Western philosophy

Western philosophy

The philosophical thinking of Western civilization as distinct from Eastern philosophies and the varieties of indigenous philosophies.

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Relative accident

Philosophy; Western philosophy

An accident that has its being in a subject only because of the bearing which one thing has to another.

Absolute inconsistency

Philosophy; Western philosophy

A system that is absolutely inconsistent iff all its wffs are theorems.

Immanent activity

Philosophy; Western philosophy

The activity through which a living being perfects itself and makes itself the goal for the acquired actuality or perfection.

The process of forming a general concept by omitting every distinguishing feature from the notions of some collection of particular things; thus, substantively, an abstraction is the concept or idea ...

Academy

Philosophy; Western philosophy

The name of the philosophical school founded by Plato in 385 BC. Some scholars contend that this was, in fact, the first university in the world.

Abstract right

Philosophy; Western philosophy

The first chapter of Hegel's Philosophy of Right, it states that abstract right is the inherently single will of a subject confronting an external world. Hence the imperative of right is "be a person ...

Abstract objects

Philosophy; Western philosophy

Objects, such as numbers or universals, that do not exist as spatio-temporal particulars. Philosophers disagree about whether there can be such objects or, if they do exist, how they are related to ...