- Æneid,
[Philo's Objections]
- à posteriori,
Natural and Deductive Theology
- à priori,
Natural and Deductive Theology,
[Human Condition]
- æsthetics,
Axiology: the Study of Value,
[Moral Choice]
- Abraham,
[Anguish]
- absolute,
[Subjectivity],
[Human Condition]
- absurd, the,
Personal Uses of Philosophy,
[Being Undermined],
Le Mythe de Sisyphe by Albert Camus - trans. by Hélène Brown,
[The Absurd Victory],
[The Death of an Innocent Child]
- Academy,
The Sea-Fight Tomorrow by Aristotle
- Achilles,
[Do What's Right, Regardless]
- actions,
[Anguish],
Of Motives
- See also acts
- authentic,
Le Mythe de Sisyphe by Albert Camus - trans. by Hélène Brown
- intention,
[Defense Against Corruption of the Youth],
[Why Exile Is Not Acceptable]
- acts,
Value of a Lot of Pleasure or Pain,
[Authenticity and Self-Deception]
- actuality,
Topics Worth Investigating,
[The Argument from Motion]
- afterlife,
[Argument That Death Is a Good]
- Agassiz, Louis,
In the Laboratory With Agassiz, by Samuel H. Scudder,
What Makes a Life Significant? by WilliamJames
- Alexander the Great,
Life of Excellence: Living and Doing Well by Aristotle
- anarchists,
[One Last Example]
- Anaxagoras,
[Defense Against Atheism]
- Anselm, Saint,
Philosophy of Religion,
The Ontological Argument by St. Anselm,
Topics Worth Investigating,
From the Nature of the Universe by Thomas Aquinas
- Antiphon,
The Ring of Gyges by Plato,
The Reading Selection from The Ring of Gyges
- antipodes,
[Coherence as Conceivability],
[Coherence Theory of Truth]
- appetite,
Ideas of Interest from The Ethics,
[The Illusory Nature of Free Decisions]
- See also emotion
- bodily,
[Decision Defined]
- appetites,
1 [How Moral Virtue is Acquired]
- Aquinas, Saint Thomas,
Philosophy of Religion,
From the Nature of the Universe by Thomas Aquinas
- areté,
Topics Worth Investigating
- See also virtue
- argument
- analogical,
An Answer to Anselm by Gaunilo,
[Philo's Objections]
- Aristophanes,
[Defense Against Older Accusations],
[Defense Against Atheism]
- Aristotle,
Topics Worth Investigating,
From the Nature of the Universe by Thomas Aquinas,
Philosophical Ethics,
Epistemology and Metaphysics,
[Truth Is Made],
Topics Worth Investigating,
[Truth Value of Statements]
- art,
[Art Is a Decoy],
1 [All Activity Aims at Some Good],
6 [Disposition to Choose the Mean],
Axiology: the Study of Value
- See also æsthetics
- artisans,
[Socrates Cross-examines Others]
- asceticism
- principle of,
Of Principles Adverse to that of Utility
- astronomy,
[The Theory of the Tides]
- atheism,
[Defense Against Atheism],
[Existence Precedes Essence],
[Abandonment],
[Existential Humanism]
- Augustine, Saint,
[The Argument from Design]
- authenticity,
[Authenticity and Self-Deception]
- axiology,
Axiology: the Study of Value
- barometer,
Characterization of Philosophy,
The Barometer Story by Alexander Calandra
- beauty,
Axiology: the Study of Value
- See also æsthetics
- belief,
[The Correspondence Theory]
- Bentham, Jeremy,
Philosophical Ethics,
Topics Worth Investigating,
Happiness Is the Greatest Good by JeremyBentham,
A Science of Human Nature by John StuartMill
- Bhagavad Gita,
Topics Worth Investigating
- Brahe, Tycho,
Facts Are Often Theory-Dependent
- Brooks, Phillips,
[Ideas of Individuals]
- Buddha,
[Four Common Solutions]
- Calandra, Alexander,
Characterization of Philosophy
- Camus, Albert,
Personal Uses of Philosophy,
Le Mythe de Sisyphe by Albert Camus - trans. by Hélène Brown
- meaning of life,
Topics Worth Investigating
- capital punishment,
[Response to the Verdict]
- categorical imperative,
Topics Worth Investigating,
[Ideas as Copies of Reality]
- causality,
Epistemology: the Study of Knowledge,
[Rational Knowledge Is Indefinite],
[The Argument from First Cause],
[Philo's Objections],
Philosophical Ethics,
Short Glossary of Terms,
Positive Philosophy by AugustComte
- local,
[The Theory of the Tides]
- cause,
[The Argument from First Cause],
1 [How Moral Virtue is Acquired]
- natural,
[Origin of Life]
- proportioned to effect,
[Philo's Objections]
- cell, organic
- discovery of,
[Life Explained by Scientific Law]
- centaur,
[Coherence as Conceivability]
- Chaerephon,
[Delphic Oracle]
- Chain of Being,
[The Argument from Gradation],
Topics Worth Investigating
- chance,
[The Wager],
Philosophical Ethics,
Short Glossary of Terms
- character,
1 [How Moral Virtue is Acquired],
6 [Disposition to Choose the Mean],
[Ideals]
- choice,
Short Glossary of Terms,
[Existence Precedes Essence],
[Moral Choice],
The Wager by BlaisePascal
- See also option theory
- Christianity,
[Existence Precedes Essence]
- Cicero,
[Philo's Objections]
- circular reasoning,
Characterization of Philosophy,
[Rational Knowledge Is Indefinite]
- See also petitio principii
- cogito ergo sum,
(i) [Descartes' Clear and Distinct Ideas]
- Colding, Ludvig,
[Transformation of Energy and Motion]
- compatibilism,
Short Glossary of Terms
- composition,
Main Divisions of Philosophy
- Comte, August,
Epistemology and Metaphysics,
Positive Philosophy by AugustComte
- conceivability,
[Coherence as Conceivability]
- degrees of,
[Coherence as Science]
- concept
- of existence,
[Existence Is Not a Property]
- concepts,
Metaphysics (Ontology): the Study of Reality,
[Existence Is Not a Property]
- condition
- necessary and sufficient,
Ideas of Interest from The Will to Believe
- consciousness,
[Sisyphus: The Absurd Hero]
- consequentialism,
Topics Worth Investigating
- contradiction,
[Defense Against Atheism],
Topics Worth Investigating,
[Existence Is Not a Property],
(ii) [Consistency of Formal Logic]
- law of,
Topics Worth Investigating,
[Objection to the Coherence Theory of Truth]
- contraries,
Whether God exists?
