The key concepts of the framework, defined in a few sentences. Across the site, highlighted concepts link back to these definitions.
Peirce
Related axes: Scientific method · Source of knowledge — See also: Induction · Fallibilism
Nishida Kitarō
Related axes: Where the sacred resides · Nature of reality — See also: Place (basho) · Pure experience · Śūnyatā (emptiness)
Related axes: Universals — See also: Immaterialism
Spinoza
Related axes: Source of knowledge · Freedom of the will · Relation to certainty — See also: Conatus · Determinism · Immanence
Related axes: Nature of love — See also: Eros (love as desire) · Philia (friendship)
Related axes: Source of knowledge — See also: Tabula rasa · Innate ideas
Related axes: The highest good — See also: The cult of performance
Related axes: Relation to desire · Bodily pleasures · The highest good — See also: Pleonexia (the drive to have more) · Hedonism
Related axes: Status of emotions · Freedom of the will
Related axes: Nature of truth · Purpose of art — See also: Enframing (Gestell)
Related axes: Meaning of work · Social identity
Related axes: Freedom of the will — See also: Free will · Determinism · Compatibilism
Related axes: Self-interest and others · Partiality — See also: Ethical egoism · Pity (pitié)
Nietzsche
Related axes: Relation to the past — See also: Dichotomy of control
Diogenes
Related axes: Sincerity · Social identity — See also: Parrhēsia (frank speech) · Physis and nomos (nature versus convention)
Thomas Aquinas
Related axes: Where the sacred resides · Existence of God — See also: Transcendence · Esse (the act of being)
Plato
Related axes: Source of knowledge — See also: Theory of Forms · The tripartite soul
Related axes: Relation to authority · Political liberty · Who should decide
The Buddha
Related axes: Nature of the self — See also: Anicca (impermanence) · Dukkha (suffering, unsatisfactoriness) · Nirvāṇa / Nibbāna (extinction, liberation)
The Buddha
Related axes: Nature of the self · Death — See also: Anattā (non-self) · Dukkha (suffering, unsatisfactoriness)
Epictetus
Related axes: Status of emotions · Relation to desire — See also: Dichotomy of control
Related axes: Relation to certainty — See also: Epochē (suspension of judgment) · Isostheneia (equipollence) · Skepticism
Related axes: Universals · The meaning of words — See also: Realism about universals
Related axes: Relation to certainty · Status of norms (metaethics) — See also: Epochē (suspension of judgment) · Skepticism · Dogmatism
Epictetus
Related axes: Self-interest and others · Partiality · Belonging
Related axes: Bodily pleasures · Relation to desire — See also: Hedonism
Related axes: Bodily pleasures · Scope of action
Related axes: Freedom of the will · Relation to certainty · Scope of action — See also: Prohairesis (the faculty of choice) · Dichotomy of control · Kataleptic impression (phantasia katalêptikê)
Gilbert Simondon
Related axes: Relation to technology · Humanity's place in nature — See also: Concretization · Individuation (Simondon)
Epicurus
Related axes: The highest good · Relation to desire · The meaning of suffering — See also: Hedonism
Related axes: Existence of God · The problem of evil — See also: Theism · Deism
Related axes: Nature of the self — See also: Brahman (the absolute) · Anattā (non-self)
Related axes: Attention and diversion · Relation to technology — See also: Divertissement
Hegel
Related axes: Being and becoming · The meaning of history · Nature of truth — See also: Spirit (Geist)
Related axes: Scope of action · The highest good — See also: Apatheia (freedom from the passions)
Jean-Paul Sartre
Related axes: Essence and existence · Interiority · Sincerity — See also: Bad faith
Related axes: Nature of the self · Nature of reality — See also: Jñāna (liberating knowledge) · Brahman (the absolute) · Ātman (the Self) · Māyā (illusion, appearance)
Jean-Paul Sartre
Related axes: Essence and existence · Freedom of the will — See also: Authenticity
Thomas Aquinas
Related axes: The highest good — See also: Eudaimonism · Grace
Martin Heidegger
Related axes: Nature of reality · Being or having a body — See also: Dasein · Care (Sorge) · Intentionality
Martin Heidegger
Related axes: Death — See also: Authenticity
Related axes: Relation to desire · Attention and diversion · The meaning of life — See also: Will-to-live
