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- The term Absolute denotes unconditioned and/or independence in the ... Greek philosophers did not explicitly elaborate on the absolute, but ...15 KB (2,179 words) - 06:35, 14 June 2023
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- The term Absolute denotes unconditioned and/or independence in the ... Greek philosophers did not explicitly elaborate on the absolute, but ...15 KB (2,179 words) - 06:35, 14 June 2023
- In philosophy, the adjective transcendental and the noun transcendence ... the divine or God, which is conceived as absolute, eternal, and infinite. ...11 KB (1,539 words) - 00:39, 2 May 2023
- a highly restricted notion of certain (absolute) knowledge, but it is the ... *Quine, W.V.O. Philosophy of Logic: 2nd Edition. Harvard University ...5 KB (794 words) - 06:34, 1 April 2024
- as a rabbi, Maimon studied German philosophy and raised important objections ... and devoted himself to the study of philosophy as it was presented by ...7 KB (1,116 words) - 01:01, 4 February 2023
- In the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, noumenon, thing in itself (German ... earlier years). The closest Kant came to absolute certainty about the transcendent ...9 KB (1,461 words) - 22:14, 16 November 2022
- The concept of pluralism in philosophy indicates the belief that reality ... The term is also used in a wider sense in several fields of philosophy ...10 KB (1,489 words) - 08:06, 24 November 2022
- Protestant theologian and writer on philosophy of religion and philosophy ... 1914, he switched to become professor of philosophy in Berlin. This change ...9 KB (1,343 words) - 21:23, 20 March 2024
- the presence of what he termed the “Absolute Spirit,” the religious ... mission was to spread knowledge of the Absolute Spirit, through the activities ...11 KB (1,697 words) - 22:59, 10 November 2022
- maintain that all moral principles are absolute. Most contemporary defenders ... in which the ruler’s power is absolute, that is, not subject to ...18 KB (2,761 words) - 06:37, 14 June 2023
- in the mind of God, as expressed in the philosophy of George Berkeley, its ... Plato’s ancient idealism to Hegel’s absolute idealism and various forms ...8 KB (1,190 words) - 21:10, 26 February 2023
- any attempt to find an ever-elusive absolute truth in a world where every ... the works of Democritus, he changed to philosophy and, according to Diogenes ...12 KB (1,848 words) - 03:54, 7 December 2022
- centered on the notion of the Absolute, represents a step beyond ... discourse, as can be seen from his philosophy of art and especially the ...20 KB (2,983 words) - 06:43, 15 April 2024
- First Cause is term introduced by Aristotle and used in philosophy ... and the Attributes of the Lord God: The Absolute One and First Cause. Edinburgh: ...8 KB (1,282 words) - 19:54, 26 March 2024
- dread, the idea became prominent in the philosophy and literature of the twentieth ... through grace can lead us back to the Absolute Good or God. ...8 KB (1,159 words) - 17:33, 30 January 2024
- consistency of neutral geometry, or absolute geometry, with respect to ... assumed in European mathematics and philosophy (for example in Spinoza ...10 KB (1,582 words) - 07:21, 23 August 2023
- Throughout the history of philosophy, and particularly in ancient ... that there are no “universals” in the absolute or timeless sense, but only ...9 KB (1,457 words) - 12:01, 3 May 2023
- soul. Socrates understood the purpose of philosophy as the cultivation of the ... When modern philosophy, however, gave up theistic, Christian frameworks ...9 KB (1,336 words) - 00:44, 24 November 2022
- many modern philosophers. In medieval philosophy, the certainty of existence ... The notion is strongly linked to the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and its ...8 KB (1,206 words) - 00:40, 2 May 2023
- has its origins in both classical philosophy and Christian theology ... === Classical philosophy === Although the philosophical notion of alienation ...16 KB (2,390 words) - 18:22, 21 July 2023
- ) 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
- quot;) from God, the First Reality, First Absolute, or Principle. Essentially ... agnosis inherent to and within the Absolute, the Godhead. ...12 KB (1,737 words) - 17:51, 13 February 2024
- of another, therefore there was no absolute philosophical certainty ... or Universal Treatise), on natural philosophy, metaphysics, ethics, psychology ...10 KB (1,617 words) - 23:32, 14 November 2022
- view on ethics and knowledge. Their philosophy contains criticism of religion ... antagonistic view to the existence of an absolute, permanent, and objective ...11 KB (1,583 words) - 01:17, 4 February 2023
- The Cyrenaics were one of the two earliest Socratic schools of philosophy ... experiences can in no way constitute absolute objective knowledge; therefore ...9 KB (1,293 words) - 06:55, 12 January 2024
