The Meaning of Life - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
2007年5月15日 · 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 the particular ways that a life could obtain meaning.
Locke On Freedom - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
2015年11月16日 · John Locke’s views on the nature of freedom of action and freedom of will have played an influential role in the philosophy of action and in moral psychology. Locke offers distinctive accounts of action and forbearance, of will and willing, of voluntary (as opposed to involuntary) actions and forbearances, and of freedom (as opposed to ...
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy organizes scholars from around the world in philosophy and related disciplines to create and maintain an up-to-date reference work. Co-Principal Editors:Edward N. Zalta and Uri Nodelman.
Table of Contents - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
agent-based modeling in philosophy of science — see modeling in the philosophy of science, agent-based. agent-relative vs. agent-neutral reasons — see reasons for action: agent-neutral vs. agent-relative. agnosticism and atheism — see atheism and agnosticism. Agrippa — see skepticism: ancient.
Plato - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
2004年3月20日 · Plato (429?–347 B.C.E.) is, by any reckoning, one of the most dazzling writers in the Western literary tradition and one of the most penetrating, wide-ranging, and influential authors in the history of philosophy.
Free Will - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
2002年1月7日 · Most philosophers theorizing about free will take themselves to be attempting to analyze a near-universal power of mature human beings. But as we’ve noted above, there have been free will skeptics in both ancient and (especially) modern times.
The Moral Status of Animals - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
2003年7月1日 · Philosophers Elisa Aaltola (2018) and Lori Gruen (2015) have argued for refining our empathetic imagination in order to improve our relationships with each other and other animals.
Immanuel Kant - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
2010年5月20日 · Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) is the central figure in modern philosophy. He synthesized early modern rationalism and empiricism, set the terms for much of nineteenth and twentieth century philosophy, and continues to exercise a significant influence today in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, political philosophy, aesthetics, and other fields.
Friedrich Nietzsche (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
2017年3月17日 · Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a German philosopher and cultural critic who published intensively in the 1870s and 1880s. He is famous for uncompromising criticisms of traditional European morality and religion, as well as of conventional philosophical ideas and social and political pieties associated with modernity. Many of these ...
Baruch Spinoza - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
2001年6月29日 · Bento (in Hebrew, Baruch; in Latin, Benedictus) Spinoza is one of the most important philosophers—and certainly the most radical—of the early modern period. His thought combines a commitment to a number of Cartesian metaphysical and epistemological principles with elements from ancient Stoicism, Hobbes, and medieval Jewish rationalism into ...