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  • Philosophical anthropology is the philosophical discipline that inquires into the essence of human nature and the human condition. In making ...
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  • Physiology (Greek Φυσιολογία, physis, meaning "nature ... Since the dawn of civilization, human beings have had a curiosity ...
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  • is. It is often called the “nature” of a thing such that it ... no real natures or essences (such as human nature), but only definitions ...
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  • for creativity that are to be found in human nature. ==Discovery== earlier. The discovery was described in Nature, 52:113-144 in 1894, and ...
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  • of John Locke, whose An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690) he attacked ... of God), or in thoroughly explaining its nature, and set out to complete ...
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  • of illusion also is reminds us that human nature has endless creativity ... Illusions of lightness and brightness can help reveal the nature of ...
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  • mind combined with an immutable human nature that the Lockean doctrine ... a political structure that best fits human nature. As such, the theory is ...
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  • or divinity, in order to assume human nature. Specifically, it refers ... with God. Kenosis, relative to the human nature, denotes the continual ...
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  • specific aspects of life--including human nature, social relationships ... #Human nature (people seen as intrinsically good, evil, or mixed); ...
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  • Wundt and Hering illusions are similar in nature to the Orbison illusion. ... *Fineman, Mark. 1996. The Nature of Visual Illusion. Dover Publications ...
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  • natural environment with the fulfillment of human needs so that these needs ... Union for the Conservation of Nature, "sustainable development ...
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  • The term natural philosophy, or the philosophy of nature (Latin, philosophia ... concerning the relationship of humans with nature and humanity’s perception ...
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  • is a corresponding similarity in pattern, nature, or structure between human ... or some continuity between the cosmos and human being is found in Pythagoras ...
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  • refers to a group of low-ranking male nature dieties that appear in both ... acts as messenger between the divine and human worlds, commonly holding ...
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  • an essential and undeniable aspect of human nature and that benevolence was ... (1726), including his well-known discourses on human nature. ...
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  • for creativity that is part of human nature. ==Discovery== ... 2008. Most current theories are similar in nature to that of Faubert and Herbert ...
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  • is meant by the term hominid reflects the nature of science, which often has ... * A humanoid is a vaguely human-shaped entity. ==Historical and current ...
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  • ==Human Nature and Ethics== Zhang explained the existence of imperfections in human nature by ...
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  • recognized as the first fossil found of a human ancestral relative dating ... internal, mental and spiritual, aspects of true human beings. ...
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  • desire as an essential part of human nature and declared that virtues ... are an unavoidable, essential part of human nature, and can be beneficial ...
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  • Thought encompasses theories on God, human nature, nature, ethics, art, ... **Expositions on intermediary issues: Theory of the Original Human Nature ...
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  • Baratynsky was concerned about the human consequences of the Industrial ... are among its best features; the stern nature of Finland was particularly ...
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  • common knowledge, obtained through logic (human reason) and from observing ... Gospel a Republication of the Religion of Nature (London, 1730, 2nd ed., 1731; ...
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  • human beings (CCC 416). Nevertheless, human nature has not been totally corrupted; ... * Original righteousness was an integral part of human nature, rather ...
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  • ethical standards for research with human subjects and arose as a result ... the fundamental rights and dignity of human beings in the research environment ...
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  • in terms of the damage that the first sin did to human nature. ... that Adam's sin did not affect human nature, and taught that humans ...
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  • to spread out of Africa and the first human ancestor to walk truly upright. The fragmentary nature of the hominid fossil record, and the often ...
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  • a leading figure in the study of human fossils. A strong supporter ... was also there that he started to write on human evolution. After three years ...
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  • and satisfying the endless fascination human beings have with novelty ... Cornsweet illusion.K.J.W. Craik. The Nature of Psychology. Cambridge ...
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  • and satisfying the endless fascination human beings have with novelty ... light collection of neighboring cells. In nature, this helps boost the perception ...
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  • thought which gives primary importance to human beings. Its outstanding historical ... meaning a student of human affairs or human nature. The movement developed ...
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  • 1960) in 1913. Ponzo suggested that the human mind judges an object's ... In addition to providing a means of studying the way the human visual ...
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  • for creativity that is part of human nature. ==Discovery== ... article"] – The ontological nature of the color afterimages ...
