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  • The English Historical School of Economics, although not nearly as ... The school considered itself the intellectual heirs of past figures ...
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  • Educated through the difficult life of an American emigrant in the ... Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and held the position ...
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  • with the 1641 publication, in Paris, of Rene Descartes' Meditationes ... body) discussed in the philosophical systems of six major figures in the Modern ...
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  • The Book of Numbers is the fourth of the books of the Pentateuch, ... The main theme running through the Book of Numbers is the people& ...
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  • first and most well-known governor-general of British India, from 1773 to ... Hastings, unlike many of his successors, respected and admired Indian ...
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  • Reform Judaism refers to the spectrum of beliefs, practices, and institutions ... Jewish law and rejects virtually all aspects of the ceremonial and dietary ...
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  • to order capital punishment. The legitimacy of political authority is, however ... Since the emergence of the social sciences, authority has been a subject ...
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  • The Therapeutae (meaning: "healers") were an ancient order ... According to Philo, communities of Therapeutae were widely established ...
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  • as "Word," but can also mean thought, speech, meaning, reason ... such as Dao (Tao), the Vedic notion of rta, and the Hindu and Buddhist ...
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  • (c. 386 – c. 451 C.E.) was archbishop of Constantinople from April 10 ... His political rival, Cyril, bishop of Alexandria, used the Christological ...
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  • Positivism is a family of philosophical views characterized by a highly ... As Niccola Abbagnano has put it: The characteristic theses of positivism ...
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  • ) is a major Jewish festival, also known as Succoth, Sukkos, the Feast ... in the wilderness under the leadership of Moses. However, it may have ...
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  • Inquisition, (capitalized I) as broadly used, refers to the judgment ... to the modern mindset. However, the notion of religious liberty and of freedom ...
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  • and Anaximenes, explored the origin of existing beings and developed ... Pythagoras approached the question of being from an angle that was ...
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  • Praise and blame are closely connected with the concept of moral responsibility ... blame someone? There are two main schools of thought on this question. Firstly ...
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  • a French thinker known as the "father of sociology." He developed ... in his later work, he embraced the concept of love as bringing the solution ...
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  • Justice is the ideal, morally correct state of things and persons ... important: "Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth ...
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  • challenged the laissez faire economic policy of his time and criticized the ... be changed. His Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation, was published ...
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  • A Gentile is a non-Jew, the term being a common English translation ... who settled among the Jews. The Book of Leviticus thus commands: "The ...
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  • The term social contract describes a broad class of philosophical ... Common to all of these theories is the notion of a sovereign will ...
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