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- Principle in philosophy and mathematics means a fundamental law or ... others, while laws and rules can. Greek philosophy began as the quest for ...9 KB (1,192 words) - 22:57, 30 November 2022
- Aristobulus of Paneas (c. 160 B.C.E.) was among the earliest Hellenistic ... Five existing fragments of the work of Aristobulus, Commentaries on ...7 KB (1,086 words) - 06:27, 12 August 2023
- philosopher, and economist. In light of the ideological struggles in ... Sergei Bulgakov was born to the family of an Orthodox priest in the ...7 KB (887 words) - 10:02, 26 January 2023
- Antisthenes (c. 444 - 365 B.C.E.), is one of the founders of the Cynic ... Antisthenes founded a school of his own in the Cynosarges. Emphasizing ...8 KB (1,244 words) - 06:38, 31 July 2023
- widely with varied meanings in the fields of philosophy, analytical psychology ... such as Dao (Tao), the Vedic notion of rta, and the Hindu and Buddhist ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 21:00, 3 November 2022
- to the impossible," is a form of argument where one provisionally ... The so-called 'early' dialogues of the Greek philosopher Plato ...7 KB (1,079 words) - 02:58, 8 December 2022
- analogy, an argument for the existence of God in his book Natural Theology ... Born in Peterborough, Paley was educated at Giggleswick School, of ...9 KB (1,398 words) - 10:38, 11 May 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
- The Cyrenaics were one of the two earliest Socratic schools of philosophy ... Several of Aristippus’ followers modified this doctrine by distinguishing ...9 KB (1,293 words) - 06:55, 12 January 2024
- The Cynics were an influential school of ancient Greek and Roman philosophers ... is the only good, and emphasized the value of physical activity and hard ...9 KB (1,393 words) - 06:54, 12 January 2024
- :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
- Applied ethics is a field of ethics that deals with ethical questions ... ethical questions during the early part of the twentieth century. However ...12 KB (1,559 words) - 15:55, 11 August 2023
- who was a leading influence in analytic philosophy in the middle of the twentieth ... where he developed an interest in the philosophy of mathematics. Russell ...9 KB (1,265 words) - 00:54, 9 November 2022
- First Cause is term introduced by Aristotle and used in philosophy ... the "Prime Mover" that is a deity of "pure form" without ...8 KB (1,282 words) - 19:54, 26 March 2024
- 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
- The principle of sufficient reason is the principle which is presupposed ... The principle has a variety of expressions, all of which are perhaps ...13 KB (1,981 words) - 21:33, 26 February 2023
- 1757) was an English philosopher and founder of the Associationist school of ... David Hartley was born in June 1705 in the vicinity of Halifax, Yorkshire ...9 KB (1,402 words) - 07:56, 28 January 2024
- He is credited with developing the Theory of Elitism and the doctrine of ... governi e sul governo parlamentare (Theory of Governments and Parliamentary ...12 KB (1,752 words) - 03:46, 18 April 2024
- theory in the United States. He studied law at Harvard but soon turned ... American history, promoting the concept of the United States as the climax ...10 KB (1,417 words) - 06:36, 8 April 2024
- 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 ...14 KB (2,001 words) - 05:30, 5 November 2022
- Authority (Latin auctoritas, used in Roman law as opposed to potestas ... Since the emergence of the social sciences, authority has been a subject ...10 KB (1,553 words) - 19:17, 22 August 2023
- The term natural philosophy, or the philosophy of nature (Latin, philosophia ... and G.W.F. Hegel, and championed the concept of an organic and dynamic physical ...13 KB (1,838 words) - 22:42, 28 March 2023
- yield a falsehood. By extension, outside of logic, contradictions are also ... Pointing to this principle in applied logic, Aristotle’s law of ...10 KB (1,641 words) - 02:48, 8 January 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 greatest of China's Legalist philosophers. Along with Li ... work is collected in the 55 chapters of Han Feizi, which is also important ...13 KB (2,134 words) - 20:49, 21 January 2024
- in 1694. His commentaries and revisions of the theories of Thomas Hobbes ... the ore mountains (Erzgebirge) in the Duchy of Saxony, Germany. His father ...14 KB (2,091 words) - 03:05, 23 December 2022
- modernizing Italy by introducing the ideas of Locke, Leibniz, and Hume and ... In 1753 Genovesi was appointed to the first European chair of “commerce ...9 KB (1,233 words) - 05:40, 11 August 2023
- Dialectical materialism is the philosophical expression of Marxism ... struggle. It follows the Hegelian principle of the philosophy of history, ...15 KB (2,180 words) - 10:24, 29 January 2024
- It refers to the “supreme principle of morality” (4:392), from which ... according to the well-known "Universal Law" formulation, you should ...22 KB (3,484 words) - 17:59, 30 November 2023
- Ancient philosophy is philosophy in antiquity, or before the end of ... In the Western tradition, ancient philosophy was developed primarily ...16 KB (2,127 words) - 19:43, 26 July 2023
- Part of the foundation of mathematics, Russell's paradox (also ... Consider the set R of all sets that do not contain themselves as members ...14 KB (2,342 words) - 18:15, 22 December 2022
