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- Photochemistry, a sub-discipline of chemistry, is the study of the ... known as photochemical reactions. Examples of photochemical reactions are ...4 KB (569 words) - 04:25, 24 November 2022
- Cranmer and Matthew Parker, as a co-founder of Anglican theology. He was also ... Hooker believed that the Church of England should be a broad, tolerant ...12 KB (1,851 words) - 21:41, 8 December 2022
- Δίκαιο) is the study of differences and similarities ... discrepancies, comparative law uses the art of estimation by comparison which ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 08:07, 14 January 2023
- the greatest of China's Legalist philosophers. Along with Li ... work is collected in the 55 chapters of Han Feizi, which is also important ...13 KB (2,134 words) - 20:49, 21 January 2024
- is a theory that asserts that the nature of complex things is reduced to ... positivists attempted to achieve the unity of science ("unified science ...13 KB (1,960 words) - 02:59, 8 December 2022
- B.C.E. middle chronology) was the sixth king of Babylon. He became the first ... A great literary revival followed. One of the most important works ...13 KB (1,918 words) - 17:00, 21 January 2024
- The principle of sufficient reason is the principle which is presupposed ... The principle has a variety of expressions, all of which are perhaps ...13 KB (1,981 words) - 21:33, 26 February 2023
- Richard Cumberland (1631 - 1718) was an English philosopher and bishop ... In 1672, he wrote De legibus naturae (On Natural Laws), propounding ...13 KB (2,116 words) - 20:13, 8 December 2022
- who wrote An Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution ... British society in his day, the "Rule of Law" cannot be absolute ...10 KB (1,578 words) - 07:05, 13 June 2023
- and conversations, over an important circle of academics in Cambridge, Massachusetts ... After reading Darwin's Origin of Species (published in 1859) ...12 KB (1,761 words) - 00:45, 5 December 2023
- political sociology and the philosophy of history. His Lettres Persanes ... Montesquieu defined three forms of government: republics, monarchies ...17 KB (2,651 words) - 00:36, 5 December 2023
- According to Jewish tradition, the Noahide Laws (Hebrew: שבע מצוות ... The Noahide Laws are significant because they attempt to extend G ...22 KB (3,451 words) - 09:58, 11 March 2023
- primarily in Germany, held by a number of thinkers in diverse disciplines ... Historicism also often challenged the concept of truth and the notion ...14 KB (2,067 words) - 15:55, 25 January 2023
- Parmenides of Elea (c. 515 – 450 b.c.e.) was a Greek pre-Socratic ... Earlier pre-Socratic philosophers identified the ultimate principle ...11 KB (1,608 words) - 08:52, 18 November 2022
- Dialectical materialism is the philosophical expression of Marxism ... struggle. It follows the Hegelian principle of the philosophy of history, ...15 KB (2,180 words) - 10:24, 29 January 2024
- Nicolai Hartmann (February 20, 1882 – October 9, 1950) was one of ... by his own existence within the restrictions of time and space, and by the ...15 KB (2,188 words) - 23:34, 14 November 2022
- Leviticus is the third book of the Hebrew Bible. The English name ... Observant Jews still follow the laws contained in Leviticus, except ...17 KB (2,713 words) - 00:25, 19 November 2023
- by Herbert Spencer's application of the evolution theory of Charles ... American history, promoting the concept of the United States as the climax ...10 KB (1,417 words) - 06:36, 8 April 2024
- an important twentieth-century philosopher of science. Born in Prague, he ... The Structure of Science (1961), an examination of the logical structure ...9 KB (1,352 words) - 19:32, 13 February 2024
- American neoclassical economist, a pioneer of the marginalist revolution ... as the relationship between distribution of income and production, which ...13 KB (1,870 words) - 07:36, 5 April 2024
- philosopher whose successful reorganization of the state of Ch'in or ... reforms by first establishing the authority of law (fa), which was to be enforced ...17 KB (2,693 words) - 13:12, 27 January 2023
- Kant to the epistemological approach of his philosophy. Kant presents ... at a synthesis between existing forms of idealism (affirming the reality ...14 KB (2,167 words) - 00:54, 2 May 2023
- mutual incompatibility, real or apparent, of two laws. It is a term often ... The term antinomy is found in the works of Plutarch (46 – 127), ...15 KB (2,342 words) - 06:35, 31 July 2023
- Coulomb was born in Angoulême, France. He was the son of Henry Coulomb ... During this time, Coulomb submitted some of his first work to the Society ...9 KB (1,400 words) - 01:48, 4 December 2023
- The Alien and Sedition Acts were four laws passed by the United States ... The most controversial of the four statutes was the Sedition Act, ...12 KB (1,748 words) - 18:22, 21 July 2023
- is logically distinct both from early forms of animism, which personifies ... Neo-Pythagoreans and especially the Neo-Platonic school of Alexandria ...13 KB (1,922 words) - 13:20, 4 February 2023
- strict interpretation and application of the laws and ethics promulgated ... The Hasidic movement, which is a subset of Haredi Judaism, is less focused ...17 KB (2,525 words) - 02:20, 18 November 2022
- Mishnah, from approx. 70-200 C.E. The period of the Tannaim, also referred ... ), which also is the root-word of Mishnah. The verb shanah ( ...11 KB (1,610 words) - 04:25, 27 February 2023
- omnipotence only to God. In the philosophies of Western monotheistic religions ... There are a variety of views of omnipotence, and the five most representative ...25 KB (3,894 words) - 00:37, 18 November 2022
- It refers to the “supreme principle of morality” (4:392), from which ... " Since maxims are, roughly, principles of action, the categorical imperative ...22 KB (3,484 words) - 17:59, 30 November 2023
- Wade-Giles: Fa-chia; literally "School of law") was one of the four ... virtue.” Legalists held utilitarian views of humanity and received support ...22 KB (3,459 words) - 19:04, 25 October 2022
- Along with Roberto Bellarmine, he was one of the leading thinkers who defended ... was the first systematic and extensive work of metaphysics composed in the ...12 KB (1,759 words) - 04:55, 9 April 2024
- referring to the desire or interest of a people as a whole. It is ... General will is what a fully-informed body politic (community of citizens ...14 KB (2,206 words) - 06:45, 18 April 2024
- meaning "power") is a branch of physics that studies the effects ... quot; thus, thermodynamics is the study of the movement of energy and ...25 KB (3,670 words) - 18:29, 30 April 2023
- Blasphemy is the defamation of the name of one or more gods. In a ... In Judaism, blasphemy is the uttering of God's name and/or speaking ...20 KB (3,022 words) - 14:33, 8 February 2022
- philosopher, theologian, and bishop of Lincoln, is well-known for ... Grosseteste was the first of the Scholastics to fully understand Aristotle ...16 KB (2,394 words) - 05:05, 15 December 2022
- before being appointed as Wykeham professor of logic at New College, Oxford ... His earliest book, Perception (1932), rejected causal theories of ...10 KB (1,458 words) - 17:46, 29 July 2023
- Excellence/Posterity") was the priest of Midian and Moses' father ... sacrificial feast with Aaron and the elders of Israel. Moses then accepted ...13 KB (2,051 words) - 02:58, 1 August 2022
- In philosophy the idea of choice usually arises in discussions of ... In modern philosophy, the notion of choice has received a wide variety ...11 KB (1,729 words) - 17:10, 10 December 2023
- to the most important scriptural writings of Judaism, which constitute the ... The five books of the Pentateuch are titled as follows: ...20 KB (3,080 words) - 07:22, 23 November 2022
- and logician during the second half of the nineteenth century. He ... Lotze combined the monads of Gottfried Leibniz's spheres of individual ...24 KB (3,658 words) - 16:57, 22 December 2022
- Freedom of speech is the ability to speak without censorship or limitation ... Freedom of speech is a key factor in the spread of information in ...18 KB (2,627 words) - 10:48, 11 April 2024
- is best known as an early advocate of utilitarianism. He was a political ... Bentham argued in favor of individual and economic freedom, including ...18 KB (2,665 words) - 07:56, 3 April 2024
