of Peter ...14 KB (1,990 words) - 17:20, 25 January 2023
- The more current and Western traditional terminology meaning a particularly ... that originated in late eighteenth-century Western Europe. In music, the romantic ...10 KB (1,445 words) - 04:58, 16 December 2022
- of the most carefully scrutinized books in Western intellectual history. ... He was installed as a professor of philosophy at Coimbra, and later became ...12 KB (1,719 words) - 02:57, 5 November 2022
- the works of Democritus, he changed to philosophy and, according to Diogenes ... adopted a life of solitude from Oriental philosophy. Returning to Elis, he ...12 KB (1,848 words) - 03:54, 7 December 2022
- The term Indian philosophy may refer to any of several traditions ... All the schools of Indian philosophy are characterized by some common ...22 KB (3,133 words) - 22:02, 4 February 2023
- ethics and his intuitivism. His philosophy represents a Neoplatonism ... entities as in most modern Western philosophy; they are already connected ...12 KB (1,405 words) - 04:12, 15 November 2022
- ) is a school of philosophy within Hinduism dealing with the nature ... one of the six orthodox systems (darshans) of Indian philosophy and ...17 KB (2,516 words) - 14:43, 3 May 2023
- for one's parents and ancestors. In Western cultures, Judaism and Christianity ... ==Filial Piety and Western Culture== In the Hebrew and Christian traditions ...10 KB (1,518 words) - 22:58, 1 May 2021
- Stumpf to change his major toward philosophy and science. Brentano also ... at Gottingen, in the Department of Philosophy. There he met Wilhelm Weber ...10 KB (1,352 words) - 15:19, 27 November 2023
- region = Western Philosophy | era = Twentieth ... in, many areas: Epistemology, history of philosophy, moral philosophy, philosophy ...14 KB (2,184 words) - 19:14, 24 November 2023
- The essentially devotional nature of Plotinus' philosophy may ... heaven with stars. Paracelsus's philosophy of correspondences was ...11 KB (1,612 words) - 17:28, 9 November 2022
- of an authentic self and society. In philosophy, the concept has also been ... although Kierkegaard respected the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. ...14 KB (2,048 words) - 19:15, 22 August 2023
- African philosophy is a disputed term, used in different ways by different ... The study of African philosophy was taken up by West African universities ...20 KB (3,143 words) - 06:07, 16 June 2023
- 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 ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 07:15, 23 August 2023
- region = Western Philosophy | era = Twentieth ... post of White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford ...14 KB (2,112 words) - 16:05, 7 December 2022
- Reason, in philosophy, is the ability to form and operate upon concepts ... In ancient Greek philosophy a conflict arose between the Platonists ...15 KB (2,212 words) - 01:41, 8 December 2022
- Yak-yong's contribution to Korean philosophy. Eminent Korean Confucian ... the liberation of Korea in 1945 Western philosophy has prevailed and philosophy ...14 KB (2,321 words) - 07:14, 31 July 2022
- methods foreshadowed later developments of Western scientific medicine. He ... and wrote a number of works in philosophy. Unfortunately, those philosophical ...12 KB (1,806 words) - 03:50, 18 April 2024
- Substance, in philosophy, has to do with the question or problem of ... most influential in the history of western philosophy. He used both the terms ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 21:25, 26 February 2023
- began to integrate concepts from Western philosophy as steps toward modernization ... began to integrate concepts from Western philosophy as steps toward modernization ...21 KB (3,167 words) - 16:46, 10 December 2023
- with three major areas; logic, natural philosophy (physics), and ethics. ... in Phrygia (modern-day Pamukkale, in south-western Turkey). The name given ...11 KB (1,793 words) - 19:06, 13 February 2024
- partially recovered, he again took up philosophy, reading Kant, Johann Gottlieb ... in history, literature, and religious philosophy. Moreh Nebuke ha-Zeman ...11 KB (1,697 words) - 22:59, 10 November 2022
- Church, thereby guaranteeing a place for philosophy in the study of theology ... a complete separation between dogma and philosophy. The book was a ...10 KB (1,536 words) - 01:35, 24 November 2022
- source of the entire tradition of Western philosophy. Recent Aristotelian ... is not identical with Western philosophy as a whole; rather ...18 KB (2,450 words) - 06:29, 12 August 2023
