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- M.R.M. Parrott
Mark Ray Martin Parrott (born 12 Oct
1966) is an American philosopher, writer,
photographer, designer, and programmer, known
for his early adoption of independent, small
press Publishing, and as
developer of GetWiki,
a wiki/blog website focusing
on Philosophy and other
subjects. ...
- Charles Sanders Peirce (Bibliography) (redir)
- Philosophy
What is Philosophy? ...
- New Philosophy
Philosophy in the 21st
Century is reacting to two major forces
affecting its way of life. ...
- Philosophical Movements (redir)
- Philosophers (redir)
- The Matrix Philosophy
There are key elements of Philosophy, Theology, Teleology and Ontology present
throughout The Matrix Series. ...
- The Illusion of Choice
The protected articles included
below by M.R.M. Parrott first appeared on
rimric folio in
2003.
Older Than
You Know:
In the passage of years
following that big year for Matrix
fans, 2003, and of course, the breakthrough
in 1999, I find the "trilogy", "franchise",
or just "series", as more and more
relevant to today's world, while also
striking themes far older. ...
- Eastern Philosophy
Eastern Philosophy is
a diverse body of approaches to life and philosophizing, particularly
centered on understanding the process of the
Universe and the endless
"becoming". ...
- Middle Eastern Philosophy
''Middle East Region, (Middle
East)
Middle
Eastern Philosophy is largely guided
by the Abrahamic Religions, ancient theologies, comprising
full world-views and their philosophical and historical
interpretations and philosophizing up to the present
day.
See: Islamic Philosophy, Christian
Philosophy and Jewish Philosophy.
Overview:
In the
study of comparative
religion, Abrahamic religions
are any of those religions deriving from
a common ancient Semitic
tradition and traced by their adherents to Abraham ("Father/Leader
of many"), a patriarch
whose life is narrated in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, and as a prophet in the
Qur'an. This forms a large
group of related, largely monotheistic
religions, generally held to include Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and the Bah?'? Faith, and
comprises about half of the world's religious
adherents.
According to the Jewish
tradition, Abraham was the first
person to reject idolatry, hence ...
- Western Philosophy
Western Philosophy is
a line of related philosophical
thinking, beginning in Ancient Greece, and including the
predominant philosophical thinking of Europe and its former colonies up to the present
day. The concept of philosophy
itself originated in the West, derived from
the ancient Greek word philosophia;
literally, "the love of wisdom" (philein =
"to love" + sophia = wisdom, in the sense of
theoretical or cosmic insight). However, many
non-Western Religions have adopted
the term philosophy in reference to
cosmic intellectual discourse analogous to
Western Philosophy. See Eastern
Philosophy.
Western Philosophy has had
a tremendous influence on, and has been
greatly influenced by, Western Religion, Science,
and Politics. Indeed, the
central concepts of these fields can be
thought of as elements or branches of Western
Philosophy. To the Ancient Greeks, these
fields were often one and the same. Thus, in
the West, Philosophy is an expansive and
ambiguous concept. Today, however, what
generally distinguishes Philosophy from other
Western disciplines is the notion that
Philosophy is a "deeper" and more rational,
fundamental, and universal form of thought
than other disciplines.
Origins:
The
introduction of the terms "philosopher" and
"philosophy" has been ascribed to the Greek
thinker Pythagoras (see Diogenes
Laertius: "De vita et moribus
philosophorum", I, 12; Cicero:
"Tusculanae Disputationes", V, 8-9). ...
- Pragmatism
: For non-technical usage see Pragmatism (non-technical
usage).
: For themes emphasized
by Charles
Sanders Peirce see Pragmaticism.
Pragmatism, as a school of
philosophy, is a
collection of many different ways of
thinking. Given the diversity among thinkers
and the variety among schools of thought that
have adopted this term over the years, the
term pragmatism has become all but
meaningless in the absence of further
qualification. ...
- On a New List of Categories
On a New List of
Categories is a paper by Charles
Sanders Peirce, presented to the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences on 14 May 1867 and
published in its Proceedings the
following year, that proposes to revise the
fundamental metaphysical categories of
philosophy, as previously given by Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, and others. ...
- African Philosophy
African Philosophy is a disputed
term used in different ways by different philosophers. ...
- Islamic Philosophy
Islamic Philosophy
is a part of the Islamic studies, and is a
longstanding attempt to create harmony
between faith, reason or Philosophy, and the
religious teachings of Islam. A
Muslim engaged in this field is called a
Muslim philosopher.
