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- Principle in philosophy and mathematics means a fundamental law or ... others, while laws and rules can. Greek philosophy began as the quest for ...9 KB (1,192 words) - 22:57, 30 November 2022
- Aristobulus of Paneas (c. 160 B.C.E.) was among the earliest Hellenistic ... Five existing fragments of the work of Aristobulus, Commentaries on ...7 KB (1,086 words) - 06:27, 12 August 2023
- philosopher, and economist. In light of the ideological struggles in ... Sergei Bulgakov was born to the family of an Orthodox priest in the ...7 KB (887 words) - 10:02, 26 January 2023
- Antisthenes (c. 444 - 365 B.C.E.), is one of the founders of the Cynic ... Antisthenes founded a school of his own in the Cynosarges. Emphasizing ...8 KB (1,244 words) - 06:38, 31 July 2023
- widely with varied meanings in the fields of philosophy, analytical psychology ... such as Dao (Tao), the Vedic notion of rta, and the Hindu and Buddhist ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 21:00, 3 November 2022
- to the impossible," is a form of argument where one provisionally ... The so-called 'early' dialogues of the Greek philosopher Plato ...7 KB (1,079 words) - 02:58, 8 December 2022
- analogy, an argument for the existence of God in his book Natural Theology ... Born in Peterborough, Paley was educated at Giggleswick School, of ...9 KB (1,398 words) - 10:38, 11 May 2023
- 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
- The Cyrenaics were one of the two earliest Socratic schools of philosophy ... Several of Aristippus’ followers modified this doctrine by distinguishing ...9 KB (1,293 words) - 06:55, 12 January 2024
- The Cynics were an influential school of ancient Greek and Roman philosophers ... is the only good, and emphasized the value of physical activity and hard ...9 KB (1,393 words) - 06:54, 12 January 2024
- :Note: Zeno of Citium should not be confused with Zeno of Elea. ... Zeno of Citium (The Stoic) (sometime called Zeno Apathea) (333 – ...9 KB (1,466 words) - 05:48, 13 June 2023
- Applied ethics is a field of ethics that deals with ethical questions ... ethical questions during the early part of the twentieth century. However ...12 KB (1,559 words) - 15:55, 11 August 2023
- who was a leading influence in analytic philosophy in the middle of the twentieth ... where he developed an interest in the philosophy of mathematics. Russell ...9 KB (1,265 words) - 00:54, 9 November 2022
- First Cause is term introduced by Aristotle and used in philosophy ... the "Prime Mover" that is a deity of "pure form" without ...8 KB (1,282 words) - 19:54, 26 March 2024
- from and within the contexts and history of Christianity. While Ethics ... Catholic moral theology is a major category of doctrine in the Roman ...11 KB (1,633 words) - 21:19, 9 November 2022
- 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
- 1757) was an English philosopher and founder of the Associationist school of ... David Hartley was born in June 1705 in the vicinity of Halifax, Yorkshire ...9 KB (1,402 words) - 07:56, 28 January 2024
- He is credited with developing the Theory of Elitism and the doctrine of ... governi e sul governo parlamentare (Theory of Governments and Parliamentary ...12 KB (1,752 words) - 03:46, 18 April 2024
- theory in the United States. He studied law at Harvard but soon turned ... American history, promoting the concept of the United States as the climax ...10 KB (1,417 words) - 06:36, 8 April 2024
- Jewish works refer to him by the acronym of his title and name, RaMBaM ... Maimonides is typically regarded as the greatest of the medieval Jewish ...14 KB (2,001 words) - 05:30, 5 November 2022
- Authority (Latin auctoritas, used in Roman law as opposed to potestas ... Since the emergence of the social sciences, authority has been a subject ...10 KB (1,553 words) - 19:17, 22 August 2023
- The term natural philosophy, or the philosophy of nature (Latin, philosophia ... and G.W.F. Hegel, and championed the concept of an organic and dynamic physical ...13 KB (1,838 words) - 22:42, 28 March 2023
- yield a falsehood. By extension, outside of logic, contradictions are also ... Pointing to this principle in applied logic, Aristotle’s law of ...10 KB (1,641 words) - 02:48, 8 January 2024
- Today Mach is probably best known for his positivistic account of ... Mach had an enormous range of scientific interests. According to Peter ...9 KB (1,301 words) - 21:22, 20 March 2024
- 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
- in 1694. His commentaries and revisions of the theories of Thomas Hobbes ... the ore mountains (Erzgebirge) in the Duchy of Saxony, Germany. His father ...14 KB (2,091 words) - 03:05, 23 December 2022
- modernizing Italy by introducing the ideas of Locke, Leibniz, and Hume and ... In 1753 Genovesi was appointed to the first European chair of “commerce ...9 KB (1,233 words) - 05:40, 11 August 2023
- 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
- It refers to the “supreme principle of morality” (4:392), from which ... according to the well-known "Universal Law" formulation, you should ...22 KB (3,484 words) - 17:59, 30 November 2023
- Ancient philosophy is philosophy in antiquity, or before the end of ... In the Western tradition, ancient philosophy was developed primarily ...16 KB (2,127 words) - 19:43, 26 July 2023
- Part of the foundation of mathematics, Russell's paradox (also ... Consider the set R of all sets that do not contain themselves as members ...14 KB (2,342 words) - 18:15, 22 December 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
- developed a unique theistic existential philosophy. He began his career as ... Jaspers saw a crisis of time in the loss of authentic existence of ...13 KB (1,830 words) - 07:16, 5 October 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
- In philosophy and logic, the liar paradox encompasses paradoxical ... his words to be understood as a kind of liar paradox. They were probably ...11 KB (1,725 words) - 22:25, 25 October 2022
- 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
- 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
- The concept of pluralism in philosophy indicates the belief that reality ... The term is also used in a wider sense in several fields of philosophy ...10 KB (1,489 words) - 08:06, 24 November 2022
- religions referring to the entire cycle of cause and effect which governs ... with earthly existence. The concept of karma in Indian philosophy ...16 KB (2,496 words) - 07:22, 5 October 2022
- century, known chiefly as the author of the work on the Jewish principles ... To counter the anti-Jewish polemic of the time, Albo sought to forge ...13 KB (2,036 words) - 07:18, 10 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
- Cosmopolitanism is the idea that all of humanity belongs to a single ... Cosmopolitanism may entail some sort of world government or it may ...12 KB (1,700 words) - 08:16, 10 January 2024
- involves uncertainty, distrust, or lack of sureness of an alleged fact ... Human beings generally live with beliefs in various degrees of certainty ...15 KB (2,113 words) - 17:30, 30 January 2024
- 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
- July 2, 1778), is a concept in political philosophy referring to the desire ... General will is what a fully-informed body politic (community of citizens ...14 KB (2,206 words) - 06:45, 18 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
- a specified statement follows from a set of assumed statements. The specified ... the conclusion is a necessary consequence of the set of premises, i.e. the ...9 KB (1,489 words) - 23:56, 1 December 2022
- Legal ethics is a branch of applied ethics, having to do with the ... in unethical professional behavior. American law schools are required to offer ...17 KB (2,791 words) - 19:04, 25 October 2022
- Averroes (Ibn Rushd) (1126 – December 10, 1198) was an Andalusian-Arab philosopher and physician, a master of philosophy and Islamic law, mathematics ...19 KB (2,761 words) - 07:15, 23 August 2023
- was an English political theorist and one of the first absolutists. Born ... Filmer developed a political theory, based on natural law, which equated ...12 KB (1,931 words) - 05:04, 15 December 2022
- ) was a polymath and a Christian philosopher of the sixth century who was instrumental ... Rome around 480 C.E. to the patrician family of Anicii, who had been Christians ...11 KB (1,637 words) - 06:07, 28 July 2023
- modern mathematical logic and analytic philosophy. Although he remained obscure ... Frege began his studies at the University of Jena in 1869, moving to Göttingen ...16 KB (2,250 words) - 20:22, 11 September 2021
- “few,” and arkho, “rule” ) is a form of government in which political ... aristocracies, which were ruled by members of a noble class, or with plutocracies ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 00:19, 18 November 2022
- who gained his position in the history of Western philosophy by opening ... Fichte must be credited with reintroducing the idea of a direct contact ...16 KB (2,518 words) - 14:42, 1 August 2022
- February 22, 1965) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court ... Side. After graduating from City College of New York, he enrolled in New ...8 KB (1,184 words) - 17:13, 26 March 2024
- 8, 1806) was a lawyer, a judge, a prominent law professor, and a signer of ... tradition, contributed in the areas of law, politics, and education ...9 KB (1,318 words) - 22:41, 24 November 2022
- A fact is an actual state of the world. For example, it is a fact ... A great deal of twentieth century moral theory sustained a sharp divide ...14 KB (2,156 words) - 12:33, 21 January 2023
- Greek philospher and a favorite student of Aristotle, who appointed him ... Theophrastus was wrote a great number of books on a wide variety of ...10 KB (1,514 words) - 18:21, 30 April 2023
- political theorist, statesman, and leader of the Meiji Enlightenment in ... During his youth, Kato was a liberal advocate of constitutional government ...10 KB (1,423 words) - 17:14, 5 October 2022
- anthropologist. He is famous for his study of primitive mentality and his ... suggested that human beings use two kind of thinking: “mystical thinking” ...11 KB (1,515 words) - 02:25, 5 November 2022
- Herakleitos) (c. 535 – 475 B.C.E.) is one of the most important pre-Socratic ... His words resemble those of a prophet, rather than those of a philosopher ...11 KB (1,556 words) - 09:50, 22 January 2024
- He considered mathematics the ideal form of knowledge, and the laws of ... D'Alembert was an important figure of the French Enlightenment ...12 KB (1,720 words) - 17:39, 2 April 2024
- end, or purpose, and teleology is the study of goals, ends and purposes. A ... The two main types of theory brought under the rubric of teleological ...13 KB (2,107 words) - 05:34, 27 February 2023