- Crito,
[Doing What's Right, Regardless of Threat],
[Why Exile Is Not Acceptable]
- culture,
[Culture, Courage, Ideals, and Joyful Sympathy]
- Dali, Salvador,
Axiology: the Study of Value
- Darwin, Charles,
The Teleological Argument by WilliamPaley,
Life of Excellence: Living and Doing Well by Aristotle
- Dawkins, Richard,
Topics Worth Investigating
- death,
[Do What's Right, Regardless],
Seek Truth Rather Than Escape Death, by Plato,
[Why Exile Is Not Acceptable],
[Truth, More Important Than Life],
[Being Undermined],
[The Myth of Sisyphus]
- a good,
[Argument That Death Is a Good]
- as truth,
[Truth of Death]
- of an innocent,
[The Death of an Innocent Child]
- deduction,
(i) [Descartes' Clear and Distinct Ideas]
- geometrical method,
Human Beings are Determined by Baruch Spinoza
- definition
- operational,
Metaphysics (Ontology): the Study of Reality
- precising,
Metaphysics (Ontology): the Study of Reality
- Delphi effect,
Why Open Source?
- Delphic oracle,
[Delphic Oracle]
- demigods,
[Defense Against Atheism]
- democracy,
Seek Truth Rather Than Escape Death, by Plato,
[Creation of Values]
- Greece,
[Doing What's Right, Regardless of Threat]
- Descartes, René,
[Rational Knowledge Is Indefinite],
The Ontological Argument by St. Anselm,
[The Notion of God Does Not Imply Existence],
Human Beings are Determined by Baruch Spinoza,
[Existence Precedes Essence],
[Despair],
[Intersubjectivity],
(i) [Descartes' Clear and Distinct Ideas]
- knowledge,
(i) [Descartes' Clear and Distinct Ideas]
- design,
[The Argument from Design],
[Statement of the Watch Argument]
- design argument,
[Statement of the Watch Argument]
- despair,
[Truth of Death],
[Despair]
- destiny,
[Absurdity and Happiness]
- determinism,
Human Beings are Determined by Baruch Spinoza
- scientific,
Short Glossary of Terms
- soft,
Short Glossary of Terms
- Spinoza,
[Decision Defined]
- devil,
[The Inhumanity of Man]
- Dewey, John,
The Role of Facts In Understanding
- dilemma,
Topics Worth Investigating
- disjunctive syllogism,
Topics Worth Investigating
- divine proportion,
Axiology: the Study of Value
- dogmatism,
[The Values of Philosophy]
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor,
Topics Worth Investigating,
[The Absurd Victory],
Philosophy of Religion,
The Problem of Evil by FyodorDostoevsky,
Ideas of Interest from The Ring of Gyges,
[Abandonment]
- dreams,
[Nature of Human Action],
Topics Worth Investigating
- duty,
Axiology: the Study of Value
- Sisyphus,
[The Myth of Sisyphus]
- economics,
Topics Worth Investigating
- egoism,
[Enlargement of Self],
The Ring of Gyges by Plato
- ethical,
Topics Worth Investigating
- psychological,
Topics Worth Investigating
- emotion,
[The Heart Has Its Reasons]
- greed,
[One Last Example]
- passion,
[James' Thesis],
Ideas of Interest from the Nicomachean Ethics,
Topics Worth Investigating,
[Anguish]
- value,
[Abandonment]
- empiricism,
[The Positive State]
- ends
- and means,
[Coherence as Conceivability]
- energy
- and motion,
[Transformation of Energy and Motion]
- Engels, Frederich,
Epistemology and Metaphysics
- Engels, Frederick,
Science of Natural Processes by FrederickEngels
- Epicureanism,
[Four Common Solutions]
- See also ethics
- Epicurus,
[Philo's Objections]
- epistemology,
Epistemology: the Study of Knowledge,
[Philosophical Questions],
Meaning of Life and God's Existence
- error,
[Requisites of a Theory of Truth]
- essence,
The Ontological Argument by St. Anselm,
[Existence Precedes Essence]
- ethics,
Axiology: the Study of Value,
[Philosophical Questions],
Philosophical Ethics,
Ideas of Interest from The Ring of Gyges,
Topics Worth Investigating
- See also morals
- deontology,
Topics Worth Investigating
- doctrine of the mean,
Ideas of Interest from the Nicomachean Ethics,
6 [Disposition to Choose the Mean]
- duty,
[Abandonment]
- feminist,
A Science of Human Nature by John StuartMill
- Kantian,
[Abandonment]
- philosophical,
Philosophical Ethics
- religious,
Philosophical Ethics
- Socratic,
Just Do What's Right by Plato
- teleology,
Topics Worth Investigating
- Euclid,
Characterization of Philosophy,
Axiology: the Study of Value
- Eudaimonia,
Life of Excellence: Living and Doing Well by Aristotle
- Euripides,
[Defense Against Atheism]
- evil,
Topics Worth Investigating,
[Argument That Death Is a Good],
Human Beings are Determined by Baruch Spinoza
- moral,
[Love Your Neighbor]
- non-moral,
Topics Worth Investigating
- problem of,
Whether God exists? ,
[Statement of the Watch Argument],
[The Problem of Evil]
- evolution
- theory of,
[Origins of the Varieties of Organisms]
- excellence,
6 [Disposition to Choose the Mean],
Life of Excellence: Living and Doing Well by Aristotle
- See also areté
- excluded middle
- law of,
[Truth Value of Statements]
- existence,
The Reading Selection from Pro Insipiente,
Topics Worth Investigating,
[That God Is]
- as a predicate,
[Existence Is Not a Property],
[Truth Value of Statements]
- logic,
[Potentiality and the Future]
- meaning of,
