Sartre, Karl Marx, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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  1. Sartre
    French writer and existentialist philosopher (1905-1980)
  2. Karl Marx
    founder of modern communism
  3. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
    German philosopher whose three stage process of dialectical reasoning was adopted by Karl Marx (1770-1831)
  4. Plato
    ancient Athenian philosopher
  5. Hume
    Scottish philosopher whose sceptical philosophy restricted human knowledge to that which can be perceived by the senses (1711-1776)
  6. Descartes
    French philosopher and mathematician
  7. ascetic
    someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline
  8. Ovid
    Roman poet remembered for his elegiac verses on love
  9. secular
    someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person
  10. Heraclitus
    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)
  11. Parmenides
    a presocratic Greek philosopher born in Italy
  12. Sophist
    any of a group of Greek philosophers and teachers in the 5th century BC who speculated on a wide range of subjects
  13. skeptic
    someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs
  14. relativism
    the doctrine that judgment is based on situational context
  15. allegory
    a short moral story
  16. immutable
    not subject or susceptible to change or variation
  17. dialectic
    a contradiction of ideas that determines their interaction
  18. prefect
    a chief officer or chief magistrate
  19. solipsism
    the philosophical theory that the self is all that exists
  20. heliocentric
    having the sun as or in the middle
  21. inquisition
    a severe interrogation
  22. heresy
    a belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion
  23. orthodox
    adhering to what is commonly accepted
  24. propound
    put forward, as of an idea
  25. sophistry
    a deliberately invalid argument in the hope of deceiving
  26. empirical
    derived from experiment and observation rather than theory
  27. empiricist
    a philosopher who subscribes to empiricism
  28. noumenon
    the intellectual conception of a thing as it is in itself, not as it is known through perception
  29. thing-in-itself
    the intellectual conception of a thing as it is in itself, not as it is known through perception
  30. regulative
    restricting according to rules or principles
  31. theoretical
    concerned with hypotheses and not practical considerations
  32. Immanuel Kant
    influential German idealist philosopher (1724-1804)
  33. antinomy
    a contradiction between two equally reasonable statements
  34. paralogism
    an unintentionally invalid argument
  35. epistemology
    the philosophical theory of knowledge
  36. a priori
    reasoned from a general principle to a necessary effect
  37. fictitious
    formed or conceived by the imagination
  38. pithy
    concise and full of meaning
  39. aphorism
    a short pithy instructive saying
  40. philologist
    a humanist specializing in classical scholarship
  41. vacillate
    be undecided about something
  42. existentialism
    a philosophy that assumes that people are entirely free
  43. constitutive
    essential in the structure of something
  44. posit
    take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom
  45. ontology
    the metaphysical study of the nature of being and existence
  46. Stoicism
    (philosophy) the philosophical system of the Stoics following the teachings of the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno
  47. stoic
    seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive
  48. rector
    a person authorized to conduct religious worship
  49. de trop
  50. nihilism
    complete denial of established authority and institutions
Created on 九月 6, 2008

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