- Clement of Alexandria (c. 150 – 215) (Titus Flavius Clemens) was ... Clement of Alexandria was, and still is, a highly unorthodox and controversial ...14 KB (2,240 words) - 11:08, 19 December 2023
- The book of 4 Maccabees is a homily or philosophic discourse praising ... The book takes up the story of the Maccabean martyrs told in 2 Maccabees ...11 KB (1,662 words) - 06:46, 13 June 2023
- virtues that maintain harmony and the spirit of sharing among the members of ... During the 1990s, the concept of ubuntu was adapted as an ideology ...14 KB (2,195 words) - 01:24, 3 May 2023
- most recognizable structure on the campus of Kyoto University]] It is the second oldest university and one of the leading research universities ...16 KB (2,170 words) - 04:41, 4 March 2023
- 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
- according to an established standard of evaluation. There is a range ... established only within certain frameworks of thought and value perspectives ...23 KB (3,451 words) - 00:26, 25 March 2024
- poet, critic and scholar, and a founder of German Romanticism. His study ... der Indier (On the Language and Wisdom of India, 1808) was a pioneering ...14 KB (2,106 words) - 07:21, 5 October 2022
- perform certain acts, they govern ways of acting and of being treated ... as opposed to imperfect duties such as acts of charity). Whether these duties ...21 KB (3,233 words) - 01:39, 15 December 2022
- Ijtihad (Arabic اجتهاد) is a technical term of Islamic law that ... Sometime during the ninth century, the majority of Sunni decided that ...12 KB (1,870 words) - 00:00, 19 December 2020
- Autonomy (Greek: Auto-Nomos—nomos meaning "law:" One who ... One of the best known philosophical theories of autonomy was developed ...16 KB (2,461 words) - 07:07, 23 August 2023
- Category:Law Manslaughter is a criminal variation of homicide that normally carries ...11 KB (1,690 words) - 11:07, 9 March 2023
- illustrated in his Commentaries on the Laws of England.]] and analytic treatise on the Common law called Commentaries on the ...11 KB (1,662 words) - 15:40, 6 May 2023
- The term Indian philosophy may refer to any of several traditions ... All the schools of Indian philosophy are characterized by some common ...22 KB (3,133 words) - 22:02, 4 February 2023
- educator, and prolific writer, and one of the leading exponents of neo ... Cassirer played a mediating role between the two major traditions ...13 KB (1,820 words) - 19:34, 13 February 2024
- Nicholas or Nicolaus of Autrecourt (in French: Nicholas d'Autrécourt ... false teachings on the allegation that 66 of his propositions, culled from ...10 KB (1,617 words) - 23:32, 14 November 2022
- 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
- theologian. His life was marked by a series of difficulties with the Catholic ... historique et critique, consisting of articles concerning a wide ...10 KB (1,589 words) - 05:18, 24 November 2022
- 1794) was an English philologist and student of ancient India. He is particularly ... Latin, Persian, Arabic, and the basics of Chinese at an early age. By ...9 KB (1,304 words) - 11:08, 10 May 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
- term designated a profession in or a group of teachers of rhetoric. Rhetoricians ... Socrates and Plato challenged sophist ideas of replacing rhetorical ...11 KB (1,583 words) - 01:17, 4 February 2023
- is used in juridical and ethical discussions of law and ethics, and often is ... Critics use the term pejoratively for the use of clever but unsound ...15 KB (2,220 words) - 14:26, 29 November 2023
- IAST Vaiśeṣika), is one of the six Hindu schools of philosophy ... Vaisesika is a system of pluralistic realism, which emphasizes that ...19 KB (2,996 words) - 14:10, 3 May 2023
- in a deductive system. This formal notion of proofs in logic is crucial ... In general, the proofs of theorems have two components: a set of premises ...16 KB (2,524 words) - 18:26, 30 April 2023
- French criminologist and sociologist, is one of the founding fathers of sociology ... Based on his view of the importance of the individual, Tarde analyzed ...11 KB (1,665 words) - 07:37, 15 April 2024
- Natural theology is a branch of theology, which attempts to establish ... The existence of God and the immortality of the soul are but a few ...12 KB (1,729 words) - 15:21, 11 November 2022
- English moral philosopher who held the post of White's Professor of Moral ... Some of Hare's students, such as Brian McGuinness and Bernard ...14 KB (2,112 words) - 16:05, 7 December 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
- applying evolutionary theory to the study of politics and ethics. He coined ... Herbert Spencer was born in Derby, England on April 27, 1820, the ...19 KB (2,968 words) - 15:43, 25 January 2023
- Wade-Giles: Fa-chia; literally "School of law") was one of the four ... Legalists argued for “rule by law” and criticized Cofucianist ...22 KB (3,459 words) - 19:04, 25 October 2022
- Richard Cumberland (1631 - 1718) was an English philosopher and bishop ... and opposing the egoistic ethics of Thomas Hobbes. Cumberland ...13 KB (2,116 words) - 20:13, 8 December 2022
- Philodemus of Gadara (c. 110 B.C.E. – c.35 B.C.E.) was an Epicurean ... Thirty-six of his books were preserved when Mt. Vesuvius erupted in ...9 KB (1,439 words) - 04:12, 24 November 2022
- from the southern Low Countries, was one of the inventors and major proponents ... affairs. Siger’s importance to philosophy lies in his acceptance ...10 KB (1,606 words) - 14:38, 27 January 2023
- if both can be measured in the same unit of measurement. For example, a ... In the philosophy of science, two theories are said to be incommensurable ...17 KB (2,394 words) - 00:08, 8 January 2024
- an important role in developing the use of statistical data as a tool ... Believing that ideology, the science of the origin and development ...12 KB (1,830 words) - 04:19, 9 November 2022
- theologian, and historian, and a pioneer of modern Jewish scholarship. ... Krochmal was leading figure of the Haskalah Jewish enlightenment and ...11 KB (1,697 words) - 22:59, 10 November 2022
- teacher and, in modern times, the leader of a synagogue. The term was first ... With the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem in 70 C.E., the Jewish ...21 KB (3,138 words) - 16:07, 7 December 2022
- Shestov was an irrationalist whose philosophy ran counter to the prevailing ... He emigrated to France in 1921, fleeing from the aftermath of the ...16 KB (2,451 words) - 22:05, 25 October 2022
- 23 Oct. 2006] He was a leading proponent of the Zahiri school of Islamic ... Ibn Hazm reportedly produced four hundred works of which only 40 have ...15 KB (2,253 words) - 13:25, 4 February 2023
- Antinomy (Greek αντι-, against, plus νομος, law) literally ... The term antinomy is found in the works of Plutarch (46 – 127), ...15 KB (2,342 words) - 06:35, 31 July 2023
- to modern political sociology and the philosophy of history. His Lettres ... Montesquieu defined three forms of government: republics, monarchies ...17 KB (2,651 words) - 00:36, 5 December 2023
- philosopher, theologian and historian of science. His surname is pronounced ... Whewell’s philosophy of science included the claim that through ...22 KB (3,347 words) - 20:45, 13 May 2023
- to evil, popularly identified with the lusts of the flesh. It also leads to ... Judaism, the yetzer harah is not the product of the Human Fall, as in Christian ...17 KB (2,843 words) - 11:10, 24 May 2023
- Modus Ponens and Modus Tollens are forms of valid inferences. By Modus ... affirms; often abbreviated as MP) is a form of valid inference. An instance ...6 KB (1,057 words) - 19:28, 9 November 2022
- 2017) was Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science, Emeritus ... Kaplan was one of the foremost scholars in international relations ...9 KB (1,221 words) - 16:45, 12 April 2024
- Political philosophy is a branch of philosophy, which studies fundamental ... including Ethics, philosophy of law, philosophy of economics, and other ...23 KB (3,233 words) - 08:37, 24 November 2022
- Category:Law legal systems in countries using common law. The brief is presented to ...13 KB (2,127 words) - 23:07, 20 November 2023
- Nyaya (Sanskrit meaning "rational argument") is one of the ... to Hindu thought is its elucidation of the pramanas (tools of epistemology ...14 KB (2,126 words) - 01:23, 17 November 2022
- who helped to shape the new thought of the late sixteenth century ... Pierre Charron was born in Paris, one of the twenty-five children ...13 KB (1,975 words) - 05:20, 24 November 2022
- Classical antiquity, era, or period is a broad term for a long period ... The foundations of the modern world derive from the Classic Age as ...12 KB (1,804 words) - 10:51, 19 December 2023
- Born in the Netherlands, he lived most of his life in England and wrote ... He was known for The Fable of the Bees (1714), which was first published ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 15:56, 29 September 2023
- a French thinker known as the "father of sociology." He developed ... in his later work, he embraced the concept of love as bringing the solution ...22 KB (3,359 words) - 19:00, 21 August 2023
- those universals really exist in some sense of "exist," either independently ... realism. It is basically with the spirit of nominalism that empiricism ...19 KB (2,997 words) - 02:38, 16 November 2022
- 2009) was an American scholar, a professor of philosophy and prolific author ... He was known for his academic research into a wide range of philosophical ...15 KB (2,047 words) - 10:33, 11 April 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
- #039;s will remains free under the action of divine grace. Molina developed ... One of the most controversial thinkers in the history of Catholic ...12 KB (1,719 words) - 02:57, 5 November 2022
- "manner, character, proper behavior") refers to a code of ... One question asks the kinds of practical rules people actually use ...23 KB (3,557 words) - 21:20, 9 November 2022
- The Megarian School of philosophy was founded c. 400 B.C.E. by Euclides ... Two disciples of Euclides— Eubulides and Alexinus—developed the ...10 KB (1,527 words) - 04:09, 9 November 2022
- that represents the logical structure of truth-functional connectives ... The truth-values, truth or falsity, of the sentences in this argument ...21 KB (3,138 words) - 00:23, 2 December 2022
- in significant ways from the existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre as well as ... In 1894 Berdyaev entered Kiev University to study law. This was a ...13 KB (2,041 words) - 04:06, 15 November 2022
- and psychologist, a major philosopher of the “philosophy of life” ... the natures, conditions, and justifications of human knowledge particularly ...17 KB (2,371 words) - 19:48, 23 November 2022
- Van Rensselaer Potter to describe a new philosophy that integrates biology ... In the broader sense of the term, bioethics encompasses both biomedical ...12 KB (1,586 words) - 17:53, 31 October 2023
