Western philosophy

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intellectual tradition philosophical tradition

Western philosophy is the intellectual tradition that originated in ancient Greece and developed through European thought, encompassing major movements such as rationalism, empiricism, idealism, and existentialism and shaping modern science, politics, ethics, and metaphysics.

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Western science	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	intellectual tradition ⓘ philosophical tradition ⓘ
addressesQuestion	foundations of morality ⓘ meaning of existence ⓘ nature of political authority ⓘ nature of reality ⓘ possibility of knowledge ⓘ
contrastsWith	Eastern philosophy ⓘ
developedIn	Europe ⓘ
hasCulturalContext	Western civilization ⓘ surface form: Western world
hasHistoricalPeriod	Renaissance Platonism ⓘ surface form: Renaissance philosophy ancient philosophy ⓘ contemporary philosophy ⓘ early modern philosophy ⓘ medieval philosophy ⓘ modern philosophy ⓘ
hasKeyFigure	Aristotle ⓘ Baruch Spinoza ⓘ Bertrand Russell ⓘ David Hume ⓘ Friedrich Nietzsche ⓘ G. W. F. Hegel ⓘ Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz ⓘ Immanuel Kant ⓘ Jean-Paul Sartre ⓘ John Locke ⓘ John Stuart Mill ⓘ Ludwig Wittgenstein ⓘ Martin Heidegger ⓘ Plato ⓘ René Descartes ⓘ Socrates ⓘ St. Thomas Aquinas ⓘ surface form: Thomas Aquinas
hasLanguageOfDiscourse	English ⓘ French ⓘ German ⓘ Latin ⓘ ancient Greek ⓘ
hasMethod	conceptual analysis ⓘ dialectic ⓘ logical analysis ⓘ phenomenological description ⓘ scientific reasoning ⓘ
hasOrigin	ancient Greece ⓘ
hasSubfield	aesthetics ⓘ epistemology ⓘ ethics ⓘ logic ⓘ metaphysics ⓘ philosophy of language ⓘ philosophy of mind ⓘ philosophy of science ⓘ political philosophy ⓘ
includesMovement	Epicureanism ⓘ Scholastic theology ⓘ surface form: Scholasticism Stoicism ⓘ analytic philosophy ⓘ critical theory ⓘ empiricism ⓘ existential phenomenology ⓘ existentialism ⓘ idealism ⓘ phenomenology ⓘ positivism ⓘ post-structuralism ⓘ pragmatism ⓘ rationalism ⓘ structuralism ⓘ
influenced	Enlightenment thought ⓘ Western education ⓘ Western legal systems ⓘ modern ethics ⓘ modern metaphysics ⓘ modern politics ⓘ modern science ⓘ
timePeriod	from 6th century BCE to present ⓘ

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Republic, Book VII (Allegory of the Cave) → hasInfluenced → Western philosophy ⓘ

Book of Ecclesiastes → influence → Western philosophy ⓘ

Augustine of Hippo → influenced → Western philosophy ⓘ

Classical period → influenced → Western philosophy ⓘ

Greek Antiquity → influenced → Western philosophy ⓘ

Lyceum of Aristotle → influenced → Western philosophy ⓘ

Presocratic philosophers → influenced → Western philosophy ⓘ

this entity surface form: Western science

Pythagoras → influenced → Western philosophy ⓘ

Socrates → influenced → Western philosophy ⓘ

Socratic method → influenced → Western philosophy ⓘ

St. Augustine → influenced → Western philosophy ⓘ

Thales of Miletus → influenced → Western philosophy ⓘ

Western Marxism → influencedBy → Western philosophy ⓘ

Athens → isBirthplaceOf → Western philosophy ⓘ

Classical Greek philosophy → partOf → Western philosophy ⓘ

Ionian school → partOf → Western philosophy ⓘ

this entity surface form: Western philosophy tradition

A History of Western Philosophy → subject → Western philosophy ⓘ