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- Photochemistry, a sub-discipline of chemistry, is the study of the ... known as photochemical reactions. Examples of photochemical reactions are ...4 KB (569 words) - 04:25, 24 November 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
- Δίκαιο) is the study of differences and similarities ... discrepancies, comparative law uses the art of estimation by comparison which ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 08:07, 14 January 2023
- 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
- 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
- B.C.E. middle chronology) was the sixth king of Babylon. He became the first ... A great literary revival followed. One of the most important works ...13 KB (1,918 words) - 17:00, 21 January 2024
- 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
- Richard Cumberland (1631 - 1718) was an English philosopher and bishop ... In 1672, he wrote De legibus naturae (On Natural Laws), propounding ...13 KB (2,116 words) - 20:13, 8 December 2022
- who wrote An Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution ... British society in his day, the "Rule of Law" cannot be absolute ...10 KB (1,578 words) - 07:05, 13 June 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
- political sociology and the philosophy of history. His Lettres Persanes ... Montesquieu defined three forms of government: republics, monarchies ...17 KB (2,651 words) - 00:36, 5 December 2023
- According to Jewish tradition, the Noahide Laws (Hebrew: שבע מצוות ... The Noahide Laws are significant because they attempt to extend G ...22 KB (3,451 words) - 09:58, 11 March 2023
- 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
- Parmenides of Elea (c. 515 – 450 b.c.e.) was a Greek pre-Socratic ... Earlier pre-Socratic philosophers identified the ultimate principle ...11 KB (1,608 words) - 08:52, 18 November 2022
- 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
- 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
- Leviticus is the third book of the Hebrew Bible. The English name ... Observant Jews still follow the laws contained in Leviticus, except ...17 KB (2,713 words) - 00:25, 19 November 2023
- by Herbert Spencer's application of the evolution theory of Charles ... American history, promoting the concept of the United States as the climax ...10 KB (1,417 words) - 06:36, 8 April 2024
- an important twentieth-century philosopher of science. Born in Prague, he ... The Structure of Science (1961), an examination of the logical structure ...9 KB (1,352 words) - 19:32, 13 February 2024
- 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
- philosopher whose successful reorganization of the state of Ch'in or ... reforms by first establishing the authority of law (fa), which was to be enforced ...17 KB (2,693 words) - 13:12, 27 January 2023
- Kant to the epistemological approach of his philosophy. Kant presents ... at a synthesis between existing forms of idealism (affirming the reality ...14 KB (2,167 words) - 00:54, 2 May 2023
- mutual incompatibility, real or apparent, of two laws. It is a term often ... The term antinomy is found in the works of Plutarch (46 – 127), ...15 KB (2,342 words) - 06:35, 31 July 2023
- Coulomb was born in Angoulême, France. He was the son of Henry Coulomb ... During this time, Coulomb submitted some of his first work to the Society ...9 KB (1,400 words) - 01:48, 4 December 2023
- The Alien and Sedition Acts were four laws passed by the United States ... The most controversial of the four statutes was the Sedition Act, ...12 KB (1,748 words) - 18:22, 21 July 2023
- is logically distinct both from early forms of animism, which personifies ... Neo-Pythagoreans and especially the Neo-Platonic school of Alexandria ...13 KB (1,922 words) - 13:20, 4 February 2023
- strict interpretation and application of the laws and ethics promulgated ... The Hasidic movement, which is a subset of Haredi Judaism, is less focused ...17 KB (2,525 words) - 02:20, 18 November 2022
- Mishnah, from approx. 70-200 C.E. The period of the Tannaim, also referred ... ), which also is the root-word of Mishnah. The verb shanah ( ...11 KB (1,610 words) - 04:25, 27 February 2023
- omnipotence only to God. In the philosophies of Western monotheistic religions ... There are a variety of views of omnipotence, and the five most representative ...25 KB (3,894 words) - 00:37, 18 November 2022
- It refers to the “supreme principle of morality” (4:392), from which ... " Since maxims are, roughly, principles of action, the categorical imperative ...22 KB (3,484 words) - 17:59, 30 November 2023
- Wade-Giles: Fa-chia; literally "School of law") was one of the four ... virtue.” Legalists held utilitarian views of humanity and received support ...22 KB (3,459 words) - 19:04, 25 October 2022
- 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
- referring to the desire or interest of a people as a whole. It is ... General will is what a fully-informed body politic (community of citizens ...14 KB (2,206 words) - 06:45, 18 April 2024
- meaning "power") is a branch of physics that studies the effects ... quot; thus, thermodynamics is the study of the movement of energy and ...25 KB (3,670 words) - 18:29, 30 April 2023
- Blasphemy is the defamation of the name of one or more gods. In a ... In Judaism, blasphemy is the uttering of God's name and/or speaking ...20 KB (3,022 words) - 14:33, 8 February 2022
- philosopher, theologian, and bishop of Lincoln, is well-known for ... Grosseteste was the first of the Scholastics to fully understand Aristotle ...16 KB (2,394 words) - 05:05, 15 December 2022
- before being appointed as Wykeham professor of logic at New College, Oxford ... His earliest book, Perception (1932), rejected causal theories of ...10 KB (1,458 words) - 17:46, 29 July 2023
- Excellence/Posterity") was the priest of Midian and Moses' father ... sacrificial feast with Aaron and the elders of Israel. Moses then accepted ...13 KB (2,051 words) - 02:58, 1 August 2022
- In philosophy the idea of choice usually arises in discussions of ... In modern philosophy, the notion of choice has received a wide variety ...11 KB (1,729 words) - 17:10, 10 December 2023
- to the most important scriptural writings of Judaism, which constitute the ... The five books of the Pentateuch are titled as follows: ...20 KB (3,080 words) - 07:22, 23 November 2022
- and logician during the second half of the nineteenth century. He ... Lotze combined the monads of Gottfried Leibniz's spheres of individual ...24 KB (3,658 words) - 16:57, 22 December 2022
- Freedom of speech is the ability to speak without censorship or limitation ... Freedom of speech is a key factor in the spread of information in ...18 KB (2,627 words) - 10:48, 11 April 2024
- is best known as an early advocate of utilitarianism. He was a political ... Bentham argued in favor of individual and economic freedom, including ...18 KB (2,665 words) - 07:56, 3 April 2024
- French physicist, philosopher and historian of science. His most influential ... At the young age of eleven, Duhem entered the Collège Stanislas. ...15 KB (2,236 words) - 05:22, 24 November 2022
- 6, 1884) was an Austrian monk whose studies of the inheritance of traits in ... more than 20,000 pea plants inside the walls of his monastery. He was a teacher ...16 KB (2,499 words) - 19:37, 5 January 2024
- , a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher, was one of the chief pioneers of the revival ... His clarification of the distinction between Platonic and Aristotelian ...11 KB (1,525 words) - 06:39, 18 April 2024
- medieval Korean noble and politician of the early Joseon dynasty. He ... Goryeo dynasty, took the Neo-Confucianism of Zuxhi and the Cheng brothers ...11 KB (1,633 words) - 01:06, 9 February 2023
- gained international fame as the co-author of The Polish Peasant in Europe ... information from written records of the society they were studying ...11 KB (1,469 words) - 07:56, 21 May 2021
- Theodora (c. 500 – June 28, 548) was empress of the Byzantine Empire ... She used her influence to promote the status of women, enhancing their ...8 KB (1,261 words) - 02:27, 19 April 2023
- Antitrust laws, or competition laws, are laws which prohibit anti ... The history of competition law reaches back further than the Roman ...26 KB (3,912 words) - 06:41, 31 July 2023