- , a Sanskrit word meaning "revered thought," is the name ... the "earlier" (pūrva) portions of the Vedas, the Samhitas and ...18 KB (2,750 words) - 18:03, 9 November 2022
- In philosophy, metaethics—sometimes known as analytic ethics—is ... Metaethics is one of the three branches of ethics generally recognized ...14 KB (2,091 words) - 16:19, 9 November 2022
- ) of Chalcedon (396 – 314 B.C.E.) was a Greek philosopher and third ... In his biography of Xenocrates, Diogenes Laertius recounts several ...12 KB (1,827 words) - 14:16, 20 May 2023
- The concept of a duty is the concept of a requirement. If one has ... The notion of a duty is closely linked with the concepts of ‘ought’ ...19 KB (3,122 words) - 17:23, 12 February 2024
- famous for his research on the psychology of music and sound. He founded ... Bavaria (today’s Germany), the son of Eugen Stumpf, a local physician ...10 KB (1,352 words) - 15:19, 27 November 2023
- in intelligence testing and in the field of comparative psychology. Yerkes ... Pennsylvania. His early life was of a typical farm boy, spent in ...10 KB (1,520 words) - 02:18, 16 December 2022
- Adelard of Bath (Latin: Adelardus Bathensis) (1116? - 1142?) was a ... Adelard was a pioneer of the scientific renaissance of the twelfth ...13 KB (1,951 words) - 05:50, 15 June 2023
- affirms that the Church is the Mystical Body of Christ. ... who live under the visible representative of Christ. However, there are ...10 KB (1,484 words) - 22:43, 10 November 2022
- The Sanskrit word Kalpa has several distinct meanings in the context ... as topics to be observed by students of the Vedas. Later, they developed ...10 KB (1,446 words) - 22:19, 3 April 2023
- Chinese philosophy has a history of several thousand years; its origins ... The central focus of Chinese philosophy throughout the ages has been ...21 KB (3,167 words) - 16:46, 10 December 2023
- but also his self effacing modesty, philosophy, and writing style, which ... The decisions of past jurists and legislators may or may not have ...12 KB (1,848 words) - 09:56, 28 September 2023
- dilemma" (so named because a version of it first appeared in Plato ... as exemplified in Kierkegaard's philosophy. He discusses Abraham& ...13 KB (1,986 words) - 15:31, 29 January 2024
- takes its defining inspiration from the work of Aristotle. Since Aristotle ... During the seventeenth century, modern philosophy began to develop ...18 KB (2,450 words) - 06:29, 12 August 2023
- He wrote on numerous topics, including philosophy of history and aesthetics ... Croce offered his “philosophy of spirit” as a humanistic alternative ...15 KB (2,246 words) - 09:08, 27 September 2023
- Category:Law Category:Social work [[Image:Workhouse_Nantwich.jpg|thumb ... British Poor Laws were a body of laws designed during the Elizabethan ...17 KB (2,625 words) - 08:51, 24 November 2022
- Epicureanism is a system of philosophy based upon the teachings of ... pleasure is an important constituent of human happiness, but only when ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 19:06, 13 February 2024
- 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
- "Victorious Christ") is the name of Gustaf Aulén's groundbreaking ... This particular doctrine of the atonement attempts to explain why ...13 KB (2,011 words) - 21:44, 10 December 2023
- Philosophical discussion of coercion has focused on three distinct ... contrary to his preferences or will because of a threat administered by another ...26 KB (4,117 words) - 22:25, 7 January 2024
- Paternalism refers to acting for the good of another person against ... Paternalism can effect various spheres of life, be it financial (mandatory ...22 KB (3,463 words) - 09:06, 18 November 2022
- played a significant role in the development of Russian philosophy and poetry ... Solovyov did not think of himself as a philosopher, but as a prophet ...15 KB (2,232 words) - 20:48, 3 May 2023
- is a teleological and consequential theory of ethics concerned with the outcome ... there are no absolute laws other than the law of Agapē love and all the ...14 KB (2,274 words) - 22:41, 29 January 2023
- rabbi, Jewish philosopher, and exegete of the geonic period, known for ... quot; is apparently the Hebrew equivalent of his Arabic name, "Sa& ...22 KB (3,468 words) - 18:29, 22 December 2022
- Princeton, New Jersey) was a philosopher of science and a major figure ... Hempel was a major theorist of logical positivism, but, at later stage ...24 KB (3,610 words) - 19:18, 26 November 2023
- The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (French: La ... Along with the U.S. Declaration of Independence, it is considered ...17 KB (2,728 words) - 23:49, 26 July 2022
- and laid the foundations for international law, based on natural law. He ... Grotius removed natural law from the jurisdiction of moral theologians ...25 KB (3,772 words) - 12:17, 4 February 2023
- Bible) as scripture, and the rejection of the Oral Law (the Mishnah and ... Tiberian Qərā’îm), meaning "Readers (of Scripture)," ...17 KB (2,623 words) - 07:10, 5 October 2022
- associated with the establishment of Confucianism as the official ... are preserved in the Standard History of the Western Han Dynasty (Han ...11 KB (1,702 words) - 18:44, 2 May 2023
- apologist, moral philosopher and the author of Fifteen Sermons (1726) and ... Butler defended natural and revealed religion through a doctrine of ...18 KB (2,788 words) - 07:19, 10 August 2022
- politician, and a provocative proponent of Deism. A wealthy landowner ... Collins was a friend of the philosopher John Locke. He loved books ...15 KB (2,350 words) - 05:24, 31 July 2023
- or Abenezra) (1092 or 1093 – 1167) was one of the most distinguished Jewish ... Born in Spain, he spent much of his life traveling in North Africa ...14 KB (2,169 words) - 06:29, 14 June 2023
- 21, 1788), also known by the epithet Magus of the North, was a philosopher ... a religious conversion. His distrust of reason and the Enlightenment ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 14:40, 1 August 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
- |country = Italy, but partially extraterritorial of the Holy See ... university located in Rome, Italy. Heir of the Roman College, the Gregorian ...17 KB (2,554 words) - 16:14, 17 January 2014
- The concept of yin and yang (Pinyin: yīnyáng; t=陰陽|s=阴阳|p ... Dương) originates in ancient Chinese philosophy and metaphysics, and is ...13 KB (2,041 words) - 11:14, 24 May 2023
- Nicholas of Cusa (born in 1401 in Bernkastel-Kues, Germany – died ... Nicholas was instrumental in developing the concept of “panentheism ...17 KB (2,645 words) - 23:33, 14 November 2022
- The term social contract describes a broad class of philosophical ... Common to all of these theories is the notion of a sovereign will ...28 KB (4,260 words) - 15:01, 27 April 2023
- Geonim (plural of גאון Gaon) (Hebrew: גאונים meaning "Excellency ... ) were the presidents of the two great rabbinical colleges of Sura ...8 KB (1,324 words) - 06:54, 18 April 2024
- The Book of Ruth (Hebrew: מגילת רות, Megilat Rut, "the ... Ruth is one of the shortest books in both Jewish and Christian scripture ...10 KB (1,594 words) - 00:40, 19 November 2023
- The ethics of care is a normative ethical theory often considered ... care, education, international relations, law, and politics. While both ...15 KB (2,198 words) - 04:34, 22 March 2024
- writer. He has been dubbed the "Father of Modern Philosophy" and ... Descartes frequently sets his views apart from those of his predecessors ...25 KB (3,599 words) - 04:02, 8 December 2022
- French Revolution, became a great exponent of the conservative tradition ... De Maistre developed a theological view of the French Revolution as ...18 KB (2,670 words) - 02:13, 11 August 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
- his philosophical methodology and theory of knowledge in sharp contrast ... Born to a bookseller and the daughter of a carriage maker, Vico attended ...17 KB (2,637 words) - 20:24, 14 December 2023
- A concept is a constituent of thought or generalized idea, that designates ... and expressing them with language. Theories of concepts are thus closely tied ...20 KB (3,052 words) - 02:41, 8 January 2024
- logician and Franciscan friar William of Ockham. Originally a tent ... The origins of what has come to be known as Ockham's razor are ...19 KB (2,872 words) - 23:50, 17 November 2022
- the most important British moral philosopher of his time.[https://www.thetimes ... for his attempt to return the study of moral philosophy to its foundations: ...30 KB (4,357 words) - 20:51, 23 January 2024
- oeuvre spans almost every scholarly subject of his time, each displayed and ... While the popularity of his philosophy was short-lived (though this ...17 KB (2,487 words) - 21:08, 10 December 2023
- philosopher who was noted for his pursuit of natural theology and philosophy ... provide a rational argument in the defense of natural theology and Newtonianism. ...15 KB (2,384 words) - 02:22, 23 December 2022
- The theology of the Death of God, also known as Radical Theology, ... For Nietzsche, the supposed death of the Christian concept of God ...12 KB (1,862 words) - 08:57, 28 January 2024
- by the Germans, though remained a prisoner of war and was not sent to a concentration ... He advocated an “Ethics as First Philosophy,” in which the ethical ...17 KB (2,583 words) - 18:22, 13 February 2024
- early nineteenth centuries. It developed out of the work of Immanuel Kant in ... sensible contents derived from the object of cognition and the a priori ...23 KB (3,260 words) - 07:38, 24 January 2023
- 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
- who in 1893, when he attended the Parliament of the Worlds Religion at Chicago ... he regarded Vedanta as the best expression of that truth. In a lecture delivered ...11 KB (1,632 words) - 00:33, 8 December 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
- Gamaliel the Elder, or Gamaliel I, was the leading Jewish teacher ... disciples from death in a story in the Book of Acts, in which he is quoted ...9 KB (1,475 words) - 04:07, 18 April 2024
- as the “First Teacher”) because of his extensive commentaries ... ideal society based on a Neoplatonic concept of the Divine, in which the responsibility ...18 KB (2,709 words) - 07:20, 16 June 2023
- 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
- 1651 book Leviathan set the agenda for much of subsequent Western political ... Hobbes also contributed to a diverse array of fields, including history ...29 KB (4,445 words) - 21:18, 30 April 2023
- balance between reason and religion in light of the philosophical developments ... Rosmini founded a religious order called the Institute of the Brethren ...24 KB (3,716 words) - 05:44, 11 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