- French physicist, philosopher and historian of science. His most influential ... At the young age of eleven, Duhem entered the Collège Stanislas. ...15 KB (2,236 words) - 05:22, 24 November 2022
- 6, 1884) was an Austrian monk whose studies of the inheritance of traits in ... more than 20,000 pea plants inside the walls of his monastery. He was a teacher ...16 KB (2,499 words) - 19:37, 5 January 2024
- , a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher, was one of the chief pioneers of the revival ... His clarification of the distinction between Platonic and Aristotelian ...11 KB (1,525 words) - 06:39, 18 April 2024
- medieval Korean noble and politician of the early Joseon dynasty. He ... Goryeo dynasty, took the Neo-Confucianism of Zuxhi and the Cheng brothers ...11 KB (1,633 words) - 01:06, 9 February 2023
- gained international fame as the co-author of The Polish Peasant in Europe ... information from written records of the society they were studying ...11 KB (1,469 words) - 07:56, 21 May 2021
- Theodora (c. 500 – June 28, 548) was empress of the Byzantine Empire ... She used her influence to promote the status of women, enhancing their ...8 KB (1,261 words) - 02:27, 19 April 2023
- Antitrust laws, or competition laws, are laws which prohibit anti ... The history of competition law reaches back further than the Roman ...26 KB (3,912 words) - 06:41, 31 July 2023
- 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
- 1908) was a British philosopher and leader of the Neo-Hegelian school in ... Caird published two sets of Gifford lectures, The Evolution of Religion ...11 KB (1,641 words) - 18:22, 12 February 2024
- philosopher who advocated a reconstruction of society based on idea that ... in units called “phalanxes” composed of male and female representatives ...19 KB (2,798 words) - 01:59, 4 December 2023
- quot;) refers to most important scriptures of Judaism that are the foundation ... oral law, encompassing the entire spectrum of authoritative Jewish religious ...24 KB (3,856 words) - 04:01, 1 May 2023
- Clarence Walker Barron (July 2, 1855 – October 2, 1928) is one of ... His notes of conversations, which revealed how closely connected and ...12 KB (1,777 words) - 10:25, 19 December 2023
- Astrophysics is the branch of astronomy that deals with the physics ... They have also observed the birth and death of stars, cosmic rays, the cosmic ...14 KB (1,947 words) - 18:28, 19 August 2023
- trauma on defenseless children. Victims of child abuse often become abusers ... The solution to the widespread phenomenon of child abuse cannot be found ...23 KB (3,424 words) - 15:27, 10 December 2023
- term designated a profession in or a group of teachers of rhetoric. Rhetoricians ... Socrates and Plato challenged sophist ideas of replacing rhetorical ...11 KB (1,583 words) - 01:17, 4 February 2023
- :Note: Zeno of Citium should not be confused with Zeno of Elea. ... Zeno of Citium (The Stoic) (sometime called Zeno Apathea) (333 – ...9 KB (1,466 words) - 05:48, 13 June 2023
- philosopher, and encyclopedist, and one of the first outspoken atheists ... place for all the intellectual figures of his time, radical and conservative ...19 KB (2,831 words) - 08:10, 20 September 2023
- 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
- Zi (1619 - 1692) was a Chinese philosopher of the late Ming and early Ch ... Like other great thinkers of the transition era between the Ming and ...11 KB (1,753 words) - 22:51, 3 May 2023
- he has now come to be regarded as one of the four or so most important ... Frege began his studies at the University of Jena in 1869, moving to Göttingen ...16 KB (2,250 words) - 20:22, 11 September 2021
- nature," derived from the arrangement of Aristotle's works) is ... A central part of metaphysics is ontology, which is the study of being ...19 KB (2,966 words) - 16:22, 9 November 2022
- rabbi, Jewish philosopher, and exegete of the geonic period, known for ... quot; is apparently the Hebrew equivalent of his Arabic name, "Sa& ...22 KB (3,468 words) - 18:29, 22 December 2022
- to mythology. They initiated a new method of explanation known as philosophy ... The pre-Socratic style of thought is often called natural philosophy ...21 KB (3,010 words) - 22:19, 30 November 2022
- Natural law or the law of nature (Latin lex naturalis) is law whose ... Though Aristotle is often referred to as “the father of natural law,” ...24 KB (3,647 words) - 15:20, 11 November 2022
- by the belief that while one set of beliefs is absolutely true ... Broadly speaking, there are two schools of Inclusivist thought: ...21 KB (3,342 words) - 22:00, 4 February 2023
- Paternalism refers to acting for the good of another person against ... Paternalism can effect various spheres of life, be it financial (mandatory ...22 KB (3,463 words) - 09:06, 18 November 2022
- Utopia is a term denoting a visionary or ideally perfect state of ... to create a perfect society. Utopian thought deals with morality, ethics ...19 KB (2,908 words) - 14:05, 3 May 2023
- Princeton, New Jersey) was a philosopher of science and a major figure ... Hempel was a major theorist of logical positivism, but, at later stage ...24 KB (3,610 words) - 19:18, 26 November 2023
- , in theology, is the idea that members of a particular religious group ... The topic of antinomianism is quite complex because it involves the ...21 KB (3,237 words) - 06:34, 31 July 2023
- 2, 1927) was a Swedish chemist and one of the founders of the science ... district near Uppsala, Sweden, the son of Svante Gustav and Carolina ...15 KB (2,260 words) - 00:32, 27 February 2023
- Civil rights are the protections and privileges of personal power ... Laws guaranteeing civil rights may be written down, derived from custom ...29 KB (4,520 words) - 22:29, 10 December 2023
- with free will, and oversimplification of complex phenomena. == Mechanism as the principles of nature== The older doctrine which ...18 KB (2,812 words) - 09:35, 10 March 2023
- was an English political theorist and one of the first absolutists. Born ... on natural law, which equated the authority of the king over his subjects ...12 KB (1,931 words) - 05:04, 15 December 2022
- theological writer, and Anglican archbishop of Dublin (1831–1863). Whately’s ... to hold public office, and state endowment of the Roman Catholic clergy. ...13 KB (2,059 words) - 01:50, 14 December 2022
- The Physiocrats were a group of economists who believed that the wealth ... The most significant contribution of the physiocrats was their emphasis ...22 KB (3,407 words) - 05:10, 24 November 2022
- He was the leading Aristotelian scholar of the Alexandrist group. His ... Pomponazzi also radically criticized what are generally thought of ...11 KB (1,608 words) - 05:29, 24 November 2022
- In Mesopotamian religion Shamash was the Akkadian name of the sun ... In addition to being the god of the sun, Shamash was also the deity ...13 KB (2,138 words) - 12:22, 27 January 2023
- States law and the basis for the exercise of judicial review of Federal ... Marbury, who had been appointed as Justice of the Peace in the District of ...23 KB (3,669 words) - 03:04, 6 November 2022
- World Tomorrow and was an associate editor of The Nation. He also participated ... that he attested to. He was a stalwart of socialism who opposed communism ...11 KB (1,518 words) - 02:47, 16 November 2022
- Won Buddhism, Wonbulgyo, a compound of the Korean won (circle) and ... enlightenment in 1916 and had a precognition of the world entering an era of ...8 KB (1,141 words) - 14:59, 17 April 2023
- 27, 1963) was an American economist, the son of John Bates Clark. He was one ... Clark recognized that there were aspects of human nature that influenced ...11 KB (1,541 words) - 06:33, 3 August 2022
- Unification thought sees history as a theater in which God works voluntarily ... ==The Goal of History== The goal of history is restoration or "re ...26 KB (3,993 words) - 02:18, 18 April 2023
- than revelation—should form the basis of religion. In England and the ... In France, on the other hand, Deism in the person of Voltaire took ...25 KB (3,734 words) - 09:13, 28 January 2024
- 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
- not limit himself to a mere clarification of the master’s ideas, but neither ... Fries was born at Barby in Saxony. He studied theology at the Academy ...9 KB (1,390 words) - 12:47, 6 November 2021
