Better-World Philosophy: A Sociological Synthesis is an 1899 book by American zoologist and philosopher J. Howard Moore. The book explores the nature...
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Philosophy of the World is the only studio album by the American band the Shaggs, released in 1969. The Shaggs formed at the insistence of their father...
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"philosophy is a discipline that encourages critical and independent thought and is capable of working towards a better understanding of the world and...
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J. Howard Moore (category Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers)
published his first book, Better-World Philosophy, in which he addressed what he viewed as fundamental problems in the world and outlined his ideal vision...
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provincial Britain" (PDF). Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. 49:...
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The history of philosophy is the systematic study of the development of philosophical thought. It focuses on philosophy as rational inquiry based on argumentation...
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and early 20th-century American philosopher J. Howard Moore, in Better-World Philosophy (1899), described every sentient being as existing in a constant...
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Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge...
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Ahimsa (redirect from Never harm philosophy)
ahimsa, the concept reached an extraordinary development in the ethical philosophy of Jainism. Mahavira, the twenty-fourth and the last tirthankara of Jainism...
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Poultry farming (section World chicken population)
long-standing controversy over the basic need for a chicken coop. One philosophy, known as the "fresh air school", holds that chickens are mostly hardy...
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nonhuman animals were created for human use. In his 1899 book Better-World Philosophy, Moore argued that human ethics were still anthropocentric, evolving...
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Analytic philosophy is a broad, contemporary movement or tradition within Western philosophy, especially anglophone philosophy, focused on analysis. Analytic...
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World Animal Day is an international day of action for animal rights and welfare celebrated annually on October 4, the feast day of Francis of Assisi...
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Sons. "The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?" "Impartiality". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2002. v t e...
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Contemporary philosophy is the present period in the history of Western philosophy beginning at the early 20th century with the increasing professionalization...
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Sentience (category Concepts in the philosophy of mind)
experiences by a conscious individual are known as qualia in Western philosophy. "Sentience" was first coined by philosophers in the 1630s for the concept...
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of one's responsibility to their fellow humans and the world around them. It is a philosophy that supports collectivism over individualism. Ubuntu asserts...
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the age of 10 or 11. Pearce received a scholarship to study Politics, Philosophy and Economics at the University of Oxford, but never finished his degree...
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Elizabeth Costello (section Background philosophy)
similarities between ideas expressed by Coetzee's protagonist and the philosophy of Mary Midgley. Coetzee's protagonist for example is concerned with the...
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ability to suffer, their suffering must be taken into account in any moral philosophy. To exclude animals from that consideration, they argue, is a form of...
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whose existence is a travesty for ethics, justice and mercy. In Better-World Philosophy (1899), Moore argued that carnivorousness was the result of excessive...
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Economy of Happiness, Boston, 1906. Utilitarianism, London, 1863. Better-World Philosophy: A Sociological Synthesis, Chicago: Ward Waugh, 1899, pp. 79–80...
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analytic philosophy, philosophy of language investigates the nature of language and the relations between language, language users, and the world. Investigations...
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Arthur Schopenhauer (category Articles with Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy links)
Western philosophy to share and affirm significant tenets of Indian philosophy, such as asceticism, denial of the self, and the notion of the world-as-appearance...
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perennial philosophy (Latin: philosophia perennis), also referred to as perennialism and perennial wisdom, is a school of thought in philosophy and spirituality...
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Political philosophy or political theory is the philosophical study of government, addressing questions about the nature, scope, and legitimacy of public...
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Mary Midgley (category Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers)
it is better to study something that you otherwise wouldn't. Someone also told me that, if you did Classics at Oxford, you could do Philosophy as well...
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The Shaggs (redirect from Better than the Beatles)
performing. In 1969, Austin paid for them to record an album, Philosophy of the World, which was distributed in limited quantities in 1969 by a local...
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as Western philosophy, Asian philosophy, and African philosophy. Writing for the IEP, Ronnie Littlejohn distinguished comparative philosophy, "in which...
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Cass Sunstein (category Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers)
2009). "Conspiracy theories: Causes and cures". Journal of Political Philosophy. 17 (2): 202–27. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9760.2008.00325.x. S2CID 48880069...
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