[Science Renders Life Meaningless]
- existential import,
Existence Is Not a Predicate by ImmanuelKant,
Topics Worth Investigating,
Topics Worth Investigating
- existentialism,
Le Mythe de Sisyphe by Albert Camus - trans. by Hélène Brown,
Topics Worth Investigating,
[Existence Precedes Essence],
[Human Condition],
[Existential Humanism]
- Christian,
The Wager by BlaisePascal
- despair,
[Existential Humanism]
- psychoanalysis,
The Problem of Evil by FyodorDostoevsky
- twentieth century,
The Will to Believe by William James
- facts,
The Role of Facts In Understanding,
[Requisites of a Theory of Truth]
- and understanding,
[The Death of an Innocent Child]
- as true statements,
Facts and Theories
- theory-dependence,
Facts and Theories
- faith,
Personal Uses of Philosophy,
[Faith's Solution],
[Sisyphus' Fate],
[Social Relations]
- See also religion
- and reason,
[That God Is]
- fallacy
- ad hominem,
[Statement of the Watch Argument]
- ad ignorantiam,
Facts Are Often Theory-Dependent,
[Statement of the Watch Argument]
- ad populum,
Facts Are Often Theory-Dependent,
[Defense Against Corruption of the Youth]
- composition,
Topics Worth Investigating
- false dilemma,
Topics Worth Investigating
- genetic,
Topics Worth Investigating
- falsity,
[Truth as Verification],
[Requisites of a Theory of Truth]
- fatalism,
[Truth, More Important Than Life],
[Argument That Death Is a Good],
[Absurdity and Happiness],
Topics Worth Investigating,
Short Glossary of Terms
- fate,
[Absurdity and Happiness]
- Fechner, Gustav,
Axiology: the Study of Value
- felicific calculus,
Happiness Is the Greatest Good by JeremyBentham
- See also hedonism
- Fermat, Pierre de,
The Wager by BlaisePascal
- Fibonacci numbers,
Axiology: the Study of Value
- five-minute world hypothesis,
Epistemology: the Study of Knowledge
- free will,
Philosophical Ethics,
Short Glossary of Terms,
Human Beings are Determined by Baruch Spinoza,
[The Illusory Nature of Free Decisions],
[Abandonment],
[Authenticity and Self-Deception]
- genuine option,
[James' Thesis]
- Spinoza,
[The Idea of Free Will]
- freedom,
[Freedom of Contemplation],
The Problem of Evil by FyodorDostoevsky
- Freud, Sigmund,
Topics Worth Investigating,
Topics Worth Investigating
- friendship,
[Life's Values and Meanings]
- Gaunilo,
Philosophy of Religion,
An Answer to Anselm by Gaunilo
- geometry
- non-Euclidean,
Characterization of Philosophy
- GFDL,
Why Open Source?
- Gide, André,
[Abandonment],
[Moral Choice]
- Glaucon,
The Ring of Gyges by Plato
- God,
The Reading Selection from the Proslogium,
[The Notion of God Does Not Imply Existence],
[The Inhumanity of Man],
[The Problem of Evil],
Short Glossary of Terms,
Human Beings are Determined by Baruch Spinoza,
[Existence Precedes Essence],
[Existential Humanism]
- argument from cause,
[The Argument from First Cause]
- argument from design,
[The Argument from Design],
[Cleanthes's Design Argument]
- argument from gradation,
[The Argument from Gradation]
- argument from motion,
[The Argument from Motion]
- argument from necessity,
[The Argument from Necessity]
- conceivablility,
The Reading Selection from Pro Insipiente
- existence of,
Philosophy of Religion,
Meaning of Life and God's Existence,
From the Nature of the Universe by Thomas Aquinas,
The Teleological Argument by WilliamPaley
- faith,
[Faith's Solution]
- infinite,
[Philo's Objections]
- that vs. what,
From the Nature of the Universe by Thomas Aquinas,
[That God Is]
- gods,
[Defense Against Atheism]
- golden ratio,
Axiology: the Study of Value
- good,
The Reading Selection from The Ring of Gyges,
1 [All Activity Aims at Some Good],
5 [Moral Virtue Is Character],
Of Motives,
[Master Morality]
- Bentham,
Value of a Lot of Pleasure or Pain
- from evil,
[The Argument from Design]
- intrinsic,
7 [Definition of Happiness],
6 [Happiness Is Not Amusement]
- person,
[Do What's Right, Regardless]
- good, the,
2 [The Good for Man],
[Truth as Good]
- Grinnell, Frederick,
Facts Are Often Theory-Dependent
- habits,
Topics Worth Investigating
- Hanson, Norwood Russell,
Facts Are Often Theory-Dependent
- happiness,
[The Absurd Victory],
[The Wager],
[The Idea of Free Will],
The Reading Selection from The Ring of Gyges,
7 [Definition of Happiness],
13 [Kinds of Virtue],
6 [Happiness Is Not Amusement],
7 [Happiness Is the Contemplative Life],
Of the Principle of Utility,
[Creation of Values]
- and absurdity,
[Absurdity and Happiness]
- eudaimonia,
Ideas of Interest from the Nicomachean Ethics
- Hardy, G. H.,
"What Is Truth? by BertrandRussell
- Hazlitt, Henry,
The Role of Facts In Understanding
- hedonism,
Topics Worth Investigating
- calculus,
Value of a Lot of Pleasure or Pain
- ethical,
Topics Worth Investigating
- psychological,
Topics Worth Investigating
- hedonistic calculus,
Topics Worth Investigating,
Happiness Is the Greatest Good by JeremyBentham
- See also hedonism
- Heidegger, Martin,
[Existence Precedes Essence],
[Abandonment]
- heroes
- ethics of,
Axiology: the Study of Value
- heroism,
