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| x Theoretical philosophy |
The division of philosophy into a practical and a theoretical discipline has its origin in Aristotle's moral philosophy and natural philosophy categories. In Denmark, Finland, Poland, and Sweden courses in theoretical and practical philosophy are...
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| x Aesthetics |
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Arthur Schopenhauer |
Aesthetics (also spelled æsthetics or esthetics) is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty, art, and taste, and with the creation and appreciation of beauty. It is more scientifically defined as the study of sensory or sensori...
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| Jean-François Lyotard | |||
| Benedetto Croce | |||
| Denis Dutton | |||
| Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten | |||
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| x Hermeneutics |
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Hans-Georg Gadamer |
In religious studies and social philosophy, hermeneutics (English pronunciation: /hɜrməˈn(j)uːtɨks/) is the study of the theory and practice of interpretation.
Traditional hermeneutics is the study of the interpretation of written texts, especially...
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| Gianni Vattimo | |||
| John D. Caputo | |||
| Hans Köchler | |||
| T. K. Seung | |||
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| x Politics |
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Gianni Vattimo |
Politics (from Greek πολιτικός, "of, for, or relating to citizens") is a process by which groups of people make collective decisions. The term is generally applied to the art or science of running governmental or state affairs, including behavior...
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| Noam Chomsky | |||
| Alexander Tarasov | |||
| Aristotle | |||
| Albert Camus | |||
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| x Weak theology | Gianni Vattimo |
Weak theology -- in close association with postmodern a/theology -- is a school of thought within continental philosophical theology that has been heavily influenced by Jacques Derrida's style of theorizing known as deconstruction.
Weak theology...
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| x Ethics |
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Gianni Vattimo |
Ethics, also known as moral philosophy, is a branch of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior.
Major areas of study in ethics include:
Each of these areas include many further sub...
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| Bertrand Russell | |||
| Noam Chomsky | |||
| Ivo Urbančič | |||
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| x Metaphysics |
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Hans-Georg Gadamer |
Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the fundamental nature of being and the world, although the term is not easily defined. Traditionally, metaphysics attempts to answer two basic questions in the broadest possible terms:...
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| Aristotle | |||
| Arthur Schopenhauer | |||
| Anaximander | |||
| Adam Weishaupt | |||
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| x Epistemology |
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Hans-Georg Gadamer |
Epistemology /ɨˌpɪstɨˈmɒlədʒi/ (from Greek ἐπιστήμη (epistēmē), meaning "knowledge, science", and λόγος (logos), meaning "study of") is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature and scope (limitations) of knowledge. It addresses the...
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| Bertrand Russell | |||
| A.J. Ayer | |||
| Adam Weishaupt | |||
| Baruch Spinoza | |||
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| x Language |
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Hans-Georg Gadamer |
Language may refer either to the specifically human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication, or to a specific instance of such a system of complex communication. The scientific study of language in any of its senses is...
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| Protagoras | |||
| Martin Heidegger | |||
| Antisthenes | |||
| David Kellogg Lewis | |||
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| x Ontology |
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Hans-Georg Gadamer |
Ontology (from onto-, from the Greek ὤν, ὄντος "being; that which is", present participle of the verb εἰμί "be", and -λογία, -logia: science, study, theory) is the philosophical study of the nature of being, existence, or reality as such, as well as...
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| Ivo Urbančič | |||
| Empedocles | |||
| Friedrich Nietzsche | |||
| William of Ockham | |||
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| x Philosophy of science | Bertrand Russell |
The philosophy of science is concerned with the assumptions, foundations, methods and implications of science. It is also concerned with the use and merit of science and sometimes overlaps metaphysics and epistemology by exploring whether scientific...
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| A.J. Ayer | |||
| Daniel Dennett | |||
| Karl Popper | |||
| Rudolf Steiner | |||
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| x Mathematics |
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Bertrand Russell |
Mathematics (from Greek μάθημα máthēma "knowledge, study, learning") is the study of quantity, structure, space, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures...
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| Archimedes | |||
| Democritus | |||
| Edmund Husserl | |||
| George Berkeley | |||
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| x Logic | Bertrand Russell |
In philosophy, Logic (from the Greek λογική logikē) is the formal systematic study of the principles of valid inference and correct reasoning. Logic is used in most intellectual activities, but is studied primarily in the disciplines of philosophy,...
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| Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | |||
| Ludwig Wittgenstein | |||
| Thomas Aquinas | |||
| William of Ockham | |||
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| x Philosophy of language |
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Bertrand Russell |
Philosophy of language is the reasoned inquiry into the nature, origins, and usage of language. As a topic, the philosophy of language for analytic philosophers is concerned with four central problems: the nature of meaning, language use, language...
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| Noam Chomsky | |||
| A.J. Ayer | |||
| George Berkeley | |||
| George Edward Moore | |||
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| x Psychology |
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Noam Chomsky |
Psychology is the study of the mind, occurring partly via the study of behavior. Grounded in scientific method, psychology has the immediate goal of understanding individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching...