- The Logicians or School of Names (名家; Míngjiā; "School ... Chinese thinkers of the period were preoccupied with the use of terminology ...20 KB (2,994 words) - 17:21, 25 January 2023
- a natural language) may be joined by means of a logical connective to form ... Mathematical logic is a mathematical representation of formal rules ...27 KB (3,934 words) - 20:59, 3 November 2022
- Marsilius of Padua (Italian Marsilio or Marsiglio da Padova) (1270 ... Marcilius was one of the first to apply the methods of Aristotelian ...12 KB (1,929 words) - 16:16, 6 November 2022
- physics theory with a similar name, see Theory of Relativity evaluate beliefs and behaviors only in terms of, for example, their historical ...25 KB (3,816 words) - 03:07, 8 December 2022
- birth control activist, and the founder of the American Birth Control ... before dying of tuberculosis and cervical cancer. Sanger attended ...14 KB (2,043 words) - 08:32, 10 March 2023
- and regulate one's conduct in view of norms, is an essential attribute ... In classical religious and philosophical treatments of responsibility ...36 KB (5,446 words) - 18:16, 8 December 2022
- Ethics (from the Greek ethos – custom) in the sense of systems of ... ethics begins with the Greek Sophists of the fifth century B.C.E., who ...21 KB (3,178 words) - 04:33, 22 March 2024
- and academic. Bloom championed the idea of "Great Books" education ... Readers Digest article about the University of Chicago and told his parents ...22 KB (3,158 words) - 18:25, 21 July 2023
- whose work centered around theistic ideals of religious consciousness, interpersonal ... into a Jewish family. Buber spent much of his childhood in the house ...16 KB (2,486 words) - 16:30, 6 November 2022
- Freedom is traditionally understood as independence of the arbitrary ... A slave is constantly subject to the will of another. By contrast ...28 KB (4,455 words) - 10:43, 11 April 2024
- Yak-yong's contribution to Korean philosophy. Eminent Korean Confucian ... As professor Michael Kalton said that it is not only the volume of ...14 KB (2,321 words) - 07:14, 31 July 2022
- ; 305 B.C.E. - 240 B.C.E.) was the representative thinker of the School ... Zou Yan is regarded as the founder of natural science in China. His ...13 KB (1,998 words) - 06:12, 13 June 2023
- Justice is the ideal, morally correct state of things and persons ... important: "Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth ...34 KB (5,251 words) - 21:23, 4 October 2022
- The Lotus Sutra or Sutra on the White Lotus of the Sublime Dharma ... Kyō; Korean: Myobeomnyeonhwagyeong) is one of the most popular and influential ...10 KB (1,578 words) - 02:49, 4 November 2022
- This relationship, known as Ohm's law, represents the true beginning ... Ohm offers a good example of the working of science through his experimental ...15 KB (2,285 words) - 06:57, 18 April 2024
- |name =University of Rome "La Sapienza" |native_name ... University of Rome La Sapienza (Italian Università degli Studi di ...13 KB (1,764 words) - 13:09, 3 May 2023
- Jean-Philippe Rameau (September 25, 1683 - September 12, 1764) was ... functional harmony and the principles of acoustics (as discovered by ...9 KB (1,322 words) - 17:12, 2 April 2024
- an educational institution (often a school of secondary education in Europe ... discussions there during the last third of the fifth century B.C.E. In ...14 KB (2,070 words) - 03:09, 5 November 2022
- Deontological ethics recognizes a number of distinct duties, such ... It seems fair to say the ordinary ethical thinking, at least that ...19 KB (2,981 words) - 00:53, 27 July 2022
- Shammai (50 B.C.E. – 30 C.E.) was a famous Jewish scholar of the ... Shammai's school became known as the House of Shammai (Beit Shammai ...13 KB (2,076 words) - 13:10, 27 January 2023
- theological writer, and Anglican archbishop of Dublin (1831–1863). Whately’s ... to hold public office, and state endowment of the Roman Catholic clergy. ...13 KB (2,059 words) - 01:50, 14 December 2022
- is a political essay by John Jay, the third of The Federalist Papers. It was ... when their states are at the center of a conflict, while the federal ...17 KB (2,445 words) - 01:54, 26 March 2024
- Filial piety is the virtue of a child to his or her parents or parental ... ) is one of the virtues to be cultivated and denotes a love and respect ...10 KB (1,518 words) - 22:58, 1 May 2021
- Historically, yantras have been used in Hinduism for a variety of ... In its most recognizable form, a yantra is a type of sacred geometry ...9 KB (1,275 words) - 10:12, 22 May 2023
- and doctor and the most influential of the Tibbon family who translated ... He also produced the first Hebrew glossary of philosophical and biblical ...21 KB (3,070 words) - 03:04, 23 December 2022
- 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
- The conscience refers to a person’s sense of right and wrong. Having ... ==The elements of conscience== Conscience refers to a person’s sense ...25 KB (3,722 words) - 21:26, 7 September 2023
- The Epistle to the Romans is one of the books of the New Testament ... The main message of the Epistle is that salvation is available to ...13 KB (2,049 words) - 19:12, 13 February 2024
- 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
- Environmental ethics is a branch of applied ethics and a part of environmental ... ethics often contains criticisms of man's abusive or exploitative ...18 KB (2,652 words) - 19:01, 13 February 2024
- States thereafter. He was a leading member of the Vienna Circle and probably ... I see him as the dominant figure in philosophy from the 1930s onward, ...27 KB (4,028 words) - 21:04, 21 December 2022
- 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
- and power. Mudras are an important part of Hinduism and Buddhism and they ... In Indian religious practice, the role of mudras as a concentration ...13 KB (2,114 words) - 17:54, 10 November 2022
- understanding about salvation, the process of restoring the relationship ... , John Cassian (c. 360–c. 435, Collations of the Fathers or Conferences ...14 KB (2,147 words) - 17:49, 25 January 2023
- ), is a controversial Daoist classic allegedly written by a disciple ... and-answer format, with Wenzi as a student of Laozi in the received version ...14 KB (2,095 words) - 23:30, 3 May 2023
- John Dewey (October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) is regarded as one ... Throughout most of his 92 years, Dewey was an internationally renowned ...20 KB (2,964 words) - 02:26, 9 February 2023
- physicist famous for his application of probability theory to the study ... Boltzmann was born in Vienna, then capital of the Austrian Empire ...19 KB (2,826 words) - 02:38, 5 November 2022
- Neo-Kantianism designates the revived or modified types of Kantian ... The return to Kant of Neo-Kantianism in the second part of the nineteenth ...24 KB (3,466 words) - 16:16, 11 November 2022
- who lived during the most brilliant era of Roman public life. An academic ... For Cicero, politics took precedence over philosophy. Most of his ...34 KB (5,558 words) - 22:01, 10 December 2023
- [[Image:Petrarch by Bargilla.jpg|right|thumb|250px|From the Cycle ... the sonnet. He was a primary initiator of the philosophical movement ...11 KB (1,750 words) - 01:38, 24 November 2022
- or key) is most often said to be the study of criteria for the evaluation ... Traditionally, logic is studied as a branch of philosophy. Since the ...31 KB (4,895 words) - 20:58, 3 November 2022
- Korean) were a well-educated scholarly class of male Confucian scholars who ... The yangban tradition of a close network based on education, teachers ...18 KB (2,756 words) - 10:10, 22 May 2023
- German philosopher, known for his critique of religious belief. He is commonly ... Feuerbach emerged in the 1840s as a leader of the Young Hegelians ...24 KB (3,623 words) - 02:37, 5 November 2022
- a moral and political connotation. In terms of morality, ‘absolutism’ ... In terms of politics, ‘absolutism’ refers to a type of government ...18 KB (2,761 words) - 06:37, 14 June 2023
- Falun Gong (Chinese: 法轮功: meaning "Practice of the Wheel ... surfaced in the institutional field of alternative Chinese science ...14 KB (2,259 words) - 00:36, 25 March 2024
- Judaism is the religious culture of the Jewish people. While far from ... laws and commandments to them in the form of the Torah. Jewish practice ...32 KB (4,804 words) - 20:55, 4 October 2022
- [[Image:Zeno.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Zeno of Citium]] Stoicism, one of the three major schools of Hellenistic philosphy ...21 KB (3,500 words) - 00:46, 26 February 2023
- 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
- = "science") means "study of value." Although questions ... sought to characterize the notion of value in general, of which ...19 KB (2,855 words) - 07:20, 23 August 2023
- universal systems theory to the possibility of human rejuvenation through ... figure, especially in the development of the Communist Party's ...11 KB (1,607 words) - 05:13, 17 June 2023
- the information environment consisting of the interdependent network ... infringement, and may call for new models of commerce. Furthermore, cyberspace ...14 KB (2,094 words) - 02:18, 15 January 2023
- [[Image:Epikur.jpg|right|thumb|234px|Bust of Epicurus]] an ancient Greek philosopher, the founder of Epicureanism, one of the most ...19 KB (3,054 words) - 19:07, 13 February 2024
- As a philosopher, he was an early proponent of Empiricism. Locke also made ... him, John Locke is considered the first of the three major British Empiricists ...28 KB (4,356 words) - 16:04, 27 March 2024
- The Divine Right of Kings is a political and religious doctrine of ... The origins of the theory are rooted in the medieval idea that God ...11 KB (1,829 words) - 15:08, 26 August 2020
- Until the mid-nineteenth century, Japanese philosophy was inextricably ... While Western philosophy is closely related to conceptual components ...28 KB (4,111 words) - 09:55, 1 April 2024
- objective idealist philosopher. He was one of the most influential philosophers ... Josiah Royce was born November 20, 1855, in the remote mining town ...24 KB (3,666 words) - 19:58, 7 September 2022
- Philosophy of mathematics is the branch of philosophy that studies ... :* What are the sources of mathematical subject matter? ...31 KB (4,571 words) - 04:15, 24 November 2022
- Max Wertheimer (April 15, 1880 – October 12, 1943) was one of the ... Starting with the observation of apparent movement, the phi phenomenon ...13 KB (1,949 words) - 01:04, 9 November 2022
- The Epistle to the Galatians is a book of the New Testament. It is ... The letter indicates that some of the Galatians had been influenced ...16 KB (2,432 words) - 19:12, 13 February 2024
- Florenszoon Boeyens, served as Bishop of Rome from January 9, 1522, ... Born in Utrecht, he studied at the University of Louvain in France ...11 KB (1,609 words) - 09:24, 24 November 2022
