Philosophy of Education is a label applied to the study of the purpose, process, nature and ideals of education. It can be considered a branch of both philosophy and education.
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Philosophy of Mind is the branch of philosophy that studies the nature of the mind (mental events, mental functions, mental properties and consciousness) and its relationship to the physical body. It intersects to some extent with the fields of neurobiology, computer science and psychology.
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Philosophy of Religion is the branch of philosophy that is concerned with the philosophical study of religion, including arguments over the nature and existence of God, religious language, miracles, prayer, the problem of evil, and the relationship between religion and other value-systems such as sc
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What is Philosophy? : General : The Basics of Philosophy
At its simplest, philosophy (from the Greek or ph�losoph�a, meaning �the love of wisdom�) is the study of knowledge, or “thinking about thinking”, although the breadth of what it covers is perhaps best illustrated by a selection of other alternative definitions: the discipline concerned wi
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African Philosophy
One of the earliest works of political philosophy was the Maxims of the Egyptian official and philosopher Ptah-Hotep as early as the 24th Century B.C. The Egyptian Hellenistic philosopher Plotinus of the 3rd Century B.C. is credited with founding ther Neoplatonist school of philosophy.
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Persian Philosophy
(or Iranian Philosophy), due to a series of large-scale political and social changes such as the Arab and Mongol invasions of Persia, has initiated a wide spectrum of schools of thought. In general terms, these can be split between the Pre-Islamic Period and the Post-Islamic Period.
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Philosophy Timeline : General : The Basics of Philosophy
This timeline of Western Philosophy is created as one long image to give an idea of the relative scale and the clusters of activity in philosophical thought. The names are clickable links. For more details on dates and historical eras and periods, see the section By Historical Period.
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Philosophy Map : General : The Basics of Philosophy
This “map” of Western Philosophy (courtesy of SparkNotes) attempts to trace the influences and development of philosophical thought, from the Pre-Socratics through to the Modern era. Most of the names are clickable links.
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Japanese Philosophy
In its literary forms, Japanese philosophy began about fourteen centuries ago. Confucianism entered Japan from China around the 5th Century A.D., as did Buddhism. Neo-Confucianism became most prominent in Japan in the 16th Century.
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Korean Philosophy
has been influenced by a number of religious and philosophical thought-systems over the years, including Shamanism, Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism: Native shamanism developed in Korea for millennia, although the traditional rites and shamanistic practices were later deeply influenced by Buddhis
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