- perform certain acts, they govern ways of acting and of being treated ... as opposed to imperfect duties such as acts of charity). Whether these duties ...21 KB (3,233 words) - 01:39, 15 December 2022
- political theorist, statesman, and leader of the Meiji Enlightenment in ... During his youth, Kato was a liberal advocate of constitutional government ...10 KB (1,423 words) - 17:14, 5 October 2022
- Deuteronomy is the fifth book of the Hebrew Bible. It is part of Judaism ... The language of Deuteronomy is often inspiring and poetic, portrayed ...25 KB (3,999 words) - 07:26, 17 November 2023
- – February 21, 1677), is considered one of the great rationalists of seventeenth ... Spinoza was born to a family of Sephardic Jews, among the Spanish ...28 KB (4,336 words) - 11:00, 20 September 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
- from and within the contexts and history of Christianity. While Ethics ... Catholic moral theology is a major category of doctrine in the Roman ...11 KB (1,633 words) - 21:19, 9 November 2022
- 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
- Epicureanism is a system of philosophy based upon the teachings of ... pleasure is an important constituent of human happiness, but only when ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 19:06, 13 February 2024
- theologian. As a Pythagorean mystic, he thought of the universe as founded ... Many of Kepler's writings reflect his deep desire to understand ...31 KB (4,812 words) - 07:18, 5 April 2024
- the “Psychological School,” is a school of economic thought that advocates ... from the method advocated by the majority of contemporary economists, the ...22 KB (3,203 words) - 19:14, 22 August 2023
- applying evolutionary theory to the study of politics and ethics. He coined ... Herbert Spencer was born in Derby, England on April 27, 1820, the ...19 KB (2,968 words) - 15:43, 25 January 2023
- nihilism and promoting it as the prime fault of Enlightenment thought and Kantianism ... Jacobi was born at Düsseldorf, the second son of a wealthy sugar ...10 KB (1,513 words) - 11:04, 11 April 2024
- Shammai (50 B.C.E. – 30 C.E.) was a famous Jewish scholar of the ... Shammai's school became known as the House of Shammai (Beit Shammai ...13 KB (2,076 words) - 13:10, 27 January 2023
- twelfth-century Franco-Jewish rabbi and critic of Maimonides. to attempt a systematic integration of Aristotelianism into Jewish ...20 KB (3,202 words) - 22:53, 8 April 2021
- 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
- Freedom is traditionally understood as independence of the arbitrary ... A slave is constantly subject to the will of another. By contrast ...28 KB (4,455 words) - 10:43, 11 April 2024
- Ashkenazic pronunciation), is the weekly day of rest in Judaism, some forms ... Christianity inherited the Jewish tradition of Sabbath, but gradually ...24 KB (3,695 words) - 18:30, 22 December 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
- Supreme Court decision in the jurisprudence of the United States, upholding ... The decision was handed down by a vote of 7 to 1, with the majority ...10 KB (1,574 words) - 08:04, 24 November 2022
- 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
- out") is a parameter or measure of spatial characteristics of ... Thus, an idealized point (with a thickness of zero or nearly zero ...16 KB (2,438 words) - 15:22, 29 January 2024
- Polish-Jewish Rabbi, theologian, historian of religion and a leader of Progressive ... the Nazis seized power, he became a leader of the representative Jewish body ...12 KB (1,837 words) - 20:03, 25 October 2022
- who lived during the most brilliant era of Roman public life. An academic ... For Cicero, politics took precedence over philosophy. Most of his ...34 KB (5,558 words) - 22:01, 10 December 2023
- Today Mach is probably best known for his positivistic account of ... Mach had an enormous range of scientific interests. According to Peter ...9 KB (1,301 words) - 21:22, 20 March 2024
- Judaism is the religious culture of the Jewish people. While far from ... According to Jewish thought, God established a covenant with the Jewish ...32 KB (4,804 words) - 20:55, 4 October 2022
- The Divine Right of Kings is a political and religious doctrine of ... The origins of the theory are rooted in the medieval idea that God ...11 KB (1,829 words) - 15:08, 26 August 2020
- "for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the ... Wigner is important for having laid the foundation for the theory ...11 KB (1,566 words) - 04:15, 23 March 2024
- together with Confucius, is considered one of the two great moral teachers ... Mozi founded the school of Mohism and argued strongly against Confucianism ...15 KB (2,461 words) - 17:52, 10 November 2022
- another object while under the influence of a source of centripetal force ... who formulated his results in his three laws of planetary motion based ...29 KB (4,580 words) - 01:05, 18 November 2022
- Historically, yantras have been used in Hinduism for a variety of ... In its most recognizable form, a yantra is a type of sacred geometry ...9 KB (1,275 words) - 10:12, 22 May 2023
- as a modification of Newtonian physics. It was created to deal with ... Einstein postulated that the speed of light is the same for all observers ...42 KB (6,653 words) - 19:12, 7 February 2023
- debate about the nature, limits, and causes of reason have been important ... cognition show that animals are capable of some types of on a lower level ...15 KB (2,212 words) - 01:41, 8 December 2022
- The English Historical School of Economics, although not nearly as ... The school considered itself the intellectual heirs of past figures ...27 KB (3,885 words) - 08:56, 5 September 2023
- Educated through the difficult life of an American emigrant in the ... Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and held the position ...14 KB (2,176 words) - 01:17, 21 April 2023
- with the 1641 publication, in Paris, of Rene Descartes' Meditationes ... body) discussed in the philosophical systems of six major figures in the Modern ...25 KB (3,892 words) - 19:25, 9 November 2022
- The Book of Numbers is the fourth of the books of the Pentateuch, ... The main theme running through the Book of Numbers is the people& ...28 KB (4,576 words) - 20:04, 17 May 2023
- first and most well-known governor-general of British India, from 1773 to ... Hastings, unlike many of his successors, respected and admired Indian ...14 KB (2,155 words) - 22:56, 3 May 2023
- Reform Judaism refers to the spectrum of beliefs, practices, and institutions ... Jewish law and rejects virtually all aspects of the ceremonial and dietary ...19 KB (2,867 words) - 03:01, 8 December 2022
- to order capital punishment. The legitimacy of political authority is, however ... Since the emergence of the social sciences, authority has been a subject ...10 KB (1,553 words) - 19:17, 22 August 2023
- The Therapeutae (meaning: "healers") were an ancient order ... According to Philo, communities of Therapeutae were widely established ...12 KB (1,764 words) - 18:27, 30 April 2023
- as "Word," but can also mean thought, speech, meaning, reason ... such as Dao (Tao), the Vedic notion of rta, and the Hindu and Buddhist ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 21:00, 3 November 2022
- (c. 386 – c. 451 C.E.) was archbishop of Constantinople from April 10 ... His political rival, Cyril, bishop of Alexandria, used the Christological ...12 KB (1,909 words) - 16:23, 11 November 2022
- ) is a major Jewish festival, also known as Succoth, Sukkos, the Feast ... in the wilderness under the leadership of Moses. However, it may have ...19 KB (2,871 words) - 21:43, 26 February 2023
- Positivism is a family of philosophical views characterized by a highly ... As Niccola Abbagnano has put it: The characteristic theses of positivism ...11 KB (1,561 words) - 05:45, 30 November 2022
- Inquisition, (capitalized I) as broadly used, refers to the judgment ... to the modern mindset. However, the notion of religious liberty and of freedom ...22 KB (3,262 words) - 22:52, 5 February 2023
- and Anaximenes, explored the origin of existing beings and developed ... Pythagoras approached the question of being from an angle that was ...15 KB (2,230 words) - 03:55, 7 December 2022
- Praise and blame are closely connected with the concept of moral responsibility ... blame someone? There are two main schools of thought on this question. Firstly ...33 KB (5,325 words) - 22:13, 30 November 2022
