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Codex
Academia
Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences
Philosophy
"Lies, Damned lies, and statistics"
"Real artists ship"
~The True meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
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A nothing would serve just as well as a something about which nothing could be said.
a priori and a posteriori
A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.
Abortion
Abstract
Absurdism
Accept and endure
Acceptance
Aesthetics
Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense—the creative act.
Albert Camus
Alexis de Tocqueville
Alignment (Dungeons & Dragons)
All men are created equal
Alliteration
Altruism (ethics)
Analytic Philosophy
Analytic-synthetic distinction
Anarchism
Anarcho-syndicalism
Ancient Greece
Ancient Philosophy
Andy Clark
Anti-establishment
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
Anti-intellectualism
Antinatalism
Aphorism
Apollo
Apollonian and Dionysian
Aporia
Applied philosophy
Aristotle
Arrow of time
Arthur Schopenhauer
Atomism
Authenticity
Axiology
Ayn Rand
Bacchanalia
Bad faith
Banality of Evil
Barack Obama
Baruch Spinoza
Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
Becoming (philosophy)
Being and Nothingness
Being and Time
Berkely's razor
Bertrand Russell
Beyond Good and Evil
Bicameral mentality
Bicycle for our minds
Blame
Brain in a vat
Buridan's ass
Care ethics
Chinese room
Choice
Christopher Hitchens
Civic virtue
Claim rights and liberty rights
Class (philosophy)
Classical republicanism
Cliche
Climate justice
Cogito ergo sum
Commensurability (ethics)
Commensurability (philosophy of science)
Commensurability & Incommensurability
Common law
Comparative philosophy
Complexity
Conceptual framework
Consensus
Consent of the governed
Consent
Consilience
Constitution
Contemporary philosophy
Continental Philosophy
Corporatocracy
Cory Doctorow
Courage
Critical Philosophy
Critique of Pure Reason
Culture and Anarchy
Curiosity
Daniel Dennett
Dasein
Data portability
David Chalmers
David Hume
Demagogue
Democ­ra­cy Is the worst form of Gov­ern­ment except for all those oth­er forms that have been tried.
Democracy
Democratic Party (United States)
Democratic socialism
Democritus
Design is how it works
Dialectic
Digital soverignty
Diogenes
Dionysus
Discrimination
Diversity
Donald Trump
Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid...
Drive theory
Dyad (philosophy)
E.O. Wilson
Eastern Philosophy
Edmund Husserl
Egalitarianism
Eichmann in Jerusalem
Einstein's Razor
Eliminative materialism
Elitism
Elizabeth S. Anderson
Emergence
Empathy
Empiricism
Endurantism
Entity
Epistemology
Equal opportunity
Equality before the law
Equality of outcome
Eros
Eternalism (philosophy of time)
Ethical Code
Ethics of Technology
Ethics
Etiology
Euthanasia
Euthyphro
Existence Precedes Essence
Existence
Existential crisis
Existentialism
Existentialists
Experience machine
Experimental philosophy
Explanatory power
Extremism
Fact-value Distinction
Facticity
False accusation
Falsifiability
Fanaticism
Federalism
Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change
Flammarion engraving
Form of life (philosophy)
Form of the Good
Formal language
Formalism (philosophy)
Four-dimensionalism
Frankfurt school
Free Speech
Freedom
Freethought
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Fundamentalism
Gentleness
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
George Berkeley
Gettier Problem
God is Dead
Golden Rule
Gratis versus libre
Great Chain of Being
Guilt (emotion)
Habeas data
Haecceity
Hanlon's Razor
Hannah Arendt
has-a
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
Henology
Heraclitus
Hilary Putnam
HIPAA
Hitchen's Razor
Holism
Holon (philosophy)
Humanism
Hyperbole
Hypocrisy
I used his pain as coal for my furnace of ambition.
Idealism
Identity (philosophy)
Identity politics
Ideologies, -isms, & -ocracies
Idiom
If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
If a tree falls in a forest
Immanuel Kant
Indirect realism
Individual and group rights
Intellectual History
Intellectual honesty
Intentional stance
Intentionality
Intergenerational justice
Intersubjectivity
Intolerance of intolerance is not intolerance
Iris Murdoch
Irony
Is it of the very essence of truth to be impotent and of the very essence of power to be deceitful ...is not impotent truth just as despicable as power that gives no heed to truth
is-a
Is-ought Problem
Isaiah Berlin
James Giles (philosopher)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jeremy Bentham
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
John Locke
John Rawls
John Stuart Mill
Jordan Peterson
Julia Galef
Jurgen Habermas
Just war theory
Justice as Fairness
Justice
Justification (epistemology)
Kakistocracy
Karl Popper
Knowledge argument
Knowledge
Kurt Gödel
Legitimation
Liberalism
Libertarianism
Liberty, equality, fraternity
Lie
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness
Linguistic turn
Love
Luck egalitarianism
Luddism
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Magna Carta
Make things as simple as possible, but no simpler.