- Cranmer and Matthew Parker, as a co-founder of Anglican theology. He was also ... Hooker believed that the Church of England should be a broad, tolerant ...12 KB (1,851 words) - 21:41, 8 December 2022
- developed a unique theistic existential philosophy. He began his career as ... Jaspers saw a crisis of time in the loss of authentic existence of ...13 KB (1,830 words) - 07:16, 5 October 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
- In philosophy and logic, the liar paradox encompasses paradoxical ... his words to be understood as a kind of liar paradox. They were probably ...11 KB (1,725 words) - 22:25, 25 October 2022
- primarily in Germany, held by a number of thinkers in diverse disciplines ... Historicism also often challenged the concept of truth and the notion ...14 KB (2,067 words) - 15:55, 25 January 2023
- is a theory that asserts that the nature of complex things is reduced to ... positivists attempted to achieve the unity of science ("unified science ...13 KB (1,960 words) - 02:59, 8 December 2022
- The concept of pluralism in philosophy indicates the belief that reality ... The term is also used in a wider sense in several fields of philosophy ...10 KB (1,489 words) - 08:06, 24 November 2022
- religions referring to the entire cycle of cause and effect which governs ... with earthly existence. The concept of karma in Indian philosophy ...16 KB (2,496 words) - 07:22, 5 October 2022
- 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 ...13 KB (2,036 words) - 07:18, 10 August 2022
- An Analogy is a relation of similarity between two or more things ... An analogy is either the cognitive process of transferring information ...19 KB (2,812 words) - 18:56, 26 July 2023
- Cosmopolitanism is the idea that all of humanity belongs to a single ... Cosmopolitanism may entail some sort of world government or it may ...12 KB (1,700 words) - 08:16, 10 January 2024
- involves uncertainty, distrust, or lack of sureness of an alleged fact ... Human beings generally live with beliefs in various degrees of certainty ...15 KB (2,113 words) - 17:30, 30 January 2024
- at Harvard University, and the author of several books, including A ... John Bordley Rawls was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He was the second ...20 KB (2,773 words) - 07:09, 3 August 2022
- July 2, 1778), is a concept in political philosophy referring to the desire ... General will is what a fully-informed body politic (community of citizens ...14 KB (2,206 words) - 06:45, 18 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
- a specified statement follows from a set of assumed statements. The specified ... the conclusion is a necessary consequence of the set of premises, i.e. the ...9 KB (1,489 words) - 23:56, 1 December 2022
- Legal ethics is a branch of applied ethics, having to do with the ... in unethical professional behavior. American law schools are required to offer ...17 KB (2,791 words) - 19:04, 25 October 2022
- Averroes (Ibn Rushd) (1126 – December 10, 1198) was an Andalusian-Arab philosopher and physician, a master of philosophy and Islamic law, mathematics ...19 KB (2,761 words) - 07:15, 23 August 2023
- was an English political theorist and one of the first absolutists. Born ... Filmer developed a political theory, based on natural law, which equated ...12 KB (1,931 words) - 05:04, 15 December 2022
- ) was a polymath and a Christian philosopher of the sixth century who was instrumental ... Rome around 480 C.E. to the patrician family of Anicii, who had been Christians ...11 KB (1,637 words) - 06:07, 28 July 2023
- modern mathematical logic and analytic philosophy. Although he remained obscure ... Frege began his studies at the University of Jena in 1869, moving to Göttingen ...16 KB (2,250 words) - 20:22, 11 September 2021
- “few,” and arkho, “rule” ) is a form of government in which political ... aristocracies, which were ruled by members of a noble class, or with plutocracies ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 00:19, 18 November 2022
- who gained his position in the history of Western philosophy by opening ... Fichte must be credited with reintroducing the idea of a direct contact ...16 KB (2,518 words) - 14:42, 1 August 2022
- February 22, 1965) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court ... Side. After graduating from City College of New York, he enrolled in New ...8 KB (1,184 words) - 17:13, 26 March 2024
- 8, 1806) was a lawyer, a judge, a prominent law professor, and a signer of ... tradition, contributed in the areas of law, politics, and education ...9 KB (1,318 words) - 22:41, 24 November 2022
- A fact is an actual state of the world. For example, it is a fact ... A great deal of twentieth century moral theory sustained a sharp divide ...14 KB (2,156 words) - 12:33, 21 January 2023
- Greek philospher and a favorite student of Aristotle, who appointed him ... Theophrastus was wrote a great number of books on a wide variety of ...10 KB (1,514 words) - 18:21, 30 April 2023
- 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
- anthropologist. He is famous for his study of primitive mentality and his ... suggested that human beings use two kind of thinking: “mystical thinking” ...11 KB (1,515 words) - 02:25, 5 November 2022
- Herakleitos) (c. 535 – 475 B.C.E.) is one of the most important pre-Socratic ... His words resemble those of a prophet, rather than those of a philosopher ...11 KB (1,556 words) - 09:50, 22 January 2024
- 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
