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  • quot;) from God, the First Reality, First Absolute, or Principle. Essentially ... agnosis inherent to and within the Absolute, the Godhead. ...
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  • of another, therefore there was no absolute philosophical certainty ... or Universal Treatise), on natural philosophy, metaphysics, ethics, psychology ...
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  • view on ethics and knowledge. Their philosophy contains criticism of religion ... antagonistic view to the existence of an absolute, permanent, and objective ...
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  • The Cyrenaics were one of the two earliest Socratic schools of philosophy ... experiences can in no way constitute absolute objective knowledge; therefore ...
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  • Absolute idealism is an ontologically monistic philosophy attributed to G.W.F. Hegel. Hegel developed a comprehensive speculative metaphysics ...
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  • to a number of different areas in philosophy, but his primary contribution ... the Scholasticism, and the concept of philosophy as the study of consciousness ...
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  • Relativism is the view or claim that there is no absolute referent ... truth relativism—the doctrine that no absolute truth exists, but that truth ...
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  • encompass the vast storehouse of philosophy and mythology found in ... sound symbolic of the Universal Absolute." According to Hindu ...
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  • ==Mental Reservation as a Response to Absolute Prohibitions of Lying== When there is an absolute prohibition against something that people ...
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  • scholars of comparative religion and philosophy in his day. He built a ... He engaged creatively with Western philosophy, demonstrating that Eastern ...
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  • He wrote on numerous topics, including philosophy of history and aesthetics ... Croce offered his “philosophy of spirit” as a humanistic alternative ...
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  • role in the development of Russian philosophy and poetry at the end of ... regeneration. He believed that Western philosophy and civilization had reached ...
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  • the deontological constraint on lying is absolute. An important contemporary ... reason for not doing something, is not absolute, but must be weighed up ...
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  • and commentator. A professor of philosophy at the University of Padua ... before proceeding to Padua to study philosophy and medicine. While at ...
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  • and are wholly harmonized as part of the Absolute. He supported the scientific ... Bosanquet taught ancient history and philosophy at Oxford; during that ...
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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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  • Bindusara, was a believer of Ajivika philosophy, which reached its peak ... seem to have been exponents of a philosophy of absolute determinism ...
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  • twentieth centuries; subsequently, his philosophy influenced the development ... are still the subjects of current debates in philosophy. ...
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  • of an authentic self and society. In philosophy, the concept has also been ... although Kierkegaard respected the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. ...
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  • of Divine Right justified the king's absolute authority in both political ... the royal power to a potential position of absolute power. ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • of the “period of classical American philosophy,” which lasted from the ... a year in Germany, where he attended philosophy lectures in Heidelberg ...
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  • philosopher on aesthetics and moral philosophy. Sometimes referred to ... numerous dialogues and essays on moral philosophy brought him into contact ...
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  • climate which is indicative of early modern philosophy. of the concept. (In Principles of Philosophy,§7: "Ac proinde haec ...
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  •    Nicholas is best known for his philosophy, encapsulated in two famous ... == Philosophy and works == The main ideas in Nicholas’ philosophy ...
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  • there are no separate “things;” and absolute idealism, the concept that ... Bradley's contributions to moral philosophy and the philosophy ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • of what differentiates theology from philosophy and science began in earnest ... insisting that God’s potentia absoluta (absolute power), or will, has precedence ...
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  • Lycée Charlemagne, majoring in music, philosophy, and natural science. He ... Lévy-Bruhl published his first book, History of Modern Philosophy ...
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  • medicine, Islamic, Christian, and Jewish philosophy, and biblical and rabbinical ... means of salvation, while Maimonidean philosophy held that true belief was ...
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  • This human experience was developed in philosophy as perspectivism. Although ... of axiology, aesthetics, and his unique philosophy of life. After Nietzsche ...
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  • is a dualist school of Vedanta Hindu philosophy. For definition of ... contrast with the advaita (non-dualist) philosophy expounded by Shankara, ...
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  • Scheler studied medicine in Munich and Berlin, and philosophy and ... and many articles on Scheler's philosophy. After his first marriage ...
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  • and the development of European philosophy. Ficino introduced the concept ... and skeptics to Christ through the philosophy of Plato, Ficino initiated ...
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  • University of Vienna. He studied mainly philosophy and psychology but also ... sexuality for an abstract love of the absolute, God, which he finds within ...
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  • to the epistemological approach of his philosophy. Kant presents it as the ... remains agnostic about their ultimate or absolute meaning. ...
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  • and Japheth the patriarchs inherited the absolute power which they exercised ... Works of Sir Robert Filmer. The Philosophy of John Locke. New York: ...
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  • dimension of any society and how the absolute God was at the same time ... the limits between theology and philosophy, the church and society ...
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  • to make a distinction between philosophy and religion, and gave ... in which the responsibility of the absolute ruler is to educate and ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Pierre Abélard. Cousin's spiritual philosophy inspired his listeners ... in France, introduced the study of philosophy into the curriculum, and ...
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  • esse; German, Sein; French, être), in philosophy, has been a central topic ... hēi on) was what he called "first philosophy," as is discussed ...
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  • world. His omnipotence consists in his absolute ability to make that choice ... existence in his Meditations on First Philosophy, Descartes indicated his ...
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  • ex deo (out of God), confirms the absolute transcendence of the One ... The essentially devotional nature of Plotinus' philosophy may ...
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  • ethics and his intuitivism. His philosophy represents a Neoplatonism ... and subsequently Assistant Professor of philosophy at St Petersburg. Lossky ...
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  • , is one of the six Hindu schools of philosophy (orthodox Vedic systems ... Vaisesika is one of the six Hindu schools of philosophy. The word ...
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  • of the major thinkers in the history of Western philosophy. ambition. Hegel’s highly systematic philosophy has been characterized ...
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  • In philosophy and theology, eclecticism is the practice of selecting ... at all. Eclecticism sought to approach absolute truth by selecting doctrines ...
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  • Formen, 3 vol. (1923–29; The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms), Cassirer ... traditions of twentieth-century academic philosophy, the “analytic” and ...
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  • Continental philosophy, as the phrase is used today, refers to a set ... The term continental philosophy originated among English-speaking ...
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