General philosophy

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antinomy

Philosophy; General philosophy

A pair of equally defensible yet contradictory conclusions. Kant employed the antinomies of pure reason to show the consequences of misapplying regulative principles in the attempt to gain knowledge ...

antique charm

Philosophy; General philosophy

The relatively weak appeal of deeds or works flowing from a worldview which has passed out of fashion.

Antisthenes

Philosophy; General philosophy

(445-360 B.C.E.) Greek philosopher, friend of Socrates, sometimes regarded as the founder of cynicism. Fragmentary reports suggest that Antisthenes denied the possibility of contradiction and ...

Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko

Philosophy; General philosophy

(1884-1939) Bolshevik who led the October 1917 attack on the Winter Palace; disappeared in Spain 1938. Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko, the son of a military officer, was born in Russia in 1884, educated ...

anugita

Philosophy; General philosophy

An episode from the fourteenth book of the Mahabharata. It gives the discourse between Krishna and Arjuna after the battle with which the bhagavad-gita opens.