In ethics and psychology, the view that in fact all human beings act solely in their individual self-interest (so far as they calculate correctly as to what this is). This view -- ...
A philosophic movement primarily associated with the mid-20th century, in part arising from phenomenology (see J. P. Sarte, M. Heidegger, K. Jaspers, A. Camus, etc. ) that insists ...
# The Ontological argument: literally, from the “logic” of God’s “being” (onto). The claim is that God is a necessary being. Just as a round square is necessarily non-existent, so ...
Those features of an object that make it the kind of object it is, as opposed to its accidents (e. G. A person’s ability to reason is an essential human feature, while hair color ...
The process, particularly employed in Plato’s dialogues, of discovering first principles, or underlying realities, through digging out, possibly through Socratic questioning of ...
The theory that the external world is fundamentally immaterial and a dimension of the mind. That is, reality is of the nature of mind or consciousness (non-material). There are ...
Traditionally, the attempt to determine what general sorts of things there are in the universe (particularly those of a basic, non-reducible sort). But to do this is also to ...
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