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Absolute space

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Sophists

Ancient Greek philosophers and teachers, living before and during the era of Socrates (c.470-399 BC), who taught logic and rhetoric for money; Plato (428/427-348/347 BC) accused them of obscuring rather…
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Eudaimonia

Ancient Greek concept of “happiness” or “flourishing” as the ultimate justification of ethical activity; usually explicated in terms of the exercise of (public) virtue as part of the overall fulfilment…
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Cosmology
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Immaterialism
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Instrumental goods
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Consequent
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Fideism
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Metaphysics
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Polytheism
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