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- appear distorted. There are several variants of the Orbison illusion. The illusion ... first published his findings in a 1939 issue of the American Journal of Psychology ...4 KB (510 words) - 01:04, 18 November 2022
- Op art, also known as optical art, is used to describe some paintings ... "Optical Art is a method of painting concerning the interaction ...8 KB (1,285 words) - 00:44, 18 November 2022
- is the artistic technique of forcing the audience to see ... by Victor Shklovsky (or Shklovskij), one of the leading figures of the ...11 KB (1,618 words) - 14:07, 8 June 2020
- A student of Paul Hindemith, Etler is noted for his highly rhythmic ... from major orchestras and a number of these works were premiered ...5 KB (687 words) - 14:08, 17 May 2021
- [[Image:Grid illusion.svg|thumb|200px|right|An example of the scintillating ... A grid illusion is any kind of grid that deceives a person's ...5 KB (754 words) - 12:27, 24 January 2023
- is widely considered to be one of the great masters of the Japanese ... Sharaku left a large number of masterpieces, but the dates of his ...9 KB (1,417 words) - 13:17, 27 January 2023
- Zeami’s Noh dramas and his theory of art were influenced by Renga ... Zeami’s theory of art is unusual. In Europe a treatise like Fūshi ...10 KB (1,536 words) - 05:44, 13 June 2023
- ===Theory of art=== in two more books, Feeling and Form: A Theory of Art (1953) and Problems of ...17 KB (2,624 words) - 00:28, 27 February 2023
- "Art for art's sake" is the usual English rendition ... The concept was adopted by a number of French, British and American ...11 KB (1,602 words) - 10:50, 16 August 2023
- and an influential figure on matters of political and social policy ... Bosanquet’s major works include A History of Aesthetic (1892), The ...16 KB (2,361 words) - 11:19, 28 September 2023
- ) (c. 344 - 406), a celebrated painter of ancient China, is regarded ... ==Theory of art== Gu’s theoretical works, which included Painting ...12 KB (1,928 words) - 16:38, 25 February 2023
- sculptor and photographer. He was one of the founders of constructivism ... Rodchenko was one of the most versatile Constructivist and Productivist ...8 KB (1,080 words) - 14:39, 18 July 2023
- 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
- painter who was called the "Father of Impressionism" ... and his contribution to the formation of the genre's style, practices ...12 KB (1,779 words) - 18:56, 25 November 2023
- He was a co-founder of the World Zionist Organization together with ... As a social critic, he wrote a number of controversial books, including ...17 KB (2,543 words) - 00:57, 9 November 2022
- June 14, 1970), a Polish philosopher and one of the most important philosophers ... Structure of Paintings: A Sketch of the Theory of Art), Rozprawy Wydziału ...16 KB (2,359 words) - 04:50, 16 December 2022
- philosopher who taught at the University of Graz from 1878 until his death ... to psychology, epistemology, value theory, ethics, probability theory ...14 KB (1,974 words) - 06:46, 20 July 2023
- known as an early promoter and popularizer of Charles Darwin's evolutionary ... As a professor of comparative anatomy at the University of Jena, Haeckel ...18 KB (2,494 words) - 21:22, 20 March 2024
- and an early pioneer in the use of psychoanalysis with children ... and opened a private practice. At the age of 40 he married Libusa Deutsch ...14 KB (2,061 words) - 04:19, 9 November 2022
- important contributions are the founding of Moscow State University, the ... Lomonosov was born in the village of Denisovka (the name of which ...9 KB (1,383 words) - 17:53, 9 November 2022
- Paul Klee (December 18, 1879 - June 29, 1940) was a Swiss painter ... near Bern. Klee started young at both art and music. At age seven, he ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 17:08, 26 March 2023
- is due to the strength and consistency of the interval between its first ... The frequent use of the octave is a part of most music, though there ...7 KB (1,075 words) - 23:50, 17 November 2022
- 20Challenges.html André Malraux's Theory of Art - Challenges to Traditional ... His works on the theory of art, such as The Voices of Silence, contain ...14 KB (2,092 words) - 20:07, 26 July 2023
- gardens and in sculpture as well. He was one of the most dominant artists and ... Le Brun was given leave to create some of the most impressive masterpieces ...12 KB (1,931 words) - 21:28, 4 December 2023
- :This article is concerned with the methodology of iconography, principally ... Iconography is the branch of art history which studies the identification ...18 KB (2,613 words) - 15:30, 12 February 2024
- artist and critic, and an influential member of the Bloomsbury Group, an English ... Despite establishing his reputation as a scholar of the Old Masters ...11 KB (1,711 words) - 02:31, 16 December 2022
- earlier magazine, Revue du Cinéma (Review of the Cinema), involving members ... from about the mid 1950s to about the end of the 60s. In addition to expressing ...12 KB (1,907 words) - 10:18, 25 November 2023
- with the Geneva School. Growing out of Russian Formalism and Phenomenology ... to literary criticism and advanced the theory that criticism requires the ...12 KB (1,794 words) - 01:13, 29 November 2022
- founded a significant society for the study of poetic language. Later he became one of the major figures associated with the development ...20 KB (2,702 words) - 16:08, 31 August 2023
- by authoritarian systems. In this aspect of his thinking he was influenced ... Fromm's chief influence remains in the field of humanistic psychology ...15 KB (2,268 words) - 19:26, 13 February 2024
- by Jean-François Lyotard to mean a theory that tries to give a totalizing ... and phenomena by appealing to some kind of universal knowledge or schema ...13 KB (1,834 words) - 16:21, 9 November 2022
- 1881 – September 18, 1964) was an English Art critic, associated with the ... until his death. He is best known for his art criticism, and involvement ...13 KB (1,975 words) - 22:10, 7 January 2024
- and paleontologist, famous for his studies of prehistoric cave art, such ... went beyond reality, and his interpretation of the artwork was very misleading ...13 KB (1,739 words) - 17:06, 15 December 2023
- present in objects, such as nature, art work, and a human person, ... Aristotle developed a theory of art and presented it as part in his ...19 KB (2,937 words) - 10:19, 26 September 2023
- who developed Alfred Adler's system of individual psychology into ... with the school environment as an extension of the family. Thus, his techniques ...11 KB (1,581 words) - 21:05, 21 December 2022
- possibly the ceremonial and political center of the Minoan culture. Minoan ... excavations which brought to light part of the magazines in the west wing ...13 KB (2,102 words) - 03:56, 4 March 2023
- made important contributions to the studies of ancient history, epigraphy ... At the age of twenty-two, Wang went to Shanghai and became a protégé ...12 KB (1,844 words) - 18:49, 17 April 2023
- 19, 1433 – October 1, 1499) was one of the most influential humanist ... Platonic theology, Ficino included his theory of art and the significance ...12 KB (1,803 words) - 16:15, 6 November 2022
- (c. 544 – 496 B.C.E.) was a Chinese author of The Art of War (Chinese: 兵 ... The Art of War is a systematic guide to strategy and tactics for rulers ...22 KB (3,388 words) - 13:53, 28 April 2023
- 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
- was a French philosopher who rose to some of the most prestigious positions ... Bachelard proposed that the history of science is replete with "epistemological ...12 KB (1,710 words) - 07:54, 23 January 2023
- on numerous topics, including philosophy of history and aesthetics, and ... but dense, work, Croce set forth his theory of art, claiming that art was ...15 KB (2,246 words) - 09:08, 27 September 2023
- 31, 1939) was an Austrian psychologist, one of Sigmund Freud's closest ... His theory, although considered limited in ascribing all such development ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 05:54, 18 November 2022
- lofty, elevated, exalted), is the quality of greatness or vast magnitude ... *Dessoir, Max. Aesthetics and Theory of Art. Ästhetik und allgemeine ...17 KB (2,550 words) - 21:10, 26 February 2023
- [[Image:Lascaux 04.jpg|thumb|250px|Lascaux cave painting of aurochs]] Discovered in 1940, Lascaux is a series of caves in southwestern France ...13 KB (2,142 words) - 17:47, 25 October 2022
- Value is not equivalent to moral value. Works of art have value, but ... ==The meaning of value judgments== What are we doing when we ascribe ...15 KB (2,236 words) - 14:15, 3 May 2023
- Category:Art [[Image:Laas Geel cow herd.jpg|thumb|400px|right|Detail of the Laas ...15 KB (2,271 words) - 16:21, 3 December 2023
- ) is a female spirit of the clouds and waters in Hindu and Buddhist ... Apsaras are supernatural beings who appear as young women of great ...10 KB (1,598 words) - 15:57, 11 August 2023
- 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
- Movement Analysis, and other developments in the art of dance. One of the founders of European Modern Dance, Laban raised the status ...13 KB (1,986 words) - 17:40, 22 December 2022
- to distinguish him from the other members of the musically talented Couperin ... in French musical history as examples of how sacred and secular music ...10 KB (1,509 words) - 04:57, 9 April 2024
- specialist curators research the background of the collection, interpret the ... contexts. Curators have the unique role of building a culture of peace ...10 KB (1,517 words) - 06:45, 12 January 2024
- An auction is the process of buying and selling things by offering ... ==History of the Auction== The generally accepted first auction occurred ...16 KB (2,512 words) - 05:57, 10 January 2023
- not hold rigidly to a single paradigm or set of assumptions, but instead draws ... In philosophy and theology, eclecticism is the practice of selecting ...12 KB (1,821 words) - 18:01, 12 February 2024
- outstanding African-American jazz pianist. Art Tatum is known to the world ... his mother owned, playing by ear by the age of three. Tatum would learn both ...16 KB (2,414 words) - 12:07, 7 November 2021
- [[Image:Harpyie.JPG|thumb|right|400px|A medieval depiction of a Harpy ... sometimes referred to as "the hounds of Zeus" for such actions ...9 KB (1,453 words) - 22:03, 14 December 2022
- is the proposal about the notion of computability, called the Church ... Other relevant contributions by Church are the proofs of the undecidablility ...10 KB (1,376 words) - 08:20, 23 July 2023
- thinker. Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists ... ==Theory of Art== After Tolstoy’s religious conversion, his view ...19 KB (2,888 words) - 07:47, 6 March 2023
- and a leading philosopher and psychologist of the French Enlightenment. He ... 30, 1715, at Grenoble, France to a family of lawyers. Like his elder brother ...14 KB (2,137 words) - 04:37, 22 March 2024
- recognized it as an important component of art and aesthetics. However ... the highest value, which exist independently of and transcend the phenomenal ...16 KB (2,476 words) - 11:06, 10 March 2023