- role in interpreting Buddhist and Asian philosophy for Western thinkers, and ... of the Chair of the Department of Modern Philosophy at Kyoto University was ...16 KB (2,170 words) - 04:41, 4 March 2023
- E., and the basis of official political philosophy, a status which it maintained ... preserved in the Standard History of the Western Han Dynasty (Han-shu) and ...11 KB (1,702 words) - 18:44, 2 May 2023
- region = Western Philosophy| era = 20th Century ... important work is on poetics and on the philosophy of science. To the latter ...12 KB (1,710 words) - 07:54, 23 January 2023
- his Gifford Lectures), and Essays on the Philosophy of Religion. ... for his work on epistemology and the philosophy of perception. In his first ...10 KB (1,458 words) - 17:46, 29 July 2023
- fields. For instance, in linguistics and philosophy of language, the general ... ==Linguistics and philosophy of language== In linguistics and philosophy ...13 KB (1,868 words) - 17:49, 25 January 2023
- region = Western Philosophy | era = 20th-century ... === Political Philosophy after World War I === When World War I broke ...12 KB (1,752 words) - 03:46, 18 April 2024
- Jewish law and in his picture of philosophy and rational inquiry as ... apparent conflict between religion and philosophy (primarily, Aristotelian ...14 KB (2,001 words) - 05:30, 5 November 2022
- the basic principles of Aristotle’s philosophy, and continued to build ... remain have had a continuing influence on western thought. His explanation ...10 KB (1,514 words) - 18:21, 30 April 2023
- because care ethics developed within a Western tradition, it contains more ... Gilligan and others have suggested that the history of ethics in Western ...15 KB (2,198 words) - 04:34, 22 March 2024
- |region = Western philosophy |era = Contemporary ... was an American scholar, a professor of philosophy and prolific author. He ...15 KB (2,047 words) - 10:33, 11 April 2024
- region = Western Philosophy | era = Twentieth ... by many philosophers and observers of philosophy to have been one of the ...14 KB (2,162 words) - 19:54, 23 August 2020
- thinkers in diverse disciplines, such as philosophy, history, law, and economics ... based upon abstract speculative ideas in philosophy. Ranke, for example, approached ...14 KB (2,067 words) - 15:55, 25 January 2023
- Schools of Thought era in Chinese philosophy. His teachings combined ... in a quest for immortality, and whose philosophy and practices influenced ...13 KB (1,998 words) - 06:12, 13 June 2023
- Daoism and during the last two centuries, Western philosophy. While Western philosophy is closely related to conceptual components ...28 KB (4,111 words) - 09:55, 1 April 2024
- Islamic philosophy (الفلسفة الإسلامية) is a branch ... known in Christian Europe. Islamic philosophy influenced Judaic and Christian ...29 KB (4,094 words) - 21:49, 8 March 2024
- (1979) is a short but influential philosophy book by Jean-François ... of the 1950s after the reconstruction of western Europe. The result is a ...13 KB (1,834 words) - 16:21, 9 November 2022
- The Great Learning expresses many themes of Chinese philosophy and ... to an actual exposition of Confucius’ philosophy. It taught basic Confucian ...11 KB (1,684 words) - 14:30, 27 January 2023
- , a categorization that goes back in the Western tradition to the Greek grammarian ... ===General Philosophy Sources=== *[http://plato.stanford.edu/ Stanford ...11 KB (1,479 words) - 01:58, 27 February 2023
- region = Western Philosophy | era = nineteenth ... Bradley's contributions to moral philosophy and the philosophy ...14 KB (2,066 words) - 00:02, 25 March 2024
- According to traditional Western thought from the antiquity through ... Unlike in Western philosophy, the East did not develop an abstract ...19 KB (2,937 words) - 10:19, 26 September 2023
- and Heidegger (as well as all of western philosophy or “ontology”) ... a Totality in which the history of western philosophy is the history of this ...17 KB (2,583 words) - 18:22, 13 February 2024
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte (May 19, 1762 - January 27, 1814) was a German philosopher who gained his position in the history of Western philosophy ...16 KB (2,518 words) - 14:42, 1 August 2022
- Van Rensselaer Potter to describe a new philosophy that integrates biology ... and social science, politics, law, philosophy, and theology. ...12 KB (1,586 words) - 17:53, 31 October 2023