- a French thinker known as the "father of sociology." He developed ... in his later work, he embraced the concept of love as bringing the solution ...22 KB (3,359 words) - 19:00, 21 August 2023
- Justice is the ideal, morally correct state of things and persons ... important: "Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth ...34 KB (5,251 words) - 21:23, 4 October 2022
- A Gentile is a non-Jew, the term being a common English translation ... who settled among the Jews. The Book of Leviticus thus commands: "The ...20 KB (3,103 words) - 06:50, 18 April 2024
- The term social contract describes a broad class of philosophical ... Common to all of these theories is the notion of a sovereign will ...28 KB (4,260 words) - 15:01, 27 April 2023
- challenged the laissez faire economic policy of his time and criticized the ... be changed. His Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation, was published ...28 KB (4,469 words) - 21:18, 30 April 2023
- 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
- referring to the exposition, or exegesis, of a biblical text. The term can ... The two basic types of midrash are known as Midrash Aggadah, regarding ...16 KB (2,400 words) - 17:34, 9 November 2022
- In law, treason is the crime of disloyalty to one's nation. A ... drawing and quartering. However, the charge of treason was greatly abused ...14 KB (2,143 words) - 12:38, 18 April 2023
- reformer, who dedicated more than 40 years of his life to the education of ... throughout France. A strong proponent of reading and universal education ...12 KB (1,857 words) - 19:49, 22 December 2022
- Classical mechanics is used for describing the motion of macroscopic ... with high velocity, approaching the speed of light; general relativity is ...33 KB (4,963 words) - 10:51, 19 December 2023
- term originated primarily through the work of the nineteenth century Danish ... thing, but rather experiences the anxiety of the existential nothingness ...8 KB (1,159 words) - 17:33, 30 January 2024
- bishop, a religious refugee, and one of the earliest champions of universal ... who had many practical ideas in the field of education. His numerous publications ...15 KB (2,350 words) - 00:05, 8 January 2024
- 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
- was the first woman appointed to the board of Edmonton Hospital. In 1916 ... #039;s role in winning legal recognition of the "person-hood" ...28 KB (4,315 words) - 10:23, 21 January 2023
- to 1831, the hall was crowded as the hall of no philosophical teacher in ... In 1840, when Cousin became Minister of Public Instruction in France ...26 KB (4,045 words) - 18:04, 3 May 2023
- exposure for adultery in Japan from Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs ... Punishment is the practice of imposing something unpleasant on a person ...23 KB (3,563 words) - 18:12, 14 April 2023
- The Samaritan Pentateuch is the text of the the first five books of ... The Samaritans share with Jews a belief in the Torah and its laws ...12 KB (1,793 words) - 22:25, 26 September 2023
- The term natural philosophy, or the philosophy of nature (Latin, philosophia ... and G.W.F. Hegel, and championed the concept of an organic and dynamic physical ...13 KB (1,838 words) - 22:42, 28 March 2023
- and sociologist, a leading thinker of the Frankfurt School/critical ... Horkheimer co-authored Dialectic of Enlightenment with Adorno, and ...10 KB (1,416 words) - 00:55, 9 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
- Court decision establishing that most laws against abortion violate a ... choose to deem the act illegal), the role of the Supreme Court in constitutional ...34 KB (5,154 words) - 02:29, 16 December 2022
- 1753), Anglo-Irish philosopher and Bishop of Cloyne, was one of the three ... George Berkeley’s name in the history of philosophy is linked to ...23 KB (3,672 words) - 07:03, 18 April 2024
- The Damascus Document, also called the Zadokite Fragments, is one ... Because it gives insights into the special religious attitudes of ...13 KB (2,022 words) - 22:57, 22 June 2020
- for one's actions. The concept of autonomy is also found in education ... One of the best known philosophical theories of autonomy was developed ...16 KB (2,461 words) - 07:07, 23 August 2023
- 9, 1936) was an American journalist and one of the most famous and influential ... estate" at its best. Politicians are of course bound by the same laws ...10 KB (1,453 words) - 04:14, 29 October 2022
- a moral and political connotation. In terms of morality, ‘absolutism’ ... In terms of politics, ‘absolutism’ refers to a type of government ...18 KB (2,761 words) - 06:37, 14 June 2023
- the twentieth century. It includes a number of thinkers who emphasize common ... element in thinking and the primacy of the will over purely logical ...22 KB (3,260 words) - 23:54, 24 March 2024
- years, and are regarded as national heroines of Vietnam. Vietnam as such did ... riding on elephants into battle. The stories of the Trưng sisters and of another ...14 KB (2,364 words) - 23:51, 5 November 2022
- and educationalist who advanced the study of psychology with his work on ... For 20 years Bain was professor of logic and English literature at ...14 KB (2,073 words) - 05:12, 17 June 2023
- philosopher, is widely considered the father of Neoplatonism. Plotinus' ... Much of our biographical information about Plotinus comes from Porphyry ...12 KB (1,813 words) - 08:05, 24 November 2022
- philosopher, theologian and historian of science. His surname is pronounced ... Whewell’s philosophy of science included the claim that through ...22 KB (3,347 words) - 20:45, 13 May 2023
- to all slaves in the Confederate States of America. It was not a law passed ... on January 1, 1863, declaring the freedom of all slaves in the Confederate ...16 KB (2,559 words) - 17:52, 13 February 2024
- lawyer, human rights activist and founder of Children's Rights Support ... headscarf and for allegedly shaking the hand of a man. Defending her, reformist ...17 KB (2,614 words) - 19:59, 21 April 2023
- cannot be derived from others, while laws and rules can. Greek philosophy ... analysis itself. Critical self-analysis of its own procedures, methodologies ...9 KB (1,192 words) - 22:57, 30 November 2022
- Intermarriage is the marriage between two people of different backgrounds ... Intermarriage is a form of exogamy, or marrying outside of one's ...21 KB (3,227 words) - 12:55, 7 February 2023
- The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth ... England, the Pilgrims arrived off the coast of New England without a patent ...12 KB (1,842 words) - 02:22, 9 November 2022
- In philosophy, materialism is a monistic (everything is composed of ... assuming the existence or non-existence of the supernatural. Materialists ...23 KB (3,418 words) - 16:49, 7 November 2022
- played a major role in shaping the fields of personality psychology and ... personality, recognizing that universal laws alone could never tell the ...18 KB (2,581 words) - 03:25, 23 December 2022
- and human rights activist. The father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, he ... 1945 to study at the Theoretical Department of Lebedev Physical Institute ...11 KB (1,679 words) - 20:10, 26 July 2023
- A Plastid is any member of a family of organelles found in the cells ... Plastids are the site of manufacture and storage of important chemical ...12 KB (1,679 words) - 16:58, 14 October 2021
- that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure, joy, and satisfaction ... According to traditional Western thought from the antiquity through ...19 KB (2,937 words) - 10:19, 26 September 2023
- Neo-Kantianism designates the revived or modified types of Kantian ... The return to Kant of Neo-Kantianism in the second part of the nineteenth ...24 KB (3,466 words) - 16:16, 11 November 2022
- KaihsuTai.jpg|thumb|400px|right|A rally of the trade union UNISON in Oxford ... A labor union, or trade union, is an association of fair wage-earners ...25 KB (3,721 words) - 04:31, 6 October 2022
- Jewish works refer to him by the acronym of his title and name, RaMBaM ... Maimonides is typically regarded as the greatest of the medieval Jewish ...14 KB (2,001 words) - 05:30, 5 November 2022