- (Thomas Robinson). Defining the beginning of the era is difficult, given ... The increasing reliance on the interval of the third as a consonance ...15 KB (2,190 words) - 04:00, 8 December 2022
- employed methods drawn from a wide range of disciplines, from philosophy ... teacher for a year. During the Algerian War of Independence in 1958-1962, ...23 KB (3,373 words) - 05:19, 24 November 2022
- also called deconstruction, is a development of postmodern architecture that ... Important events in the history of the deconstructivist movement include ...23 KB (3,229 words) - 09:05, 28 January 2024
- born in Abdera in Ancient Greece. He was one of the best known Sophists. Protagoras is best known for his dictum: "Man is the measure ...6 KB (889 words) - 08:16, 2 December 2022
- illusion") is an optical illusion of relative size perception. In ... most well known for his work in the field of memory, but he also made contributions ...5 KB (652 words) - 17:59, 12 February 2024
- Degenerate art is the English translation of the German entartete ... Degenerate Art was also the title of an exhibition, mounted by the ...20 KB (2,833 words) - 09:12, 28 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
- pioneered important concepts in the fields of cell biology and microbial ... The endosymbiotic theory concerns the origins of mitochondria and ...19 KB (2,756 words) - 10:41, 9 March 2023
- Orientalism is the study of Near and Far Eastern societies and cultures ... ==Meaning of the term== Orientalism derives from a Latin word oriens ...18 KB (2,670 words) - 01:22, 18 November 2022
- Russian formalism was an influential school of literary criticism ... members are widely considered the founders of modern literary criticism. ...22 KB (3,136 words) - 18:18, 22 December 2022
- Erewhon, and his posthumous novel, The Way of All Flesh, a semi-autobiographical ... Nottinghamshire, England, into a long line of clerics. He was seemingly preordained ...14 KB (2,261 words) - 02:22, 23 December 2022
- critic and university administrator, was one of the antirationalist Oxford ... Inspired by a careful study of Spinoza, Hampshire developed a detailed ...12 KB (1,807 words) - 21:06, 26 February 2023
- 17, 1934) was a Spanish histologist (study of tissues) and physician who ... To observe the structure of individual neurons, Ramón y Cajal used ...14 KB (2,201 words) - 03:22, 23 December 2022
- and the role he played in the development of the larger cultural movement ... to philosophy and criticized his lack of understanding about the role ...18 KB (2,775 words) - 14:41, 1 August 2022
- The system of five phases was used for describing interactions and ... believed to control the change and movement of the universe, and to provide ...19 KB (2,730 words) - 14:06, 20 May 2023
- – January 23, 1991), a Canadian, was one of the most distinguished literary ... degree at Victoria College, University of Toronto. He then studied theology ...25 KB (3,694 words) - 06:38, 16 November 2022
- the term De Stijl is used to refer to a body of work from 1917 to 1931, founded ... De Stijl is also the name of a journal that was published by the Dutch ...15 KB (2,130 words) - 08:53, 28 January 2024
- Flow is the mental state of operation in which the person is fully ... The concept of the state of flow is similarly found in the traditions ...13 KB (1,998 words) - 17:43, 28 March 2024
- a German ethnologist and archaeologist, one of the leading experts on prehistoric ... life does, noting three phases in the life of a culture. He also recognized ...10 KB (1,463 words) - 07:46, 6 March 2023
- Pope to expand the papal territory by force of arms, and was a prominent patron ... Urban easily attracts criticism. Yet in both of these he but followed the example ...14 KB (2,102 words) - 17:03, 7 September 2023
- involved visual arts, literature (poetry, art manifestoes, art theory), ... Like Surrealism and many other modern art movements, Dadaism reflected ...18 KB (2,739 words) - 07:39, 12 January 2024
- famous for his contribution to theories of cultural evolution. His approach ... Marvin Harris was born in Brooklyn, New York, into a poor family of ...11 KB (1,566 words) - 08:40, 10 March 2023
- surfacing throughout the very early years of the last century, the 1907 ... The futurists explored every medium of art, including painting, sculpture ...11 KB (1,537 words) - 07:23, 15 April 2024
- ) is a French term meaning "end of century,” a phrase which ... The "spirit" of fin de siècle often refers to the cultural ...28 KB (4,018 words) - 19:48, 26 March 2024
- When William Penn, the founder of the state of Pennsylvania, and himself ... purposes or to emphasize the rich heritage of their creators' home country ...14 KB (2,199 words) - 11:51, 22 January 2024
- 250px|Fashion illustration by George Barbier of a gown by Jeanne Paquin, 1912 ... In general, the term fashion refers to a prevailing mode of expression ...22 KB (3,274 words) - 02:42, 14 July 2022
- 250px|Cornsweet illusion. The left part of the picture seems to be darker ... section creates the impression that one side of the image is in fact darker ...5 KB (767 words) - 03:33, 8 January 2024
- or entertainment-education) is a form of entertainment designed to educate ... to all human activities. In the field of positive psychology, theorists ...16 KB (2,367 words) - 18:18, 12 February 2024
- December 13, 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist. One of the most ... Kandinsky's creation of purely abstract style did not come about ...25 KB (3,985 words) - 23:13, 3 May 2023
- realistic acting has remained at the heart of mainstream Western performance ... Building on the directorially-unified aesthetic and ensemble playing ...19 KB (2,723 words) - 17:50, 16 May 2020
- interactions or interplay. The rites of play are evident throughout ... Johan Huizinga gave an extensive analysis of play in his Homo Ludens ...11 KB (1,669 words) - 01:53, 10 April 2023
- Constructivist architecture was a form of modern architecture that ... A central aim of Constructivist architects was to instill the avant ...17 KB (2,374 words) - 02:43, 8 January 2024
- in painting, he was a leading proponent of the credo, "art for art ... The symbol was apt, for Whistler's art was characterized by a ...14 KB (2,184 words) - 08:36, 1 April 2024
- 1891) was a French painter and the founder of Neo-Impressionism. His large ... Influenced by the scientist-writers of the nineteenth century, Seurat ...12 KB (1,923 words) - 22:59, 24 November 2022
- Expressionism generally refers to a twentieth century art movement ... an aesthetically pleasing impression of the artistic subject matter; ...15 KB (2,114 words) - 23:58, 24 March 2024
- detailed and lengthy research into the use of various materials. He created ... Wedgwood is credited with the industrialization of the manufacture ...13 KB (1,954 words) - 19:59, 7 September 2022
- = "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
- converted to Catholicism and is the author of more than 60 books on a wide ... at the Sorbonne led him to the position of scientific materialism. Later ...18 KB (2,703 words) - 08:31, 18 March 2024
- 8, 1746) was an Irish philosopher and one of the founding fathers of the ... Hutcheson is thought to have been born at Drumalig, in the parish ...14 KB (2,173 words) - 04:50, 9 April 2024
- "folding paper") is the Japanese art of paper folding. The goal ... Origami only uses a small number of different folds, but they can ...17 KB (2,643 words) - 01:24, 18 November 2022
- quot;) among many other names, is one of the most beloved and widely ... among the bhakti (devotional) movements of India. Today, his teachings ...13 KB (2,067 words) - 23:27, 12 June 2023
- into parts in such a manner that the shape of each part resembles the shape ... Images of fractals can be created using fractal generating software ...19 KB (2,648 words) - 06:39, 1 April 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
- 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
- graphic artist, and poet, considered one of the chief representatives of ... Like Surrealism and many other modern art movements, Dadaism reflected ...13 KB (1,774 words) - 09:19, 10 March 2023
- lifetime, his contributions to economic theory later came to be studied ... born in 1834, in Évreux, France, the son of the French proto-marginalist ...17 KB (2,726 words) - 04:42, 5 November 2022
- His "refrigerator mother" theory of autism, now largely disfavored ... Bruno Bettelheim was born in Vienna, Austria, the son of a wood merchant ...16 KB (2,237 words) - 04:43, 22 November 2023
- that the term refers to a particular kind of sacrifice carried out by the ... While no particular form of Moloch is known due to the ambiguity of ...20 KB (3,200 words) - 21:06, 21 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
- Posidonius (or Poseidonus; Greek: Ποσειδώνιος) "of ... to admit that passions were an inherent part of human nature, rather than errors ...16 KB (2,426 words) - 05:44, 30 November 2022
- Paul Signac (November 11, 1863 - August 15, 1935) was a leading figure ... Signac wrote several important works on the theory of art, among them ...18 KB (2,656 words) - 01:33, 23 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
- Italian painter, today considered one of the most accomplished painters ... in Rome, on July 8, 1593, the first child of the painter Orazio Gentileschi ...17 KB (2,585 words) - 10:58, 16 August 2023
- or Prague school was an influential group of literary critics and linguists ... from the classical structural position of Ferdinand de Saussure. They ...16 KB (2,265 words) - 22:11, 30 November 2022
- Collingwood is best known for his The Idea of History, a work collated soon ... Collingwood published several editions of The Archaeology of Roman Britain ...17 KB (2,548 words) - 02:20, 16 December 2022
- noted for developing a "theory of roughness" in nature ... Mandelbrot was one of the first to use computer graphics to create ...24 KB (3,447 words) - 10:15, 28 September 2023
- Unification Thought is the philosophy of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon ... Theory of Education, Unification Theory of Art. **Expositions on intermediary ...20 KB (3,078 words) - 01:38, 3 May 2023
- One of the first American writers to use the stream of consciousness ... Dos Passos was born in Chicago, where his father was a wealthy lawyer ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 04:56, 3 August 2022
- 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
- reawakening an interest in ancient Buddhist art and sculpture among Japanese ... Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, the second son of a physician named Mizutaro ...13 KB (1,961 words) - 23:19, 3 May 2023
- organization, preservation and dissemination of information resources, and ... quot; aspect, or improve the popular image of librarians. ...14 KB (1,842 words) - 22:32, 25 October 2022
- The Speculum Humanae Salvationis or Mirror of Human Salvation was ... It is one of the most common books found as an illuminated manuscript ...10 KB (1,439 words) - 19:13, 7 February 2023
- novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa ... Umberto Eco was born in the city of Alessandria in the region of Piedmont ...23 KB (3,384 words) - 01:32, 3 May 2023