Related axes: Nature of reality · Existence of God · Where the sacred resides — See also: Ātman (the Self) · Māyā (illusion, appearance) · Mokṣa (liberation)
Related axes: Faith and reason · Relation to certainty
Sen
Related axes: Political liberty · Distributive justice — See also: Negative liberty · Positive liberty
Martin Heidegger
Related axes: Temporal orientation — See also: Dasein · Being-in-the-world · Ethics of care
Kant
Related axes: Criterion of right action · Status of norms (metaethics) · Letter or spirit of the rule · Partiality — See also: The thing-in-itself · Radical evil
Illustrated in: Children of Men
Nāgārjuna
Related axes: Relation to certainty · Nature of reality — See also: Śūnyatā (emptiness)
Related axes: Freedom of the will · Explaining nature · The enigma of consciousness · Wholes and parts — See also: Determinism · Indeterminism · Principle of sufficient reason · Free will
Related axes: Belonging · Individual and society · The origin of the social bond — See also: Cosmopolitanism
Related axes: Status of emotions · Moral circle · Criterion of right action · Self-interest and others — See also: Pity (pitié) · Principium individuationis · Will-to-live
Related axes: Freedom of the will — See also: Free will · Determinism
Illustrated in: The Matrix
Spinoza
Related axes: Relation to desire · Self-interest and others · Essence and existence — See also: Adequate idea · Immanence
Hegel
Related axes: Universals · Individual and society — See also: Aufhebung
Gilbert Simondon
Related axes: Relation to technology — See also: Associated milieu
Related axes: Criterion of right action — See also: Deontologism · Greatest happiness principle · Hedonism
Related axes: The origin of the social bond · Relation to authority — See also: The state of nature · The general will
Related axes: Belonging · Partiality — See also: Special obligations · Impartiality
Russell
Related axes: Vision of humanity · Individual and society · Meaning of work · Distributive justice
Coleridge
Related axes: Nature of art · Nature of reality — See also: Genius · Mimēsis (imitation)
Hegel
Related axes: The meaning of history · The problem of evil · Explaining nature — See also: Spirit (Geist)
Related axes: Status of norms (metaethics) · Tradition and transformation · Social identity — See also: Skepticism · Tolerance
Socrates
Related axes: Existence of God · The meaning of life
Related axes: Where the sacred resides · Humanity's place in nature · Relation to certainty — See also: Wu wei 無為 (effortless action) · Ziran 自然 (self-so, naturalness)
Martin Heidegger
Related axes: Essence and existence · Death — See also: Being-in-the-world · Care (Sorge) · Being-toward-death · The "They" (das Man)
Laozi
Related axes: Criterion of right action — See also: Dao 道 (the Way) · Wu wei 無為 (effortless action) · Ziran 自然 (self-so, naturalness)
Russell
Related axes: The meaning of words · Universals · The point of philosophy — See also: Knowledge by acquaintance · Logical atomism
Related axes: Existence of God · Faith and reason · Where the sacred resides — See also: Tolerance
Related axes: Criterion of right action — See also: Consequentialism · Categorical imperative
Related axes: Freedom of the will — See also: Free will · Compatibilism
Related axes: Faith and reason — See also: Burhān (demonstration)
Epictetus
Related axes: Scope of action — See also: Amor fati
Related axes: Criterion of right action — See also: Consequentialism · Deontologism · Political realism
Illustrated in: The Dark Knight
Avicenna
Related axes: Existence of God — See also: Necessary Existent (wājib al-wujūd) · Esse (the act of being)
Pascal
Related axes: Attention and diversion — See also: Attention economy
Related axes: Relation to certainty — See also: Skepticism
Related axes: Sincerity · Letter or spirit of the rule — See also: Mētis (cunning intelligence)
Related axes: Relation to certainty · Status of knowledge · The point of philosophy — See also: Elenchus (refutation)
Related axes: Nature of reality · The enigma of consciousness — See also: Materialism · Idealism
The Buddha
Related axes: The meaning of suffering · Tonality of reality — See also: The Four Noble Truths · Taṇhā (craving, thirst) · Anicca (impermanence) · Nirvāṇa / Nibbāna (extinction, liberation)
Machiavelli
Related axes: Ideal and reality · Source of knowledge · Nature of truth — See also: Political realism