- those universals really exist in some sense of "exist," either independently ... realism. It is basically with the spirit of nominalism that empiricism ...19 KB (2,997 words) - 02:38, 16 November 2022
- Philo (20 B.C.E. – 50 C.E.), known also as Philo of Alexandria and ... Bible as an allegory for the rise and fall of the human soul. He developed ...29 KB (4,517 words) - 04:00, 24 November 2022
- Knauth, was an American philosopher of art, a writer, and an educator ... but her doctrine has become an integral part of the "collective unconsciousness” ...17 KB (2,624 words) - 00:28, 27 February 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
- In physics, acceleration is defined as the rate of change of velocity—that ... This means that it is defined by properties of magnitude (size or measurability ...11 KB (1,660 words) - 07:17, 14 June 2023
- Pacis (“On the Law (and Rights and Wrongs) of War and Peace,” 1625) secured ... Grotius removed natural law from the jurisdiction of moral theologians ...25 KB (3,772 words) - 12:17, 4 February 2023
- difference between our experience of time and space. Modern physics ... The basic property of spacetime is 'the metric' that describes ...28 KB (4,269 words) - 19:16, 17 August 2023
- mammal that lives in the cold Arctic seas of the Northern Hemisphere and ... There are six populations of walruses in the arctic and two or three ...11 KB (1,787 words) - 18:47, 17 April 2023
- October 17, 1938) was a leading theoretician of German Social Democracy before ... He became an important critic of the anti-democratic tendencies of ...14 KB (2,094 words) - 10:45, 28 February 2023
- American public intellectual, was a scholar of extraordinary range who made ... energy to developing and promoting his style of libertarianism, developing ...36 KB (5,322 words) - 19:01, 10 November 2022
- [[Image:Euaion.jpg|thumb|right|A portrait from a vase of a Greek actor ... ) (Ancient Greek: Σοφοκλης) was one of the three great ancient Greek ...23 KB (3,721 words) - 01:18, 4 February 2023
- in the "National System" type of capitalism. Although greatly ... in 1789. Unwilling to follow the occupation of his father, who was a prosperous ...19 KB (2,994 words) - 11:05, 11 April 2024
- [which] belongs to the school) was a method of learning taught by the academics ... It combined religious doctrine, study of the ideas of the Church fathers ...14 KB (1,990 words) - 17:20, 25 January 2023
- who is generally regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential ... Mathematica, Newton enunciated his law of universal gravitation and three ...38 KB (5,841 words) - 19:00, 7 March 2024
- in Judaism to refer to the commandments, of which there are 613, given ... Rabbis are divided between those who seek the purpose of the mitzvot ...49 KB (8,351 words) - 19:22, 9 November 2022
- Born in the Netherlands, he lived most of his life in England and wrote ... He was known for The Fable of the Bees (1714), which was first published ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 15:56, 29 September 2023
- The Epistle to the Galatians is a book of the New Testament. It is ... The letter indicates that some of the Galatians had been influenced ...16 KB (2,432 words) - 19:12, 13 February 2024
- who virtually created the discipline of comparative religion. He was ... Müller's use of comparative linguistics in his research methodology ...30 KB (4,499 words) - 00:55, 9 November 2022
- The Book of Proverbs is one of the books of the "Writings" ... The Book of Proverbs belongs to the group of Ḥokmah, or "Wisdom ...13 KB (2,047 words) - 00:28, 19 November 2023
- The Historical school of economics was an approach to academic economics ... practiced in the Classical Anglo-Saxon world of Ricardo and John Stuart Mill ...33 KB (4,933 words) - 21:55, 31 January 2024
- ) is the ruins of the last capital of China's Shang Dynasty ... site became famous as the original source of oracle bones and oracle bone ...11 KB (1,657 words) - 11:14, 24 May 2023
- that people require the positive influence of teachers and ritual praxis ... Little is known of the historical Xunzi, save that he was born in ...24 KB (3,958 words) - 14:34, 20 May 2023
- turning Lieutenant William Bligh and some of the officers and crew adrift ... Mutiny is the act of conspiring to disobey an order that a group of ...14 KB (2,145 words) - 02:39, 11 March 2023
- The Treaty of Nanking (Nánjīng Tiáoyuē) is the agreement which ... The establishment of Hong Kong and of other Treaty Port settlements ...13 KB (2,030 words) - 23:41, 21 April 2020
- 275px|"Eugenics is the self-direction of human evolution": Logo ... Eugenics is a social philosophy which advocates the improvement of ...35 KB (5,140 words) - 04:18, 23 March 2024
- [[Image:Galileo.arp.300pix.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Portrait of Galileo ... whose career coincided with that of Johannes Kepler. His work constitutes ...28 KB (4,354 words) - 03:55, 18 April 2024
- The Nuremberg Trials were a series of trials most notable for the ... There was a second set of trials of lesser war criminals that was ...26 KB (4,019 words) - 01:19, 17 November 2022
- birth control activist, and the founder of the American Birth Control ... before dying of tuberculosis and cervical cancer. Sanger attended ...14 KB (2,043 words) - 08:32, 10 March 2023
- crater)|Daedalus]], photographed by the crew of Apollo 11 as they circled the ... = astron + nomos, literally, "law of the stars") is the science ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 18:26, 19 August 2023
- Exodus (meaning: "mass migration or exiting of a people from ... The Book of Exodus presents some of the Bible's most dramatic ...26 KB (4,281 words) - 07:28, 17 November 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
- in Giorgio Vasari's Vite (Lives of the Artists). Alberti studied ... Alberti was employed by Pope Nicholas V in the restoration of the ...24 KB (3,831 words) - 20:08, 25 October 2022
- the first to measure the average density of the earth using the gravitational ... His mother was Lady Anne Gray, daughter of the Duke of Kent and his father ...8 KB (1,276 words) - 07:10, 22 January 2024
- An endangered species is any animal or plant species that is in danger ... for anything or anyone that is in danger of dying out, such as "conservatives ...22 KB (2,981 words) - 16:35, 5 January 2021
- and military engineer whose formulation of the laws on the theoretical ... Although Carnot operated outside the mainstream of the scientific ...15 KB (2,378 words) - 23:36, 14 November 2022
- has been used by economists since in defense of free trade. The main underlying ... years old, he was orphaned and became a ward of his father's parents. ...23 KB (3,509 words) - 10:54, 19 December 2023
- teacher and, in modern times, the leader of a synagogue. The term was first ... With the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem in 70 C.E., the Jewish ...21 KB (3,138 words) - 16:07, 7 December 2022
- Marsilius of Padua (Italian Marsilio or Marsiglio da Padova) (1270 ... Marcilius was one of the first to apply the methods of Aristotelian ...12 KB (1,929 words) - 16:16, 6 November 2022
- Criminology is the scientific study of crime as an individual and ... crime and ensuring the safety and well-being of all members of society. The ...34 KB (4,876 words) - 06:24, 11 January 2024
- , was a prophetess and the only female Judge of pre-monarchic Israel in the ... this same story in poetic form, and it is thought to have been composed in ...14 KB (2,226 words) - 08:58, 28 January 2024
- 28, 551 B.C.E. – 479 B.C.E.) is one of the world's foremost exemplary ... Confucius taught personal and public morality, correctness of social ...28 KB (4,530 words) - 19:00, 15 May 2020
- [[Image:Universum.jpg|thumb|300px|Colorized version of the Flammarion ... Friedrich Krause (1781-1832), in the process of replacing scholarly notions ...21 KB (3,199 words) - 11:13, 11 March 2023
- An island or isle is a tract of land that is completely surrounded ... There are two main types of islands: continental islands and oceanic ...19 KB (2,807 words) - 19:43, 7 February 2023
- Arabic word for Islamic law, also known as the Law of Allah. It shows one of many ways that humanity strives to harmonize and maintain ...36 KB (5,852 words) - 19:56, 21 April 2023
- from other developed nations because of its national credo, historical ... also be used in a negative sense by critics of American policies to refer ...29 KB (4,328 words) - 06:49, 25 July 2023
