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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
