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- Greek - Philosophy of Stoicism (IEP)
- Ancient History and Philosophy (Multnomah County Library)
Includes Vikings, Stone Age, and Ice Age, as well as the traditional cultures of the Aztecs, Egyptians, Greeks, Incas, Mayans, Mediterranean, Middle East, and Romans.
- Aurelius, Marcus - Meditations (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Long)
Provides the text for all twelve "books" or chapters.
- Stoicism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy )
- Philosophy (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy )
- -Philosophy Search Engine (EpistemeLinks.com)
Provides philosophers or information by topic. 06-09
- Philosophy
- Neuroscience Philosophy (Stanford University Metaphysics Research Lab - Bickle and Mandik)
Provides a distinction between neuroscience and neurophilosophy, as well as a discussion of the field of neuroscience. This work is part of the Standford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Zalta. 5-01
- Cicero, M. Tullius (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Clayton)
Provides a biography. 7-02
- Philosophy Paper Contest for K-12 Students (PhilosophySlam.org)
Provides an essay for the competition each year. This is the question for 2004: "Is world peace possible, or does human nature make war inevitable?" 9-04
- Nagarjuna (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Provides a biography and a summary of teachings. Although Nagarjuna was Indian, he heavily influenced Tibetan Buddhism.
"Often referred to as 'the second Buddha' by Tibetan and East Asian Mahayana (Great Vehicle) traditions of Buddhism, Nagarjuna proffered trenchant criticisms of Brahminical and Buddhist substantialist philosophy, theory of knowledge and approaches to practice. Nagarjuna’s central concept of the 'emptiness (sunyata) of all things (dharmas),' which pointed to the incessantly changing and so never fixed nature of all phenomena, served as much as the terminological prop of subsequent Buddhist philosophical thinking as the vexation of opposed Vedic systems. The concept had fundamental implications for Indian philosophical models of causation, substance ontology, epistemology, conceptualizations of language, ethics and theories of world-liberating salvation, and proved seminal even for Buddhist philosophies in India, Tibet, China and Japan very different from Nagarjuna’s own. Indeed it would not be an overstatement to say that Nagarjuna’s innovative concept of emptiness, though it was hermeneutically appropriated in many different ways by subsequent philosophers in both South and East Asia, was to profoundly influence the character of Buddhist thought." 12-04
- Buddhist Philosophy of Science (Kukula)
"Science is the cornerstone of the European-American culture that has transformed the entire globe over the last few centuries. Buddhism is a deeply rooted religious tradition of Asia, now emerging as a powerful global voice. Science and Buddhism both address the nature of human experience, but in quite different ways. Science elaborates and refines a collection of interconnected theories, facts, procedures, and equipment, constituting an ever more powerful tool for working with and in the world. Buddhism focusses more on the mind and how our way of thinking affects our experience." 6-05
- Quantum Gravity (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
"Quantum Gravity: A physical theory describing the gravitational interactions of matter and energy in which matter and energy are described by quantum theory. In most, but not all, theories of quantum gravity, gravity is also quantized. Since the contemporary theory of gravity, general relativity, describes gravitation as the curvature of spacetime by matter and energy, a quantization of gravity implies some sort of quantization of spacetime itself. Insofar as all extant physical theories rely on a classical spacetime background, this presents profound methodological and ontological challenges for the philosopher and the physicist." 01-06
- Pre-Socratic Philosophy (Reference.com)
"The pre-Socratic philosophers rejected traditional mythological explanations for the phenomena they saw around them in favor of more rational explanations." 01-06
- Faith and Reason (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
"The key philosophical issue regarding the problem of faith and reason is to work out how the authority of faith and the authority of reason interrelate in the process by which a religious belief is justified or established as true or justified." 06-06
- Dewey - John: Democracy and Education (Institute for Learning Technologies)
Provides digital text projects. 10-09
- Greek - Plato's Republic (Stevenson - Jowett, Translator)
Provides the Greek classic, The Republic, by Plato. Describes his ideal for government, including how to prepare leaders for government. 8-02
- Both State and Federal Supreme Courts Were Wrong (Wall Street Journal - Rosen)
Expresses the opinion, based on legal grounds, that both the Florida Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court violated their appropriate roles in their rulings on the Presidential election of 2000. "By promulgating its own rules after the fact, Judge Posner argues, the Florida court was not perfecting the democratic system, as many have claimed, but undermining one of its fundamental pillars: that succession take place according to procedures that are 'fixed in advance, objective, administrable, and clear.'" "No less disturbing as a matter of judicial philosophy--and seeming partisan favoritism--was the [U.S.] Supreme Court's obvious unwillingness to let the election dispute work itself out in Florida or, if need be, in Congress." 11-01
- Nietzsche, Friedrich - Thus Spake Zarathustra (Infomotions)
Provides online text. 6-02
- Business Ethics
- Locke, John - Second Treatise of Government (Gowan - Locke)
According to John Locke, his second treatise "is an essay concerning the true original extent and end of civil government." Published in 1690. 8-02
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques - The Social Contract (The University of Adelaide Library - Thomas)
Provides Rousseau's views on the role of govenment and more. 8-02
- Montesquieu, Charles - Spirit of Laws (Constitution Society)
Provides a view on the roles and characteristics of different forms of government. (The full name is Charles de Montesquieu.) Visitors sometimes misspell as Montesque, Montesqu, or Montegue. 8-02
- Hobbes, Thomas - Leviathan (The University of Adelaide Library - Thomas)
Provides the philosophy of Hobbes, including his views on government. 8-02
- Budget Deficit - Solution by Dean (DeanforAmerica.com)
"From 1994 to 2001, the rule known as 'Pay as you go' was in effect in the U.S. Senate. The rule required that there must be a 60% 'super majority' of Senators to approve legislation that would increase the federal deficit over a 10-year period. In other words, new programs or increased funding had to be paid for with revenues or savings, not more borrowing. The rule was an important tool in the successful Clinton-Gore efforts to balance the budget, but an effort to extend the rule was opposed by the Bush administration and lost by one vote. As President, Governor Dean will strongly support reinstituting the Pay as You Go Rule. It is a guiding principle of his fiscal philosophy that the government must learn to live within its means." 1-04
- Foreign Policy Analysis by James Mann (Amazon.com)
Shawn Carkonen reviews the book Rise of the Vulcans by James Mann. Mann describes foreign policy through describing an alliance of key advisors for President Bush.