- end, or purpose, and teleology is the study of goals, ends and purposes. A ... The two main types of theory brought under the rubric of teleological ...13 KB (2,107 words) - 05:34, 27 February 2023
- Clement of Alexandria (c. 150 – 215) (Titus Flavius Clemens) was ... Clement of Alexandria was, and still is, a highly unorthodox and controversial ...14 KB (2,240 words) - 11:08, 19 December 2023
- The book of 4 Maccabees is a homily or philosophic discourse praising ... The book takes up the story of the Maccabean martyrs told in 2 Maccabees ...11 KB (1,662 words) - 06:46, 13 June 2023
- virtues that maintain harmony and the spirit of sharing among the members of ... During the 1990s, the concept of ubuntu was adapted as an ideology ...14 KB (2,195 words) - 01:24, 3 May 2023
- most recognizable structure on the campus of Kyoto University]] It is the second oldest university and one of the leading research universities ...16 KB (2,170 words) - 04:41, 4 March 2023
- 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
- according to an established standard of evaluation. There is a range ... established only within certain frameworks of thought and value perspectives ...23 KB (3,451 words) - 00:26, 25 March 2024
- poet, critic and scholar, and a founder of German Romanticism. His study ... der Indier (On the Language and Wisdom of India, 1808) was a pioneering ...14 KB (2,106 words) - 07:21, 5 October 2022
- 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
- Ijtihad (Arabic اجتهاد) is a technical term of Islamic law that ... Sometime during the ninth century, the majority of Sunni decided that ...12 KB (1,870 words) - 00:00, 19 December 2020
- Autonomy (Greek: Auto-Nomos—nomos meaning "law:" One who ... One of the best known philosophical theories of autonomy was developed ...16 KB (2,461 words) - 07:07, 23 August 2023
- Category:Law Manslaughter is a criminal variation of homicide that normally carries ...11 KB (1,690 words) - 11:07, 9 March 2023
- illustrated in his Commentaries on the Laws of England.]] and analytic treatise on the Common law called Commentaries on the ...11 KB (1,662 words) - 15:40, 6 May 2023
- The term Indian philosophy may refer to any of several traditions ... All the schools of Indian philosophy are characterized by some common ...22 KB (3,133 words) - 22:02, 4 February 2023
- educator, and prolific writer, and one of the leading exponents of neo ... Cassirer played a mediating role between the two major traditions ...13 KB (1,820 words) - 19:34, 13 February 2024
- Nicholas or Nicolaus of Autrecourt (in French: Nicholas d'Autrécourt ... false teachings on the allegation that 66 of his propositions, culled from ...10 KB (1,617 words) - 23:32, 14 November 2022
- Nicolai Hartmann (February 20, 1882 – October 9, 1950) was one of ... by his own existence within the restrictions of time and space, and by the ...15 KB (2,188 words) - 23:34, 14 November 2022
- theologian. His life was marked by a series of difficulties with the Catholic ... historique et critique, consisting of articles concerning a wide ...10 KB (1,589 words) - 05:18, 24 November 2022
- 1794) was an English philologist and student of ancient India. He is particularly ... Latin, Persian, Arabic, and the basics of Chinese at an early age. By ...9 KB (1,304 words) - 11:08, 10 May 2023
- and conversations, over an important circle of academics in Cambridge, Massachusetts ... After reading Darwin's Origin of Species (published in 1859) ...12 KB (1,761 words) - 00:45, 5 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
- is used in juridical and ethical discussions of law and ethics, and often is ... Critics use the term pejoratively for the use of clever but unsound ...15 KB (2,220 words) - 14:26, 29 November 2023
- IAST Vaiśeṣika), is one of the six Hindu schools of philosophy ... Vaisesika is a system of pluralistic realism, which emphasizes that ...19 KB (2,996 words) - 14:10, 3 May 2023
- in a deductive system. This formal notion of proofs in logic is crucial ... In general, the proofs of theorems have two components: a set of premises ...16 KB (2,524 words) - 18:26, 30 April 2023
- French criminologist and sociologist, is one of the founding fathers of sociology ... Based on his view of the importance of the individual, Tarde analyzed ...11 KB (1,665 words) - 07:37, 15 April 2024
- Natural theology is a branch of theology, which attempts to establish ... The existence of God and the immortality of the soul are but a few ...12 KB (1,729 words) - 15:21, 11 November 2022
- English moral philosopher who held the post of White's Professor of Moral ... Some of Hare's students, such as Brian McGuinness and Bernard ...14 KB (2,112 words) - 16:05, 7 December 2022
- 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
- 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
- Wade-Giles: Fa-chia; literally "School of law") was one of the four ... Legalists argued for “rule by law” and criticized Cofucianist ...22 KB (3,459 words) - 19:04, 25 October 2022
- Richard Cumberland (1631 - 1718) was an English philosopher and bishop ... and opposing the egoistic ethics of Thomas Hobbes. Cumberland ...13 KB (2,116 words) - 20:13, 8 December 2022
- Philodemus of Gadara (c. 110 B.C.E. – c.35 B.C.E.) was an Epicurean ... Thirty-six of his books were preserved when Mt. Vesuvius erupted in ...9 KB (1,439 words) - 04:12, 24 November 2022
- from the southern Low Countries, was one of the inventors and major proponents ... affairs. Siger’s importance to philosophy lies in his acceptance ...10 KB (1,606 words) - 14:38, 27 January 2023
