Eckhart Johannes, called Meister (c.1260–1328), German mystic, theologian, and preacher. Eckhart...

eclecticism See COUSIN.

Eco Umberto (b.1932), Italian philosopher, intellectual historian, and novelist. A leading...

ecofeminism See ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY.

economics, philosophy of See PHILOSOPHY OF ECO -. NOMIC.

economics, welfare See PHILOSOPHY OF ECONOM -. IC.

education, philosophy of See PHILOSOPHY OF EDU -. CATIO. eduction, the process of...

Edwards Jonathan (1703–58), American philosopher and theologian. He was educated at...

effective procedure a step-by-step recipe for computing the values of a function....

efficacious grace See ARNAULD.

efficient cause See ARISTOTLE.

effluences See DEMOCRITUS.

effluxes, theory of See DEMOCRITUS.

ego See FREUD.

ego, empirical See KANT.

ego, transcendental See KANT.

egocentric particular a word whose denotation is determined by identity of the...

egocentric predicament each person's apparently problematic position as an experiencing subject, assuming...

egoism any view that, in a certain way, makes the self...

egoistic consequentialism See CONSEQUENTIALISM.

eidetic intuition See HUSSERL.

eidos See ARISTOTLE, HUSSERL.

Eightfold Path See BUDDHISM.

eikasia See DIVIDED LINE.

Einfühlung (German, 'feeling into'), empathy. In contrast to sympathy, where one's...

Einstein Albert (1879–1955), German-born American physicist, founder of the special and...

élan vital See BERGSON. Eleatic School, strictly, two fifth-century B.C. Greek philosophers,...

elementary equivalence See CATEGORICAL THEORY.

elementary quantification theory See FORMAL. LOGI. elenchus, a cross-examination or refutation. Typically in...

Elias See COMMENTARIES ON ARISTOTLE.