"This core group, consisting of Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Armitage, and Condoleezza Rice, has a long history together dating back 30 years in some cases. Dubbing themselves the Vulcans, they have largely determined the direction and focus of the Bush presidency. In this remarkably researched and fascinating book, Mann traces their careers and the development of their ideas in order to understand how and why American foreign policy got to where it is today."
"As Mann makes clear, there has never been perfect agreement between all parties, (the relationship between the close duo of Powell and Armitage on one side and Rumsfeld on the other, for instance, has been frosty) but they do share basic values. Whether they came from the armed services, academia, or government bureaucracy, the Vulcans all viewed the Pentagon as the principal institution from which American power should emanate. Their developing philosophy was cemented after the attacks of September 11, 2001 and is best reflected in the decision to invade Iraq. They believe that a powerful military is essential to American interests, that America is ultimately a force for good despite any negative consequences that may arise from American aggression, they are eternally optimistic about American power and dismiss any arguments about over-extension of resources, and they are skeptical about the need to consult allies or form broad global coalitions before acting." 3-04
- Constructivism (Southwest Educational Development Laboratory)
"As a philosophy of learning, constructivism can be traced at least to the eighteenth century and the work of the Neapolitan philosopher Giambattista Vico, who held that humans can only clearly understand what they have themselves constructed. Many others worked with these ideas, but the first major contemporaries to develop a clear idea of constructivism as applied to classrooms and childhood development were Jean Piaget and John Dewey." 7-04
- Philosophers (Bjorn Christensson, Aachen)
Provides biographies of 25 philosophers. 10-04
- Aquinas, St. Thomas (Bjorn Christensson, Aachen)
Provides a biography. 10-04
- Aristotle (Bjorn Christensson, Aachen)
Provides a biography. 10-04
- Saint Augustine of Hippo (Bjorn Christensson, Aachen)
Provides a biography. 10-04
- Berkeley, George (Bjorn Christensson, Aachen)
Provides a biography. 10-04
- Descartes, Rene (Bjorn Christensson, Aachen)
Provides a biography. 10-04
- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm (Bjorn Christensson, Aachen)
Provides a biography. 10-04
- Heidegger, Martin (Bjorn Christensson, Aachen)
Provides a biography. 10-04
- Hobbes, Thomas (Bjorn Christensson, Aachen)
Provides a biography. 10-04
- Hume, David (Bjorn Christensson, Aachen)
Provides a biography. 10-04
- Kant, Immanuel (Bjorn Christensson, Aachen)
Provides a biography. 10-04
- Kierkegaard, Soren (Bjorn Christensson, Aachen)
Provides a biography. 10-04
- Leibniz, Gottfried Willhelm von (Bjorn Christensson, Aachen)
Provides a biography. 10-04
- Locke, John (Bjorn Christensson, Aachen)
Provides a biography. 10-04
- Marx, Karl (Bjorn Christensson, Aachen)
Provides a biography. 10-04
- Mill, John Stuart (Bjorn Christensson, Aachen)
Provides a biography. 10-04
- Nietzsche, Friedrich (Bjorn Christensson, Aachen)
Provides a biography. 10-04
- Plato (Bjorn Christensson, Aachen)
Provides a biography. 10-04
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (Bjorn Christensson, Aachen)
Provides a biography. 10-04
- Russell, Bertrand (Bjorn Christensson, Aachen)
Provides a biography. 10-04
- Sartre, Jean-Paul (Bjorn Christensson, Aachen)
Provides a biography. 10-04
- Spinoza, Benedictus de (Bjorn Christensson, Aachen)
Provides a biography. 10-04
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig (Bjorn Christensson, Aachen)
Provides a biography. 10-04
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