RESEARCH BASE

Search 3,721 documents across 34 fields — every claim tier-rated by evidence

3,721 documents 34 sections 43,623 citations 34,854 keywords indexed 4 evidence tiers

3,633 are the core, quality-scored corpus (34 lettered sections — see How We Work); the remaining 88 are cross-corpus synthesis documents (68 InterDocs, 12 Connections, 8 Theories) also indexed here.

3,721 results for "i ching" — page 133 of 187

P_5_15 Verified Philosophy & Meaning

P_5_15 — Simone de Beauvoir: Ethics of Ambiguity and the Second Sex

Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century — a foundational figure in both existentialist philosophy and feminist theory whose work has shaped debates on freedom, o

Simone de Beauvoir Second Sex Ethics of Ambiguity existentialism feminism existential feminism
P_5_16 Verified Philosophy & Meaning

P_5_16 — Philosophy of Information: Data, Knowledge, and Meaning in the Digital Age

The philosophy of information (PI) is a relatively new branch of philosophy that investigates the conceptual nature and fundamental principles of information — including its dynamics, utilization, and science. The field

philosophy of information Luciano Floridi informational structural realism semantic information Shannon entropy data ethics
P_5_14 Verified Philosophy & Meaning

P_5_14 — African Philosophy Beyond Ubuntu: Sage, Négritude, and Ethnophilosophy

African philosophy extends far beyond the Ubuntu concept most familiar to Western audiences. It is a diverse, complex, frequently contested field encompassing multiple traditions, methods, and debates. The "Great Debate"

African philosophy sage philosophy négritude ethnophilosophy Ubuntu Paulin Hountondji
P_5_10 Verified Philosophy & Meaning

P_5_10 — Philosophy of Religion: Faith, Reason, and Mystical Experience

The philosophy of religion is the branch of philosophy that critically examines the concepts, arguments, and experiences at the heart of religious belief and practice — not from within any particular faith tradition but

philosophy of religion theism atheism faith and reason cosmological argument ontological argument
P_5_09 Verified Philosophy & Meaning

P_5_09 — Wittgenstein: Language Games, Tractatus, and Investigations

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (1889-1951) is unique in the history of philosophy for having produced two profoundly influential but largely incompatible philosophical systems. His first major work, the Tractatus Logic

Wittgenstein Ludwig Wittgenstein Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Philosophical Investigations language games picture theory
P_5_06 Philosophy & Meaning

P_5_06 — Philosophy of Mathematics

The philosophy of mathematics investigates the nature of mathematical objects, the status of mathematical truth, and the relationship between mathematics and the physical world. The fundamental question is: Are mathemati

philosophy of mathematics mathematical realism Platonism mathematics nominalism formalism logicism
P_5_07 Verified Philosophy & Meaning

P_5_07 — Hermeneutics and Interpretation Theory

Hermeneutics — the theory and practice of interpretation — originated in biblical and classical textual criticism but expanded through the 19th and 20th centuries into a comprehensive philosophical framework addressing h

hermeneutics interpretation understanding Schleiermacher Dilthey Gadamer
P_5_20 Verified Philosophy & Meaning

P_5_20 — Cicero: Roman Oratory, Natural Law, and Republican Philosophy

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BCE) — Roman statesman, orator, philosopher, and lawyer — stands as one of the most influential figures in Western intellectual history, bridging Greek philosophy and Roman practice, and tra

cicero roman republic oratory rhetoric natural law stoicism
P_5_22 Credible Philosophy & Meaning

P_5_22 — Cyclical Time: Eternal Return, Historical Cycles, and Non-Linear Temporality

The concept of cyclical time — that history, cosmic processes, or existence itself follows recurring patterns rather than a single linear progression — is one of the most ancient and widespread ideas in human thought. Vi

cyclical time eternal return Nietzsche Eliade Vico Spengler
P_5_18 Verified Philosophy & Meaning