Related axes: Distributive justice · Political liberty — See also: Libertarianism
Husserl
Related axes: Essence and existence · Source of knowledge — See also: Phenomenological reduction (transcendental epochē) · Intentionality
Socrates
Related axes: Interiority · Relation to certainty — See also: Socratic ignorance
Plotinus
Related axes: Explaining nature · Nature of reality — See also: the One · Nous (Intellect) · World-Soul · Epistrophē (conversion, reversion) · Hypostasis
Related axes: Wholes and parts · Being and becoming — See also: Reductionism · Vitalism
Related axes: Source of knowledge · Scientific method — See also: Rationalism · Tabula rasa · Innate ideas
Martin Heidegger
Related axes: Relation to technology · Humanity's place in nature — See also: Aletheia · Releasement (Gelassenheit)
Related axes: Place of science · Tradition and transformation · Relation to certainty — See also: Perfectibility · Tolerance
Related axes: The enigma of consciousness · Freedom of the will — See also: Causal closure · Dualism · Qualia · Supervenience
Plotinus
Related axes: The meaning of life · Interiority — See also: Emanation · the One · Henōsis (mystical union)
Related axes: Relation to certainty · Ethics of belief — See also: Ataraxia (tranquility of the soul) · Isostheneia (equipollence)
Related axes: Nature of love · Relation to desire — See also: Agape (love as gift) · Philia (friendship)
Thomas Aquinas
Related axes: Essence and existence · Nature of reality — See also: Hylomorphism · Analogy of being (analogia entis)
Berkeley
Related axes: Nature of reality — See also: Immaterialism · Notion
Related axes: Essence and existence · Universals — See also: Existentialism · Nominalism · Theory of Forms
Related axes: Status of norms (metaethics) · Existence of God — See also: Natural law · Providence (pronoia)
Nietzsche
Related axes: Relation to the past · Temporal orientation · The meaning of life — See also: Amor fati
Related axes: Self-interest and others — See also: Altruism
Related axes: Criterion of right action · Partiality · Status of emotions — See also: Deontologism · Consequentialism · Virtue ethics · Pity (pitié)
Related axes: The highest good — See also: Hedonism
Nick Bostrom
Related axes: Relation to technology · Future generations — See also: Technological singularity · Posthuman
Related axes: Essence and existence · The meaning of life — See also: Essentialism · The absurd
Illustrated in: Blade Runner
Related axes: Relation to certainty · Nature of truth — See also: Pramāṇa (means of valid knowledge)
Related axes: Relation to certainty — See also: Dogmatism · Skepticism
Wittgenstein
Related axes: Universals · The meaning of words · Essence and existence — See also: Language-game
Related axes: Faith and reason — See also: Skepticism · Deism · Tolerance
Confucius
Related axes: Temporal orientation · The origin of the social bond
Related axes: Explaining nature · The meaning of life — See also: Mechanism · Vitalism · The four causes
Wittgenstein
Related axes: Nature and culture · The meaning of words · The point of philosophy — See also: Language-game
Related axes: Scope of action · The meaning of history · Hope — See also: Virtù
Related axes: Freedom of the will — See also: Determinism · Compatibilism
Illustrated in: The Matrix
Descartes
Related axes: Criterion of right action · Self-interest and others · Freedom of the will · Forgiveness — See also: Free will
Related axes: Nature of art · Beauty in life — See also: The sublime · Creative imagination
Related axes: The point of philosophy · Source of knowledge — See also: Li (principle) · Liangzhi (innate moral knowledge)
Related axes: Faith and reason · Freedom of the will — See also: Free will · Beatific vision · Providence (pronoia)
Related axes: Partiality — See also: Jian ai (inclusive care for all) · Ren (humaneness, benevolence)
Jeremy Bentham
Related axes: Criterion of right action · The highest good · Moral demandingness — See also: Hedonism
Related axes: The highest good — See also: Eudaimonism
Illustrated in: The Matrix
Related axes: Attention and diversion · Nature of the self · Status of emotions — See also: Assent (synkatathesis) · Prohairesis (the faculty of choice)
Plotinus
Related axes: Where the sacred resides · Interiority — See also: the One · Nous (Intellect) · Epistrophē (conversion, reversion)
Hans Jonas