- if both can be measured in the same unit of measurement. For example, a ... In the philosophy of science, two theories are said to be incommensurable ...17 KB (2,394 words) - 00:08, 8 January 2024
- an important role in developing the use of statistical data as a tool ... Believing that ideology, the science of the origin and development ...12 KB (1,830 words) - 04:19, 9 November 2022
- theologian, and historian, and a pioneer of modern Jewish scholarship. ... Krochmal was leading figure of the Haskalah Jewish enlightenment and ...11 KB (1,697 words) - 22:59, 10 November 2022
- teacher and, in modern times, the leader of a synagogue. The term was first ... With the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem in 70 C.E., the Jewish ...21 KB (3,138 words) - 16:07, 7 December 2022
- Shestov was an irrationalist whose philosophy ran counter to the prevailing ... He emigrated to France in 1921, fleeing from the aftermath of the ...16 KB (2,451 words) - 22:05, 25 October 2022
- 23 Oct. 2006] He was a leading proponent of the Zahiri school of Islamic ... Ibn Hazm reportedly produced four hundred works of which only 40 have ...15 KB (2,253 words) - 13:25, 4 February 2023
- Antinomy (Greek αντι-, against, plus νομος, law) literally ... The term antinomy is found in the works of Plutarch (46 – 127), ...15 KB (2,342 words) - 06:35, 31 July 2023
- to modern political sociology and the philosophy of history. His Lettres ... Montesquieu defined three forms of government: republics, monarchies ...17 KB (2,651 words) - 00:36, 5 December 2023
- philosopher, theologian and historian of science. His surname is pronounced ... Whewell’s philosophy of science included the claim that through ...22 KB (3,347 words) - 20:45, 13 May 2023
- to evil, popularly identified with the lusts of the flesh. It also leads to ... Judaism, the yetzer harah is not the product of the Human Fall, as in Christian ...17 KB (2,843 words) - 11:10, 24 May 2023
- Modus Ponens and Modus Tollens are forms of valid inferences. By Modus ... affirms; often abbreviated as MP) is a form of valid inference. An instance ...6 KB (1,057 words) - 19:28, 9 November 2022
- 2017) was Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science, Emeritus ... Kaplan was one of the foremost scholars in international relations ...9 KB (1,221 words) - 16:45, 12 April 2024
- Political philosophy is a branch of philosophy, which studies fundamental ... including Ethics, philosophy of law, philosophy of economics, and other ...23 KB (3,233 words) - 08:37, 24 November 2022
- Category:Law legal systems in countries using common law. The brief is presented to ...13 KB (2,127 words) - 23:07, 20 November 2023
- Nyaya (Sanskrit meaning "rational argument") is one of the ... to Hindu thought is its elucidation of the pramanas (tools of epistemology ...14 KB (2,126 words) - 01:23, 17 November 2022
- who helped to shape the new thought of the late sixteenth century ... Pierre Charron was born in Paris, one of the twenty-five children ...13 KB (1,975 words) - 05:20, 24 November 2022
- Classical antiquity, era, or period is a broad term for a long period ... The foundations of the modern world derive from the Classic Age as ...12 KB (1,804 words) - 10:51, 19 December 2023
- Born in the Netherlands, he lived most of his life in England and wrote ... He was known for The Fable of the Bees (1714), which was first published ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 15:56, 29 September 2023
- a French thinker known as the "father of sociology." He developed ... in his later work, he embraced the concept of love as bringing the solution ...22 KB (3,359 words) - 19:00, 21 August 2023
- those universals really exist in some sense of "exist," either independently ... realism. It is basically with the spirit of nominalism that empiricism ...19 KB (2,997 words) - 02:38, 16 November 2022
- 2009) was an American scholar, a professor of philosophy and prolific author ... He was known for his academic research into a wide range of philosophical ...15 KB (2,047 words) - 10:33, 11 April 2024
- בר מצוה) refers to a boy's coming-of-age ceremony held upon (or ... According to Jewish law, when Jewish children reach the age of maturity ...10 KB (1,502 words) - 07:59, 20 September 2023
- #039;s will remains free under the action of divine grace. Molina developed ... One of the most controversial thinkers in the history of Catholic ...12 KB (1,719 words) - 02:57, 5 November 2022
- "manner, character, proper behavior") refers to a code of ... One question asks the kinds of practical rules people actually use ...23 KB (3,557 words) - 21:20, 9 November 2022
- The Megarian School of philosophy was founded c. 400 B.C.E. by Euclides ... Two disciples of Euclides— Eubulides and Alexinus—developed the ...10 KB (1,527 words) - 04:09, 9 November 2022
- that represents the logical structure of truth-functional connectives ... The truth-values, truth or falsity, of the sentences in this argument ...21 KB (3,138 words) - 00:23, 2 December 2022
- in significant ways from the existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre as well as ... In 1894 Berdyaev entered Kiev University to study law. This was a ...13 KB (2,041 words) - 04:06, 15 November 2022
- and psychologist, a major philosopher of the “philosophy of life” ... the natures, conditions, and justifications of human knowledge particularly ...17 KB (2,371 words) - 19:48, 23 November 2022
