martin_heidegger
- noun German philosopher whose views on human existence in a world of objects and on Angst influenced the existential philosophers (1889-1976)
Heidegger.
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giordano_bruno
- noun Italian philosopher who used Copernican principles to develop a pantheistic monistic philosophy; condemned for heresy by the Inquisition and burned at the stake (1548-1600)
Bruno.
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blaise_pascal
- noun French mathematician and philosopher and Jansenist; invented an adding machine; contributed (with Fermat) to the theory of probability (1623-1662)
Pascal.
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philosopher
- noun a specialist in philosophy
- noun a wise person who is calm and rational; someone who lives a life of reason with equanimity
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ernst_mach
- noun Austrian physicist and philosopher who introduced the Mach number and who founded logical positivism (1838-1916)
Mach.
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plato
- noun ancient Athenian philosopher; pupil of Socrates; teacher of Aristotle (428-347 BC)
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charles_peirce
- noun United States philosopher and logician; pioneer of pragmatism (1839-1914)
Charles Sanders Peirce; Peirce.
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kong_the_master
- noun Chinese philosopher whose ideas and sayings were collected after his death and became the basis of a philosophical doctrine known a Confucianism (circa 551-478 BC)
Confucius; Kongfuze; K'ung Futzu.
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weil
- noun French philosopher (1909-1943)
Simone Weil.
- noun United States mathematician (born in France) (1906-1998)
Andre Weil.
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david_hartley
- noun English philosopher who introduced the theory of the association of ideas (1705-1757)
Hartley.
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diderot
- noun French philosopher who was a leading figure of the Enlightenment in France; principal editor of an encyclopedia that disseminated the scientific and philosophical knowledge of the time (1713-1784)
Denis Diderot.
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school
- noun an educational institution
- the school was founded in 1900
- noun a building where young people receive education
schoolhouse.
- the school was built in 1932
- he walked to school every morning
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saint_baeda
- noun (Roman Catholic Church) English monk and scholar (672-735)
Beda; Bede; St. Baeda; St. Beda; St. Bede; Baeda; the Venerable Bede; Saint Beda; Saint Bede.
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naturalist
- noun an advocate of the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms
- noun a biologist knowledgeable about natural history (especially botany and zoology)
natural scientist.
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george_berkeley
- noun Irish philosopher and Anglican bishop who opposed the materialism of Thomas Hobbes (1685-1753)
Bishop Berkeley; Berkeley.
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bacon
- noun back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked; usually sliced thin and fried
- noun English scientist and Franciscan monk who stressed the importance of experimentation; first showed that air is required for combustion and first used lenses to correct vision (1220-1292)
Roger Bacon.
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lully
- noun Spanish philosopher (1235-1315)
Ramon Lully; Raymond Lully.
- noun French composer (born in Italy) who was the court composer to Louis XIV and founded the national French opera (1632-1687)
Jean Baptiste Lully; Lulli; Giambattista Lulli.
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hartley
- noun English philosopher who introduced the theory of the association of ideas (1705-1757)
David Hartley.
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naturalism
- noun (philosophy) the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms without recourse to spiritual or supernatural explanations
- noun an artistic movement in 19th century France; artists and writers strove for detailed realistic and factual description
realism.
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schlesinger
- noun United States historian and advisor to President Kennedy (born in 1917)
Arthur Schlesinger; Arthur Schlesinger Jr.; Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr..
- noun United States historian (1888-1965)
Arthur Schlesinger; Arthur Meier Schlesinger.
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tagore
- noun Indian writer and philosopher whose poetry (based on traditional Hindu themes) pioneered the use of colloquial Bengali (1861-1941)
Rabindranath Tagore; Sir Rabindranath Tagore.
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elie_wiesel
- noun United States writer (born in Romania) who survived Nazi concentration camps and is dedicated to keeping alive the memory of the Holocaust (born in 1928)
Eliezer Wiesel; Wiesel.
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heraclitus
- noun a presocratic Greek philosopher who said that fire is the origin of all things and that permanence is an illusion as all things are in perpetual flux (circa 500 BC)
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arnold_joseph_toynbee
- noun English historian who studied the rise and fall of civilizations looking for cyclical patterns (1889-1975)
Arnold Toynbee; Toynbee.
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james_harvey_robinson
- noun United States historian who stressed the importance of intellectual and social events for the course of history (1863-1936)
Robinson.
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sarvepalli_radhakrishnan
- noun Indian philosopher and statesman who introduced Indian philosophy to the West (1888-1975)
Radhakrishnan; Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.
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pragmatist
- noun an adherent of philosophical pragmatism
- noun a person who takes a practical approach to problems and is concerned primarily with the success or failure of her actions
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boethius
- noun a Roman who was an early Christian philosopher and statesman who was executed for treason; Boethius had a decisive influence on medieval logic (circa 480-524)
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius.
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popper
- noun British philosopher (born in Austria) who argued that scientific theories can never be proved to be true, but are tested by attempts to falsify them (1902-1994)
Karl Popper; Sir Karl Raimund Popper.
- noun a container of stimulant drug (amyl nitrate or butyl nitrite)
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husserl
- noun German philosopher who developed phenomenology (1859-1938)
Edmund Husserl.
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method
- noun a way of doing something, especially a systematic way; implies an orderly logical arrangement (usually in steps)
- noun an acting technique introduced by Stanislavsky in which the actor recalls emotions or reactions from his or her own life and uses them to identify with the character being portrayed
method acting.
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de_spinoza
- noun Dutch philosopher who espoused a pantheistic system (1632-1677)
Benedict de Spinoza; Spinoza; Baruch de Spinoza.
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nietzsche
- noun influential German philosopher remembered for his concept of the superman and for his rejection of Christian values; considered, along with Kierkegaard, to be a founder of existentialism (1844-1900)
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche.
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niebuhr
- noun United States Protestant theologian (1892-1971)
Reinhold Niebuhr.
- noun German historian noted for his critical approach to sources and for his history of Rome (1776-1831)
Barthold George Niebuhr.
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radhakrishnan
- noun Indian philosopher and statesman who introduced Indian philosophy to the West (1888-1975)
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan; Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.
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spencer
- noun English philosopher and sociologist who applied the theory of natural selection to human societies (1820-1903)
Herbert Spencer.
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winckelmann
- noun German archaeologist and art historian said to be the father of archaeology (1717-1768)
Johann Joachim Winckelmann; Johann Winckelmann.
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eclecticism
- noun making decisions on the basis of what seems best instead of following some single doctrine or style
eclectic method.
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herbert_spencer
- noun English philosopher and sociologist who applied the theory of natural selection to human societies (1820-1903)
Spencer.
