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Vor 16 Stunden · Etymology and nomenclature Etymology The word Advaita is a composite of two Sanskrit words: Prefix "a-" (अ), meaning "non-" "Dvaita" (द्वैत), which means 'duality' or 'dualism'. [web 1] Advaita is often translated as "non-duality," but a more apt translation is "non-secondness." Advaita has several meanings: Nonduality of subject and object [web 2] As Gaudapada states, when a ...
Vor 16 Stunden · Ayn Rand. Alice O'Connor (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum; [c] February 2 [ O.S. January 20], 1905 – March 6, 1982), better known by her pen name Ayn Rand ( / aɪn / INE ), was a Russian-born American author and philosopher. [3] She is known for her fiction and for developing a philosophical system she named Objectivism.
Vor 16 Stunden · Particular works of literature have come to be known as key feminist texts. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) by Mary Wollstonecraft , is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. A Room of One's Own (1929) by Virginia Woolf , is noted in its argument for both a literal and figural space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by patriarchy.
Vor 16 Stunden · Tocqueville writes: "Among a democratic people, where there is no hereditary wealth, every man works to earn a living. Labor is held in honor; the prejudice is not against but in its favor". [37] Tocqueville asserted that the values that had triumphed in the North and were present in the South had begun to suffocate old-world ethics and social arrangements.
Vor 16 Stunden · Game theory is the study of mathematical models of strategic interactions among rational agents. [1] It has applications in many fields of social science, used extensively in economics as well as in logic, systems science and computer science. [2] Traditional game theory addressed two-person zero-sum games, in which a participant's gains or ...
Vor 16 Stunden · Martha Nussbaum, Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, is a proponent of the capabilities approach to animal rights. The two main philosophical approaches to animal ethics are utilitarian and rights-based. The former is exemplified by Peter Singer, and the latter by Tom Regan and Gary Francione.
Vor 16 Stunden · Philosophy. In metaphysics, ontology is the philosophical study of being. It investigates what types of entities exist, how they are grouped into categories, and how they are related to one another on the most fundamental level (and whether there even is a fundamental level). [1]