- Van Rensselaer Potter to describe a new philosophy that integrates biology ... In the broader sense of the term, bioethics encompasses both biomedical ...12 KB (1,586 words) - 17:53, 31 October 2023
- , a Sanskrit word meaning "revered thought," is the name ... the "earlier" (pūrva) portions of the Vedas, the Samhitas and ...18 KB (2,750 words) - 18:03, 9 November 2022
- In philosophy, metaethics—sometimes known as analytic ethics—is ... Metaethics is one of the three branches of ethics generally recognized ...14 KB (2,091 words) - 16:19, 9 November 2022
- ) of Chalcedon (396 – 314 B.C.E.) was a Greek philosopher and third ... In his biography of Xenocrates, Diogenes Laertius recounts several ...12 KB (1,827 words) - 14:16, 20 May 2023
- The concept of a duty is the concept of a requirement. If one has ... The notion of a duty is closely linked with the concepts of ‘ought’ ...19 KB (3,122 words) - 17:23, 12 February 2024
- famous for his research on the psychology of music and sound. He founded ... Bavaria (today’s Germany), the son of Eugen Stumpf, a local physician ...10 KB (1,352 words) - 15:19, 27 November 2023
- in intelligence testing and in the field of comparative psychology. Yerkes ... Pennsylvania. His early life was of a typical farm boy, spent in ...10 KB (1,520 words) - 02:18, 16 December 2022
- Adelard of Bath (Latin: Adelardus Bathensis) (1116? - 1142?) was a ... Adelard was a pioneer of the scientific renaissance of the twelfth ...13 KB (1,951 words) - 05:50, 15 June 2023
- affirms that the Church is the Mystical Body of Christ. ... who live under the visible representative of Christ. However, there are ...10 KB (1,484 words) - 22:43, 10 November 2022
- The Sanskrit word Kalpa has several distinct meanings in the context ... as topics to be observed by students of the Vedas. Later, they developed ...10 KB (1,446 words) - 22:19, 3 April 2023
- Chinese philosophy has a history of several thousand years; its origins ... The central focus of Chinese philosophy throughout the ages has been ...21 KB (3,167 words) - 16:46, 10 December 2023
- but also his self effacing modesty, philosophy, and writing style, which ... The decisions of past jurists and legislators may or may not have ...12 KB (1,848 words) - 09:56, 28 September 2023
- dilemma" (so named because a version of it first appeared in Plato ... as exemplified in Kierkegaard's philosophy. He discusses Abraham& ...13 KB (1,986 words) - 15:31, 29 January 2024
- takes its defining inspiration from the work of Aristotle. Since Aristotle ... During the seventeenth century, modern philosophy began to develop ...18 KB (2,450 words) - 06:29, 12 August 2023
- He wrote on numerous topics, including philosophy of history and aesthetics ... Croce offered his “philosophy of spirit” as a humanistic alternative ...15 KB (2,246 words) - 09:08, 27 September 2023
- Category:Law Category:Social work [[Image:Workhouse_Nantwich.jpg|thumb ... British Poor Laws were a body of laws designed during the Elizabethan ...17 KB (2,625 words) - 08:51, 24 November 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
- 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
- "Victorious Christ") is the name of Gustaf Aulén's groundbreaking ... This particular doctrine of the atonement attempts to explain why ...13 KB (2,011 words) - 21:44, 10 December 2023
- Philosophical discussion of coercion has focused on three distinct ... contrary to his preferences or will because of a threat administered by another ...26 KB (4,117 words) - 22:25, 7 January 2024
- 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
- played a significant role in the development of Russian philosophy and poetry ... Solovyov did not think of himself as a philosopher, but as a prophet ...15 KB (2,232 words) - 20:48, 3 May 2023
- is a teleological and consequential theory of ethics concerned with the outcome ... there are no absolute laws other than the law of Agapē love and all the ...14 KB (2,274 words) - 22:41, 29 January 2023
- 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
- 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
- The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (French: La ... Along with the U.S. Declaration of Independence, it is considered ...17 KB (2,728 words) - 23:49, 26 July 2022
- and laid the foundations for international law, based on natural law. He ... Grotius removed natural law from the jurisdiction of moral theologians ...25 KB (3,772 words) - 12:17, 4 February 2023
- Bible) as scripture, and the rejection of the Oral Law (the Mishnah and ... Tiberian Qərā’îm), meaning "Readers (of Scripture)," ...17 KB (2,623 words) - 07:10, 5 October 2022
- associated with the establishment of Confucianism as the official ... are preserved in the Standard History of the Western Han Dynasty (Han ...11 KB (1,702 words) - 18:44, 2 May 2023
- apologist, moral philosopher and the author of Fifteen Sermons (1726) and ... Butler defended natural and revealed religion through a doctrine of ...18 KB (2,788 words) - 07:19, 10 August 2022
- politician, and a provocative proponent of Deism. A wealthy landowner ... Collins was a friend of the philosopher John Locke. He loved books ...15 KB (2,350 words) - 05:24, 31 July 2023
- 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 ...14 KB (2,169 words) - 06:29, 14 June 2023
- 21, 1788), also known by the epithet Magus of the North, was a philosopher ... a religious conversion. His distrust of reason and the Enlightenment ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 14:40, 1 August 2022