- In sociology and biology, infanticide is the practice of intentionally ... In sociology and biology, infanticide is the practice of intentionally ...20 KB (2,994 words) - 22:37, 5 February 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
- After graduating from the University of Oxford, Pockocke spent the ... and Muhammad. He helped to pioneer the use of primary sources as well as ...17 KB (2,663 words) - 15:59, 21 December 2021
- is a political essay by John Jay, the fifth of The Federalist Papers. It was ... Federalist No. 5 addresses the idea of states forming regional confederacies ...14 KB (1,988 words) - 01:54, 26 March 2024
- Category:Law The common law forms a major part of the law of those countries of ...32 KB (5,079 words) - 00:10, 8 January 2024
- , derived from bolshinstvo, "majority") were a faction of ... and ultimately became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. ...15 KB (2,018 words) - 07:17, 17 November 2023
- Civil rights are the protections and privileges of personal power ... rights laws are most often written. Examples of civil rights and liberties ...29 KB (4,520 words) - 22:29, 10 December 2023
- philosopher, and encyclopedist, and one of the first outspoken atheists ... place for all the intellectual figures of his time, radical and conservative ...19 KB (2,831 words) - 08:10, 20 September 2023
- Uisang (의상625 - 702) was one of the most eminent early Silla scholar ... World System.) He was a close friend of monk Wonhyo, and both of their ...15 KB (2,310 words) - 11:28, 18 April 2023
- an acronym for the Hebrew Bible consisting of the initial Hebrew letters ... #Torah (תורה) meaning "Instruction" or "Law." ...11 KB (1,531 words) - 02:04, 27 February 2023
- but is best known for her A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790), a ... true virtue. Virtue, which consisted of imitating God, could only be ...19 KB (2,889 words) - 16:16, 7 November 2022
- The Epistle to the Philippians is a book of the New Testament in the ... . The letter was clearly written during one of Paul's imprisonments, ...10 KB (1,691 words) - 20:40, 17 May 2023
- heretical by his fellow Tannaim, the rabbis of the Talmud refrained from relating ... The Tannaim were rabbinic sages in Judaism, who over a period of 130 ...20 KB (3,151 words) - 09:06, 30 December 2021
- from South Carolina during the first half of the nineteenth century. Calhoun ... war with Britain in 1812 and a vast program of internal improvements afterwards ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 16:58, 5 April 2024
- Original sin is a Christian doctrine describing the first human act ... is traditionally understood to be the cause of "original sin." While ...17 KB (2,619 words) - 02:15, 18 November 2022
- Kantianism refers to a line of thought that is broadly based on the ... The revolutionary impact of Kant’s critical method on western thought ...26 KB (3,945 words) - 02:48, 5 October 2022
- century C.E., following the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem by ... Most of what is known about the Sadducees (also known as "Zadokites ...13 KB (2,021 words) - 18:35, 22 December 2022
- only with lies as statements—not lies of demeanor or costume or some ... by philosophers, by jurists, and others. One of the Ten Commandments, for example ...19 KB (3,123 words) - 03:12, 5 November 2022
- name=Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg| native_name=Albert-Ludwigs ... Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg (German Albert-Ludwigs-Universität ...21 KB (2,957 words) - 05:02, 17 June 2023
- [[File:Cesare Beccaria in Dei delitti crop.jpg|thumb|Marquis of Beccaria]] His work was significant in the development of Utilitarianism. Beccaria advocated ...11 KB (1,635 words) - 00:08, 4 December 2023
- The Sermon on the Mount is believed to be a sermon given by Jesus ... that the sermon was meant as a summary of Jesus' teaching for Matthew ...16 KB (2,654 words) - 10:04, 26 January 2023
- to complete); Aramaic (to study) is the part of the Talmud that contains rabbinical ... There are two recensions of the Gemara, one compiled by the scholars ...8 KB (1,227 words) - 06:37, 18 April 2024
- rabbinic literature, which are primarily of an exegetic and homiletic nature ... ==Part of the Jewish oral law== The Haggadah is part of Judaism's ...13 KB (1,890 words) - 17:38, 27 January 2024
- Bauer was also a pioneering figure in the development of biblical ... Thuringia in Saxe-Altenburg, the son of a painter in a porcelain factory ...21 KB (3,103 words) - 04:42, 22 November 2023
- ) was the dynastic name generally given to the caliphs of Baghdad ... represented the unity and preservation of Islam as a religious faith ...16 KB (2,377 words) - 07:16, 13 June 2023
- Karl Jaspers (1883 - 1969) pioneered the idea of the Axial Age. According ... Jaspers was led to realize the possibility of a political unity of ...15 KB (2,330 words) - 07:19, 23 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
- 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
- Category:Law Category:Sociology exposure for adultery in Japan from Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs ...23 KB (3,563 words) - 18:12, 14 April 2023
- Although his research and personal philosophy had their roots in the ... At the same time, Boyle was convinced of the existence of God and ...20 KB (3,111 words) - 21:10, 16 April 2023
- or Chandragupta Vikramaditya) stands as one of the most powerful emperors ... II elevated culture, art, mathematics, philosophy, religion, and astronomy ...13 KB (1,823 words) - 01:15, 4 December 2023
- The Book of Wisdom (also known as the Wisdom of Solomon or simply ... According to Saint Melito in the second century C.E., the Book of ...11 KB (1,829 words) - 18:44, 20 November 2023
- [[Image:IVE Tsing Yi.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Hong Kong Institute of ... conceptual knowledge, characteristic of tertiary education. ...18 KB (2,528 words) - 20:59, 3 May 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
- a political essay by John Jay and the fourth of the Federalist papers. It was ... Federalist No. 4 addresses the possibility of European nations engaging ...15 KB (2,183 words) - 01:54, 26 March 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
- Honor has been defined in more modern times as the evaluation of a ... The ancient Greek concepts of honor (timē) included not only the ...15 KB (2,339 words) - 13:28, 2 February 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
- Cyberethics, also referred to as internet ethics, is a branch of applied ... Rather than straightforward application of traditional ethical theories ...26 KB (3,869 words) - 06:51, 12 January 2024
- 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 Frankfurt school is a school of neo-Marxist social theory, social ... Frankfurt school theorists were critical of Marx-Leninism and the ...23 KB (3,258 words) - 05:11, 9 April 2024
- writings about salvation and the nature of the cosmos influenced a number ... Böhme’s ideas about the process of Creation, the primacy of will ...15 KB (2,409 words) - 12:46, 6 November 2021
- The Damascus Document, also called the Zadokite Fragments, is one ... Because it gives insights into the special religious attitudes of ...13 KB (2,022 words) - 22:57, 22 June 2020
- The Book of Jubilees (ספר היובלים), sometimes called the ... The Book of Jubilees claims to present "the history of the division ...13 KB (2,033 words) - 20:40, 4 October 2022
- Category:Law A philanthropic foundation is a legal categorization of nonprofit ...18 KB (2,622 words) - 14:49, 28 March 2023
- 24, 1575 (Safed, Ottoman Empire)) was one of the most significant writers ... Karo's personal spirituality is a matter of controversy due the ...13 KB (2,057 words) - 21:32, 4 June 2023
- Arabic آمين ’Āmīn) is a declaration of positive affirmation found ... Dua (Supplication). For Jews and Christians of different denominations, the ...6 KB (852 words) - 02:50, 24 July 2023
- broadest sense, can mean the entire spectrum of Judaism's rabbinic writings ... begins with the classic rabbinic literature of the Talmudic era (Sifrut Hazal ...11 KB (1,477 words) - 16:16, 7 December 2022
- Raku (樂) or Rakuyaki (樂焼き) is a form of Japanese pottery characterized ... The Zen philosophy behind the Japanese tea ceremony influenced the ...18 KB (2,882 words) - 00:27, 8 December 2022
- " sc. Redemptoris, " the coming of the Savior"), a term used ... ==Origin and History of Advent== Advent (and adventism) has its roots ...6 KB (941 words) - 06:21, 15 June 2023
- coined by Mahatma Gandhi to express his philosophy that non-violence is a ... Gandhi's philosophy of satyagraha also had a profound impact ...17 KB (2,735 words) - 22:38, 3 April 2020
- 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
- Hart, it is the oldest digital library. Most of the items in its collection ... Michael Stern Hart's vision and efforts led to the establishment ...19 KB (2,741 words) - 01:18, 12 April 2023
- "fragrances") refers to a group of low-ranking male nature dieties ... refer a particular divine being and a race of related demigods, respectively ...9 KB (1,445 words) - 07:26, 2 April 2008
- who lived in Jerusalem during the time of King Herod around the beginning ... hearted approach to interpreting the spirit of the law, Hillel and his followers ...16 KB (2,728 words) - 13:17, 22 January 2024
- The text of the first part of the Shema is as follows: diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house ...14 KB (2,261 words) - 13:27, 27 January 2023
- Artificial intelligence (AI) is a branch of computer science and engineering ... ==Schools of thought== AI divides roughly into two schools of thought: ...15 KB (2,061 words) - 17:40, 16 August 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
- 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
- 20, 2003) was a French pre-war leader of the Young Right, philosopher ... Little was known until recently about much of Blanchot's life ...13 KB (1,828 words) - 16:58, 7 November 2022
- day Libya, the oldest and most important of the five Greek cities in the ... Cyrene became one of the great intellectual centers of the classical ...13 KB (1,919 words) - 18:50, 12 May 2020
- closely with Karl Marx in the foundation of modern Communism. The son of ... Kautsky). Engels contributed in questions of nationality, military affairs ...22 KB (3,304 words) - 11:02, 11 April 2024
- as Classical Yoga or simply Yoga) is one of the six orthodox (astika) schools ... concerned principally with the cultivation of the mind using meditation ...21 KB (3,177 words) - 00:10, 8 December 2022
- statesman, dramatist, and writer of the Silver Age of Latin literature ... Born in Córdoba, Spain in 4 B.C.E., Seneca was the second of three ...18 KB (2,996 words) - 09:45, 26 January 2023
