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- and education. His extensive knowledge of Latin and Greek equipped him ... Believing that Aristotle had corrupted logic and diverted philosophy ...13 KB (2,004 words) - 02:43, 4 November 2022
- 30 years, it is for his contributions to logic, mathematics, philosophy ... A philosophy of logic, grounded in his categories and semeiotic, can ...60 KB (9,018 words) - 22:24, 4 December 2023
- activities that relate to the actual lives of the students. A typical progressivist ... Although there are various differences of style and emphasis among ...20 KB (2,991 words) - 23:07, 30 November 2022
- Philosophy of language is the reasoned inquiry into the nature, origins ... First, philosophers of language inquire into the nature of meaning ...51 KB (7,646 words) - 22:42, 28 March 2023
- Theodicy is a specific branch of theology and philosophy, which attempts ... amongst the three points—the omnipotence of God, the goodness of God, and ...38 KB (6,068 words) - 17:55, 30 April 2023
- Ancient Western philosophy is marked by the formation and development ... Ancient Western philosophy is generally divided into three periods ...29 KB (4,278 words) - 04:19, 31 January 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
- 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
- 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
- Absolute idealism is an ontologically monistic philosophy attributed ... His philosophy can be best understood within the contexts of German ...29 KB (4,323 words) - 17:06, 17 December 2022
- Negative theology (also known as Apophatic theology) is a method of ... presuppositions: Given the vast magnitude of divinity, it is assumed that ...18 KB (2,832 words) - 16:09, 11 November 2022
- , meaning "non-absolutism," is one of the basic principles of Jainism ... Key to the Jaina Middle Way Metaphysics of Anekantavada, Philosophy East ...30 KB (4,673 words) - 18:01, 27 July 2023
- Transcendentalism was a group of new ideas in literature, religion ... Transcendentalism began as a protest against the general state of ...16 KB (2,410 words) - 01:03, 2 May 2023
- Saint John of Damascus (also known as John Damascene, and Chrysorrhoas ... also the Chief Administrator to the ruler of Damascus. Today, he is renowned ...10 KB (1,476 words) - 08:10, 3 August 2022
- Political philosophy is a branch of philosophy, which studies fundamental ... existing or possible theories and practices of social, political matters, ...23 KB (3,233 words) - 08:37, 24 November 2022
- ; "School of Mo") or Moism is a Chinese Philosophy founded ... individual piety and submission to the will of "heaven," or "Shang ...17 KB (2,759 words) - 19:44, 9 November 2022
- school_tradition = Continental Philosophy, Empiricism| main_interests = Aesthetics, History of Western Philosophy, Metaphilosophy ...35 KB (5,046 words) - 09:29, 15 December 2022
- 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
- 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
- view that everything in existence is of an all-encompassing immanent ... have been discussed as long ago as the time of the Ancient Greek philosophers ...28 KB (4,312 words) - 06:37, 18 November 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
- Uncertainty is a term used in subtly different ways in a number of ... The philosophical problematics of uncertainty are often tied to a ...17 KB (2,527 words) - 01:33, 3 May 2023
- Empiricism is a term in philosophy for a set of philosophical positions ... positions that emphasize the role of innate ideas, or a priori knowledge ...34 KB (4,921 words) - 18:30, 13 February 2024
- the twentieth century. It includes a number of thinkers who emphasize common ... element in thinking and the primacy of the will over purely logical ...22 KB (3,260 words) - 23:54, 24 March 2024
- a Franciscan theologian, philospher, general of the Franciscan Friars Minor ... He rejected Aristotle’s concept of the eternity of the world, ...20 KB (3,032 words) - 07:21, 17 November 2023
- existentialist philosopher. Tillich was one of the most influential Protestant ... Paul Tillich appeared on the scene at the beginning of the twentieth ...22 KB (3,350 words) - 01:34, 23 November 2022
- publishing the first official observations of the transit of Mercury in 1631. Like many intellectuals during the first half of the sixteenth century ...19 KB (2,823 words) - 05:22, 24 November 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
- Kharms founded the avant-garde collective OBERIU, or Union of Real ... Like most of the modernists, Kharms saw the Russian Revolutions in ...13 KB (1,927 words) - 22:07, 25 January 2024
- to consider) refers to any doctrine or way of thought denying the ability ... Originating in the human tendency to question the reliability of any ...31 KB (4,697 words) - 22:44, 29 January 2023
- The philosophy of science, a sub-branch of epistemology, is the branch ... ==Questions Addressed by Philosophy of Science== Philosophy of science ...72 KB (11,042 words) - 04:18, 24 November 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
- was an American historian and philosopher of science who wrote extensively ... D. in 1949. While there, primarily because of his editorship of the Harvard ...29 KB (4,408 words) - 22:54, 30 April 2023
- years before returning with a collection of as many as 500,000 Sanskrit ... The written records of I Ching's travels contributed to the world ...13 KB (2,067 words) - 13:24, 4 February 2023
- It was these beliefs that led to her support of the system of kindergartens. ... Beecher was born in East Hampton, New York, the oldest of 13 children ...8 KB (1,133 words) - 00:09, 1 December 2023
