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  • Eudaimonism is an ethical theory which maintains that happiness (eudaimonia) is reached through virtue (aretê). Eudaimonia and aretê are two ...
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  • Neo-Hegelianism refers to several schools of thought associated with and inspired by the ideas of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, a German idealist ...
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  • Yury Olesha ( Юрий Карлович Олеша , (May 3, 1899 – May 10, 1960) was a Russian novelist during the early Soviet period. He ...
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  • Sir John Carew Eccles (January 27, 1903 – May 2, 1997) was an Australian neurophysiologist who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ...
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  • Michel Eyquem de Montaigne ([ miʃɛl ekɛm də mɔ̃tɛɲ ]) (February 28, 1533 – September 13, 1592) was one of the most influential writers ...
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  • Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was a twentieth-century American poet, whose verse has been the subject of more critical ...
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  • Legal ethics is a branch of applied ethics, having to do with the study and application of what is right and wrong, good and bad, in the practice ...
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  • The First Epistle of Peter is a book of the New Testament traditionally held to have been written by Saint Peter the apostle during his time ...
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  • José Ortega y Gasset (May 9, 1883 - October 18, 1955) was a Spanish philosopher and humanist who greatly influenced the cultural and literary ...
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  • Saint Bonaventura also Bonaventure (born Giovanni di Fidanza) (1221 - July 15, 1274), was a Franciscan theologian, philospher, general of the ...
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  • Philosophical anthropology is the philosophical discipline that inquires into the essence of human nature and the human condition. In making ...
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  • Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. (born March 31, 1948) was the forty-fifth Vice President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001 ...
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  • category:image wanted Virtue ethics is one of three major theories in normative ethics, the other two being deontological ethics and consequentialism ...
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  • Bernard Placidus Johann Nepomuk Bolzano (October 5, 1781 – December 18, 1848) was a Czech mathematician, theologian, philosopher, and logician ...
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  • First Cause is term introduced by Aristotle and used in philosophy and theology. Aristotle noted that things in nature are caused and that these ...
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  • Category:Lawyers and Jurists [[Image:Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt - Hugo Grotius.jpg|thumb|230px|Hugo Grotius by Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, 1631]] ...
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  • John Dillinger (June 22, 1903 – July 22, 1934) was an American bank robber, considered by some to be a dangerous criminal, while others idealized ...
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  • The First Great Awakening (often referred by historians as the Great Awakening) is the name sometimes given to a period of heightened religious ...
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  • Karma (Sanskrit: कर्म from the root kri, "to do") is a term used in several eastern religions referring to the entire cycle ...
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  • Professor Roderick Ninian Smart (May 6, 1927 – January 29, 2001) was a Scottish writer and university educator. He was a pioneer in the field ...
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  • Category:Psychologists Category:Anthropologists Category:Writers and poets Category:Image wanted Becker, Ernest Ernest Becker (September 27, 1924 ...
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  • Category:Media Professionals Cooper, Kent Kent Cooper (March 22, 1880 - January 31, 1965) was a distinguished journalist who served with the Associated ...
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  • Aesop (also spelled Æsop, from the Greek Αἴσωπος – Aisōpos) is the figure traditionally credited with the collection of fables identified ...
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  • Max Scheler (August 22, 1874 - May 19, 1928) was a German philosopher known for his work in phenomenology, ethics, and philosophical anthropology ...
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  • Spencer Tracy (April 5, 1900 – June 10, 1967) was a two-time Academy Award-winning American film and stage actor who appeared in 74 films from ...
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  • Category:Public Anaximander (Greek: Αναξίμανδρος) (c. 609 – 547 b.c.e.) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, the second of the ...
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  • Basilides (early second century) was a Gnostic Christian religious teacher in Alexandria, Egypt. He taught a dualistic theology that emphasized ...
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  • Ellen Gould White (née Harmon) (November 26, 1827 - July 16, 1915) was co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, prolific writer, lecturer ...
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  • The Right Reverend James Edward Lesslie Newbigin C.B.E. (December 8, 1909 – January 30, 1998) was a distinguished British theologian, missionary ...
