Pleasure
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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[Revised entry by Leonard D. Katz on June 17, 2016.
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Pleasure, in the inclusive usages important in thought about well-being, experience, and mind, includes the affective positivity of all joy, gladness, liking, and enjoyment - all our feeling good or happy. It is often contrasted with the similarly inclusive pain, or suffering, of all our feeling bad.[1] Nowadays "happiness"...
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Philolaus
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2016-6-17 5:48)
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[Revised entry by Carl Huffman on June 16, 2016.
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Philolaus of Croton, in southern Italy, was a Greek philosopher/scientist, who lived from ca. 470 to ca. 385 BC and was thus a contemporary of Socrates. He is one of the three most prominent figures in the Pythagorean tradition, born a hundred years after Pythagoras himself and fifty years before Archytas. He wrote one book, On Nature, which was probably the first book to be written by a Pythagorean. There has been considerable controversy concerning the 20+ fragments which have been preserved in Philolaus' name. It is now...
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Al-Farabi's Philosophy of Society and Religion
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2016-6-16 6:12)
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[New Entry by Nadja Germann on June 15, 2016.]
While al-Farabi does not have a specific term for 'philosophy of religion', he does in fact have one which can more or less literally be translated as 'philosophy of society', namely, falsafa madaniyya.[1] Notably, this notion embraces two chief moments. First, in line with Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, it comprises an intrinsically anthropological and ethical element; accordingly,...
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Aristotle's Metaphysics
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2016-6-16 5:38)
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[Revised entry by S. Marc Cohen on June 15, 2016.
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The first major work in the history of philosophy to bear the title "Metaphysics" was the treatise by Aristotle that we have come to know by that name. But Aristotle himself did not use that title or even describe his field of study as 'metaphysics'; the name was evidently coined by the first century C.E. editor who assembled the treatise we know as Aristotle's Metaphysics out of various smaller selections of Aristotle's works. The title...
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主権者教育の推進
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研究環境基盤部会(第72回) 議事録
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国立大学法人評価委員会(第54回)・国立大学法人分科会(第28回)合同会議 議事録
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我が国大学の研究経営システム確立に向けた国内外動向に関する基礎的調査
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文教施設における公共施設等運営権の導入に関する検討会(第2回)の開催について
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大学分科会(第128回)の開催について
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