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| x Frankfurt School |
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Walter Benjamin |
The Frankfurt School refers to a school of neo-Marxist sociology and philosophy in the tradition of critical theory, which was associated with the early Institute for Social Research at the University of Frankfurt am Main. The school gathered...
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| Herbert Marcuse | |||
| Max Horkheimer | |||
| Theodor W. Adorno | |||
| Jürgen Habermas | |||
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| x Pragmatism |
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Charles Peirce |
Pragmatism is a philosophical movement that includes those who claim that an ideology or proposition is true if it works satisfactorily, that the meaning of a proposition is to be found in the practical consequences of accepting it, and that...
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| x 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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| x Theoretical philosophy | Gianni Vattimo |
The division of philosophy into a practical and a theoretical discipline has its origin in Aristotle's moral philosophy and natural philosophy categories. In Sweden, Denmark and Finland courses in theoretical and practical philosophy are taught...
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| x Analytic philosophy | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
Analytic philosophy (sometimes, analytical philosophy) is a generic term for a style of philosophy that came to dominate English-speaking countries in the 20th century. In the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Scandinavia, Australia, and New...
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| Gottlob Frege | |||
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| x Structuralism | Ferdinand de Saussure |
Structuralism is an approach to the human sciences that attempts to analyze a specific field (for instance, mythology) as a complex system of interrelated parts. It began in linguistics with the work of Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913). But many...
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| Claude Lévi-Strauss | |||
| x Stoicism |
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Zeno of Citium |
Stoicism was a school of Hellenistic philosophy founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium in the early 3rd century BC. The stoics considered destructive emotions to be the result of errors in judgment, and that a sage, or person of "moral and intellectual...
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| Seneca the Younger | |||
| Marcus Aurelius | |||
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| x Natural philosophy |
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Natural philosophy or the philosophy of nature (from Latin philosophia naturalis), is a term applied to the study of nature and the physical universe that was dominant before the development of modern science. It is considered to be the precursor of...
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| x Scientific skepticism | Paul Kurtz |
Scientific skepticism or rational skepticism (also spelled scepticism), sometimes referred to as skeptical inquiry, is a practical, epistemological position in which one questions the veracity of claims lacking empirical evidence. In practice, the...
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| x Secular humanism | Paul Kurtz |
Secular humanism is a humanist philosophy that espouses reason, ethics, and justice, and specifically rejects the supernatural and the spiritual as the basis of moral reflection and decision-making. Like other types of humanism, secular humanism is...
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| x Apologetics |
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Tyler Gillies |
Apologetics is the whole of the consensus of the views of those who defend a position in an argument of long standing. The term comes from the Greek word apologia (απολογία), meaning a speaking in defense.
Early Christian writers (c 120-220) who...
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| x Critical Management Studies | Pragmatism |
Critical management studies (CMS) is a loose but rapidly growing grouping of politically left wing and theoretically innovative approaches to management, business and organisation. It encompasses a wide range of perspectives that are critical of...
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| x Classical liberalism |
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Alexis de Tocqueville |
Classical liberalism is a political ideology that developed in the 19th century in England, Western Europe, and the Americas. It followed earlier forms of liberalism in its commitment to personal freedom and to government by the people and for the...
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| x Service design |
Service Design is the activity of planning and organizing people, infrastructure, communication and material components of a service, in order to improve its quality, the interaction between service provider and customers and the customer's...
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| x Alexandrists | Pietro Pomponazzi |
The Alexandrists were a school of Renaissance philosophers who, in the great controversy on the subject of personal immortality, adopted the explanation of the De Anima given by Alexander of Aphrodisias.
According to the orthodox Thomism of the...
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