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etiology
- noun the cause of a disease
aetiology.
- noun the philosophical study of causation
aetiology.
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scholastic
- noun a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit
pedant; bookworm.
- noun a Scholastic philosopher or theologian
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peirce
- noun United States mathematician and astronomer remembered for his studies of Uranus and Saturn and Neptune (1809-1880)
Benjamin Peirce.
- noun United States philosopher and logician; pioneer of pragmatism (1839-1914)
Charles Sanders Peirce; Charles Peirce.
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baruch_de_spinoza
- noun Dutch philosopher who espoused a pantheistic system (1632-1677)
Benedict de Spinoza; de Spinoza; Spinoza.
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cartesian
- noun a follower of Cartesian thought
- adjective of or relating to Rene Descartes or his works
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pluralism
- noun a social organization in which diversity of racial or religious or ethnic or cultural groups is tolerated
- noun the doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements
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morals
- noun motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
ethics; ethical motive; morality.
- noun the significance of a story or event
lesson; moral.
- the moral of the story is to love thy neighbor
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aesthetics
- noun (art) the branch of philosophy dealing with beauty and taste (emphasizing the evaluative criteria that are applied to art)
esthetics.
- traditional aesthetics assumed the existence of universal and timeless criteria of artistic value
- noun (philosophy) a philosophical theory as to what is beautiful
esthetic; aesthetic.
- he despised the esthetic of minimalism
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moral
- noun the significance of a story or event
lesson.
- the moral of the story is to love thy neighbor
- adjective concerned with principles of right and wrong or conforming to standards of behavior and character based on those principles
- moral sense
- a moral scrutiny
- a moral lesson
- a moral quandary
- moral convictions
- a moral life
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thought
- noun the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
idea.
- it was not a good idea
- the thought never entered my mind
- noun the process of using your mind to consider something carefully
cerebration; thinking; mentation; intellection; thought process.
- thinking always made him frown
- she paused for thought
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anicius_manlius_severinus_boethius
- noun a Roman who was an early Christian philosopher and statesman who was executed for treason; Boethius had a decisive influence on medieval logic (circa 480-524)
Boethius.
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camus
- noun French writer who portrayed the human condition as isolated in an absurd world (1913-1960)
Albert Camus.
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geoffrey_of_monmouth
- noun Welsh chronicler who wrote an account of the kings of Britain which is now believed to contain little historical fact but it is a source of the Arthurian legend (circa 1100-1154)
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eusebius_of_caesarea
- noun Christian bishop of Caesarea in Palestine; a church historian and a leading early Christian exegete (circa 270-340)
Eusebius.
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beda
- noun (Roman Catholic Church) English monk and scholar (672-735)
Bede; St. Baeda; Saint Baeda; St. Beda; St. Bede; Baeda; the Venerable Bede; Saint Beda; Saint Bede.
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sir_karl_raimund_popper
- noun British philosopher (born in Austria) who argued that scientific theories can never be proved to be true, but are tested by attempts to falsify them (1902-1994)
Karl Popper; Popper.
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occam
- noun English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349)
William of Occam; William of Ockham; Ockham.
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seneca
- noun Roman statesman and philosopher who was an advisor to Nero; his nine extant tragedies are modeled on Greek tragedies (circa 4 BC - 65 AD)
Lucius Annaeus Seneca.
- noun a member of the Iroquoian people formerly living in New York State south of Lake Ontario
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buber
- noun Israeli religious philosopher (born in Austria); as a Zionist he promoted understanding between Jews and Arabs; his writings affected Christian thinkers as well as Jews (1878-1965)
Martin Buber.
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wittgenstein
- noun British philosopher born in Austria; a major influence on logic and logical positivism (1889-1951)
Ludwig Wittgenstein; Ludwig Josef Johan Wittgenstein.
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hegel
- noun German philosopher whose three stage process of dialectical reasoning was adopted by Karl Marx (1770-1831)
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
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kierkegaard
- noun Danish philosopher who is generally considered. along with Nietzsche, to be a founder of existentialism (1813-1855)
Soren Kierkegaard; Soren Aabye Kierkegaard.
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soren_kierkegaard
- noun Danish philosopher who is generally considered. along with Nietzsche, to be a founder of existentialism (1813-1855)
Soren Aabye Kierkegaard; Kierkegaard.
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st._beda
- noun (Roman Catholic Church) English monk and scholar (672-735)
Beda; Bede; St. Baeda; Saint Baeda; St. Bede; Baeda; the Venerable Bede; Saint Beda; Saint Bede.
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st._bede
- noun (Roman Catholic Church) English monk and scholar (672-735)
Beda; Bede; St. Baeda; Saint Baeda; St. Beda; Baeda; the Venerable Bede; Saint Beda; Saint Bede.
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parmenides
- noun a presocratic Greek philosopher born in Italy; held the metaphysical view that being is the basic substance and ultimate reality of which all things are composed; said that motion and change are sensory illusions (5th century BC)
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locke
- noun English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience (1632-1704)
John Locke.
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soren_aabye_kierkegaard
- noun Danish philosopher who is generally considered. along with Nietzsche, to be a founder of existentialism (1813-1855)
Soren Kierkegaard; Kierkegaard.
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marcuse
- noun United States political philosopher (born in Germany) concerned about the dehumanizing effects of capitalism and modern technology (1898-1979)
Herbert Marcuse.
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history
- noun the aggregate of past events
- a critical time in the school's history
- noun a record or narrative description of past events
account; story; chronicle.
- a history of France
- he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president
- the story of exposure to lead
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heidegger
- noun German philosopher whose views on human existence in a world of objects and on Angst influenced the existential philosophers (1889-1976)
Martin Heidegger.
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bruno
- noun German pope from 1049 to 1054 whose papacy was the beginning of papal reforms in the 11th century (1002-1054)
Bruno of Toul; Leo IX.
- noun (Roman Catholic Church) a French cleric (born in Germany) who founded the Carthusian order in 1084 (1032-1101)
Saint Bruno; St. Bruno.
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hume
- noun Scottish philosopher whose sceptical philosophy restricted human knowledge to that which can be perceived by the senses (1711-1776)
David Hume.
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venerable
- adjective satellite impressive by reason of age
- a venerable sage with white hair and beard
- adjective satellite profoundly honored
revered; august.
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sir_george_otto_trevelyan
- noun English historian who wrote a history of the American revolution and a biography of his uncle Lord Macaulay (1838-1928)
Trevelyan; George Otto Trevelyan.
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thucydides
- noun ancient Greek historian remembered for his history of the Peloponnesian War (460-395 BC)
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pre-socratic
- noun any philosopher who lived before Socrates
- adjective before the time of Socrates
presocratic.
