virtue ethics also called virtue-based ethics and agent-based ethics, conceptions or theories...

virtues, cardinal See CARDINAL VIRTUES.

Visistadvaita Vedanta a form of Hinduism for which Brahman is an independently...

Vio, Tommaso de See CAJETAN.

vitalism See PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGY.

Vishnu (from Sanskrit Vifpu), major Hindu god and Supreme Lord for...

vipassana (Pali, 'insight', 'discernment'), Indian Buddhist term used to describe both...

violence, (1) the use of force to cause physical harm, death,...

virtue theory See VIRTUE ETHICS.

Vienna Circle a group of philosophers and scientists who met periodically for...

Vico Giambattista (1668–1744), Italian philosopher who founded modern philosophy of history,...

vijñapti Indian Buddhist term meaning 'representation', used by some philosophers as...

verifiability theory of meaning See MEANING, PHI -. LOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE , VERIFICATIONIS. verificationism,...

vicious circle principle See TYPE THEORY.

verisimilitude See TRUTHLIKENESS.

verum See Appendix of Special Symbols.

vibratinuncle See HARTLEY.

Vijñanavada an idealist school of Buddhist thought in India in the...

verifiability, principle of See PRINCIPLE OF VERIFIA -. BILIT.

vicious regress regress that is in some way unacceptable, where a regress...

Verstehen (German, 'understanding', 'interpretation'), a method in the human sciences that...

vice See VIRTUE ETHICS.

Vedas the earliest Hindu sacred texts. 'Veda' literally means a text...

Vázquez Gabriel (1549–1604), Spanish Jesuit theologian and philosopher. Born in Villaescusa...

velleity See VOLITION. Venn diagram, a logic diagram invented by the...

vasana Buddhist philosophical term meaning 'tendency'. It is an explanatory category,...

Vedanta also called Uttara Mimamsa ('the end of the Vedas'), the...

veil of ignorance See RAWLS.

variable sum game See GAME THEORY.

Vauvenargues Luc de Clapiers de (1715–47), French army officer and secular...