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Also called humanocentrism. The practice, conscious or otherwise, of regarding the existence and concerns of human beings as the central fact of the universe. This is similar, but not identical, to the practice of relating all that happens in the universe to the human experience. To clarify, the first position concludes that the fact of human existence is the point of universal existence; the ...
The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy. Description & arrow-scrollable preview. Oxford University Press, 541 pp. Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-873530-4. ... additional terms may ...
Cambridge change; Camp; Cartesian other; Cartesian Self; Categorical imperative; Categorization; Category of being; Causal adequacy principle; Causality; Chakra
Definitions is a list of 184 terms important in early Platonism together with one or more brief definitions. Though not in alphabetical or any other simple order, it is possible to discern some features of the organization of the collection. Definitions 1–20 consist chiefly of terms from natural philosophy.
A Concise Dictionary of Indian Philosophy: Sanskrit Terms Defined in English by John A. Grimes; History of Islamic Philosophy edited by Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Oliver Leaman; History of Jewish Philosophy edited by Daniel H. Frank, Oliver Leaman; A History of Russian Philosophy: From the Tenth to the Twentieth Centuries by Valerii Aleksandrovich ...
ekklisis ἔκκλισις: aversion, inclination away from a thing. Opposite of orexis. ekpyrôsis ἐκπύρωσις: cyclical conflagration of the Universe.
Many definitions of philosophy see as its main task the creation of meaning and understanding or the clarification of concepts. [9] In this sense, philosophy is often contrasted with the sciences in the sense that it is not so much about what the actual world is like but about how we experience it or how we think and talk about it. [4]
Absurdism – Academic skepticism – Achintya Bheda Abheda – Action, philosophy of – Actual idealism – Actualism – Advaita Vedanta – Aesthetic Realism – Aesthetics – African philosophy – Afrocentrism – Agential realism – Agnosticism – Agnostic theism – Ajātivāda – Ājīvika – Ajñana – Alexandrian school – Alexandrists – Ambedkarism – American philosophy ...