[The Absurd Victory]
- Herschel, William,
Existence Is Not a Predicate by ImmanuelKant
- Heschel, Abraham Joshua,
Topics Worth Investigating
- history
- progress,
[One Last Example]
- Hobbes, Thomas,
Human Beings are Determined by Baruch Spinoza,
Topics Worth Investigating
- Homer,
[The Myth of Sisyphus]
- human nature,
[Love Your Neighbor]
- Hume's Fork,
Philosophical Ethics
- Hume, David,
Philosophy of Religion,
Topics Worth Investigating,
The Teleological Argument by WilliamPaley,
Critique of the Design Argument by DavidHume
- hypothesis,
The Will to Believe by William James
- James,
[Hypotheses and Options]
- religious,
[Religious Questions]
- scientific,
[Discovery in Science]
- hypotheticals,
(i) [Descartes' Clear and Distinct Ideas]
- ichthyology,
In the Laboratory With Agassiz, by Samuel H. Scudder
- idealists,
[Ideas as Copies of Reality]
- ideals,
[Ideals]
- ideas,
[Ideas as Copies of Reality]
- clear and distinct,
(i) [Descartes' Clear and Distinct Ideas]
- ignorance,
[Four Common Solutions]
- Iliad,
Topics Worth Investigating
- images,
[Coherence as Conceivability]
- imagination,
[The Idea of Free Will]
- inauthenticity,
[Four Common Solutions]
- indeterminism,
Short Glossary of Terms
- individuation
- criterion of,
Metaphysics (Ontology): the Study of Reality
- induction
- problem of,
Short Glossary of Terms
- infinity,
[Science Renders Life Meaningless],
[Rational Knowledge Is Indefinite],
[The Argument from Motion],
[The Argument from First Cause],
[Philo's Objections],
[That God Is],
[The Problem of Evil]
- intuition,
(i) [Descartes' Clear and Distinct Ideas]
- irony,
Topics Worth Investigating,
Ideas of Interest from the The Apology, II
- James, William,
Topics Worth Investigating,
Philosophical Ethics,
The Will to Believe by William James,
Epistemology and Metaphysics,
Topics Worth Investigating,
Topics Worth Investigating,
What Makes a Life Significant? by WilliamJames
- option theory,
[Hypotheses and Options]
- James-Lang theory,
Topics Worth Investigating
- Jaspers, Karl,
[Existence Precedes Essence]
- Jewish philosophy,
Human Beings are Determined by Baruch Spinoza
- Joachim, Harold H.,
Epistemology and Metaphysics,
Coherence Theory of Truth by Harold H.Joachim
- Joule, James Prescott,
[Transformation of Energy and Motion]
- joy,
[Culture, Courage, Ideals, and Joyful Sympathy]
- judgment
- constituents of,
[The Correspondence Theory]
- hypothetical,
(i) [Descartes' Clear and Distinct Ideas]
- relational,
[The Correspondence Theory]
- Jung, Carl Gustav
- psychological types,
Topics Worth Investigating,
Topics Worth Investigating
- Jupiter,
[The Myth of Sisyphus]
- justice,
[Freedom of Contemplation]
- justification,
Epistemology: the Study of Knowledge
- Kant, Immanuel,
Philosophy of Religion,
Existence Is Not a Predicate by ImmanuelKant,
Topics Worth Investigating,
[Existence Precedes Essence],
[Intersubjectivity],
[Moral Choice],
[Authenticity and Self-Deception]
- Kaufmann, Walter,
Topics Worth Investigating
- Keats, John,
Topics Worth Investigating
- Kepler, Johannes,
Why Open Source?,
Facts Are Often Theory-Dependent
- Kierkegaard, Søren,
The Wager by BlaisePascal,
Short Glossary of Terms,
[Anguish]
- the crowd,
Topics Worth Investigating
- kinds,
[Unverified Truth]
- Kneale, William Calvert,
Topics Worth Investigating
- knowledge,
[Philosophy and Science],
[Enlargement of Self],
[Rational Knowledge Is Indefinite],
5 [Popular Notions of Happiness],
Epistemology and Metaphysics
- absolute,
[The Theological State]
- by acquaintance,
[Requisites of a Theory of Truth]
- foundations of,
(i) [Descartes' Clear and Distinct Ideas]
- irrational,
[Faith's Solution]
- practical,
[The Science of Human Nature]
- probable,
Epistemology: the Study of Knowledge
- the good,
Human Beings are Determined by Baruch Spinoza
- theory of,
(i) [Descartes' Clear and Distinct Ideas]
- Laplace, Pierre-Simon,
Short Glossary of Terms
- law,
Topics Worth Investigating,
The Reading Selection from The Ring of Gyges,
Happiness Is the Greatest Good by JeremyBentham
- Comte,
[Fundamental Law of Development]
- God,
[Faith's Solution]
- moral,
Topics Worth Investigating
- natural,
[Science Renders Life Meaningless],
Short Glossary of Terms,
The Teleological Argument by WilliamPaley
- See also nature, laws of
- of nature,
Ideas of Interest from Natural Theology,
[Statement of the Watch Argument]
- political,
[Master Morality]
- social development,
Positive Philosophy by AugustComte
- Le Mythe de Sisyphe,
Le Mythe de Sisyphe by Albert Camus - trans. by Hélène Brown
- learning
- nature of,
In the Laboratory With Agassiz, by Samuel H. Scudder
- Leibniz, Gottfried,
[The Notion of God Does Not Imply Existence],
The Wager by BlaisePascal,
[Existence Precedes Essence]
- Leonardo da Vinci,
Axiology: the Study of Value
- Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim,
[Truth Is Made]
- life
- as evil,
[Rational Knowledge Is Indefinite]
- foundation of,
[Life Explained by Scientific Law]
- origin of,
[Origin of Life]