- and artistic movement predominant at the end of the nineteenth and beginning ... and mystical poetry and philosophy of Fyodor Tyutchev and Vladimir ...12 KB (1,846 words) - 15:49, 1 June 2023
- was an important contributor to the De Stijl art movement and group, which ... that he called compositions, consisting of rectangular forms of red, yellow ...26 KB (3,981 words) - 22:49, 28 March 2023
- Cybernetics is the interdisciplinary study of the structure of complex ... then behaves, with all this in service of a goal or goals. This "circular ...22 KB (3,161 words) - 06:51, 12 January 2024
- designer, sometimes called the "Father of Modernism" in the Nordic ... States following the critical reception of his design for the Finnish ...15 KB (2,163 words) - 08:41, 23 July 2023
- documents, files, publications, or a group of publications. It is often listed ... The traditional back-of-the-book index is a list of words that point ...12 KB (1,732 words) - 22:00, 4 February 2023
- the classical, popular and religious music of the Indian subcontinent and ... The history of this instrument is at times the subject of heated debate ...11 KB (1,728 words) - 02:05, 27 February 2023
- confused with Canton enamel, a similar type of enamel work that is painted ... The earliest securely dated Chinese cloisonné is from the reign of ...15 KB (2,310 words) - 07:33, 14 January 2023
- An abstract is a brief summary, generally from 100 to 200 words, of ... There are mainly two types of abstracts—indicative (descriptive ...17 KB (2,550 words) - 06:37, 14 June 2023
- | WHS = Lines and Geoglyphs of Nazca and Pampas de Jumana photograph was taken by Maria Reiche, one of the first archaeologists to ...15 KB (2,182 words) - 15:59, 11 November 2022
- "The Hedgehog and the Fox" is the title of an essay by Isaiah ... Berlin's essay analyzes Tolstoy's refutation of the view ...12 KB (1,826 words) - 15:38, 30 April 2023
- Ancient philosophy is philosophy in antiquity, or before the end of ... concerns that continue to be major parts of the traditions today. ...16 KB (2,127 words) - 19:43, 26 July 2023
- Pedagogy, literally translated, is the art or science of teaching ... on teachers being able to embrace both the art and science of pedagogy, acting ...26 KB (3,614 words) - 17:11, 26 March 2023
- Uncertainty is a term used in subtly different ways in a number of ... The philosophical problematics of uncertainty are often tied to a ...17 KB (2,527 words) - 01:33, 3 May 2023
- teacher. He was the foremost French composer of his generation, and his musical ... a foster-nurse for four years. At the age of nine, he was sent to study ...10 KB (1,591 words) - 07:36, 15 April 2024
- to music that does not conform to the system of tonal hierarchies which characterized ... this manner was the Second Viennese School of Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg ...18 KB (2,710 words) - 06:58, 21 August 2023
- Russian Futurism is the broad term for a movement of Russian poets ... – issued the manifesto A Slap in the Face of Public Taste. The 1912 movement ...26 KB (3,556 words) - 16:42, 28 July 2023
- main_interests = Pragmatism, Psychology, Psychology of Religion, Epistemology ... notable_ideas = The “will to believe” doctrine, the pragmatic ...19 KB (2,743 words) - 00:33, 21 May 2023
- Sir Philip Sidney (November 30, 1554 – October 17, 1586) was one ... Born at Penshurst, Kent, Sidney was the eldest son of Sir Henry Sidney ...20 KB (3,264 words) - 03:48, 24 November 2022
- became available to assist our understanding of the past. The term was introduced ... Religious accounts of creation, such as the biblical account in Genesis ...15 KB (2,315 words) - 11:30, 26 June 2022
- Critical theory is a term applied to a wide variety of critical approaches ... Modern critical theory has additionally been influenced by György ...43 KB (6,032 words) - 06:26, 11 January 2024
- ), is a variant of Marxism-Leninism derived from the teachings of ... the preferred term by the Communist Party of China (CPC) and that the word ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 03:00, 6 November 2022
- cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. Some of ... Bateson is most closely associated with the concept of the double ...23 KB (3,325 words) - 14:02, 31 January 2023
- and economist. Best known as the father of the influential economist John ... Religious Test Acts from the universities of Cambridge and Oxford. After ...9 KB (1,331 words) - 07:01, 3 August 2022
- how the collective unconscious, that part of the unconscious that is cross ... choanalytic school"). The goal of analytical or Jungian psychology ...23 KB (3,347 words) - 18:57, 26 July 2023
- In painting, he gained renown for his style of painting misty landscapes, ... Su Shih, the great poet, calligrapher, and art theorist, and together they ...19 KB (3,202 words) - 16:33, 9 November 2022
- In mathematics and computing, an algorithm is a finite sequence of ... as an algorithm that has nested sets of smaller algorithms within it ...21 KB (3,208 words) - 18:19, 21 July 2023
- and critic, best known as the author of In Search of Lost Time (À ... the nature of art. Proust sets forth a theory of art, democratic in appearance ...21 KB (3,300 words) - 03:06, 6 November 2022
- 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
- anthropologist and writer. A founder of American anthropology, he is ... While Morgan's unilinear model, particularly of the development ...14 KB (2,033 words) - 11:00, 7 March 2023
- present-day Iraq). His work resulted in some of dramatic discoveries, including ... Woolley's work also included findings of sediment that he believed ...12 KB (1,752 words) - 21:47, 25 October 2022
- city in the Americas in the first half of the first millennium C.E.. ... The city is also notable for its lack of fortifications. ...14 KB (2,091 words) - 03:47, 30 April 2023
- (Greek: Κένταυροι) are a race of mythical creatures that are ... his baser instincts and rise to the level of enlightened humanity, symbolizing ...9 KB (1,330 words) - 23:50, 3 December 2023
- discoveries, including the rings of the planet Saturn and Saturn ... Born in The Hague, Christiaan Huygens was the second son of Constantijn ...16 KB (2,465 words) - 17:57, 10 December 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
- in England. He is most famous as a student of Peter Paul Rubens and for his ... By the age of 15 he was already a highly accomplished artist, as his ...25 KB (3,984 words) - 16:23, 17 January 2024
- ::See herbalism for the non-Chinese tradition of herbology. ... ), the Chinese art of combining medicinal herbs, is an important aspect ...17 KB (2,502 words) - 17:03, 10 December 2023
- It stressed strong emotion as a source of aesthetic experience, placing ... Romanticism arose as a reaction against the excessive rationalism ...25 KB (3,674 words) - 04:59, 16 December 2022
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- and the Holy Land, he observed the methods of physicians, chemists, and spiritual ... Paracelsus’ aggressive manner of teaching and his outspoken criticism ...18 KB (2,761 words) - 07:39, 18 November 2022
- Bellini was the quintessential composer of Bel canto opera. As a master ... musical family, not unusual for the child of an organist and both his father ...11 KB (1,723 words) - 21:07, 8 May 2020
- without a writing system; one set of criteria specifies material ... tradition" refers to the transmission of cultural material through vocal ...37 KB (5,219 words) - 00:59, 18 November 2022
- As the way in which war is prosecuted, and the nature of war itself ... :In the royal service, Major General and Inspector of the Artillery ...24 KB (3,682 words) - 15:21, 27 November 2023
- c. 1532 - 1625) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. After her ... Anguissola established a new style of portraiture, with subjects set ...16 KB (2,469 words) - 22:03, 30 January 2023
- graphẽ "writing") is a form of ornamental handwriting ... inscriptions and hand lettering to fine art pieces where the artistic ...19 KB (2,750 words) - 18:29, 25 November 2023
- to as Madame Mao, was the third wife of Chairman Mao Zedong of the ... On November 22, 1966, Jiang Qing was named first vice-chairwoman of ...14 KB (2,214 words) - 20:36, 3 April 2024
- was a painter, draughtsman, and writer on art, who was born in in Zurich ... He is viewed by some art historians as a prime exponent of Neoclassicism ...19 KB (3,002 words) - 13:41, 8 February 2022
- the composition, structure, and properties of matter, as well as the changes ... Disciplines within chemistry are traditionally grouped by the type ...20 KB (2,886 words) - 14:48, 5 December 2023
- Bauhaus is the common term for the Staaatliches Bauhaus, an art and ... The Bauhaus art school had a profound influence upon subsequent developments ...21 KB (3,071 words) - 03:07, 26 September 2023
- Schuyler and Kenneth Koch, was a key member of the New York School of poetry ... . The urgency and quickness of his voice allows the reader to experience ...22 KB (3,437 words) - 05:07, 9 April 2024
- to Wudangquan or the “internal” styles of Chinese martial arts, which ... Neijia styles teach awareness of the spirit, mind, chi (breath), and ...24 KB (3,729 words) - 16:11, 11 November 2022
- ranged from the universal systems theory to the possibility of human ... figure, especially in the development of the Communist Party's ...11 KB (1,607 words) - 05:13, 17 June 2023
- 20, 1900) is best known for his work as an art critic and social critic, ... Ruskin was born in London, and raised in south London, the son of ...29 KB (4,524 words) - 07:44, 3 August 2022
- regarded as the most influential filmmaker of the post-war Soviet era in ... Tarkovsky, son of the prominent poet Arseny Tarkovsky, was a product ...16 KB (2,516 words) - 20:10, 26 July 2023
- so forth. Color derives from the spectrum of light (distribution of light ... Typically, only features of the composition of light that are detectable ...32 KB (4,860 words) - 22:38, 7 January 2024
- painter and printmaker. Rothko was one of the most highly-regarded painters ... Between the mid-1920s and the end of the 1940s, Rothko's paintings ...20 KB (3,031 words) - 08:33, 10 March 2023
- this last term himself. Bataille was one of the founding members of the ... The members of the College were united in their dissatisfaction with ...19 KB (2,778 words) - 02:07, 25 November 2022
- " plural templa) is a feature of Byzantine architecture that ... The templon most likely has an independent origin from that of Latin ...15 KB (2,299 words) - 05:39, 27 February 2023
- painter and author. He was a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art ... was cited by El Lissitzky as one of the major forerunners of the ...18 KB (2,685 words) - 14:13, 20 May 2023
- he wrote De Rerum Natura (“On the Nature of Things”), a masterpiece of ... the Renaissance the work emerged as a source of inspiration for numerous scholars ...13 KB (2,021 words) - 02:28, 5 November 2022
- around fourth century B.C.E. in the basins of the Liao and Taedong Rivers ... Dynasty, also romanized as Chosŏn. See also: Names of Korea. ...18 KB (2,662 words) - 09:14, 19 December 2022
- civilization is the Harappan Civilization of the Indus Valley, in reference ... and technological development, and no sign of slavery or exploitation of ...32 KB (5,016 words) - 21:11, 22 March 2024