The
attempt to fuse Religion and Philosophy is
difficult because there are no clear
preconditions. On the other hand, classical
religious believers have a set of religious
principles that they hold to be fact. Indeed,
due to these divergent goals and views, some
hold that one cannot simultaneously be a
philosopher and a true adherent of Islam, which is believed to
be a revealed religion by
its adherents. In this view, all attempts at
synthesis ultimately fail.
However, others
believe that a synthesis between Islam and Philosophy is
possible. One way to find a synthesis is to
use philosophical arguments to prove that
one's preset religious principles are true.
This is a common technique found in the
writings of many religious traditions,
including Judaism, Christianity and Islam, but this is not
generally accepted as Philosophy-proper by
philosophers. Another way to find a synthesis
is to abstain from holding as true any
religious principles of one's faith at all,
unless one independently comes to those
conclusions from a philosophical analysis.
However, this is not generally accepted as
being faithful to one's religion by adherents
of that religion. A third, rarer and more
difficult path is to apply analytical
philosophy to one's own religion. In this
case a religious person would also be a
philosopher, by asking questions such as:
*What is the nature of God How do we
know that God exists?
*What is the nature of
revelation ...
- PseudoPhilosophy
PseudoPhilosophy is any
idea or system that masquerades itself as Philosophy while
significantly failing to meet some suitable
intellectual standards. The term is
frequently pejorative, and most
applications of it are quite contentious. The
term bears the same relationship to
Philosophy that PseudoScience bears
to Science, or Anti-Matter to Matter.
The term is
often used more casually to express contempt,
irritation, or just dislike toward some idea
or system of ideas. It is not, for the most
part, used technically within academic Philosophy, though it
is likely to occur in philosophers' judgments
on larger aspects of culture, their advice to
new students, their assessments of other
disciplines, and so forth.
Nicholas Rescher, in The
Oxford Companion to Philosophy, defines
pseudo-philosophy as "deliberations
that masquerade as philosophical but are
inept, incompetent, deficient in intellectual
seriousness, and reflective of an
insufficient commitment to the pursuit of
truth." Rescher adds that the term is
particularly appropriate when applied to
"those who use the resources of reason to
substantiate the claim that rationality is
unachievable in matters of inquiry."
Pseudophilosophy in
Academia:
An example of poor academic
judgement of PseudoPhilosophy was the episode
when W.V.O. Quine, along
with Barry Smith, Hugh
Mellor (then Professor of Philosophy at
Cambridge), and various other academic
philosophers, wrote to protest Cambridge
University's award of an honorary degree
to Jacques Derrida,
claiming that Derrida's work "does not meet
accepted standards of clarity and rigor" and
that it is made of "tricks and gimmicks
similar to those of the Dadaists". ...
- Ancient Philosophy
Ancient Western
Philosophy:
The key figure in
transforming early Greek philosophy into
a unified and continuous project - the one
still being pursued today - is Socrates, who studied
under several Sophists and then spent much of
his life, we are told, engaging everyone in
Athens in discussion trying to determine
whether anyone had a very good idea what they
were talking about, especially when they
talked about important matters like justice,
beauty and truth. ...
- Hindu Philosophy
Hindu Philosophy (one
of the main divisions of Indian Philosophy) is
traditionally seen through the prism of six
different systems that are listed here. The
characteristic of this Philosophy is to
consider being (consciousness)
together with the other issues.
Nyaya:
The Nyaya school
of philosophical speculation is based on a
text called the Nyaya Sutra. It was written by
Gautama, also known as Akshapada, (not to
be confused with Gautama, the founder of Buddhism), ...
- Indian Philosophy
The term Indian
Philosophy may refer to any of
several traditions of philosophical thought,
including:
* Hindu Philosophy
* Buddhist
Philosophy
* Jain Philosophy
...
- Buddhist Philosophy
The teachings of Gautama Buddha (6th century BC -
5th century BC), because of its non-theistic
nature, have been described as more of a Philosophy than a Religion. However,
adherents of Buddhism contest that
even these two categories lack in defining
Buddhist teaching. For them, Buddhism
presents itself as way to attain
understanding and direct insight into the
true nature of existence, and not mere
speculation nor a theoretical basis of a
branch of knowledge.
The early history of
Buddhist thought in India can better be
characterized as a shift from primarily moral and religious
teachings concerned with the attainment of enlightenment to a more
comprehensive system of thought, in the midst
of which philosophical schools and systems
gradually came into existence.
This
process is wound up with internal dynamics of
the Buddhist religion as well as with more
general developments in ancient Indian
intellectual environs. ...
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