Hindu philosophy

By Clear, Edeltraud Harzer

Hindu philosophy is the longest surviving philosophical tradition in India. We can recognize several historical stages. The earliest, from around 700 bc, was the proto-philosophical period, when ...

Han Fei/Han Fei-tzu

see Han Feizi.

Harmonia

see Philolaus. Pythagoreanism.

Haskalah

see Enlightenment, Jewish.

Heaven, Chinese concept of

see Tian.

Hegasias

see Cyrenaics.

Hemerken, Thomas

see Thomas à Kempis.

Hermeneutics, legal

see Legal hermeneutics.

High-order logics

see Second- and higher-order logics.

Hipparchia

see Cynics.

History, explanation in

see Explanation in history and social science.

History, holism and individualism in

see Holism and individualism in history and social science.

Hsin (heart-and-mind)

see Xin (heart-and-mind).

Hsin (trustworthiness)

see Xin (trustworthiness).

Hsing

see Xing.

Hsün Tsu/Hsün Tzu

see Xunzi.

Huai-Nan Tzu

see Huainanzi.

Hyppolite, Jean

see Hegelianism.

Haecceity and thisness

By Ingram, David

A ‘haecceity’ (from the Latin, haecceitas, which translates literally as ‘thisness’) is a certain kind of property. In broad outline, a thisness is a primitive, particular, nonqualitative ...

Halakhah

By Zohar, Noam J.

The central ideal of rabbinic Judaism is that of living by the Torah, that is, God’s teachings. These teachings are mediated by a detailed normative system called ...

Happiness

By Griffin, J.P.

In ordinary use, the word ‘happiness’ has to do with one’s situation (one is fortunate) or with one’s state of mind (one is glad, cheerful) or, typically, with ...

Happiness

By Besser, Lorraine L.

Happiness is a fundamental, prudential value. It is something good for the person who has it. Most philosophers accept that there is a difference between happiness and well-being, ...

Hasidism

By Elior, Rachel

Its name literally meaning pietism, Hasidism is a mystical renewal movement that originated in eastern Europe in the mid-eighteenth century. It has become one of the most important ...

Heaven

By Zagzebski, Linda

In Christian theology, heaven is both the dwelling place of God and the angels, and the place where all who are saved ultimately go after death and judgment ...

Heaven, Indian conceptions of

By Smith, Frederick M.

Heaven is an important part of Indian religious cosmology and also figures strongly in Indian philosophical discourse. In the cosmologies of the early period of Indian thought, from ...