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  • Rosslyn Chapel, properly named the Collegiate Church of St Matthew, was originally a Roman Catholic church founded in the village of Roslin, ...
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  • Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (May 5, 1813 – November 11, 1855) was a nineteenth century Danish philosopher and theologian who has often been called ...
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  • John Keats (October 31, 1795 – February 23, 1821) was one of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement. Keats' poetry is characterized ...
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  • Nichiren (日蓮) (February 16, 1222 – October 13, 1282), born Zennichimaro (善日麿), later Zeshō-bō Renchō (是生房蓮長), and finally ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Zeno.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Zeno of Citium]] Stoicism, one of the three major schools of Hellenistic philosphy, was founded ...
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  • Frederick Charles Louis Constantine, prince and landgrave of the House of Hesse (May 1, 1868 – May 28, 1940), was the brother-in-law of the ...
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  • Dorothy Thompson (July 9, 1893 - January 30, 1961) was an American journalist who gained international celebrity when she became the first journalist ...
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  • Category:Psychologists Category:Public Maslow, Abraham Abraham Maslow (April 1, 1908 – June 8, 1970) was an American psychologist who helped ...
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  • Agnosticism is the philosophical or religious view that the truth value of certain claims — particularly claims regarding the existence of ...
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  • Logic, from Classical Greek λόγος (logos), originally meaning the word, or what is spoken, (but coming to mean thought or reason or an explanation ...
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  • Godiva (or Godgifu) (fl. 1040-1080) was an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who, according to legend, rode naked through the streets of Coventry in England ...
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  • Advaita Vedanta (IAST Advaita Vedānta ; Sanskrit अद्वैत वेदान्त ; IPA /əd̪vait̪ə veːd̪ɑːnt̪ə/ ...
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  • The Second Epistle of John, also called 2 John, is a book of the New Testament in the Christian Bible. It is the shortest book of the Bible, ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Category:Psychologists Festinger, Leon Leon Festinger (May 8, 1919 – February 11, 1989) was an American psychologist. ...
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  • Social constructionism is a theory of knowledge in sociology and communication theory. It holds that characteristics typically thought to be ...
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  • Cartography or mapmaking (in Greek chartis - map and graphein - write) is the study and practice of making representations of the Earth on a ...
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  • Victor Cousin (November 28, 1792 - January 13, 1867) was a French philosopher, educational reformer, and a historian, whose systematic eclecticism ...
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  • Tamar (תָּמָר, Hebrew meaning "Date Palm") was the fore-mother of the Jews and the daughter-in-law of the patriarch Judah, the ...
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  • Pope Leo XIII (March 2, 1810 - July 20, 1903), born Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci, was the 256th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church ...
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  • Edward Albert Shils (July 1, 1910 – January 23, 1995) was a Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and in Sociology ...
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  • New Age Music, known as a combination of mostly instrumental pieces creating sounds of a soothing, romantic, mood-elevating and sometimes sensual ...
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  • Edith Stein (October 12, 1891 – August 9, 1942) was a German philosopher, a Carmelite nun, martyr, and saint of the Catholic Church, who died ...
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  • Lacydes of Cyrene, Greek philosopher, became head of the Platonic Academy at Athens in succession to Arcesilaus about 241 B.C.E. He left no extant ...
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  • The Devil is the title given to the supernatural being who is believed to be a powerful, evil entity and the tempter of humankind. The name ...
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  • Steve Bantu Biko (December 18, 1946 – September 12, 1977) was a noted anti-apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s and early 1970s ...
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  • Willard Van Orman Quine (June 25, 1908 – December 25, 2000), usually cited as W.V. Quine or W.V.O. Quine but known to his friends as Van, was ...
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  • Yúnmén Wényǎn (862 or 864 Dumoulin (1994), 230. – 949 C.E.), (雲門文偃; Japanese: Ummon Bun'en; he is also variously known in English ...
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  • Environmentalism is a perspective that encompasses a broad range of views concerned with the preservation, restoration, or improvement of the ...