Related axes: Relation to technology · Future generations · Status of emotions — See also: Imperative of responsibility
Wittgenstein
Related axes: Relation to certainty · Status of knowledge · The point of philosophy — See also: Form of life
Related axes: Individual and society · Wholes and parts — See also: Individualism
Zhuangzi
Related axes: Death · Relation to the past — See also: Dao 道 (the Way) · Ziran 自然 (self-so, naturalness)
Aristotle
Related axes: Essence and existence · Wholes and parts · Nature of reality — See also: The four causes
Descartes
Related axes: Relation to certainty · Source of knowledge — See also: Skepticism · Dogmatism
Illustrated in: The Matrix
Related axes: Nature of reality · Where the sacred resides — See also: the One · Nous (Intellect) · World-Soul · Emanation
Related axes: Nature of reality · Status of knowledge — See also: Materialism · Dualism · Esse est percipi (to be is to be perceived) · Theory of Forms
Bacon
Related axes: Justification of belief — See also: Induction
Related axes: Where the sacred resides — See also: Transcendence
Berkeley
Related axes: Nature of reality — See also: Esse est percipi (to be is to be perceived) · Immanence · Transcendence
Related axes: Partiality · Moral demandingness · Self-interest and others — See also: Appropriation (oikeiôsis) · Special obligations
Hans Jonas
Related axes: Future generations · Relation to technology · Humanity's place in nature — See also: Heuristics of fear · Categorical imperative
Illustrated in: Children of Men
Related axes: Freedom of the will — See also: Determinism · Free will
Related axes: The highest good · Scope of action · Bodily pleasures — See also: Dichotomy of control · Eudaimonism
Related axes: Moral circle — See also: Speciesism
Related axes: Individual and society · The origin of the social bond — See also: Holism · Contractualism
Gilbert Simondon
Related axes: Being and becoming · Wholes and parts · Nature of the self — See also: Preindividual · Metastability · Transduction · Transindividual · Principium individuationis
Related axes: Relation to certainty · Source of knowledge — See also: Fallibilism · Skepticism
René Descartes
Related axes: Source of knowledge — See also: Tabula rasa
Horkheimer
Related axes: Place of science · Relation to technology
Related axes: Relation to technology — See also: Attention economy
Spinoza
Related axes: The highest good · Existence of God · Source of knowledge — See also: Adequate idea · Conatus · Joy · Immanence
Related axes: The enigma of consciousness · Nature of reality — See also: Natural attitude · Phenomenological reduction (transcendental epochē)
Related axes: Existence of God — See also: Providence (pronoia)
Related axes: Relation to certainty — See also: Epochē (suspension of judgment)
Related axes: Partiality — See also: Graded love
Related axes: The highest good · Source of knowledge — See also: Avidyā (ignorance) · Brahman (the absolute) · Ātman (the Self) · Mokṣa (liberation)
Related axes: Status of emotions · The highest good · Bodily pleasures — See also: Conatus · Hedonism · Eudaimonism
Related axes: Relation to certainty · Source of knowledge — See also: Dogmatism · Assent (synkatathesis)
Russell
Related axes: Source of knowledge · Justification of belief · Nature of the self — See also: Definite description · Sense-data · Logical construction
Wittgenstein
Related axes: The meaning of words · The point of philosophy · Universals — See also: Family resemblance · Form of life
Related axes: Where the sacred resides · Relation to desire — See also: Qi (vital force) · Gewu (investigation of things)
Related axes: The source of morality · Interiority — See also: Unity of knowing and acting · Gewu (investigation of things)
Related axes: Distributive justice · Nature of rights · Political liberty — See also: Egalitarianism · Natural rights
Husserl
Related axes: Place of science — See also: Natural attitude · Phenomenological reduction (transcendental epochē)
Russell
Related axes: Wholes and parts · The point of philosophy · The meaning of words · Being and becoming — See also: Logical construction · Definite description
Russell
Related axes: Wholes and parts · The point of philosophy · Justification of belief · Nature of the self — See also: Logical atomism · Knowledge by acquaintance · Sense-data