Map–territory relation
Martin Heidegger
Materialism
Matthew Arnold
Max Horkheimer
Max Weber
Medical Ethics
Medieval Philosophy
Metaphilosophy
Metaphysics
Metonym
Microcosm–macrocosm Analogy
Mind-body problem
Misconception
Misnomer
Modern Philosophy
Molyneux's problem
Monad (philosophy)
Monism
Monoculturalism
Moral Circle Expansion
Moral Foundations Theory
Moral luck
Moral Psychology
Myth of Sisyphus
Naive realism
Natural language
Natural rights and legal rights
Negative and positive rights
Nel Noddings
Neoplatonism
Nietzschean affirmation
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man
Non-reductive materialism
Norm MacDonald
Normativity
Noumenon
Object-oriented Ontology
Objectivism
Objectivity
Occam's Razor
Ochlocracy
Om
On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense
Ontology
Open standard
Open-mindedness
Openness
Original position
Paradigm shift
Paradox of Tolerance
Paraphilosophy
Particular
Partisan (politics)
Paternalism
Pay it forward
Perdurantism
Perennial Philosophy
Personal Identity
Phenomenology of Spirit
Phenomenology
Phenomenon
Philosohpical Realism
Philosopher king
Philosophical Investigations
Philosophical presentism
Philosophical razor
Philosophical zombie
Philosophy of education
Philosophy of happiness
Philosophy of history
Philosophy of language
Philosophy of law
Philosophy of love
Philosophy of mathematics
Philosophy of mind
Philosophy of perception
Philosophy of religion
Philosophy of science
Philosophy of technology
Philosophy of time
Philosophy
Physicalism
Physician-assisted suicide
Pindar
Plato
Plato's theory of soul
Politcal correctness
Political Philosophy
Political polarization
Polymath
Populism
Post-structuralism
Postmodernism
Practical philosophy
Pragmatism
Praxeology
Principle of Charity
Principle of compositionality
Principle of Humanity
Principle
Private language argument
Problem of universals
Progressivism
Property (philosophy)
Property rights
Punishment
Pythagoras
Quality (philosophy)
Racism
Rationalism
Raymond Chandler
Reality
Reciprocal altruism
Reciprocal determinism
Reciprocity
Reductionism
Reification (Marxism)
Relation (philosophy)
Relativism
Rene Descartes
Reparations (transitional justice)
Republican Party (United States)
Republicanism
Ressentiment
Restorative justice
Retributive justice
Rights
Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Wittgenstein and the Philosophical Investigations
Rule of law
Rule
Russell's Teapot
Sagan Standard
Sam Harris
Schema (Kant)
Scientific misconceptions
Self-determination
Sensitivity
Shame
Sharice Davids
Ship of Theseus
Similarity (philosophy)
Simile
Simone de Beauvoir
Simplicity
Simulacrum
Social contract
Social norm
Socially Relevant Computing
Socrates
Solipsism
Sophism
Soren Kierkegaard
Stance (linguistics)
Stereotype
Steve Jobs
Structuralism
Subject-object distinction
Subjective Idealism
Sublation
Suppose we want truth; why not rather untruth; And uncertainty; Even ignorance
Sustainable Computing
Sweetness and light
Synecdoche
Synoptic Philosophy
Tai chi
Taiji (philosophy)
Taijitu
Tangible
Teleological argument
Telos (philosophy)
Temporal paradox
Temporal parts
Ten Commandments of Computer Ethics
Ternary numeral system
Ternary operation
Ternary relation
The extended mind
The Hedgehog and the Fox
The human condition
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
The Origins of Totalitarianism
The Question Concerning Technology, and Other Essays
The relational self
The Republic
The self
The truth will set you free
Theoretical philosophy
Theory of categories
Theory of everything (philosophy)
There are heights of the soul from which even tragedy ceases to look tragic.
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
Thomas Nagel
Thorngate's Postulate of Commensurate Complexity
Thought experiment
Throwness
Thymos
Time (concept)
To be is to be perceived
To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle
Toleration
Totalitarianism
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Tragedy of the Commons
Transcendental phenomenology
Transformative justice
Transitional justice
Tree of knowledge (philosophy)
Triangulation
Trichotomy (philosophy)
Tripartite classification of authority
Trolley problem
Trumpism
Truth and Politics
Truth
Twin Earth thought experiment
Type–token Distinction
Tyranny of the masses
Umwelt
Understanding
Universal (metaphysics)
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Universal jurisdiction
Universe
Utility monster
Vita activa
Walter Benjamin
Watchmaker analogy
What is it like to be a Bat
What is piety?
What Is the Point of Equality
What then is truth A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms... after long use seem firm, canonical, and obligatory
Willard Van Orman Quine
Winston Churchill
Wittgenstein's Ladder
Wittgensteinian Philosophical therapy
Woke
Worldview
Yin and yang
Zeno's Paradoxes
Ziran
Bill of rights
Civic engagement
Civic space
Civil resistance
Employer Identification Number
Federal government of the United States
German Language
Greek Language
Heather Cox Richardson
Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences
Income tax
Language, Linguistics, Literature, Lexical, Logos, Semiotics, Meaning, & Rhetoric
Language
Latin Language
Mandate (politics)
Mass surveillance
Nuclear semiotics
Occupy Wall Street
Politainment
Political correctness
Political Economy
Political party
Political satire
Politics
Property tax
Protectionism
Robert Reich
Sarah Kendzior
Satire
Semiotics
Separation of powers
Social Science
Social Security Number
State governments of the United States
Subsidiarity
Tax
United States Bill of Rights
Visual language
Walter Lippmann
Academia
Adjacent Possible
Business, Economics, & Finance
Copernicus
Creativity
Deep work (concept)
Design rationale
Design theory
Form follows function
Frank Lloyd Wright
Industrial design
Instructional design
Integral theory (Ken Wilber)
Interior design
Leadership, Teaching, & Management
Library
Maxim
Organizational design
Product design
Quantification (science)
Science
Sean M. Carroll
Service design
Social design
Strategic design
Theory
Vannevar Bush
Woozle Effect
Codex
Historical Timeline
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img The Great Chain of Being is a hierarchical structure of all matter and life, thought by medieval Christianity to have been decreed by God. The chain begins with God and descends through angels, humans, animals and plants to minerals.
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