- Bar-Hebraeus (1226 - July 30, 1286) was catholicos (bishop) of the ... His numerous and elaborate treatises on theology, philosophy, science ...19 KB (3,000 words) - 19:08, 10 February 2023
- philosopher, and biographer whose use of dialectical philosophy, emphasizing ... Strauss was one of the first to make a clear distinction between Jesus ...16 KB (2,423 words) - 07:54, 28 January 2024
- [[Image:Imhotep.JPG|right|thumb|Statuette of Egyptian polymath Imhotep ... educated, or who excels, in a wide variety of subjects or fields. It is based ...38 KB (5,454 words) - 00:21, 12 April 2023
- Fideism emphasizes the importance of faith over reason in understanding ... ==The “Rationale” of Fideism== Despite the fact that fideism is ...15 KB (2,241 words) - 17:33, 26 March 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
- 28, 1585 - May 6, 1638) was Catholic bishop of Ypres, Dutch Roman Catholic ... Duvergier de Hauranne, who had become the abbé of Saint-Cyran, won ...17 KB (2,653 words) - 03:32, 8 January 2024
- Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human characteristics and qualities ... faiths have apprehended the nature of divine being(s) in terms of ...17 KB (2,392 words) - 06:18, 31 July 2023
- the cloud chamber for visualizing the tracks of electrically charged particles ... Wilson was born in the parish of Glencorse, Midlothian, near Edinburgh ...8 KB (1,235 words) - 00:34, 5 December 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
- Philosophy is the systematic study of the foundations of human knowledge ... Traditionally at least, it is not the pursuit of knowledge for knowledge’s ...69 KB (10,119 words) - 04:14, 24 November 2022
- day Tunisia, and is sometimes viewed as one of the forerunners of modern historiography ... and Muslim society. During his period of exile in Andalusia, 1364–1365 ...28 KB (4,452 words) - 17:00, 10 February 2024
- Process thought, also known as process philosophy or process theology ... Whitehead argued that reality consists of entities called "units ...23 KB (3,480 words) - 23:03, 30 November 2022
- opinion about the general orientation of his system, it must be acknowledged ... Unlike German Idealism, the prevalent philosophy of his day, Schopenhauer’s ...39 KB (6,008 words) - 17:37, 16 August 2023
- employed methods drawn from a wide range of disciplines, from philosophy ... Bourdieu studied philosophy in Paris at the École Normale Supérieure ...23 KB (3,373 words) - 05:19, 24 November 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
- 30, 1969) was a British psychologist, one of the pioneers of cognitive and ... #039;s College, Cambridge, where he studied logic and philosophy. He became ...9 KB (1,276 words) - 10:25, 11 April 2024
- Deconstruction is a term in contemporary philosophy, literary criticism ... Subjects relevant to deconstruction include the philosophy of meaning ...49 KB (7,258 words) - 09:03, 28 January 2024
- A university is an institution of higher education and research, which ... Universities are seen as a place of great personal development, but ...28 KB (4,044 words) - 12:01, 3 May 2023
- Prussia. Quite generally regarded as one of history’s truly great thinkers ... the absolute, but speculative certainties of the continental rationalism ...48 KB (7,410 words) - 18:17, 23 January 2024
- a person, community, tradition, or locus of inspiration. The object of ... 'loyalty' to a particular view of divinity, allegiance to a particular ...13 KB (1,952 words) - 00:32, 25 March 2024
- 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
- generally known as Henri Poincaré, was one of France's greatest mathematicians ... family in the Cité Ducale neighborhood of Nancy, France. His father, ...40 KB (5,908 words) - 07:01, 22 January 2024
- ethics, or as biomedical ethics, is a field of applied ethics (see the article ... back to antiquity, especially with the work of Hippocrates. Today the field ...22 KB (3,471 words) - 09:37, 10 March 2023
- in America, but fell gradually out of favor from that time on. Parsons ... Coming could not occur until man rid himself of all social evils, and sought ...14 KB (1,904 words) - 21:04, 13 November 2020
- The meaning of the word truth extends from honesty, good faith, and ... is also understood not only as a matter of conceptual understanding, but ...66 KB (9,824 words) - 23:40, 15 January 2024
- ground-breaking works to contemporary philosophy, primarily on the foundations ... Wittgenstein is widely regarded as having been one of the most influential ...59 KB (9,088 words) - 02:40, 5 November 2022
- regarded as the “crown” or the “cream” of the Vedas ... are the Hindu scriptures which primarily discuss philosophy, meditation ...28 KB (4,159 words) - 13:11, 3 May 2023
- ) (born 1058 C.E. in Tus, Khorasan province of Persia in modern day Iran; ... Al-Ghazali condemned the earlier attempts of Al-Farabi and Avicenna ...28 KB (4,307 words) - 07:21, 16 June 2023
- logician, cryptographer and one of the originators of modern computer ... codebreaking center, and was for a time head of Hut 8, the section responsible ...35 KB (5,278 words) - 04:33, 17 June 2023
- 11, 1994) was an Austrian-born philosopher of science. He was one of the ... has noted, "If one looks at the course of Feyerabend's life, one ...26 KB (3,955 words) - 16:54, 21 November 2022
- States to become an outspoken champion of capitalism. She was best known ... Her novels were based upon the projection of the Randian hero, a man ...20 KB (2,901 words) - 07:26, 23 August 2023
- Deep Ecology is a philosophical perspective in environmental philosophy ... and Christianity's Saint Francis of Assisi, whose views include ...30 KB (4,407 words) - 09:08, 28 January 2024
