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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy organizes scholars from around the world in philosophy and related disciplines to create and maintain an up-to-date reference work.

Plato - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
When one compares Plato with some of the other philosophers who are often ranked with him—Aristotle, Aquinas, and Kant, for example—he can be recognized to be far more exploratory, incompletely systematic, elusive, and playful than they.

Table of Contents - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
D [jump to top]. Damian, Peter (Toivo J. Holopainen) ; dance, philosophy of (Aili Bresnahan) ; Dante Alighieri (Winthrop Wetherbee and Jason Aleksander) ; Daoism (Chad Hansen) . Laozi — see Laozi; Neo-Daoism — see Neo-Daoism; religious (Fabrizio Pregadio) ; Zhuang Zi — see Zhuangzi; Darwin, Charles from the Origin of Species to the Descent of Man — see evolution: from the Origin of ...

The Meaning of Life - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Most analytic philosophers writing on meaning in life have been trying to develop and evaluate theories, i.e., fundamental and general principles, that are meant to capture all the particular ways that a life could obtain meaning.

Truth - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
But a number of philosophers (e.g., Davidson, 1969; Field, 1972) have seen Tarski’s theory as providing at least the core of a correspondence theory of truth which dispenses with the metaphysics of facts.

Locke On Freedom - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
This question made sense to Scholastic philosophers (including, e.g., Bramhall, who engaged in a protracted debate on the subject with Hobbes), who tended not to distinguish between the question of whether the will is free and the question of whether the mind or soul is free with respect to willing, and, indeed, some of whom thought that acts ...

Stoicism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Stoicism was one of the dominant philosophical systems of the Hellenistic period. The name derives from the porch (stoa poikilê) in the Agora at Athens decorated with mural paintings, where the first generation of Stoic philosophers congregated and lectured. The school of thought founded there long outlived the physical Athenian porch and ...

Beauty - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
It is a primary theme among ancient Greek, Hellenistic, and medieval philosophers, and was central to eighteenth and nineteenth-century thought, as represented in treatments by such thinkers as Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, Hume, Burke, Kant, Schiller, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Hanslick, and Santayana.

Immanuel Kant - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Like other German philosophers at the time, Kant’s early works are generally concerned with using insights from British empiricist authors to reform or broaden the German rationalist tradition without radically undermining its foundations.

Ancient Theories of Soul - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Ancient philosophical theories of soul are in many respects sensitive to ways of speaking and thinking about the soul [psuchê] that are not specifically philosophical or theoretical.We therefore begin with what the word ‘soul’ meant to speakers of Classical Greek, and what it would have been natural to think about and associate with the soul.