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James Mill
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-6-20 2:09)
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[Revised entry by Terence Ball on June 19, 2014.
Changes to: Bibliography]
James Mill (1773 - 1836) was a Scots-born political philosopher, historian, psychologist, educational theorist, economist, and legal, political and penal reformer. Well-known and highly regarded in his day, he is now all but forgotten. Mill's reputation now rests...
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Plato's Myths
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-6-20 1:45)
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[Revised entry by Catalin Partenie on June 19, 2014.
Changes to: Main text, Bibliography]
What the ancient Greeks - at least in the archaic phase of their civilization - called muthos was quite different from what we and the media nowadays call "myth". For them a muthos was a true story, a story that unveils the true origin...
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Retributive Justice
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-6-19 7:03)
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[New Entry by Alec Walen on June 18, 2014.]
The concept of retributive justice has been used in a variety of ways, but it is best understood as that form of justice committed to the following three principles: (1) that those who commit certain kinds of wrongful acts, paradigmatically serious crimes, morally deserve to suffer a proportionate punishment; (2) that it is intrinsically morally good - good without reference to any other...
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Nāgārjuna
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-6-18 5:27)
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[Revised entry by Jan Christoph Westerhoff on June 17, 2014.
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There is unanimous agreement that Nāgārjuna (ca 150 - 250 AD) is the most important Buddhist philosopher after the historical Buddha himself and one of the most original and influential thinkers in the history of Indian philosophy. His philosophy of the "middle way" (madhyamaka) based around the central notion of "emptiness"...
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Free Logic
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-6-14 4:52)
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[Revised entry by John Nolt on June 13, 2014.
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Classical logic requires each singular term to denote an object in the domain of quantification - which is usually understood as the set of "existing" objects. Free logic does not. Free logic is therefore useful for analyzing discourse containing singular terms that either are or might be empty. A term is empty if it either has no referent or refers to an object outside the domain....
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Émilie du Châtelet
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-6-14 2:55)
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[Revised entry by Karen Detlefsen on June 13, 2014.
Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html]
Emilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise Du Chatelet-Lomont - or simply Emilie Du Chatelet - was born in Paris on 17 December 1706 to baron Louis Nicholas le Tonnelier de Breteuil and Gabrielle Anne de Froullay, Baronne de Breteuil. She married Marquis Florent-Claude de Chatelet-Lomont in 1725. Together they had three children, a daughter and two sons...
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Problem of the Criterion
from Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-6-13 6:34)
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The Problem of the Criterion The Problem of the Criterion is considered by many to be a fundamental problem of epistemology. In fact, Chisholm (1973, 1) claims that the Problem of the Criterion is “one of the most important and one of the most difficult of all the problems of philosophy.” A popular form of […]
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Moral Arguments for the Existence of God
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-6-13 3:11)
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[Revised entry by C. Stephen Evans on June 12, 2014.
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[Editor's Note: The following new entry by C. Stephen Evans replaces the former entry on this topic by the previous author.]...
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Globalization
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-6-11 5:54)
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[Revised entry by William Scheuerman on June 10, 2014.
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Covering a wide range of distinct political, economic, and cultural trends, the term "globalization" has quickly become one of the most fashionable buzzwords of contemporary political and academic debate. In popular discourse, globalization often functions as little more than a synonym for one or more of the following phenomena: the pursuit of classical liberal (or "free market") policies in...
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Creationism
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-6-7 8:54)
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[Revised entry by Michael Ruse on June 6, 2014.
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At a broad level, a Creationist is someone who believes in a god who is absolute creator of heaven and earth, out of nothing, by an act of free will. Such a deity is generally thought to be constantly involved ('immanent') in the creation, ready to intervene as necessary, and without whose constant concern the creation would cease or disappear. Christians, Jews, and Muslims are all Creationists in...
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