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existential_philosopher
- noun a philosopher who emphasizes freedom of choice and personal responsibility but who regards human existence in a hostile universe as unexplainable
existentialist; existentialist philosopher.
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philosophy
- noun a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school
philosophical system; school of thought; ism; doctrine.
- noun the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics
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wiesel
- noun United States writer (born in Romania) who survived Nazi concentration camps and is dedicated to keeping alive the memory of the Holocaust (born in 1928)
Elie Wiesel; Eliezer Wiesel.
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ethics
- noun motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
ethical motive; morals; morality.
- noun the philosophical study of moral values and rules
moral philosophy.
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law
- noun the collection of rules imposed by authority
jurisprudence.
- civilization presupposes respect for the law
- the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order
- noun legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity
- there is a law against kidnapping
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lucius_annaeus_seneca
- noun Roman statesman and philosopher who was an advisor to Nero; his nine extant tragedies are modeled on Greek tragedies (circa 4 BC - 65 AD)
Seneca.
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james_mill
- noun Scottish philosopher who expounded Bentham's utilitarianism; father of John Stuart Mill (1773-1836)
Mill.
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aristotelian
- noun a follower of Aristotle or an adherent of Aristotelianism
Peripatetic; Aristotelean.
- adjective of or relating to Aristotle or his philosophy
peripatetic; Aristotelean; Aristotelic.
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william_of_occam
- noun English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349)
William of Ockham; Ockham; Occam.
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quine
- noun United States philosopher and logician who championed an empirical view of knowledge that depended on language (1908-2001)
Willard Van Orman Quine; W. V. Quine.
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kongfuze
- noun Chinese philosopher whose ideas and sayings were collected after his death and became the basis of a philosophical doctrine known a Confucianism (circa 551-478 BC)
Confucius; K'ung Futzu; Kong the Master.
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arthur_schlesinger_jr.
- noun United States historian and advisor to President Kennedy (born in 1917)
Schlesinger; Arthur Schlesinger; Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr..
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walpole
- noun English writer and historian; son of Sir Robert Walpole (1717-1797)
Horatio Walpole; Fourth Earl of Orford; Horace Walpole.
- noun Englishman and Whig statesman who (under George I) was effectively the first British prime minister (1676-1745)
Sir Robert Walpole; First Earl of Orford; Robert Walpole.
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ernst_cassirer
- noun German philosopher concerned with concept formation in the human mind and with symbolic forms in human culture generally (1874-1945)
Cassirer.
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arendt
- noun United States historian and political philosopher (born in Germany) (1906-1975)
Hannah Arendt.
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haeckel
- noun German biologist and philosopher; advocated Darwinism and formulated the theory of recapitulation; was an exponent of materialistic monism (1834-1919)
Ernst Heinrich Haeckel.
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eliezer_wiesel
- noun United States writer (born in Romania) who survived Nazi concentration camps and is dedicated to keeping alive the memory of the Holocaust (born in 1928)
Elie Wiesel; Wiesel.
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ethicism
- noun a doctrine that ethics and ethical ideas are valid and important
- his ethicism often led him to moralize
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spengler
- noun German philosopher who argued that cultures grow and decay in cycles (1880-1936)
Oswald Spengler.
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john_mill
- noun English philosopher and economist remembered for his interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism (1806-1873)
Mill; John Stuart Mill.
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thales_of_miletus
- noun a presocratic Greek philosopher and astronomer (who predicted an eclipse in 585 BC) who was said by Aristotle to be the founder of physical science; he held that all things originated in water (624-546 BC)
Thales.
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rene_descartes
- noun French philosopher and mathematician; developed dualistic theory of mind and matter; introduced the use of coordinates to locate a point in two or three dimensions (1596-1650)
Descartes.
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josephus
- noun Jewish general who led the revolt of the Jews against the Romans and then wrote a history of those events (37-100)
Flavius Josephus; Joseph ben Matthias.
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realist
- noun a philosopher who believes that universals are real and exist independently of anyone thinking of them
- noun a person who accepts the world as it literally is and deals with it accordingly
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john_bach_mcmaster
- noun United States historian who wrote a nine volume history of the people of the United States (1852-1932)
McMaster.
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saint_beda
- noun (Roman Catholic Church) English monk and scholar (672-735)
Beda; Bede; St. Baeda; Saint Baeda; St. Beda; St. Bede; Baeda; the Venerable Bede; Saint Bede.
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anaximenes
- noun a presocratic Greek philosopher and associate of Anaximander who believed that all things are made of air in different degrees of density (6th century BC)
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hobbes
- noun English materialist and political philosopher who advocated absolute sovereignty as the only kind of government that could resolve problems caused by the selfishness of human beings (1588-1679)
Thomas Hobbes.
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mommsen
- noun German historian noted for his history of Rome (1817-1903)
Theodor Mommsen.
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mill
- noun a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing
factory; manufactory; manufacturing plant.
- noun Scottish philosopher who expounded Bentham's utilitarianism; father of John Stuart Mill (1773-1836)
James Mill.
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realism
- noun the attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth
pragmatism.
- noun the state of being actual or real
realness; reality.
- the reality of his situation slowly dawned on him
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viscount_st._albans
- noun English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626)
1st Baron Verulam; Sir Francis Bacon; Baron Verulam; Bacon; Francis Bacon.
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livy
- noun Roman historian whose history of Rome filled 142 volumes (of which only 35 survive) including the earliest history of the war with Hannibal (59 BC to AD 17)
Titus Livius.
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steiner
- noun Austrian philosopher who founded anthroposophy (1861-1925)
Rudolf Steiner.
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titus_lucretius_carus
- noun Roman philosopher and poet; in a long didactic poem he tried to provide a scientific explanation of the universe (96-55 BC)
Lucretius.
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predestinationist
- noun anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny
determinist; fatalist; predestinarian.
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ernst_heinrich_haeckel
- noun German biologist and philosopher; advocated Darwinism and formulated the theory of recapitulation; was an exponent of materialistic monism (1834-1919)
Haeckel.
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existentialism
- noun (philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves
existential philosophy; existentialist philosophy.
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baron_verulam
- noun English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626)
1st Baron Verulam; Sir Francis Bacon; Viscount St. Albans; Bacon; Francis Bacon.
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existentialist
- noun a philosopher who emphasizes freedom of choice and personal responsibility but who regards human existence in a hostile universe as unexplainable
existentialist philosopher; existential philosopher.
- adjective relating to or involving existentialism
- existentialist movement
- existentialist philosophy
- the existentialist character of his ideas
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philosophical_system
- noun a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school
philosophy; school of thought; ism; doctrine.