P_5_18 — Comparative Religion & the Science of Sacred Traditions

Comparative religion — the systematic study of the world's religious traditions through cross-cultural analysis — emerged as an academic discipline in the 19th century with Friedrich Max Müller's translation of the Sacre

comparative religion history of religions Mircea Eliade Joseph Campbell phenomenology of religion sacred and profane
P_5_04 Philosophy & Meaning

P_5_04 — Process Philosophy — Whitehead and the Metaphysics of Becoming

Process philosophy, most fully developed in Alfred North Whitehead's Process and Reality (1929), proposes that reality is fundamentally constituted not by enduring substances but by dynamic events — "actual occasions of

process philosophy Alfred North Whitehead Process and Reality actual occasions prehension eternal objects
P_5_02 Philosophy & Meaning

P_5_02 — Computational Phylogenetics of Mythology

This document examines Computational Phylogenetics of Mythology, a topic within the Philosophy Meaning research area. Key areas of investigation include The Traditional Approach: Comparative Mythology, The Biological Ana

phylogenetics mythology Yuri Berezkin Julien d'Huy Michael Witzel Laurasian
P_5_12 Verified Philosophy & Meaning

P_5_12 — Postmodernism: Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard, and Deconstruction

Postmodernism — a loose, contested, and internally diverse intellectual movement that emerged from French philosophy and literary theory in the 1960s-1980s — is characterized by a thoroughgoing skepticism toward universa

postmodernism Derrida deconstruction Foucault Lyotard power-knowledge
P_5_19 Verified Philosophy & Meaning

P_5_19 — Mircea Eliade: Sacred and Profane, Eternal Return, History of Religions

Mircea Eliade (1907–1986), Romanian-born historian of religions, was arguably the most influential scholar of comparative religion in the 20th century. His core concepts — hierophany (the manifestation of the sacred in o

mircea eliade sacred profane eternal return hierophany axis mundi
P_5_17 Credible Philosophy & Meaning

P_5_17 — Process Philosophy: Whitehead, Becoming, and the Metaphysics of Experience

Process philosophy — the metaphysical tradition holding that reality is fundamentally composed of processes, events, and becomings rather than static substances, objects, or things — represents one of the most ambitious

process philosophy Alfred North Whitehead actual occasions process theology becoming panexperientialism
P_5_03 Philosophy & Meaning

P_5_03 — Aesthetics — Philosophy of Beauty, Art, and the Sublime

Aesthetics — the philosophical study of beauty, art, taste, and the sublime — has been a central philosophical concern from Plato's suspicion of art as dangerous imitation to contemporary debates about the nature of aest

aesthetics philosophy of art beauty sublime Plato mimesis
P_2_07 Verified Philosophy & Meaning

P_2_07 — Ethics of Knowledge and Epistemic Justice

Epistemic justice — fairness in the production, distribution, and recognition of knowledge — has become one of the most active areas of contemporary philosophy. Miranda Fricker (Epistemic Injustice, 2007) identified two

epistemic justice epistemic injustice testimonial injustice hermeneutical injustice Fricker epistemic violence
P_2_18 Verified Philosophy & Meaning

P_2_18 — Bioethics Frameworks

Bioethics is the interdisciplinary field that examines ethical questions arising from advances in biology, medicine, and biotechnology. The field emerged as a distinct discipline in the early 1970s, catalyzed by public r

bioethics principlism Beauchamp Childress autonomy beneficence
P_2_09 Verified Philosophy & Meaning

P_2_09 — Cosmopolitanism and Global Ethics

Cosmopolitanism — from the Greek kosmopolitēs ("citizen of the world") — is the philosophical tradition asserting that all human beings belong to a single moral community regardless of nationality, ethnicity, or culture.

cosmopolitanism global ethics global justice world citizen Kant perpetual peace
P_2_15 Verified Philosophy & Meaning

P_2_15 — Philosophy of Emotion: Affect, Reason, and Moral Sentiment

The philosophy of emotion asks what emotions are, how they relate to reason and knowledge, and what role they play in moral life. The Western tradition has oscillated between two poles: Stoic/Kantian rationalism, which t

philosophy of emotion affect feeling passion sentiment reason