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- Eudaimonism is an ethical theory which maintains that happiness (eudaimonia) is reached through virtue (aretê). Eudaimonia and aretê are two ...33 KB (5,174 words) - 04:41, 22 March 2024
- Neo-Hegelianism refers to several schools of thought associated with and inspired by the ideas of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, a German idealist ...8 KB (1,042 words) - 16:16, 11 November 2022
- Yury Olesha ( Юрий Карлович Олеша , (May 3, 1899 – May 10, 1960) was a Russian novelist during the early Soviet period. He ...7 KB (1,003 words) - 10:31, 7 June 2023
- Sir John Carew Eccles (January 27, 1903 – May 2, 1997) was an Australian neurophysiologist who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ...14 KB (2,183 words) - 17:05, 5 April 2024
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne ([ miʃɛl ekɛm də mɔ̃tɛɲ ]) (February 28, 1533 – September 13, 1592) was one of the most influential writers ...14 KB (2,276 words) - 17:11, 9 November 2022
- Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was a twentieth-century American poet, whose verse has been the subject of more critical ...19 KB (3,090 words) - 20:56, 18 November 2022
- Legal ethics is a branch of applied ethics, having to do with the study and application of what is right and wrong, good and bad, in the practice ...17 KB (2,791 words) - 19:04, 25 October 2022
- The First Epistle of Peter is a book of the New Testament traditionally held to have been written by Saint Peter the apostle during his time ...7 KB (1,040 words) - 17:22, 28 March 2024
- José Ortega y Gasset (May 9, 1883 - October 18, 1955) was a Spanish philosopher and humanist who greatly influenced the cultural and literary ...25 KB (3,932 words) - 01:34, 8 September 2022
- Saint Bonaventura also Bonaventure (born Giovanni di Fidanza) (1221 - July 15, 1274), was a Franciscan theologian, philospher, general of the ...20 KB (3,032 words) - 07:21, 17 November 2023
- Philosophical anthropology is the philosophical discipline that inquires into the essence of human nature and the human condition. In making ...8 KB (1,089 words) - 04:13, 24 November 2022
- Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. (born March 31, 1948) was the forty-fifth Vice President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001 ...32 KB (4,643 words) - 04:21, 17 June 2023
- category:image wanted Virtue ethics is one of three major theories in normative ethics, the other two being deontological ethics and consequentialism ...28 KB (4,212 words) - 20:38, 3 May 2023
- Bernard Placidus Johann Nepomuk Bolzano (October 5, 1781 – December 18, 1848) was a Czech mathematician, theologian, philosopher, and logician ...15 KB (2,299 words) - 11:18, 28 September 2023
- First Cause is term introduced by Aristotle and used in philosophy and theology. Aristotle noted that things in nature are caused and that these ...8 KB (1,282 words) - 19:54, 26 March 2024
- Category:Lawyers and Jurists [[Image:Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt - Hugo Grotius.jpg|thumb|230px|Hugo Grotius by Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, 1631]] ...25 KB (3,772 words) - 12:17, 4 February 2023
- John Dillinger (June 22, 1903 – July 22, 1934) was an American bank robber, considered by some to be a dangerous criminal, while others idealized ...13 KB (2,104 words) - 18:51, 5 April 2024
- The First Great Awakening (often referred by historians as the Great Awakening) is the name sometimes given to a period of heightened religious ...15 KB (2,094 words) - 17:24, 28 March 2024
- Karma (Sanskrit: कर्म from the root kri, "to do") is a term used in several eastern religions referring to the entire cycle ...16 KB (2,496 words) - 07:22, 5 October 2022
