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    of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets". This does not necessarily imply that he intended "metaphysical" to be used in its true sense, in...
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  • does not focus on metaphysical questions but on ethical and spiritual training and in some cases, he dismisses certain metaphysical questions as unhelpful...
    40 KB (4,921 words) - 00:05, 15 September 2024
  • analytic philosophy was the revival of metaphysical theorizing during the second half of the 20th century, and metaphysics remains a fertile topic of research...
    95 KB (11,019 words) - 03:28, 21 October 2024
  • Mereological essentialism Mereological nihilism Metaphysical naturalism Metaphysical nihilism Metaphysical solipsism Modal fictionalism Modal realism Moderate...
    28 KB (3,191 words) - 22:48, 1 September 2024
  • philosophy, also known as philosophical idealism or metaphysical idealism, is the set of metaphysical perspectives asserting that, most fundamentally, reality...
    112 KB (14,511 words) - 17:46, 29 September 2024
  • career of research and publication" on the American metaphysical tradition. Richard Kyle for The Journal of American History called the book "sound" in its...
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  • The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America is a 2001 book by Louis Menand, an American writer and legal scholar, which won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize...
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  • and the narrative closure. However, metaphysical detective stories go beyond such traditions in a “metaphysical” way, as its name suggests. By becoming...
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  • Absolute (philosophy) (category Metaphysical theories)
    presumed by the Indians is not a personal god but an impersonal and metaphysical Principle. Here we can see the impersonal character of the Absolute in...
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    [introduction and all of part I] Kant, Immanuel. The Metaphysical Elements of Justice; Part I of the Metaphysics of Morals. 1st ed. Translated by John Ladd. Indianapolis:...
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    also known as esotericism, esoterism, and sometimes the Western mystery tradition, is a term scholars use to classify a wide range of loosely related ideas...
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    The Smarta tradition (Sanskrit: स्मार्त, IAST: Smārta), also called Smartism, is a movement in Hinduism that developed and expanded with the Puranas genre...
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  • Thumbnail for Perennial philosophy
    experiences and mystical traditions across time and culture, while others argue that religious traditions share a single, metaphysical truth or origin from...
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  • deductive system-building vs. piecemeal induction; in metaphysics, rationalist theology vs. metaphysical agnosticism; in ethics, non-naturalist deontology...
    29 KB (3,367 words) - 02:23, 19 October 2024
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    natural and that natural magic was a natural part of the world. The metaphysical considerations of the existence of the supernatural can be difficult...
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    critique of philosophy. In the 17th century, Mulla Sadra developed a metaphysical system based on mysticism. Islamic modernism emerged in the 19th and...
    191 KB (20,077 words) - 08:33, 23 September 2024
  • "real" and was first used in the abstract metaphysical sense by Immanuel Kant in 1781 (CPR A 369). Metaphysical realism maintains that "whatever exists...
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  • Thumbnail for René Guénon
    no metaphysical validity, for every possible is real in its way, according to the mode befitting its own nature". This leads to the metaphysical consideration...
    112 KB (15,527 words) - 23:59, 11 October 2024
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    Advaita Vedanta (category Schools and traditions in ancient Indian philosophy)
    Advaita tradition; instead, the later tradition turned avidya into a metaphysical principle, namely mulavidya or "root ignorance," a metaphysical substance...
    276 KB (30,760 words) - 12:56, 19 October 2024
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    contributors, William James and John Dewey. Its direction was determined by The Metaphysical Club members Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and Chauncey Wright...
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