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bishop_berkeley
- noun Irish philosopher and Anglican bishop who opposed the materialism of Thomas Hobbes (1685-1753)
George Berkeley; Berkeley.
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ism
- noun a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school
philosophical system; philosophy; school of thought; doctrine.
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existential
- adjective satellite derived from experience or the experience of existence
experiential.
- the rich experiential content of the teachings of the older philosophers"- Benjamin Farrington
- formal logicians are not concerned with existential matters"- John Dewey
- adjective of or as conceived by existentialism
- an existential moment of choice
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william_of_ockham
- noun English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349)
William of Occam; Ockham; Occam.
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ockham
- noun English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349)
William of Occam; William of Ockham; Occam.
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philosophical
- adjective of or relating to philosophy or philosophers
philosophic.
- philosophical writing
- a considerable knowledge of philosophical terminology
- adjective satellite characterized by the attitude of a philosopher; meeting trouble with level-headed detachment
philosophic.
- philosophical resignation
- a philosophic attitude toward life
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comte
- noun French philosopher remembered as the founder of positivism; he also established sociology as a systematic field of study
Auguste Comte; Isidore Auguste Marie Francois Comte.
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pythagoras
- noun Greek philosopher and mathematician who proved the Pythagorean theorem; considered to be the first true mathematician (circa 580-500 BC)
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historian
- noun a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it
historiographer.
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system
- noun instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity
- he bought a new stereo system
- the system consists of a motor and a small computer
- noun a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole
scheme.
- a vast system of production and distribution and consumption keep the country going
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john_dewey
- noun United States pragmatic philosopher who advocated progressive education (1859-1952)
Dewey.
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earl_russell
- noun English philosopher and mathematician who collaborated with Whitehead (1872-1970)
Bertrand Russell; Russell; Bertrand Arthur William Russell.
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predestinarian
- noun anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny
determinist; fatalist; predestinationist.
- adjective of or relating to predestination; holding the doctrine of predestination
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maimonides
- noun Spanish philosopher considered the greatest Jewish scholar of the Middle Ages who codified Jewish law in the Talmud (1135-1204)
Moses Maimonides; Rabbi Moses Ben Maimon.
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horace_walpole
- noun English writer and historian; son of Sir Robert Walpole (1717-1797)
Walpole; Horatio Walpole; Fourth Earl of Orford.
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bentham
- noun English philosopher and jurist; founder of utilitarianism (1748-1831)
Jeremy Bentham.
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ortega_y_gasset
- noun Spanish philosopher who advocated leadership by an intellectual elite (1883-1955)
Jose Ortega y Gasset.
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first_baron_macaulay
- noun English historian noted for his history of England (1800-1859)
Macaulay; Lord Macaulay; Thomas Babington Macaulay.
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bertrand_russell
- noun English philosopher and mathematician who collaborated with Whitehead (1872-1970)
Earl Russell; Russell; Bertrand Arthur William Russell.
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george_otto_trevelyan
- noun English historian who wrote a history of the American revolution and a biography of his uncle Lord Macaulay (1838-1928)
Trevelyan; Sir George Otto Trevelyan.
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ludwig_wittgenstein
- noun British philosopher born in Austria; a major influence on logic and logical positivism (1889-1951)
Wittgenstein; Ludwig Josef Johan Wittgenstein.
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theophrastus
- noun Greek philosopher who was a student of Aristotle and who succeeded Aristotle as the leader of the Peripatetics (371-287 BC)
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diogenes
- noun an ancient Greek philosopher and Cynic who rejected social conventions (circa 400-325 BC)
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francis_bacon
- noun English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626)
1st Baron Verulam; Sir Francis Bacon; Baron Verulam; Viscount St. Albans; Bacon.
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williams
- noun United States country singer and songwriter (1923-1953)
Hiram Williams; Hiram King Williams; Hank Williams.
- noun English philosopher credited with reviving the field of moral philosophy (1929-2003)
Bernard Arthur Owen Williams; Sir Bernard Williams.
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tuchman
- noun United States historian (1912-1989)
Barbara Tuchman; Barbara Wertheim Tuchman.
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arthur_schlesinger
- noun United States historian and advisor to President Kennedy (born in 1917)
Schlesinger; Arthur Schlesinger Jr.; Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr..
- noun United States historian (1888-1965)
Schlesinger; Arthur Meier Schlesinger.
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sophist
- noun any of a group of Greek philosophers and teachers in the 5th century BC who speculated on a wide range of subjects
- noun someone whose reasoning is subtle and often specious
casuist.
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mechanism
- noun the atomic process that occurs during a chemical reaction
chemical mechanism.
- he determined unique mechanisms for the photochemical reactions
- noun the technical aspects of doing something
mechanics.
- a mechanism of social control
- mechanisms of communication
- the mechanics of prose style
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confucius
- noun Chinese philosopher whose ideas and sayings were collected after his death and became the basis of a philosophical doctrine known a Confucianism (circa 551-478 BC)
Kongfuze; K'ung Futzu; Kong the Master.
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dewey
- noun United States librarian who founded the decimal system of classification (1851-1931)
Melvil Dewey; Melville Louis Kossuth Dewey.
- noun a United States naval officer remembered for his victory at Manila Bay in the Spanish-American War
Admiral Dewey; George Dewey.
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mead
- noun United States anthropologist noted for her claims about adolescence and sexual behavior in Polynesian cultures (1901-1978)
Margaret Mead.
- noun United States philosopher of pragmatism (1863-1931)
George Herbert Mead.
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morality
- noun concern with the distinction between good and evil or right and wrong; right or good conduct
- noun motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
ethics; ethical motive; morals.
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schweitzer
- noun French philosopher and physician and organist who spent most of his life as a medical missionary in Gabon (1875-1965)
Albert Schweitzer.
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descartes
- noun French philosopher and mathematician; developed dualistic theory of mind and matter; introduced the use of coordinates to locate a point in two or three dimensions (1596-1650)
Rene Descartes.
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chronicle
- noun a record or narrative description of past events
account; story; history.
- a history of France
- he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president
- the story of exposure to lead
- verb record in chronological order; make a historical record
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robinson
- noun English chemist noted for his studies of molecular structures in plants (1886-1975)
Robert Robinson; Sir Robert Robinson.
- noun United States prizefighter who won the world middleweight championship five times and the world welterweight championship once (1921-1989)
Sugar Ray Robinson; Walker Smith; Ray Robinson.
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carlyle
- noun Scottish historian who wrote about the French Revolution (1795-1881)
Thomas Carlyle.
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cleanthes
- noun ancient Greek philosopher who succeeded Zeno of Citium as the leader of the Stoic school (300-232 BC)
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annals
- noun reports of the work of a society or learned body etc
- noun a chronological account of events in successive years
chronological record.
