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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
Plato - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy But in many of Plato’s writings, it is asserted or assumed that true philosophers—those who recognize how important it is to distinguish the one (the one thing that goodness is, or virtue is, or courage is) from the many (the many things that are called good or virtuous or courageous )—are in a position to become ethically superior to
The Meaning of Life - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 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
Self-Deception - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Existentialist philosophers such as Kierkegaard and Sartre, in very different ways, view self-deception as a threat to ‘authenticity’ insofar as self-deceivers fail to take responsibility for themselves and their engagements in the past, present, and future
Stoicism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Stoicism was one of the dominant philosophical systems of the Hellenistic period The name derives from the porch (stoa poikilê) in the Agora at Athens decorated with mural paintings, where the first generation of Stoic philosophers congregated and lectured The school of thought founded there long outlived the physical Athenian porch and
Truth - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy But a number of philosophers (e g , Davidson, 1969; Field, 1972) have seen Tarski’s theory as providing at least the core of a correspondence theory of truth which dispenses with the metaphysics of facts
Philosophy of Technology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Most of the authors who wrote critically about technology and its socio-cultural role during the twentieth century were philosophers of a general outlook, such as Martin Heidegger (1954 [1977]), Hans Jonas (1979 [1984]), Arnold Gehlen (1957 [1980]), Günther Anders (1956), and Andrew Feenberg (1999)
Democracy - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 1 Democracy Defined The term “democracy”, as we will use it in this entry, refers very generally to a method of collective decision making characterized by a kind of equality among the participants at an essential stage of the decision-making process
Table of Contents - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy D [jump to top] Dai Zhen (Frank Y C Chong and Chris Fraser) ; Damian, Peter (Toivo J Holopainen) ; dance, philosophy of (Aili Bresnahan) ; Dante Alighieri (Winthrop Wetherbee and Jason Aleksander) ; Daoism (Chad Hansen) Laozi — see Laozi; Neo-Daoism — see Neo-Daoism; religious (Fabrizio Pregadio) ; Zhuang Zi — see Zhuangzi; Darwin, Charles from the Origin of Species to the Descent