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- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy organizes scholars from around the world in philosophy and related disciplines to create and maintain an up-to-date reference work
- Plato (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
There is another feature of Plato’s writings that makes him distinctive among the great philosophers and colors our experience of him as an author Nearly everything he wrote takes the form of a dialogue
- The Meaning of Life - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
It has become increasingly common for philosophers of life’s meaning, especially objectivists, to hold that life as a whole, or at least long stretches of it, can substantially affect its meaningfulness beyond the amount of meaning (if any) in its parts
- Enlightenment - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Through their articulation of the ideal of scientia, of a complete science of reality, composed of propositions derived demonstratively from a priori first principles, these philosophers exert great influence on the Enlightenment
- Japanese Philosophy (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
The early twentieth-century academic philosophers in Japan, for example, were so well educated in the world’s texts and theories, many in the original languages, that they were among the most internationally informed philosophers of their time
- Free Will (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Most philosophers theorizing about free will take themselves to be attempting to analyze a near-universal power of mature human beings But as we’ve noted above, there have been free will skeptics in both ancient and (especially) modern times
- Immanuel Kant - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Like other German philosophers at the time, Kant’s early works are generally concerned with using insights from British empiricist authors to reform or broaden the German rationalist tradition without radically undermining its foundations
- Plato’s Ethics: An Overview - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Like most other ancient philosophers, Plato maintains a virtue-based eudaemonistic conception of ethics That is to say, happiness or well-being (eudaimonia) is the highest aim of moral thought and conduct, and the virtues (aretê: ‘excellence’) are the dispositions skills needed to attain it
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