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  • 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 ...
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  • centered on the notion of the Absolute, represents a step beyond ... discourse, as can be seen from his philosophy of art and especially the ...
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  • 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: ...
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  • 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. ...
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  • consistency of neutral geometry, or absolute geometry, with respect to ... assumed in European mathematics and philosophy (for example in Spinoza ...
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  • Throughout the history of philosophy, and particularly in ancient ... that there are no “universals” in the absolute or timeless sense, but only ...
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  • soul. Socrates understood the purpose of philosophy as the cultivation of the ... When modern philosophy, however, gave up theistic, Christian frameworks ...
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  • many modern philosophers. In medieval philosophy, the certainty of existence ... The notion is strongly linked to the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and its ...
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  • has its origins in both classical philosophy and Christian theology ... === Classical philosophy === Although the philosophical notion of alienation ...
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  • ) is a school of philosophy within Hinduism dealing with the nature ... one of the six orthodox systems (darshans) of Indian philosophy and ...
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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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  • 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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  • Absolute idealism is an ontologically monistic philosophy attributed to G.W.F. Hegel. Hegel developed a comprehensive speculative metaphysics ...
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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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