- to 1831, the hall was crowded as the hall of no philosophical teacher in ... In 1840, when Cousin became Minister of Public Instruction in France ...26 KB (4,045 words) - 18:04, 3 May 2023
- |country = Italy, but partially extraterritorial of the Holy See ... university located in Rome, Italy. Heir of the Roman College, the Gregorian ...17 KB (2,554 words) - 16:14, 17 January 2014
- The concept of yin and yang (Pinyin: yīnyáng; t=陰陽|s=阴阳|p ... Dương) originates in ancient Chinese philosophy and metaphysics, and is ...13 KB (2,041 words) - 11:14, 24 May 2023
- Nicholas of Cusa (born in 1401 in Bernkastel-Kues, Germany – died ... Nicholas was instrumental in developing the concept of “panentheism ...17 KB (2,645 words) - 23:33, 14 November 2022
- The term social contract describes a broad class of philosophical ... Common to all of these theories is the notion of a sovereign will ...28 KB (4,260 words) - 15:01, 27 April 2023
- Geonim (plural of גאון Gaon) (Hebrew: גאונים meaning "Excellency ... ) were the presidents of the two great rabbinical colleges of Sura ...8 KB (1,324 words) - 06:54, 18 April 2024
- The Book of Ruth (Hebrew: מגילת רות, Megilat Rut, "the ... Ruth is one of the shortest books in both Jewish and Christian scripture ...10 KB (1,594 words) - 00:40, 19 November 2023
- The ethics of care is a normative ethical theory often considered ... care, education, international relations, law, and politics. While both ...15 KB (2,198 words) - 04:34, 22 March 2024
- writer. He has been dubbed the "Father of Modern Philosophy" and ... Descartes frequently sets his views apart from those of his predecessors ...25 KB (3,599 words) - 04:02, 8 December 2022
- French Revolution, became a great exponent of the conservative tradition ... De Maistre developed a theological view of the French Revolution as ...18 KB (2,670 words) - 02:13, 11 August 2022
- Causality is one of the central notions in our conception of the world ... As a number of philosophers (including Nicolas Malebranche and David ...23 KB (3,623 words) - 16:19, 3 December 2023
- his philosophical methodology and theory of knowledge in sharp contrast ... Born to a bookseller and the daughter of a carriage maker, Vico attended ...17 KB (2,637 words) - 20:24, 14 December 2023
- A concept is a constituent of thought or generalized idea, that designates ... and expressing them with language. Theories of concepts are thus closely tied ...20 KB (3,052 words) - 02:41, 8 January 2024
- logician and Franciscan friar William of Ockham. Originally a tent ... The origins of what has come to be known as Ockham's razor are ...19 KB (2,872 words) - 23:50, 17 November 2022
- the most important British moral philosopher of his time.[https://www.thetimes ... for his attempt to return the study of moral philosophy to its foundations: ...30 KB (4,357 words) - 20:51, 23 January 2024
- oeuvre spans almost every scholarly subject of his time, each displayed and ... While the popularity of his philosophy was short-lived (though this ...17 KB (2,487 words) - 21:08, 10 December 2023
- philosopher who was noted for his pursuit of natural theology and philosophy ... provide a rational argument in the defense of natural theology and Newtonianism. ...15 KB (2,384 words) - 02:22, 23 December 2022
- The theology of the Death of God, also known as Radical Theology, ... For Nietzsche, the supposed death of the Christian concept of God ...12 KB (1,862 words) - 08:57, 28 January 2024
- by the Germans, though remained a prisoner of war and was not sent to a concentration ... He advocated an “Ethics as First Philosophy,” in which the ethical ...17 KB (2,583 words) - 18:22, 13 February 2024
- early nineteenth centuries. It developed out of the work of Immanuel Kant in ... sensible contents derived from the object of cognition and the a priori ...23 KB (3,260 words) - 07:38, 24 January 2023
- His systematized and refined the cosmologies of Plotinus and Iamblichus, and ... Proclus’ greatest concern was the elevation of the human soul to ...21 KB (3,257 words) - 23:05, 30 November 2022
- who in 1893, when he attended the Parliament of the Worlds Religion at Chicago ... he regarded Vedanta as the best expression of that truth. In a lecture delivered ...11 KB (1,632 words) - 00:33, 8 December 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
- Gamaliel the Elder, or Gamaliel I, was the leading Jewish teacher ... disciples from death in a story in the Book of Acts, in which he is quoted ...9 KB (1,475 words) - 04:07, 18 April 2024
- as the “First Teacher”) because of his extensive commentaries ... ideal society based on a Neoplatonic concept of the Divine, in which the responsibility ...18 KB (2,709 words) - 07:20, 16 June 2023
- American neoclassical economist, a pioneer of the marginalist revolution ... as the relationship between distribution of income and production, which ...13 KB (1,870 words) - 07:36, 5 April 2024
- 1651 book Leviathan set the agenda for much of subsequent Western political ... Hobbes also contributed to a diverse array of fields, including history ...29 KB (4,445 words) - 21:18, 30 April 2023
- balance between reason and religion in light of the philosophical developments ... Rosmini founded a religious order called the Institute of the Brethren ...24 KB (3,716 words) - 05:44, 11 August 2023
- challenged the laissez faire economic policy of his time and criticized the ... be changed. His Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation, was published ...28 KB (4,469 words) - 21:18, 30 April 2023
