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Philosophy is the discipline concerned with the questions of how one should live (ethics); what sorts of things exist and what are their essential natures (metaphysics); what counts as genuine knowledge (epistemology); and what are the correct...
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| Analytic philosophy | Quotation Subject |
Analytic philosophy (or analytical philosophy) is a term used in two main senses. First, it can be used to denote a specific movement in early 20th century philosophy, led by Bertrand Russell, G.E. Moore, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, which made...
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Existentialism is a philosophical movement which posits that individuals create the meaning and essence of their lives, as opposed to it being created for them by deities or authorities or defined for them by philosophical or theological doctrines.
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Tao (道, Pinyin Dào ) is a metaphysical concept found in Taoism, Confucianism, and more generally in ancient Chinese philosophy. While the character itself translates as "way," "path," or "route," or sometimes more loosely as "doctrine" or "principle...
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| Legalism |
\tIn Chinese history, Legalism was one of the four main philosophic schools during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period (the other three being Confucianism, Daoism and Mohism). This period (from 770 to 221 BC) was an era of...
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| Western Marxism | Walter Benjamin |
Western Marxism is a term used to describe a wide variety of Marxist theoreticians based in Western and Central Europe (and more recently North America), in contrast with philosophy in the Soviet Union. While Georg Lukács's History and Class...
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The Frankfurt School is a school of neo-Marxist critical theory, social research, and philosophy. The grouping emerged at the Institute for Social Research (Institut für Sozialforschung) of the University of Frankfurt am Main in Germany when Max...
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| Universality |
Universality is the quality ascribed to an entity whose existence is consistent throughout the universe. In philosophy, universalism is a doctrine or school claiming universal facts can be discovered and is therefore understood as being in...
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| Actual Idealism |
Actual Idealism was a form of idealism developed by Giovanni Gentile that grew into a 'grounded' idealism contrasting the Transcendental Idealism of Immanuel Kant and the Absolute idealism of Georg Hegel.
It was successful in laying a theory of...
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Advaita Vedanta (IAST ; Sanskrit ; ) is a sub-school of the Vedānta (literally, end or the goal of the Vedas, Sanskrit) school of Hindu philosophy. Other major sub-schools of Vedānta are Dvaita and . Advaita (literally, non-dual) is a monistic...
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| African philosophy |
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African Philosophy is a disputed term, used in different ways by different philosophers. Although Africa philosophers spend their time doing work in many different areas, such as metaphysics, epistemology, moral philosophy, and political philosophy,...
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| Agnosticism |
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Agnosticism (Greek: α- a-, without + γνώσις gnōsis, knowledge; after Gnosticism) is the philosophical view that the truth value of certain claims — particularly metaphysical claims regarding theology, afterlife or the existence of God, gods, deities...
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| Altruism | Ethical Term or Concept |
Altruism is selfless concern for the welfare of others. It is a traditional virtue in many cultures, and central to many religious traditions. This idea was often described as the Golden rule of ethics. Altruism is the opposite of selfishness.
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| Anti-realism |
In philosophy, the term anti-realism is used to describe anyposition involving either the denial of an objective reality of entities of a certain type or the denial that verification-transcendent statements about a type of entity are either true or...
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| Anomalous monism |
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Anomalous monism is a philosophical thesis about the mind-body relationship. It was first proposed by Donald Davidson in his 1970 paper Mental events. The theory is twofold and states that mental event are identical with physical events (this is...
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| Applied ethics | Ethical Term or Concept |
Applied ethics is, in the words of Brenda Almond, co-founder of the Society for Applied Philosophy, "the philosophical examination, from a moral standpoint, of praticular issues in private and public life that are matters of moral judgement". It is...
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| Aristotelianism |
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Aristotelianism is a tradition of philosophy that takes its defining inspiration from the work of Aristotle. Sometimes contrasted by critics with the rationalism and idealism of Plato, Aristotelianism is understood by its proponents as critically...
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| Averroism |
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Averroism is the term applied to either of two philosophical trends among scholastics in the late 13th century, the first of which was based on the Arab philosopher Averroës or Ibn Rushd's interpretations of Aristotle and his reconciliation of...
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| Avicennism |
Avicennism is a school of early Islamic philosophy which flourished during the Islamic Golden Age. The school was founded by Avicenna (Ibn Sina), an 11th-century Persian philosopher who attempted to redefine the course of Islamic philosophy and...
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| Axiology |
Axiology (from Greek: ἄξιος, axios, "value, worth"; and λόγος, logos, "speech" lit. "to talk about the value") is the study of quality or value. It is often thought to include ethics and aesthetics philosophical fields that depend crucially on...
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| Buddhist philosophy |
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Buddhist philosophy deals extensively with problems in metaphysics, phenomenology, ethics, and epistemology.
From early times, Buddhism has employed philosophy as a means to understanding moral and what it means to live a meaningful life without...
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| Carvaka |
is a system of India philosophy that assumed various forms of philosophical skepticism and religious indifference. It is also known as . It is named after its founder, , author of the .
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Chinese philosophy is philosophy written in the Chinese tradition of thought. Chinese philosophy has a history of several thousand years; its origins are often traced back to the Yi Jing (the Book of Changes), an ancient compendium of divination,...
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| Christian existentialism |
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Christian existentialism describes a group of writings that take a philosophically existentialist approach to Christian theology. The school of thought is often traced back to the work of Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855).
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| Christian humanism |
Christian humanism is the belief that human freedom and individualism are intrinsic (natural) parts of, or are at least compatible with, Christian doctrine and practice. It is a philosophical union of Christian and humanist principles.
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| Christian philosophy |
Christian philosophy is a term to describe the fusion of various fields of philosophy with the theological doctrines of Christianity. Christian philosophy originated during the Middle Ages as medieval theologians attempted to demonstrate to the...
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| Collectivism |
Collectivism is a term used to describe any moral, political, or social outlook, that stresses human interdependence and the importance of a collective, rather than the importance of separate individual. Collectivists focus on community and society,...
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| Compatibilism and incompatibilism |
Compatibilism is the belief that free will and determinism are compatible ideas, and that it is possible to believe both without being logically inconsistent (people who hold this belief are known as compatibilists). While compatibilists hold that...
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| Computer ethics |
Computer ethics is a branch of practical philosophy which deals with how computing professionals should make decisions regarding professional and social conduct. The term "computer ethics" was first coined by Walter Maner in the mid-1970s, but only...
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| Confucianism |
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Confucianism, literally "The School of the Scholars," is a Chinese ethical and philosophical system originally developed from the teachings of the early Chinese sage Confucius. Confucianism is a complex system of moral, social, political,...
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Consequentialism refers to those moral theories which hold that the consequences of a particular action form the basis for any valid moral judgment about that action. Thus, from a consequentialist standpoint, a morally right action is one that...
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