There are two quite different uses of the term idea in philosophy. The term idea is used for the denizens of Plato's heaven. Sometimes form is used as a less misleading translation of eidos. Plato's ideas or forms are not parts of our minds, but objective, unchanging, immaterial entities that our ...
Feminism is an intellectual, social, and political movement. The movement is very diverse, but one strand that runs through all varieties is the conviction that important intellectual, social, and political structures have been based on the assumption, sometimes implicit, sometimes quite explicit, ...
Fatalism is the doctrine that certain events are fated to happen, no matter what. This might mean that an event is fated to take place at a specific time, or that someone is going to do some deed, no matter what anyone does to try to prevent it. Fatalism differs from determinism. One way they ...
Eudaimonia —sometimes anglicized as eudaemonia or eudemonia and translated "happiness" or "flourishing"— is a central concept in Aristotle's ethics. See "Aristotelian Ethics"in Part V.
Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that studies the nature of knowledge, its presuppositions and foundations, and its extent and validity. In other words, it is the theory of knowledge, the inquiry into its possibility, nature, and structure.
According to the existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, the world is divided between two sorts of beings: beings-in-themselves (en-soi)and beings-for-themselves pour-soi). Beings-in-themselves are inanimate things like rocks, whereas beings-for-themselves are beings that exhibit feeling and ...
Empiricism is an epistemological position that emphasizes the importance of experience and denies or is very skeptical of claims to a priori knowledge or concepts. The empirical tradition in seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century philosophy was centered in Britain, and Bacon, Locke, ...
Doxastic states are states having to do with beliefs. If I have the belief that p, I am in the doxastic state of believing that p. A consideration is doxically relevant if it is relevant to one's beliefs.
