Search results for "The World (Descartes)" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 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
- Ramon Llull, Scholastic philosophy, Rene Descartes, Christiaan Huygens | ... noble houses, Leibniz played a major role in the European politics and diplomacy ...33 KB (4,750 words) - 04:49, 24 May 2024
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