- Praise and blame are closely connected with the concept of moral responsibility ... blame someone? There are two main schools of thought on this question. Firstly ...33 KB (5,325 words) - 22:13, 30 November 2022
- 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
- Classical mechanics is used for describing the motion of macroscopic ... with high velocity, approaching the speed of light; general relativity is ...33 KB (4,963 words) - 10:51, 19 December 2023
- Shinbutsu shūgō (Japanese for the "fusion of kami and Buddhas ... to harmonize the rituals and practices of two different world religions ...15 KB (2,180 words) - 20:48, 31 December 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
- (May 2, 1772 – March 25, 1801), was one of the earliest of the German ... Low German nobility. In the different lines of his family, many important ...20 KB (3,018 words) - 22:15, 16 November 2022
- The Henotikon (or "act of union") was a document issued ... avoid language which offended the opponents of the Council of Chalcedon, which ...16 KB (2,523 words) - 18:33, 7 February 2022
- Property? Or, an Inquiry into the Principle of Right and Government (Qu'est ... Proudhon’s concept of revolution did not entail violent upheaval ...25 KB (3,749 words) - 19:38, 31 March 2023
- Virtue ethics is one of three major theories in normative ethics, ... The roots of the tradition of virtue ethics lie in the works of Plato ...28 KB (4,212 words) - 20:38, 3 May 2023
- was an influential liberal thinker of the nineteenth century. John ... greatest happiness for the greatest number of people, and distinguished among ...27 KB (4,047 words) - 07:56, 3 August 2022
- Edmund Husserl's formulation, the study of experience and the ways in ... This emphasis on the intentional structure of experience makes phenomenology ...26 KB (3,647 words) - 02:57, 24 November 2022
- during a discussion in the Munich School of Philosophy]] scientist, and sociologist in the tradition of critical theory, best known ...27 KB (3,751 words) - 21:47, 4 October 2022
- martial art that utilizes a large variety of techniques in defense against ... established judo in 1905, but many schools of jujutsu continued to evolve ...14 KB (2,177 words) - 21:12, 28 December 2023
- #039;Oresme (c.1323 - July 11, 1382) was one of the most original thinkers ... Oresme evolved a geometrical method of plotting speed or intensity ...30 KB (4,510 words) - 09:44, 11 March 2023
- 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
- on individual merit although the forgiveness of sins was an unmerited act of ... The rigorous ascetic life of his adherents contrasted with the spiritual ...24 KB (3,917 words) - 07:13, 23 November 2022
- other than the human species as bearers of rights. This means that animals ... The philosophy of animal rights has given rise to a socio-political ...32 KB (4,972 words) - 06:14, 28 July 2023
- 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
- Leviticus is the third book of the Hebrew Bible. The English name ... those that can no longer be observed because of the destruction of the Temple ...17 KB (2,713 words) - 00:25, 19 November 2023
- "against" + νομος, "law"), or lawlessness (Greek: ... The topic of antinomianism is quite complex because it involves the ...21 KB (3,237 words) - 06:34, 31 July 2023
- Category:Law that their high intellects made them capable of committing a "perfect ...16 KB (2,623 words) - 21:57, 25 October 2022
- Category:Law Category:Sociology [[Image:Gandhi Salt March.jpg|thumb ... to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government or of an occupying ...28 KB (4,286 words) - 22:27, 10 December 2023
- Edwin Powell Hubble (November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953) was ... Born the son of John P. Hubble, an insurance executive in Marshfield ...14 KB (2,031 words) - 23:56, 12 February 2024
- most famous for his roles as the founder of Conservative Judaism and president ... Schechter came to England as a tutor of the future leader of Progressive ...13 KB (1,934 words) - 01:02, 4 February 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
- German philosopher, the main representative of nineteenth century German Idealism ... system practically unrivaled in the scope of its ambition. Hegel’s highly ...43 KB (6,642 words) - 07:00, 18 April 2024
- evidence points to a much earlier date of the union of the five tribes ... A member of the Mohawk Nation, he was instrumental in founding the ...12 KB (1,814 words) - 23:04, 12 February 2022
- 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
- Educated through the difficult life of an American emigrant in the ... Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and held the position ...14 KB (2,176 words) - 01:17, 21 April 2023
- "Date Palm") was the fore-mother of the Jews and the daughter-in ... played an important role in the lineage of Jesus. Her story involves life ...15 KB (2,478 words) - 03:57, 27 February 2023
- activity involving the buying and selling of merchandise or services illegally ... Goods acquired illegally can take one of two price levels. They may ...19 KB (2,879 words) - 18:09, 31 October 2023
- , literally "head of the year") is a Jewish holiday, commonly ... Rosh Hashanah is the first of the High Holidays or "Days of Awe ...12 KB (1,866 words) - 19:18, 16 December 2022
- region = Western Philosophy | era = 20th-century philosophy | color = #B0C4DE | image_name = | ...30 KB (4,587 words) - 06:50, 13 June 2023
- referring to the exposition, or exegesis, of a biblical text. The term can ... The two basic types of midrash are known as Midrash Aggadah, regarding ...16 KB (2,400 words) - 17:34, 9 November 2022
- influenced by Marxist thought and a pioneer of "popular education." ... Freire's methods were successful in raising the level of literacy ...18 KB (2,693 words) - 01:43, 23 November 2022
- it does not entirely capture the meaning of the Greek word. One important ... between these two central concepts is one of the important preoccupations ...33 KB (5,174 words) - 04:41, 22 March 2024
- 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
- July 2, 1778) was a Franco-Swiss philosopher of the Enlightenment whose political ... the modernizing, industrializing society of his own time — was a negative ...25 KB (3,929 words) - 01:04, 9 February 2023
- 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
- Malthus is widely regarded as the founder of modern demography. He made ... The influence of Malthus' theories was substantial. His theory ...20 KB (2,912 words) - 15:46, 6 February 2024
- officer and politician. He was the nominee of the Democratic Party for President ... Cass was in full favor of United States expansion and supported President ...9 KB (1,272 words) - 22:19, 25 October 2022
- Fate or Destiny refers to a predetermined course of events, which ... The very notions of fate and destiny imply a limitation of human freedom ...22 KB (3,568 words) - 00:43, 25 March 2024
- 1494 – September 5-6,1566) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Caliph ... under his rule. His rule represented one of the most just and orderly periods ...10 KB (1,667 words) - 19:26, 22 October 2022
- it is usually distinguished form other kinds of determinism such as fate, karma ... Given the difficult nature of the tension of omnipotence and free ...26 KB (4,098 words) - 22:20, 30 November 2022
- They have gained fame in modern times due to the discovery of the ... asceticism, strict adherence to the Jewish law, a special concern for the ...15 KB (2,317 words) - 21:31, 20 March 2024
- 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
- C.E., best known for his role in the trial of Jesus. His full name was Yosef ... A member of the party of the Sadducees, Caiaphas was the son-in-law ...15 KB (2,468 words) - 18:17, 25 November 2023
- was an American Jewish author and rabbi. Two of the themes that dominate his ... Jews had grown disillusioned as a result of the failed messianism of the ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 00:12, 4 December 2023
- sexual reproduction requires the mating of two organisms, male and female ... ==Evolution of the glyph== [[Image:Evolution2glyph.png|thumb|400px|left]] ...19 KB (2,775 words) - 06:42, 13 June 2023
- He applied mathematics to the field of economics, not necessarily ... Cournot's work, which included describing the behavior of monopolies ...14 KB (2,201 words) - 12:00, 30 October 2021
- 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
- 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
- together with Confucius, is considered one of the two great moral teachers ... Mozi founded the school of Mohism and argued strongly against Confucianism ...15 KB (2,461 words) - 17:52, 10 November 2022
- 1130 – 1200 C.E.) was a Confucian scholar of the Song dynasty who became ... was his moralization and ordering of the cosmos. By describing the ...20 KB (3,073 words) - 06:03, 13 June 2023
- precept found in virtually all the religions of the world. Also known as the ... Arising as it does in nearly all cultures, the ethic of reciprocity ...18 KB (2,926 words) - 05:37, 20 December 2022
- Joseph Smith III (1832-1914) was the eldest surviving son of Joseph ... father was arrested partially as a result of the events in the so-called ...14 KB (2,265 words) - 02:09, 11 August 2022
- the Mathematical Seminar at the University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5. Meeting ... The Vienna Circle (in German: der Wiener Kreis) was a group of philosophers ...34 KB (4,936 words) - 20:14, 3 May 2023
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (abbreviated UDHR) is a ... Eleanor Roosevelt, first chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights ...26 KB (3,859 words) - 12:00, 3 May 2023
- Chastity is a virtue concerning the state of purity of the mind and ... Chastity is seen as undergirding marriage; sexual acts outside of ...13 KB (1,988 words) - 00:44, 5 December 2023
- 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
- was a Jewish-American political theorist of German descent and one of the ... Rejecting much of the Western philosophical tradition, Arendt maintained ...24 KB (3,560 words) - 18:02, 23 January 2024
- " or other variations on the theme of "Ethical." Ethical ... Ethical Culture Society initiated a number of projects to improve the lives ...16 KB (2,476 words) - 04:32, 22 March 2024
- science and technology by his invention of the electric battery. This ... in Italy. He did not speak until the age of four and appeared to be mentally ...10 KB (1,467 words) - 05:11, 17 June 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
- The Yarmulke has become identified as a symbol of Judaism over the ... Many religions imbue clothing with religious significance as a sign ...15 KB (2,303 words) - 10:14, 22 May 2023
- eve 02.jpg|thumb|right|300px|A community of interest gathers at Stonehenge ... preferences, needs, risks and a number of other conditions may be present ...25 KB (3,567 words) - 00:17, 8 January 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