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transcendental
- adjective satellite existing outside of or not in accordance with nature
nonnatural; otherworldly; preternatural.
- find transcendental motives for sublunary action"-Aldous Huxley
- adjective of or characteristic of a system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material
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epicurus
- noun Greek philosopher who believed that the world is a random combination of atoms and that pleasure is the highest good (341-270 BC)
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moralist
- noun a philosopher who specializes in morals and moral problems
- noun someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms
disciplinarian; martinet.
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de
- noun a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies
Diamond State; Delaware; First State.
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aetiology
- noun the cause of a disease
etiology.
- noun the philosophical study of causation
etiology.
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karl_marx
- noun founder of modern communism; wrote the Communist Manifesto with Engels in 1848; wrote Das Kapital in 1867 (1818-1883)
Marx.
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moore
- noun United States composer of works noted for their use of the American vernacular (1893-1969)
Douglas Moore.
- noun English actor and comedian who appeared on television and in films (born in 1935)
Dudley Stuart John Moore; Dudley Moore.
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esthetician
- noun a worker skilled in giving beauty treatments (manicures and facials etc.)
aesthetician.
- noun a philosopher who specializes in the nature of beauty
aesthetician.
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confucian
- noun a believer in the teachings of Confucius
Confucianist.
- adjective relating to or characteristic of Confucianism
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john_locke
- noun English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience (1632-1704)
Locke.
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school_of_thought
- noun a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school
philosophical system; philosophy; ism; doctrine.
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whitehead
- noun English philosopher and mathematician who collaborated with Bertrand Russell (1861-1947)
Alfred North Whitehead.
- noun a small whitish lump in the skin due to a clogged sebaceous gland
milium.
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ethical
- adjective of or relating to the philosophical study of ethics
- ethical codes
- ethical theories
- adjective conforming to accepted standards of social or professional behavior
- an ethical lawyer
- ethical medical practice
- an ethical problem
- had no ethical objection to drinking
- Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants"- Omar N. Bradley
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art
- noun the products of human creativity; works of art collectively
fine art.
- an art exhibition
- a fine collection of art
- noun the creation of beautiful or significant things
artistic creation; artistic production.
- art does not need to be innovative to be good
- I was never any good at art
- he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully
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w._v._quine
- noun United States philosopher and logician who championed an empirical view of knowledge that depended on language (1908-2001)
Willard Van Orman Quine; Quine.
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anaxagoras
- noun a presocratic Athenian philosopher who maintained that everything is composed of very small particles that were arranged by some eternal intelligence (500-428 BC)
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scholastic
- noun a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit
pedant; bookworm.
- noun a Scholastic philosopher or theologian
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dialectic
- noun any formal system of reasoning that arrives at the truth by the exchange of logical arguments
- noun a contradiction of ideas that serves as the determining factor in their interaction
- this situation created the inner dialectic of American history
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arnold_toynbee
- noun English historian who studied the rise and fall of civilizations looking for cyclical patterns (1889-1975)
Arnold Joseph Toynbee; Toynbee.
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transcendentalism
- noun any system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material
transcendental philosophy.
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flavius_josephus
- noun Jewish general who led the revolt of the Jews against the Romans and then wrote a history of those events (37-100)
Josephus; Joseph ben Matthias.
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cassirer
- noun German philosopher concerned with concept formation in the human mind and with symbolic forms in human culture generally (1874-1945)
Ernst Cassirer.
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thales
- noun a presocratic Greek philosopher and astronomer (who predicted an eclipse in 585 BC) who was said by Aristotle to be the founder of physical science; he held that all things originated in water (624-546 BC)
Thales of Miletus.
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sartre
- noun French writer and existentialist philosopher (1905-1980)
Jean-Paul Sartre.
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baeda
- noun (Roman Catholic Church) English monk and scholar (672-735)
Beda; Bede; St. Baeda; Saint Baeda; St. Beda; St. Bede; the Venerable Bede; Saint Beda; Saint Bede.
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gymnosophy
- noun the doctrine of a sect of Hindu philosophers who practiced nudity and asceticism and meditation
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david_hume
- noun Scottish philosopher whose sceptical philosophy restricted human knowledge to that which can be perceived by the senses (1711-1776)
Hume.
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peripatetic
- noun a person who walks from place to place
- noun a follower of Aristotle or an adherent of Aristotelianism
Aristotelean; Aristotelian.
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zeno_of_elea
- noun ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC)
Zeno.
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parkinson
- noun English surgeon (1755-1824)
James Parkinson.
- noun British historian noted for ridicule of bureaucracies (1909-1993)
Cyril Northcote Parkinson; C. Northcote Parkinson.
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martin_buber
- noun Israeli religious philosopher (born in Austria); as a Zionist he promoted understanding between Jews and Arabs; his writings affected Christian thinkers as well as Jews (1878-1965)
Buber.
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logic
- noun the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference
- noun reasoned and reasonable judgment
- it made a certain kind of logic
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macaulay
- noun English historian noted for his history of England (1800-1859)
Lord Macaulay; First Baron Macaulay; Thomas Babington Macaulay.
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bergson
- noun French philosopher who proposed elan vital as the cause of evolution and development (1859-1941)
Henri Bergson; Henri Louis Bergson.
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abelard
- noun French philosopher and theologian; lover of Heloise (1079-1142)
Pierre Abelard; Peter Abelard.
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machiavellian
- noun a follower of Machiavelli's principles
- adjective of or relating to Machiavelli or the principles of conduct he recommended
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plotinus
- noun Roman philosopher (born in Egypt) who was the leading representative of Neoplatonism (205-270)
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john_knox
- noun Scottish theologian who founded Presbyterianism in Scotland and wrote a history of the Reformation in Scotland (1514-1572)
Knox.
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charles_louis_de_secondat
- noun French political philosopher who advocated the separation of executive and legislative and judicial powers (1689-1755)
Montesquieu; Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu.
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sir_rabindranath_tagore
- noun Indian writer and philosopher whose poetry (based on traditional Hindu themes) pioneered the use of colloquial Bengali (1861-1941)
Rabindranath Tagore; Tagore.
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rousseau
- noun French philosopher and writer born in Switzerland; believed that the natural goodness of man was warped by society; ideas influenced the French Revolution (1712-1778)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
- noun French primitive painter (1844-1910)
Henri Rousseau; Le Douanier Rousseau.
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gardiner
- noun British historian remembered for his ten-volume history of England (1829-1902)
Samuel Rawson Gardiner.
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beauvoir
- noun French feminist and existentialist and novelist (1908-1986)
Simone de Beauvoir.
