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The glossary contains some general key concepts from philosophy.

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Movimento filosófico que surgiu na Grécia Antiga criada por Zenão de Cítio, por volta de 300 a.C., e permaneceu ativa em Roma através de praticantes como Epictetus, Sêneca, Cato e Marco Aurélio. O ...

Domain: Philosophy; Category: Ethics

Platonismen refererer til filosofien av Platon (428-348 f.Kr.) og bevegelser spesielt inspirert av den. Dvs, platonismen blitt en teknisk term i ontologi for de som åsyn abstrakte enheter som ikke ...

Domain: Philosophy; Category: General philosophy

Utilitarianism is a "consequentialist" ethical theory. Utilitarianism is usually connected with the more specific doctrines of Bentham and Mill, who took the goodness of consequences to be measured ...

Domain: Philosophy; Category: General philosophy

A sophism is a bad argument presented as if it were a good one to deceive, mislead, or cheat someone; sophistry is the practice of doing this. In Ancient Greece, the sophists were itinerant teachers ...

Domain: Philosophy; Category: General philosophy

Rationalism is an epistemological position that emphasizes reason as a source of knowledge itself, not merely a way of organizing and drawing further hypotheses from knowledge gotten by sense ...

Domain: Philosophy; Category: General philosophy

Platonism refers to the philosophy of Plato (428–348 B.C.) and the movements specifically inspired by it. Uncapitalized, platonism has become a technical term in ontology for those who countenance ...

Domain: Philosophy; Category: General philosophy

In discussions about the philosophical problem of evil, a distinction is commonly made between moral evil and natural evil. Moral evil is (roughly) evil that is brought about by the bad actions of ...

Domain: Philosophy; Category: General philosophy

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