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List of the most famous ‘ism’ theories
here is the list of the most famous ‘ism’ theories Absurdism. Agathism Agnosticism agnostic theism agnostic deist Anthropocentrism Chronocentrism Empiricism. Existentialism Essentialism Determinism dualism monism Nihilism Optimism pessimism Pragmaticism Rationalism Realism Stoicism sentimentalism Universalism Absurdism. Absurdism is the philosophical theory, very similar to Existentialism and nihilism. they all share the belief that the universe is…
Miscellaneous
Great chain of being Self-indication assumption Self-sampling assumption Memetics theory Lexical hypothesis theory Posthumanism Ranking theory Russian cosmism Great chain of being 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,…
Philosophers of The Modern era(18th -20th -c.)
Bertrand Russell Ludwig Wittgenstein Martin Heidegger Hans-Georg Gadamer Jean-Paul Sartre Simone de Beauvoir Louis Althusser Michel Foucault Karl Popper John Rawls Robert Nozick David Chalmers Peter Singer Alvin Plantinga Richard Dawkins Ayn Rand Post navigation
Middle Ages Philosophers(500 AD–1500 AD)
Boethius, 475 AD Boethius is one of the greatest philosophers of the classical period. Due to some political conflicts, he got arrested and jailed in 522 AD. In prison he wrote his masterpiece “On the Consolation of Philosophy”. Boethius writes the book as a conversation between himself and a female personification of philosophy who visits…
Ancient history Philosophers(3000 BC – 500 AD)
Confucius, 551 BC was a Chinese philosopher and Known as the most impactful teacher in the whole history of China. Confucius presents himself as a “transmitter who invented nothing”. He puts the greatest emphasis on the importance of study. He is the author of Analects2, which not only includes his teachings, but also how to…
Early Modern Philosophers (1500 – 1800 )
here are some of the most significant figures of the early modern philosophers Desiderius Erasmus (1466–1536) Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 – 1527) Francis Bacon, (1561-1626) Hugo Grotius ( 1583 — 1645) Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) Pierre Gassendi ( 1592 – 1655) René Descartes (1596 – 1650 ) Antoine Arnauld (1612 – 1694) Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)…