- and dramatist, best known as the author of the novel series Jean-Christophe ... "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and ...26 KB (3,958 words) - 21:37, 16 April 2023
- The Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental ... agreement providing such a high degree of individual protection. State ...32 KB (4,886 words) - 04:33, 23 March 2024
- The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove ( c=竹林七賢 ) were a group of Chinese Taoist Qingtan scholars, writers, and musicians ...14 KB (2,127 words) - 19:50, 21 April 2023
- inkblot test. The test is based on the theory that responding to ambiguous ... other personality measure with the exception of the MMPI. However, it has not ...14 KB (2,112 words) - 10:23, 22 January 2024
- fields and he influenced the development of schools of theory including ... Roland Barthes was born on November 12, 1915 in the town of Cherbourg ...25 KB (3,880 words) - 02:43, 16 December 2022
- Naturalism was a late nineteenth century movement in theater, film ... was an attempt to create a perfect illusion of reality through detailed sets ...18 KB (2,651 words) - 04:21, 11 March 2023
- Δίκαιο) is the study of differences and similarities ... discrepancies, comparative law uses the art of estimation by comparison ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 08:07, 14 January 2023
- – April 19, 1813) was a Founding Father of the United States. Rush lived ... Rush was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and attended ...13 KB (1,960 words) - 09:56, 28 September 2023
- considered to be an extinct species of the genus Homo, which lived ... H. ergaster is the early phase or subspecies of H. erectus. Problematic specimens ...7 KB (1,033 words) - 12:10, 2 February 2024
- philosopher and the first Jewish fellow of an Oxbridge college (Dictionary ... Space, Time and Deity was one of the last attempts by a British philosopher ...15 KB (2,284 words) - 02:18, 23 December 2022
- Humanism is an attitude of thought which gives primary importance ... There was another round of revival of humanism in the Age of Enlightenment ...16 KB (2,260 words) - 19:10, 19 August 2023
- who was the first to obtain an equation of state that describes the condition ... Johannes Diderik van der Waals was born in the Dutch city of Leiden ...10 KB (1,620 words) - 23:19, 22 June 2023
- philosopher, and, for ten years, minister of state for the republic of Weimar. principle literary figure through a series of movements and upheavals in ...29 KB (4,522 words) - 07:15, 5 April 2024
- and critic, who has been called the master of Vernacular Chinese (standard ... Confucius avoided being named the author of the Spring and Autumn Annals ...23 KB (3,604 words) - 02:01, 9 February 2023
- a German chemist who ushered in a new age of organic chemistry when he demonstrated ... Eschersheim, near Frankfurt am Main, the son of August Anton Wöhler, who was ...14 KB (2,077 words) - 10:37, 17 October 2022
- to be a great but underexposed writer of his age. During his lifetime ... field, his writing was limited by his lack of time. Nonetheless, he earned ...10 KB (1,518 words) - 18:02, 3 May 2023
- a Brazilian poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic, and ... Andrade was the central figure in the avant-garde movement of São ...29 KB (4,379 words) - 15:58, 6 November 2022
- [[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
- he was regarded as a rival and contemporary of Franz Liszt, and he ranks amongst ... Vikhvatinets (now in Transnistria, Republic of Moldova). He learned the piano ...7 KB (986 words) - 06:51, 31 July 2023
- research ranges from the analysis of short contacts between anonymous ... social status and the social structures of society, social change, social ...28 KB (3,873 words) - 15:03, 27 April 2023
- and was famous for developing the concept of "liminality," first ... or spiritual components in the referents of the symbolism involved. He ...16 KB (2,369 words) - 20:08, 3 May 2023
- The Kellogg-Briand Pact, also known as the Pact of Paris after the ... In its original form, the Pact of Paris was a renunciation of war ...7 KB (1,036 words) - 17:20, 5 October 2022
- thumb|300px|right|The Louvre in Paris, one of the largest and most famous ... later made public. There are different types of museums all over the world ...27 KB (4,097 words) - 02:36, 11 March 2023
- young, Vygotsky is known as the "Mozart of psychology." Vygotsky ... In the latter part of the twentieth century, his theories became widely ...23 KB (3,329 words) - 11:00, 7 March 2023
- Flann O'Brien (October 5, 1911 – April 1, 1966) is a pseudonym ... O'Brien's works are considered classics of the modernist ...13 KB (2,105 words) - 17:36, 28 March 2024
- pacifist, publicist, journalist, co-founder of the German peace movement, ... Nieder! (Lay Down Your Arms!) the title of the Baroness' famous 1889 ...12 KB (1,786 words) - 07:20, 20 July 2023
- vague, naturally evolved through the history of music, designating a variety ... == Usage of sonata == The Baroque era applied the term sonata to a ...27 KB (4,193 words) - 16:32, 14 October 2022
- 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
- The Yayoi period (弥生時代, Yayoi-jidai) is an era in the history ... The cultivation of rice allowed the development of a sedentary agricultural ...18 KB (2,814 words) - 09:53, 23 May 2023
- 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
- quantum physics, functional analysis, set theory, topology, economics, computer ... Most notably, von Neumann was a pioneer of the application of operator ...30 KB (4,433 words) - 00:38, 10 February 2023
- Manyoshu (万葉集 Man'yōshū, "Collection of Ten Thousand ... Through Tanka poetry, ladies of the court had an opportunity to display ...10 KB (1,528 words) - 02:58, 6 November 2022
- the social behavior or the social relations of a society, community of people ... many other social sciences. Among many forms of creating social change are ...31 KB (4,566 words) - 15:00, 27 April 2023
- was an influential British literary critic of the early-to-mid-twentieth ... One of the most influential figures in twentieth-century English literary ...19 KB (2,790 words) - 00:02, 25 March 2024
- dancer and choreographer, is known as one of the foremost pioneers of modern ... modernists she broke with the formalism of nineteenth century Romanticism ...12 KB (1,810 words) - 16:26, 6 November 2022
- who conclusively demonstrated the stability of the Solar System and vindicated ... Pierre-Simon Laplace was born in Beaumont-en-Auge, Normandy, the son ...24 KB (3,889 words) - 05:17, 24 November 2022
- be expressed with either, both, or neither of these words. The definition ... same-sex encounters were non-existent and of no interest to women. With ...16 KB (2,335 words) - 00:47, 7 March 2023
- Christian theology and has been the subject of numerous works of art, most ... revelation. In the gospels' description of the Last Supper, Jesus is depicted ...14 KB (2,247 words) - 15:39, 30 April 2023
- writers such as Upton Sinclair. Like many of his contemporaries, he was ... Norris was particularly influenced by the optimistic thread of Darwinist ...11 KB (1,707 words) - 05:06, 9 April 2024
- main_interests = Political philosophy, Politics, Literary theory ... Most scholars consider him to be the founder of the tradition of Western Marxism ...31 KB (4,665 words) - 06:56, 18 April 2024
- perception, and suggested that all knowledge of objects outside the self comes ... work “La citta del sole” (The City of the Sun). == Life == ...13 KB (2,009 words) - 03:56, 1 May 2023
- , "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice ... Venice in August 1932, the festival is part of the Venice Biennale, one of ...27 KB (3,956 words) - 16:58, 3 May 2023
- a scientist; Khayyám contributed a number of insights to the development ... and particularly for the volume The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám, famously translated ...11 KB (1,780 words) - 00:36, 18 November 2022
- potential applications. It includes study of subjects such as theories of ... Ultimately, the goal of those working in the field of educational ...35 KB (4,855 words) - 18:18, 12 February 2024
- Classical Greek had no independent word of "existence." The ... but reversed the Medieval priority of essence over existence. The ...25 KB (3,698 words) - 10:29, 26 September 2023
- at Harvard University, where he is Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute ... a more pluralistic approach to the question of the literary canon. There has ...23 KB (3,215 words) - 21:58, 21 October 2022
- His unorthodox ideas on the birth and death of ethnoses (ethnic groups) have ... Neo-Eurasianism is a Russian school of thought, popularized in Russia ...10 KB (1,514 words) - 22:04, 25 October 2022
- The Hwarang denotes a military society of expert Buddhist warriors ... The allure of the Hwarang warrior derives from the sense of a righteous ...10 KB (1,417 words) - 21:28, 9 February 2024
- musicologist, author, and producer, and one of the most important field collectors ... the civil rights and cultural recognition of African Americans, organizing ...14 KB (2,084 words) - 04:32, 17 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
- in both Chinese and English made him one of the most influential writers ... passages and short pieces), The Chinese Theory of Art (1967), and the novels ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 08:46, 8 March 2023
- in the early twentieth-century philosophies of William James and John Dewey ... Upon the rise of analytic philosophy after World War II, the classical ...38 KB (5,567 words) - 22:10, 30 November 2022
- Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is a branch of philosophy; it ... Baumgarten in 1735 to mean "the science of how things are known via the ...53 KB (8,177 words) - 05:51, 16 June 2023
- and an institutionalist, a leading proponent of government involvement in solving ... in politics, serving in the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry ...18 KB (2,525 words) - 02:28, 9 February 2023
- Buddhist art refers to the rich and diverse representations of religious ... Early Buddhist art emerged in India and Sri Lanka following the death ...37 KB (5,547 words) - 18:34, 22 November 2023
- to black tea: it lacks the rosy, sweet aroma of black tea but it likewise does ... benefits. While the actual effectiveness of oolong tea's medicinal ...14 KB (2,206 words) - 10:33, 11 March 2023
- great interest in exposing the workings of the subconscious mind through ... on January 28, 1912. He was the youngest of five boys. A year after Pollock ...37 KB (5,789 words) - 09:21, 13 March 2024
- specifically in Western culture to a form of drama defined by Aristotle ... According to Aristotle, "The structure of the best tragedy should ...26 KB (4,004 words) - 17:24, 6 March 2023
- A fairy (fey or fae; collectively wee folk, good folk, people of peace ... While many of these depictions are considered purely fictional, creatures ...19 KB (2,984 words) - 00:29, 25 March 2024
- American psychologist. He was a pioneer of applied psychology, extending ... He is considered by many "the father of industrial psychology ...13 KB (1,901 words) - 12:17, 4 February 2023
