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- Eudaimonism is an ethical theory which maintains that happiness (eudaimonia) is reached through virtue (aretê). Eudaimonia and aretê are two ...33 KB (5,174 words) - 04:41, 22 March 2024
- Neo-Hegelianism refers to several schools of thought associated with and inspired by the ideas of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, a German idealist ...8 KB (1,042 words) - 16:16, 11 November 2022
- Yury Olesha ( Юрий Карлович Олеша , (May 3, 1899 – May 10, 1960) was a Russian novelist during the early Soviet period. He ...7 KB (1,003 words) - 10:31, 7 June 2023
- Sir John Carew Eccles (January 27, 1903 – May 2, 1997) was an Australian neurophysiologist who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ...14 KB (2,183 words) - 17:05, 5 April 2024
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne ([ miʃɛl ekɛm də mɔ̃tɛɲ ]) (February 28, 1533 – September 13, 1592) was one of the most influential writers ...14 KB (2,276 words) - 17:11, 9 November 2022
- Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was a twentieth-century American poet, whose verse has been the subject of more critical ...19 KB (3,090 words) - 20:56, 18 November 2022
- Legal ethics is a branch of applied ethics, having to do with the study and application of what is right and wrong, good and bad, in the practice ...17 KB (2,791 words) - 19:04, 25 October 2022
- The First Epistle of Peter is a book of the New Testament traditionally held to have been written by Saint Peter the apostle during his time ...7 KB (1,040 words) - 17:22, 28 March 2024
- José Ortega y Gasset (May 9, 1883 - October 18, 1955) was a Spanish philosopher and humanist who greatly influenced the cultural and literary ...25 KB (3,932 words) - 01:34, 8 September 2022
- Saint Bonaventura also Bonaventure (born Giovanni di Fidanza) (1221 - July 15, 1274), was a Franciscan theologian, philospher, general of the ...20 KB (3,032 words) - 07:21, 17 November 2023
- Philosophical anthropology is the philosophical discipline that inquires into the essence of human nature and the human condition. In making ...8 KB (1,089 words) - 04:13, 24 November 2022
- Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. (born March 31, 1948) was the forty-fifth Vice President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001 ...32 KB (4,643 words) - 04:21, 17 June 2023
- category:image wanted Virtue ethics is one of three major theories in normative ethics, the other two being deontological ethics and consequentialism ...28 KB (4,212 words) - 20:38, 3 May 2023
- Bernard Placidus Johann Nepomuk Bolzano (October 5, 1781 – December 18, 1848) was a Czech mathematician, theologian, philosopher, and logician ...15 KB (2,299 words) - 11:18, 28 September 2023
- First Cause is term introduced by Aristotle and used in philosophy and theology. Aristotle noted that things in nature are caused and that these ...8 KB (1,282 words) - 19:54, 26 March 2024
- Category:Lawyers and Jurists [[Image:Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt - Hugo Grotius.jpg|thumb|230px|Hugo Grotius by Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, 1631]] ...25 KB (3,772 words) - 12:17, 4 February 2023
- John Dillinger (June 22, 1903 – July 22, 1934) was an American bank robber, considered by some to be a dangerous criminal, while others idealized ...13 KB (2,104 words) - 18:51, 5 April 2024
- The First Great Awakening (often referred by historians as the Great Awakening) is the name sometimes given to a period of heightened religious ...15 KB (2,094 words) - 17:24, 28 March 2024
- Karma (Sanskrit: कर्म from the root kri, "to do") is a term used in several eastern religions referring to the entire cycle ...16 KB (2,496 words) - 07:22, 5 October 2022
- Professor Roderick Ninian Smart (May 6, 1927 – January 29, 2001) was a Scottish writer and university educator. He was a pioneer in the field ...21 KB (3,067 words) - 09:56, 11 March 2023
- Category:Psychologists Category:Anthropologists Category:Writers and poets Category:Image wanted Becker, Ernest Ernest Becker (September 27, 1924 ...20 KB (3,151 words) - 19:31, 13 February 2024
- Category:Media Professionals Cooper, Kent Kent Cooper (March 22, 1880 - January 31, 1965) was a distinguished journalist who served with the Associated ...7 KB (1,050 words) - 03:26, 6 October 2022
- Aesop (also spelled Æsop, from the Greek Αἴσωπος – Aisōpos) is the figure traditionally credited with the collection of fables identified ...14 KB (2,215 words) - 05:51, 16 June 2023
- Max Scheler (August 22, 1874 - May 19, 1928) was a German philosopher known for his work in phenomenology, ethics, and philosophical anthropology ...14 KB (2,180 words) - 00:58, 9 November 2022
- Spencer Tracy (April 5, 1900 – June 10, 1967) was a two-time Academy Award-winning American film and stage actor who appeared in 74 films from ...13 KB (2,011 words) - 19:15, 7 February 2023
