Search results for "Western philosophy" - New World Encyclopedia
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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 ...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
