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  • ...sumptions common to much of it, which helps to distinguish it from earlier philosophy.[1] ...ther or not it is still modern). This article will focus on the history of philosophy beginning from Descartes through the early twentieth century ending in Ludw
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  • ...nsive coverage of the [[art]], [[literature]], [[science]], [[culture]], [[philosophy]], [[religion]], [[economics]], [[history]], and [[war|conflict]] of the pe
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  • '''Hospice''' is a type of care and a [[philosophy]] of care which [[focuses]] on the palliation of a terminally ill patient's
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  • ...[[pleasures]], [[meaning]] those experienced through the [[senses]]. As a philosophy, ''libertinism'' gained new-found adherents in the 17th, 18th, and 19th cen
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  • ...owed from the Roman practice of staging [[Circus]]es, in the rather famous philosophy of the [[Rome|Roman]] elite of "Bread and Circuses" to maintain civil order
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  • The term ''' Indian philosophy''' may refer to any of several traditions of philosophical thought that ori ...ee and Datta give this definition, explaining that a cornerstone of Indian philosophy is a tradition of respect for multiple views:
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  • [[Category: Philosophy]]
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  • ...the [[Western world|Western or Occidental world]], as opposed to [[Eastern philosophy|Eastern or Oriental philosophies]] and the varieties of indigenous philosop ...versal]] [[knowledge]] claims in [[mathematics]], [[astronomy]], [[natural philosophy]], [[music]], and many other subjects as indicated by [[Plato]]'s and [[Ari
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  • ...ors, and one passion". Others notable for their contribution to theatrical philosophy are Konstantin [[Stanislavski]], Antonin [[Artaud]], Bertolt [[Brecht]], Or
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  • ...he Rights of Man and of the Citizen]], for those heavily influenced by the philosophy of the [[Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] and its conception of a [[hum A '''universal proposition''' is one that affirms a [[property (philosophy)|property]] of all the members of a [[set]]. For instance, the proposition
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  • ...to the 17th century, the objective study of nature was known as [[natural philosophy]]. Over the next two centuries, however, a philosophical interpretation of ...iverse has been central to the study of physics from very early on, with [[philosophy]] gradually yielding to systematic, quantitative experimental testing and o
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  • ...language and literature, Greek and Roman art and archaeology, history and philosophy. It is sometimes known as '''Greats''' after the nickname for the final exa ===[[Ancient Philosophy]]===
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  • ...y of philosophy might include (but are not limited to): How can changes in philosophy be accounted for historically? What drives the development of thought in it ...ern]], [[religious]] or [[secular]] — have had their own unique schools of philosophy, arrived at through both inheritance and through independent discovery. Suc
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  • In [[Philosophy of language|philosophers of language]], figuring very prominently in the wo
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  • [[Category: Philosophy]]
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  • ...he name also extends to a large body of [[literature]] and [[spiritual]] [[philosophy]]. ...m at the [https://institute.daynal.org/books/extended_reference/humanities/philosophy/hermetic.html University of Amsterdam].[15]
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  • ...ough she is equally associated with motherhood and benevolence. In Chinese philosophy Yin is the feminine part of the Taijitu and is represented by a dark lobe.
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  • The term ''esoteric'' first appeared in English in the [[1701]] ''History of Philosophy'' by [[Thomas Stanley (author)|Thomas Stanley]], in his description of the
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  • The [[philosophy]] of '''materialism''' holds that the only thing that can be truly proven t ...kers opposed to it, who regard it as a [[Spirituality|spiritually ]] empty philosophy. [[Marxism]] also uses ''materialism'' to refer to a "materialist conceptio
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  • ==The Heterodox Tradition in Western Philosophy== philosophy and a key text in the Neo-Platonists’ efforts to expound their theurtgy,
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  • [[Category: Philosophy]]
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  • ...ods to save the time they haven’t got, so the religions offer pre-packaged philosophy with which to nourish the soul. But, if you have ever cooked a potato and m ...e them; for if you do, there is no shortage of their instant mashed potato philosophy to swallow.
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  • *Introduction:The Heterodox Tradition in Western Philosophy *by Paul S. McDonald, Lecturer in Philosophy at Murdoch University, Australia.
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  • [[Category: Philosophy]]
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  • ...lly used the term, "perfection"; but the concept of "good", central to his philosophy, was tantamount to "perfection." He believed that approximation to the idea In classicism, especially in French 17th-century classicism, from an ideal attainable by few, perfection became an obligatio
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  • # Newton, Isaac (1999). The Principia Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-08817-4. This is a r ...(2002-03-30). "Space and Time: Inertial Frames". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved on 2008-03-24.
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  • * Marx, Karl. 1844. A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right, Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher, February.
