Search results for "The World (Descartes)" - New World Encyclopedia
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- remembered as a Cambridge Platonist and as the sole English proponent of ... Norris felt that Malebranche had not succeeded in proving the existence ...10 KB (1,437 words) - 07:01, 3 August 2022
- Belief is the state of mind in which an individual is convinced of ... or without realizing them, which include the continual and consistent existence ...14 KB (2,132 words) - 08:53, 27 September 2023
- knowledge in sharp contrast to those of Descartes. While Descartes attempted ... Born to a bookseller and the daughter of a carriage maker, Vico attended ...17 KB (2,637 words) - 20:24, 14 December 2023
- indirect realism, epistemological dualism, the veil of perception, and representationalism ... The question then arises about the validity of human knowledge, and ...11 KB (1,589 words) - 19:41, 16 April 2023
- The term natural philosophy, or the philosophy of nature (Latin, philosophia ... Schelling and G.W.F. Hegel, and championed the concept of an organic and ...13 KB (1,838 words) - 22:42, 28 March 2023
- Husserlian phenomenology, used to identify the essential components of the ... hermeneutic phenomenology. While Husserl, the originator of phenomenology ...9 KB (1,238 words) - 00:03, 13 February 2024
- elements which results in a new creation. The term is found is a wide variety ... Synthesis as a mental process, on the other hand, is often an unconscious ...11 KB (1,635 words) - 01:58, 27 February 2023
- and is often criticized for overlooking the organic interdependent relationships ... == Mechanism as the principles of nature== The older doctrine which ...18 KB (2,812 words) - 09:35, 10 March 2023
- atomism with Christianity and for publishing the first official observations ... Like many intellectuals during the first half of the sixteenth century ...19 KB (2,823 words) - 05:22, 24 November 2022
- Solipsism (Latin: solus, alone + ipse, self) is the position that ... The conclusion that everything in the outside world is nothing but ...26 KB (3,989 words) - 15:09, 27 April 2023
- [[Image:DSCF0003.jpg|thumb|right|325px|Introspection entails the inward ... thoughts and perceptions. Introspection is the process of directly examining ...17 KB (2,469 words) - 11:00, 6 March 2024
- often translated "blank slate") is the notion, popularized by John ... ==History of the notion== In the fourth century B.C.E., Aristotle originated ...9 KB (1,406 words) - 02:05, 27 February 2023
- a French philosopher, strongly influenced by the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl ... he received his aggregation in philosophy at the Ecole Normale Supérieure ...18 KB (2,661 words) - 00:45, 9 November 2022
- The term common sense (or, when used attributively as an adjective ... perspective which took common sense as the source and ground of justification ...13 KB (2,021 words) - 04:14, 24 November 2022
- attribute omnipotence only to God. In the philosophies of Western monotheistic ... There are a variety of views of omnipotence, and the five most representative ...25 KB (3,894 words) - 00:37, 18 November 2022
- contribution was his philosophy of mind, in the broad sense of the term. His ... A number of his ideas such as the concept of intentionality, which ...12 KB (1,636 words) - 05:17, 9 April 2024
- was a British philosopher and leader of the Neo-Hegelian school in Britain ... Caird published two sets of Gifford lectures, The Evolution of Religion ...11 KB (1,641 words) - 18:22, 12 February 2024
- philosophical investigations centered upon the human person. In doing this ... he went on to study philosophy, first at the University of Rennes, and ...18 KB (2,604 words) - 01:31, 23 November 2022
- ="those on nature," derived from the arrangement of Aristotle& ... A central part of metaphysics is ontology, which is the study of being ...19 KB (2,966 words) - 16:22, 9 November 2022
- The Cambridge Platonists are a group of seventeenth century British ... The Cambridge Platonists were extremely learned scholars but often ...25 KB (3,863 words) - 18:53, 25 November 2023
- Existentialism is a philosophical movement that arose in the twentieth ... thinkers, such as Blaise Pascal in the seventeenth century, and particularly ...22 KB (3,260 words) - 23:54, 24 March 2024
- Human beings understand the world by applying concepts and expressing ... A vast array of accounts attempt to explain the nature of concepts ...20 KB (3,052 words) - 02:41, 8 January 2024
- Cyberspace is a global domain within the information environment consisting ... ground for communication helps bring the world together, others point ...14 KB (2,094 words) - 02:18, 15 January 2023
- of Asian philosophy he was dissatisfied with the individualism of Martin Heidegger ... in Himeji City, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, the second son of a physician ...13 KB (1,961 words) - 23:19, 3 May 2023
