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Determinism is the doctrine that every event, including every intentional action of a human being, is determined by prior causes. This is usually thought to imply that there are universal, ...
A central idea of John Rawls's theory of justice, referred to as the difference principle, is that inequalities in the distribution of relevant goods are just if and only if these inequalities are ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.