- 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
- The Tibetan Book of the Dead is the western name for a collection ... The Tibetan Book of the Dead is the most famous and widespread work ...13 KB (1,966 words) - 23:24, 30 April 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
- during the 600-year Anglo-Saxon period of British history, from the mid ... and there are extant works in a wide variety of genres including epic poetry ...17 KB (2,716 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
- nanometers (nm) (15.7-27.6 millionths of an inch)). In a scientific ... The study of light and its interaction with matter is termed optics ...39 KB (6,028 words) - 01:15, 26 October 2022
- ) was a Pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty (ruled 1333 B.C.E.–1324 ... In historical terms, Tutankhamun is of only moderate significance ...27 KB (4,279 words) - 02:21, 18 April 2023
- phenomenon that causes a spectrum of light to appear in the sky ... A rainbow spans a continuous spectrum of colors. Traditionally, however ...32 KB (5,079 words) - 17:20, 16 April 2023
- was an Italian painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance ... Details of Botticelli's life are sparse, but we know that he ...28 KB (4,094 words) - 03:13, 23 December 2022
- In English, it refers to a symbol consisting of two intersecting arcs, the ... and now known colloquially as the "sign of the fish" or ...11 KB (1,707 words) - 21:21, 7 September 2023
- Longinus (Greek: Λογγίνος) is the conventional name of the ... ==Authorship of On the Sublime== Biographical details about the author ...20 KB (2,950 words) - 21:04, 3 November 2022
- Christian symbolism is defined as the investing of outward things ... The symbol of the Cross has been revered by Christians but controversial ...18 KB (2,807 words) - 21:08, 10 December 2023
- The troll is a mythical creature of Scandinavian origin that has become ... Throughout the ages, the differing renditions of trolls has fallen ...13 KB (2,076 words) - 17:46, 2 May 2023
- public") is a symbolic, figurative mode of representation of abstract ... The allegory is one of the most popular narrative forms in literature ...16 KB (2,444 words) - 18:26, 21 July 2023
- (TIFF, often stylized as tiff) is one of the largest publicly attended ... Founded in 1976, TIFF is now one of the largest and most prestigious ...26 KB (3,603 words) - 04:11, 1 May 2023
- , 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
- (1653 – 1725) was a Japanese dramatist of jōruri, the form of puppet ... Chikmatsu wrote plays mainly for theaters in Kyoto and Osaka, most ...14 KB (2,099 words) - 15:25, 10 December 2023
- philosopher who wrote widely in the areas of sociology, social psychology ... Facing the problems of the Holocaust by the Nazis and the mass murders ...41 KB (6,139 words) - 17:57, 30 April 2023
- is satisfied") was the second Pharaoh of the 18th dynasty of Egypt. ... death, he was deified into the patron god of Deir el-Medina. ...23 KB (3,603 words) - 02:51, 24 July 2023
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- 20, 1854) was a German philosopher and one of the three great representatives ... identified with Romanticism and the spirit of the German “Sturm und Drang” ...20 KB (2,983 words) - 06:43, 15 April 2024
- Found in the mythology, folklore, and religion of virtually all world ... Some classical examples of Tricksters in various mythologies are Mercurius ...19 KB (2,802 words) - 16:52, 2 May 2023
- A music library contains music-related materials for patron use. Use ... For example, the University of Virginia Library provides access to ...18 KB (2,494 words) - 19:07, 10 November 2022
- Sir Francis Galton (February 16, 1822 – January 17, 1911), cousin ... to lead to an increase in the number of people manifesting the desirable ...23 KB (3,472 words) - 04:50, 9 April 2024
- The Art of War ( 孫子兵法 Tzu ("Master Sun"), is composed of 13 chapters. Each one is devoted ...35 KB (5,067 words) - 15:13, 30 April 2023
- everything is interconnected in a chain of co-becoming and in a state ... Widely misconceived as a doctrine of nihilism, the teaching on the ...14 KB (2,102 words) - 23:46, 26 February 2023
- the Western world by the Latinized version of his name, Alkindus) was known ... and admitted revelation as a superior source of knowledge in some matters of ...12 KB (1,748 words) - 04:13, 17 June 2023
- Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field of engineering that ... The need to identify and manipulate the properties of a system as ...28 KB (3,868 words) - 00:58, 21 April 2023
- Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human characteristics and qualities ... faiths have apprehended the nature of divine being(s) in terms of ...17 KB (2,392 words) - 06:18, 31 July 2023
- to Sōdai (早大, Sōdai), is one of the top universities in Japan ... Korea, and other Asian countries, many of whom became influential political ...16 KB (2,213 words) - 22:58, 3 May 2023
- Georg Simmel (March 1, 1858 – September 28, 1918) was one of the ... social groupings were no more than the sum of their parts, a view that is ...13 KB (2,026 words) - 08:04, 23 January 2023
- the health care sector focused on the care of individuals, families, and ... Nurses develop a plan of care, working collaboratively with physicians ...27 KB (3,663 words) - 10:11, 11 March 2023
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- 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
- electrical engineer and inventor. He was one of the most prolific inventors ... ==Overview of his life== Edwin Howard Armstrong was born in Chelsea ...11 KB (1,719 words) - 23:55, 12 February 2024
- 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
- in Giorgio Vasari's Vite (Lives of the Artists). Alberti studied ... treatises to propound a new humanistic theory of art, and drew on his contacts ...24 KB (3,831 words) - 20:08, 25 October 2022
- poet, and politician, considered to be one of the most important poets in ... Little definitive is known of Sturluson's life, and much of what ...13 KB (2,143 words) - 05:13, 13 October 2022
- photographer/inventor, and the son of astronomer William Herschel ... Herschel was born in Slough, Buckinghamshire, the son of William and ...15 KB (2,220 words) - 05:56, 3 August 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
- ) refers to an Indian royal dynasty that ruled large parts of southern ... The rise of the Chalukyas marks an important milestone in the history ...41 KB (5,966 words) - 01:14, 4 December 2023
- novel and signaled his emergence as one of the world's great writers ... original creation. Torn in two (the root of his name, "raskol' ...21 KB (3,343 words) - 06:23, 11 January 2024
- Akhenaten, known as Amenhotep IV at the start of his reign, was a ... vilified by his successors for his neglect of the traditional religious cult ...35 KB (5,451 words) - 07:14, 16 June 2023
- physician and philosopher, the earliest of the materialist writers of ... bonheur (1748), and La Volupté, and L'Art de jouir, in which the purpose ...12 KB (1,863 words) - 21:12, 4 October 2022
- 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
- literature and society, and the impact of The Holocaust. ... A polyglot and polymath, he is often credited with redefining the ...21 KB (2,963 words) - 08:15, 23 January 2023
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- the Holocaust. It reflects on the sense of alienation and cruelty in modern ... science in Poland (at the University of Lodz). He worked as an assistant ...21 KB (3,001 words) - 23:50, 14 April 2023
- was an American historian and philosopher of science who wrote extensively ... D. in 1949. While there, primarily because of his editorship of the Harvard ...29 KB (4,408 words) - 22:54, 30 April 2023
- and statehood or the outright overthrow of the extant government. Wars ... The factors leading to war are often complicated and due to a range ...40 KB (6,411 words) - 22:53, 3 May 2023
- 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
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- refers to the simultaneous sale and purchase of identical securities or other ... to profit by exploiting price differences of identical or similar financial ...24 KB (3,749 words) - 21:31, 11 August 2023
- 24, 1966) was an Indian nuclear physicist of Parsi-Zoroastrian heritage ... in Bombay (now Mumbai), in 1909. He was one of two sons. His father was a ...12 KB (1,771 words) - 11:24, 2 February 2024
- is the oldest and most fundamental branch of mathematics. It is used by ... In common usage, arithmetic refers to a branch of mathematics that ...35 KB (4,898 words) - 02:39, 15 August 2023
- the symbol. In mathematics, the definition of number has been extended over ... are called numerical operations. The study of numerical operations is called ...37 KB (5,685 words) - 00:43, 17 November 2022
- ran counter to the prevailing rationalism of his day. Shestov rejected any ... He emigrated to France in 1921, fleeing from the aftermath of the ...16 KB (2,451 words) - 22:05, 25 October 2022
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- critic, and activist. He was a professor of English and Comparative Literature ... Academically speaking, Said was a follower of Post-structuralist theory ...19 KB (2,870 words) - 23:50, 12 February 2024
- 6, 1903) is a key figure in the development of library science. Cutter's ... Cutter was the editor of Library Journal from 1891-1893. One of the ...13 KB (2,026 words) - 01:48, 4 December 2023
- main_interests = Aesthetics, History of Western Philosophy, Metaphilosophy ... without organs, deterritorialization, line of flight, nomad thought, plane ...35 KB (5,046 words) - 09:29, 15 December 2022
- , meaning "non-absolutism," is one of the basic principles of Jainism ... Key to the Jaina Middle Way Metaphysics of Anekantavada, Philosophy East ...30 KB (4,673 words) - 18:01, 27 July 2023
- A dream is the experience of a sequence of images, sounds, ideas, ... or heaven giving warnings or announcements of fortune that is to come. For ...30 KB (4,528 words) - 17:34, 30 January 2024
- The public domain consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive ... For example, the works of William Shakespeare and Edgar Allan Poe ...28 KB (4,097 words) - 17:00, 2 January 2023
- Mehndi (or Hina) is the application of henna (Hindustani: हेना ... Henna has been used to adorn young women’s bodies as part of social ...26 KB (4,222 words) - 09:39, 10 March 2023
- every prominent French intellectual of his day, including Raymond ... Kojeve's reading of Hegel was an anthropologizing one that emphasized ...23 KB (3,422 words) - 06:36, 20 July 2023
- the Purāṇas. His surviving works consist of three plays, two epic poems ... lived near the Himalayas, in the vicinity of Ujjain, and in Kalinga. This ...29 KB (4,367 words) - 18:38, 26 January 2023
- described by John Stuart Mill as one of the seminal minds of his age ... a landmark work that led to the emergence of the Romantic Movement in England ...13 KB (2,014 words) - 03:03, 23 December 2022
- 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
- Bāguàzhǎng is one of the major internal (Nèijiā) Chinese martial ... The creation of Baguazhang during the nineteenth century is attributed ...25 KB (3,699 words) - 06:17, 10 January 2023