- Transcendentalism was a group of new ideas in literature, religion ... Transcendentalism began as a protest against the general state of ...16 KB (2,410 words) - 01:03, 2 May 2023
- and one or two tails. The main body of the comet, called its nucleus ... opportunity to study the early history of the solar system. In addition ...28 KB (4,322 words) - 00:05, 8 January 2024
- ; "School of Mo") or Moism is a Chinese Philosophy founded ... Mohism presented a challenge to the dominant Confucian thought, emphasizing ...17 KB (2,759 words) - 19:44, 9 November 2022
- Ijtihad (Arabic اجتهاد) is a technical term of Islamic law that ... Sometime during the ninth century, the majority of Sunni decided that ...12 KB (1,870 words) - 00:00, 19 December 2020
- 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
- writer. He has been dubbed the "Father of Modern Philosophy" and ... Descartes frequently sets his views apart from those of his predecessors ...25 KB (3,599 words) - 04:02, 8 December 2022
- [[Image:Epikur.jpg|right|thumb|234px|Bust of Epicurus]] an ancient Greek philosopher, the founder of Epicureanism, one of the most ...19 KB (3,054 words) - 19:07, 13 February 2024
- or otherwise changing speech and other forms of human expression. In some cases ... While humankind remains self-centered and unable to develop a world ...26 KB (3,779 words) - 01:42, 13 January 2023
- Freedom of the press (or press freedom) is the guarantee by a government ... to the public based on classification of information as sensitive, classified ...23 KB (3,543 words) - 10:49, 11 April 2024
- philosopher who was noted for his pursuit of natural theology and philosophy ... provide a rational argument in the defense of natural theology and Newtonianism. ...15 KB (2,384 words) - 02:22, 23 December 2022
- a closed curve on a plane, such that the sum of the distances from any point ... An ellipse is a type of conic section. If a conical surface is cut ...10 KB (1,658 words) - 17:15, 13 February 2024
- Hrafnkels saga (ˈr̥apncɛls ˌsaːɣa) is one of the Icelanders ... as a test case in the dispute on the origins of the Icelandic sagas. ...18 KB (2,992 words) - 01:26, 4 February 2023
- German philosopher, the main representative of nineteenth century German Idealism ... system practically unrivaled in the scope of its ambition. Hegel’s highly ...43 KB (6,642 words) - 07:00, 18 April 2024
- = "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
- especially in those countries whose system of government is based on the ... The parliamentary system was the first form of representative government ...32 KB (4,950 words) - 13:21, 11 March 2023
- The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English ... Nine manuscripts survive in whole or in part, though not all are of ...32 KB (4,981 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
- William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield PC (March 2, 1705 – March ... that slavery was immoral. This is an example of how a slavish adherence to ...15 KB (2,385 words) - 20:02, 24 November 2022
- Gamaliel the Elder, or Gamaliel I, was the leading Jewish teacher ... disciples from death in a story in the Book of Acts, in which he is quoted ...9 KB (1,475 words) - 04:07, 18 April 2024
- and regulate one's conduct in view of norms, is an essential attribute ... In classical religious and philosophical treatments of responsibility ...36 KB (5,446 words) - 18:16, 8 December 2022
- Often referred to as the "father of modern parapsychology," ... since he could not advance beyond the stage of observing phenomena to developing ...13 KB (1,908 words) - 01:09, 8 February 2023
- author, who was "born with a hatred of oppression." Although ... equal treatment) but requires a change of attitude was farsighted, anticipating ...19 KB (2,944 words) - 16:51, 7 November 2022
- Political philosophy is a branch of philosophy, which studies fundamental ... existing or possible theories and practices of social, political matters, ...23 KB (3,233 words) - 08:37, 24 November 2022
- Church about whether certain elements of Chinese folk religion (including ... as they sought to create a Chinese version of Christianity instead of trying ...22 KB (3,410 words) - 16:46, 10 December 2023
- Gas is one of the four major states or phases of matter, along with ... Gas exists in the middle of a heating continuum in which heating the ...20 KB (3,107 words) - 04:37, 18 April 2024
- 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
- 1651 book Leviathan set the agenda for much of subsequent Western political ... Hobbes also contributed to a diverse array of fields, including history ...29 KB (4,445 words) - 21:18, 30 April 2023
- As a philosopher, he was an early proponent of Empiricism. Locke also made ... him, John Locke is considered the first of the three major British Empiricists ...28 KB (4,356 words) - 16:04, 27 March 2024
- date back about 2500 years with the arrival of Judaism, ... followed by arrival of Christianity around 2000 years ago. ...24 KB (3,424 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- Norse: Jarizleifr) was thrice Grand Prince of Novgorod and Kiev, uniting ... His patronage of learning and his forging international ties helped ...19 KB (2,940 words) - 10:15, 22 May 2023
- Kantianism refers to a line of thought that is broadly based on the ... The revolutionary impact of Kant’s critical method on western thought ...26 KB (3,945 words) - 02:48, 5 October 2022
- - October 13, 1715) was a French philosopher of the Cartesian school. His philosophy ... sympathy for the vision in God and aspects of occasionalism and Berkeley ...18 KB (2,772 words) - 23:36, 14 November 2022
- He served as a professor at the University of Chicago as well as Harvard ... After his service in the war he applied to the University of Chicago ...13 KB (2,017 words) - 19:19, 23 May 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
- The American Federation of Labor (AFL) was one of the first federations ... in the United States for the first half of the twentieth century, even ...21 KB (3,149 words) - 03:34, 24 July 2023
- and academic. Bloom championed the idea of "Great Books" education ... Readers Digest article about the University of Chicago and told his parents ...22 KB (3,158 words) - 18:25, 21 July 2023
- Constitutional Convention over the inclusion of slaves in a state's total ... In the United States Constitution, the Three-fifths Compromise is ...33 KB (4,653 words) - 16:01, 31 December 2023
- dao was often modified by other nouns, each of which represented a subset ... Tian Dao is explained using the concepts of yin and yang. The resulting ...21 KB (3,367 words) - 19:34, 7 July 2023
- and around the Wadi Qumran (near the ruins of the ancient settlement of Khirbet ... treasures ever discovered. Many of the scrolls today are housed ...33 KB (5,119 words) - 08:55, 28 January 2024
- was born in Liverpool. Jevons was one of three men to simultaneously ... his remarkable insights and understanding of a wide ranges of issues. Although ...23 KB (3,455 words) - 10:52, 12 May 2023
- 1996) was the thirty-ninth Vice President of the United States serving under ... Spiro Agnew was born Spiros Anagnostopoulos in the Towson section ...19 KB (2,916 words) - 15:44, 27 April 2023
- Shi'a Muslims adhere to the teachings of the Islamic prophet Muhammad ... or minimized, depending on the agenda of the commentator. Shi'a ...24 KB (3,795 words) - 14:11, 27 January 2023
- is the most complete surviving account of ancient Greek and Roman skepticism ... Almost nothing is known of Sextus Empiricus’s personal life, including ...11 KB (1,515 words) - 10:12, 26 January 2023
- and theologian who is considered one of the most important philosophers ... Pennsylvania, in 1897, as the son of a minister, Francis Cope Hartshorne ...20 KB (2,983 words) - 19:09, 4 December 2023
- Minimum wage is the minimum amount of compensation an employee must ... The intent of minimum wage legislation is to to avoid exploitation ...38 KB (5,803 words) - 18:50, 9 November 2022
- Yi Hwang (李滉, 이황 1501-1570) was one of the two most prominent ... in the Joseon court and bureaucracy for most of his life, holding 29 government ...18 KB (2,733 words) - 11:12, 24 May 2023
- 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
