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The glossary contains some general key concepts from philosophy.

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Naturalism is a powerful if somewhat vague philosophical view, with both epistemological and metaphysical sides. All knowledge derives from the methods we use to study the natural world, ...

Domain: Philosophy; Category: General philosophy

The mind-body problem is the problem of accounting for the way in which our minds interact with or are related to our bodies. The mind-body problem thus comprises a central area of the subfield of ...

Domain: Philosophy; Category: General philosophy

There are two quite different uses of the term idea in philosophy. The term idea is used for the denizens of Plato's heaven. Sometimes form is used as a less misleading translation of eidos. Plato's ...

Domain: Philosophy; Category: General philosophy

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

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