Ideas associated with famous philosophers
These are famous (mostly Western) philosophers and some concepts or catch phrases associated with them
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- Quine
- Analytic/synthetic distinction is invalid
- Mill (politics)
- Each individual has the right to act as he/she wants, so long as these actions do not harm others.
- Nozick (social)
- Tale of the Slave
- Mill (science)
- Methods of difference, agreement, concomitant variations
- Heraclitus
- "All is change."
- Wittgenstein
- Meaning is use
- Aquinas
- Five arguments for the existence of God
- Kant (metaphysics)
- Phenomena and Noumena
- Democritus
- Original Atomic Theory
- Locke (politics)
- Social contract, consent of the governed
- Lao Tzu
- Acting without acting
- Leibniz
- Monads
- James
- Live options
- Mill (ethics)
- The greatest happiness of the greatest number.
- Marx (politics)
- "Workers of the world: unite."
- Aristotle (science)
- Four causes
- Berkeley
- "To be is to be perceived (or to perceive)."
- Aristotle (ethics)
- Virtue, flourishing, Golden Mean
- Kant (knowledge)
- The Categories
- Kuhn
- Paradigms govern normal science
- Parmenides
- "There is no change."
- Thales
- "All is water."
- Kant (ethics)
- The Categorical Imperative
- Chuang-tzu
- Am I dreaming of a butterfly, or am I a butterfly, dreaming?
- Goodman
- Many worlds, if any
- Plato (politics)
- The Philosopher King
- Plato (knowledge)
- Myth of the Cave
- Hume
- Problem of Induction
- Locke (knowledge)
- Secondary qualities depend on primary properties
- Descartes
- "I think, therefore I am."
- Aristotle (knowledge)
- Language that cuts nature at its joints
- Rawls (social)
- Veil of Ignorance