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Yoga

Sanskrit Yoking or Union one of the six systems (darshan s) of Indian philosophy. Its influence has been widespread among many other schools of Indian thought. Its basic text is the Yoga-sutra s by...

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axiology

(from Greek axios, worthy; logos, science), also called Theory Of Value, the philosophical study of goodness, or value, in the widest sense of these terms. Its significance lies (1) in the considerable...

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The Axial Age: 5 Fast Facts

We may conceive of ourselves as modern or even postmodern and highlight ways in which our lives today are radically different from those of our ancestors. We may embrace technology and integrate it...

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postmodernism

in Western philosophy, a late 20th-century movement characterized by broad skepticism, subjectivism, or relativism; a general suspicion of reason; and an acute sensitivity to the role of ideology in asserting...

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Daoism

indigenous religio-philosophical tradition that has shaped Chinese life for more than 2,000 years. In the broadest sense, a Daoist attitude toward life can be seen in the accepting and yielding, the joyful...

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Bantu philosophy

the philosophy, religious worldview, and ethical principles of the Bantu peoples tens of millions of speakers of the more than 500 Bantu languages on the African continentas articulated by 20th-century...

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existentialism

any of various philosophies, most influential in continental Europe from about 1930 to the mid-20th century, that have in common an interpretation of human existence in the world that stresses its concreteness...

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Jainism

Indian religion teaching a path to spiritual purity and enlightenment through disciplined nonviolence (ahimsa, literally noninjury) to all living creatures. Overview Along with Hinduism and Buddhism,...

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Brain Games: 8 Philosophical Puzzles and Paradoxes

Plato and Aristotle both held that philosophy begins in wonder, by which they meant puzzlement or perplexity, and many philosophers after them have agreed. Ludwig Wittgenstein considered the aim of philosophy...

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epistemology

the study of the nature, origin, and limits of human knowledge. The term is derived from the Greek epistm (knowledge) and logos (reason), and accordingly the field is sometimes referred to as the...

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