- Ancient Western philosophy is marked by the formation and development of philosophy from around the sixth century B.C.E. to the sixth century ...29 KB (4,278 words) - 04:19, 31 January 2023
- theory is used, it normally refers to the Western conception of virtue theory ... ethics moved to the margins of Western philosophy. But, virtue ethics ...28 KB (4,212 words) - 20:38, 3 May 2023
- in J. Wippel (ed.) Studies in Medieval Philosophy. Washington, DC: Catholic ... *Bourke, V. 1964. Will in Western Thought. New York: Sheed & Ward. ...13 KB (2,009 words) - 21:03, 3 May 2023
- akin to that found in the writing of Western theologians, especially ... Today, however, the Athanasian Creed is rarely used even in the Western ...10 KB (1,699 words) - 18:41, 19 August 2023
- X). is an influential school of Buddhist philosophy and psychology emphasizing ... Over time, the philosophy of Yogacara attained a prominent position ...17 KB (2,529 words) - 11:10, 25 May 2023
- challenged the entire history of Western philosophy, including the thoughts ... of axiology, aesthetics, and his unique philosophy of life. After Nietzsche ...17 KB (2,483 words) - 01:01, 24 November 2022
- in English in the 1701 History of Philosophy by Thomas Stanley, in his ... The mystery religions are possibly one of the origins of Western mystery ...12 KB (1,732 words) - 21:30, 20 March 2024
- 1930), a scholar of Chinese classical philosophy. The book was then translated ... by his teacher of Chinese classical philosophy, a sage named Lau Nai Suan ...12 KB (1,770 words) - 17:27, 30 April 2023
- in terms of the other. In contemporary philosophy, it refers to a certain ... position known as functionalism (see Philosophy of Mind). According to ...17 KB (2,604 words) - 21:17, 30 January 2024
- method among scholars in fields such as philosophy and theology had slowed ... and worked as a surveyor mapping Western Canada. Lonergan's ...12 KB (1,786 words) - 11:19, 28 September 2023
- region = Western Philosophy | era = twentieth ... He wrote on numerous topics, including philosophy of history and aesthetics ...15 KB (2,246 words) - 09:08, 27 September 2023
- concept is usually contrasted with Western Christianity that developed ... to the Roman Catholic Church (i.e. the Western Church), and Eastern Catholic ...12 KB (1,717 words) - 17:40, 12 February 2024
- of literature, Greek antiquity, art and philosophy gave him a broad foundation ... in Greek antiquity, believing that Greek philosophy and culture were necessary ...14 KB (2,106 words) - 07:21, 5 October 2022
- things are transitory according to Zen philosophy, however, the transitory ... of worldly existence. In Hindu philosophy, it is seen as a transcendence ...14 KB (2,125 words) - 18:55, 13 February 2024
- he initially studied mathematics and philosophy under the guidance of Kazimierz ... he taught mathematics, psychology, and philosophy in schools and worked on ...16 KB (2,359 words) - 04:50, 16 December 2022
- today. It is celebrated on November 1st in Western churches and the first Sunday ... So far as the Western Church generally is concerned, the November ...6 KB (918 words) - 13:36, 17 May 2021
- region = Western Philosophy | era = Eighteenth-century philosophy, | ... quot; Indicating the direction his later philosophy would take, the aim of ...15 KB (2,355 words) - 22:50, 30 April 2023
- Pre-Socratics or pre-Socratic philosophers were the earliest Western ... The pre-Socratic style of thought is often called natural philosophy ...21 KB (3,010 words) - 22:19, 30 November 2022
- poetry. He was a student not only of Western philosophy but of Jewish and Muslim ... show him to be a student not only of Western philosophy but of controversy ...17 KB (2,731 words) - 06:49, 18 April 2024
- Horde has split into the Eastern and Western hordes, and the only possible ... And Legacy. (SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture) Albany, NY: ...8 KB (1,229 words) - 12:57, 31 January 2022
- philosopher and physician, a master of philosophy and Islamic law, mathematics ... Roman Catholic Church over the role of philosophy in interpreting church ...19 KB (2,761 words) - 07:15, 23 August 2023
- with extra interests in astronomy and philosophy who as a young man "had ... body-mind dualism which permeates Western philosophy. As William Lyons put ...18 KB (2,734 words) - 07:53, 14 December 2022
- Political philosophy is a branch of philosophy, which studies fundamental ... of social, political matters, political philosophy focuses on the normative ...23 KB (3,233 words) - 08:37, 24 November 2022