- The Samaritan Pentateuch is the text of the the first five books of ... the Torah and its laws, but reject the rest of the Hebrew Bible. In the Bible ...12 KB (1,793 words) - 22:25, 26 September 2023
- and a professor at the London School of Economics. He is counted among ... Popper was born in Vienna (then part of Austria-Hungary) in 1902 to ...33 KB (4,906 words) - 07:20, 5 October 2022
- - January 9, 1927) was a British-born author of books on political philosophy ... This philosophy would later be applied by the Nazis in their Final ...19 KB (2,874 words) - 01:22, 4 February 2023
- Salome Alexandra or Alexandra of Jerusalem (139 – 67 B.C.E.) was ... The daughter of a prominent Pharisaic family, Alexandra was the wife ...10 KB (1,574 words) - 01:53, 23 December 2022
- in adapting to the culture and traditions of a society in order to introduce ... gwang, who later helped shape the foundation of the Silhak movement in Korea. ...19 KB (2,924 words) - 16:54, 7 November 2022
- Pope Saint Anicetus was bishop of Rome in the mid-second century. ... Anicetus was involved in upholding the Roman tradition of celebrating ...11 KB (1,700 words) - 09:26, 24 November 2022
- 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
- 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
- schizoanalysis. He also developed a concept of three interacting and interdependent ... Guattari was a leading thinker of what came to be called Post-structuralism ...23 KB (3,142 words) - 17:13, 26 March 2024
- 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
- - third century B.C.E.) is the compiler of the Yoga Sutra, a major work ... The Yoga Sūtra serves as the basis of the yoga-system known as Raja ...18 KB (2,929 words) - 09:05, 18 November 2022
- Reform Judaism refers to the spectrum of beliefs, practices, and institutions ... It is characterized by a liberal attitude toward the Jewish law and ...19 KB (2,867 words) - 03:01, 8 December 2022
- , also called the Brit Noah ("Covenant of Noah") refer to seven ... G-d's saving grace outside the realm of Judaism so that non-Jews will ...22 KB (3,451 words) - 09:58, 11 March 2023
- 1 Esdras is a book from the Septuagint Greek translation of Hebrew ... "Ezra," and it is from the Book of Ezra that 1 Esdras borrows ...11 KB (1,713 words) - 06:31, 13 June 2023
- The Matenadaran or Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts in Yerevan ... Antioch, Alexandria, and other centers of learning to study the Greek ...39 KB (5,646 words) - 09:18, 10 March 2023
- |free = Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools ... Washington, D.C. in the United States. One of several Historical Black Colleges ...28 KB (3,869 words) - 19:30, 7 February 2024
- thereof, such as the Holy Spirit. (The study of the Holy Spirit in Christian ... quot; in the Latin Vulgate instead of anima (soul), which was rendered ...17 KB (2,627 words) - 21:55, 28 October 2020
- take relationship with God in every moment of human life. Jews had grown disillusioned as a result of the failed messianism of the ...28 KB (4,280 words) - 08:41, 20 January 2024
- together" or "council") is an assembly of 23 ... The Talmud (tractate Sanhedrin) identifies two classes of rabbinical ...18 KB (2,856 words) - 01:20, 21 April 2023
- Category:Philosophy and religion Day, Dorothy [[Image:Dorothy Day, ... The Servant of God Dorothy Day (November 8, 1897 – November 29, ...16 KB (2,524 words) - 17:27, 30 January 2024
- philosopher, and diplomat, an advocate of peace through education. The ... L. Butler and Mary Murray Butler, daughter of Nicholas Murray, a clergyman ...14 KB (2,044 words) - 23:32, 14 November 2022
- " "instruction," or "law") refers to most important ... used to include both Judaism's written law, as found in the Pentateuch ...24 KB (3,856 words) - 04:01, 1 May 2023
- Philo (20 B.C.E. – 50 C.E.), known also as Philo of Alexandria and ... Bible as an allegory for the rise and fall of the human soul. He developed ...29 KB (4,517 words) - 04:00, 24 November 2022
- 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
- burning bush is a biblical representation of the numinosity of God, where ... light, illumination, and the burning heart of purity, love and clarity. From ...11 KB (1,770 words) - 06:58, 21 April 2023
- political philosopher, noted for his defense of liberal democracy and free ... 1899 in Vienna, Austria to a Catholic family of prominent intellectuals. He ...29 KB (4,353 words) - 11:04, 11 April 2024
- To appreciate the value and the richness of the Korean Sirhak, one ... Therefore Yu Hyông-wôn, Song-ho, Yi Ik and the thinkers of the Northern ...16 KB (2,572 words) - 09:49, 26 January 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
- Hinduism. He advocated Vaishnavism (worship of Vishnu as the supreme God) ... Raghavendra wrote numerous commentaries on the works of Madhva, Jayatirtha ...18 KB (2,831 words) - 00:04, 8 December 2022
- 9, 1934) is often considered the founder of modern public relations, or ... Criticized, as many in PR have been, for selling propaganda instead ...11 KB (1,658 words) - 01:07, 8 February 2023
- the Enlightenment, and the editor-in-chief of the famous, Encyclopédie, ... The Encyclopédie, conceived as a compendium of all available knowledge ...21 KB (3,274 words) - 09:45, 29 January 2024
- in the late Roman Republic and a follower of the philosophy of Stoicism ... for dishonesty and illegal appropriation of funds. As governor of Cyprus ...19 KB (3,055 words) - 03:51, 6 November 2022
- and Taishō periods in Japan. Born the son of a samurai of the Morioka Clan ... intellectuals and students. He was critical of the increasing militarism in ...16 KB (2,449 words) - 01:35, 16 November 2022
- The Epistle of James is a book in the Christian New Testament. The ... a later writer who was not a direct disciple of Jesus. Its date has been estimated ...13 KB (2,152 words) - 19:10, 13 February 2024
- antiquary, and a successful organizer of scientific inquiry. Peiresc’s ... Peiresc’s interests covered every aspect of scholarship and science ...16 KB (2,441 words) - 23:35, 14 November 2022
- persons, the man Jesus and the divine Son of God, or Logos, rather than ... The Assyrian Church of the East refused to drop support for Nestorius ...19 KB (2,813 words) - 16:23, 11 November 2022
- ("to yoke")) refers to a series of interrelated ancient Hindu ... During the twentieth century, the philosophy and practice of Yoga ...28 KB (4,293 words) - 11:10, 25 May 2023
- Thought and in Sociology at the University of Chicago. An influential sociologist ... truth but rather as a necessary component of culture and human life, which ...17 KB (2,459 words) - 23:52, 12 February 2024
- movement who is often considered one of the greatest poets of the twentieth ... Valéry was born in Sète, a town on the Mediterranean coast of the ...10 KB (1,586 words) - 22:18, 4 March 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
- jurist who shaped American constitutional law and made the Supreme Court ... played a significant role in the development of the American legal system. ...23 KB (3,437 words) - 06:32, 3 August 2022
- was a German philosopher, who ranks as one of the literary grandfathers of ... Stirner was a member of a group of German intellectuals calling themselves ...35 KB (5,494 words) - 00:59, 9 November 2022
- Category:Law Category:Sociology Just War refers to the concept of warfare as being justified, typically ...18 KB (2,937 words) - 06:46, 28 February 2023
- 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
- and calligraphist. She also the mother of seven children and was also ... Shin Saimdang had more responsibilities than most of her peers. She ...16 KB (2,547 words) - 21:41, 6 October 2022
- Ecclesiology, in Christian theology, is the study of doctrine pertaining ... In its early history, one of the Church's earliest ecclesiological ...17 KB (2,554 words) - 18:54, 11 March 2024
- Utopia is a term denoting a visionary or ideally perfect state of ... ethics, psychology, and political philosophy, and often originates from ...19 KB (2,908 words) - 14:05, 3 May 2023
- his pamphlet Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, which called for ... The son of a slave father and a free black mother, Walker was born ...11 KB (1,728 words) - 08:33, 28 January 2024
- 13, 1797 – February 17, 1856) was one of the most significant German ... Heine is often labeled the first of the "post-Romantic" ...13 KB (2,100 words) - 08:29, 21 January 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
- and philanthropist often considered as one of the fathers Reform Judaism. Germany, Jacobson married into the family of the wealthy court Jew Hertz ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 06:05, 11 March 2024
- or Kalika) is the tenth and final Avatar of the Hindu God Vishnu. According ... avatar Kalkin and the apocalyptic return of Jesus depicted in the Book ...12 KB (1,915 words) - 02:29, 5 October 2022
- spelled Akiba or Aqiba—was a Judean sage of the late first and early second ... Akiva set the standard of Judaism's strong yet flexible adherence ...23 KB (3,911 words) - 07:17, 16 June 2023
- Philosophy of mind is the branch of philosophy that studies the nature ... Dualism and monism are the two major schools of thought that attempt ...49 KB (7,510 words) - 22:42, 28 March 2023
- pdf Iqbal and Goethe] Yearbook of the Goethe Society of India ... After studying in England and Germany, Iqbal established a law practice ...34 KB (5,166 words) - 17:56, 10 November 2022
- as a political economist, and an organizer of the International Workingmen ... Marx developed his revolutionary theories over a period of four decades ...40 KB (6,034 words) - 17:41, 31 March 2023
- quot;the poor ones") were an early sect of Jewish followers of Jesus that ... Scholarly knowledge of the Ebionites is limited and fragmentary, deriving ...19 KB (2,894 words) - 18:00, 12 February 2024
- Mills during the early 1800s made it a place of pilgrimage for social reformers ... earliest years was the key to the formation of good character and to the amelioration ...26 KB (4,155 words) - 01:46, 16 December 2022
- was an English politician, the chief adviser of Queen Elizabeth I for most ... He served as Secretary to the Protector of King Edward, and as an adviser ...19 KB (3,064 words) - 23:35, 3 December 2023
- served for many years in the British House of Commons as a member of the ... Burke was taken up by the literary and artistic circles of London ...23 KB (3,559 words) - 18:14, 12 February 2024
- he played a key role in the leadership of the Confessing Church that ... Bonhoeffer's writings, especially his book The Cost of Discipleship ...15 KB (2,197 words) - 14:34, 29 January 2024