- studies questions of being or existence. The questions include a wide range ... The conceptual division of this branch of philosophy was established ...15 KB (2,218 words) - 00:43, 18 November 2022
- The Transcendental Ego (or its equivalent under various other formulations ... The notion of an Ego or self that precedes all experiences and makes ...8 KB (1,206 words) - 00:40, 2 May 2023
- Philosophy of mind is the branch of philosophy that studies the nature ... Dualism and monism are the two major schools of thought that attempt ...49 KB (7,510 words) - 22:42, 28 March 2023
- bioethics that considers animals other than the human species as bearers of ... The philosophy of animal rights has given rise to a socio-political ...32 KB (4,972 words) - 06:14, 28 July 2023
- and psychologist, a major philosopher of the “philosophy of life” ... framework within which we can find the natures, conditions, and justifications ...17 KB (2,371 words) - 19:48, 23 November 2022
- was a British philosopher, widely cited as the most important British moral ... Williams became known internationally for his attempt to return the ...30 KB (4,357 words) - 20:51, 23 January 2024
- to essentially spiritual questions such as the attributes of God and the ... he seeks to provide a rational argument in the defense of natural theology ...15 KB (2,384 words) - 02:22, 23 December 2022
- In natural philosophy, atomism is the theory that all the objects ... Traditional atomism is used in two distinct domains: The atoms of ...37 KB (5,618 words) - 06:58, 21 August 2023
- Self-concept or self identity is the mental and conceptual understanding ... Components of the self-concept include physical, psychological, and ...38 KB (5,604 words) - 20:14, 22 May 2023
- The Cyrenaics were one of the two earliest Socratic schools of philosophy ... and tranquility; Anniceris stressed the altruistic pleasures of friendship ...9 KB (1,293 words) - 06:55, 12 January 2024
- of southern Italy and a member of the Eleatic School, which began ... Zeno presented paradoxes in order to support the claims of Parmenides: ...8 KB (1,289 words) - 05:50, 13 June 2023
- of concresence," by which he meant the coming together of all that ... to develop Whitehead's metaphysics at the University of Chicago where ...23 KB (3,480 words) - 23:03, 30 November 2022
- regnant of Sweden from 1632 to 1654. She was the only surviving legitimate ... and his wife Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg. As the heiress presumptive ...33 KB (5,367 words) - 21:12, 10 December 2023
- philosophy and some social sciences, meaning the world "as lived" ... consciousness or mental life; that is, the correlation between the functions ...11 KB (1,588 words) - 22:49, 25 October 2022
- The 1755 Lisbon earthquake, also known as the Great Lisbon Earthquake ... The event was widely discussed by European Enlightenment philosophers ...16 KB (2,455 words) - 04:24, 29 October 2022
- phenomenological method for articulating the relation between the notion ... Oxford. From 1917 to 1919 he served in the Royal Air Force, and it may ...10 KB (1,458 words) - 17:46, 29 July 2023
- whose famous 1651 book Leviathan set the agenda for much of subsequent ... Hobbes was one of the first political philosophers who tried to explain ...29 KB (4,445 words) - 21:18, 30 April 2023
- He converted to Catholicism and is the author of more than 60 books ... Maritain's early upbringing and education at the Sorbonne led ...18 KB (2,703 words) - 08:31, 18 March 2024
- influenced by Kierkegaard, Sartre, and the phenomenology of Husserl and ... Beauvoir is best known for her 1949 treatise Le Deuxième Sexe (The ...19 KB (2,875 words) - 22:12, 29 January 2023
- of philosophical positions that emphasize the role of experience. The category ... philosophical positions that emphasize the role of innate ideas, or a ...34 KB (4,921 words) - 18:30, 13 February 2024
- A submarine communications cable is a cable laid beneath the sea to ... introduced their working telegraph in 1839, the idea of a submarine line across ...19 KB (2,734 words) - 21:23, 26 February 2023
- voices of a secular text, often in Italian. The madrigal has its origins in ... Its rise started with the Primo libro di Madrigali of Philippe Verdelot ...9 KB (1,342 words) - 04:56, 5 November 2022
- independent word of "existence." The word "existence," ... Modern existentialism maintained the distinction between essence and ...25 KB (3,698 words) - 10:29, 26 September 2023
- and humanist who greatly influenced the cultural and literary renaissance ... resigning his post as professor at the University of Madrid in protest ...25 KB (3,932 words) - 01:34, 8 September 2022
- 25, 1683 - September 12, 1764) was one of the most important French composer ... His theories regarding the relationship between functional harmony ...9 KB (1,322 words) - 17:12, 2 April 2024
- was marked by a series of difficulties with the Catholic French government ... Bayle attached footnotes to a number of the articles in which he presented ...10 KB (1,589 words) - 05:18, 24 November 2022