- unexamined,
[Why Exile Is Not Acceptable]
- Locke, John,
Topics Worth Investigating
- logic
- consistency,
(ii) [Consistency of Formal Logic],
Topics Worth Investigating
- formal,
(ii) [Consistency of Formal Logic]
- laws of,
Topics Worth Investigating,
[Objection to the Coherence Theory of Truth]
- materials,
(ii) [Consistency of Formal Logic]
- relations,
[Requisites of a Theory of Truth]
- validity,
(ii) [Consistency of Formal Logic]
- logistic thesis,
"What Is Truth? by BertrandRussell
- lottery paradox,
Epistemology: the Study of Knowledge
- love,
[The Heart Has Its Reasons],
[Love Your Neighbor],
[Life's Values and Meanings],
[Freedom of Contemplation]
- See also emotion
- neighbor,
[Love Your Neighbor]
- Lyceum,
Life of Excellence: Living and Doing Well by Aristotle
- Mach, Ernst,
[Truth Is Made]
- Marcel, Gabriel,
[Existence Precedes Essence]
- Marx, Karl,
Science of Natural Processes by FrederickEngels
- Marxism,
Science of Natural Processes by FrederickEngels
- master-morality,
[Master Morality]
- materialism,
[Science Renders Life Meaningless],
[Intersubjectivity],
[Unification of Science of Natural Processes],
[Requisites of a Theory of Truth]
- early Greek,
[Scientific Materialism]
- historical,
Science of Natural Processes by FrederickEngels
- scientific,
[Scientific Materialism]
- mathematics,
The Wager by BlaisePascal
- matter
- extension,
[That God Is],
Ideas of Interest from The Ethics,
[Infinite Complexity of Nature]
- Mayer, Robert,
[Transformation of Energy and Motion]
- meaning of life,
[Enlargement of Self]
- and art,
[Art Is a Decoy]
- and faith,
[Faith's Solution]
- and family,
[Everyday Life]
- and people,
[Four Common Solutions]
- and reason,
[Rational Knowledge Is Indefinite]
- and science,
[Science Renders Life Meaningless]
- meaninglessness,
Le Mythe de Sisyphe by Albert Camus - trans. by Hélène Brown
- means
- and ends,
[Cleanthes's Design Argument]
- means to end,
[Enlargement of Self]
- mechanical equivalent of heat,
[Transformation of Energy and Motion]
- Medieval,
From the Nature of the Universe by Thomas Aquinas
- Meletus,
[Defense Against Older Accusations],
[Response to the Verdict]
- memory,
[The Illusory Nature of Free Decisions]
- mental phenomena
- laws of,
[Aspects of a Science of Human Nature]
- metaphysics,
Main Divisions of Philosophy,
[Philosophical Questions],
From the Nature of the Universe by Thomas Aquinas,
[The Metaphysical State]
- meteorology,
Topics Worth Investigating
- middle class,
[Life's Values and Meanings]
- midlife crisis
- arrest of life,
The Will to Believe by William James
- Mill, John Stuart,
Epistemology and Metaphysics,
Positive Philosophy by AugustComte,
Topics Worth Investigating,
A Science of Human Nature by John StuartMill
- mind-body problem,
Ideas of Interest from Ludwig Feuerbach
- mind-body relation,
[The Unknown Causes of Human Action]
- James-Lange theory,
Topics Worth Investigating,
Topics Worth Investigating
- necessity,
[The Idea of Free Will]
- miracle,
Philosophical Ethics
- miracles,
Topics Worth Investigating,
Short Glossary of Terms
- modus tollens,
The Reading Selection from the Proslogium
- monism,
Human Beings are Determined by Baruch Spinoza,
Topics Worth Investigating
- morals,
Le Mythe de Sisyphe by Albert Camus - trans. by Hélène Brown,
[The Death of an Innocent Child],
Of the Principle of Utility,
[Abandonment],
[Moral Choice]
- master-morality,
[Master Morality]
- morals vs. science,
[Moral Beliefs]
- slave-morality,
[Slave Morality]
- motion
- unity of,
[Transformation of Energy and Motion]
- motives,
Of Motives
- mysticism,
The Wager by BlaisePascal
- myth,
[Sisyphus: The Absurd Hero]
- natural theology,
The Teleological Argument by WilliamPaley
- nature,
Metaphysics (Ontology): the Study of Reality,
Whether God exists? ,
[The Argument from Design],
[Philo's Objections],
1 [How Moral Virtue is Acquired]
- See also essence
- biological,
Topics Worth Investigating
- human,
6 [Happiness Is Not Amusement],
[Human Condition]
- laws of,
[Infinite Complexity of Nature],
[The Idea of Free Will]
- system of,
Human Beings are Determined by Baruch Spinoza
- necessary,
[Coherence as Conceivability]
- necessary being,
[The Argument from Necessity]
- necessity,
[The Argument from Necessity]
- of events,
[Truth Value of Statements]
- Newton, Isaac,
[Philosophy and Science]
- Nietzsche, Friedrich,
Topics Worth Investigating,
Philosophical Ethics,
Slave and Master Morality by FriedrichNietzsche
- truth,
Topics Worth Investigating
- Will to Power,
Topics Worth Investigating
- nihilism,
Topics Worth Investigating,
[Courage of the Everyday Person]
- Nobel Prize,
Enlargement of Self by BertrandRussell
- nothing,
[The Argument from Necessity]
- Novalis,
Human Beings are Determined by Baruch Spinoza
- object,
[Truth as the Useful]
- observation,
The Role of Facts In Understanding
- occasionalism,
Ideas of Interest from The Ethics
- omnipotence,
[The Argument from Design]
- ontological argument,
Philosophy of Religion,