- == Evolution of the glyph == Image:Evolution4glyph.png Indians would add a horizontal line on top of the numeral, and the Kshatrapa ...24 KB (3,319 words) - 06:45, 13 June 2023
- 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
- Semiotics, semiotic studies, or semiology, is the study of signs and ... semioticians focus on the logical dimensions of the science. They examine areas ...23 KB (3,229 words) - 09:44, 26 January 2023
- French philosopher Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) of decision theory to the belief ... :"Before entering into the proofs of the Christian religion, ...20 KB (3,286 words) - 08:59, 18 November 2022
- the cultural and literary renaissance of Spain in the twentieth century ... As part of his own “project of life,” Ortega acted on his convictions ...25 KB (3,932 words) - 01:34, 8 September 2022
- are usually credited with being the founders of analytic philosophy. A prolific ... Russell was born at the height of Britain's economic and political ...75 KB (11,466 words) - 17:25, 29 September 2023
- American public intellectual, was a scholar of extraordinary range who made ... energy to developing and promoting his style of libertarianism, developing ...36 KB (5,322 words) - 19:01, 10 November 2022
- refers in its broadest sense to a denial of theism (the belief in the existence ... or not God exists received from him one of his famous "silences. ...41 KB (6,063 words) - 18:42, 19 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
- its anti war politic through a rejection of the prevailing standards in ... movements, Dadaism reflected the collapse of the cherished ideals of Western ...18 KB (2,739 words) - 07:39, 12 January 2024
- was an American researcher in the fields of cognitive psychology, computer ... closer and more accurate representations of the full dimensions of human ...18 KB (2,630 words) - 09:55, 22 January 2024
- until the fourth century C.E. This period of Greek literature stretches ... In addition to history and philosophy, Ancient Greek literature is ...25 KB (4,056 words) - 17:49, 13 November 2021
- 6, 1831 – February 12, 1916) was one of the major German mathematicians ... from a certain inherent creative capacity of the mind, which were some of ...11 KB (1,615 words) - 20:14, 8 December 2022
- Asia. He is credited with the translation of some 1,330 fascicles of scriptures ... Xuanzang’s detailed account of his travels, Journey to the West ...21 KB (3,157 words) - 14:33, 20 May 2023
- and mechanics. He introduced some of the familiar notation still ... Euler was born in Basel to Paul Euler, a pastor of the Reformed Church ...33 KB (4,972 words) - 15:54, 5 July 2023
- was an American philosopher in the school of pragmatism, known for his contributions ... He argued, controversially, that members of such groups as the Communist ...27 KB (3,748 words) - 14:49, 31 May 2023
- most likely die in the process. The means of such attacks have included ... with Samson's suicidal destruction of a Philistine temple (as recounted ...11 KB (1,667 words) - 21:41, 26 February 2023
- The English Historical School of Economics, although not nearly as ... The school considered itself the intellectual heirs of past figures ...27 KB (3,885 words) - 08:56, 5 September 2023
- Mo) is a term applied to a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory ... Many theorists agree that we can distinguish between two senses of ...45 KB (6,401 words) - 05:50, 30 November 2022
- the modern libertarian movement and revival of classical liberalism. Prominent ... on September 29, 1881, in Lemberg (then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire ...19 KB (2,970 words) - 02:41, 5 November 2022
- Desire has been the subject of religious and philosophical speculation ... The most basic of these meanings (the literal meaning) is "thirst ...23 KB (3,709 words) - 09:57, 29 January 2024
- the scientific revolution. His theory of 'observation and experimentation ... as a philosophical advocate and defender of the scientific revolution. ...23 KB (3,596 words) - 04:48, 9 April 2024
- surfacing throughout the very early years of the last century, the 1907 ... The futurists explored every medium of art, including painting, sculpture ...11 KB (1,537 words) - 07:23, 15 April 2024
- The Epistle to Titus is a book of the New Testament, one of the three ... are truly by the Apostle, due to issues of style, circumstance, and references ...12 KB (1,906 words) - 19:11, 13 February 2024
- science, numerical analysis, hydrodynamics (of explosions), statistics and ... Most notably, von Neumann was a pioneer of the application of operator ...30 KB (4,433 words) - 00:38, 10 February 2023
- society was not based on market principles of exchange but rather on relationships ... Polanyi, chemist and philosopher. The son of a prominent member of a Hungarian ...16 KB (2,415 words) - 07:19, 5 October 2022
- A gymnasium is a type of school providing secondary education and ... may specialize in more practical areas of study, such as technology, ...14 KB (2,013 words) - 07:46, 10 January 2024
- region = Western Philosophy | era = Eighteenth-Century Philosophy | color = #B0C4DE | ...48 KB (7,545 words) - 08:05, 28 January 2024
- ) is the most influential sub-school of the Vedānta (Sanskrit for ... . Advaita is often called a monistic system of thought. The word ...32 KB (4,839 words) - 06:20, 15 June 2023
- in his writings, particularly the absurdity of existence in a brutal and apparently ... Though Camus’ work is often associated with that of another important ...25 KB (3,796 words) - 04:59, 17 June 2023