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mach
- noun Austrian physicist and philosopher who introduced the Mach number and who founded logical positivism (1838-1916)
Ernst Mach.
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existential_philosophy
- noun (philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves
existentialism; existentialist philosophy.
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maitland
- noun English historian noted for his works on the history of English law (1850-1906)
Frederic William Maitland.
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lucretius
- noun Roman philosopher and poet; in a long didactic poem he tried to provide a scientific explanation of the universe (96-55 BC)
Titus Lucretius Carus.
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determinist
- noun anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny
fatalist; predestinarian; predestinationist.
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ibn-sina
- noun Arabian physician and influential Islamic philosopher; his interpretation of Aristotle influenced St. Thomas Aquinas; writings on medicine were important for almost 500 years (980-1037)
Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina; Avicenna.
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toynbee
- noun English historian who studied the rise and fall of civilizations looking for cyclical patterns (1889-1975)
Arnold Toynbee; Arnold Joseph Toynbee.
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albert_schweitzer
- noun French philosopher and physician and organist who spent most of his life as a medical missionary in Gabon (1875-1965)
Schweitzer.
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derrida
- noun French philosopher and critic (born in Algeria); exponent of deconstructionism (1930-2004)
Jacques Derrida.
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the_venerable_bede
- noun (Roman Catholic Church) English monk and scholar (672-735)
Beda; Bede; St. Baeda; Saint Baeda; St. Beda; St. Bede; Baeda; Saint Beda; Saint Bede.
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henri_bergson
- noun French philosopher who proposed elan vital as the cause of evolution and development (1859-1941)
Bergson; Henri Louis Bergson.
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fatalist
- noun anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny
determinist; predestinarian; predestinationist.
- adjective of or relating to fatalism
fatalistic.
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utilitarian
- noun someone who believes that the value of a thing depends on its utility
- adjective satellite having a useful function
useful.
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james
- noun a Stuart king of Scotland who married a daughter of Henry VII; when England and France went to war in 1513 he invaded England and died in defeat at Flodden (1473-1513)
James IV.
- noun the last Stuart to be king of England and Ireland and Scotland; overthrown in 1688 (1633-1701)
James II.
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eclectic
- noun someone who selects according to the eclectic method
eclecticist.
- adjective satellite selecting what seems best of various styles or ideas
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nativism
- noun the policy of perpetuating native cultures (in opposition to acculturation)
- noun (philosophy) the philosophical theory that some ideas are innate
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eclectic_method
- noun making decisions on the basis of what seems best instead of following some single doctrine or style
eclecticism.
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eusebius
- noun Christian bishop of Caesarea in Palestine; a church historian and a leading early Christian exegete (circa 270-340)
Eusebius of Caesarea.
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gottfried_wilhelm_leibniz
- noun German philosopher and mathematician who thought of the universe as consisting of independent monads and who devised a system of the calculus independent of Newton (1646-1716)
Leibniz; Leibnitz; Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz.
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reid
- noun Scottish philosopher of common sense who opposed the ideas of David Hume (1710-1796)
Thomas Reid.
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moses_maimonides
- noun Spanish philosopher considered the greatest Jewish scholar of the Middle Ages who codified Jewish law in the Talmud (1135-1204)
Rabbi Moses Ben Maimon; Maimonides.
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machiavelli
- noun a statesman of Florence who advocated a strong central government (1469-1527)
Niccolo Machiavelli.
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realness
- noun the state of being actual or real
realism; reality.
- the reality of his situation slowly dawned on him
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nativist
- noun a philosopher who subscribes to nativism
- adjective advocating the perpetuation of native societies
nativistic.
- the old nativist prejudice against the foreign businessman
- the nativistic faith preaches the old values"- C.K.Kluckhohn
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woodward
- noun United States historian (1908-1999)
C. Vann Woodward; Comer Vann Woodward.
- noun United States chemist honored for synthesizing complex organic compounds (1917-1979)
Robert Burns Woodward; Robert Woodward; Bob Woodward.
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kant
- noun influential German idealist philosopher (1724-1804)
Immanuel Kant.
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zeno
- noun ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC)
Zeno of Elea.
- noun ancient Greek philosopher who founded the Stoic school (circa 335-263 BC)
Zeno of Citium.
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herbert_marcuse
- noun United States political philosopher (born in Germany) concerned about the dehumanizing effects of capitalism and modern technology (1898-1979)
Marcuse.
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trevelyan
- noun English historian and son of Sir George Otto Trevelyan whose works include a social history of England and a biography of Garibaldi (1876-1962)
George Macaulay Trevelyan.
- noun English historian who wrote a history of the American revolution and a biography of his uncle Lord Macaulay (1838-1928)
George Otto Trevelyan; Sir George Otto Trevelyan.
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jacques_derrida
- noun French philosopher and critic (born in Algeria); exponent of deconstructionism (1930-2004)
Derrida.
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john_stuart_mill
- noun English philosopher and economist remembered for his interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism (1806-1873)
John Mill; Mill.
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auguste_comte
- noun French philosopher remembered as the founder of positivism; he also established sociology as a systematic field of study
Comte; Isidore Auguste Marie Francois Comte.
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denis_diderot
- noun French philosopher who was a leading figure of the Enlightenment in France; principal editor of an encyclopedia that disseminated the scientific and philosophical knowledge of the time (1713-1784)
Diderot.
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russell
- noun United States religious leader who founded the sect that is now called Jehovah's Witnesses (1852-1916)
Charles Taze Russell.
- noun English film director (born in 1927)
Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell; Ken Russell.
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platonism
- noun (philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that abstract concepts exist independent of their names
realism.
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hegelian
- noun a follower of the thought of Hegel
- adjective of or relating to Hegel or his dialectic philosophy
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herder
- noun German philosopher who advocated intuition over reason (1744-1803)
Johann Gottfried von Herder.
- noun someone who drives a herd
drover; herdsman.
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1st_baron_verulam
- noun English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626)
Sir Francis Bacon; Baron Verulam; Viscount St. Albans; Bacon; Francis Bacon.
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empiricism
- noun (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience
sensationalism; empiricist philosophy.
- noun the application of empirical methods in any art or science
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berkeley
- noun Irish philosopher and Anglican bishop who opposed the materialism of Thomas Hobbes (1685-1753)
George Berkeley; Bishop Berkeley.
- noun a city in California on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay; site of the University of California at Berkeley
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calvinist
- noun an adherent of the theological doctrines of John Calvin
Genevan.
- adjective of or relating to or characteristic of Calvinism or its adherents
Calvinistic; Calvinistical.
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rabbi_moses_ben_maimon
- noun Spanish philosopher considered the greatest Jewish scholar of the Middle Ages who codified Jewish law in the Talmud (1135-1204)
Moses Maimonides; Maimonides.