- Category:Public Anaximander (Greek: Αναξίμανδρος) (c. 609 – 547 b.c.e.) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, the second of the ...7 KB (1,099 words) - 19:08, 26 July 2023
- Basilides (early second century) was a Gnostic Christian religious teacher in Alexandria, Egypt. He taught a dualistic theology that emphasized ...17 KB (2,600 words) - 11:07, 20 September 2023
- Ellen Gould White (née Harmon) (November 26, 1827 - July 16, 1915) was co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, prolific writer, lecturer ...20 KB (3,079 words) - 17:14, 13 February 2024
- The Right Reverend James Edward Lesslie Newbigin C.B.E. (December 8, 1909 – January 30, 1998) was a distinguished British theologian, missionary ...30 KB (4,685 words) - 22:01, 25 October 2022
- Rosslyn Chapel, properly named the Collegiate Church of St Matthew, was originally a Roman Catholic church founded in the village of Roslin, ...15 KB (2,311 words) - 22:26, 16 December 2022
- Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (May 5, 1813 – November 11, 1855) was a nineteenth century Danish philosopher and theologian who has often been called ...47 KB (7,286 words) - 02:01, 27 February 2023
- John Keats (October 31, 1795 – February 23, 1821) was one of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement. Keats' poetry is characterized ...14 KB (2,196 words) - 06:06, 3 August 2022
- Nichiren (日蓮) (February 16, 1222 – October 13, 1282), born Zennichimaro (善日麿), later Zeshō-bō Renchō (是生房蓮長), and finally ...27 KB (4,005 words) - 23:30, 14 November 2022
- Category:Public [[Image:Zeno.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Zeno of Citium]] Stoicism, one of the three major schools of Hellenistic philosphy, was founded ...21 KB (3,500 words) - 00:46, 26 February 2023
- Frederick Charles Louis Constantine, prince and landgrave of the House of Hesse (May 1, 1868 – May 28, 1940), was the brother-in-law of the ...7 KB (1,132 words) - 07:09, 6 June 2021
- Dorothy Thompson (July 9, 1893 - January 30, 1961) was an American journalist who gained international celebrity when she became the first journalist ...14 KB (2,067 words) - 17:28, 30 January 2024
- Category:Psychologists Category:Public Maslow, Abraham Abraham Maslow (April 1, 1908 – June 8, 1970) was an American psychologist who helped ...21 KB (3,192 words) - 06:31, 14 June 2023
- Agnosticism is the philosophical or religious view that the truth value of certain claims — particularly claims regarding the existence of ...18 KB (2,675 words) - 06:46, 16 June 2023
- Logic, from Classical Greek λόγος (logos), originally meaning the word, or what is spoken, (but coming to mean thought or reason or an explanation ...31 KB (4,895 words) - 20:58, 3 November 2022
- Godiva (or Godgifu) (fl. 1040-1080) was an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who, according to legend, rode naked through the streets of Coventry in England ...16 KB (2,352 words) - 05:33, 4 March 2023
- Advaita Vedanta (IAST Advaita Vedānta ; Sanskrit अद्वैत वेदान्त ; IPA /əd̪vait̪ə veːd̪ɑːnt̪ə/ ...32 KB (4,839 words) - 06:20, 15 June 2023
- The Second Epistle of John, also called 2 John, is a book of the New Testament in the Christian Bible. It is the shortest book of the Bible, ...8 KB (1,363 words) - 17:41, 25 January 2023
- Category:Image wanted Category:Psychologists Festinger, Leon Leon Festinger (May 8, 1919 – February 11, 1989) was an American psychologist. ...22 KB (3,262 words) - 20:09, 25 October 2022
- Social constructionism is a theory of knowledge in sociology and communication theory. It holds that characteristics typically thought to be ...34 KB (4,832 words) - 00:18, 16 February 2022
- Cartography or mapmaking (in Greek chartis - map and graphein - write) is the study and practice of making representations of the Earth on a ...27 KB (4,007 words) - 00:45, 29 November 2023
- Victor Cousin (November 28, 1792 - January 13, 1867) was a French philosopher, educational reformer, and a historian, whose systematic eclecticism ...26 KB (4,045 words) - 18:04, 3 May 2023
- Tamar (תָּמָר, Hebrew meaning "Date Palm") was the fore-mother of the Jews and the daughter-in-law of the patriarch Judah, the ...15 KB (2,478 words) - 03:57, 27 February 2023
- Pope Leo XIII (March 2, 1810 - July 20, 1903), born Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci, was the 256th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church ...14 KB (2,227 words) - 20:07, 25 October 2022
- Edward Albert Shils (July 1, 1910 – January 23, 1995) was a Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and in Sociology ...17 KB (2,459 words) - 23:52, 12 February 2024
- New Age Music, known as a combination of mostly instrumental pieces creating sounds of a soothing, romantic, mood-elevating and sometimes sensual ...8 KB (1,225 words) - 16:29, 11 November 2022