- 14, 1936) was an influential English writer of the early twentieth century ... Chesterton has been called the "prince of paradox." ...21 KB (3,246 words) - 07:30, 15 April 2024
- Critical theory is a term applied to a wide variety of critical approaches ... rejects the modernist assumptions of Western philosophy, including ...43 KB (6,032 words) - 06:26, 11 January 2024
- Victorian literature is the body of poetry, fiction, essays, and letters ... During the nineteenth century the novel become the leading form of ...18 KB (2,842 words) - 20:10, 3 May 2023
- India. He is best known as the founder of the Arya Samaj "Society ... who believed in the infallible authority of the Vedas. Dayananda advocated ...15 KB (2,357 words) - 08:42, 28 January 2024
- term that refers to the modern notion of a Chinese nationality transcending ... The roots of the Zhonghua minzu lie in the multi-ethnic Qing Empire ...15 KB (2,210 words) - 06:01, 13 June 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
- Philosophy of religion is the application of the philosophical method ... A composite discipline and one of the many “philosophies of – ...73 KB (11,277 words) - 04:18, 24 November 2022
- In natural philosophy, atomism is the theory that all the objects ... Traditional atomism is used in two distinct domains: The atoms of ...37 KB (5,618 words) - 06:58, 21 August 2023
- fields and he influenced the development of schools of theory including ... Roland Barthes was born on November 12, 1915 in the town of Cherbourg ...25 KB (3,880 words) - 02:43, 16 December 2022
- Academic freedom is the freedom of teachers, students, and academic ... Proponents of academic freedom believe that the freedom of inquiry ...23 KB (3,336 words) - 07:10, 14 June 2023
- The Dominican Order, originally known as the Order of Preachers, is ... Aquinas, Albertus Magnus, St. Catherine of Siena, and Girolamo Savonarola ...21 KB (3,178 words) - 17:16, 30 January 2024
- Phonetic Alphabet, is the central teaching of the Nyingma school of Tibetan ... Many Tibetan lamas, particularly of the Nyingma and Kagyu schools ...18 KB (2,673 words) - 01:18, 16 January 2023
- As an educator, he promoted the teaching of history, science, and the arts ... gases becoming famous for his co-discovery of oxygen, which he called "dephlo ...19 KB (2,767 words) - 04:54, 7 May 2024
- ), is a variant of Marxism-Leninism derived from the teachings of ... the preferred term by the Communist Party of China (CPC) and that the word ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 03:00, 6 November 2022
- to as the 80-20 principle—that 80 percent of the wealth belongs to 20 percent ... from what is now the Polytechnic University of Turin. His thesis was entitled ...21 KB (3,117 words) - 20:22, 3 May 2023
- storage, retrieval, and dissemination of information. Information science ... understanding problems from the perspective of the stakeholders involved and ...37 KB (5,078 words) - 17:20, 15 April 2021
- A Modest Proposal: For Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland ... This essay is widely held to be one of the greatest examples of sustained ...17 KB (2,706 words) - 07:08, 13 June 2023
- Saint Anselm of Canterbury (1033 – April 21, 1109) was an Italian ... He developed a sophisticated analysis of language (thus foreshadowing ...33 KB (5,289 words) - 05:15, 31 July 2023
- Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a form of talk therapy, or psychotherapy ... CBT developed as a combination of cognitive therapy, which focuses ...29 KB (3,904 words) - 22:22, 16 May 2024
- The Age of Enlightenment, sometimes called the Age of Reason, refers ... to establishing an authoritative system of aesthetics, ethics, government ...33 KB (4,666 words) - 04:36, 30 April 2021
- In Christianity, a gospel is generally one of four canonical books ... been printed in the Bible is not the order of their composition, and that ...17 KB (2,705 words) - 18:26, 26 December 2022
- Arguments or proofs for the Existence of God have been proposed by ... Being, Being-itself, the source and Creator of all beings, or in other similar ...81 KB (12,883 words) - 08:12, 24 January 2023
- for his attempt to reconcile the criticisms of the Enlightenment with traditional ... Because of his profound effect on subsequent Christian thought, he ...45 KB (6,434 words) - 06:42, 15 April 2024
- with Konchog Gyalpo and Marpa, became one of the major figures in the establishment ... Buddha. Born into a royal family in the city of Vikramapura, Southeast Bengal ...20 KB (3,073 words) - 05:55, 21 August 2023
- Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P. (also Thomas of Aquin, or Aquino; c. 1225 ... for those studying for the priesthood (Code of Canon Law, Can. 252, §3). ...35 KB (5,231 words) - 18:38, 30 April 2023
- Environmentalism is a perspective that encompasses a broad range of ... Since environmental issues are considered as outcomes of modernity ...21 KB (2,883 words) - 19:02, 13 February 2024
- that people require the positive influence of teachers and ritual praxis ... Little is known of the historical Xunzi, save that he was born in ...24 KB (3,958 words) - 14:34, 20 May 2023
- rule," which predicts the number of phases that a substance can ... Josiah Willard Gibbs was the only son and the fourth of five children ...19 KB (2,786 words) - 05:25, 7 May 2024
- traits, and criminality on the basis of the shape of the head (by reading ... these do not correspond to the level of complexity that Gall described ...15 KB (2,198 words) - 05:06, 24 November 2022
- pamphleteer, and, most enduringly, author of what is widely considered the ... blind, Paradise Lost relates the story of the biblical Fall of Man: It ...27 KB (4,256 words) - 03:00, 2 May 2024
