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  • Beauty is commonly defined as a characteristic present in objects, such as nature, art work, and a human person, that provides a perceptual experience ...
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  • notably the crisis between Christianity and Neo-Platonism. With his most popular historical novel, Westward Ho! Kingsley romantically depicted ...
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  • Evil is a term used to describe something that brings about harmful, painful, and unpleasant effects. It is understood to be of three kinds: ...
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  • German idealism was a philosophical movement in Germany in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It developed out of the work of ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling.png|right]] Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (January 27, 1775 - August 20 ...
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  • quot; and pinpoint its sources in the Neo-Platonism of the Renaissance.J. Brown ... to light with the ideas underlying Christian Neo-Platonism. ...
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  • counts against a complete assimilation with Platonism, and Alciphron is a development rather than a revision of anything in the earlier works. The fact ...
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  • things that exist. This doctrine is often called Platonism after its most famous proponent. The material world is ephemeral, but a perfect triangle ...
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  • Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (March 6, 1475 – February 18, 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance ...
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  • traditions such as Hinduism, Platonism, and Judaism; and 2) "naturalistic pantheism," which equates the world and God by redefining ...
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  • lead to a renewal of Platonic thought, Neo-Platonism in its different forms. In the case of Kant, with the acceleration of history, it took only decades ...
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  • Thomism is the philosophical school that followed in the legacy of Thomas Aquinas. The word comes from the name of its originator, whose summary ...
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  • rational grounds for Christianity. They used Platonism to argue for human reason as the paramount receptacle for divine revelation. ...
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  • in the west, lataif-e-sitta in Sufism or Neo-platonism. The energy that was unleashed in creation, called the Kundalini, lies coiled and sleeping ...
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  • and Arab scholars and the decline in popularity of Platonism and Neoplatonism in favor of Aristotelian thought. [[Image:medieval-university.jpg ...
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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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  • The Druze (Arabic: درزي, derzī or durzī, plural دروز, durūz; דרוזים , Druzim; also transliterated Druz or Druse) are a Middle ...
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  • but also to Aristotelian thought and Neo-Platonism. Kieckhefer 2000, 145 It also mentions astrology and astronomy, See, for example, [http://www ...
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  • which, along with Gnosticism and Neo-Platonism, has formed the basis of most Western occult practices.Stephan Hoeller, [http://www.gnosis.org/hermes ...
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  • * Owen, G.E.L. "The Platonism of Aristotle," Proceedings of the British Academy 50 (1965): 125-150. Reprinted in J. Barnes, M. Schofield ...
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  • John Dee (July 13, 1527–1609) was a noted Welsh mathematician, geographer, occultist, astronomer, and astrologer, whose expertise in these ...
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  • Hermeticism is a set of philosophical and religious beliefs based primarily upon the writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, a syncretic ...
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  • Music is an auditory art comprised of meaningful arrangements of sounds with a relation to pitch, rhythm, and tonality. Another definition of ...
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  • The term religion (from Latin: religio meaning "bind, connect") denotes a set of common beliefs and practices pertaining to the supernatural ...
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  • Has Made of Man: A Study of the Consequences of Platonism and Positivism in Psychology. (1937) Dyer Press, 2007. ISBN 978-1406775785. ...
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  • largely in Greco-Roman ideologies like Neo-Platonism, believes the universe knew a primoridal harmony, but that a cosmic disruption yielded a second ...
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  • bent, as is evident in his early Platonism. He longed for eternal truths, as he makes clear in his famous essay, "A Free Man's Worship ...
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