Philosophy

Articles about philosophical ideas, thinkers and traditions.

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

German idealism

German philosophy

German Philosophy: Overview, Development, and Influence

Ghost in the Machine

Gilles Deleuze

Gilles Deleuze: life, ideas, and influence

Gluttony

God is dead

“God is dead”: Nietzsche’s phrase and its philosophical significance

God paradox

God paradox (omnipotence paradox)

Golden Rule

Golden Rule

Good and bad

Gorgias (Plato)

Gorgias (Plato): Dialogue on Rhetoric, Virtue, and Justice

Gradualism

Gradualism

Gradualism: Principles, History, and Applications

Gradualism is the idea that change unfolds by small, incremental steps. This article outlines its meaning, history, and roles in politics, biology, geology, and practical use.

Grandfather paradox

Guan Yin

Guan Yin

Guanyin: East Asian Bodhisattva of Compassion and Mercy

Guanyin (Guanshiyin) is the East Asian form of Avalokiteśvara, a bodhisattva symbolizing compassion. This article surveys names, iconography, history, devotion, and cultural signif

Hatred

Hatred: nature, causes, social effects, and approaches to reduction

Heaven

Heaven (religious concept and afterlife realm)

Hedonism

Hedonism: Philosophical Views on Pleasure, Pain, and the Good Life

Hellenism

Hellenism: Greek culture, the Hellenistic era, and modern meanings

Hermeticism

Hermeticism

Hermeticism: Origins, Beliefs, Practices, and Influence

Hermeticism is a Western esoteric tradition based on writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, uniting mystical philosophy, symbolic alchemy, astrology and ritual methods aimed a

Heuristic

Heuristic: practical rules and methods for problem solving

Hindu philosophy

Holism

Holism: principles, history, examples, and relation to reductionism

Hope

Hope (emotion and concept)

Human nature

Humanism

Hume's fork

Hypermodern

Hypermodern (chess school)

Hypocrisy

Hypothetical imperative

Idealism

Identity

Identity (philosophy)

Ideology

Ignoratio elenchi

Ignoratio elenchi: the fallacy of irrelevant conclusion

Ignosticism

Implication and inference

Implication and Inference: Meaning, Differences, and Uses

Insight

Insight: sudden understanding, problem-solving, and cognitive processes

Intellect

Intellectual

Ipse dixit

Ipse dixit: the bare assertion and its role in argumentation

Is the glass half empty or half full?

Is the glass half empty or half full? — Meaning, uses, and interpretations

Islamic philosophy

Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida: life, ideas and influence of the founder of deconstruction

Jesús Mosterín

Jesús Mosterín — Spanish Philosopher Bridging Science and Comparative Thought

Jewish ethics

Jnana yoga

Jnana Yoga: The Path of Knowledge in Hinduism

John Deely

Joy

Joy: emotion, meaning, history, and cultural expressions