- Professor Roderick Ninian Smart (May 6, 1927 – January 29, 2001) was a Scottish writer and university educator. He was a pioneer in the field ...21 KB (3,067 words) - 09:56, 11 March 2023
- Category:Psychologists Category:Anthropologists Category:Writers and poets Category:Image wanted Becker, Ernest Ernest Becker (September 27, 1924 ...20 KB (3,151 words) - 19:31, 13 February 2024
- Category:Media Professionals Cooper, Kent Kent Cooper (March 22, 1880 - January 31, 1965) was a distinguished journalist who served with the Associated ...7 KB (1,050 words) - 03:26, 6 October 2022
- Aesop (also spelled Æsop, from the Greek Αἴσωπος – Aisōpos) is the figure traditionally credited with the collection of fables identified ...14 KB (2,215 words) - 05:51, 16 June 2023
- Max Scheler (August 22, 1874 - May 19, 1928) was a German philosopher known for his work in phenomenology, ethics, and philosophical anthropology ...14 KB (2,180 words) - 00:58, 9 November 2022
- Spencer Tracy (April 5, 1900 – June 10, 1967) was a two-time Academy Award-winning American film and stage actor who appeared in 74 films from ...13 KB (2,011 words) - 19:15, 7 February 2023
- Category:Public Anaximander (Greek: Αναξίμανδρος) (c. 609 – 547 b.c.e.) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, the second of the ...7 KB (1,099 words) - 19:08, 26 July 2023
- Basilides (early second century) was a Gnostic Christian religious teacher in Alexandria, Egypt. He taught a dualistic theology that emphasized ...17 KB (2,600 words) - 11:07, 20 September 2023
- Ellen Gould White (née Harmon) (November 26, 1827 - July 16, 1915) was co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, prolific writer, lecturer ...20 KB (3,079 words) - 17:14, 13 February 2024
- The Right Reverend James Edward Lesslie Newbigin C.B.E. (December 8, 1909 – January 30, 1998) was a distinguished British theologian, missionary ...30 KB (4,685 words) - 22:01, 25 October 2022
- Rosslyn Chapel, properly named the Collegiate Church of St Matthew, was originally a Roman Catholic church founded in the village of Roslin, ...15 KB (2,311 words) - 22:26, 16 December 2022
- Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (May 5, 1813 – November 11, 1855) was a nineteenth century Danish philosopher and theologian who has often been called ...47 KB (7,286 words) - 02:01, 27 February 2023
- John Keats (October 31, 1795 – February 23, 1821) was one of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement. Keats' poetry is characterized ...14 KB (2,196 words) - 06:06, 3 August 2022
- Nichiren (日蓮) (February 16, 1222 – October 13, 1282), born Zennichimaro (善日麿), later Zeshō-bō Renchō (是生房蓮長), and finally ...27 KB (4,005 words) - 23:30, 14 November 2022
- Category:Public [[Image:Zeno.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Zeno of Citium]] Stoicism, one of the three major schools of Hellenistic philosphy, was founded ...21 KB (3,500 words) - 00:46, 26 February 2023
- Frederick Charles Louis Constantine, prince and landgrave of the House of Hesse (May 1, 1868 – May 28, 1940), was the brother-in-law of the ...7 KB (1,132 words) - 07:09, 6 June 2021
- Dorothy Thompson (July 9, 1893 - January 30, 1961) was an American journalist who gained international celebrity when she became the first journalist ...14 KB (2,067 words) - 17:28, 30 January 2024
- Category:Psychologists Category:Public Maslow, Abraham Abraham Maslow (April 1, 1908 – June 8, 1970) was an American psychologist who helped ...21 KB (3,192 words) - 06:31, 14 June 2023
- Agnosticism is the philosophical or religious view that the truth value of certain claims — particularly claims regarding the existence of ...18 KB (2,675 words) - 06:46, 16 June 2023
- Logic, from Classical Greek λόγος (logos), originally meaning the word, or what is spoken, (but coming to mean thought or reason or an explanation ...31 KB (4,895 words) - 20:58, 3 November 2022
