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  • whose works, highly influential at the dawn of the Enlightenment, caused great ... Tindal was born in 1653 to the Rev. John Tindal, Rector of Beer Ferrers ...
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  • philanthropist. He introduced the concept of “salesmanship” into print ... his efforts eventually resulted in the creation of the National Institutes ...
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  • century, known chiefly as the author of the work on the Jewish principles ... To counter the anti-Jewish polemic of the time, Albo sought to forge ...
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  • Jewish works refer to him by the acronym of his title and name, RaMBaM ... Maimonides is typically regarded as the greatest of the medieval Jewish ...
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  • writings about salvation and the nature of the cosmos influenced a number ... Böhme’s ideas about the process of Creation, the primacy of will ...
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  • Infinite Universe theory or continuous creation) is a model developed in ... The Steady State Theory of Bondi, Gold and Hoyle was inspired by the ...
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  • Unification Thought is the philosophy of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon ... First, it expresses a passion for the ideal of unity and harmony. Analysis ...
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  • quotient, or DQ, which replaced the use of mental ages in testing an individual’s ... a cause, and believed former assessments of general intelligence to be ...
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  • Samkhya, also Sankhya, (Sanskrit for "Enumeration") is one ... Since its philosophy regards the universe as consisting of two eternal ...
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  • 1753), Anglo-Irish philosopher and Bishop of Cloyne, was one of the three ... George Berkeley’s name in the history of philosophy is linked to ...
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  • twelfth-century Franco-Jewish rabbi and critic of Maimonides. to attempt a systematic integration of Aristotelianism into Jewish ...
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  • January 31, 1955) was a long-serving leader of the YMCA and the World Student ... From 1920 until 1928, he was the Chairperson of the WSCF. For his labors in ...
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  • quot;), or Hierogamy, refers to the coupling of a god and goddess or their ... The concept of the hieros gamos derives from ancient mythologies relating ...
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  • 9, 1934) is often considered the founder of modern public relations, or ... Criticized, as many in PR have been, for selling propaganda instead ...
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  • Cartesianism is the school of philosophy based on the fundamental ... for modern philosophy. The great thinkers of the seventeenth and eighteenth ...
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  • In Babylonian mythology, Tiamat is one of the foundational principles ... in the Enûma Elish, the Babylonian creation epic, she combines with ...
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  • Historically, yantras have been used in Hinduism for a variety of ... In its most recognizable form, a yantra is a type of sacred geometry ...
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  • is the proposal about the notion of computability, called the Church ... Other relevant contributions by Church are the proofs of the undecidablility ...
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  • for one's actions. The concept of autonomy is also found in education ... One of the best known philosophical theories of autonomy was developed ...
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  • New York, graduated from the University of Vermont, and began his journalistic ... Raymond is perhaps best known, however, for being the founder of the ...
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  • The Oslo Accords, officially called the Declaration of Principles ... The Oslo Accords were a culmination of a series of secret and public ...
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  • debate about the nature, limits, and causes of reason have been important ... cognition show that animals are capable of some types of on a lower level ...
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  • Creation is a theological notion or position in many religions or ... The resemblance of the "created" to the "creator" ...
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  • or Abenezra) (1092 or 1093 – 1167) was one of the most distinguished Jewish ... Born in Spain, he spent much of his life traveling in North Africa ...
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  • The Divine Principle or Exposition of the Divine Principle (in Korean ... The Divine Principle follows the format of systematic theology, basing ...
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  • than revelation—should form the basis of religion. In England and the ... that religion is based on natural principles of creation and therefore religion ...
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  • Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computer technology to aid ... important technology within the scope of computer-aided technologies ...
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  • Environmental engineering is the application of science and engineering ... incorporates elements from a wide range of disciplines, including chemistry ...
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  • Richard Cumberland (1631 - 1718) was an English philosopher and bishop ... and opposing the egoistic ethics of Thomas Hobbes. Cumberland ...
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  • movement occurring in the last years of the nineteenth century and ... even the "cottage" garden designs of William Robinson or Gertrude ...
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  • ) of Chalcedon (396 – 314 B.C.E.) was a Greek philosopher and third ... In his biography of Xenocrates, Diogenes Laertius recounts several ...
