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  • Neo-Hegelianism refers to several schools of thought associated with and inspired by the ideas of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, a German idealist ...
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  • Neo-Kantianism designates the revived or modified types of Kantian philosophy identified with the “back to Kant” movement in the late nineteenth ...
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  • Neo-Hegelianism refers to several schools of thought associated with and inspired by the ideas of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, a German idealist ...
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  • Category:Public Tabula rasa (Latin: "scraped tablet," though often translated "blank slate") is the notion, popularized by ...
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  • Marsilio Ficino (also known by his Latin name, Marsilius Ficinus) (October 19, 1433 – October 1, 1499) was one of the most influential humanist ...
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  • Neo-Pythagoreans and especially the Neo-Platonic school of Alexandria ... Neo-Pythagoreans and especially the Neo-Platonic school of Alexandria ...
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  • Neoplatonism (also Neo-Platonism) is the modern term for a school of philosophy took shape in the third century C.E. with the philosopher Plotinus ...
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  • tinged with pantheism, fatalism and other Neo-platonic errors, and this gave rise to a new wave of conflict within the universities. Pantheists like ...
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  • Damascius (c. 460 C.E. – c. 538 C.E.) was the last head of the Neoplatonic Academy in Athens. Born in Damascus about 460 C.E., he studied rhetoric ...
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  • Chung Dojeon (Jeong Dojeon; 1342 – 1398), also known by the pen name Sambong, was the most powerful medieval Korean noble and politician of ...
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  • Plotinus (205-270 C.E.), who developed the Neo-Platonic tradition, also held that good and beauty are one in the realm of thought, and that the ...
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  • *Siorvanes, Lucas. Proclus: Neo-Platonic Philosophy and Science. Yale University Press, 1997. *Taylor, Thomas. Proclus the Neoplatonic Philosopher ...
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  • who preserved and interpreted Neo-Platonic philosophy, including the thought of such figures as Plotinus and Proclus. :Maximus is heir to all ...
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  • viewed as a continuing expression of a pagan, neo-platonic tradition stretching back through the troubadours and early medieval Latin lyrics to the ...
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  • and Roman academies, he professed a neo-Platonic version of gnostic theology, stressing the ultimately monistic nature of the cosmos. Christologically ...
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  • The terms form and matter describe a basic duality in all existence, between the essence or "whatness" of a thing (form) and the stuff ...
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  • Whole, Lossky lays out a neo-Leibnitzian, neo-Platonic theory based on monads, or "substantival agents." Lossky's monads are radically ...
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  • Emanationism is the doctrine that describes all existence as emanating (Latin emanare, "to flow from") from God, the First Reality ...
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  • Lev Nikolayevich Gumilyov ( Лев Никола́евич Гумилёв ) (October 1, 1912 – June 15, 1992), also known as Lev Gumilev, was ...
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  • category:image wanted Brunner, Emil Emil Brunner (December 23, 1889 – April 6, 1966) was an eminent and highly influential Swiss theologian ...
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  • Eclecticism (from Greek eklektikos, “selective,” or “choosing the best”), is a conceptual approach that does not hold rigidly to a single ...
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  • Georges-Pierre Seurat (December 2, 1859 – March 29, 1891) was a French painter and the founder of Neo-Impressionism. His large work Sunday ...
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  • In metaphysics, a universal is a type, a property, or a relation. The term derives from the Latin word universalia and is often considered to ...
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  • The Shūyuàn (书院), usually known in English as Academies or Academies of Classical Learning, were private research and educational institutions ...
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  • An academy (Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of higher learning, research, or honorary membership. The name traces back to Plato's ...
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  • Si Shu ( t=四書|p=Sì Shū ; literary "four books") or The Four Books of Confucianism (not to be confused with the Four Great Classical ...
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  • Zhou Dunyi (Chinese: 周敦颐/周敦頤; Pinyin: Zhōu Dūnyí; Wade-Giles: Chou Tun-yi; 1017-1073 C.E.), or Zhou Lianxi (周濂溪; Chou Lien ...