- Grammar is the set of rules that allow a speaker to form an intelligible ... (grammatikḕ téchnē), which means "art of letters," from ...25 KB (3,469 words) - 22:17, 30 March 2023
- ABMT) was a treaty between the United States of America and the Soviet Union ... are purely designed to protect the citizens of the Russian capital. The U ...15 KB (2,315 words) - 06:19, 31 July 2023
- Epistemology or theory of knowledge is the branch of philosophy that ... Much of the debate in this field has focused on analyzing the nature ...41 KB (6,380 words) - 19:10, 13 February 2024
- 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
- The state of mental health is generally understood to be a state of ... From the perspective of positive psychology, mental health includes ...28 KB (3,695 words) - 16:10, 9 November 2022
- Bahram II was the fifth Sassanid King of Persia in 276–293. He was ... regarding them as their peers. The survival of the Persian empire against ...12 KB (1,906 words) - 01:04, 1 January 2022
- centuries, in particular his book The Making of the English Working Class ... Thompson's writing helped expose the role of class, elitism, ...19 KB (2,741 words) - 17:30, 12 February 2024
- Music is an auditory art comprised of meaningful arrangements of sounds ... Generally, music is known through the cognition of specific arrangements ...47 KB (7,194 words) - 19:07, 30 September 2023
- or Ashiwi are a Native American tribe, one of the Pueblo peoples, most of ... Their religious beliefs guided their way of life and involved numerous ...22 KB (3,332 words) - 06:15, 13 June 2023
- and actor. Ben Jonson lived during the age of William Shakespeare and proved ... Jonson was undoubtedly one of the most well-read men in the England ...17 KB (2,769 words) - 09:06, 27 September 2023
- Division of Labor is the specialization of cooperative labor in specific ... The division of labor can apply to any field. Division of labor may ...26 KB (4,018 words) - 18:21, 1 August 2023
- 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
- one novel, one play, and only a small volume of poems—his intellectual breadth ... Johnson's hatred of slavery and the abuses of colonialism, his ...12 KB (1,867 words) - 03:01, 23 December 2022
- As a number, zero means nothing—an absence of other values. It plays a central ... systems, 0 was identified before the idea of 'negative integers' ...30 KB (4,810 words) - 06:25, 13 June 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
- Italian psychiatrist, the founder of the psychological movement ... guide each person to understand the meaning of human life in all its contexts ...19 KB (2,962 words) - 21:30, 16 April 2023
- Mo) is a term applied to a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory ... Many theorists agree that we can distinguish between two senses of ...45 KB (6,401 words) - 05:50, 30 November 2022
- the word is often used to refer to any of the various Japanese drums ... in recent years as the central instrument of large drum ensembles called ...24 KB (3,759 words) - 01:00, 21 April 2023
- danse 1874.jpg|right|200px|thumb|An artifact of "high culture": a ... or to honor), generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic ...40 KB (5,823 words) - 13:34, 4 July 2023
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (original: The Rime of the Ancyent ... The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was the first poem in the volume; ...18 KB (2,959 words) - 15:42, 30 April 2023
- In music and music theory a chord (from Greek χορδή: gut, string ... (polyphony), the natural by-product of this process was a vertical ...34 KB (5,534 words) - 17:56, 10 December 2023
- The Queen of Sheba, (tenth century B.C.E.), also known as Makeda ... Yaqut al-Hamawi, the star-worshipers of Harran in Turkey, and those ...22 KB (3,511 words) - 15:45, 7 December 2022
- produced in, or rooted in the traditions of, Western art, ecclesiastical ... With the decline of Rome and the ascendancy of Christianity in Europe ...41 KB (6,156 words) - 10:52, 19 December 2023
- The Haida are an indigenous people of the west coast of North America ... The Haida in Canada created the Council of the Haida nation gaining ...19 KB (2,932 words) - 16:43, 21 January 2024
- Amherst is a member of the Five Colleges consortium, which allows ... to prepare its students for a wide variety of careers, allowing them to develop ...16 KB (2,313 words) - 06:57, 25 July 2023
- Distance is a numerical description of the separation between objects ... are important for various fields of work, such as surveying, aircraft ...18 KB (2,703 words) - 15:29, 29 January 2024
- Some leading Korea scholars omit mention of the Three Gojoseon kingdoms ... The myth of Dangun with legend following presents Gojoseon (고조선 ...10 KB (1,333 words) - 21:05, 31 October 2022
- Symbolism was a late nineteenth century art movement of French and ... its roots in Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil) by Charles Baudelaire ...23 KB (3,250 words) - 01:57, 27 February 2023
- influence the weather or crops, and as part of religious practices like shamanism ... While some deny any form of magic as authentic, those that practice ...35 KB (5,255 words) - 10:49, 9 March 2023
- opinion about the general orientation of his system, it must be acknowledged ... Unlike German Idealism, the prevalent philosophy of his day, Schopenhauer’s ...39 KB (6,008 words) - 17:37, 16 August 2023
- ್ಥಾನ), built on the banks of the Yagachi River in Belur ... The Hoysala Empire of southern India prevailed during the tenth to ...18 KB (2,563 words) - 14:52, 5 December 2023
- #039;s education, particularly the invention of the kindergarten system for ... in Thuringia (now Germany), the fifth of six children. The village where ...15 KB (2,345 words) - 06:41, 15 April 2024
- A castrato may also be one who, because of an endocrinological condition ... used most frequently today, as a reflection of contemporary culture's ...17 KB (2,678 words) - 14:25, 29 November 2023
- first discussed by Sigmund Freud as part of his psychoanalytic theory and ... is to address the underlying causes of the pain these mechanisms are ...32 KB (4,936 words) - 09:11, 28 January 2024
- 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychology. He was ... Born in Kesswil, in the Swiss canton of Thurgau on July 26, 1875, ...31 KB (4,736 words) - 19:19, 26 November 2023
- He was Member of the Parliament of England briefly and was also a ... William Petty was born in Romsey on May 27, 1623 to a family of middle ...28 KB (4,406 words) - 10:38, 12 May 2023
- 1945) was a Dutch historian, a philosopher of culture, and one of the founders ... The Autumn of the Middle Ages (1919), a masterpiece of cultural history ...10 KB (1,498 words) - 06:44, 5 April 2024
- Courtly love was a medieval European conception of ennobling love ... It can be seen as a combination of complex factors: Philosophical ...17 KB (2,718 words) - 06:12, 11 January 2024
- Initiation is a rite of passage marking entrance or acceptance into ... The components of the initiation vary widely from study of scripture ...23 KB (3,352 words) - 20:51, 17 June 2022
- in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres, including documentaries ... It is one of the "Big Three" major European film festivals ...31 KB (4,402 words) - 19:24, 25 November 2023
- illusion. Both circles are the same shade of yellow, just as both squares ... Illusions are distortions of a sensory perception, revealing how the ...32 KB (4,837 words) - 16:27, 12 February 2024
- held every February. It is considered one of the most important film festivals ... The festival began at the beginning of the Cold War, in the city of ...34 KB (4,808 words) - 11:03, 28 September 2023
- It was in use centuries before the adoption of the written Hindu-Arabic numeral ... replacing it for practical reasons, the use of the abacus continues to be ...17 KB (2,684 words) - 07:14, 13 June 2023
- for his barbed and clever wit, he was one of the most successful playwrights ... As the result of a famous trial, he suffered a dramatic downfall and ...34 KB (5,298 words) - 04:37, 18 November 2022
- ) is an internal (neijia, Wudangquan) Chinese martial art, in which ... The origins of tai chi chuan are known only through legend and speculation ...44 KB (6,584 words) - 00:21, 16 February 2024
- 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
- Pompeii is a ruined city of Roman Empire near modern Naples in the ... Evidence of the promiscuity and ethically lax lives of many of the ...14 KB (2,204 words) - 08:49, 24 November 2022
- Scriabin began composing in the style of the lush romanticism of Frédéric ... old, his mother, a concert pianist, died of tuberculosis. Scriabin's ...13 KB (1,980 words) - 14:39, 18 July 2023
- for the display, cultivation, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature ... Gardening is an art and a science. It is an activity that brings out ...22 KB (3,333 words) - 04:33, 18 April 2024
- A Morality play is a type of dramatic allegory, performed in a theater ... Morality plays survived the disenchantment of the church and the wrath ...15 KB (2,390 words) - 21:20, 9 November 2022
- important respects, most notably in the use of gourd resonators. It is possible ... A distinctive feature of the sitar are the curved frets, which are ...10 KB (1,605 words) - 22:36, 29 January 2023
- Creativity is a process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts ... authoritative perspective, or definition of creativity; nor is there a ...52 KB (7,713 words) - 06:21, 11 January 2024
- to the color era, Hitchcock remains one of the best known and most popular ... Hitchcock was the quintessential master of suspense. One aspect that ...29 KB (4,441 words) - 08:14, 20 July 2023
- Hermitage") is considered to be one of the most remarkable art treasures ... above Bulguksa, the grotto overlooks the Sea of Japan (East Sea) and rests ...13 KB (1,917 words) - 09:48, 26 January 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
- historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science. His work belongs ... Girard's theoretical work began with his discovery of mimetic ...32 KB (4,801 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
- talk therapy, or just therapy) is the use of psychological methods, particularly ... There are hundreds of psychotherapy techniques, some minor variations; ...38 KB (4,942 words) - 17:25, 24 February 2024
- 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
- Social Anthropology in Great Britain) is one of the four branches of general ... Any and all of these factors make up important aspects of culture ...26 KB (3,726 words) - 06:47, 11 January 2024
- in southern Egypt on the western bank of Lake Nasser about 190 miles ... The twin temples were originally carved out of the mountainside during ...14 KB (2,343 words) - 06:55, 14 June 2023
- commonly used in the religious practice of Hinduism and Tibetan Buddhism ... "to access progressively deeper levels of the unconscious, ultimately ...23 KB (3,394 words) - 16:47, 24 October 2023
- In Greek mythology, Uranus is the personification of the sky and the ... The theonym "Uranus" is the Latinized form of Ouranos ( ...9 KB (1,482 words) - 13:41, 3 May 2023
- 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
