Search results for "The World (Descartes)" - New World Encyclopedia
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- ="those on nature," derived from the arrangement of Aristotle& ... A central part of metaphysics is ontology, which is the study of being ...19 KB (2,966 words) - 16:22, 9 November 2022
- The Cambridge Platonists are a group of seventeenth century British ... The Cambridge Platonists were extremely learned scholars but often ...25 KB (3,863 words) - 18:53, 25 November 2023
- Existentialism is a philosophical movement that arose in the twentieth ... thinkers, such as Blaise Pascal in the seventeenth century, and particularly ...22 KB (3,260 words) - 23:54, 24 March 2024
- Human beings understand the world by applying concepts and expressing ... A vast array of accounts attempt to explain the nature of concepts ...20 KB (3,052 words) - 02:41, 8 January 2024
- Cyberspace is a global domain within the information environment consisting ... ground for communication helps bring the world together, others point ...14 KB (2,094 words) - 02:18, 15 January 2023
- of Asian philosophy he was dissatisfied with the individualism of Martin Heidegger ... in Himeji City, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, the second son of a physician ...13 KB (1,961 words) - 23:19, 3 May 2023
- studies questions of being or existence. The questions include a wide range ... The conceptual division of this branch of philosophy was established ...15 KB (2,218 words) - 00:43, 18 November 2022
- The Transcendental Ego (or its equivalent under various other formulations ... The notion of an Ego or self that precedes all experiences and makes ...8 KB (1,206 words) - 00:40, 2 May 2023
- Philosophy of mind is the branch of philosophy that studies the nature ... Dualism and monism are the two major schools of thought that attempt ...49 KB (7,510 words) - 22:42, 28 March 2023
- bioethics that considers animals other than the human species as bearers of ... The philosophy of animal rights has given rise to a socio-political ...32 KB (4,972 words) - 06:14, 28 July 2023
- and psychologist, a major philosopher of the “philosophy of life” ... framework within which we can find the natures, conditions, and justifications ...17 KB (2,371 words) - 19:48, 23 November 2022
- was a British philosopher, widely cited as the most important British moral ... Williams became known internationally for his attempt to return the ...30 KB (4,357 words) - 20:51, 23 January 2024
- to essentially spiritual questions such as the attributes of God and the ... he seeks to provide a rational argument in the defense of natural theology ...15 KB (2,384 words) - 02:22, 23 December 2022
- Ramon Llull, Scholastic philosophy, Rene Descartes, Christiaan Huygens | ... noble houses, Leibniz played a major role in the European politics and diplomacy ...33 KB (4,750 words) - 04:49, 24 May 2024
- In natural philosophy, atomism is the theory that all the objects ... Traditional atomism is used in two distinct domains: The atoms of ...37 KB (5,618 words) - 06:58, 21 August 2023
- Self-concept or self identity is the mental and conceptual understanding ... Components of the self-concept include physical, psychological, and ...38 KB (5,604 words) - 20:14, 22 May 2023
- The Cyrenaics were one of the two earliest Socratic schools of philosophy ... and tranquility; Anniceris stressed the altruistic pleasures of friendship ...9 KB (1,293 words) - 06:55, 12 January 2024
- of southern Italy and a member of the Eleatic School, which began ... Zeno presented paradoxes in order to support the claims of Parmenides: ...8 KB (1,289 words) - 05:50, 13 June 2023
- of concresence," by which he meant the coming together of all that ... to develop Whitehead's metaphysics at the University of Chicago where ...23 KB (3,480 words) - 23:03, 30 November 2022
- philosophy and some social sciences, meaning the world "as lived" ... consciousness or mental life; that is, the correlation between the functions ...11 KB (1,588 words) - 22:49, 25 October 2022