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  • Neo-Kantianism designates the revived or modified types of Kantian philosophy identified with the “back to Kant” movement in the late nineteenth ...
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  • Dà Xué (大學 or 大学), usually translated as The Great Learning, refers to a short text of indeterminate authorship that is primarily concerned ...
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  • Chang Tsai or Zhang Zai ( c=張載/长载|p=Zhāng Zǎi| w=Chang Tsai Chang Heng-ch'ü. 1020-1077) was a Chinese Neo-Confucian moral philosopher ...
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  • Macrocosm/microcosm is a Greek compound of μακρο- "Macro-" and μικρο- "Micro-," which are Greek respectively for ...
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  • That is, Schelling transformed Plotinus' neo-Platonic emanationist metaphysics into an evolutionary ontology. == Schleiermacher == ...
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  • King Myeongjong (명종 明宗|1534–1567, r. 1545–1567) was the thirteenth king of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea. He was the second son of ...
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  • Calvinism is a system of Christian theology advanced by John Calvin, a Protestant Reformer in the sixteenth century, and further developed by ...
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  • infinite God. As such, he argued (following a Neo-Platonic model) that material reality was created through a process of divine emanation. This position ...
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  • Wang Chong (Wade-Giles: Wang Chong, 王充) (27 – 97 C.E.) was a Chinese philosopher during the Han Dynasty who developed a rational, secular ...
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  • Monarchianism (also known as monarchism) refers to a heretical body of Christian beliefs that emphasize the indivisibility of God (the Father ...
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  • further introduced Platonic and Neo-Platonic elements, saying that the beauty of things is due to their participation in divine ideas. ...
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  • In philosophy the notion of categories derives from Aristotle’s (384-322 B.C.E.) logic and ontology. In logic the categories are understood ...
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  • Edward Caird (March 23, 1835 – November 1, 1908) was a British philosopher and leader of the Neo-Hegelian school in Britain. He was one of ...
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  • Feng Youlan (馮友蘭, 冯友兰, Féng Yǒulán; Wade-Giles: Fung Yu-lan) (1895–1990) was a Chinese philosopher who was important for reintroducing ...
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  • :*Augustine of Hippo brought the Principle from Neo-Platonic thought into early Christian Theology. :*St. Anselm's ontological arguments ...
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  • Adoptionism is a minority Christian belief that Jesus was born merely human and that he became divine—adopted as God's son—later in ...
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  • Maimonides was led by his admiration for the neo-Platonic commentators to maintain many doctrines which the Scholastics could not accept. He ...
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  • Nicolai Hartmann (February 20, 1882 – October 9, 1950) was one of the dominant German philosophers during the first half of the twentieth century ...
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  • Han Yu (韓愈, Hán Yù, Pinyin Han Yu, also called Han Wen-kung) (768 - 824 C.E.), born in Nanyang, Henan, China, was a precursor of Neo-Confucianism ...
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  • Kantianism refers to a line of thought that is broadly based on the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. The term can also refer directly to Kant’s ...
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  • William of Auvergne (c. 1190 – 1248), Bishop of Paris from 1228 until his death in 1249, was the first of the thirteenth century theologians ...
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  • Wang Fu-chih (王夫之) or Wang Fuzhi or Chuanshan (船山 Ch’uan-shan), also known as Wang Fu-zi or Wang Zi (1619 - 1692) was a Chinese philosopher ...
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  • Ernst Cassirer (July 28, 1874 – April 13, 1945) was a German-Jewish philosopher, educator, and prolific writer, and one of the leading exponents ...
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  • Zhū Xī (朱熹; Wade-Giles: Chu Hsi; 1130 – 1200 C.E.) was a Confucian scholar of the Song dynasty who became one of the most significant ...
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  • Paul Signac (November 11, 1863 - August 15, 1935) was a leading figure of French Neo-Impressionism, the school of painters that followed the ...
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