- and logician during the second half of the nineteenth century. He ... Lotze combined the monads of Gottfried Leibniz's spheres of individual ...24 KB (3,658 words) - 16:57, 22 December 2022
- naturalistic works, he developed into one of the most accomplished realists ... Realism. Realism focused on the description of the details of everyday existence ...9 KB (1,444 words) - 10:40, 13 December 2023
- African American literature is the body of literature produced in ... over the centuries, so, too, have the foci of African American literature ...45 KB (6,844 words) - 06:04, 16 June 2023
- The Dialectic (Greek: διαλεκτική) is a line of thought, ... is whether it over-emphasizes the role of conflict in development. In ...34 KB (5,249 words) - 10:22, 29 January 2024
- but achieved fame as a writer; he was one of the best regarded American ... One of the United States' most popular nineteenth century poets ...15 KB (2,269 words) - 10:32, 11 March 2023
- b.c.e. – August 12, 30 b.c.e.) was queen of Ancient Egypt, the last member ... As co-ruler of Egypt with her father Ptolemy XII Auletes, her brother/husband ...20 KB (3,144 words) - 22:04, 7 January 2024
- 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
- σχύλος) was a playwright of ancient Greece, and the earliest ... was dramatist who examined the relation of the gods to the lives of mortal ...18 KB (2,989 words) - 05:50, 16 June 2023
- to be the most important Spanish poet of the twentieth century. García ... by the Spanish Modernismo style—a style of particularly overwrought, melodramatic ...13 KB (2,000 words) - 01:58, 26 March 2024
- The gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke are referred to as the synoptic ... to literary interdependence. The question of the precise nature of their ...41 KB (5,932 words) - 20:32, 29 January 2024
- Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of ... Beyond the gestural aspect of the art form, other significant aspects ...17 KB (2,649 words) - 22:58, 14 May 2020
- Digital audio has emerged because of its usefulness in the recording ... ==Overview of digital audio== === Going from analog to digital === ...10 KB (1,460 words) - 03:54, 29 July 2022
- (Old Style) - March 13, 1918) was a Russian of French and Lithuanian descent. His profession was as an army officer and a teacher of fortifications; ...25 KB (3,264 words) - 00:07, 4 December 2023
- for his attempt to reconcile the criticisms of the Enlightenment with traditional ... Because of his profound effect on subsequent Christian thought, he ...45 KB (6,434 words) - 06:42, 15 April 2024
- Philosophy of history or historiosophy is an area of philosophy concerning ... A philosophy of history begins with a few basic assumptions. First ...30 KB (4,545 words) - 04:16, 24 November 2022
- 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
- Liturgical music is a form of music originating as a part of religious ... The qualities that create the distinctive character of liturgical ...20 KB (3,074 words) - 20:52, 3 November 2022
- the modern libertarian movement and revival of classical liberalism. Prominent ... on September 29, 1881, in Lemberg (then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire ...19 KB (2,970 words) - 02:41, 5 November 2022
- poet, and playwright. He was a key figure of the Renaissance, best known ... leading armies, the wealthy city-states of Italy falling one after another ...29 KB (4,511 words) - 23:28, 14 November 2022
- 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
- the first among the great German dramatists of the nineteenth century. The ... Kleist was born of aristocratic descent at Frankfurt an der Oder, ...16 KB (2,396 words) - 15:02, 26 October 2022
- was an Austrian composer. He was a member of the Second Viennese School ... Along with Schoenberg and Webern he was one of the pivotal composers of the ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 18:49, 1 January 2023
- by modern scholars in the ruined library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh, near ... on seven clay tablets. This epic is one of the most important sources ...15 KB (2,485 words) - 18:58, 13 February 2024
- Whoever makes a Design without the knowledge of Perspective will be liable ... Perception is the process by which stimulation of the senses is translated ...52 KB (7,802 words) - 17:57, 26 March 2023
- ("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
- was an ancient Greek philosopher and one of the pillars of the Western ... upon his conviction about the immortality of the soul, Socrates defined ...30 KB (4,718 words) - 21:53, 30 January 2023
- Sarraute, Michel Butor and Claude Simon one of the figures most associated ... Robbe-Grillet, an influential theorist as well as writer of the nouveau ...15 KB (2,225 words) - 04:24, 17 June 2023
- (movement) and graphos (writing), is the art and craft of creating and ... Cinematography is an art form unique to motion pictures. Although ...29 KB (4,666 words) - 22:03, 10 December 2023
- but also include courses on the doctrines of the church and often offer ... a God-centered environment, the narrowness of the vision of parochial schools ...12 KB (1,832 words) - 08:53, 18 November 2022
- beak without teeth. Common characteristics of birds include the laying of ... has been observed to reach a flying speed of at least 124 mph (200 km/h ...31 KB (4,741 words) - 02:41, 8 March 2023
- Tendai (天台宗; Tendai-shū) is a Japanese school of Mahayana Buddhism ... Buddhism, reasserting the importance of repentance and internal enlightenment ...15 KB (2,260 words) - 05:41, 27 February 2023
- [[Image:Imhotep.JPG|right|thumb|Statuette of Egyptian polymath Imhotep ... educated, or who excels, in a wide variety of subjects or fields. It is based ...38 KB (5,454 words) - 00:21, 12 April 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
- article to Social Text, an academic journal of postmodern cultural studies ... In 2008, Sokal published Beyond the Hoax, which revisited the history ...26 KB (3,718 words) - 13:50, 2 February 2023
- offering two solutions or possibilities, of which neither is acceptable ... In formal logic, the definition of a dilemma differs markedly from ...24 KB (3,799 words) - 15:21, 29 January 2024
- typically Western Redcedar, by a number of Indigenous cultures along the ... After the movement of European settlers to the region, cultural and ...22 KB (3,451 words) - 04:43, 1 May 2023
- until the fourth century C.E. This period of Greek literature stretches ... Most of the epic poetry and tragedy has its roots in Ancient Greek ...25 KB (4,056 words) - 17:49, 13 November 2021
- information science to refer to the practice of creating and maintaining headings ... Although theoretically, any piece of information on a given book is ...12 KB (1,766 words) - 19:17, 22 August 2023
- it. Until 1650, he bore the title of Prince de Marcillac. He is best known to the world, however, as the noted author of his ...14 KB (2,358 words) - 05:00, 9 April 2024
- Personality is a collection of emotional, thought, and behavioral ... In psychology, personality is a collection of emotional, thought, ...35 KB (5,056 words) - 17:58, 26 March 2023
- light, elegant, and airy style and the list of his buildings includes some ... Adam was born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, the second son of William ...10 KB (1,385 words) - 03:09, 15 December 2022
- valorem tax that an owner pays on the value of the property being taxed. There ... and assessment, with various methods of assessing property value in ...37 KB (5,745 words) - 00:22, 2 December 2022
- ceremonies held every year for the cult of Demeter and Persephone based ... Of all the mysteries celebrated in ancient Mediterranean world, these ...18 KB (2,798 words) - 16:07, 13 February 2024
- Hippocrates of Cos II or Hippokrates of Kos (ca. 460 B.C.E. – ca ... Hippokrátēs, was an ancient Greek physician of the "Age of ...33 KB (4,488 words) - 14:32, 13 July 2023
- he became known as the "Father of Advertising." He also ... his insights into the purpose and method of advertising brought incredible ...16 KB (2,476 words) - 20:00, 19 May 2023
- September 19, 1940) was a British pioneer of ethnography. He conducted significant ... and much interest in the people and races of Africa. Influential in academic ...11 KB (1,543 words) - 19:06, 4 December 2023
- feelings, behavioral responses, and a degree of pleasure or displeasure. Emotions ... attempted to identify the emotion with one of the components: William James ...51 KB (6,936 words) - 18:27, 13 February 2024
- and economist. His monumental History of the Italian Republics in the ... Dauphiné to Switzerland at the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. It was ...16 KB (2,507 words) - 17:18, 2 April 2024
- the third largest city in Ecuador in terms of population. It is located in ... Tupac Yupanqui ordered the construction of a grand city to serve as a ...19 KB (2,779 words) - 06:44, 11 January 2024
- Pierre Nicole (1625 - November 16, 1695) was one of the most distinguished ... who based their ideas on the teachings of Augustine of Hippo, he believed ...10 KB (1,535 words) - 05:25, 24 November 2022
- Geotechnical engineering is the branch of civil engineering concerned ... A typical geotechnical engineering project begins with a review of ...29 KB (4,284 words) - 02:56, 30 November 2022
- a German writer, philosopher, publicist, and art critic, was one of the most ... His father was a clergyman and the author of theological writings. After ...10 KB (1,613 words) - 06:09, 31 December 2022
- translated into Latin in 1150. His concept of the universality of matter ... writing poetry in his teens. At the age of 16 he wrote a poem later included ...24 KB (3,826 words) - 01:00, 4 February 2023
- young. In 1450 he entered the University of Vienna, where he became a pupil ... Regiomontanus made a number of important observations, including eclipses ...15 KB (2,318 words) - 03:03, 8 December 2022
- and a court lady who is known as the author of The Pillow Book (枕草子 ... Japanese scholars regard The Pillow Book as a model of linguistic ...16 KB (2,769 words) - 02:46, 21 April 2023
- Pravda (Правда, "The Truth") was a leading newspaper ... 3, 1908. The editorial staff consisted of Trotsky and, at various times ...17 KB (2,565 words) - 00:32, 12 April 2023
- arts at an early age. It is an extreme form of a gift. One generally accepted ... After they reach physical adulthood, many of their peers have caught up ...26 KB (3,861 words) - 01:14, 12 April 2023
- chey") is the official state ideology of North Korea and the political ... Juche theory is a type of Marxism ideology, but it is built upon the ...20 KB (3,127 words) - 06:36, 28 February 2023
- In music, modulation is usually the act or process of changing from ... As tonality emerged as the prevalent syntax of Western music, this ...13 KB (2,131 words) - 19:27, 9 November 2022
- for its inherent and interesting mixture of colors. Although not mineralized ... in England it is found with interments of the bronze age. A remarkably ...17 KB (2,724 words) - 02:46, 24 July 2023
- 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
- Stream of consciousness is a literary technique, used primarily in ... Modern stream of consciousness writing is closely related to, but ...20 KB (3,127 words) - 20:56, 26 February 2023