- The Logicians or School of Names (名家; Míngjiā; "School ... Chinese thinkers of the period were preoccupied with the use of terminology ...20 KB (2,994 words) - 17:21, 25 January 2023
- a natural language) may be joined by means of a logical connective to form ... Mathematical logic is a mathematical representation of formal rules ...27 KB (3,934 words) - 20:59, 3 November 2022
- Marsilius of Padua (Italian Marsilio or Marsiglio da Padova) (1270 ... Marcilius was one of the first to apply the methods of Aristotelian ...12 KB (1,929 words) - 16:16, 6 November 2022
- physics theory with a similar name, see Theory of Relativity evaluate beliefs and behaviors only in terms of, for example, their historical ...25 KB (3,816 words) - 03:07, 8 December 2022
- birth control activist, and the founder of the American Birth Control ... before dying of tuberculosis and cervical cancer. Sanger attended ...14 KB (2,043 words) - 08:32, 10 March 2023
- and regulate one's conduct in view of norms, is an essential attribute ... In classical religious and philosophical treatments of responsibility ...36 KB (5,446 words) - 18:16, 8 December 2022
- 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 ...21 KB (3,178 words) - 04:33, 22 March 2024
- and academic. Bloom championed the idea of "Great Books" education ... Readers Digest article about the University of Chicago and told his parents ...22 KB (3,158 words) - 18:25, 21 July 2023
- whose work centered around theistic ideals of religious consciousness, interpersonal ... into a Jewish family. Buber spent much of his childhood in the house ...16 KB (2,486 words) - 16:30, 6 November 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
- Yak-yong's contribution to Korean philosophy. Eminent Korean Confucian ... As professor Michael Kalton said that it is not only the volume of ...14 KB (2,321 words) - 07:14, 31 July 2022
- ; 305 B.C.E. - 240 B.C.E.) was the representative thinker of the School ... Zou Yan is regarded as the founder of natural science in China. His ...13 KB (1,998 words) - 06:12, 13 June 2023
- Justice is the ideal, morally correct state of things and persons ... important: "Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth ...34 KB (5,251 words) - 21:23, 4 October 2022
- The Lotus Sutra or Sutra on the White Lotus of the Sublime Dharma ... Kyō; Korean: Myobeomnyeonhwagyeong) is one of the most popular and influential ...10 KB (1,578 words) - 02:49, 4 November 2022
- This relationship, known as Ohm's law, represents the true beginning ... Ohm offers a good example of the working of science through his experimental ...15 KB (2,285 words) - 06:57, 18 April 2024
- |name =University of Rome "La Sapienza" |native_name ... University of Rome La Sapienza (Italian Università degli Studi di ...13 KB (1,764 words) - 13:09, 3 May 2023
- 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
- an educational institution (often a school of secondary education in Europe ... discussions there during the last third of the fifth century B.C.E. In ...14 KB (2,070 words) - 03:09, 5 November 2022
- Deontological ethics recognizes a number of distinct duties, such ... It seems fair to say the ordinary ethical thinking, at least that ...19 KB (2,981 words) - 00:53, 27 July 2022
- 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
- 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
- is a political essay by John Jay, the third of The Federalist Papers. It was ... when their states are at the center of a conflict, while the federal ...17 KB (2,445 words) - 01:54, 26 March 2024
- Filial piety is the virtue of a child to his or her parents or parental ... ) is one of the virtues to be cultivated and denotes a love and respect ...10 KB (1,518 words) - 22:58, 1 May 2021
- 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
- and doctor and the most influential of the Tibbon family who translated ... He also produced the first Hebrew glossary of philosophical and biblical ...21 KB (3,070 words) - 03:04, 23 December 2022
- Saint Isidore of Seville (Spanish: es|San Isidro or es|San Isidoro ... ) (c. 560 - April 4, 636) was Archbishop of Seville for more than ...18 KB (2,717 words) - 06:05, 8 March 2024
- The conscience refers to a person’s sense of right and wrong. Having ... ==The elements of conscience== Conscience refers to a person’s sense ...25 KB (3,722 words) - 21:26, 7 September 2023
- The Epistle to the Romans is one of the books of the New Testament ... The main message of the Epistle is that salvation is available to ...13 KB (2,049 words) - 19:12, 13 February 2024
- 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
- Environmental ethics is a branch of applied ethics and a part of environmental ... ethics often contains criticisms of man's abusive or exploitative ...18 KB (2,652 words) - 19:01, 13 February 2024
- States thereafter. He was a leading member of the Vienna Circle and probably ... I see him as the dominant figure in philosophy from the 1930s onward, ...27 KB (4,028 words) - 21:04, 21 December 2022
- having authored An Inquiry into the Cause of the Wealth of Nations (1776 ... to political economy and moral philosophy; however, his writings ...16 KB (2,570 words) - 05:45, 15 June 2023
- and power. Mudras are an important part of Hinduism and Buddhism and they ... In Indian religious practice, the role of mudras as a concentration ...13 KB (2,114 words) - 17:54, 10 November 2022