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  • Postmodernism (sometimes abbreviated as Po-Mo) is a term applied to a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory, philosophy, architecture ...
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  • Islamic philosophy (الفلسفة الإسلامية) is a branch of Islamic studies, and is a longstanding attempt to create harmony between ...
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  • Joseph Echols Lowery (October 6, 1921 – March 27, 2020) was an American minister in the United Methodist Church and leader in the civil rights ...
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  • Category:Sociologists Category:Philosophers Habermas, Jürgen [[Image:JuergenHabermas.jpg|thumb|200 px|Jürgen Habermas during a discussion in ...
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  • Philosophy of language is the reasoned inquiry into the nature, origins, and usage of language. As a topic, the philosophy of language for Analytic ...
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  • A virtue is a trait or disposition of character that leads to good behavior, for example, wisdom, courage, modesty, generosity, and self-control ...
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  • Noah Webster (October 16, 1758 – April 28, 1843) was an American lexicographer, textbook author, spelling reformer, political writer, and editor ...
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  • Transcendentalism was a group of new ideas in literature, religion, culture, and philosophy that emerged in New England in the early to mid-nineteenth ...
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  • Basil of Caesarea (ca. 330 - January 1, 379 C.E.) (Latin: Basilius), also called Saint Basil the Great (Greek: Άγιος Βασίλειος ...
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  • An Analogy is a relation of similarity between two or more things, so that an inference (reasoning from premise to conclusion) is drawn on the ...
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  • A polygraph (commonly referred to as a lie detector) is an instrument that measures and records several physiological responses such as blood ...
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  • category:image wanted Golden mean or "middle way" is an ancient concept described in various traditions. The concept was often discussed ...
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  • Category:Public Zeno of Elea (Greek. Ζήνων)(c. 490 B.C.E. – 430 B.C.E.) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher of southern Italy and a member ...
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  • Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl (April 8, 1859 – April 26, 1938), philosopher, is known as the "father" of phenomenology, a major ...
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  • Michael Faraday was one of the pioneers of modern electromagnetic theory. His work laid the foundation for the identification of light as an ...
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  • Philosophy of mathematics is the branch of philosophy that studies the philosophical assumptions, foundations, and implications of mathematics. ...
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  • Qian Zhongshu (November 21, 1910 – December 19, 1998) was a Chinese literary scholar and writer, known for his burning wit and formidable erudition ...
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  • Empiricism is a term in philosophy for a set of philosophical positions that emphasize the role of experience. The category of experience may ...
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  • Morgan Scott Peck (May 23, 1936 – September 25, 2005) was an American psychiatrist and author, best known for his first book, The Road Less ...
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  • Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (April 30, 1777 – February 23, 1855) was a German mathematician and scientist of profound genius who contributed ...
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  • Solipsism (Latin: solus, alone + ipse, self) is the position that nothing exists beyond oneself and one's immediate experiences. In philosophy ...
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  • Hassan-i Sabbāh, or Hassan aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ (c. 1034 - 1124), was a Persian Nizārī Ismā'īlī missionary who converted a community in ...
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  • Sir William Muir, KCSI (April 27, 1819 – July 11, 1905) was born in Scotland where he ended his career as Principal and Vice-Chancellor of ...
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  • Jericho (Arabic أريحا, ʼArīḥā; Hebrew יְרִיחוֹ, Standard Yəriḥo Tiberian Yərîḫô / Yərîḥô; meaning "fragrant," ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Communication Category:Religion [[Image:Spirit rappings coverpage to sheet music 1853.jpg|thumb ...
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  • Category:Public Unification Thought is the philosophy of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon. The late Dr. Sang Hun Lee, a disciple of Reverend Moon, ...
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  • Catharine Esther Beecher (September 6, 1800 – May 12, 1878) was a noted educator and author renowned for her forthright opinions on women’s ...
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  • Marin Mersenne, Marin Mersennus, or le Père Mersenne (September 8, 1588 – September 1, 1648) was a French theologian, philosopher, mathematician ...
