hsin1 Chinese term meaning 'heart', 'mind', 'feeling'. Generally, the hsin is...

hsin2 Chinese term meaning 'trust', 'faith', 'trustworthiness', 'honest'. In early texts,...

hsing Chinese philosophical term generally agreed to be derived from 'sheng'...

hsing-erh-shang in Chinese philosophy, formless or metaphysical. In part one of...

hsing-ming in Chinese philosophy, 'forms and names,' an important philosophical concept...

Hsiung Shih-li (1885–1968), Chinese contemporary New Confucian philosopher. He was a revolutionary...

hsü Chinese term meaning 'void', 'vacuity', 'the tenuous'. Hsü is not...

Hsü Fu-kuan (1903–82), Chinese intellectual and historian who served directly under Chiang...

Hsü Hsing (c.315 B.C.), Chinese philosopher, a member of the Tillers or...

Hsün Tzu (third century B.C.), a tough-minded Confucian philosopher best known for...

Huai Nan Tzu an ancient Chinese syncretic compendium of knowledge. It was compiled...

Huang–Lao (Chinese, 'School of the Yellow Emperor and Lao Tzu'), an...

Huang Tsung-hsi (1610–95), Chinese philosopher and historian. A student of Liu Tsung-chou...

Hu Hung also called Wu-feng (1100–55), Chinese Neo-Confucian philosopher and an important...

Hui Shih (c.380–305 B.C.), Chinese philosopher, prime minister of the state of...

humanism a set of presuppositions that assigns to human beings a...

humanism, civic See CLASSICAL REPUBLICANISM. human nature, a quality or group of...

human rights See RIGHTS.

human sciences See WEBER.

Humboldt Wilhelm von (1767–1835), German statesman, scholar, and educator, often regarded...

Hume David (1711–76), Scottish philosopher and historian who may be aptly...

humors See GALEN.

Hu Shih (1891–1962), Chinese philosopher and historian and a famous liberal intellectual...

Husserl Edmund (1859–1938), German philosopher and founder of phenomenology. Born in...

Hutcheson Francis (1694–1746), Scottish philosopher who was the chief exponent of...

Huygens Christiaan (1629–95), Dutch physicist and astronomer who ranked among the...

Hwajaeng-non See KOREAN PHILOSOPHY.

hylomorphism the doctrine, first taught by Aristotle, that concrete substance consists...

hylozoism (from Greek hyle, 'matter', and zoe, 'life'), the doctrine that...

Hypatia (c.370–415), Greek Neoplatonist philosopher who lived and taught in Alexandria....