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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Deontology is the study of ethical concepts having to do with permissibility and impermissibility, e.g., rights, duties, and obligations. See deontological ethics.
The term dualism has a number of uses in philosophy, but perhaps the most common is to describe positions on the mind-body problem that hold that the mind cannot be identified with the body or part ...