[The Notion of God Does Not Imply Existence]
- Perfect Island Objection,
The Reading Selection from Pro Insipiente
- ontology,
Metaphysics (Ontology): the Study of Reality
- See also metaphysics
- option theory,
[Hypotheses and Options]
- See also James, William
- ought,
Of the Principle of Utility
- Paley, William,
Philosophy of Religion,
The Teleological Argument by WilliamPaley
- panentheism,
Human Beings are Determined by Baruch Spinoza
- pantheism,
Human Beings are Determined by Baruch Spinoza
- paradox,
Topics Worth Investigating
- Pascal, Blaise,
Philosophy of Religion,
The Wager by BlaisePascal
- emotion,
[Discovery in Science]
- Wager,
The Will to Believe by William James,
Topics Worth Investigating
- Pascal, René
- wager,
[That God Is]
- passion,
Topics Worth Investigating,
[Sisyphus: The Absurd Hero],
5 [Moral Virtue Is Character]
- See also emotion
- perfection,
[The Argument from Gradation],
[Philo's Objections]
- pessimism,
Topics Worth Investigating,
[Courage of the Everyday Person]
- petitio principii,
Characterization of Philosophy,
[Rational Knowledge Is Indefinite],
Ideas of Interest from Pro Insipiente
- philosophy,
Main Divisions of Philosophy,
Enlargement of Self by BertrandRussell,
[Indirect Values of Philosophy],
[Philosophical Questions],
[The Values of Philosophy]
- aim of,
Main Divisions of Philosophy
- and religion,
Topics Worth Investigating,
From the Nature of the Universe by Thomas Aquinas
- branches of,
[Coherence as Science]
- critical,
Existence Is Not a Predicate by ImmanuelKant
- definition of,
Characterization of Philosophy
- epistemology,
Personal Uses of Philosophy
- ethics,
Personal Uses of Philosophy
- of life,
Personal Uses of Philosophy
- of religion,
Personal Uses of Philosophy,
Philosophy of Religion,
Meaning of Life and God's Existence
- Oriental,
[Ideals]
- positive,
The Reading Selection Cours de Philosophie Positive
- synoptic,
Personal Uses of Philosophy,
Main Divisions of Philosophy,
Topics Worth Investigating
- teaching of,
[Do What's Right, Regardless]
- value of,
[The Values of Philosophy]
- physics,
Characterization of Philosophy,
The Wager by BlaisePascal
- gravity,
Facts and Theories
- piety,
[The Defense Concluded]
- Plato,
Main Divisions of Philosophy,
Just Do What's Right by Plato,
[Doing What's Right, Regardless of Threat],
Seek Truth Rather Than Escape Death, by Plato,
[Why Exile Is Not Acceptable],
Philosophical Ethics,
Topics Worth Investigating,
The Sea-Fight Tomorrow by Aristotle
- Academy,
Just Do What's Right by Plato,
Life of Excellence: Living and Doing Well by Aristotle
- pleasure,
Philosophical Ethics,
The Ring of Gyges by Plato,
6 [Happiness Is Not Amusement],
Of the Principle of Utility,
Value of a Lot of Pleasure or Pain
- Pluto,
[The Myth of Sisyphus]
- poets,
[Socrates Cross-examines Others]
- polar concepts,
[Enlargement of Self]
- political science,
Topics Worth Investigating
- politicians,
[Socrates Cross-examines Others]
- politics,
[Socrates' Divine Sign]
- Ponge, Francis,
[Abandonment]
- positivism,
Positive Philosophy by AugustComte,
[The Positive State]
- possibility,
Topics Worth Investigating
- postmodernism,
Characterization of Philosophy
- potential,
[Potentiality and the Future]
- potentiality,
[The Argument from Motion]
- practical person,
[The Values of Philosophy],
[Life's Values and Meanings],
[The Practical Person]
- See also morals, slave-morality
- pragmatism,
Philosophical Ethics,
The Will to Believe by William James,
[Ideas as Copies of Reality],
What Makes a Life Significant? by WilliamJames
- predestination,
Epistemology: the Study of Knowledge,
Topics Worth Investigating,
Short Glossary of Terms
- predeterminism,
Short Glossary of Terms
- predicate,
[Existence Is Not a Property]
- predictions,
Short Glossary of Terms
- general and specific,
[Aspects of a Science of Human Nature]
- presupposition,
Characterization of Philosophy
- principle
- first,
Metaphysics (Ontology): the Study of Reality,
[The Argument from Design]
- of charity,
Personal Uses of Philosophy
- of order,
[Statement of the Watch Argument]
- Prisoner's Dilemma,
Topics Worth Investigating
- probability,
The Wager by BlaisePascal,
Short Glossary of Terms
- prophets,
[Courage of the Everyday Person]
- proposition,
Topics Worth Investigating,
[Truth Value of Statements]
- See also statement
- analytic,
[Existence Is Not a Property]
- truth value,
[Truth Value of Statements]
- Proust, Marcel,
[You Are What You Live]
- psyche,
Seek Truth Rather Than Escape Death, by Plato
- psychology,
Main Divisions of Philosophy,
[Philosophy and Science],
Philosophical Ethics,
Topics Worth Investigating,
Topics Worth Investigating
- punishment,
Of Principles Adverse to that of Utility
- quality,
Topics Worth Investigating
- Quine, W. V. O.,
Facts and Theories,
Related Ideas
- Racine, Jean,
[You Are What You Live]
- rational decision theory,
Happiness Is the Greatest Good by JeremyBentham
- rationalism,
[Truth Is Made]
- Raymond, Eric S.,
Why Open Source?