- Godiva (or Godgifu) (fl. 1040-1080) was an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who, according to legend, rode naked through the streets of Coventry in England ...16 KB (2,352 words) - 05:33, 4 March 2023
- Advaita Vedanta (IAST Advaita Vedānta ; Sanskrit अद्वैत वेदान्त ; IPA /əd̪vait̪ə veːd̪ɑːnt̪ə/ ...32 KB (4,839 words) - 06:20, 15 June 2023
- The Second Epistle of John, also called 2 John, is a book of the New Testament in the Christian Bible. It is the shortest book of the Bible, ...8 KB (1,363 words) - 17:41, 25 January 2023
- Category:Image wanted Category:Psychologists Festinger, Leon Leon Festinger (May 8, 1919 – February 11, 1989) was an American psychologist. ...22 KB (3,262 words) - 20:09, 25 October 2022
- Social constructionism is a theory of knowledge in sociology and communication theory. It holds that characteristics typically thought to be ...34 KB (4,832 words) - 00:18, 16 February 2022
- Cartography or mapmaking (in Greek chartis - map and graphein - write) is the study and practice of making representations of the Earth on a ...27 KB (4,007 words) - 00:45, 29 November 2023
- Victor Cousin (November 28, 1792 - January 13, 1867) was a French philosopher, educational reformer, and a historian, whose systematic eclecticism ...26 KB (4,045 words) - 18:04, 3 May 2023
- Tamar (תָּמָר, Hebrew meaning "Date Palm") was the fore-mother of the Jews and the daughter-in-law of the patriarch Judah, the ...15 KB (2,478 words) - 03:57, 27 February 2023
- Pope Leo XIII (March 2, 1810 - July 20, 1903), born Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci, was the 256th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church ...14 KB (2,227 words) - 20:07, 25 October 2022
- Edward Albert Shils (July 1, 1910 – January 23, 1995) was a Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and in Sociology ...17 KB (2,459 words) - 23:52, 12 February 2024
- New Age Music, known as a combination of mostly instrumental pieces creating sounds of a soothing, romantic, mood-elevating and sometimes sensual ...8 KB (1,225 words) - 16:29, 11 November 2022
- Edith Stein (October 12, 1891 – August 9, 1942) was a German philosopher, a Carmelite nun, martyr, and saint of the Catholic Church, who died ...16 KB (2,393 words) - 20:38, 8 August 2023
- Lacydes of Cyrene, Greek philosopher, became head of the Platonic Academy at Athens in succession to Arcesilaus about 241 B.C.E. He left no extant ...9 KB (1,363 words) - 04:33, 6 October 2022
- The Devil is the title given to the supernatural being who is believed to be a powerful, evil entity and the tempter of humankind. The name ...20 KB (3,299 words) - 10:16, 29 January 2024
- Steve Bantu Biko (December 18, 1946 – September 12, 1977) was a noted anti-apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s and early 1970s ...19 KB (2,967 words) - 04:41, 28 April 2023
- Willard Van Orman Quine (June 25, 1908 – December 25, 2000), usually cited as W.V. Quine or W.V.O. Quine but known to his friends as Van, was ...34 KB (5,037 words) - 15:37, 6 May 2023
- Yúnmén Wényǎn (862 or 864 Dumoulin (1994), 230. – 949 C.E.), (雲門文偃; Japanese: Ummon Bun'en; he is also variously known in English ...14 KB (2,283 words) - 10:26, 7 June 2023
- Environmentalism is a perspective that encompasses a broad range of views concerned with the preservation, restoration, or improvement of the ...21 KB (2,883 words) - 19:02, 13 February 2024
- Postmodernism (sometimes abbreviated as Po-Mo) is a term applied to a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory, philosophy, architecture ...45 KB (6,401 words) - 05:50, 30 November 2022
- Category:Sociologists Category:Philosophers Habermas, Jürgen [[Image:JuergenHabermas.jpg|thumb|300px|Jürgen Habermas during a discussion in ...27 KB (3,751 words) - 16:42, 14 May 2024
- Islamic philosophy (الفلسفة الإسلامية) is a branch of Islamic studies, and is a longstanding attempt to create harmony between ...29 KB (4,094 words) - 21:49, 8 March 2024