- or Der Hexenhammer (Latin/German for "The Hammer of Witches" ... The text was the culmination of a long history of medieval theological ...29 KB (4,393 words) - 10:59, 9 March 2023
- developed to explain the relationship of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit ... Son was officially confirmed at the Council of Nicea in 325, while the consubstantiality ...42 KB (6,496 words) - 11:56, 9 May 2024
- The Italian Renaissance began the opening phase of the Renaissance ... for the renewed interest in the culture of classical antiquity following ...32 KB (4,821 words) - 22:45, 22 September 2022
- century Gujarati literature, and was one of several Gujarati writers and ... by his experiences. He married at the age of thirteen and had two children ...44 KB (6,296 words) - 21:42, 30 October 2023
- The Historical school of economics was an approach to academic economics ... practiced in the Classical Anglo-Saxon world of Ricardo and John Stuart Mill ...33 KB (4,933 words) - 21:55, 31 January 2024
- It stressed strong emotion as a source of aesthetic experience, placing ... Romanticism arose as a reaction against the excessive rationalism ...25 KB (3,674 words) - 04:59, 16 December 2022
- As the way in which war is prosecuted, and the nature of war itself ... :In the royal service, Major General and Inspector of the Artillery ...24 KB (3,682 words) - 15:21, 27 November 2023
- for their own existence. It is the sum total of a being's knowledge and ... Components of the self-concept include physical, psychological, and ...38 KB (5,604 words) - 20:14, 22 May 2023
- statesman Pericles. She was born in the city of Miletus in Asia Minor, and ... Aspasia appears in the philosophical writings of Xenophon, Aeschines ...30 KB (4,572 words) - 04:50, 18 August 2023
- The word oratory refers to the art of eloquent speech. An orator is ... quot; also refers to a semi-public place of worship constructed for the ...27 KB (4,174 words) - 10:41, 11 March 2023
- Concepts are the categorization of objects, events, or people that ... at least, if not other species, are capable of concept formation, and computers ...32 KB (5,041 words) - 02:42, 8 January 2024
- in Nanyang, Henan, China, was a precursor of Neo-Confucianism as well as ... “do not work, they do not produce, worst of all, they teach people not ...16 KB (2,591 words) - 13:28, 24 January 2023
- doctor. Lacan’s ‘return to the meaning of Freud’ profoundly changed ... Lacan's work has had a profound impact on the development of ...49 KB (7,514 words) - 08:30, 18 March 2024
- Nicolaus Copernicus (February 19, 1473 – May 24, 1543) was one of ... science and cosmology but also theology, philosophy, and culture, and for the ...33 KB (5,163 words) - 02:58, 8 January 2024
- the Muslim world, he nominated the leader of the Shi'a community as ... He founded the famous 'Bayt al-Hikmah' (House of Wisdom} ...24 KB (3,663 words) - 05:21, 30 April 2021
- Social constructionism is a theory of knowledge in sociology and communication ... With the rise of Post-Modernism, social constructionism became popular ...34 KB (4,832 words) - 00:18, 16 February 2022
- and that his story is actually a syncretism of previous myths and mystery ... it carries little weight among the majority of modern historians and scholars ...41 KB (6,172 words) - 22:02, 17 February 2023
- Tammuz (also known as Dumuzi) was the name of an ancient Near Eastern ... Adonis, a beautiful youth who earned the love of Aphrodite. ...16 KB (2,459 words) - 04:00, 27 February 2023
- "soul" denotes the inner essence of a being comprising its locus ... Throughout history, the belief in the existence of a soul has been ...34 KB (5,420 words) - 15:44, 14 July 2023
- a Romanian historian, philosopher, theorist of religion, literary critic, ... His most significant contributions to the study of religion are his ...30 KB (4,475 words) - 18:55, 9 November 2022
- as either the "hidden imam" of Islam or the "Gateway ... The son of a merchant from Shiraz, Iran, the Báb announced himself ...17 KB (2,919 words) - 05:23, 26 August 2023
- Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is a branch of philosophy; it ... Baumgarten in 1735 to mean "the science of how things are known via the ...53 KB (8,177 words) - 05:51, 16 June 2023
- Romanian playwright and dramatist, one of the foremost playwrights of ... The 'Theatre of the Absurd' is thought to have its origins ...15 KB (2,272 words) - 04:19, 23 March 2024
- Pedagogy, literally translated, is the art or science of teaching ... able to embrace both the art and science of pedagogy, acting as "parents ...26 KB (3,614 words) - 17:11, 26 March 2023
- Persian and Muslim poet, Sufi, theoretician of mysticism, and hagiographer ... His most famous work, The Conference of the Birds, rejoices in the ...25 KB (4,069 words) - 00:42, 25 March 2024
- courtier and politician at the court of Louis XIV. Bossuet was a staunch advocate of the theory of political absolutism; ...26 KB (4,115 words) - 12:30, 6 November 2021
- The phrase Son of God is a title that was applied to different figures ... Many figures in the ancient world used the phrase "Son of God ...22 KB (3,158 words) - 15:11, 27 April 2023
- Hindemith helped to create a new conception of tonality with the 12-tone scale ... In 1922, some of his pieces were heard at the International Society ...17 KB (2,661 words) - 17:06, 21 November 2022
- Comte de Lautréamont was the pen name of Isidore Lucien Ducasse ... a life outside or against society. Abuse of drugs and alcohol, insanity ...21 KB (3,307 words) - 02:36, 8 January 2024
