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The glossary contains some general key concepts from philosophy.

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Feminism is an intellectual, social, and political movement. The movement is very diverse, but one strand that runs through all varieties is the conviction that important intellectual, social, and ...

Domain: Philosophy; Category: General philosophy

Fatalism is the doctrine that certain events are fated to happen, no matter what. This might mean that an event is fated to take place at a specific time, or that someone is going to do some deed, no ...

Domain: Philosophy; Category: General philosophy

Eudaimonia —sometimes anglicized as eudaemonia or eudemonia and translated "happiness" or "flourishing"— is a central concept in Aristotle's ethics. See "Aristotelian Ethics"in Part V.

Domain: Philosophy; Category: General philosophy

Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that studies the nature of knowledge, its presuppositions and foundations, and its extent and validity. In other words, it is the theory of knowledge, the ...

Domain: Philosophy; Category: General philosophy

According to the existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, the world is divided between two sorts of beings: beings-in-themselves (en-soi)and beings-for-themselves pour-soi). Beings-in-themselves ...

Domain: Philosophy; Category: General philosophy

Empiricism is an epistemological position that emphasizes the importance of experience and denies or is very skeptical of claims to a priori knowledge or concepts. The empirical tradition in ...

Domain: Philosophy; Category: General philosophy

The term dualism has a number of uses in philosophy, but perhaps the most common is to describe positions on the mind-body problem that hold that the mind cannot be identified with the body or part ...

Domain: Philosophy; Category: General philosophy

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