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Universal Properties Early Grammarians on Universals of Words and Meanings In ancient India systematic metaphysics started with a lin...

The word universal, used as a noun, has belonged to the vocabulary of English-writing philosophers since the sixteenth century, but the co...

Utopias and Utopianism The word utopia was invented by Thomas More, who published his famous Utopia (in Latin) in 1516. More coupled th...

José Vasconcelos José Vasconcelos, the Mexican politician and philosopher, was born in Oaxaca. Vasconcelos was active in the Mexican re...

Lorenzo Valla Lorenzo Valla, the Italian humanist, is best known as the man who exposed the Donation of Constantine and thus undermined...

Luc de Clapiers Marquis de Vauvenargues The French moralist and epigrammatist Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, was born at Aix...

Thorstein Bunde Veblen Thorstein Bunde Veblen, the American economist and social theorist, is perhaps best known for his ironic style, a...

Virtue Ethics In 1930 C. D. Broad first proposed to divide ethical theories into two classes, teleological and deontological, thereby i...

Theory of the Visual Arts There are competing views on what qualifies photographs, paintings, sculpture, and architecture as visual art...

Voluntarism The term voluntarism (from the Latin voluntas, “will”) applies to any philosophical theory according to which the will is p...

Francisco de Vitoria Francisco de Vitoria, the political and legal philosopher and theologian, was born in Vitoria, capital of the Basq...