Search results for "Western philosophy" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • known to be the first representative of Western philosophy. ... Thales lived in the city of Miletus, in Ionia, now western Turkey ...
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  • him as a founder of Eleatic philosophy whose major thinkers were ... as one of the earliest monotheists in the Western philosophy. ...
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  • of modern and contemporary Western philosophy, which is the main ... ==Western philosophy== Ancient philosophy in the West refers to philosophies ...
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  • with the impetus of Dilthey's "philosophy of life" and Neo-Kantianism ... Rightist Hegelians, who developed his philosophy along lines compatible ...
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  • Thales, the first philosopher in Western philosophy, according to ... philosophy book in the history of Western philosophy. The only surviving ...
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  • beings to be “water,” based upon his philosophy of life. Anaximander, a ... be one and eternal for these pioneers of Western philosophy. ...
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  • movement that became powerful in all Western countries toward the end ... development of positivism in Western philosophy came with the Vienna ...
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  • this heritage from the perspective of Western philosophy. in China, he began to be exposed to Western philosophy through the translations ...
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  • the important original monographs Philosophy of Economy («Философия ... Crimea, where he worked in the field of philosophy. He wrote the books Philosophy ...
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  • to the intellectual tradition of Western Europe. He was the first ... from the Greek intellectual tradition into Western Europe, where they were ...
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  • The term natural philosophy, or the philosophy of nature (Latin, philosophia ... *Russell, Bertrand. History of Western Philosophy and Its Connection ...
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  • rest of the world, Kato studied rangaku (Western studies) under Oki Nakamasu ... had studied both Confucianism and western philosophy, and most had experience ...
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  • in the mind of God, as expressed in the philosophy of George Berkeley, its ... mind was the essential purpose of his entire philosophy. ...
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  • Contemporary Western philosophy, thus, has been broadly divided into ... functioning as a label for types of Western philosophy rejected or disliked ...
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  • his analysis to the criticism of the western civilization. Horkheimer ... at Munich University, where he studied philosophy and psychology. He subsequently ...
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  • #039;s Razor in the later development of philosophy has been decontextualized ... * Russell, Bertrand. History of Western Philosophy (Russell)|History ...
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  • scholars of comparative religion and philosophy in his day. He built a ... example. He engaged creatively with Western philosophy, demonstrating that ...
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  • an empirical approach to natural philosophy and treated it as a separate ... curriculum of classics, science, and philosophy. Telesio began an attack ...
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  • pioneers of the revival of learning in Western Europe. As a student he ... hold that Aristotle had maintained over Western European thought for eight ...
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  • is the modern term for a school of philosophy took shape in the third ... within the framework of Plato’s philosophy. Through this dialogical ...
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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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • before his execution, is Consolation of Philosophy, which became one of the ... in prison, Boethius wrote Consolation of Philosophy, which later became one ...
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  • Protestant theologian and writer on philosophy of religion and philosophy ... 1914, he switched to become professor of philosophy in Berlin. This change ...
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  • the orthodox or astika schools of Indian philosophy that recognizes the authority ... and other forms of dualism. In Western philosophy, dualism usually refers ...
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  • rise of Christianity and the fall of the Western Roman Empire (fifth century ... * Irwin, Terence. Classical Thought. A History of Western philosophy ...
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  • The book was first made available to Western scholars in Latin with the ... ===General Philosophy Sources=== *[http://plato.stanford.edu/ Stanford ...
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  • historian. He studied and wrote about both Western and Eastern philosophy, ... Imperial University with a degree in philosophy. For his graduation thesis ...
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  • modified Stoicism became the dominant philosophy in Rome and later influenced ... in which the appalling conditions of the Western Front led to apathy, or ...
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  • and doesn't have to imitate and mimic Western institutions. The Russian ... his first extended critique of Western philosophy and values. ...
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  • Banyankore, Banyoro, Batooro and Bakiga of Western Uganda and also the Bahaya ... emphasized three maxims which shape the philosophy of Hunhuism or Ubuntuism: ...
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  • Cartesianism is the school of philosophy based on the fundamental ... Though, contrary to Descartes' hopes, his philosophy was poorly ...
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  • regeneration. He believed that Western philosophy and civilization had ... of little interest to contemporary Western philosophy, involving himself ...
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  • self-identity as the first principle of philosophy. In other words, Parmenides ... effects on the subsequent history of Western philosophy. ...
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  • with varied meanings in the fields of philosophy, analytical psychology ... Similar concepts are found in non-western traditions, such as Dao ...
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  • discussion group in the history of Western philosophy after Plato's ... the most important turning point in Western philosophy. In that year Schlick ...
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  • and presented it to his disciples. "Western Inscription" was originally ... chapter, and were titled "The Western Inscription" and "The ...
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  • and also neo-positivism) is a philosophy that combines positivism ... Logical positivism held that philosophy should aspire to the same ...
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  • Thomas Aquinas in the shaping of Western attitudes towards faith ... affairs. Siger’s importance to philosophy lies in his acceptance ...
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  • الكندي) (also known in the Western world by the Latinized version ... consistently tried to demonstrate that philosophy is compatible with orthodox ...
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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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  • 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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  • region = Western Philosophy | era = 20th-century philosophy | ... developed a unique theistic existential philosophy. He began his career as ...
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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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  • the comparative study of Chinese and Western aesthetics. He was also ... which synthesized Schopenhauer’s philosophy of art with Daoism. His ...
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  • of the most prominent philosophers in western Europe (Descartes, Malebranche ... was an adamant defender of Cartesian philosophy in the days when Scholastic ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • the history of ideas. As a professor of philosophy at Johns Hopkins University ... of plenitude” in the history of Western philosophy. Aristotle originally ...
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  • region = Western Philosophy | era = 19th-century philosophy | ... He abhored the rational religion of Western philosophy (for example, Immanuel ...
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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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