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  • Lucian of Antioch, also known as “Saint Lucian of Antioch” (c. 240–January 7, 312. January 7 was the calendar day on which his memory was ...
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  • Evangelista Torricelli (October 15, 1608 – October 25, 1647) was an Italian physicist and mathematician, best known for his invention of the ...
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  • Maoism or Mao Zedong Thought ( s=毛泽东思想|p=Máo Zédōng Sīxiǎng ), is a variant of Marxism-Leninism derived from the teachings of the ...
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  • Plato (c. 428 B.C.E. – c. 348 B.C.E.) was a Greek philosopher and is perhaps the most famous and influential thinker in the history of Western ...
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  • Mystici Corporis Christi is a papal encyclical issued by Pope Pius XII on June 29, 1943, during World War II, which affirms that the Church ...
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  • Mythology (from the Greek μῦθος (mythos), meaning a narrative, and logos, meaning speech or argument) refers to a body of stories that attempt ...
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  • Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach (July 28, 1804 – September 13, 1872) was a nineteenth century German philosopher, known for his critique of religious ...
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  • Pascal's Wager (or Pascal's Gambit) is the application by the French philosopher Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) of decision theory to the ...
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  • Neo-Kantianism designates the revived or modified types of Kantian philosophy identified with the “back to Kant” movement in the late nineteenth ...
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  • The Cynics were an influential school of ancient Greek and Roman philosophers. They adopted ideas of Socrates, contributed significantly to the ...
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  • Qu Yuan ( c=屈原|p=Qū Yuán , Ch’u Yuan) (ca. 340 B.C.E. - 278 B.C.E.) was a Chinese patriotic poet from southern Chu during the Warring ...
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  • Lage Raho Munna Bhai (Hindi: LageRahoMunnaBhaiPronounciation.ogg|2={{lang|hi|लगे रहो मुन्नाभाई}} , ləgeː ɾəhoː ...
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  • , a Sanskrit word meaning "revered thought," is the name of one of the six astika ("orthodox") schools of Hindu philosophy ...
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  • An ad hoc meeting of the Constituent Assembly, held on the July 22, 1947, adopted the National Flag of India, in its present form, a few days ...
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  • Desmond Mpilo Tutu (October 7, 1931 - December 26, 2021) was a South African cleric and activist who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s ...
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  • The categorical proposition is a basic concept in Aristotelian or traditional logic (also sometimes called syllogistic or categorical logic) ...
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  • Scriptures (from the Latin scriptura, meaning "a writing") are sacred texts that serve a variety of purposes in the individual and ...
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  • Karaites, Karaite Judaism or Karaism is a Jewish denomination characterized by the sole reliance on the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) as scripture, and ...
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  • Category:Public In the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, noumenon, thing in itself (German Ding an sich), and transcendental object are nearly synonymous ...
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  • The Five Pillars of Islam refers to "the five duties incumbent on every Muslim," consisting of the shahadah (profession of faith), ...
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  • Category:Public Tabula rasa (Latin: "scraped tablet," though often translated "blank slate") is the notion, popularized by ...
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  • Gilbert Ryle (Aug. 19, 1900, Brighton, Sussex, Eng. – Oct. 6, 1976, Whitby, North Yorkshire), was a philosopher and a founding representative ...
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  • Seongcheol (Hangul: 성철, Hanja: 性徹, April 10, 1912 – November 4, 1993) is the dharma name of a Korean Seon (Hangul: 선, Hanja: 禪 ...
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  • Joseph Conrad (December 3, 1857 – August 3, 1924) was a Polish-born British novelist, one of the most important and respected writers of the ...
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  • Monarchianism (also known as monarchism) refers to a heretical body of Christian beliefs that emphasize the indivisibility of God (the Father ...
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  • category:image wanted In philosophy, the adjective transcendental and the noun transcendence convey three different but related meanings, all ...
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  • Sufism (from Arabic (صوف), Suf meaning "wool") is a mystical tradition of Islam dedicated to experiencing Allah/God as the epitome ...