- Absolute idealism is an ontologically monistic philosophy attributed to G.W.F. Hegel. Hegel developed a comprehensive speculative metaphysics ...29 KB (4,323 words) - 17:06, 17 December 2022
- to a number of different areas in philosophy, but his primary contribution ... the Scholasticism, and the concept of philosophy as the study of consciousness ...12 KB (1,636 words) - 05:17, 9 April 2024
- Relativism is the view or claim that there is no absolute referent ... truth relativism—the doctrine that no absolute truth exists, but that truth ...25 KB (3,816 words) - 03:07, 8 December 2022
- encompass the vast storehouse of philosophy and mythology found in ... sound symbolic of the Universal Absolute." According to Hindu ...13 KB (2,123 words) - 07:07, 13 June 2023
- ==Mental Reservation as a Response to Absolute Prohibitions of Lying== When there is an absolute prohibition against something that people ...19 KB (3,123 words) - 03:12, 5 November 2022
- scholars of comparative religion and philosophy in his day. He built a ... He engaged creatively with Western philosophy, demonstrating that Eastern ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 16:20, 27 July 2021
- He wrote on numerous topics, including philosophy of history and aesthetics ... Croce offered his “philosophy of spirit” as a humanistic alternative ...15 KB (2,246 words) - 09:08, 27 September 2023
- role in the development of Russian philosophy and poetry at the end of ... regeneration. He believed that Western philosophy and civilization had reached ...15 KB (2,232 words) - 20:48, 3 May 2023
- the deontological constraint on lying is absolute. An important contemporary ... reason for not doing something, is not absolute, but must be weighed up ...19 KB (2,981 words) - 00:53, 27 July 2022
- and commentator. A professor of philosophy at the University of Padua ... before proceeding to Padua to study philosophy and medicine. While at ...8 KB (1,200 words) - 06:47, 16 June 2023
- and are wholly harmonized as part of the Absolute. He supported the scientific ... Bosanquet taught ancient history and philosophy at Oxford; during that ...16 KB (2,361 words) - 11:19, 28 September 2023
- Bindusara, was a believer of Ajivika philosophy, which reached its peak ... seem to have been exponents of a philosophy of absolute determinism ...6 KB (943 words) - 05:13, 30 April 2021
- is the modern term for a school of philosophy took shape in the third ... within the framework of Plato’s philosophy. Through this dialogical ...11 KB (1,605 words) - 16:18, 11 November 2022
- twentieth centuries; subsequently, his philosophy influenced the development ... are still the subjects of current debates in philosophy. ...23 KB (3,260 words) - 07:38, 24 January 2023
- of Divine Right justified the king's absolute authority in both political ... the royal power to a potential position of absolute power. ...11 KB (1,829 words) - 15:08, 26 August 2020
- of an authentic self and society. In philosophy, the concept has also been ... although Kierkegaard respected the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. ...14 KB (2,048 words) - 19:15, 22 August 2023
- article on Deontological ethics) is that absolute moral rules may come into ... solution is to deny that moral rules are absolute, and to argue that one may ...19 KB (3,122 words) - 17:23, 12 February 2024
- of the “period of classical American philosophy,” which lasted from the ... a year in Germany, where he attended philosophy lectures in Heidelberg ...24 KB (3,666 words) - 19:58, 7 September 2022
- philosopher on aesthetics and moral philosophy. Sometimes referred to ... numerous dialogues and essays on moral philosophy brought him into contact ...8 KB (1,207 words) - 04:59, 9 April 2024
- climate which is indicative of early modern philosophy. of the concept. (In Principles of Philosophy,§7: "Ac proinde haec ...12 KB (1,920 words) - 22:26, 7 January 2024
- Nicholas is best known for his philosophy, encapsulated in two famous ... == Philosophy and works == The main ideas in Nicholas’ philosophy ...17 KB (2,645 words) - 23:33, 14 November 2022
- Aristotle's works) is the branch of philosophy concerned with explaining ... be little less than a history of all of philosophy. This article will, therefore ...19 KB (2,966 words) - 16:22, 9 November 2022
- there are no separate “things;” and absolute idealism, the concept that ... Bradley's contributions to moral philosophy and the philosophy ...14 KB (2,066 words) - 00:02, 25 March 2024
- of what differentiates theology from philosophy and science began in earnest ... insisting that God’s potentia absoluta (absolute power), or will, has precedence ...15 KB (2,194 words) - 04:59, 3 August 2022
- Lycée Charlemagne, majoring in music, philosophy, and natural science. He ... Lévy-Bruhl published his first book, History of Modern Philosophy ...11 KB (1,515 words) - 02:25, 5 November 2022
