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The history of philosophy is the study of philosophical ideas and concepts through time. Issues specifically related to history of philosophy might include (but are not limited to): How can changes in philosophy be accounted for historically? What drives the development of thought in its historical context? To what degree can philosophical texts from prior historical eras be understood even today?
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Why so much more technological progress in the past century than ever before?
'Why' questions are verboten, I know. Really I am asking for literature about why such a vast amount of progress happened since about 1900 versus all the time before that? I mean, there was an "...
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Who could be considered a contemporary equivalent to Blaise Pascal? [closed]
I'm interested in identifying contemporary thinkers who could be seen as similar to Blaise Pascal in terms of style, themes, or philosophical outlook. Pascal was known for combining deep theological ...
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Connecting Associationism (e.g., Hume) to Behaviorism (e.g., Skinner)
I am trying to understand how Behaviorism grew out of Associationism. Reading the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy article on "Associationism in the Philosophy of Mind", Section 3 gives a ...
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Did Ibn al-Haytham’s experimental method mark an earlier beginning of scientific philosophy than commonly acknowledged?
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Ibn al-Haytham may have articulated a rigorous experimental method centuries before Bacon. Should the history of scientific philosophy be updated to better reflect this?
We typically associate ...
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Was Aristotle a counter-revolutionary to Plato's revolution?
I recently read some Lyndon LaRouche, who was a quite controversial figure in politics and philosophy. According to him, Aristotle was not what we usually think him to be, which is this loyal student ...
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Why is Kant’s and Locke’s racial thought often given less ethical scrutiny than Heidegger’s Nazism in philosophical discourse?
Immanuel Kant’s writings include racial hierarchies (e.g., Anthropology, 7:213), and John Locke's Fundamental Constitutions explicitly uphold slavery. Yet in philosophical discussions, their ethical ...
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German reception of Aristotle from Melanchton to Heidegger?
What happens from Luther to Heidegger in Germany with Aristotle?
I've read that starting with Melanchton—partly due to renewed access to Greek texts—there emerged a distinct German tradition of ...
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Quantitative assessment of the most well-cited philosopher in the Western philosophy canon
The classic quote (citation: Internet) from Alfred North Whitehead states:
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical
tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to ...
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What philosophies influenced Ayn Rand's Objectivism
What prior philosophies did Ayn Rand build upon to construct Objectivism? I know about aristotelian, and platonism helped make it but I cant find which of their principles did? furthermore I don't ...
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Why is philosophy mostly communicated as essays?
To start with I must confess I am very new to philosophy since I am still in high school. Hence I am very sorry if this seems a stupid question. Throughout my reading of both philosophical works and ...
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How Can I Propose The Concept Of METAPhilosophy @ StackExchange? [closed]
Proposing a New Perspective on Meta Philosophy
The concept of meta philosophy remains a subject of ongoing debate, more so than the broader field of philosophy itself. This opens up a space for ...
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Why was Aristotle respected a lot during the Medieval era?
Aristotle was considered the most influential Greek philosopher in the Medieval era. In Europe, Scholasticism was based on his philosophy and Thomas Aquinas interpretation of it. Even in the Muslim ...
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When did Epicureanism and Sybaritism become conflated?
As I understand it, for Epicurus, a happy life required ataraxía (?ταραξ?α), friendship, freedom and the time and tranquility to examine one's life. However, over the past 23 centuries or so, somehow, ...
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The idea of recording an exact conversation
In a post on whether or not Socrates actually said the things in the dialogues (post linked to here), one of the answers made the following statement:
This, however, should not surprise us because ...
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Is Riemann's involving in Bergson's philosophy just "fashionable nonsense"?
In his book Le Bergsonisme (1966) Deleuze first asserts that (1) Bergson knew and understood rather well Riemannian multiplicities and further (2) uses that claim to fudge the contentious issue about ...
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