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empedocles
- noun Greek philosopher who taught that all matter is composed of particles of fire and water and air and earth (fifth century BC)
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montesquieu
- noun French political philosopher who advocated the separation of executive and legislative and judicial powers (1689-1755)
Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu; Charles Louis de Secondat.
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k'ung_futzu
- noun Chinese philosopher whose ideas and sayings were collected after his death and became the basis of a philosophical doctrine known a Confucianism (circa 551-478 BC)
Confucius; Kongfuze; Kong the Master.
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aristotelean
- noun a follower of Aristotle or an adherent of Aristotelianism
Peripatetic; Aristotelian.
- adjective of or relating to Aristotle or his philosophy
peripatetic; Aristotelic; Aristotelian.
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anaximander
- noun a presocratic Greek philosopher and student of Thales who believed the universal substance to be infinity rather than something resembling ordinary objects (611-547 BC)
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sir_bernard_williams
- noun English philosopher credited with reviving the field of moral philosophy (1929-2003)
Bernard Arthur Owen Williams; Williams.
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tacitus
- noun Roman historian who wrote major works on the history of the Roman Empire (56-120)
Publius Cornelius Tacitus; Gaius Cornelius Tacitus.
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jean-jacques_rousseau
- noun French philosopher and writer born in Switzerland; believed that the natural goodness of man was warped by society; ideas influenced the French Revolution (1712-1778)
Rousseau.
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joseph_ben_matthias
- noun Jewish general who led the revolt of the Jews against the Romans and then wrote a history of those events (37-100)
Flavius Josephus; Josephus.
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esthetics
- noun (art) the branch of philosophy dealing with beauty and taste (emphasizing the evaluative criteria that are applied to art)
aesthetics.
- traditional aesthetics assumed the existence of universal and timeless criteria of artistic value
- noun (philosophy) a philosophical theory as to what is beautiful
esthetic; aesthetic.
- he despised the esthetic of minimalism
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aristotle
- noun one of the greatest of the ancient Athenian philosophers; pupil of Plato; teacher of Alexander the Great (384-322 BC)
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perry
- noun United States philosopher (1876-1957)
Ralph Barton Perry.
- noun United States admiral who led a naval expedition to Japan and signed a treaty in 1854 opening up trade relations between United States and Japan; brother of Oliver Hazard Perry (1794-1858)
Matthew Calbraith Perry.
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genevan
- noun a native or resident of Geneva
- noun an adherent of the theological doctrines of John Calvin
Calvinist.
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titus_livius
- noun Roman historian whose history of Rome filled 142 volumes (of which only 35 survive) including the earliest history of the war with Hannibal (59 BC to AD 17)
Livy.
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motive
- noun the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior
need; motivation.
- we did not understand his motivation
- he acted with the best of motives
- noun a theme that is repeated or elaborated in a piece of music
motif.
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leibnitz
- noun German philosopher and mathematician who thought of the universe as consisting of independent monads and who devised a system of the calculus independent of Newton (1646-1716)
Leibniz; Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz; Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz.
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origen
- noun Greek philosopher and theologian who reinterpreted Christian doctrine through the philosophy of Neoplatonism; his work was later condemned as unorthodox (185-254)
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marx
- noun United States comedian; one of four brothers who made motion pictures together (1901-1979)
Zeppo; Herbert Marx.
- noun United States comedian; one of four brothers who made motion pictures together (1893-1964)
Arthur Marx; Harpo.
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lord_macaulay
- noun English historian noted for his history of England (1800-1859)
Macaulay; First Baron Macaulay; Thomas Babington Macaulay.
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karl_popper
- noun British philosopher (born in Austria) who argued that scientific theories can never be proved to be true, but are tested by attempts to falsify them (1902-1994)
Popper; Sir Karl Raimund Popper.
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jurisprudence
- noun the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
legal philosophy; law.
- noun the collection of rules imposed by authority
law.
- civilization presupposes respect for the law
- the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order
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legal
- adjective established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules
- adjective of or relating to jurisprudence
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lao-zi
- noun Chinese philosopher regarded as the founder of Taoism (6th century BC)
Lao-tzu; Lao-tse.
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saint_bede
- noun (Roman Catholic Church) English monk and scholar (672-735)
Beda; Bede; St. Baeda; Saint Baeda; St. Beda; St. Bede; Baeda; the Venerable Bede; Saint Beda.
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sensationalism
- noun subject matter that is calculated to excite and please vulgar tastes
- noun the journalistic use of subject matter that appeals to vulgar tastes
luridness.
- the tabloids relied on sensationalism to maintain their circulation
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mcmaster
- noun United States historian who wrote a nine volume history of the people of the United States (1852-1932)
John Bach McMaster.
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legal_philosophy
- noun the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
law; jurisprudence.
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pluralist
- noun a cleric who holds more than one benefice at a time
- noun a philosopher who believes that no single explanation can account for all the phenomena of nature
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existentialist_philosophy
- noun (philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves
existentialism; existential philosophy.
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warburg
- noun German biochemist who pioneered the use of chemical techniques in biological investigations; noted for studies of cellular respiration (1883-1970)
Otto Heinrich Warburg.
- noun German art historian (1866-1929)
Aby Warburg; Aby Moritz Warburg.
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herodotus
- noun the ancient Greek known as the father of history; his accounts of the wars between the Greeks and Persians are the first known examples of historical writing (485-425 BC)
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leibniz
- noun German philosopher and mathematician who thought of the universe as consisting of independent monads and who devised a system of the calculus independent of Newton (1646-1716)
Leibnitz; Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz; Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz.
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have
- noun a person who possesses great material wealth
rich person; wealthy person.
- verb have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense
hold; have got.
- She has $1,000 in the bank
- He has got two beautiful daughters
- She holds a Master's degree from Harvard
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gibbon
- noun English historian best known for his history of the Roman Empire (1737-1794)
Edward Gibbon.
- noun smallest and most perfectly anthropoid arboreal ape having long arms and no tail; of southern Asia and East Indies
Hylobates lar.
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baron_de_la_brede_et_de_montesquieu
- noun French political philosopher who advocated the separation of executive and legislative and judicial powers (1689-1755)
Montesquieu; Charles Louis de Secondat.
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averroes
- noun Arabian philosopher born in Spain; wrote detailed commentaries on Aristotle that were admired by the Schoolmen (1126-1198)
Abul-Walid Mohammed ibn-Ahmad Ibn-Mohammed ibn-Roshd; ibn-Roshd.
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doctrine
- noun a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school
philosophical system; philosophy; school of thought; ism.
