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5 days ago · Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich and at King's College London, takes listeners through the history of philosophy, "without any gaps." The series looks at the ideas, lives and historical context of the major philosophers as well as the lesser-known figures of the tradition.
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40 - Let's Get Physical: Aristotle's Natural Philosophy. 41...
- Thales
K. Algra, "The Beginnings of Cosmology," in A.A. Long, The...
- 87. Plotinus Life and Works
For the works of Plotinus the best English translations are...
- Plato's Timaeus
• T.K. Johansen, Plato's Natural Philosophy (Cambridge:...
- 412. Montaigne
300b Medieval Philosophy Today. Byzantine. Byzantine. 301....
- Jean Bodin
Ann Blair on Jean Bodin's Natural Philosophy; Themes:...
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2 days ago · Communism portal. Organized Labour portal. v. t. e. The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries. [1] [2] The Enlightenment featured a range of social ideas centered on the value of knowledge learned by way of ...
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2 days ago · In his natural philosophy, he differed from the schools on two major points. First, he rejected the splitting of corporeal substance into matter and form; second, he rejected any appeal to final ends, divine or natural, in explaining natural phenomena. In his theology, he insists on the absolute freedom of God's act of creation. Refusing to ...
2 days ago · Metaphysics is the study of the most general features of reality, including existence, objects and their properties, possibility and necessity, space and time, change, causation, and the relation between matter and mind. It is one of the oldest branches of philosophy. [1]
3 days ago · The chair of natural philosophy (later called physics) at the University of Glasgow fell vacant in 1846. Thomson’s father then mounted a carefully planned and energetic campaign to have his son named to the position, and at the age of 22 William was unanimously elected to it.
3 days ago · Greek and Roman philosophy, with a particular focus on natural philosophy and metaphysics. Current research activities. My research over the last several years has addressed the place of physics in the philosophy of the Stoics. How does natural philosophy inform logical and ethical discourse?
4 days ago · Immanuel Kant (born April 22, 1724, Königsberg, Prussia [now Kaliningrad, Russia]—died February 12, 1804, Königsberg) was a German philosopher whose comprehensive and systematic work in epistemology (the theory of knowledge), ethics, and aesthetics greatly influenced all subsequent philosophy, especially the various schools of Kantianism ...
