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- philosopher whose successful reorganization of the state of Ch'in or ... reforms by first establishing the authority of law (fa), which was to be enforced ...17 KB (2,693 words) - 13:12, 27 January 2023
- Kant to the epistemological approach of his philosophy. Kant presents ... at a synthesis between existing forms of idealism (affirming the reality ...14 KB (2,167 words) - 00:54, 2 May 2023
- mutual incompatibility, real or apparent, of two laws. It is a term often ... The term antinomy is found in the works of Plutarch (46 – 127), ...15 KB (2,342 words) - 06:35, 31 July 2023
- Coulomb was born in Angoulême, France. He was the son of Henry Coulomb ... During this time, Coulomb submitted some of his first work to the Society ...9 KB (1,400 words) - 01:48, 4 December 2023
- The Alien and Sedition Acts were four laws passed by the United States ... The most controversial of the four statutes was the Sedition Act, ...12 KB (1,748 words) - 18:22, 21 July 2023
- is logically distinct both from early forms of animism, which personifies ... Neo-Pythagoreans and especially the Neo-Platonic school of Alexandria ...13 KB (1,922 words) - 13:20, 4 February 2023
- strict interpretation and application of the laws and ethics promulgated ... The Hasidic movement, which is a subset of Haredi Judaism, is less focused ...17 KB (2,525 words) - 02:20, 18 November 2022
- Mishnah, from approx. 70-200 C.E. The period of the Tannaim, also referred ... ), which also is the root-word of Mishnah. The verb shanah ( ...11 KB (1,610 words) - 04:25, 27 February 2023
- omnipotence only to God. In the philosophies of Western monotheistic religions ... There are a variety of views of omnipotence, and the five most representative ...25 KB (3,894 words) - 00:37, 18 November 2022
- It refers to the “supreme principle of morality” (4:392), from which ... " Since maxims are, roughly, principles of action, the categorical imperative ...22 KB (3,484 words) - 17:59, 30 November 2023
- Along with Roberto Bellarmine, he was one of the leading thinkers who defended ... was the first systematic and extensive work of metaphysics composed in the ...12 KB (1,759 words) - 04:55, 9 April 2024
- Wade-Giles: Fa-chia; literally "School of law") was one of the four ... virtue.” Legalists held utilitarian views of humanity and received support ...22 KB (3,459 words) - 19:04, 25 October 2022
- referring to the desire or interest of a people as a whole. It is ... General will is what a fully-informed body politic (community of citizens ...14 KB (2,206 words) - 06:45, 18 April 2024
- meaning "power") is a branch of physics that studies the effects ... quot; thus, thermodynamics is the study of the movement of energy and ...25 KB (3,670 words) - 18:29, 30 April 2023
- Blasphemy is the defamation of the name of one or more gods. In a ... In Judaism, blasphemy is the uttering of God's name and/or speaking ...20 KB (3,022 words) - 14:33, 8 February 2022
- philosopher, theologian, and bishop of Lincoln, is well-known for ... Grosseteste was the first of the Scholastics to fully understand Aristotle ...16 KB (2,394 words) - 05:05, 15 December 2022
- before being appointed as Wykeham professor of logic at New College, Oxford ... His earliest book, Perception (1932), rejected causal theories of ...10 KB (1,458 words) - 17:46, 29 July 2023
- Excellence/Posterity") was the priest of Midian and Moses' father ... sacrificial feast with Aaron and the elders of Israel. Moses then accepted ...13 KB (2,051 words) - 02:58, 1 August 2022
- In philosophy the idea of choice usually arises in discussions of ... In modern philosophy, the notion of choice has received a wide variety ...11 KB (1,729 words) - 17:10, 10 December 2023
- to the most important scriptural writings of Judaism, which constitute the ... The five books of the Pentateuch are titled as follows: ...20 KB (3,080 words) - 07:22, 23 November 2022
- and logician during the second half of the nineteenth century. He ... Lotze combined the monads of Gottfried Leibniz's spheres of individual ...24 KB (3,658 words) - 16:57, 22 December 2022
- Freedom of speech is the ability to speak without censorship or limitation ... Freedom of speech is a key factor in the spread of information in ...18 KB (2,627 words) - 10:48, 11 April 2024
- is best known as an early advocate of utilitarianism. He was a political ... Bentham argued in favor of individual and economic freedom, including ...18 KB (2,665 words) - 07:56, 3 April 2024
- French physicist, philosopher and historian of science. His most influential ... At the young age of eleven, Duhem entered the Collège Stanislas. ...15 KB (2,236 words) - 05:22, 24 November 2022
