In ethics and psychology, the view that in fact all human beings act solely in their individual self-interest (so far as they calculate correctly as to what this is). This view -- ...
# The Ontological argument: literally, from the “logic” of God’s “being” (onto). The claim is that God is a necessary being. Just as a round square is necessarily non-existent, so ...
Traditionally, the theory of knowledge. Answering the question: what kinds of knowledge can we have of the external world of objects, of minds other than our own, of mathematical ...
Specifically, a British philosopher of the 17th and 18th century such as Hobbes, tended to believe that knowledge derives from our sensory experience and its ramifications. ...
A philosophic movement primarily associated with the mid-20th century, in part arising from phenomenology (see J. P. Sarte, M. Heidegger, K. Jaspers, A. Camus, etc. ) that insists ...
Traditionally, the attempt to determine what general sorts of things there are in the universe (particularly those of a basic, non-reducible sort). But to do this is also to ...
In ethics and politics, the view that ethical judgements are descriptive and objective when properly made: that ethical terms could be replaced by obviously descriptive terms, as ...
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