- reverence for Mother nature, and worship of the Goddess. The movement received ... claimed that Wicca had secretly existed for thousands of years, originating ...23 KB (3,499 words) - 18:43, 4 May 2023
- closely with Karl Marx in the foundation of modern Communism. The son of ... Kautsky). Engels contributed in questions of nationality, military affairs ...22 KB (3,304 words) - 11:02, 11 April 2024
- was a Republican Senator from Maine, and one of the most successful politicians ... Maine, on December 14, 1897, the daughter of Carrie Murray and George Emery ...14 KB (2,161 words) - 08:31, 10 March 2023
- politician who served as Governor General of Canada. Buchan was an officer ... Buchan was the eldest child in the family of four sons and one surviving ...18 KB (2,741 words) - 04:22, 3 August 2022
- American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. Marshall ... ideas took many years to come to any sort of fruition, his tenure as the ...24 KB (3,985 words) - 17:24, 18 April 2023
- George Fox (July 1624 – January 13, 1691), founder of the Religious ... Fox's teachings opposed the the rationalism common in religion ...29 KB (4,689 words) - 10:15, 13 December 2023
- is found in the mythological Cretan tale of Daedalus and Icarus, in the ... desirable middle between two extremes, one of excess and the other of deficiency. ...17 KB (2,574 words) - 06:15, 20 December 2022
- reasoning cannot replace direct experience of God. He also mounted a strong ... Judah Ha-Levi is regarded as one of the greatest Hebrew poets. More ...27 KB (4,480 words) - 20:50, 4 October 2022
- century in Europe, particularly as a result of the Industrial Revolution. ... have been successful in a number of fields, including retailing ...22 KB (3,153 words) - 02:54, 8 January 2024
- the dark lines that appear in the spectra of the sun. During his lifetime ... Fraunhofer was born in Straubling, Bavaria, the son of Franz Xaver ...10 KB (1,534 words) - 02:14, 11 August 2022
- radiation that falls on it, without any of the radiation passing through ... When heated, the black body becomes an ideal source of thermal radiation ...23 KB (3,522 words) - 18:09, 31 October 2023
- The term criminal law, sometimes called penal law, refers to any of ... jurisdiction, may include execution, loss of liberty, government supervision ...32 KB (5,141 words) - 06:24, 11 January 2024
- He was born in Lebanon and spent much of his productive life in the ... According to his relative of the same name, the Gibran family's ...9 KB (1,418 words) - 03:34, 6 October 2022
- The term parapsychology refers to the scientific study of certain ... The term parapsychology refers to the scientific study of certain ...23 KB (3,205 words) - 11:26, 11 March 2023
- 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
- small eyes, no external ear, and absence of hind limbs (although there ... Manatees, which sometimes are known as sea cows, are part of the order ...22 KB (3,302 words) - 11:01, 9 March 2023
- 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
- tradition. In 1876 he became a professor of philosophy at Boston University ... Bowne identified the essence of a human being with the "person ...25 KB (3,916 words) - 19:41, 20 November 2023
- thumb|right|300px|Albert Einstein, archetype of genius.]] intellectual capacity standing in a class of its own far above that possessed ...20 KB (2,859 words) - 06:48, 18 April 2024
- Normative ethics is one of three main component areas of inquiry of ... have either moral principles as standards of right action or virtues as ...23 KB (3,536 words) - 02:48, 16 November 2022
- Blood is a highly specialized, circulating tissue that consists of ... There are two main components of blood: Blood cells (collectively ...16 KB (2,426 words) - 18:13, 31 October 2023
- family known as the Liu clan. The history of this dynasty divides into two ... The reign of the Han Dynasty, which lasted for 400 years, is commonly ...16 KB (2,573 words) - 00:55, 28 January 2022
- in adapting to the culture and traditions of a society in order to introduce ... gwang, who later helped shape the foundation of the Silhak movement in Korea. ...19 KB (2,924 words) - 16:54, 7 November 2022
- 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
- is the mathematical and conceptual synthesis of the Electromagnetic and Weak ... (PAEC) - the atomic research agency of Pakistan and Space and Upper ...10 KB (1,560 words) - 04:45, 14 June 2023
- editor. He has been called the "Father of American Scholarship and Education ... Noah Webster was born on October 16, 1758, in the West Division of ...15 KB (2,342 words) - 02:32, 16 November 2022
- one’s decisions and actions. The interest of free will in philosophy primarily ... The principle of free will has scientific and religious implications ...51 KB (8,066 words) - 10:37, 11 April 2024
- renown after writing a stinging expose of the mistreatment of the mentally ... her editor at the New York World, but he thought a man would be more up to ...15 KB (2,430 words) - 16:12, 11 November 2022
- Gustav von Schmoller (June 24, 1838 – June 27, 1917) was the leader ... and mathematical approaches to economics of Classical and Neoclassical ...28 KB (3,881 words) - 01:03, 27 July 2023
- in 1876, building on the pioneering efforts of Elisha Gray, Antonio Meucci ... on March 3, 1847. He was the middle of three children, all boys. Both ...26 KB (4,070 words) - 13:48, 18 July 2023
- 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
- eras. Ruskin is also known for his advocacy of "Christian socialism. ... Ruskin was born in London, and raised in south London, the son of ...29 KB (4,524 words) - 07:44, 3 August 2022
- Many ascetics believe the action of purifying the body helps to ... Historically, there have been two main categories of asceticism: ...22 KB (3,334 words) - 03:51, 18 August 2023
- main_interests = Pragmatism, Psychology, Psychology of Religion, Epistemology ... to believe” doctrine, the pragmatic theory of truth, radical empiricism, ...19 KB (2,743 words) - 00:33, 21 May 2023
- 16, 1774) was a French economist, founder of the Physiocratic school. He ... economic state as a balanced, circular flow of funds—a system he saw as ...15 KB (2,179 words) - 03:39, 4 June 2021
- from the southern Low Countries, was one of the inventors and major proponents ... Siger's political theory held that good laws were better than ...10 KB (1,606 words) - 14:38, 27 January 2023
- 26, 1976) is considered by many to be one of the most significant and influential ... Messkirch in Boden, a rural Catholic region of Germany. His father was a craftsman ...24 KB (3,594 words) - 16:31, 6 November 2022
- was a Chinese religious prophet and leader of the Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864 ... Hong proclaimed the "Heavenly Kingdom of Taiping" and began to ...20 KB (3,050 words) - 13:03, 2 February 2024
- v. Sandford," The American Journal of Legal History 32(4): 373-390. ... " was a lawsuit, pivotal in the history of the United States, decided ...32 KB (5,035 words) - 17:39, 30 January 2024
- The illegal drug trade is a worldwide black market consisting of production ... The economic reality of the massive profiteering inherent to the drug ...41 KB (6,357 words) - 21:12, 30 January 2024
- Most scholars consider him to be the founder of the tradition of Western Marxism ... . Lukács studied at the universities of Budapest and Berlin, receiving ...31 KB (4,665 words) - 06:56, 18 April 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
- has such standing. There are also a variety of ways such endorsement occurs ... The degree and nature of state backing for a denomination or creed ...28 KB (4,007 words) - 19:54, 9 February 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
- 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
- 1943) was an American economist, a pioneer of Christian socialism in America ... Richard Theodore Ely was born in Ripley, New York, as the eldest of ...15 KB (2,225 words) - 20:55, 16 April 2023
- and doctor and the most influential of the Tibbon family who translated ... He also produced the first Hebrew glossary of philosophical and biblical ...21 KB (3,070 words) - 03:04, 23 December 2022
- The Pharisees were a religious and political movement of ancient Israel ... During the early years of the Common Era, a major internal debate ...22 KB (3,391 words) - 02:55, 24 November 2022