- the symbol. In mathematics, the definition of number has been extended over ... are called numerical operations. The study of numerical operations is called ...37 KB (5,685 words) - 00:43, 17 November 2022
- and mathematical psychologist, and a pioneer of cognitive science. A longtime ... Tversky was an astute observer of human behavior, recognizing that ...28 KB (4,170 words) - 09:22, 18 June 2021
- evidence that "certain features of the universe and of living ... by chance. ID focuses on just those sorts of complex patterns that in human ...70 KB (10,563 words) - 12:54, 7 February 2023
- revivalist," was a major leader of the Second Great Awakening ... Finnney ignited a wave of spiritual transformation among a sector ...24 KB (3,726 words) - 19:08, 4 December 2023
- centuries, in particular his book The Making of the English Working Class ... Thompson's writing helped expose the role of class, elitism, ...19 KB (2,741 words) - 17:30, 12 February 2024
- specialized in aesthetics and political philosophy, particularly in the furtherance ... 1971 to 1992 he was a lecturer and professor of aesthetics at Birkbeck College ...58 KB (8,069 words) - 21:36, 16 April 2023
- years. The oldest extant works show signs of maturity indicating an even ... A revival of Tamil literature took place from the late nineteenth ...33 KB (4,960 words) - 00:53, 21 April 2023
- Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was one of the ... The major themes of his work were social: Radical individualism, libertarianism ...54 KB (8,294 words) - 21:10, 16 April 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
- Sunni Muslims are the larger of the two main branches of Islam. Sunni ... or example of the Prophet Muhammad. They represent the branch of Islam ...27 KB (4,335 words) - 13:53, 28 April 2023
- States, where the largest concentration of liberal arts schools is to ... adults. Originally designed for the elite of society, the thinkers and leaders ...23 KB (3,427 words) - 11:01, 7 March 2023
- historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science. His work belongs ... Girard's theoretical work began with his discovery of mimetic ...32 KB (4,801 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
- danse 1874.jpg|right|200px|thumb|An artifact of "high culture": a ... or to honor), generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic ...40 KB (5,823 words) - 13:34, 4 July 2023
- The social sciences are a group of academic disciplines that study ... distinct disciplines. However, the origins of their ideas and goals are located ...53 KB (7,429 words) - 21:46, 30 January 2023
- Found in the mythology, folklore, and religion of virtually all world ... Some classical examples of Tricksters in various mythologies are Mercurius ...19 KB (2,802 words) - 16:52, 2 May 2023
- sphere is an imaginary rotating sphere of gigantic radius, concentric ... models, the celestial sphere was thought of as a physical reality rather ...58 KB (9,037 words) - 23:45, 3 December 2023
- Stream of consciousness is a literary technique, used primarily in ... Modern stream of consciousness writing is closely related to, but ...20 KB (3,127 words) - 20:56, 26 February 2023
- Pavel Josef Šafařík, also known by the Slovak spelling of his name ... local culture while realizing the extent of Slavic oppression. While most ...26 KB (4,082 words) - 01:44, 23 November 2022
- famed for his encyclopedic knowledge of Indian and Vedantic learning ... Kumarajiva is mostly remembered for the prolific translation of Buddhist ...20 KB (3,105 words) - 04:38, 4 March 2023
- is a historical region of West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates ... Mesopotamia is the site of the earliest developments of the Neolithic ...54 KB (7,940 words) - 19:20, 25 March 2024
- with rhythm. In Africa, dance is a means of marking life experiences, encouraging ... in African Music. African dance has a unity of aesthetic and logic that is ...41 KB (6,461 words) - 06:06, 16 June 2023
- (a form of individualist anarchism) Ian Adams, Political Ideology Today ... is an anti-state political philosophy that attempts to reconcile anarchism ...50 KB (7,105 words) - 19:00, 26 July 2023
- the jar/box, providing humanity with a degree of solace. The myth of the Pandora's Box has been widely criticized as an ...20 KB (3,287 words) - 06:35, 18 November 2022
- which would empower and mobilize much of the urban black population ... but has now included Biko in the pantheon of the struggle's heroes ...19 KB (2,967 words) - 04:41, 28 April 2023
- that utilizes the behavior and effects of electrons for the production ... to cover electronic engineering amongst some of the older (notably American ...28 KB (3,902 words) - 16:01, 13 February 2024
- Many ancient cultures speculated on the nature of the human mind, ... method, which revolutionized the treatment of psychological disorders. ...60 KB (8,560 words) - 12:29, 1 February 2024
- was a famous Irish author, novelist, and one of the great spokespersons for ... As a youth, the untimely death of his mother, the cruelty of his schoolmates ...27 KB (4,330 words) - 19:28, 24 November 2023
- identities. The term is used in a variety of ways to describe phenomena ... Many contemporary advocates of identity politics take an intersectional ...40 KB (5,610 words) - 14:15, 4 February 2023
- pan out, and she would later retract some of them, but they were always ... fur trading business in China, where he died of tuberculosis when Susan was ...21 KB (3,083 words) - 00:28, 27 February 2023
- Cybernetics is the interdisciplinary study of the structure of complex ... then behaves, with all this in service of a goal or goals. This "circular ...22 KB (3,161 words) - 06:51, 12 January 2024
