Meaning of PHILOSOPHER
| Pronunciation: | | fi'lâsufur
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- [n] a wise person who is calm and rational; someone who lives a life of reason with equanimity
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| | See Also: | | 1st Baron Verulam, Abelard, aesthetician, Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, Aristotle, Auguste Comte, Bacon, Baron Verulam, Bentham, Bergson, Berkeley, Bishop Berkeley, Boethius, Bruno, Buber, Cassirer, Cleanthes, Comte, Confucius, David Hartley, David Hume, Democritus, Denis Diderot, Derrida, Descartes, Dewey, Diderot, Diogenes, eclectic, eclecticist, Edmund Husserl, Empedocles, empiricist, Epicurus, epistemologist, Ernst Cassirer, Ernst Heinrich Haeckel, esthetician, ethician, ethicist, existentialist, Francis Bacon, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, George Berkeley, Giordano Bruno, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, gymnosophist, Haeckel, Hartley, Hegel, Heidegger, Henri Bergson, Henri Louis Bergson, Heraclitus, Herbart, Herder, Hobbes, human, Hume, Husserl, Hypatia, Immanuel Kant, individual, intellect, intellectual, Isidore Auguste Marie Francois Comte, Jacques Derrida, James, Jeremy Bentham, Johann Friedrich Herbart, Johann Gottfried von Herder, John Dewey, Kant, Kierkegaard, Kung futzu, Lao-tse, Lao-tzu, Lao-zi, Leibnitz, Leibniz, libertarian, Martin Buber, Martin Heidegger, mechanist, moralist, mortal, nativist, necessitarian, person, Peter Abelard, Pierre Abelard, pluralist, realist, Rene Descartes, somebody, someone, Soren Aabye Kierkegaard, Soren Kierkegaard, soul, Stoic, Thomas Hobbes, transcendentalist, Viscount St. Albans, William James, yogi | |
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Though written in the third person, or perhaps because of it, Honderlich`s autobiography is determined to be honest. Honderlich (University College London) recalls without floundering attempts to appear flawless his life and his philosophy, simultaneously revealing the inner-workings of higher academia. more details ... |
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| | Definition: | | \Phi*los"o*pher\, n. [OE. philosophre, F.
philosophe, L. philosophus, Gr. ?; ? loving + ? wise. Cf.
{Philosophy}.]
1. One who philosophizes; one versed in, or devoted to,
philosophy.
Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of
the Stoics, encountered him. --Acts xvii.
18.
2. One who reduces the principles of philosophy to practice
in the conduct of life; one who lives according to the
rules of practical wisdom; one who meets or regards all
vicissitudes with calmness.
3. An alchemist. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
{Philosopher's stone}, an imaginary stone which the
alchemists formerly sought as instrument of converting the
baser metals into gold.
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