- philosopher. He is widely known to scholars of Judaism as the Maharal of Prague ... The Maharal is famously associated with the legend of the golem, in ...15 KB (2,368 words) - 20:52, 4 October 2022
- Most broadly, mind is the organized totality of the mental processes of an ... Aspects of mind are also attributed to complex animals, which are ...35 KB (5,274 words) - 18:47, 9 November 2022
- faith for strength through the many trials of his somewhat eccentric life. ... Ampère was born near Lyon, France, the son of Jeanne-Antoinette Desutieres ...10 KB (1,522 words) - 17:59, 27 July 2023
- century in Europe, particularly as a result of the Industrial Revolution. ... have been successful in a number of fields, including retailing ...22 KB (3,153 words) - 02:54, 8 January 2024
- (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 Arthashastra (more precisely Arthaśāstra) refers to a tradition ... played a key role in the establishment of one of India's greatest ...17 KB (2,661 words) - 11:01, 16 August 2023
- The Book of Hosea is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible and the ... In the early chapters of the book, Hosea marries the unfaithful "woman ...12 KB (1,912 words) - 00:10, 19 November 2023
- important contributions to the construction of mechanical calculators and ... He was a mathematician of the first order. In mathematics, Pascal ...29 KB (4,620 words) - 18:12, 31 October 2023
- 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
- around 239 B.C.E. under the patronage of the Qin Dynasty Chancellor ... The Lüshi chunqiu represents the Chinese intellectual world of the ...16 KB (2,593 words) - 04:44, 5 November 2022
- and author, widely recognized as the founder of Reform Judaism in the United ... United States in 1846. An early supporter of reforms such as mixed-gender ...16 KB (2,521 words) - 18:59, 7 March 2024
- Category:Law The term criminal law, sometimes called penal law, refers to any of ...32 KB (5,141 words) - 06:24, 11 January 2024
- Japanese), is a fundamental concept of traditional Chinese culture ... This active cosmology has influenced Chinese philosophy, as well as ...20 KB (2,999 words) - 20:26, 20 February 2024
- Islamic feminism is a form of feminism concerned with the role of ... Muslim majority countries have produced more than seven heads of state ...30 KB (4,309 words) - 20:25, 1 April 2023
- in elaborating on and securing the legacy of his uncle, Émile Durkheim ... Durkheim, influenced his interest in philosophy, and Mauss entered the ...15 KB (2,315 words) - 03:05, 6 November 2022
- 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
- and journalist, most famous as the author of Vande Mataram or Bande Mataram ... only be achieved through an internal reform of Hinduism, and strove to lay ...11 KB (1,623 words) - 03:34, 17 September 2023
- but known to his friends as Van, was one of the most influential American ... Quine falls squarely into the analytic philosophy tradition while ...34 KB (5,037 words) - 15:37, 6 May 2023
- Switzerland) was an Austrian writer, author of the unfinished long novel The ... As a result of Musil's background, he is an instrumental figure ...18 KB (2,958 words) - 01:45, 16 December 2022
- "for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the ... Wigner is important for having laid the foundation for the theory ...11 KB (1,566 words) - 04:15, 23 March 2024
- He was the son of Theodore, a Roman nobleman. He reigned for longer ... He may have been the first Pope to refer to the Donation of Constantine ...12 KB (1,943 words) - 06:17, 15 June 2023
- The First Epistle to Timothy is one of the three Pastoral Epistles ... While Paul is traditionally recognized as the author of 1Timothy, ...14 KB (2,135 words) - 17:23, 28 March 2024
- The Epistle of Barnabas, also known as Pseudo-Barnabas, is a Christian ... Today, it is included in most collections of the Apostolic Fathers. ...15 KB (2,310 words) - 19:10, 13 February 2024
- influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology ... Although controversial in its comparison of Christianity to other ...15 KB (2,162 words) - 21:27, 29 May 2023
- Guo Moruo studied at Sixth Higher School and the Medical School of ... family members were also persecuted and two of his children were led to kill ...20 KB (2,989 words) - 19:48, 12 July 2023
- and took up residence at the imperial temple of Tōdaiji. The retired Emperor ... Jianzhen promulgated the Lü-tsung (Vinaya) school of Buddhism, which ...11 KB (1,719 words) - 12:20, 1 August 2022
- The Pharisees were a religious and political movement of ancient Israel ... During the early years of the Common Era, a major internal debate ...22 KB (3,391 words) - 02:55, 24 November 2022
- economist, sociologist, and historian, one of the pioneers of the school ... Commons' work, improving the life of labor class, formed a substantial ...13 KB (1,864 words) - 07:07, 3 August 2022
- injury" (literally: the avoidance of himsa: violence). The principle ... The ancient principle of ahimsa has had a profound impact on Indian ...25 KB (3,653 words) - 06:51, 16 June 2023
- who survived and recorded the Destruction of Jerusalem in 70 C.E. His works ... While some accuse him of being a pro-Roman propagandist, even a traitor ...15 KB (2,242 words) - 17:37, 28 March 2024
- or simply 1 Thessalonians, is a book of the New Testament in the Christian ... Much of the letter is personal in nature, expressing Paul's joy ...12 KB (1,921 words) - 17:23, 28 March 2024
- professor and theologian, a key leader of the Lutheran Reformation, and ... reformation may not have met with the level of success it enjoyed. ...46 KB (7,311 words) - 03:55, 24 November 2022
- 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
- Category:Law Category:Sociology education—but also to redress the effects of past discrimination. The underlying ...23 KB (3,279 words) - 20:11, 7 July 2023
- University, he studied the cultures of Southeast Asia and North Africa ... California in 1926. He was the editor of his high school newspaper and ...9 KB (1,225 words) - 22:06, 7 January 2024
- in psychometrics and an influential theorist of intelligence. He contributed ... The study of intelligence has been fraught with controversy, particularly ...13 KB (1,868 words) - 04:24, 6 October 2022
- with two sections from the Torah's Book of Deuteronomy (6:4-9 and 11:13 ... Jewish law (Halakha) prescribes in detail the affixing of mezuzot ...13 KB (2,058 words) - 16:32, 9 November 2022
- The history of Athens is the longest of any city in Europe: Athens ... The name of Athens in Ancient Greek was Athḗnai (Ἀθῆναι ...19 KB (3,013 words) - 18:52, 19 August 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 (2,808 words) - 20:00, 7 September 2022
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- , d. 154 B.C.E.) was a Chinese political adviser and official of the ... curtail or at least mitigate the Rebellion of the Seven States. ...20 KB (3,183 words) - 01:44, 4 December 2023
- in Giorgio Vasari's Vite (Lives of the Artists). Alberti studied ... Alberti was employed by Pope Nicholas V in the restoration of the ...24 KB (3,831 words) - 20:08, 25 October 2022
- businessman notable for the invention of mail order, which he started ... Aaron attended public schools. He was one of a large family, which at that ...7 KB (1,133 words) - 21:15, 9 November 2022
- has been used by economists since in defense of free trade. The main underlying ... years old, he was orphaned and became a ward of his father's parents. ...23 KB (3,509 words) - 10:54, 19 December 2023
- one’s decisions and actions. The interest of free will in philosophy primarily ... The principle of free will has scientific and religious implications ...51 KB (8,066 words) - 10:37, 11 April 2024
- mathematician, best known for his invention of the barometer. In addition ... Subsequently Evangelista, the eldest son of the family, was placed under ...8 KB (1,143 words) - 04:50, 23 March 2024
- 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
- 2, 1927) was a Swedish chemist and one of the founders of the science ... district near Uppsala, Sweden, the son of Svante Gustav and Carolina ...15 KB (2,260 words) - 00:32, 27 February 2023
- Category:Law Category:Economics Sabotage is deliberate action taken with the purpose of weakening ...12 KB (1,823 words) - 18:32, 22 December 2022
- the Kuzari, defended Judaism against philosophy, saying that deductive ... Judah Ha-Levi is regarded as one of the greatest Hebrew poets. More ...27 KB (4,480 words) - 20:50, 4 October 2022
- a rigid adherence to what it conceives of as the fundamental principles ... to return to the "fundamentals" of Biblical faith, and who stressed ...27 KB (4,004 words) - 07:21, 15 April 2024
- , was a French anthropologist who became one of the twentieth century's ... Though thought of as French, Claude Lévi-Strauss was born in Bruxelles ...19 KB (2,894 words) - 10:55, 19 December 2023
- Intellectual property (IP) refers to the intangible creations of the ... The main purpose of intellectual property law is to encourage the ...48 KB (6,876 words) - 22:55, 5 February 2023
- has a two-fold meaning: first, it refers to the doctrine of the "four ... regarded as one hundred years, consisting of four periods of twenty-five ...8 KB (1,212 words) - 04:45, 18 August 2023
- Sedevacantism is a theological position embraced by a minority of ... " the seat in question being that of the Papal See. The phrase is ...21 KB (3,214 words) - 20:24, 21 December 2023
- to live in England, he was also the founder of the first Hebrew printing press ... Born to a family of Portuguese Marranos who settled in Amsterdam, ...12 KB (1,865 words) - 06:43, 5 November 2022
- 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
- 1996) was a Greek poet, considered as one of the most important representatives ... Modernism encouraged the re-examination of every aspect of existence ...12 KB (1,487 words) - 23:55, 17 November 2022
- Muslims in India's population as of 2007 (according to government ... Islam has become woven into the very fabric of Indian civilization and culture ...25 KB (3,703 words) - 06:10, 8 March 2024
- for his intellectual demeanor and advocacy of liberal causes in the Democratic ... At the close of his life, Stevenson was respected by people of all ...19 KB (2,784 words) - 06:00, 15 June 2023
- in the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canons of the Bible. Protestants and ... The setting of the book is about a century after the conquest of Judea ...12 KB (1,896 words) - 06:32, 13 June 2023
- October 17, 1938) was a leading theoretician of German Social Democracy before ... He became an important critic of the anti-democratic tendencies of ...14 KB (2,094 words) - 10:45, 28 February 2023
- scale, without independent evidence of the use of such higher processes ... anecdotal and rather as promoting the use of accurate observation and recording ...18 KB (2,586 words) - 21:54, 12 February 2024