- Joseph Echols Lowery (October 6, 1921 – March 27, 2020) was an American minister in the United Methodist Church and leader in the civil rights ...17 KB (2,453 words) - 00:42, 11 August 2022
- Philosophy of language is the reasoned inquiry into the nature, origins, and usage of language. As a topic, the philosophy of language for Analytic ...51 KB (7,646 words) - 22:42, 28 March 2023
- A virtue is a trait or disposition of character that leads to good behavior, for example, wisdom, courage, modesty, generosity, and self-control ...43 KB (6,406 words) - 20:37, 3 May 2023
- Noah Webster (October 16, 1758 – April 28, 1843) was an American lexicographer, textbook author, spelling reformer, political writer, and editor ...15 KB (2,342 words) - 02:32, 16 November 2022
- Transcendentalism was a group of new ideas in literature, religion, culture, and philosophy that emerged in New England in the early to mid-nineteenth ...16 KB (2,410 words) - 01:03, 2 May 2023
- Basil of Caesarea (ca. 330 - January 1, 379 C.E.) (Latin: Basilius), also called Saint Basil the Great (Greek: Άγιος Βασίλειος ...16 KB (2,517 words) - 03:31, 1 January 2022
- An Analogy is a relation of similarity between two or more things, so that an inference (reasoning from premise to conclusion) is drawn on the ...19 KB (2,812 words) - 18:56, 26 July 2023
- A polygraph (commonly referred to as a lie detector) is an instrument that measures and records several physiological responses such as blood ...34 KB (5,091 words) - 00:19, 12 April 2023
- category:image wanted Golden mean or "middle way" is an ancient concept described in various traditions. The concept was often discussed ...17 KB (2,574 words) - 06:15, 20 December 2022
- Category:Public Zeno of Elea (Greek. Ζήνων)(c. 490 B.C.E. – 430 B.C.E.) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher of southern Italy and a member ...8 KB (1,289 words) - 05:50, 13 June 2023
- Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl (April 8, 1859 – April 26, 1938), philosopher, is known as the "father" of phenomenology, a major ...17 KB (2,508 words) - 18:15, 12 February 2024
- Michael Faraday was one of the pioneers of modern electromagnetic theory. His work laid the foundation for the identification of light as an ...17 KB (2,503 words) - 16:54, 9 November 2022
- Philosophy of mathematics is the branch of philosophy that studies the philosophical assumptions, foundations, and implications of mathematics. ...31 KB (4,571 words) - 04:15, 24 November 2022
- Qian Zhongshu (November 21, 1910 – December 19, 1998) was a Chinese literary scholar and writer, known for his burning wit and formidable erudition ...22 KB (3,269 words) - 21:10, 14 April 2023
- Empiricism is a term in philosophy for a set of philosophical positions that emphasize the role of experience. The category of experience may ...34 KB (4,921 words) - 18:30, 13 February 2024
- Morgan Scott Peck (May 23, 1936 – September 25, 2005) was an American psychiatrist and author, best known for his first book, The Road Less ...37 KB (5,607 words) - 04:44, 5 November 2022
- Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (April 30, 1777 – February 23, 1855) was a German mathematician and scientist of profound genius who contributed ...24 KB (3,635 words) - 06:45, 5 April 2024
- Solipsism (Latin: solus, alone + ipse, self) is the position that nothing exists beyond oneself and one's immediate experiences. In philosophy ...26 KB (3,989 words) - 15:09, 27 April 2023
- Hassan-i Sabbāh, or Hassan aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ (c. 1034 - 1124), was a Persian Nizārī Ismā'īlī missionary who converted a community in ...21 KB (3,293 words) - 08:37, 25 January 2023
- Sir William Muir, KCSI (April 27, 1819 – July 11, 1905) was born in Scotland where he ended his career as Principal and Vice-Chancellor of ...26 KB (3,916 words) - 10:37, 11 May 2023