Related axes: The meaning of life · Existence of God · Explaining nature — See also: Providence (pronoia) · Hēgemonikon (the ruling faculty)
Nietzsche
Related axes: Criterion of right action · Status of norms (metaethics) — See also: Ressentiment
Related axes: Nature of reality · The enigma of consciousness · Wholes and parts — See also: Idealism · Dualism · Mechanism
Related axes: Nature of reality · Status of knowledge — See also: Brahman (the absolute)
Related axes: Explaining nature · Nature of reality · Wholes and parts — See also: Finalism · Vitalism · Determinism
Related axes: Explaining nature · Wholes and parts · Can a machine think
Gilbert Simondon
Related axes: Being and becoming — See also: Preindividual · Individuation (Simondon) · Transduction
Related axes: Letter or spirit of the rule — See also: Practical wisdom (phronesis) · Dolos (guile)
Related axes: Nature of art — See also: Creative imagination · Genius
Russell
Related axes: Nature of the self · The enigma of consciousness · Wholes and parts — See also: Logical construction · Neutral monism
Related axes: Status of emotions · Relation to desire — See also: Apatheia (freedom from the passions) · Ataraxia (tranquility of the soul) · Epochē (suspension of judgment)
Related axes: The meaning of life · The meaning of suffering — See also: Brahman (the absolute) · Nirvāṇa / Nibbāna (extinction, liberation)
Related axes: Criterion of right action · Moral responsibility — See also: Fortune · Free will
Illustrated in: The Dark Knight
Related axes: Can a machine think · The enigma of consciousness · Wholes and parts — See also: Reductionism · Emergentism · Supervenience
Hannah Arendt
Related axes: Hope · Temporal orientation · Future generations — See also: Imperative of responsibility · Praxis
Illustrated in: Children of Men
Husserl
Related axes: Relation to certainty · Nature of reality — See also: Phenomenological reduction (transcendental epochē) · Intentionality · Life-world (Lebenswelt)
Related axes: Status of norms (metaethics) · Criterion of right action — See also: Eternal law
Related axes: Nature of rights · The origin of the social bond · Status of norms (metaethics) — See also: Contractualism · Libertarianism
Schelling
Related axes: Explaining nature · Nature of reality
Avicenna
Related axes: Existence of God — See also: Distinction between essence and existence · Esse (the act of being)
Related axes: Political liberty · Freedom of the will — See also: Positive liberty
Related axes: The enigma of consciousness · Nature of reality · Status of knowledge — See also: Structural realism
Śaṅkara
Related axes: Existence of God · Where the sacred resides — See also: Brahman (the absolute) · Jñāna (liberating knowledge) · Mokṣa (liberation)
The Buddha
Related axes: The meaning of suffering · The meaning of life · Where the sacred resides — See also: Dukkha (suffering, unsatisfactoriness) · Taṇhā (craving, thirst) · The Four Noble Truths
Related axes: The value of truth · Sincerity · Who should decide — See also: Paternalism
Illustrated in: The Dark Knight
Related axes: Universals · Essence and existence — See also: Realism about universals
Related axes: Belonging · Temporal orientation
Berkeley
Related axes: Nature of the self — See also: Immaterialism · Esse est percipi (to be is to be perceived)
Related axes: Nature of reality · Essence and existence — See also: the One · World-Soul · Hypostasis · Theory of Forms
Peirce
Related axes: Nature of reality — See also: Synechism · Tychism
Related axes: Explaining nature · Where the sacred resides
Martin Heidegger
Related axes: Nature of reality · Existence of God — See also: Dasein · Aletheia
Related axes: Existence of God — See also: Necessary Existent (wājib al-wujūd)
Related axes: The enigma of consciousness · Nature of reality · Wholes and parts — See also: Dualism · Emergentism · Qualia · Materialism · The hard problem of consciousness
Related axes: Sincerity
Related axes: Political liberty · Moral demandingness — See also: Negative liberty · Positive liberty
Illustrated in: The Dark Knight
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Related axes: Vision of humanity · Tradition and transformation · Essence and existence — See also: Tabula rasa · Enlightenment
Related axes: Nature of the self · Death — See also: Anattā (non-self)
Illustrated in: Blade Runner