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  • ...demy. Plato later further developed his sessions into a method of teaching philosophy and in [[387 BC]], established what is known today as the [[Old Academy]]. ...gy]] were the all-embracing studies that encompassed the Liberal Arts, but philosophy in the early Middle Ages was largely a matter of dialectic. The didactic al
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  • Efforts to understand gravity began in ancient times. [[Indian philosophy|Philosophers]] in [[History of science in early cultures#India|ancient Indi In the 4th century BC, the [[Greek philosophy|Greek philosopher]] [[Aristotle]] believed that there was no [[result|effec
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  • ...chieved in a gradual process of applying the scientific methods of [[Greek philosophy]] to the subject of law—a subject which the Greeks themselves never
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  • # "Time Travel and Modern Physics". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2000-02-17. Retrieved on 2007-01-16.
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  • ...called for a secular India and suggested guidelines for a positive atheist philosophy, meaning one that promotes positive values.[https://www.positiveatheism.org ...logical atheism is [[agnosticism]], which takes a variety of forms. In the philosophy of [[immanence]], divinity is inseparable from the world itself, including
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  • The approach to idealism by Western [[philosophy]] has been different from that of East. In Western thought ''the ideal'' re However, even if Plato doesn't share the specific concerns of modern philosophy, and of George Berkeley, in particular, Plato could still be a ''non-subjec
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  • [[Isaac Newton]] (1687, 1713, 1726). "[4] Rules for the study of [[natural philosophy]]", ''[[Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica]]'', Third edition. Th ...h there is very wide agreement in the [[scientific community]] and among [[Philosophy of science|philosophers of science]], each of which are subject only to mar
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  • ...uism]], being an ancient religion and a rather broad 'all-paths' embracing philosophy, has many mystical branches. <!--Hindu variants, etc?--> ...erficial. (see [[interdenominationalism]], [[interfaith]], and [[perennial philosophy]]).
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  • ...ticularly literary translation. These two ideals are often at odds. Thus a 17th-century French critic coined the phrase, "les belles infidèles," to suggest that t ...f [[Bede]]'s [[Ecclesiastical History]] and [[Boethius]]' [[Consolation of Philosophy]]. Meanwhile the Christian Church frowned on even partial adaptations of th
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  • ...n. There were scholars there, who isolated themselves in [the pursuit of] philosophy. In their day, that was the [beginning for measuring] the longitude[s] of Plato scholar Dr [[Julia Annas]] ([[Regents Professor]] of [[Philosophy]], [[University of Arizona]]) has had this to say on the matter:
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  • ...lpho]]'' (1794). As in other gothic novels, the notion of the ''[[sublime (philosophy)|sublime]]'' is central. Eighteenth-century aesthetic theory held that the
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  • ...y to [[perception|perceive]] the relationship between [[Personal identity (philosophy)|oneself]] and one's [[natural environment|environment]]. The extent to whi [[Motivation]] is the driving force of desire behind all deliberate [[Action (philosophy)|actions]] of human beings. Motivation is based on [[emotion]] — specific
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  • ...based on the fundamental concepts of [[monism]] and [[Non-duality]], this philosophy holds that Magic is little more than the application of one's own inherent
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  • ...three core values into their founding documents, their vision, intention, philosophy, mission, goals and objectives; and, particularly in their daily decision-m
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  • ...losophy by [[Descartes]] in the 17th century in his [[Meditations on First Philosophy]].
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  • ...in anthropology have been trained or held faculty positions in sociology, philosophy, or other fields rather than in anthropology. Most commentators consider [[ ...Foucault and Lévi-Strauss is [[Pierre Bourdieu]], who trained formally in philosophy and sociology and eventually held the Chair of Sociology at the Collège de
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  • ...d but differ in their conceptions. [[Smartas]], who follow the [[Advaita]] philosophy of absolute monism, venerate various personal forms of God as merely multip * [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/monotheism/ Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
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  • Your more modern existential philosophy calls this - historicity, where each moment in time is unique. Even though
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  • ...It is only quite recently that the subject-matter, or rather the tasks, of philosophy have come to be clearly distinguished from those of other disciplines. 1962
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  • pre-established harmony, in the [[philosophy]] of Leibnitz, a harmony between [[mind]] and [[matter]], e.g. between the ...t in the bass rather than by an imaginary fundamental progression. (In the 17th-century bass formulae the melodic formula itself appears as the primary factor, and
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  • ...he [[philosophy]] school and studied [[mathematics]], [[metaphysics]], and philosophy under Professor William Small, who introduced the enthusiastic Jefferson to ==Political philosophy==
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  • ...t he considered to be the most important literary fields: natural science, philosophy, poetry, and theology. These quotations and usages were all compared and ca ...of Shakespeare, and Johnson influenced [[Jane Austen]]'s writing style and philosophy. Later, Johnson's works came into favour, and [[Matthew Arnold]], in his '
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