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  • The Westminster Confession of Faith is a reformed confession of faith, in the Calvinist theological tradition embraced by the Church of Scotland ...
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  • Negative theology (also known as Apophatic theology) is a method of describing God by negation, in which one avers only what may not be said ...
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  • Jewish philosophy refers to philosophical inquiry informed or inspired by the texts, traditions and experience of the Jewish people. Judaism ...
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  • Panpsychism is the view that all of the fundamental entities in the universe possess some degree of mentality or consciousness, where this mentality ...
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  • Jacques Maritain (November 18, 1882 – April 28, 1973) was a French Catholic philosopher. He converted to Catholicism and is the author of more ...
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  • Johann Kaspar Schmidt (October 25, 1806 – June 26, 1856), better known as Max Stirner, was a German philosopher, who ranks as one of the literary ...
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  • George Meredith, OM (February 12, 1828 – May 18, 1909) was an English Victorian novelist and poet. His novels are noted for their sparkling ...
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  • Toshusai Sharaku (17?? - 1801?) (Japanese: 東洲斎写楽) is widely considered to be one of the great masters of the Japanese woodblock print ...
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  • In the sociology of religion, a sect is generally a small religious or political group that has broken off from a larger group, for example from ...
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  • Anaxagoras (c. 500 – 428 b.c.e.) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. Anaxagoras conceived the origin of the cosmos as the pre-existing, undifferentiated ...
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  • The Athanasian Creed, also known as (Quicumque vult) from its opening Latin words, is a statement of Christian trinitarian doctrine traditionally ...
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  • Category:Psychologists Asch, Solomon Solomon E. Asch (September 14, 1907 - February 20, 1996) was a world-renowned American Gestalt psychologist ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:WilliamPaley.jpg|thumb|right|William Paley]] William Paley (July 1743 – May 25, 1805) was an English divine, Christian ...
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  • George Fox (July 1624 – January 13, 1691), founder of the Religious Society of Friends (commonly known as the Quakers), grew up with deep religious ...
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  • The Gospel of Judas, a second century Gnostic gospel, was discovered in the twentieth century and publicly unveiled in 2006. It portrays the ...
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  • Mahadevi Verma (March 26, 1907 – September 11, 1987) was an Indian Hindi-language poet, essayist, sketch story writer, and an eminent personality ...
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  • Paul Karl Feyerabend (January 13, 1924 – February 11, 1994) was an Austrian-born philosopher of science. He was one of the half-dozen or so ...
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  • Wilfred Edward Salter Owen (March 18, 1893 – November 4, 1918) was an English poet of the early twentieth century who is often esteemed to ...
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  • The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (original: The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere) is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Matthew Tindal, (1657 – August 16, 1733), was an eminent English deist whose works, highly influential at the dawn of ...
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  • Category:Media Organizations [[Image:AFP Paris dsc04592.jpg|thumb|200 px|Paris headquarters of AFP]] Agence France-Presse (AFP) is the oldest ...
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  • category:image wanted {{Infobox_Philosopher | region = Western Philosophy| era = twentieth-century philosophy| ...
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  • African philosophy is a disputed term, used in different ways by different philosophers. In attributing philosophical ideas to philosophers of ...
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  • Gnosticism is a general term describing various mystically-oriented groups and their teachings, which were most prominent in the first few centuries ...
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  • Henry Habberley Price (May 17, 1899 – November 26, 1984) was a British philosopher and logician, known for his work on perception and thinking ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:RWEmerson.jpg|thumb|230px|Ralph Waldo Emerson]] Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was the preeminent ...
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  • Ali ibn Abi (or Abu) Talib ( علي بن أبي طالب ) (ca. 21 March 598 – 661) was an early Islamic leader. He is seen by the Sunni Muslims ...
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  • George Washington Carver (c. early 1864 – January 5, 1943) was an African American botanist who dedicated his life to applying science and ...