- George Balanchine (January 22, 1904 — April 30, 1983) was one of ... York City Ballet. His United States staging of The Nutcracker made that ballet ...14 KB (1,953 words) - 07:02, 18 April 2024
- refers to an idealized or prototypical model of a person, object, or concept ... "archetype is an explanatory paraphrase of the Platonic eidos" (Jung ...28 KB (4,297 words) - 06:17, 12 August 2023
- attitudes towards minorities. Kipling, of course, was a man of his times ... Despite Kipling's troubled history, he has contributed a number ...14 KB (2,319 words) - 17:43, 22 December 2022
- [[Image:Mexico.Tab.OlmecHead.01.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Monument 1, ... people living in the tropical lowlands of south-central Mexico, roughly ...35 KB (5,268 words) - 00:32, 18 November 2022
- to be among the best Chinese literature of the period. Chang's work ... Upon the formation of the People's Republic of China, her works ...18 KB (2,710 words) - 00:06, 13 February 2024
- Hampshire. In addition to his literary body of work, Kingsley was a Protestant ... An advocate of Christian socialism, he published several novels about ...18 KB (2,593 words) - 19:34, 4 December 2023
- credited with pioneering western sequential art. His work ranged from realistic ... In his illustrated 1753 treatise "The Analysis of Beauty," ...25 KB (3,851 words) - 10:59, 9 May 2023
- who practices medicine with the purpose of promoting, maintaining, or ... Both the role of the physician and the meaning of the word itself ...29 KB (3,911 words) - 19:59, 15 May 2020
- Astrology is a group of systems, traditions, and beliefs in which ... While astronomy is the scientific study of astronomical objects and phenomena ...33 KB (4,705 words) - 18:24, 19 August 2023
- The Tale of Igor's Campaign (Old East Slavic language: Слово ... This work is a mixture of Christianity and that Slavic paganism that ...10 KB (1,577 words) - 17:34, 30 April 2023
- economics, and philosophy. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Fellow ... made significant contributions in the area of physical chemistry. Based on ...17 KB (2,500 words) - 10:38, 10 March 2023
- C.E.) designates an ancient royal dynasty of Karnataka that ruled from Banavasi ... in 345 C.E., showing at times the potential of developing into imperial proportions ...21 KB (3,156 words) - 21:31, 7 September 2023
- The Doll describes the romantic infatuation of a man of action who is frustrated ... "Prus has no biography, he is one of the best-camouflaged of writers ...24 KB (3,556 words) - 07:13, 17 November 2023
- William of Auvergne (c. 1190 – 1248), Bishop of Paris from 1228 ... William was thoroughly acquainted with the works of Aristotle, and ...11 KB (1,755 words) - 15:20, 14 May 2023
- Apprenticeship is a system of training a new generation of skilled ... became unpopular. However, the value of on the job training and practical ...23 KB (3,363 words) - 15:55, 11 August 2023
- 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
- education, is a broad term for the practice of teaching and educating adults ... and also due to the increasing consciousness of the rights of all people to ...24 KB (3,446 words) - 06:19, 15 June 2023
- 17, 1917) was a French sculptor, and one of the pre-eminent sculptors of ... be considered too informal, the exactness of his forms too real, or the ...42 KB (6,353 words) - 19:06, 21 August 2023
- most noted for his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor, ... father was Alberto Fermi, a Chief Inspector of the Ministry of Communications ...25 KB (3,781 words) - 18:56, 13 February 2024
- Life, may be considered by some as a type of virtual reality. virtual artifact (VA) either through the use of standard input devices such ...23 KB (3,598 words) - 20:36, 3 May 2023
- Gadamer. Ricoeur published a large body of work on a variety of philosophical ... himself from a more modern understanding of the knowing subject as limited ...18 KB (2,604 words) - 01:31, 23 November 2022
- Chinese painting is one of the oldest continuous artistic traditions ... There are three main subjects of Chinese painting: human figures, ...47 KB (7,130 words) - 17:04, 10 December 2023
- 1, 1755, at 9:40 in the morning. It was one of the most destructive and deadly ... in theodicy and in the philosophy of the sublime. As the first earthquake ...16 KB (2,455 words) - 04:24, 29 October 2022
- Baroque music describes an era and a set of styles of European classical ... relationships. Pythagoras' discovery of the overtone series, with its ...39 KB (5,985 words) - 10:49, 20 September 2023
- Haiku (俳句) is a mode of Japanese poetry initiated through a late ... The Hokku of early Japanese poets like Matsuo Basho and Ueshima Onitsura ...26 KB (4,075 words) - 16:44, 21 January 2024
- Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí Domènech, Marquis of Pubol or Salvador ... This sometimes irked those who loved his art as much as it annoyed his ...38 KB (5,792 words) - 01:13, 21 April 2023
- The Marx Brothers were a team of sibling comedians that played in ... into the movie business at the beginning of the "talkie" era ...20 KB (3,216 words) - 15:56, 7 November 2022
- "true words") is a major school of Japanese Buddhism, and is the ... The teachings of Shingon are based on esoteric Vajrayana texts, the ...22 KB (3,219 words) - 14:14, 27 January 2023
- cultural tradition. Although considered part of the culture of Spain in general ... Once the seeds of flamenco were planted in Andalusia, it grew as a ...47 KB (7,370 words) - 23:16, 21 April 2024
- de Lantins). The era begins with the fall of the Roman Empire (476 C.E. ... was very expensive, due to the expense of parchment, and the huge amount ...36 KB (5,655 words) - 04:07, 9 November 2022
- educator, and social thinker. The founder of "anthroposophy," ... into Burgenland, Austria, in the foothills of the eastern Alps. ...49 KB (7,066 words) - 17:42, 22 December 2022
- The history of economic thought concerns thinkers and theories in ... Following Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, classical economists ...51 KB (7,537 words) - 12:02, 1 February 2024
- The Kenites were a nomadic tribe of the ancient Levant, many of whom ... Among the well-known Kenites were Jethro, the "priest of Midian ...12 KB (1,877 words) - 17:23, 5 October 2022
- is one of the two styles of Indian classical music; the other is Hindustani ... where the student lived with and learned the art from his guru (master). Today ...40 KB (6,040 words) - 15:47, 28 November 2023
- ; March 9, 1934 – March 27, 1968), Hero of the Soviet Union, was ... Yuri Gagarin was born in the village of Klushino near Gzhatsk (now ...17 KB (2,467 words) - 10:29, 7 June 2023
- – January 24, 1965) was a Russian philosopher, representative of ... concerned with theology than with the task of working out a system of metaphysics ...12 KB (1,405 words) - 04:12, 15 November 2022
- , dráō). The enactment of drama in theater, performed by actors ... between comedy and tragedy. They are symbols of the ancient Greek Muses, Thalia ...37 KB (5,637 words) - 17:32, 30 January 2024
- quot;) refers to a "descent" of the divine into the realm of ... Due to the correspondences between the Hindu concept of avatar and ...18 KB (2,850 words) - 07:10, 23 August 2023
- in her writing was revived by adherents of women's studies in the ... in Hartford, Connecticut, the daughter of Mary Perkins (formerly Mary ...12 KB (1,666 words) - 00:42, 5 December 2023
- figure associated with a collection of poems from the Chinese Tang ... Most of Hanshan's 600 poems were inscribed on tree trunks or ...19 KB (3,199 words) - 20:34, 3 May 2021
- instructor, and actor widely regarded as one of the most influential martial ... Like many of his colleagues, Lee saw the martial arts in part as a ...24 KB (3,867 words) - 16:58, 29 April 2020
- the Minoans. Based on depictions in Minoan art, Minoan culture is often characterized ... have been used to describe the current ruler of the Minoan civilization. What ...35 KB (5,383 words) - 18:52, 9 November 2022
- Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and/or video signals (programs ... Broadcasting forms a very large segment of the mass media. Television ...26 KB (3,776 words) - 04:32, 22 November 2023
- Wade-Giles: Fa-chia; literally "School of law") was one of the four ... virtue.” Legalists held utilitarian views of humanity and received support ...22 KB (3,459 words) - 19:04, 25 October 2022
- |WHS = Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns ... in Greece, located about 90 km south-west of Athens, in the north-eastern ...18 KB (2,715 words) - 22:40, 10 November 2022
- doctor. Lacan’s ‘return to the meaning of Freud’ profoundly changed ... Lacan's work has had a profound impact on the development of ...49 KB (7,514 words) - 08:30, 18 March 2024
- Iona is a small island located in the north-west region of Scotland ... The island of Iona lies approximately one mile (1.6 km) from the ...12 KB (1,880 words) - 11:11, 6 March 2024
- In prosody, alliterative verse is a form of verse that uses alliteration ... The most intensively studied traditions of alliterative verse are ...24 KB (3,773 words) - 20:35, 30 November 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
- [[Image:Catlin - Dance to the berdache2.jpg|thumb|250 px|Detail of ... to the romantic, and/or sexual attraction of individuals to other individuals ...20 KB (2,817 words) - 17:59, 31 October 2023
- bend in each arm. Archaeological evidence of swastika-shaped ornaments dates ... Though once commonly used all over much of the world without stigma ...40 KB (5,959 words) - 00:36, 27 February 2023
- tales and he would eventually record a total of 11 fairy tales. All his tales ... The best known of these tales include Le Petit Chaperon rouge (Little ...11 KB (1,756 words) - 22:25, 4 December 2023
- A vacuum is a volume of space that is essentially empty of matter ... The quality of a vacuum is measured by how closely it approaches a ...37 KB (5,624 words) - 20:38, 21 April 2020
- astronomer, and philosopher, considered one of the greatest mathematicians ... after Eutocius brought out editions of some of his works, with commentaries ...30 KB (4,881 words) - 06:19, 12 August 2023
- A personality test aims to assess aspects of a person's character ... A variety of methods have been developed to assess personality differences ...32 KB (4,685 words) - 14:39, 29 September 2023
- that utilizes the behavior and effects of electrons for the production ... to cover electronic engineering amongst some of the older (notably American ...28 KB (3,902 words) - 16:01, 13 February 2024
- a process by which the texts and languages of Western philosophy (in particular ... Subjects relevant to deconstruction include the philosophy of meaning ...49 KB (7,258 words) - 09:03, 28 January 2024
- [[File:Initiation ritual of boys in Malawi.jpg|right|330px|thumb|Initiation ... quot; or "person") is the study of humanity (see genus Homo). ...28 KB (3,944 words) - 06:17, 31 July 2023
- Automatic writing is the process or product of writing without using ... Automatic writing first became popular during the golden age of Spiritualism ...13 KB (1,841 words) - 07:04, 23 August 2023