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  • examples of Homo sapiens sapiens, modern human beings. Cro-Magnons lived ... 2007). Given the life threatening nature of these injuries, it is ...
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  • are typically associated or identified with human abilities to engage in mathematics ... * Carruthers, P. 1992. Human Knowledge and Human Nature. Oxford: ...
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  • of soluble proteins due to its hydrophilic nature. With an easily removed hydrogen ... quot; since it cannot be synthesized by the human body from other compounds ...
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  • universal mechanism is a theory about the nature of the universe, closely ... The Gödel Theorem and Human Nature, a talk given by Hilary Putnam ...
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  • civilization, one of the earliest sites of human civilization. Archaeologists ... In April 2006, the scientific journal Nature announced that the oldest ...
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  • of the learning process undergone by normal human beings; so, anamnesis is ... from sensory experience, are innate to the human mind. Plato’s strategy ...
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  • of 'aidagara,' the view of human existence in relation to ... approaches to and understanding of human nature and ethics, and argued ...
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  • the interactionist model of "nature vs. nurture to allow both ... for the greatest advances in understanding human behavior. ...
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  • to adopt a holistic perspective on human development, developing his ... In 1948, he accepted a professorship in Human Development, Family Studies ...
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  • since it can both benefit or hinder human welfare. Some early texts ... reality into being as it is perceived by human consciousness. Therefore ...
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  • Fromm believed that human beings need to be responsible for their ... outgrowth of Fromm's theory of human nature. Fromm's most popular ...
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  • The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is a global ... reflects a growing sensitivity to nature on the part of people who ...
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  • this distinction took place only within human consciousness. underlying unity, God, and argued that as human understanding of both science ...
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  • The human nervous system is the most complex object known to science ... transmission in the nervous system. In the human brain, glia are estimated ...
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  • and mechanistic account of the world and of human beings. He is regarded as ... superstition and legend. He declared that human beings could not affect natural ...
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  • Lord) as a union of divine nature and human nature. He refused to attribute ... Lord) as a union of divine nature and human nature. He refused to attribute ...
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  • Lucien Lévy-Bruhl suggested that human beings use two kind of thinking: ... also taken to give deeper insight into human nature, showing that we have ...
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  • and logic. Discussion and debate about the nature, limits, and causes of reason ... traditionally been claimed as a distinctly human capacity, not to be found ...
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  • early forms of animism, which personifies nature, and from panpsychism, which ... during the Renaissance in the thought of nature philosophers such as Paracelsus ...
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  • (as primary substance) can be classified as human being, animal, living being ... accidental feature (quality) of his being human (essence/substance). For ...
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  • partly to his optimistic view of human nature, and partly to the fact ... In Adler's book Understanding Human Nature, he writes: ...
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  • Human genome is the genome of Homo sapiens; that is, the hereditary ... The Human Genome Project produced a reference sequence of the human ...
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  • the consideration of natural beings, nature, or the Earth because all ... contain critical examinations of human nature, modernity, civilization ...
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  • the democratic right to vote, and human rights. In the 1880s, when ... theories of government, democracy, and human rights to the Japanese public. ...
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  • philosophers, he recognized that human beings had different qualities ... in terms of universal determinism, and human nature could be explained in ...
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  • == Rain in nature == [[Image:Regnbyge.jpg|thumb|222px|Rain in the north ... The fine particulate matter produced by car exhaust and other human ...
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  • and his concept of divine, natural, and human law influenced Hugo Grotius. ... their concept of the supremacy of God with human freedom, responsibility and ...
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  • Richard Price's Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty, in which ... and Rousseau examine man in the state of nature, Ferguson asserts his position ...
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  • of ethics that seeks to understand the nature of ethical properties, and ... human virtues in conformity with human nature. Some recent ethical naturalists ...
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  • we acquire from things outside of us. Human experience or cognition is ... in the world takes place according to laws of nature. Kant's own ...
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  • nothingness (or no-thing-ness) of our human condition. Although Kierkegaard ... because there is no God, there is no human nature or ethical, universal ...
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  • he regarded as an essential aspect of human nature. Recognizing such evil ... In his final works Becker doubted that human nature was good. If the ...
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  • a serious infraction of the victim's human rights, namely the right ... on the other hand, is the taking of human life but in a manner considered ...
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  • being and emphasized the importance of human relationships and emotion ... ===Emotion as the essential human nature=== Traditional ethics are ...