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| Arthur Schopenhauer | |||
| Friedrich Nietzsche | |||
| Maurice Merleau-Ponty | |||
| Søren Kierkegaard | |||
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| x Linguistics |
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Noam Chomsky |
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context.
The first is the study of language structure, or grammar....
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| Claude Lévi-Strauss | |||
| Ferdinand de Saussure | |||
| Peter Ludlow | |||
| Christian Jakob Kraus | |||
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| x Philosophy of mind |
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Noam Chomsky |
Philosophy of mind is a branch of philosophy that studies the nature of the mind, mental events, mental functions, mental properties, consciousness and their relationship to the physical body, particularly the brain. The mind-body problem, i.e. the...
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| David Hume | |||
| Daniel Dennett | |||
| Friedrich Hayek | |||
| John Locke | |||
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| x Kinship |
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Claude Lévi-Strauss |
Kinship is a relationship between any entities that share a genealogical origin, through either biological, cultural, or historical descent. And descent groups, lineages, etc. are treated in their own subsections.
In anthropology the kinship system...
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| x Anthropology |
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Claude Lévi-Strauss |
Anthropology /ænθrɵˈpɒlədʒi/ is the study of humanity. It has origins in the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social sciences. The term "anthropology" is from the Greek anthrōpos (ἄνθρωπος), "man", understood to mean mankind or humanity,...
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| Ernest Gellner | |||
| Sadegh Malek Shahmirzadi | |||
| x Society |
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Claude Lévi-Strauss |
A society, or a human society, is a group of people related to each other through persistent relations, or a large social grouping sharing the same geographical or virtual territory, subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural...
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| Kazi Nazrul Islam | |||
| René Guénon | |||
| x Semiotics |
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Ferdinand de Saussure |
Semiotics, also called semiotic studies or (in the Saussurean tradition) semiology, is the study of signs and sign processes (semiosis), indication, designation, likeness, analogy, metaphor, symbolism, signification, and communication. Semiotics is...
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| Sebastian Shaumyan | |||
| Roland Barthes | |||
| Félix Guattari | |||
| Suzanne Briet | |||
| x Natural philosophy |
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Diogenes Apolloniates |
Natural philosophy or the philosophy of nature (from Latin philosophia naturalis) was 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 natural sciences...
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| Strato of Lampsacus | |||
| Miura Baien | |||
| Anaxagoras | |||
| x Global justice |
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Thomas Pogge |
Global justice is an issue in political philosophy arising from the concern that the world at large is unjust.
The broader philosophical context of the global justice debate, in both its contemporary and historical forms, is the issue of...
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| x Cosmopolitanism |
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Thomas Pogge |
Cosmopolitanism is the ideology that all human ethnic groups belong to a single community based on a shared morality. Cosmopolitanism may entail some sort of world government or it may simply refer to more inclusive moral, economic, and/or political...
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| Charles Taylor | |||
| x René Descartes |
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Larry Nolan |
René Descartes French pronunciation: [ʁəne dekaʁt]; (31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) (Latinized form: Renatus Cartesius; adjectival form: "Cartesian") was a French philosopher, mathematician, and writer who spent most of his adult life in the...
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| Jean-Luc Marion | |||
| x Political philosophy |
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Alexis de Tocqueville |
Political philosophy is the study of such topics as politics, liberty, justice, property, rights, law, and the enforcement of a legal code by authority: what they are, why (or even if) they are needed, what, if anything, makes a government...
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| Adam Smith | |||
| David Hume | |||
| Friedrich Hayek | |||
| Johann Gottlieb Fichte | |||
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| x Sociology |
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Alexis de Tocqueville |
Sociology is the scientific study of society. It is a social science which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity. For many sociologists the goal is to conduct...
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| Theodor W. Adorno | |||
| Karl Korsch | |||
| Zygmunt Bauman | |||
| Max Scheler | |||
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| x Pseudoscience |
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Alfred Jarry |
Pseudoscience is a claim, belief, or practice which is presented as scientific, but does not adhere to a valid scientific method, lacks supporting evidence or plausibility, cannot be reliably tested, or otherwise lacks scientific status....
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| x Entrepreneur | Naveen Jain |
An entrepreneur (/ˌɒntrəprəˈnɜr/) is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative. The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon....
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| x Philanthropist |
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Naveen Jain |
A philanthropist is someone who engages in philanthropy; that is, someone who donates his or her time, money, and/or reputation to charitable causes. The term may apply to any volunteer or to anyone who makes a donation, but the label is most often...
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| x Businessperson |
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Naveen Jain |
A businessperson (also businessman, business man, or businesswoman) is someone involved in a particular undertaking of activities for the purpose of generating revenue from a combination of human, financial, and physical capital. An entrepreneur is...
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