Related axes: Relation to certainty · Source of knowledge · Status of emotions — See also: Kataleptic impression (phantasia katalêptikê) · Assent (synkatathesis) · Hēgemonikon (the ruling faculty)
Husserl
Related axes: Relation to certainty — See also: Natural attitude · Intentionality · Epochē (suspension of judgment)
Related axes: Nature of love — See also: Eros (love as desire) · Agape (love as gift)
Related axes: Status of norms (metaethics) · Nature and culture — See also: Natural law · The state of nature
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Related axes: Self-interest and others · Status of emotions · Criterion of right action · Moral circle — See also: Self-love and amour-propre
Illustrated in: Blade Runner
Nishida Kitarō
Related axes: Nature of reality — See also: Absolute nothingness · Pure experience
Related axes: Self-interest and others · Distributive justice · Status of norms (metaethics) — See also: Physis and nomos (nature versus convention) · Akolasia (intemperance)
Related axes: Ideal and reality · Relation to authority · Vision of humanity
Related axes: Political liberty · Freedom of the will — See also: Negative liberty
Related axes: Enhancing human nature · Essence and existence — See also: Technological singularity · Existential risk
Aristotle
Related axes: Letter or spirit of the rule · Criterion of right action — See also: The golden mean
Peirce
Related axes: The meaning of words · Nature of truth — See also: Fallibilism · Abduction
Related axes: Nature of truth · Status of knowledge
Related axes: Source of knowledge · Relation to certainty — See also: Extrinsic validity (parataḥ prāmāṇya) · Vyāpti (invariable concomitance)
Related axes: The point of philosophy — See also: Śūnyatā (emptiness) · The Two Truths (saṃvṛti / paramārtha) · Svabhāva (inherent existence)
Buddha
Related axes: Explaining nature · Nature of reality — See also: Śūnyatā (emptiness)
Marx
Related axes: Scope of action
Gilbert Simondon
Related axes: Being and becoming — See also: Individuation (Simondon) · Metastability · Transindividual
Related axes: Nature of the self · Moral circle · Status of emotions — See also: Māyā (illusion, appearance) · Will-to-live · Compassion
Related axes: Explaining nature · Freedom of the will — See also: Determinism
Plotinus
Related axes: The problem of evil — See also: the One · Emanation
Epictetus
Related axes: Freedom of the will · Scope of action — See also: Dichotomy of control
Related axes: Attention and diversion · Interiority — See also: Hēgemonikon (the ruling faculty) · Phantasia (impression) · Assent (synkatathesis)
Related axes: Existence of God · The meaning of life · Tonality of reality — See also: Logos
Related axes: Nature of truth · Status of norms (metaethics) — See also: Intentionality
Laozi
Related axes: Essence and existence · Relation to desire — See also: Ziran 自然 (self-so, naturalness) · Dao 道 (the Way) · Wu wei 無為 (effortless action)
Related axes: Nature of reality — See also: Absolute nothingness · Place (basho)
Related axes: Nature of reality · Vision of humanity — See also: Li (principle) · Dao 道 (the Way)
Related axes: The enigma of consciousness · Place of science — See also: Dualism · Materialism
Kant
Related axes: Vision of humanity — See also: Categorical imperative · The thing-in-itself
Related axes: Source of knowledge · Faith and reason — See also: Empiricism · Innate ideas
Related axes: Universals · Essence and existence — See also: Nominalism · Theory of Forms
Related axes: Wholes and parts · The enigma of consciousness — See also: Emergentism · Materialism
Martin Heidegger
Related axes: Relation to technology · Attention and diversion — See also: Enframing (Gestell)
Related axes: Criterion of right action · Partiality — See also: Graded love · Li (principle)
Related axes: Nature of reality · Source of knowledge — See also: The thing-in-itself · Idealism · Will-to-live
Nietzsche
Related axes: Criterion of right action · Self-interest and others · Status of emotions
Albert Camus
Related axes: Relation to the past · The meaning of suffering · Self-interest and others — See also: The absurd
Illustrated in: Blade Runner
Related axes: The meaning of life · The meaning of suffering — See also: Mokṣa (liberation) · Nirvāṇa / Nibbāna (extinction, liberation) · Avidyā (ignorance)
The Buddha
Related axes: Attention and diversion — See also: The Noble Eightfold Path · Anicca (impermanence) · Anattā (non-self)