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sir_francis_bacon
- noun English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626)
1st Baron Verulam; Baron Verulam; Viscount St. Albans; Bacon; Francis Bacon.
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thomas_reid
- noun Scottish philosopher of common sense who opposed the ideas of David Hume (1710-1796)
Reid.
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horatio_walpole
- noun English writer and historian; son of Sir Robert Walpole (1717-1797)
Walpole; Fourth Earl of Orford; Horace Walpole.
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egalitarian
- noun a person who believes in the equality of all people
equalitarian.
- adjective satellite favoring social equality
classless.
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aesthetician
- noun a worker skilled in giving beauty treatments (manicures and facials etc.)
esthetician.
- noun a philosopher who specializes in the nature of beauty
esthetician.
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thomas_hobbes
- noun English materialist and political philosopher who advocated absolute sovereignty as the only kind of government that could resolve problems caused by the selfishness of human beings (1588-1679)
Hobbes.
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henri_louis_bergson
- noun French philosopher who proposed elan vital as the cause of evolution and development (1859-1941)
Henri Bergson; Bergson.
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stoic
- noun a member of the ancient Greek school of philosophy founded by Zeno
- a Stoic achieves happiness by submission to destiny
- noun someone who is seemingly indifferent to emotions
unemotional person.
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cynic
- noun someone who is critical of the motives of others
faultfinder.
- noun a member of a group of ancient Greek philosophers who advocated the doctrine that virtue is the only good and that the essence of virtue is self-control
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lao-tse
- noun Chinese philosopher regarded as the founder of Taoism (6th century BC)
Lao-zi; Lao-tzu.
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mahan
- noun United States naval officer and historian (1840-1914)
Alfred Thayer Mahan.
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avicenna
- noun Arabian physician and influential Islamic philosopher; his interpretation of Aristotle influenced St. Thomas Aquinas; writings on medicine were important for almost 500 years (980-1037)
Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina; ibn-Sina.
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condorcet
- noun French mathematician and philosopher (1743-1794)
Marquis de Condorcet; Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat.
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existentialist_philosopher
- noun a philosopher who emphasizes freedom of choice and personal responsibility but who regards human existence in a hostile universe as unexplainable
existentialist; existential philosopher.
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franklin
- noun United States historian noted for studies of Black American history (born in 1915)
John Hope Franklin.
- noun printer whose success as an author led him to take up politics; he helped draw up the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution; he played a major role in the American Revolution and negotiated French support for the colonists; as a scientist he is remembered particularly for his research in electricity (1706-1790)
Benjamin Franklin.
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abu_ali_al-husain_ibn_abdallah_ibn_sina
- noun Arabian physician and influential Islamic philosopher; his interpretation of Aristotle influenced St. Thomas Aquinas; writings on medicine were important for almost 500 years (980-1037)
ibn-Sina; Avicenna.
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friedrich_wilhelm_nietzsche
- noun influential German philosopher remembered for his concept of the superman and for his rejection of Christian values; considered, along with Kierkegaard, to be a founder of existentialism (1844-1900)
Nietzsche.
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record
- noun anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events
- the film provided a valuable record of stage techniques
- noun sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove
phonograph recording; platter; phonograph record; disc; disk.
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pascal
- noun a unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter
Pa.
- noun French mathematician and philosopher and Jansenist; invented an adding machine; contributed (with Fermat) to the theory of probability (1623-1662)
Blaise Pascal.
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rabindranath_tagore
- noun Indian writer and philosopher whose poetry (based on traditional Hindu themes) pioneered the use of colloquial Bengali (1861-1941)
Sir Rabindranath Tagore; Tagore.
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spinoza
- noun Dutch philosopher who espoused a pantheistic system (1632-1677)
Benedict de Spinoza; de Spinoza; Baruch de Spinoza.
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bede
- noun (Roman Catholic Church) English monk and scholar (672-735)
Beda; St. Baeda; Saint Baeda; St. Beda; St. Bede; Baeda; the Venerable Bede; Saint Beda; Saint Bede.
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yogi
- noun one who practices yoga and has achieved a high level of spiritual insight
- noun United States baseball player (born 1925)
Lawrence Peter Berra; Berra; Yogi Berra.
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reality
- noun all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you
world.
- his world was shattered
- we live in different worlds
- for them demons were as much a part of reality as trees were
- noun the state of being actual or real
realness; realism.
- the reality of his situation slowly dawned on him
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willard_van_orman_quine
- noun United States philosopher and logician who championed an empirical view of knowledge that depended on language (1908-2001)
W. V. Quine; Quine.
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knox
- noun Scottish theologian who founded Presbyterianism in Scotland and wrote a history of the Reformation in Scotland (1514-1572)
John Knox.
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george_macaulay_trevelyan
- noun English historian and son of Sir George Otto Trevelyan whose works include a social history of England and a biography of Garibaldi (1876-1962)
Trevelyan.
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st._baeda
- noun (Roman Catholic Church) English monk and scholar (672-735)
Beda; Bede; Saint Baeda; St. Beda; St. Bede; Baeda; the Venerable Bede; Saint Beda; Saint Bede.
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ibn-roshd
- noun Arabian philosopher born in Spain; wrote detailed commentaries on Aristotle that were admired by the Schoolmen (1126-1198)
Abul-Walid Mohammed ibn-Ahmad Ibn-Mohammed ibn-Roshd; Averroes.
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gottfried_wilhelm_leibnitz
- noun German philosopher and mathematician who thought of the universe as consisting of independent monads and who devised a system of the calculus independent of Newton (1646-1716)
Leibniz; Leibnitz; Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
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johann_winckelmann
- noun German archaeologist and art historian said to be the father of archaeology (1717-1768)
Johann Joachim Winckelmann; Winckelmann.
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albert_camus
- noun French writer who portrayed the human condition as isolated in an absurd world (1913-1960)
Camus.
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stewart
- noun United States film actor who portrayed incorruptible but modest heros (1908-1997)
Jimmy Stewart; James Maitland Stewart.
- noun Scottish philosopher and follower of Thomas Reid (1753-1828)
Dugald Stewart.
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stubbs
- noun English historian noted for his constitutional history of medieval England (1825-1901)
William Stubbs.
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saxo_grammaticus
- noun Danish historian who chronicled the history of Denmark (including the legend of Hamlet) (1150?-1220?)
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turner
- noun United States slave and insurrectionist who in 1831 led a rebellion of slaves in Virginia; he was captured and executed (1800-1831)
Nat Turner.
- noun United States endocrinologist (1892-1970)
Henry Hubert Turner.
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lao-tzu
- noun Chinese philosopher regarded as the founder of Taoism (6th century BC)
Lao-zi; Lao-tse.
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