- the iTunes media browser, the iLife suite of multimedia and creativity software ... consumer electronics market. Through its philosophy of comprehensive aesthetic ...56 KB (7,806 words) - 15:54, 11 August 2023
- | work_institution = University of Vienna | alma_mater = University of Vienna | doctoral_advisor = Jean-Martin ...58 KB (8,678 words) - 21:59, 29 January 2023
- cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. Some of ... Bateson is most closely associated with the concept of the double ...23 KB (3,325 words) - 14:02, 31 January 2023
- occupied many public offices, including that of Lord Chancellor from 1529 to ... XI, and was later declared the patron saint of statesmen and lawyers. He shares ...28 KB (4,440 words) - 21:23, 30 April 2023
- Grammar is the set of rules that allow a speaker to form an intelligible ... (grammatikḕ téchnē), which means "art of letters," from ...25 KB (3,469 words) - 22:17, 30 March 2023
- Russian Futurism is the broad term for a movement of Russian poets ... – issued the manifesto A Slap in the Face of Public Taste. The 1912 movement ...26 KB (3,556 words) - 16:42, 28 July 2023
- writer, academic, journalist, and scholar of early modern English literature ... and opposition. She is also the author of many other books including ...21 KB (3,238 words) - 07:38, 24 January 2023
- The Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (Devanāgarī: ... and technology-oriented institute of higher education established ...32 KB (4,594 words) - 21:31, 11 November 2021
- In biological terms, a human being, or human, is any member of the ... Psychologically, humans have a highly developed brain capable of abstract ...94 KB (13,955 words) - 12:18, 4 February 2023
- Augustine of Hippo or Saint Augustine (November 13, 354 – August ... Born in what is present-day Algeria as the eldest son of Saint Monica ...65 KB (10,156 words) - 11:55, 9 May 2024
- and numerous contributions to the discipline of electricity and magnetism in ... In the United States, Tesla's fame rivaled that of any other ...61 KB (9,138 words) - 09:48, 11 March 2023
- plays throughout the 1600s. Born the second of five children to Anne and Arthur ... Born the second of five children, and only boy, to Anne and Arthur ...24 KB (3,692 words) - 03:47, 24 November 2022
- significantly higher than other children of the same age. The focus was ... asynchronously—their minds are often ahead of their physical growth, and ...28 KB (4,026 words) - 06:24, 11 December 2022
- Creativity is a process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts ... psychometrics, artificial intelligence, philosophy, history, economics, and ...52 KB (7,713 words) - 06:21, 11 January 2024
- "bind, connect") denotes a set of common beliefs and practices ... The social structure of the world's religious traditions can ...54 KB (7,792 words) - 03:38, 8 December 2022
- was the business manager and managing editor of the Chicago Tribune newspaper ... as a British citizen by nativity. At the age of nine, he and his family traveled ...26 KB (4,041 words) - 04:50, 7 May 2024
- or otherwise changing speech and other forms of human expression. In some cases ... While humankind remains self-centered and unable to develop a world ...26 KB (3,779 words) - 01:42, 13 January 2023
- descriptive sense to the economic effects of nations with large state sectors ... There has developed a diverse array of ideas that have been referred ...42 KB (6,187 words) - 15:03, 27 April 2023
- ) was a Russian novelist and dramatist who was regarded as an equal ... forbidden for its unflattering description of the Russian nobility. His principal ...55 KB (8,334 words) - 16:48, 29 September 2021
- any male person who has taken religious vows of poverty and celibacy in order ... There are several specific categories of monks including cenobites ...38 KB (6,105 words) - 20:00, 9 November 2022
- |name = Massachusetts Institute of Technology ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private, coeducational ...42 KB (5,941 words) - 09:17, 10 March 2023
- and spiritual perception as surer denoters of the truth than sentiment or ... Blake's explorations of good and evil, heaven and hell, knowledge ...26 KB (4,085 words) - 15:40, 6 May 2023
- The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), constitute an elite group ... program with a successful implimentation of that plan to create one of ...40 KB (5,809 words) - 14:53, 16 October 2021
- As a number, zero means nothing—an absence of other values. It plays a central ... systems, 0 was identified before the idea of 'negative integers' ...30 KB (4,810 words) - 06:25, 13 June 2023
- These religions account for more than half of the world's total population ... The Prophet Abraham is claimed by Jews as the ancestor of the Israelites ...30 KB (4,716 words) - 23:04, 8 April 2021
- Age circa 800 C.E. With the conversion of the land to Christianity around ... (late eighteenth century), the first writer of burlesque ballads; and August ...37 KB (5,478 words) - 16:22, 12 January 2024
- his book Les Propheties, the first edition of which appeared in 1555. Since the publication of this text, which has rarely been out of print ...27 KB (4,102 words) - 10:08, 11 March 2023
- and professor, best known for his works of historical fiction. He wrote twelve novels, three volumes of short fiction, and a stage ...37 KB (4,830 words) - 17:29, 12 February 2024
- Augustan literature is a style of English literature produced during ... The chronological anchors of the era are generally vague, largely ...61 KB (9,767 words) - 03:12, 31 January 2023