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  • the depth (the hidden or deeper aspects) of human experience. Although not ... spiritual, as well as instinctive, in nature. According to depth psychology ...
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  • we have not well understood in ourselves as human beings. ... were depicted as having the head of a human being, similar to gorgons ...
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  • of cultures; nevertheless, the majority of human marriages have been monogamous ... politically-incorrect-truths-about-human-nature?page=2 Ten Politically ...
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  • of thoughts as a physical function in the human brain. However, his physical ... * Allen, Richard C. 1999. David Hartley on Human Nature. Albany, ...
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  • Natural law or the law of nature (Latin lex naturalis) is law whose content derives naturally from human nature or physical nature, and therefore ...
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  • was widely used in social sciences and human sciences and became a popular ... distinction from its use in the social and human sciences. After 1970s, however ...
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  • devastating effect of original sin on human nature than Barth did. Especially ... of personal encounter with God. The Divine-Human Encounter (1937), Man in ...
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  • as to the constitution of humanity, the nature of morality, and the origin ... truths, entitled to be called laws of nature, from the concurrence of ...
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  • Beauty is commonly defined as a characteristic present in objects, such as nature, art work, and a human person, that provides a perceptual experience ...
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  • Kant also attempted to explicate the nature, conditions, and limit of ... natures, conditions, and justifications of human knowledge particularly in ...
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  • of forms and behaviors that makes nature so fascinating to people. ... :It's a long way from Amphioxus to the meanest human cuss. ...
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  • more specifically in terms of will and human freedom. In modern philosophy ... an atheist Sartre held that there is no human nature as such, since there is ...
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  • for creativity that is part of human nature. ==Discovery== ... find new ways to study the way the human brain and visual system perceive ...
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  • itself have uncovered great secrets of human nature and so directly contributed ... Edwin Boring's work on the nature of scientific activity was ...
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  • and, therefore, incapable of knowing the nature of God. His De la Sagesse ... and presumption. Upon this view of human nature, Charron founded his moral ...
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  • Deity collected from the Appearances of Nature. In this, he described the ... he uses reason to establish a belief in Nature's Designer who man calls ...
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  • of two distinct natures: divine and human. After returning to Constantinople ... he had erred by insisting on "one nature" in Christ. This led ...
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  • refers to the self that must underlie all human thought and perception, even ... only be acknowledge through the door of human consciousness. ...
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  • greatly advanced understanding of human nature, certain aspects of his ... "R.C. Tallis, [http://human-nature.com/freud/tallis.html ...
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  • would not be in accord with God's nature (e.g., sinning or lying); ... chose to act through the laws of nature in the world, and that choice ...
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  • but admitted that virtue contributed to human happiness, making happiness ... our senses. We can know nothing about the nature of the objects that cause ...
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  • Review of Morton Kaplan’s Justice, Human Nature, and Political Obligation ... * Justice, Human Nature, and Political Obligation, 1976. ...
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  • him to make logical propositions about the nature and existence of disembodied ... some Christian thinkers, that divided human nature into three parts: Body ...
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  • The beginning of the barter trade originated at the time human societies ... system, which is more informal in nature than that of formal barter ...
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  • as well as an observable principle of nature. This cycle is inextricably ... cultures who celebrated the cycles of nature, the various seasons, and ...
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  • the person. This darker side of human nature, uncontrollably aggressive ... of the werewolf as the duality for human nature; the wolf is sometimes ...
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  • absorbing nutrients for the plant, with the human digestive system, which functions ... soil is known as osmosis. Because of the nature of osmosis, saline water ...
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  • material objects exist independently of human perception of them, and promoted ... *1961. Reflections on Human Nature. Johns Hopkins U. Press. ISBN 0 ...
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  • and Spinoza's vitalist view of nature came to be known to others ... in the Letters on Spinoza, but that the nature of the cognition. In this ...
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  • revelation and sought truth in reason and nature), he became a prolific writer ... He promoted pansensism, the idea that all things in nature are endowed ...
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  • In this work, he identified the essence of human beings with “playfulness ... He conceived history as the totality of diverse aspects of human life ...
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  • The doctrine of total depravity asserts that people are by nature ... the relation between divine grace and human free will–namely, whether ...
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  • Ross studied human nature in detail, regarding human beings as essential ... in those societies. He analyzed human nature, particularly the part ...
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