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Mar 20, 2004 · But in many of Plato’s writings, it is asserted or assumed that true philosophers—those who recognize how important it is to distinguish the one (the one thing …

May 15, 2007 · Most analytic philosophers writing on meaning in life have been trying to develop and evaluate theories, i.e., fundamental and general principles, that are meant to capture all …

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Feb 20, 2009 · Most of the authors who wrote critically about technology and its socio-cultural role during the twentieth century were philosophers of a general outlook, such as Martin Heidegger …

Jan 20, 2023 · Stoicism was one of the dominant philosophical systems of the Hellenistic period. The name derives from the porch (stoa poikilê) in the Agora at Athens decorated with mural …

Oct 17, 2006 · Existentialist philosophers such as Kierkegaard and Sartre, in very different ways, view self-deception as a threat to ‘authenticity’ insofar as self-deceivers fail to take …

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Jul 27, 2006 · 1. Democracy Defined. The term “democracy”, as we will use it in this entry, refers very generally to a method of collective decision making characterized by a kind of equality …

Nov 16, 2015 · This question made sense to Scholastic philosophers (including, e.g., Bramhall, who engaged in a protracted debate on the subject with Hobbes), who tended not to …