Related axes: Relation to certainty · Justification of belief — See also: Isostheneia (equipollence) · Epochē (suspension of judgment) · Skepticism · Dogmatism
Related axes: Existence of God · Essence and existence · Source of knowledge — See also: Realism about universals · Nominalism · Natural law · Analogy of being (analogia entis)
Related axes: Place of science · Source of knowledge
Related axes: Relation to desire · Where the sacred resides
Related axes: Freedom of the will — See also: Free will · Determinism
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Related axes: Self-interest and others · Vision of humanity · Distributive justice — See also: Pity (pitié) · Perfectibility
Peirce
Related axes: Nature of the self · The meaning of words — See also: Pragmatic maxim · Synechism
Related axes: Justification of belief · Source of knowledge · Relation to certainty — See also: Knowledge by acquaintance · Logical construction
Related axes: Moral circle · The enigma of consciousness — See also: Speciesism
Related axes: Source of knowledge — See also: The clinamen (the swerve of atoms)
Hegel
Related axes: Individual and society · Criterion of right action · The source of morality — See also: Spirit (Geist)
Related axes: Nature of the self — See also: Anattā (non-self) · Svabhāva (inherent existence)
Related axes: Relation to certainty — See also: Dogmatism
Related axes: Social identity · Essence and existence — See also: Essentialism
Socrates
Related axes: Relation to certainty — See also: Elenchus (refutation) · Skepticism
Related axes: Partiality · Belonging · Self-interest and others — See also: Appropriation (oikeiôsis) · Impartiality
Related axes: Moral circle — See also: Sentience
Hegel
Related axes: Nature of reality · Where the sacred resides · Existence of God — See also: Aufhebung · Sittlichkeit (ethical life)
Related axes: The point of philosophy · Interiority
Related axes: Status of knowledge · The enigma of consciousness · Place of science — See also: Neutral monism
Related axes: Nature of the self · The enigma of consciousness — See also: Ātman (the Self) · Anattā (non-self)
Nāgārjuna
Related axes: Nature of reality · Essence and existence · Where the sacred resides — See also: Svabhāva (inherent existence) · Pratītyasamutpāda (dependent origination) · The Two Truths (saṃvṛti / paramārtha)
Related axes: The enigma of consciousness · Wholes and parts — See also: Reductionism · Emergentism · Materialism · Causal closure
Nāgārjuna
Related axes: Essence and existence · Nature of reality — See also: Śūnyatā (emptiness)
Related axes: Relation to the past · The meaning of life · Individual and society — See also: Logos · Providence (pronoia) · Appropriation (oikeiôsis) · Amor fati
Peirce
Related axes: Wholes and parts · Nature of reality · Explaining nature — See also: Tychism
John Locke
Related axes: Source of knowledge · Nature and culture — See also: Innate ideas
The Buddha
Related axes: Relation to desire — See also: The Four Noble Truths · Dukkha (suffering, unsatisfactoriness) · Nirvāṇa / Nibbāna (extinction, liberation)
Related axes: Where the sacred resides — See also: Immanence
Related axes: Relation to technology · Enhancing human nature — See also: Posthuman · Existential risk
Jacques Ellul
Related axes: Relation to technology · Humanity's place in nature — See also: Enframing (Gestell)
Martin Heidegger
Related axes: Attention and diversion · Death — See also: Authenticity · Being-toward-death · Dasein
Camus
Related axes: The meaning of life · Tonality of reality
Illustrated in: Children of Men
Epicurus
Related axes: Freedom of the will · Explaining nature · Nature of reality — See also: Free will · Determinism
Related axes: The highest good · Being or having a body — See also: Divertissement · Agon
Montaigne
Related axes: Interiority — See also: Skepticism
Thomas Aquinas
Related axes: Existence of God · Explaining nature — See also: The unmoved mover · Principle of sufficient reason
Aristotle
Related axes: Explaining nature — See also: Hylomorphism · The unmoved mover
The Buddha
Related axes: The meaning of suffering — See also: Dukkha (suffering, unsatisfactoriness) · Taṇhā (craving, thirst) · Nirvāṇa / Nibbāna (extinction, liberation) · The Noble Eightfold Path
