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Henri Bergson Henri Bergson
Henri Bergson , 1859-1941, French philosopher. He became a professor at the Collège de France in 1900, devoted some time to politics, and, after World War I, took an interest in international affairs. He is well known for his brilliant and imaginative philosophical works, which won him the... Read more
metaphysical poets metaphysical poets
metaphysical poets name given to a group of English lyric poets of the 17th cent. The term was first used by Samuel Johnson (1744). The hallmark of their poetry is the metaphysical conceit (a figure of speech that employs unusual and paradoxical images), a reliance on intellectual wit, learned... Read more
Jacques Maritain Jacques Maritain
Jacques Maritain , 1882-1973, French Neo-Thomist philosopher. He was educated at the Sorbonne and the Univ. of Heidelberg and was much influenced by the philosophy of Henri Bergson. He was originally Protestant, but became a Roman Catholic through association with Léon Bloy and devoted... Read more
Peter Frederick Strawson Peter Frederick Strawson
Peter Frederick Strawson 1919-, British philosopher, grad. Oxford. An influential spokesman for so-called ordinary language philosophy, he began teaching at Oxford in 1947 and from 1968 to 1987 was Waynflete Professor of Metaphysics. In an early article, "On Referring" ( Mind, 1950), he... Read more
Edward Herbert 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury Edward Herbert 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
Edward Herbert Herbert of Cherbury, 1st Baron 1583-1648, English philosopher, poet, and diplomat; elder brother of George Herbert, the metaphysical poet. He was ambassador to France (1619-24) and was created Baron Herbert of Cherbury in 1629. A precursor of deism, Lord Herbert laid down his... Read more
metaphysics metaphysics
metaphysics , branch of philosophy concerned with the ultimate nature of existence. It perpetuates the Metaphysics of Aristotle, a collection of treatises placed after the Physics [Gr. metaphysics =after physics ] and treating what Aristotle called the First Philosophy. The principal area of... Read more
Henry Longueville Mansel Henry Longueville Mansel
Henry Longueville Mansel , 1820-71, English philosopher and theologian. A disciple of Sir William Hamilton, he systematized his teacher's conception of the relativity of knowledge, and in his famous Bampton Lectures, The Limits of Religious Thought Examined (1858), he applied the conception to... Read more
Epicurus Epicurus
Epicurus , 341-270 BC, Greek philosopher, b. Samos; son of an Athenian colonist. He claimed to be self-taught, although tradition states that he was schooled in the systems of Plato and Democritus by his father and various philosophers. He taught in several towns in Asia Minor before going to Athens... Read more
Truth Truth
TRUTH. The concept of truth is central to Western philosophical thought, especially to such branches of philosophy as metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of language. In particular, the correspondence theory of truth has long been associated with a realist metaphysics, according to which... Read more
Parmenides of Elea Parmenides of Elea
PARMENIDES OF ELEA(born c. 515 BCE) Parmenides of Elea, the most original and important philosopher before Socrates, was born c. 515 BCE. He changed the course of Greek cosmology and had an even more important effect upon metaphysics and epistemology. He was the first to focus attention on the... Read more

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