- or behaviour (British English) is the range of actions and mannerisms in response ... The primary focus of this article is human behavior, which includes ...40 KB (5,552 words) - 21:51, 20 March 2023
- the Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States in 1896, ... to disillusion him about the possibility of moral progress. He concluded ...37 KB (5,377 words) - 11:07, 10 May 2023
- Psychology (from Greek, literally "study of the soul," from ... natural sciences it is also considered one of the behavioral sciences—a ...53 KB (7,102 words) - 01:28, 12 April 2023
- Europe, that followed an aesthetic ideology of excess and artificiality. Barrès referred to a particular group of writers as Decadents. It emerged ...53 KB (7,426 words) - 21:41, 10 July 2023
- quot; or "creating") is a form of art in which language is used ... Poetry, and discussions of it, have a long history. Early attempts ...69 KB (10,532 words) - 00:11, 5 March 2023
- penalty; or grant clemency, or the lessening of the punishment, by means of ... Public debate invariable surrounds the pardoning of a criminal, despite ...35 KB (5,395 words) - 13:20, 11 March 2023
- are a list of religious and moral laws, which, according to biblical ... Sinai, and to share them with the people of Israel in the third month after ...37 KB (5,883 words) - 02:58, 19 April 2023
- Language is a structured system of communication that consists of ... Depending on philosophical perspectives on the definition of language ...112 KB (16,049 words) - 21:16, 26 February 2023
- an Irish writer and poet, regarded as one of the seminal figures of modernism ... Joyce pushed the limits of the "stream-of-consciousness" ...32 KB (5,105 words) - 21:18, 20 March 2024
- the United Kingdom as well as other areas of Europe and North America, and ... Gothic architecture aims to create an experience of the sublime or ...32 KB (4,445 words) - 04:37, 31 December 2022
- #039; national hero and the anniversary of Rizal's death is commemorated ... The seventh of eleven children born to a wealthy family in the town ...46 KB (7,008 words) - 06:33, 6 May 2024
- and literary critic, and is considered part of the American Romantic Movement ... The darkness that characterized many of Poe's writings appears ...44 KB (6,485 words) - 18:07, 12 February 2024
- Arabic word for Islamic law, also known as the Law of Allah. It shows one of many ways that humanity strives to harmonize and maintain ...36 KB (5,852 words) - 19:56, 21 April 2023
- The Religious Society of Friends, whose members are known as Quakers ... with the existing denominations and sects of Christianity. Historians generally ...39 KB (6,129 words) - 00:04, 15 April 2023
- regime from 1933 to 1945. He was one of Adolf Hitler's closest ... Heidelberg University in 1921, on the basis of a doctoral thesis on eighteenth ...34 KB (5,445 words) - 21:47, 6 May 2024
- Baroque music describes an era and a set of styles of European classical ... relationships. Pythagoras' discovery of the overtone series, with its ...39 KB (5,985 words) - 10:49, 20 September 2023
- a royal Indian dynasty ruling large parts of southern, central and northern ... The clan that ruled from Elichpur had been a feudatory of the Badami ...53 KB (7,699 words) - 00:10, 14 November 2023
- as Buddhists. Buddhism encompasses a variety of traditions, beliefs, and spiritual ... Most Buddhist traditions share the goal of overcoming dukkha (suffering ...93 KB (13,393 words) - 18:33, 22 November 2023
- or other ideological goals. Most definitions of terrorism include only those ... labels to condemn violence or threat of violence by certain actors ...40 KB (5,766 words) - 14:59, 30 April 2023
- produced in, or rooted in the traditions of, Western art, ecclesiastical ... With the decline of Rome and the ascendancy of Christianity in Europe ...41 KB (6,156 words) - 10:52, 19 December 2023
- The Middle Ages form the middle period in a traditional division of ... With the demise of centralized Roman government in the West, trade ...60 KB (9,144 words) - 10:41, 10 March 2023
- The French Revolution (1789–1799) was a period of ideological, political ... popular uprising against the absolute power of the king and against the privileges ...68 KB (10,394 words) - 10:55, 11 April 2024
- The dynasty originated in the fertile valley of the Kaveri River. Karikala ... The Cholas reached the height of their power during the tenth, eleventh ...44 KB (6,505 words) - 17:15, 10 December 2023
- Church in full communion with the Bishop of Rome, currently Pope Benedict ... Church and the largest organized body of any world religion. ...80 KB (12,653 words) - 04:49, 16 December 2022
- [[Image:Caslon-schriftmusterblatt.jpeg|thumb|right|250px|A specimen ... Typography is the art and technique of arranging type, type design ...43 KB (6,355 words) - 00:40, 3 May 2023
- and endless debate as the topic of God. In the English language ... Throughout history, the vast majority of people in the world have ...102 KB (16,134 words) - 19:54, 31 December 2023
- available to non-Muslims who were People of the Book, namely, Jews and ... The term connotes an obligation of the state to protect the individual ...49 KB (7,384 words) - 10:21, 29 January 2024
- Chandos portrait that is believed to be of William Shakespeare]] dramatist. His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two ...56 KB (8,436 words) - 10:51, 12 May 2023
- The history of Poland from 1945 to 1989 spans the period of Soviet ... Near the end of World War II, German forces were driven from Poland ...65 KB (9,745 words) - 00:13, 25 January 2024
- The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly ... Ireland—with King Charles III as head of state. He is also head of state ...123 KB (18,096 words) - 11:41, 3 May 2023