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  • nihilism and promoting it as the prime fault of Enlightenment thought and Kantianism ... Jacobi was born at Düsseldorf, the second son of a wealthy sugar ...
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  • Carl Menger (February 28, 1840 – February 26, 1921) was the founder ... Poland on February 28, 1840. He was the son of a wealthy family; his father ...
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  • India. He is best known as the founder of the Arya Samaj "Society ... who believed in the infallible authority of the Vedas. Dayananda advocated ...
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  • who developed Alfred Adler's system of individual psychology into ... with the school environment as an extension of the family. Thus, his techniques ...
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  • challenged the laissez faire economic policy of his time and criticized the ... should be changed. His Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation ...
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  • Thomism is the philosophical school that followed in the legacy of ... , Pope Pius X cautioned that the teachings of the Catholic Church cannot ...
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  • system known as Civil law. For the area of law in common law countries ... Civil law, or continental law, is the predominant system of law in ...
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  • Islamic philosophy (الفلسفة الإسلامية) is a branch ... thinkers, and contributed to the development of modern European philosophy ...
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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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  • 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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  • theologian. His life was marked by a series of difficulties with the Catholic ... historique et critique, consisting of articles concerning a wide ...
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  • that people require the positive influence of teachers and ritual praxis ... Little is known of the historical Xunzi, save that he was born in ...
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  • Ethics (from the Greek ethos – custom) in the sense of systems of ... ethics begins with the Greek Sophists of the fifth century B.C.E., who ...
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  • considered to be the original proponent of the Samkhya system of Indian ... second century C.E.) Kapila taught his principles to Asuri, who taught them ...
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  • by the texts, traditions and experience of the Jewish people. Judaism ... Jewish philosophy can be considered to take two directions; the use ...
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  • evidence points to a much earlier date of the union of the five tribes ... A member of the Mohawk Nation, he was instrumental in founding the ...
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  • voluntarily constrained by self-imposed principles that accommodate human ... ==The Goal of History== The goal of history is restoration or "re ...
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  • Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field of engineering that ... The need to identify and manipulate the properties of a system as ...
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  • tradition. In 1876 he became a professor of philosophy at Boston University ... Bowne identified the essence of a human being with the "person ...
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  • Socialist realism is a teleologically-oriented style of realistic ... What began as an attempt to depict a new kind of art later became ...
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  • Abstraction is the process of generalization by reducing the information ... Abstraction in philosophy is the process of forming a concept by identifying ...
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  • in 1919 after serving on the city council of Metz, he was arrested in 1940 ... Schumans's concept of supra-national democracy and his vision ...
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  • William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield PC (March 2, 1705 – March ... that slavery was immoral. This is an example of how a slavish adherence to ...
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  • Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human characteristics and qualities ... faiths have apprehended the nature of divine being(s) in terms of ...
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  • in human society was not based on market principles of exchange but rather ... Polanyi, chemist and philosopher. The son of a prominent member of a Hungarian ...
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  • as the “First Teacher”) because of his extensive commentaries ... ideal society based on a Neoplatonic concept of the Divine, in which the responsibility ...
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  • and military engineer whose formulation of the laws on the theoretical ... Although Carnot operated outside the mainstream of the scientific ...
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  • The question of being (Greek, τό ὄν, the present participle of ... Philosophers often suppose a certain sense of being as primary, and ...
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  • [[Image:Eugen Bleuler.jpg|thumb|right|Photograph of Eugen Bleuler.]] psychiatrist, was a pioneer in the treatment of psychoses, particularly schizophrenia ...
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  • in power and the established institutions of society, often in a sensationalist ... #039; Pilgrim's Progress, the task of such writers is to expose the ...
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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 satisfactorily demonstrate the existence of electromagnetic radiation waves ... As a pioneer opening the window onto the invisible but very real world ...
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  • Industrial engineering is the branch of engineering concerned with ... Industrial engineering draws upon the principles and methods of engineering ...
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  • Transcendentalism was a group of new ideas in literature, religion ... Transcendentalism began as a protest against the general state of ...
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  • In some systems of Hindu thought, Shakti may also be worshiped as ... The concept of Shakti, as both divine energy and as the goddess is ...
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  • and logician during the second half of the nineteenth century. He ... Lotze combined the monads of Gottfried Leibniz's spheres of individual ...