- 6, 1884) was an Austrian monk whose studies of the inheritance of traits in ... more than 20,000 pea plants inside the walls of his monastery. He was a teacher ...16 KB (2,499 words) - 19:37, 5 January 2024
- , a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher, was one of the chief pioneers of the revival ... His clarification of the distinction between Platonic and Aristotelian ...11 KB (1,525 words) - 06:39, 18 April 2024
- medieval Korean noble and politician of the early Joseon dynasty. He ... Goryeo dynasty, took the Neo-Confucianism of Zuxhi and the Cheng brothers ...11 KB (1,633 words) - 01:06, 9 February 2023
- gained international fame as the co-author of The Polish Peasant in Europe ... information from written records of the society they were studying ...11 KB (1,469 words) - 07:56, 21 May 2021
- Theodora (c. 500 – June 28, 548) was empress of the Byzantine Empire ... She used her influence to promote the status of women, enhancing their ...8 KB (1,261 words) - 02:27, 19 April 2023
- Antitrust laws, or competition laws, are laws which prohibit anti ... The history of competition law reaches back further than the Roman ...26 KB (3,912 words) - 06:41, 31 July 2023
- a German ethnologist and archaeologist, one of the leading experts on prehistoric ... life does, noting three phases in the life of a culture. He also recognized ...10 KB (1,463 words) - 07:46, 6 March 2023
- 1908) was a British philosopher and leader of the Neo-Hegelian school in ... Caird published two sets of Gifford lectures, The Evolution of Religion ...11 KB (1,641 words) - 18:22, 12 February 2024
- philosopher who advocated a reconstruction of society based on idea that ... in units called “phalanxes” composed of male and female representatives ...19 KB (2,798 words) - 01:59, 4 December 2023
- quot;) refers to most important scriptures of Judaism that are the foundation ... oral law, encompassing the entire spectrum of authoritative Jewish religious ...24 KB (3,856 words) - 04:01, 1 May 2023
- Clarence Walker Barron (July 2, 1855 – October 2, 1928) is one of ... His notes of conversations, which revealed how closely connected and ...12 KB (1,777 words) - 10:25, 19 December 2023
- Astrophysics is the branch of astronomy that deals with the physics ... They have also observed the birth and death of stars, cosmic rays, the cosmic ...14 KB (1,947 words) - 18:28, 19 August 2023
- :Note: Zeno of Citium should not be confused with Zeno of Elea. ... Zeno of Citium (The Stoic) (sometime called Zeno Apathea) (333 – ...9 KB (1,466 words) - 05:48, 13 June 2023
- trauma on defenseless children. Victims of child abuse often become abusers ... The solution to the widespread phenomenon of child abuse cannot be found ...23 KB (3,424 words) - 15:27, 10 December 2023
- term designated a profession in or a group of teachers of rhetoric. Rhetoricians ... Socrates and Plato challenged sophist ideas of replacing rhetorical ...11 KB (1,583 words) - 01:17, 4 February 2023
- philosopher, and encyclopedist, and one of the first outspoken atheists ... place for all the intellectual figures of his time, radical and conservative ...19 KB (2,831 words) - 08:10, 20 September 2023
- He considered mathematics the ideal form of knowledge, and the laws of ... D'Alembert was an important figure of the French Enlightenment ...12 KB (1,720 words) - 17:39, 2 April 2024
- Zi (1619 - 1692) was a Chinese philosopher of the late Ming and early Ch ... Like other great thinkers of the transition era between the Ming and ...11 KB (1,753 words) - 22:51, 3 May 2023
- he has now come to be regarded as one of the four or so most important ... Frege began his studies at the University of Jena in 1869, moving to Göttingen ...16 KB (2,250 words) - 20:22, 11 September 2021
- nature," derived from the arrangement of Aristotle's works) is ... A central part of metaphysics is ontology, which is the study of being ...19 KB (2,966 words) - 16:22, 9 November 2022
- to mythology. They initiated a new method of explanation known as philosophy ... The pre-Socratic style of thought is often called natural philosophy ...21 KB (3,010 words) - 22:19, 30 November 2022
- rabbi, Jewish philosopher, and exegete of the geonic period, known for ... quot; is apparently the Hebrew equivalent of his Arabic name, "Sa& ...22 KB (3,468 words) - 18:29, 22 December 2022
- Natural law or the law of nature (Latin lex naturalis) is law whose ... Though Aristotle is often referred to as “the father of natural law,” ...24 KB (3,647 words) - 15:20, 11 November 2022
- by the belief that while one set of beliefs is absolutely true ... Broadly speaking, there are two schools of Inclusivist thought: ...21 KB (3,342 words) - 22:00, 4 February 2023
- Paternalism refers to acting for the good of another person against ... Paternalism can effect various spheres of life, be it financial (mandatory ...22 KB (3,463 words) - 09:06, 18 November 2022