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Related axes: The origin of the social bond · Political liberty · Who should decide — See also: The separation of powers
Aristotle
Related axes: Criterion of right action · Relation to desire — See also: Practical wisdom (phronesis)
David Chalmers
Related axes: The enigma of consciousness · Place of science · Wholes and parts — See also: Qualia · Dualism · Emergentism · Supervenience
The Buddha
Related axes: Bodily pleasures — See also: The Noble Eightfold Path · The Four Noble Truths
The Buddha
Related axes: Attention and diversion · Interiority — See also: The Four Noble Truths · Sati (mindfulness) · The Middle Way · Dukkha (suffering, unsatisfactoriness)
Plotinus
Related axes: Where the sacred resides · Existence of God — See also: Emanation · Nous (Intellect) · Henōsis (mystical union) · Hypostasis
Related axes: The highest good · Status of emotions · Scope of action — See also: Apatheia (freedom from the passions)
Montesquieu
Related axes: Relation to authority · Political liberty — See also: The general will
Related axes: The origin of the social bond · Vision of humanity · Nature of rights — See also: The general will · Self-love and amour-propre
Illustrated in: The Dark Knight
Related axes: Beauty · Beauty in life — See also: Genius
Epicurus
Related axes: Death · The meaning of suffering · Existence of God — See also: Ataraxia (tranquility of the soul) · Hedonism
Kant
Related axes: Nature of reality · Source of knowledge · Status of knowledge — See also: Categorical imperative · Radical evil
Plato
Related axes: Status of emotions · Nature of the self — See also: Theory of Forms · Anamnesis
Nāgārjuna
Related axes: Nature of truth · Status of knowledge — See also: Śūnyatā (emptiness)
Nietzsche
Related axes: Essence and existence · The meaning of life
Aristotle
Related axes: Existence of God · Explaining nature — See also: The four causes
Related axes: Existence of God · Where the sacred resides · The problem of evil — See also: Atheism · Deism · The Five Ways
Related axes: The problem of evil · Existence of God — See also: Theism · Atheism
Plato
Related axes: Essence and existence · Nature of reality · Where the sacred resides — See also: Anamnesis · The tripartite soul
Related axes: Faith and reason · Belonging — See also: Deism
Related axes: Where the sacred resides · Existence of God — See also: Immanence
Gilbert Simondon
Related axes: Wholes and parts — See also: Individuation (Simondon) · Metastability
Related axes: Enhancing human nature · Relation to technology
Gilbert Simondon
Related axes: Individual and society — See also: Individuation (Simondon) · Preindividual
Peirce
Related axes: Explaining nature · Wholes and parts — See also: Synechism
Wang Yangming
Related axes: Interiority — See also: Liangzhi (innate moral knowledge)
Machiavelli
Related axes: Scope of action · Criterion of right action · The meaning of history — See also: Fortune
Related axes: Criterion of right action · The highest good — See also: Consequentialism · Deontologism · Practical wisdom (phronesis) · Eudaimonism
al-Fārābī
Related axes: Who should decide · Ideal and reality
Related axes: Explaining nature · Wholes and parts · Being and becoming — See also: Mechanism · Finalism · Naturphilosophie (philosophy of nature)
Related axes: Status of norms (metaethics) · Nature and culture
Related axes: Source of knowledge · Scientific method — See also: Pramāṇa (means of valid knowledge)
Nietzsche
Related axes: Relation to desire · Self-interest and others · Essence and existence
Schopenhauer
Related axes: Nature of reality · Relation to desire · Tonality of reality · The meaning of life — See also: The thing-in-itself · Will to power · Nirvāṇa / Nibbāna (extinction, liberation)
Plotinus
Related axes: Nature of reality · Explaining nature — See also: the One · Nous (Intellect) · Hypostasis · Emanation
Related axes: Scope of action — See also: Dao 道 (the Way) · Ziran 自然 (self-so, naturalness)
Related axes: Partiality
Zhuangzi
Related axes: The highest good · Freedom of the will — See also: Dao 道 (the Way) · Wu wei 無為 (effortless action) · Ziran 自然 (self-so, naturalness)
Zhuangzi
Related axes: Interiority · Attention and diversion — See also: Dao 道 (the Way) · Wu wei 無為 (effortless action)
Related axes: Nature and culture · Humanity's place in nature — See also: Dao 道 (the Way) · Wu wei 無為 (effortless action)