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How to understand the reasoning behind modern Fatalism?
Richard Taylor’s fatalism
But foreknowledge of the truth would not create any truth, nor invest
your philosophy with truth, nor add anything to the philosophical
foundations of the fatalism that ...
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Philosophers and Thinkers against Christian morality
I am specifically looking for philosophers who have argued against the Christian doctrines of self-sacrifice, turn the other cheek and 'love your neighbour as thyself' and other such teachings of ...
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What are some great philosophers of the 20th/21st century, and what are their ideologies?
I am new to philosophy and would like to learn more about it in the future.
I would like to compile a list of influential philosophers of the 20th and 21st century and a brief overview of their ...
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Descartes and Montaigne
My history professor recently told us that Michel de Montaigne—who I had never heard of before—had many of Descartes's ideas before Descartes did and that most of Descartes's arguments were not very ...
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