- Utopia is a term denoting a visionary or ideally perfect state of ... to create a perfect society. Utopian thought deals with morality, ethics ...19 KB (2,908 words) - 14:05, 3 May 2023
- Princeton, New Jersey) was a philosopher of science and a major figure ... Hempel was a major theorist of logical positivism, but, at later stage ...24 KB (3,610 words) - 19:18, 26 November 2023
- , in theology, is the idea that members of a particular religious group ... The topic of antinomianism is quite complex because it involves the ...21 KB (3,237 words) - 06:34, 31 July 2023
- 2, 1927) was a Swedish chemist and one of the founders of the science ... district near Uppsala, Sweden, the son of Svante Gustav and Carolina ...15 KB (2,260 words) - 00:32, 27 February 2023
- Civil rights are the protections and privileges of personal power ... Laws guaranteeing civil rights may be written down, derived from custom ...29 KB (4,520 words) - 22:29, 10 December 2023
- with free will, and oversimplification of complex phenomena. == Mechanism as the principles of nature== The older doctrine which ...18 KB (2,812 words) - 09:35, 10 March 2023
- was an English political theorist and one of the first absolutists. Born ... on natural law, which equated the authority of the king over his subjects ...12 KB (1,931 words) - 05:04, 15 December 2022
- theological writer, and Anglican archbishop of Dublin (1831–1863). Whately’s ... to hold public office, and state endowment of the Roman Catholic clergy. ...13 KB (2,059 words) - 01:50, 14 December 2022
- The Physiocrats were a group of economists who believed that the wealth ... The most significant contribution of the physiocrats was their emphasis ...22 KB (3,407 words) - 05:10, 24 November 2022
- He was the leading Aristotelian scholar of the Alexandrist group. His ... Pomponazzi also radically criticized what are generally thought of ...11 KB (1,608 words) - 05:29, 24 November 2022
- In Mesopotamian religion Shamash was the Akkadian name of the sun ... In addition to being the god of the sun, Shamash was also the deity ...13 KB (2,138 words) - 12:22, 27 January 2023
- World Tomorrow and was an associate editor of The Nation. He also participated ... that he attested to. He was a stalwart of socialism who opposed communism ...11 KB (1,518 words) - 02:47, 16 November 2022
- States law and the basis for the exercise of judicial review of Federal ... Marbury, who had been appointed as Justice of the Peace in the District of ...23 KB (3,669 words) - 03:04, 6 November 2022
- Won Buddhism, Wonbulgyo, a compound of the Korean won (circle) and ... enlightenment in 1916 and had a precognition of the world entering an era of ...8 KB (1,141 words) - 14:59, 17 April 2023
- 27, 1963) was an American economist, the son of John Bates Clark. He was one ... Clark recognized that there were aspects of human nature that influenced ...11 KB (1,541 words) - 06:33, 3 August 2022
- Unification thought sees history as a theater in which God works voluntarily ... ==The Goal of History== The goal of history is restoration or "re ...26 KB (3,993 words) - 02:18, 18 April 2023
- than revelation—should form the basis of religion. In England and the ... In France, on the other hand, Deism in the person of Voltaire took ...25 KB (3,734 words) - 09:13, 28 January 2024
- 1891) was a French painter and the founder of Neo-Impressionism. His large ... Influenced by the scientist-writers of the nineteenth century, Seurat ...12 KB (1,923 words) - 22:59, 24 November 2022
- 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 ...9 KB (1,390 words) - 12:47, 6 November 2021
- perform certain acts, they govern ways of acting and of being treated ... as opposed to imperfect duties such as acts of charity). Whether these duties ...21 KB (3,233 words) - 01:39, 15 December 2022
- political theorist, statesman, and leader of the Meiji Enlightenment in ... During his youth, Kato was a liberal advocate of constitutional government ...10 KB (1,423 words) - 17:14, 5 October 2022
- Jean-Philippe Rameau (September 25, 1683 - September 12, 1764) was ... functional harmony and the principles of acoustics (as discovered by ...9 KB (1,322 words) - 17:12, 2 April 2024
- – February 21, 1677), is considered one of the great rationalists of seventeenth ... Spinoza was born to a family of Sephardic Jews, among the Spanish ...28 KB (4,336 words) - 11:00, 20 September 2023
- Deuteronomy is the fifth book of the Hebrew Bible. It is part of Judaism ... The language of Deuteronomy is often inspiring and poetic, portrayed ...25 KB (3,999 words) - 07:26, 17 November 2023
- from and within the contexts and history of Christianity. While Ethics ... Catholic moral theology is a major category of doctrine in the Roman ...11 KB (1,633 words) - 21:19, 9 November 2022
