metafisico

Definitions of metafisico
  1. noun
    a specialist in philosophy
    synonyms: filosofo, pensatore
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    Aristotele
    one of the greatest of the ancient Athenian philosophers; pupil of Plato; teacher of Alexander the Great (384-322 BC)
    Confucio
    Chinese philosopher whose ideas and sayings were collected after his death and became the basis of a philosophical doctrine known a Confucianism (circa 551-478 BC)
    Renato Cartesio
    French philosopher and mathematician; developed dualistic theory of mind and matter; introduced the use of coordinates to locate a point in two or three dimensions (1596-1650)
    Epicuro
    Greek philosopher who believed that the world is a random combination of atoms and that pleasure is the highest good (341-270 BC)
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
    German philosopher whose three stage process of dialectical reasoning was adopted by Karl Marx (1770-1831)
    Immanuel Kant
    influential German idealist philosopher (1724-1804)
    Gottlieb Wilhelm Leibniz
    German philosopher and mathematician who thought of the universe as consisting of independent monads and who devised a system of the calculus independent of Newton (1646-1716)
    John Locke
    English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience (1632-1704)
    Niccolò Machiavelli
    a statesman of Florence who advocated a strong central government (1469-1527)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician and philosopher and Jansenist; invented an adding machine; contributed (with Fermat) to the theory of probability (1623-1662)
    Platone
    ancient Athenian philosopher; pupil of Socrates; teacher of Aristotle (428-347 BC)
    Pitagora
    Greek philosopher and mathematician who proved the Pythagorean theorem; considered to be the first true mathematician (circa 580-500 BC)
    Jean Jacques Rousseau
    French philosopher and writer born in Switzerland; believed that the natural goodness of man was warped by society; ideas influenced the French Revolution (1712-1778)
    Bertrand Arthur William Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician who collaborated with Whitehead (1872-1970)
    Socrate
    ancient Athenian philosopher; teacher of Plato and Xenophon (470-399 BC)
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    esistenzialista
    a philosopher who emphasizes freedom of choice and personal responsibility but who regards human existence in a hostile universe as unexplainable
    moralista
    a philosopher who specializes in morals and moral problems
    stoico
    a member of the ancient Greek school of philosophy founded by Zeno
    calvinista
    an adherent of the theological doctrines of John Calvin
    fatalista
    anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny
    pragmatista
    an adherent of philosophical pragmatism
    utilitarista
    someone who believes that the value of a thing depends on its utility
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    cultore, dotto, intellettuale, letterato, studioso
    a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines
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