- understanding about salvation, the process of restoring the relationship ... , John Cassian (c. 360–c. 435, Collations of the Fathers or Conferences ...14 KB (2,147 words) - 17:49, 25 January 2023
- ), is a controversial Daoist classic allegedly written by a disciple ... and-answer format, with Wenzi as a student of Laozi in the received version ...14 KB (2,095 words) - 23:30, 3 May 2023
- John Dewey (October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) is regarded as one ... Throughout most of his 92 years, Dewey was an internationally renowned ...20 KB (2,964 words) - 02:26, 9 February 2023
- physicist famous for his application of probability theory to the study ... Boltzmann was born in Vienna, then capital of the Austrian Empire ...19 KB (2,826 words) - 02:38, 5 November 2022
- Neo-Kantianism designates the revived or modified types of Kantian ... The return to Kant of Neo-Kantianism in the second part of the nineteenth ...24 KB (3,466 words) - 16:16, 11 November 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
- [[Image:Petrarch by Bargilla.jpg|right|thumb|250px|From the Cycle ... the sonnet. He was a primary initiator of the philosophical movement ...11 KB (1,750 words) - 01:38, 24 November 2022
- or key) is most often said to be the study of criteria for the evaluation ... Traditionally, logic is studied as a branch of philosophy. Since the ...31 KB (4,895 words) - 20:58, 3 November 2022
- Korean) were a well-educated scholarly class of male Confucian scholars who ... The yangban tradition of a close network based on education, teachers ...18 KB (2,756 words) - 10:10, 22 May 2023
- German philosopher, known for his critique of religious belief. He is commonly ... Feuerbach emerged in the 1840s as a leader of the Young Hegelians ...24 KB (3,623 words) - 02:37, 5 November 2022
- a moral and political connotation. In terms of morality, ‘absolutism’ ... In terms of politics, ‘absolutism’ refers to a type of government ...18 KB (2,761 words) - 06:37, 14 June 2023
- Falun Gong (Chinese: 法轮功: meaning "Practice of the Wheel ... surfaced in the institutional field of alternative Chinese science ...14 KB (2,259 words) - 00:36, 25 March 2024
- 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 ...32 KB (4,804 words) - 20:55, 4 October 2022
- [[Image:Zeno.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Zeno of Citium]] Stoicism, one of the three major schools of Hellenistic philosphy ...21 KB (3,500 words) - 00:46, 26 February 2023
- 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
- = "science") means "study of value." Although questions ... sought to characterize the notion of value in general, of which ...19 KB (2,855 words) - 07:20, 23 August 2023
- universal systems theory to the possibility of human rejuvenation through ... figure, especially in the development of the Communist Party's ...11 KB (1,607 words) - 05:13, 17 June 2023
- the information environment consisting of the interdependent network ... infringement, and may call for new models of commerce. Furthermore, cyberspace ...14 KB (2,094 words) - 02:18, 15 January 2023
- [[Image:Epikur.jpg|right|thumb|234px|Bust of Epicurus]] an ancient Greek philosopher, the founder of Epicureanism, one of the most ...19 KB (3,054 words) - 19:07, 13 February 2024
- As a philosopher, he was an early proponent of Empiricism. Locke also made ... him, John Locke is considered the first of the three major British Empiricists ...28 KB (4,356 words) - 16:04, 27 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
- Until the mid-nineteenth century, Japanese philosophy was inextricably ... While Western philosophy is closely related to conceptual components ...28 KB (4,111 words) - 09:55, 1 April 2024
- objective idealist philosopher. He was one of the most influential philosophers ... Josiah Royce was born November 20, 1855, in the remote mining town ...24 KB (3,666 words) - 19:58, 7 September 2022
- Philosophy of mathematics is the branch of philosophy that studies ... :* What are the sources of mathematical subject matter? ...31 KB (4,571 words) - 04:15, 24 November 2022
- Max Wertheimer (April 15, 1880 – October 12, 1943) was one of the ... Starting with the observation of apparent movement, the phi phenomenon ...13 KB (1,949 words) - 01:04, 9 November 2022
- The Epistle to the Galatians is a book of the New Testament. It is ... The letter indicates that some of the Galatians had been influenced ...16 KB (2,432 words) - 19:12, 13 February 2024
- Florenszoon Boeyens, served as Bishop of Rome from January 9, 1522, ... Born in Utrecht, he studied at the University of Louvain in France ...11 KB (1,609 words) - 09:24, 24 November 2022
- In sociology and biology, infanticide is the practice of intentionally ... In sociology and biology, infanticide is the practice of intentionally ...20 KB (2,994 words) - 22:37, 5 February 2023
- Jewish philosophy refers to philosophical inquiry informed or inspired ... Jewish philosophy can be considered to take two directions; the use ...28 KB (4,179 words) - 03:01, 1 August 2022
- After graduating from the University of Oxford, Pockocke spent the ... and Muhammad. He helped to pioneer the use of primary sources as well as ...17 KB (2,663 words) - 15:59, 21 December 2021
- is a political essay by John Jay, the fifth of The Federalist Papers. It was ... Federalist No. 5 addresses the idea of states forming regional confederacies ...14 KB (1,988 words) - 01:54, 26 March 2024
- Category:Law The common law forms a major part of the law of those countries of ...32 KB (5,079 words) - 00:10, 8 January 2024
