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  2. Transcendentals - Wikipedia

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    Aristotle's substance theory (being a substance belongs to being qua being) has been interpreted as a theory of transcendentals. [3] Aristotle discusses only unity ("One") explicitly because it is the only transcendental intrinsically related to being, whereas truth and goodness relate to rational creatures. [4]

  3. Transcendence (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    Contemporary transcendental philosophy is developed by German philosopher Harald Holz with a holistic approach. Holz distanced transcendental philosophy from the convergence of neo-Kantianism. He critically discussed transcendental pragmatism and the relation between transcendental philosophy, neo-empiricism, and so-called postmodernism.

  4. Aristotle - Wikipedia

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    Darwin, too, noted these sorts of differences between similar kinds of animal, but unlike Aristotle used the data to come to the theory of evolution. [92] Aristotle's writings can seem to modern readers close to implying evolution, but while Aristotle was aware that new mutations or hybridizations could occur, he saw these as rare accidents ...

  5. Transcendentalism - Wikipedia

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    Transcendentalism is a philosophical, spiritual, and literary movement that developed in the late 1820s and 1830s in the New England region of the United States. [1] [2] [3] A core belief is in the inherent goodness of people and nature, [1] and while society and its institutions have corrupted the purity of the individual, people are at their best when truly "self-reliant" and independent.

  6. Aristotelianism - Wikipedia

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    Aristotelianism (/ ˌ ær ɪ s t ə ˈ t iː l i ə n ɪ z əm / ARR-i-stə-TEE-lee-ə-niz-əm) is a philosophical tradition inspired by the work of Aristotle, usually characterized by deductive logic and an analytic inductive method in the study of natural philosophy and metaphysics.

  7. Aristocles of Messene - Wikipedia

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    Aristocles connected the five uses of the word with a theory of five levels of human culture. According to this teaching, the survivors of natural disasters (plagues and especially great floods like that of the time of Deucalion) were forced to rediscover inventions such as agriculture because of the lack of food. Such devising was considered ...

  8. Ancient Greek philosophy - Wikipedia

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    Aristotle is often portrayed as disagreeing with his teacher Plato (e.g., in Raphael's School of Athens). He criticizes the regimes described in Plato's Republic and Laws, [61] and refers to the theory of forms as "empty words and poetic metaphors". [62] He is generally presented as giving greater weight to empirical observation and practical ...

  9. List of ancient Greek philosophers - Wikipedia

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    student of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle; famous for the Theory of Forms: Plotinus: c. 204 – 270 Neoplatonic: Plutarch: c. 46 – 120 Middle Platonist: Plutarch of Athens: c. 350 – 430 Neoplatonic: Polemarchus: Polemon of Athens: Stoic: Polemon of Athens (scholarch) before 314 - 270/269 BC Academic: Polemon of Laodicea: Sophist: Polus ...