People and Society

Virtue and Vice Assuming that human agents possess settled dispositions or character traits, some of which are especially deemed worthy...

Violence “Violence” is derived from the Latin violentia, “vehemence,” which itself comes from vis (force) + latus (to carry) and means,...

Volition The action of opening a door by pushing on it is composed of the agent’s action of voluntarily exerting force with his or her ...

Vitalism “Vitalism” is primarily a metaphysical doctrine concerning the nature of living organisms, although it has been generalized, b...

Juan Luis Vives  Juan Luis Vives, the Spanish humanist, was born in Valencia and died in Bruges. Considerably younger than such scholars...

Alfred Russel Wallace Alfred Russel Wallace, the English naturalist and coformulator with Charles Darwin of the theory of natural selec...

Richard Wahle Richard Wahle, the Austrian philosopher and psychologist, was born in Vienna. He was appointed Privatdozent in philosophy...