- medicine, Islamic, Christian, and Jewish philosophy, and biblical and rabbinical ... means of salvation, while Maimonidean philosophy held that true belief was ...13 KB (2,036 words) - 07:18, 10 August 2022
- This human experience was developed in philosophy as perspectivism. Although ... of axiology, aesthetics, and his unique philosophy of life. After Nietzsche ...17 KB (2,483 words) - 01:01, 24 November 2022
- is a dualist school of Vedanta Hindu philosophy. For definition of ... contrast with the advaita (non-dualist) philosophy expounded by Shankara, ...14 KB (2,041 words) - 17:24, 12 February 2024
- Scheler studied medicine in Munich and Berlin, and philosophy and ... and many articles on Scheler's philosophy. After his first marriage ...14 KB (2,180 words) - 00:58, 9 November 2022
- and the development of European philosophy. Ficino introduced the concept ... and skeptics to Christ through the philosophy of Plato, Ficino initiated ...12 KB (1,803 words) - 16:15, 6 November 2022
- University of Vienna. He studied mainly philosophy and psychology but also ... sexuality for an abstract love of the absolute, God, which he finds within ...11 KB (1,680 words) - 10:52, 11 March 2023
- to the epistemological approach of his philosophy. Kant presents it as the ... remains agnostic about their ultimate or absolute meaning. ...14 KB (2,167 words) - 00:54, 2 May 2023
- and Japheth the patriarchs inherited the absolute power which they exercised ... Works of Sir Robert Filmer. The Philosophy of John Locke. New York: ...12 KB (1,931 words) - 05:04, 15 December 2022
- dimension of any society and how the absolute God was at the same time ... the limits between theology and philosophy, the church and society ...22 KB (3,350 words) - 01:34, 23 November 2022
- to make a distinction between philosophy and religion, and gave ... in which the responsibility of the absolute ruler is to educate and ...18 KB (2,709 words) - 07:20, 16 June 2023
- what is now known as its golden age of philosophy. He broke away from the ... today mostly unknown outside of academic philosophy. As an essayist, Moore ...13 KB (2,040 words) - 07:29, 15 April 2024
- Pierre Abélard. Cousin's spiritual philosophy inspired his listeners ... in France, introduced the study of philosophy into the curriculum, and ...26 KB (4,045 words) - 18:04, 3 May 2023
- esse; German, Sein; French, être), in philosophy, has been a central topic ... hēi on) was what he called "first philosophy," as is discussed ...32 KB (4,866 words) - 10:28, 26 September 2023
- world. His omnipotence consists in his absolute ability to make that choice ... existence in his Meditations on First Philosophy, Descartes indicated his ...25 KB (3,894 words) - 00:37, 18 November 2022
- ex deo (out of God), confirms the absolute transcendence of the One ... The essentially devotional nature of Plotinus' philosophy may ...11 KB (1,612 words) - 17:28, 9 November 2022
- ethics and his intuitivism. His philosophy represents a Neoplatonism ... and subsequently Assistant Professor of philosophy at St Petersburg. Lossky ...12 KB (1,405 words) - 04:12, 15 November 2022
- , is one of the six Hindu schools of philosophy (orthodox Vedic systems ... Vaisesika is one of the six Hindu schools of philosophy. The word ...19 KB (2,996 words) - 14:10, 3 May 2023
- of the major thinkers in the history of Western philosophy. ambition. Hegel’s highly systematic philosophy has been characterized ...43 KB (6,642 words) - 07:00, 18 April 2024
- In philosophy and theology, eclecticism is the practice of selecting ... at all. Eclecticism sought to approach absolute truth by selecting doctrines ...12 KB (1,821 words) - 18:01, 12 February 2024
- Formen, 3 vol. (1923–29; The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms), Cassirer ... traditions of twentieth-century academic philosophy, the “analytic” and ...13 KB (1,820 words) - 19:34, 13 February 2024
- Calvinism—which emphasized God's absolute sovereignty and the doctrine ... teaching that the high Calvinist views of absolute predestination and unconditional ...11 KB (1,626 words) - 08:08, 18 March 2024
- Continental philosophy, as the phrase is used today, refers to a set ... The term continental philosophy originated among English-speaking ...19 KB (2,642 words) - 02:47, 8 January 2024
- Agnostics claim either that it is not possible to have absolute or ... Huxley in 1869 to describe his personal philosophy that rejected gnosticism ...18 KB (2,675 words) - 06:46, 16 June 2023
- truths,” one arrived at through philosophy and science, and one arrived ... as if there were two truths, one of philosophy and another of faith. A ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 07:15, 23 August 2023
- 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
- Nagarjuna's primary contribution to Buddhist philosophy was his ... It is important to clarify that Nagarjuna's philosophy, far from ...14 KB (2,110 words) - 23:10, 10 November 2022
