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  • category:image wanted Virtue ethics is one of three major theories in normative ethics, the other two being deontological ethics and consequentialism ...
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  • category:image wanted Metanarrative or grand narrative or mater narrative is a term developed by Jean-François Lyotard to mean a theory that ...
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  • Situational ethics, or situation ethics, is a teleological and consequential theory of ethics concerned with the outcome of an action as opposed ...
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  • === Analysis of teleology based on science === Teleology is a philosophical and theological study of purpose in nature ...
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  • Dialectical materialism is the philosophical expression of Marxism and Marxism-Leninism. The name refers to the notion that Marxism is a materialist ...
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  • quot;The Experimental Foundations of Galen's Teleology" Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 29A.1 (1998): 63-90. ...
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  • Socialist realism is a teleologically-oriented style of realistic art which has as its purpose the furtherance of the goals of socialism and ...
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  • Kinds of causes, predictability, and teleology are viewed by a practicing ... *1992 "The idea of teleology." Journal of the History of ...
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  • Mechanism is contrasted with vitalism and teleology, and is often criticized for overlooking the organic interdependent relationships found within ...
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  • instance, the final cause of an eye is sight (teleology). Additionally, things can be causes of one another, causing each other reciprocally, ...
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  • "Kant's Aesthetics and Teleology."] Retrieved August 21, 2007. The degree to which subjective influence affects one's view ...
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  • philosophy, theoretical physics, teleology, physiology *Philosophia rationalis, sive logica (1728) *Philosophia prima, sive Ontologia (1729) ...
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  • thus a metaphysics in which he tries to show the teleology of nature – the way in which the Absolute realizes itself through it. Schelling uses the ...
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  • Category:Philosophy and religion Helmut Richard Niebuhr (1894 – 1962) was an American Christian ethicist best known for his books The Meaning ...
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  • possible based on empirical observation (the teleology of Kant’s Critique of Judgment). A further aspect of the Neo-Kantian movement related ...
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  • and humanity, while others reject the idea of teleology and view the universe as existing for its own sake. An oft-cited feature of classical ...
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  • The question of being (Greek, τό ὄν, the present participle of the verb ειναι, "to be"; Latin, esse; German, Sein; French ...
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  • René Descartes (French ʁə'ne de'kaʁt ) (March 31, 1596 – February 11, 1650), also known as Renatus Cartesius (latinized form) ...
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  • the Aristotelian idea of an ethical teleology in the context of the ethical ideas of Augustine and Thomas Aquinas. ==Notes== ==References== ...
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  • Civil rights are the protections and privileges of personal power and rights given to all citizens by law. Civil rights are distinguished from ...
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  • Saint Anselm of Canterbury (1033 – April 21, 1109) was an Italian medieval philosopher, theologian, and church official who held the office ...
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  • as some kind of design or purpose or intention or teleology in the universe, is a central question of investigation and controversy. ...
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  • Cladistics, or phylogenetic systematics, is a system of classifying living and extinct organisms based on evolutionary ancestry as determined ...
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  • Greek word telos, meaning end or purpose. Teleology is the supposition that ... is giving a proposed view of God's teleology. ==== Aquinas and ...
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  • brought in their own humanistic version of teleology, saying that human nature will progress to the point of perfectibility. In his The Education of ...
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  • Category:Public Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Boas, Franz [[Image:FranzBoas.jpg|thumb|right|Franz Boas]] ...
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  • A virtue is a trait or disposition of character that leads to good behavior, for example, wisdom, courage, modesty, generosity, and self-control ...
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  • Edward III (November 13, 1312 – June 21, 1377) was one of the most successful English monarchs of the Middle Ages. Restoring royal authority ...
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  • onto nature. This mechanical explanation of teleology anticipated natural selection (see also Anthropic principle). # The universe is far from ...
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  • The philosophy of science, a sub-branch of epistemology, is the branch of philosophy that studies the philosophical assumptions, foundations ...
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  • Philosophy of religion is the application of the philosophical method to the subject matter of religion. Accordingly, it is the rational study ...
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