Continental philosophy
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Continental philosophy is a broad tradition of European thought that includes movements such as phenomenology, existentialism, structuralism, and post-structuralism, often emphasizing history, culture, and critique of modernity.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| continental philosophy | 10 |
| Continental philosophy canonical | 6 |
| Deleuzian ontology | 1 |
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Target entity: Continental philosophy Context triple: [The Birth of Tragedy, philosophicalTradition, Continental philosophy]
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Western philosophy
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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analytic philosophy
Analytic philosophy is a 20th-century philosophical tradition, strongly associated with figures like Bertrand Russell, that emphasizes logical analysis, clarity of language, and rigorous argumentation in addressing philosophical problems.
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Neo-Kantianism
Neo-Kantianism is a late 19th- and early 20th-century philosophical movement that revived and reinterpreted Immanuel Kant’s critical philosophy, emphasizing the role of a priori concepts and the conditions of knowledge in science, ethics, and culture.
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Nietzschean philosophy
Nietzschean philosophy is a radical, often provocative current of thought centered on themes like the critique of traditional morality, the will to power, perspectivism, and the revaluation of values developed by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.
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Hegelian dialectics
Hegelian dialectics is a philosophical framework developed by G.W.F. Hegel that explains historical and conceptual development through the dynamic process of contradiction and resolution, often summarized as thesis–antithesis–synthesis.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Continental philosophy Target entity description: Continental philosophy is a broad tradition of European thought that includes movements such as phenomenology, existentialism, structuralism, and post-structuralism, often emphasizing history, culture, and critique of modernity.
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A.
Western philosophy
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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B.
analytic philosophy
Analytic philosophy is a 20th-century philosophical tradition, strongly associated with figures like Bertrand Russell, that emphasizes logical analysis, clarity of language, and rigorous argumentation in addressing philosophical problems.
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C.
Neo-Kantianism
Neo-Kantianism is a late 19th- and early 20th-century philosophical movement that revived and reinterpreted Immanuel Kant’s critical philosophy, emphasizing the role of a priori concepts and the conditions of knowledge in science, ethics, and culture.
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D.
Nietzschean philosophy
Nietzschean philosophy is a radical, often provocative current of thought centered on themes like the critique of traditional morality, the will to power, perspectivism, and the revaluation of values developed by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.
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E.
Hegelian dialectics
Hegelian dialectics is a philosophical framework developed by G.W.F. Hegel that explains historical and conceptual development through the dynamic process of contradiction and resolution, often summarized as thesis–antithesis–synthesis.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (72)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
branch of philosophy
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philosophical tradition ⓘ |
| associatedWithCountry |
Belgium
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France ⓘ Germany ⓘ Italy ⓘ Netherlands ⓘ Spain ⓘ Switzerland ⓘ |
| concerns |
aesthetics
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ethics ⓘ freedom ⓘ ideology ⓘ language ⓘ meaning ⓘ politics ⓘ power ⓘ subjectivity ⓘ |
| contrastedWith | analytic philosophy ⓘ |
| critiques |
Enlightenment rationality
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modernity ⓘ positivism ⓘ scientism ⓘ |
| emergedInCentury |
19th century
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20th century ⓘ |
| emphasizes |
critique of modernity
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culture ⓘ historical context of ideas ⓘ history ⓘ interpretation ⓘ social critique ⓘ |
| hasKeyFigure |
Edmund Husserl
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Emmanuel Levinas ⓘ Gilles Deleuze ⓘ Hannah Arendt ⓘ Jacques Derrida ⓘ Jean-François Lyotard ⓘ Jean-Paul Sartre ⓘ Jürgen Habermas ⓘ Martin Heidegger ⓘ Maurice Merleau-Ponty ⓘ Max Horkheimer ⓘ Michel Foucault ⓘ Paul Ricoeur ⓘ Simone de Beauvoir ⓘ Theodor W. Adorno ⓘ |
| hasOrigin |
Europe
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continental Europe ⓘ |
| includesMovement |
Western Marxism
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critical theory ⓘ deconstruction ⓘ existentialism ⓘ hermeneutics ⓘ phenomenology ⓘ post-structuralism ⓘ psychoanalytic theory ⓘ structuralism ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Edmund Husserl
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Friedrich Nietzsche ⓘ G. W. F. Hegel ⓘ German idealism ⓘ Immanuel Kant ⓘ Søren Kierkegaard ⓘ |
| methodologicallyUses |
deconstruction
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genealogy ⓘ hermeneutic interpretation ⓘ phenomenological description ⓘ |
| relatedDiscipline |
cultural studies
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literary theory ⓘ political theory ⓘ theology ⓘ |
| taughtIn | universities worldwide ⓘ |
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Subject: Continental philosophy Description of subject: Continental philosophy is a broad tradition of European thought that includes movements such as phenomenology, existentialism, structuralism, and post-structuralism, often emphasizing history, culture, and critique of modernity.
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