- real,
[Coherence as Science]
- reality,
Metaphysics (Ontology): the Study of Reality,
The Reading Selection from the Proslogium,
[Despair],
[Ideas as Copies of Reality],
"What Is Truth? by BertrandRussell
- reason,
[Rational Knowledge Is Indefinite],
Whether God exists? ,
Philosophical Ethics
- life of,
7 [Happiness Is the Contemplative Life]
- methods of,
Philosophy of Religion
- reductio ad absurdum,
Epistemology: the Study of Knowledge,
Topics Worth Investigating,
The Reading Selection from the Proslogium,
Topics Worth Investigating
- regularity,
[Truth as the Useful]
- relations,
[The Correspondence Theory]
- relativism,
[Enlargement of Self]
- religion,
[Philosophical Questions],
[Religious Questions]
- See also faith
- extremism,
Topics Worth Investigating
- philosophy of,
Meaning of Life and God's Existence
- revelation,
[Faith's Solution]
- right,
[Do What's Right, Regardless],
Of Principles Adverse to that of Utility
- rights
- animal,
Topics Worth Investigating
- Ring of Gyges, Myth of,
Topics Worth Investigating
- Rousseau, Jean Jacques,
Topics Worth Investigating
- Russell, Bertrand,
Personal Uses of Philosophy,
Main Divisions of Philosophy,
Epistemology: the Study of Knowledge,
Enlargement of Self by BertrandRussell,
Existence Is Not a Predicate by ImmanuelKant,
Topics Worth Investigating,
Epistemology and Metaphysics,
Topics Worth Investigating,
"What Is Truth? by BertrandRussell
- meaning of life,
[Enlargement of Self]
- skepticism,
Topics Worth Investigating
- Sartre, Jean-Paul,
Philosophical Ethics
- abandonment,
[Abandonment]
- anguish,
[Anguish]
- existence precedes essence,
[Existence Precedes Essence]
- Schelling, F. W. J.,
In the Laboratory With Agassiz, by Samuel H. Scudder
- Schleiden, Matthias,
[Life Explained by Scientific Law]
- scholasticism,
The Ontological Argument by St. Anselm,
[Truth Is Made]
- Schopenhauer, Arthur,
[Four Common Solutions],
[Rational Knowledge Is Indefinite]
- Schwann, Theodor,
[Life Explained by Scientific Law]
- science,
Main Divisions of Philosophy,
[Science Renders Life Meaningless],
Topics Worth Investigating,
[Coherence as Science]
- and philosophy,
Main Divisions of Philosophy
- Aristotelian,
Characterization of Philosophy,
Philosophy of Religion
- discovery,
[Discovery in Science]
- empirical,
[Unification of Science of Natural Processes]
- explanation,
[Human Nature as a Subject of Science]
- Greek,
[Defense Against Atheism]
- history of,
[Philosophy and Science]
- laws,
Facts and Theories
- natura.,
Topics Worth Investigating
- of human nature,
[Human Nature as a Subject of Science],
[The Science of Human Nature]
- prediction,
[Aspects of a Science of Human Nature]
- science vs. morals,
[Moral Beliefs]
- unity of,
Science of Natural Processes by FrederickEngels
- scientific method,
The Barometer Story by Alexander Calandra
- scorn,
[The Absurd Victory]
- Scudder, Samuel H.,
The Role of Facts In Understanding
- self,
(ii) [Consistency of Formal Logic],
[Enlargement of Self]
- See also ego
- self-deception,
[Anguish],
[Authenticity and Self-Deception]
- self-enlargement,
Personal Uses of Philosophy
- self-examination,
[Do What's Right, Regardless]
- selfish
- gene,
Topics Worth Investigating
- sense
- of judgment,
[The Correspondence Theory]
- simplicity
- principle of,
[Philo's Objections]
- sin,
[The Inhumanity of Man]
- Sisyphus,
[The Myth of Sisyphus],
[Absurdity and Happiness]
- myth of,
[The Myth of Sisyphus]
- skepticism,
Epistemology: the Study of Knowledge,
[Rational Knowledge Is Indefinite],
The Ontological Argument by St. Anselm,
[Statement of the Watch Argument],
Critique of the Design Argument by DavidHume,
The Wager by BlaisePascal,
Epistemology and Metaphysics
- James,
[Religious Questions]
- scientific,
[Options in Science]
- slave-morality,
[Four Common Solutions],
Topics Worth Investigating,
[Ideas of Individuals]
- slavery,
6 [Happiness Is Not Amusement],
[Origin of Aristocracy],
[Moral Choice]
- social contract,
The Reading Selection from The Ring of Gyges,
Topics Worth Investigating,
Topics Worth Investigating,
Of the Principle of Utility,
Topics Worth Investigating
- social relations,
Of the Principle of Utility
- Bentham,
Value of a Lot of Pleasure or Pain
- James,
[Social Relations]
- Socrates,
Topics Worth Investigating
- sociology,
Positive Philosophy by AugustComte
- Socrates,
Personal Uses of Philosophy,
Just Do What's Right by Plato,
Seek Truth Rather Than Escape Death, by Plato,
Topics Worth Investigating,
Human Beings are Determined by Baruch Spinoza,
The Ring of Gyges by Plato,
Life of Excellence: Living and Doing Well by Aristotle
- as a gadfly,
[Socrates, a Gadfly]
- care for soul,
[Do What's Right, Regardless]
- divine sign,
[Socrates' Divine Sign],
[Socrates' Advice]
- Socratic Paradox,
Ideas of Interest from the The Apology, II
- Solomon,
[Four Common Solutions],
[Rational Knowledge Is Indefinite]
- sophist,
[Defense Against Older Accusations],
Topics Worth Investigating
- Protagoras,
Topics Worth Investigating
- Sophocles,
[The Absurd Victory]
- soul,
[Enlargement of Self]
- Spinoza, Baruch,
The Ontological Argument by St. Anselm,
Philosophical Ethics,
Human Beings are Determined by Baruch Spinoza,
