Gaunilo or Gaunillon (fl. 11th century) was a Benedictine monk of Marmoutier Abbey in Tours, France. He is best known for his contemporary criticism of...

number of criticisms and objections have also been mounted. Its first critic was Gaunilo of Marmoutiers, a contemporary of Anselm's. Gaunilo, suggesting...

founder of Satsang, in Deoghar. He was born in a Brahmin family Anukulchandra Chakravarty was born in the Himaitpur village of Pabna district of East Bengal...

Philosophical schools of thought and philosophical movements. Contents Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also Absurdism -...

holds that there is nothing but natural elements, principles, and relations of the kind studied by the natural sciences. Methodological naturalism is a philosophical...

engineering from the Maharashtra Institute of Technology. Initially, she worked backstage at the production of Brahma Kumaris television presentations in...

the philosophic burden of proof lies upon a person making empirically unfalsifiable claims, as opposed to shifting the burden of disproof to others. Russell...

possible set of elements. It is also known as the principle of parsimony or the law of parsimony (Latin: lex parsimoniae). Attributed to William of Ockham,...

translator, and poet. A prolific author, he wrote extensively on a broad range of subjects, such as authenticity and death, moral philosophy and existentialism...

reason for basic existence which has been raised or commented on by a range of philosophers and physicists, including Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Ludwig Wittgenstein...

study of the historical and cultural backgrounds of the author, text, and original audience. Other analyses include classification of the type of literary...

existence of God, of the divine or the supernatural is unknown or unknowable. Another definition provided is the view that "human reason is incapable of providing...

"Lost Island" refutation, the response by Gaunilo of Marmoutiers to Anselm's logical proof of the existence of God All pages with titles containing Lost...

called the paradox of free will or theological fatalism, contends that omniscience and free will are incompatible and that any conception of God that incorporates...

Existentialism is a form of philosophical inquiry that explores the issue of human existence. Existentialist philosophers explore questions related to...

Henotheism is the worship of a single, supreme god that does not deny the existence or possible existence of other deities that may be worshipped. Friedrich...

particular states of consciousness or personal development. It may be used to describe a state of liberation from the limitations of self-concept or ego...

"unfaithful") is a person who is accused of disbelief in the central tenets of one's own religion, such as members of another religion, or irreligious people...

Mīmāṃsā, is one of the six orthodox (āstika) traditions of textual exegesis and Hindu philosophy. The word "Vedanta" means "conclusion of the Vedas", and...

Religious humanism or ethical humanism is an integration of nontheistic humanist philosophy with congregational rites and community activity that center...

the laws of nature, such as surviving a natural disaster, or simply a "wonderful" occurrence, regardless of likelihood (e.g. "the miracle of childbirth")...

use the tools of evolutionary biology and memetics to suggest possible theories regarding the origin of religion and subsequent evolution of modern religions...

theme on the beneficence of divine chanting Naam of "Hare Krishna Hare Ram", regarded as the "Tarak Brahma Naam" (the chant of soul deliverance) in Kali...

generally rejects revelation as a source of divine knowledge and asserts that empirical reason and observation of the natural world are exclusively logical...

non-theism is a range of both religious and non-religious attitudes characterized by the absence of espoused belief in the existence of God or gods. Nontheism...

existence of at least one deity. In common parlance, or when contrasted with deism, the term often describes the philosophical conception of God that is...

non-material essence of a person, which includes one's identity, personality, and memories, an immaterial aspect or essence of a living being that is...

belief in the existence of God. Pascal contends that a rational person should adopt a lifestyle consistent with the existence of God and actively strive...

versions of Acosmism are found in eastern and western philosophies. The concept of Maya in the non-dual Advaita Vedanta school of Hinduism is a form of acosmism...

Age of Enlightenment of the 18th century led to the development of new forms of esoteric thought. The 19th century saw the emergence of new trends of esoteric...