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  • Helena Petrovna Hahn (also Hélène) (July 31, 1831 (O.S.) (August 12, 1831 (N.S.)) - May 8, 1891 London), better known as Helena Blavatsky ( ...
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  • John Constable (June 11, 1776 – March 31, 1837) was an English Romantic painter. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape ...
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  • Kazi Nazrul Islam ( কাজী নজরুল ইসলাম ) (May 25, 1899 — August 29, 1976) was a Bengali poet, musician, revolutionary ...
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  • Nicholas or Nicolaus of Autrecourt (in French: Nicholas d'Autrécourt) (c. 1295 – 1369) was a French medieval philosopher, theologian ...
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  • Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (January 25, 1743 – March 10, 1819) was a German philosopher who made his mark on philosophy by coining the term ...
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  • Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, commonly known as Novalis (May 2, 1772 – March 25, 1801), was one of the earliest of the German ...
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  • Jonathan Henry Sacks, Baron Sacks ( יעקב צבי זקס, romanized: Ya'akov Tzvi Zaks; March 8, 1948 - November 7, 2020) was a British ...
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  • The term scientism has been used with different meanings in literature. The term is often used as a pejorative Scientism: "an exaggerated ...
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  • Seoul National University (SNU) is a national research university in Seoul, South Korea, founded in 1946. SNU, the first national university ...
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  • Category:Media Organizations British Broadcasting Corporation The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the largest broadcasting corporation ...
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  • Duncan James Corrowr Grant (January 21, 1885 - May 8, 1978) was a Scottish painter and member of the Bloomsbury Group, an English group of artists ...
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  • Franz Clemens Honoratus Hermann Brentano (January 16, 1838 – March 17, 1917) was a philosopher and psychologist. He contributed to a number ...
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  • He Xiangu (meaning "Immortal Woman He") (Wade-Giles: "Ho Hsien-ku" ) is the only female deity among the Eight Immortals figures ...
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  • Pietro Pomponazzi (also known by his Latin name, Petrus Pomionatius) (September 16, 1462 – May 18, 1525) was an Italian philosopher. He was ...
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  • Category:Public Category:Sociologists Weber, Max [[Image:Max Weber 1894.jpg|thumb|right|Max Weber]] Maximilian Weber (April 21, 1864 – June ...
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  • The Honorable Robert Boyle (January 25, 1627 – December 30, 1691) was an Irish natural philosopher who made important contributions to chemistry ...
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  • Creation is a theological notion or position in many religions or religious myths which teaches that a single God, or a group of gods or deities ...
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  • Thomas Samuel Kuhn (July 18, 1922 – June 17, 1996) was an American historian and philosopher of science who wrote extensively on the history ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Annulment is a procedure for declaring a marriage null and void. Unlike divorce, it is retroactive: ...
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  • Michel Foucault (IPA pronunciation: [miˈʃɛl fuˈko] ) (October 15, 1926 – June 25, 1984) was a French philosopher, historian and sociologist ...
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  • Rajneesh Chandra Mohan Jain (रजनीश चन्द्र मोहन जैन) (December 11, 1931 – January 19, 1990), better known ...
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  • Aram Ilich Khachaturian (Armenian: Արամ Խաչատրյան, Aram Xačatryan; Russian: Аpaм Ильич Xaчaтypян, Aram Il'ič Hačaturjan ...
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  • Category:Philosophy and religion Helmut Richard Niebuhr (1894 – 1962) was an American Christian ethicist best known for his books The Meaning ...
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  • Wang Chong (Wade-Giles: Wang Chong, 王充) (27 – 97 C.E.) was a Chinese philosopher during the Han Dynasty who developed a rational, secular ...
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  • Cochise (A-da-tli-chi = "hardwood," also Cheis) (c. 1805 – June 9, 1874) was a chief (a nantan) of the Chokonen ("central" ...
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  • Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Devanagari: मोहनदास करमचन्द गांधी; Gujarati: મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ...
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  • Lucretia Coffin Mott (January 3, 1793 – November 11, 1880) was an American Quaker minister, abolitionist, social reformer, and proponent of ...
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