K’ang Yu-wei (1858–1927), Chinese scholar who pushed for radical reforms under Emperor...

K’un See CH'IEN, K'UN.

K’ung Ch’iu See CONFUCIUS.

K’ung Tzu See CONFUCIUS.

Kabala See CABALA.

Kala in Indian thought, time. The universe frequently is seen as...

Kalam an Arabic term denoting a form of religious and theological...

Kant Immanuel (1724–1804), preeminent German philosopher whose distinctive concern was to...

Kao Tzu (fifth–fourth century B.C.), Chinese thinker and philosophical adversary of Mencius...

Karma in Indian thought, the force whereby right and wrong actions...

Karmic See KARMA.

Katastematic pleasure See EPICUREANISM.

Kepler Johannes (1571–1630), German mathematical astronomer, speculative metaphysician, and natural philosopher....

Kerry’s paradox See FREGE.

Keynes John Maynard (1883–1946), English economist and public servant who revolutionized...

Kierkegaard Søren Aabye (1813–55), Danish writer whose 'literature,' as he called...

Kilvington Richard, surname also spelled Kilmington, Chillington (1302/05–61), English philosopher, theologian,...

Kilwardby Robert (d.1279), English philosopher and theologian. He apparently studied and...

Kindii, al- See AL-KINDi.

Kinesis See ARISTOTLE.

Kinetic pleasure See EPICUREANISM.

Kingdom of ends See KANT.

KK-thesis the thesis that knowing entails knowing that one knows, symbolized...

Kleist Heinrich von (1771–1811), German philosopher and literary figure whose entire...

Knower, paradox of the See DEONTIC PARADOXES.

Knowledge by acquaintance knowledge of objects by means of direct awareness of them....

Knowledge by description See KNOWLEDGE BY. ACQUAINTANC.

Knowledge de dicto See KNOWLEDGE DE RE.

Knowledge de re knowledge, with respect to some object, that it has a...

Knowledge de se See KNOWLEDGE DE RE.