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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Stoicism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The only complete works by Stoic philosophers that survive are those by writers of Imperial times, Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius, as well as by lesser known authors such as Cornutus, Cleomedes, and Hierocles (discussed in Inwood 2022)
- 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
- 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
- The Cambridge Platonists - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Cambridge Platonists have yet to receive full recognition as philosophers Evidence from publication and citation suggests that their philosophical influence was more far-reaching than is normally recognised in modern histories of philosophy
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