Topics Worth Investigating
- The Ethics,
Human Beings are Determined by Baruch Spinoza
- spirit,
[Defense Against Atheism]
- state,
[Socrates, a Gadfly]
- statement,
Facts and Theories,
Epistemology and Metaphysics
- Stoicism,
Short Glossary of Terms
- structuralism,
Topics Worth Investigating
- subjective,
[Existence Precedes Essence]
- subjectivism,
[Enlargement of Self]
- subjectivity,
[Intersubjectivity]
- succession,
Topics Worth Investigating
- suffering,
[Love Your Neighbor]
- suicide,
[Four Common Solutions],
[The Death of an Innocent Child]
- sympathy,
[Abandonment]
- principle of,
Of Principles Adverse to that of Utility,
[Master Morality]
- synthesis,
Main Divisions of Philosophy
- system
- coherence of,
[Coherence as Science]
- tautology,
(ii) [Consistency of Formal Logic]
- Taylor, Harriet,
A Science of Human Nature by John StuartMill
- teleological argument,
The Teleological Argument by WilliamPaley
- teleology,
[The Argument from Design]
- ethics,
Topics Worth Investigating
- theology,
Short Glossary of Terms,
[The Theological State],
Topics Worth Investigating
- See also religion
- deductive,
Natural and Deductive Theology
- natural,
Natural and Deductive Theology,
The Wager by BlaisePascal
- theory,
[Ideas as Copies of Reality]
- thought
- nature of,
(ii) [Consistency of Formal Logic]
- tidology,
[The Theory of the Tides]
- time,
The Sea-Fight Tomorrow by Aristotle
- Tocqueville, Alexis de,
A Science of Human Nature by John StuartMill
- tolerance,
[Life's Values and Meanings]
- Tolstoy, Leo,
Personal Uses of Philosophy,
"Only Faith Can Give Truth" by LeoTolstoy,
[Courage of the Everyday Person]
- tragedy,
[The Absurd Victory]
- transformation of energy,
[Transformation of Energy and Motion]
- truth,
[Philosophical Questions],
Topics Worth Investigating,
Ideas of Interest from A Confession,
[Ideas as Copies of Reality]
- absolute,
(i) [Descartes' Clear and Distinct Ideas]
- and the good,
(ii) [Consistency of Formal Logic],
Topics Worth Investigating,
[Truth as Good]
- coherence theory,
Epistemology: the Study of Knowledge,
[Coherence as Conceivability],
[Coherence as Science],
[Coherence Theory of Truth],
Topics Worth Investigating,
[Truth as Good],
[Requisites of a Theory of Truth]
- correspondence theory,
Facts Are Often Theory-Dependent,
[Coherence as Science],
[Ideas as Copies of Reality],
"What Is Truth? by BertrandRussell,
[The Correspondence Theory],
[Truth Value of Statements]
- future,
Topics Worth Investigating
- Nietzsche,
Slave and Master Morality by FriedrichNietzsche
- ontological,
[The Argument from Gradation]
- practical,
[Truth as the Useful]
- pragmatic theory,
Topics Worth Investigating,
[Ideas as Copies of Reality]
- See also pragmatism
- properties of,
[Coherence Is the Organized Whole]
- self-evident,
(i) [Descartes' Clear and Distinct Ideas]
- unverified,
[Unverified Truth]
- unconscious,
Topics Worth Investigating
- understanding,
The Reading Selection from the Proslogium
- universal,
[Human Condition]
- universals,
(ii) [Consistency of Formal Logic]
- universe
- infinity of,
[Enlargement of Self]
- Urmson, J. O.,
Axiology: the Study of Value
- utilitarianism,
Topics Worth Investigating,
Topics Worth Investigating,
A Science of Human Nature by John StuartMill
- utility,
[Indirect Values of Philosophy]
- Nietzsche,
[Slave Morality]
- principle of,
Of the Principle of Utility,
Of Principles Adverse to that of Utility
- Utopia,
[Life's Values and Meanings]
- values,
[Abandonment],
[Existential Humanism],
[Life's Values and Meanings],
Topics Worth Investigating
- See also axiology
- artistic,
Axiology: the Study of Value
- ethical,
Axiology: the Study of Value
- vanity,
Ideas of Interest from Beyond Good and Evil ,
[Creation of Values]
- verification,
[Truth as Verification],
[Truth as Good]
- indirect,
[Unverified Truth]
- vindication,
[Why Socrates is Wise]
- virtue,
[Response to the Verdict],
13 [Kinds of Virtue],
1 [How Moral Virtue is Acquired],
[Courage of the Everyday Person],
[Culture, Courage, Ideals, and Joyful Sympathy],
Life of Excellence: Living and Doing Well by Aristotle
- See also areté
- as a mean,
6 [Disposition to Choose the Mean]
- vision,
Facts Are Often Theory-Dependent
- vitalism,
Ideas of Interest from Ludwig Feuerbach
- watch argument,
[Statement of the Watch Argument]
- wealth,
[Do What's Right, Regardless]
- Western philosophy,
Just Do What's Right by Plato
- Whitehead, A. N.,
Just Do What's Right by Plato,
"What Is Truth? by BertrandRussell
- why-questions,
Characterization of Philosophy
- will,
8 [The Contemplative Life]
- Will to Power,
[Life Denial]
- wisdom,
[Delphic Oracle],
[Why Socrates is Wise],
[Do What's Right, Regardless],
[Response to the Verdict],
[The Absurd Victory]
- practical,
6 [Disposition to Choose the Mean],
8 [The Contemplative Life]
- theoretical,
7 [Happiness Is the Contemplative Life]
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig,
Topics Worth Investigating
- world view,
The Role of Facts In Understanding,
Facts and Theories,
Facts Are Often Theory-Dependent
- World War II,
Le Mythe de Sisyphe by Albert Camus - trans. by Hélène Brown
- Wöher, Friedrich,
[Origin of Life]