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  • Matter is made of atoms, and atoms are made of electrons and quarks ... time and space that we observe is the square of this complex spacetime, and ...
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  • His "refrigerator mother" theory of autism, now largely disfavored ... Bruno Bettelheim was born in Vienna, Austria, the son of a wood merchant ...
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  • Computer science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information ... computer programming involves the use of specific programming languages ...
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  • Ethology is a branch of zoology concerned with the study of animal ... The study of animal behavior touches upon the fact that people receive ...
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  • 1130 – 1200 C.E.) was a Confucian scholar of the Song dynasty who became ... was his moralization and ordering of the cosmos. By describing the ...
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  • Judaism is the religious culture of the Jewish people. While far from ... laws and commandments to them in the form of the Torah. Jewish practice ...
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  • , was a Russian author, a founder of the socialist realism literary ... Gorky was born in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, renamed Gorky in his ...
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  • known for being an outspoken critic of the Aristotelian philosophy ... made to memorize meaningless facts and rules of logic, and set out to reform ...
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  • – January 23, 1991), a Canadian, was one of the most distinguished literary ... degree at Victoria College, University of Toronto. He then studied theology ...
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  • The public domain consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive ... For example, the works of William Shakespeare and Edgar Allan Poe ...
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  • regarded as the “crown” or the “cream” of the Vedas ... philosophy, meditation, and the nature of God; they form the core spiritual ...
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  • A controlled vocabulary is a set of preselected terms from which a ... Vocabulary control includes policies, procedures, and methodologies ...
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  • A library catalog (or library catalogue) is a register of all bibliographic ... resource and are seldom updated. Many of the libraries that have retained ...
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  • The Sunshine Policy was the foreign policy of South Korea towards ... Korea's economy had developed into one of the strongest in the world ...
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  • and a noted writer. After the formation of Pakistan, Khan became a controversial ... was raised under the tutelage and example of his father, Khan Abdul Gaffar ...
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  • The Nuremberg Trials were a series of trials most notable for the ... There was a second set of trials of lesser war criminals that was ...
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  • financier, public official, and publisher of the Washington Post newspaper ... agent, Meyer also served as Chairman of the Federal Reserve. In 1946 ...
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  • Euclid (also referred to as Euclid of Alexandria) (Greek: ... Egypt, almost certainly during the reign of Ptolemy I (323 B.C.E.–283 ...
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  • The Treaty of Waitangi (Māori: Tiriti o Waitangi) is a treaty first ... the Treaty is nonetheless the subject of heated debate. Many Māori ...
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  • Humanism is an attitude of thought which gives primary importance ... There was another round of revival of humanism in the Age of Enlightenment ...
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  • omnipotence only to God. In the philosophies of Western monotheistic religions ... There are a variety of views of omnipotence, and the five most representative ...
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  • commentary on the Torah (the five books of Moses), written primarily in ... The Zohar is considered to be the greatest work of Jewish mysticism ...
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  • typically in response to an event or series of events which represents a critical ... The primary objective of humanitarian aid is to save lives, alleviate ...
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  • |Image_Caption= A crop circle consisting of multiple circles ... |Definition= A Geometric or abstract pattern formed by the flattening ...
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  • was an influential liberal thinker of the nineteenth century. John ... greatest happiness for the greatest number of people, and distinguished among ...
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  • 1877) was a French painter whose portrayals of peasants and scenes of everyday ... Following the Revolution of 1848, his representation of contemporary ...
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  • An open air museum is a distinct type of museum that exhibits its ... American models focus on representations of daily life, which should properly ...
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  • not limit himself to a mere clarification of the master’s ideas, but neither ... Fries was born at Barby in Saxony. He studied theology at the Academy ...
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  • Bāguàzhǎng is one of the major internal (Nèijiā) Chinese martial ... The creation of Baguazhang during the nineteenth century is attributed ...
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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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  • martial art that utilizes a large variety of techniques in defense against ... established judo in 1905, but many schools of jujutsu continued to evolve ...
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  • Freedom of the press (or press freedom) is the guarantee by a government ... to the public based on classification of information as sensitive, classified ...
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  • British theoretical physicist and a founder of the field of quantum mechanics ... England and grew up in the Bishopston area of the city. His father, Charles ...
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