- idea that all knowledge culminates in philosophy and philosophy culminates ... ===Modern philosophy and Novalis=== Modern philosophy turned away from ...20 KB (3,018 words) - 22:15, 16 November 2022
- Immanuel Kant's ethics, based on what he thought is the absolute ... an account of the main features of his philosophy as it stands before us ...12 KB (1,864 words) - 15:58, 7 May 2023
- is known for his attempt to unite Greek philosophy with Christian teachings ... and even embracing non-Christian philosophy. It was a marked characteristic ...14 KB (2,240 words) - 11:08, 19 December 2023
- six orthodox (astika) schools of Hindu philosophy that focuses on logic. ... Indian equivalent to contemporary analytic philosophy. ==Origins== ...14 KB (2,126 words) - 01:23, 17 November 2022
- The sacred symbolism and philosophy accociated with Shiva-Shakti also ... two distinct ways of perceiving the same absolute reality. The first is a ...16 KB (2,621 words) - 02:27, 5 October 2022
- no place for human liberty, and that an absolute fatality will rule as well ... with a long tradition in the history of philosophy, which collectively prescribe ...13 KB (1,981 words) - 21:33, 26 February 2023
- the most popular schools of Hellenistic Philosophy. He taught that happiness ... shown by the youth to me, and to philosophy" (Diogenes Laertius ...19 KB (3,054 words) - 19:07, 13 February 2024
- He also proposed that the role of philosophy was not to discover universal ... please his father, but he also studied philosophy, psychology, physics, and ...24 KB (3,658 words) - 16:57, 22 December 2022
- Process thought, also known as process philosophy or process theology ... is more consistent with Whitehead's philosophy, it has been a challenge ...23 KB (3,480 words) - 23:03, 30 November 2022
- pdf Algorithms: A Quest for Absolute Definitions.] Bulletin of ... Hypothesis] (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). ===General philosophy ...10 KB (1,376 words) - 08:20, 23 July 2023
- in an effort to translate Eastern philosophy, especially Zen Buddhism ... Zen Buddhism and began to specialize in philosophy. He left the Fourth Higher ...15 KB (2,299 words) - 05:02, 15 November 2022
- In philosophy, metaethics—sometimes known as analytic ethics—is ... * Are there objective or absolute values? * What is the source of our ...14 KB (2,091 words) - 16:19, 9 November 2022
- who rebelled against the academic philosophy of the nineteenth century ... Karl Daub and became interested in the philosophy of Hegel then predominant ...24 KB (3,623 words) - 02:37, 5 November 2022
- She published prolifically both in philosophy and psychology, her greatest ... her undergraduate degree in classics and philosophy, she traveled with her ...14 KB (1,967 words) - 16:15, 7 November 2022
- Reason, in philosophy, is the ability to form and operate upon concepts ... (or theoretical) reason is concerned with absolute and universal truths. For ...15 KB (2,212 words) - 01:41, 8 December 2022
- Key philosophers in the history of philosophy cast doubt on the prevailing ... role as a catalyst in the history of philosophy. ==Fallibilism== ...15 KB (2,113 words) - 17:30, 30 January 2024
- attempted to establish a new ground of philosophy based on the presuppositions ... Vico sought to formulate a comprehensive philosophy according to his historical ...17 KB (2,637 words) - 20:24, 14 December 2023
- in conflict with the spontaneity and absolute quality of romance. However ... htm The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Philosophy of Love] www ...10 KB (1,445 words) - 04:58, 16 December 2022
- account of creation, he recognizes an absolute and eternal God who existed ... the Sikh conception of God spans both absolute and relative realms, much ...21 KB (3,199 words) - 11:13, 11 March 2023
- ethics moved to the margins of Western philosophy. But, virtue ethics was ... (1941-2003)'s book, The Elements of Moral Philosophy. ...28 KB (4,212 words) - 20:38, 3 May 2023
- order of alternation of quantifiers is of absolute importance. ... Algebra of Logic: A Contribution to the Philosophy of Notation,” American ...14 KB (2,119 words) - 04:04, 7 December 2022
- his position in the history of Western philosophy by opening the way to German ... but later followed Kant's philosophy. In spite of his lack of ...16 KB (2,518 words) - 14:42, 1 August 2022
- the most important and influential philosophy study and discussion group ... to problems of epistemology, the philosophy of science, and more general ...16 KB (2,366 words) - 21:22, 9 November 2022
- Unification Thought is the philosophy of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon ... method, and history. These branches of philosophy are integrated into a uniform ...20 KB (3,078 words) - 01:38, 3 May 2023
- and through Locke), American political philosophy in the late 1700s. ... and through Locke), American political philosophy in the late 1700s. Locke ...12 KB (1,851 words) - 21:41, 8 December 2022