- born in Abdera in Ancient Greece. He was one of the best known Sophists. Protagoras is best known for his dictum: "Man is the measure ...6 KB (889 words) - 08:16, 2 December 2022
- Epicureanism is a system of philosophy based upon the teachings of ... pleasure is an important constituent of human happiness, but only when ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 19:06, 13 February 2024
- the “Psychological School,” is a school of economic thought that advocates ... from the method advocated by the majority of contemporary economists, the ...22 KB (3,203 words) - 19:14, 22 August 2023
- theologian. As a Pythagorean mystic, he thought of the universe as founded ... Many of Kepler's writings reflect his deep desire to understand ...31 KB (4,812 words) - 07:18, 5 April 2024
- 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 ...10 KB (1,513 words) - 11:04, 11 April 2024
- applying evolutionary theory to the study of politics and ethics. He coined ... Herbert Spencer was born in Derby, England on April 27, 1820, the ...19 KB (2,968 words) - 15:43, 25 January 2023
- Shammai (50 B.C.E. – 30 C.E.) was a famous Jewish scholar of the ... Shammai's school became known as the House of Shammai (Beit Shammai ...13 KB (2,076 words) - 13:10, 27 January 2023
- William of Auvergne (c. 1190 – 1248), Bishop of Paris from 1228 ... William was thoroughly acquainted with the works of Aristotle, and ...11 KB (1,755 words) - 15:20, 14 May 2023
- twelfth-century Franco-Jewish rabbi and critic of Maimonides. to attempt a systematic integration of Aristotelianism into Jewish ...20 KB (3,202 words) - 22:53, 8 April 2021
- Collingwood is best known for his The Idea of History, a work collated soon ... Collingwood published several editions of The Archaeology of Roman Britain ...17 KB (2,548 words) - 02:20, 16 December 2022
- Freedom is traditionally understood as independence of the arbitrary ... A slave is constantly subject to the will of another. By contrast ...28 KB (4,455 words) - 10:43, 11 April 2024
- Ashkenazic pronunciation), is the weekly day of rest in Judaism, some forms ... Christianity inherited the Jewish tradition of Sabbath, but gradually ...24 KB (3,695 words) - 18:30, 22 December 2022
- Supreme Court decision in the jurisprudence of the United States, upholding ... The decision was handed down by a vote of 7 to 1, with the majority ...10 KB (1,574 words) - 08:04, 24 November 2022
- Ancient philosophy is philosophy in antiquity, or before the end of ... concerns that continue to be major parts of the traditions today. ...16 KB (2,127 words) - 19:43, 26 July 2023
- out") is a parameter or measure of spatial characteristics of ... Thus, an idealized point (with a thickness of zero or nearly zero ...16 KB (2,438 words) - 15:22, 29 January 2024
- Polish-Jewish Rabbi, theologian, historian of religion and a leader of Progressive ... the Nazis seized power, he became a leader of the representative Jewish body ...12 KB (1,837 words) - 20:03, 25 October 2022
- who lived during the most brilliant era of Roman public life. An academic ... For Cicero, politics took precedence over philosophy. Most of his ...34 KB (5,558 words) - 22:01, 10 December 2023
- Judaism is the religious culture of the Jewish people. While far from ... According to Jewish thought, God established a covenant with the Jewish ...32 KB (4,795 words) - 08:46, 12 May 2024
- Today Mach is probably best known for his positivistic account of ... Mach had an enormous range of scientific interests. According to Peter ...9 KB (1,301 words) - 21:22, 20 March 2024
- The Divine Right of Kings is a political and religious doctrine of ... The origins of the theory are rooted in the medieval idea that God ...11 KB (1,829 words) - 15:08, 26 August 2020
- "for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the ... Wigner is important for having laid the foundation for the theory ...11 KB (1,566 words) - 04:15, 23 March 2024
- together with Confucius, is considered one of the two great moral teachers ... Mozi founded the school of Mohism and argued strongly against Confucianism ...15 KB (2,461 words) - 17:52, 10 November 2022
- another object while under the influence of a source of centripetal force ... who formulated his results in his three laws of planetary motion based ...29 KB (4,580 words) - 01:05, 18 November 2022
- Historically, yantras have been used in Hinduism for a variety of ... In its most recognizable form, a yantra is a type of sacred geometry ...9 KB (1,275 words) - 10:12, 22 May 2023
- 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 ...15 KB (2,212 words) - 01:41, 8 December 2022
- as a modification of Newtonian physics. It was created to deal with ... Einstein postulated that the speed of light is the same for all observers ...42 KB (6,653 words) - 19:12, 7 February 2023