- Jericho (Arabic أريحا, ʼArīḥā; Hebrew יְרִיחוֹ, Standard Yəriḥo Tiberian Yərîḫô / Yərîḥô; meaning "fragrant," ...16 KB (2,400 words) - 02:27, 1 August 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Communication Category:Religion [[Image:Spirit rappings coverpage to sheet music 1853.jpg|thumb ...22 KB (3,512 words) - 00:58, 21 April 2023
- Category:Public Unification Thought is the philosophy of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon. The late Dr. Sang Hun Lee, a disciple of Reverend Moon, ...20 KB (3,078 words) - 01:38, 3 May 2023
- Catharine Esther Beecher (September 6, 1800 – May 12, 1878) was a noted educator and author renowned for her forthright opinions on women’s ...8 KB (1,133 words) - 00:09, 1 December 2023
- Marin Mersenne, Marin Mersennus, or le Père Mersenne (September 8, 1588 – September 1, 1648) was a French theologian, philosopher, mathematician ...8 KB (1,231 words) - 15:57, 6 November 2022
- Lucian of Antioch, also known as “Saint Lucian of Antioch” (c. 240–January 7, 312. January 7 was the calendar day on which his memory was ...17 KB (2,576 words) - 04:19, 4 November 2022
- Evangelista Torricelli (October 15, 1608 – October 25, 1647) was an Italian physicist and mathematician, best known for his invention of the ...8 KB (1,143 words) - 04:50, 23 March 2024
- Maoism or Mao Zedong Thought ( s=毛泽东思想|p=Máo Zédōng Sīxiǎng ), is a variant of Marxism-Leninism derived from the teachings of the ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 03:00, 6 November 2022
- Plato (c. 428 B.C.E. – c. 348 B.C.E.) was a Greek philosopher and is perhaps the most famous and influential thinker in the history of Western ...37 KB (6,078 words) - 08:02, 24 November 2022
- Mystici Corporis Christi is a papal encyclical issued by Pope Pius XII on June 29, 1943, during World War II, which affirms that the Church ...10 KB (1,484 words) - 22:43, 10 November 2022
- Mythology (from the Greek μῦθος (mythos), meaning a narrative, and logos, meaning speech or argument) refers to a body of stories that attempt ...26 KB (3,852 words) - 22:45, 10 November 2022
- Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach (July 28, 1804 – September 13, 1872) was a nineteenth century German philosopher, known for his critique of religious ...24 KB (3,623 words) - 02:37, 5 November 2022
- Pascal's Wager (or Pascal's Gambit) is the application by the French philosopher Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) of decision theory to the ...20 KB (3,286 words) - 08:59, 18 November 2022
- Neo-Kantianism designates the revived or modified types of Kantian philosophy identified with the “back to Kant” movement in the late nineteenth ...24 KB (3,466 words) - 16:16, 11 November 2022
- The Cynics were an influential school of ancient Greek and Roman philosophers. They adopted ideas of Socrates, contributed significantly to the ...9 KB (1,393 words) - 06:54, 12 January 2024
- Qu Yuan ( c=屈原|p=Qū Yuán , Ch’u Yuan) (ca. 340 B.C.E. - 278 B.C.E.) was a Chinese patriotic poet from southern Chu during the Warring ...16 KB (2,703 words) - 07:48, 3 July 2022
- Lage Raho Munna Bhai (Hindi: LageRahoMunnaBhaiPronounciation.ogg|2={{lang|hi|लगे रहो मुन्नाभाई}} , ləgeː ɾəhoː ...43 KB (6,480 words) - 05:34, 4 March 2023
- , a Sanskrit word meaning "revered thought," is the name of one of the six astika ("orthodox") schools of Hindu philosophy ...18 KB (2,750 words) - 18:03, 9 November 2022
- An ad hoc meeting of the Constituent Assembly, held on the July 22, 1947, adopted the National Flag of India, in its present form, a few days ...33 KB (5,237 words) - 17:33, 28 March 2024
- Desmond Mpilo Tutu (October 7, 1931 - December 26, 2021) was a South African cleric and activist who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s ...30 KB (4,335 words) - 09:58, 29 January 2024