- William of Ockham (also Occam or any of several other spellings) ... While the use of Ockham's Razor in the later development of philosophy ...11 KB (1,517 words) - 15:21, 14 May 2023
- economy, focuses on understanding the role of human-made institutions in ... Behavioral economics is another hallmark of institutional economics ...34 KB (4,820 words) - 19:36, 5 March 2024
- revivalist," was a major leader of the Second Great Awakening ... Finnney ignited a wave of spiritual transformation among a sector ...24 KB (3,726 words) - 19:08, 4 December 2023
- England, what emerged later as the House of Commons first met. Recognition ... as a deacon, he was created Cardinal Deacon of San Adriano thus joining the ...11 KB (1,739 words) - 23:29, 17 December 2022
- electromagnetic phenomena. It is the carrier of electromagnetic radiation of ... it travels (in vacuum) at the speed of light (c). Photons are vital ...34 KB (4,943 words) - 20:26, 27 September 2023
- #039;Oresme (c.1323 - July 11, 1382) was one of the most original thinkers ... Oresme evolved a geometrical method of plotting speed or intensity ...30 KB (4,510 words) - 09:44, 11 March 2023
- 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
- dilemma" (so named because a version of it first appeared in Plato ... He discusses Abraham's dilemma of offering his son Isaac by a ...13 KB (1,986 words) - 15:31, 29 January 2024
- refer to the structural and functional unit of living organisms and designed ... from his microscope design and drawing of cells in cork to major buildings ...11 KB (1,559 words) - 17:09, 15 March 2024
- notable_ideas = Problem of causation, Induction, Is-ought problem | ... the third, the most radical and, in the eyes of many, the most important of ...48 KB (7,545 words) - 08:05, 28 January 2024
- )), mid-2800s B.C.E., was the first of the mythical Three Sovereigns ... Fu Xi was born on the lower-middle reaches of the Yellow River in ...11 KB (1,701 words) - 00:42, 18 October 2022
- Causality is one of the central notions in our conception of the world ... As a number of philosophers (including Nicolas Malebranche and David ...23 KB (3,623 words) - 16:19, 3 December 2023
- 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
- Pope Saint Hilarius (also Hilarus, Hilary) was the bishop of Rome ... As pope, he promoted the authority of Rome both within the Christian ...11 KB (1,751 words) - 09:39, 24 November 2022
- [[Image:CodexOfHammurabi.jpg|thumb|350px|An inscription of the Code ... The Code of Hammurabi (also known as the Codex Hammurabi and Hammurabi ...42 KB (7,282 words) - 22:21, 7 January 2024
- migratory bird, Ectopistes migratorius, of the Columbidae family, that ... century, the species went from being one of the most abundant birds in ...18 KB (2,794 words) - 18:56, 23 March 2023
- thinker. Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists ... cravings, Tolstoy came to embrace a life of personal austerity based on ...19 KB (2,888 words) - 07:47, 6 March 2023
- all become the guiding principles of American identity. Emerson ... "no longer interested" in the rite of communion, Emerson left the ...20 KB (2,972 words) - 00:31, 8 December 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
- was a German philosopher, who ranks as one of the literary grandfathers of ... Stirner was a member of a group of German intellectuals calling themselves ...35 KB (5,494 words) - 00:59, 9 November 2022
- 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
- who represented Kentucky in both the House of Representatives and Senate ... in American history. He served as Speaker of the House longer than any man ...23 KB (3,536 words) - 15:21, 25 January 2023
- but is best known for her A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790), a ... true virtue. Virtue, which consisted of imitating God, could only be ...19 KB (2,889 words) - 16:16, 7 November 2022
- African-Americans, or Black Americans, are citizens of the United ... in those states that were still in a state of rebellion, having seceded from ...38 KB (5,325 words) - 06:03, 16 June 2023
- religious dissenter and nonconforming critic of the Puritan leadership of Massachusetts ... They first settled the island of Aquidneck, which is now part of Rhode ...18 KB (2,765 words) - 06:54, 28 July 2023
- Inference is the act or process of deriving a conclusion based on ... is traditionally studied within the field of cognitive psychology. ...20 KB (3,113 words) - 22:38, 5 February 2023
- derived from the astrological symbols of Venus and Mars.]] to an individual's self perception of being male or female. Within ...24 KB (3,629 words) - 06:41, 18 April 2024
- but known to his friends as Van, was one of the most influential American ... while also being the main proponent of the view that philosophy is ...34 KB (5,037 words) - 15:37, 6 May 2023
- 1968), also called "RFK," was one of two younger brothers of President ... RFK's resounding legacy is in the domain of civil rights. Along ...28 KB (4,414 words) - 21:27, 16 April 2023
- Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRS (December ... Although a major figure in the protectionist wing of the Conservative ...28 KB (4,114 words) - 23:17, 11 January 2023
- 275px|An African-American man drinks out of the "colored only" ... Racism refers to various beliefs maintaining that the essential value ...36 KB (5,283 words) - 17:19, 16 April 2023
- he acquired a reputation in his day as one of the greatest philosophical ... Though he was first known for his critique of it, Arnauld was an adamant ...12 KB (1,896 words) - 06:41, 31 July 2023
- An Drochshaol), known more commonly outside of Ireland as the Irish Potato ... The Irish Potato Famine was the culmination of a social, biological, political ...33 KB (5,040 words) - 13:17, 6 March 2024
- is said to have begun as an offshoot of the Ismaili sect of Islam, ... . The Druze call themselves Ahl al-Tawhid ("People of Monotheism ...27 KB (4,097 words) - 21:14, 30 January 2024
- The Supreme Court of the United States (or the United States Supreme ... The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme ...40 KB (6,036 words) - 23:51, 26 February 2023
- Prussia. Quite generally regarded as one of history’s truly great thinkers ... the absolute, but speculative certainties of the continental rationalism ...48 KB (7,410 words) - 18:17, 23 January 2024
- New England is a region of the United States located in the northeastern ... In one of the earliest English settlements in the New World, English ...32 KB (4,620 words) - 09:13, 11 March 2023
- fulfilling sexual instincts. The concept of libido was taken up by Freud ... in his Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality: "We have defined ...13 KB (1,938 words) - 11:03, 7 March 2023
- other than the human species as bearers of rights. This means that animals ... The philosophy of animal rights has given rise to a socio-political ...32 KB (4,972 words) - 06:14, 28 July 2023
- a person or organization as an expression of protest or as a means of economic ... ==Origin of the term== The word boycott entered the English language ...24 KB (3,816 words) - 22:31, 20 November 2023
- Virtue ethics is one of three major theories in normative ethics, ... The roots of the tradition of virtue ethics lie in the works of Plato ...28 KB (4,212 words) - 20:38, 3 May 2023
- as a political economist, and an organizer of the International Workingmen ... Marx developed his revolutionary theories over a period of four decades ...40 KB (6,034 words) - 17:41, 31 March 2023
- who lived in Jerusalem during the time of King Herod around the beginning ... hearted approach to interpreting the spirit of the law, Hillel and his followers ...16 KB (2,728 words) - 13:17, 22 January 2024
- quot;my messenger") is a book of the Hebrew Bible traditionally ... Nothing is known of Malachi's personal life, or indeed if he ...17 KB (2,748 words) - 20:37, 17 May 2023
- advanced support for the wave theory of light. He invented a specialized ... Fresnel was one of four children of an architect, born at Broglie ...11 KB (1,814 words) - 21:58, 30 November 2021
- A binary star is a star system consisting of two stars orbiting around ... to orbit in a plane containing our line of sight, they will eclipse each ...43 KB (6,669 words) - 17:43, 31 October 2023
- lofty, elevated, exalted), is the quality of greatness or vast magnitude ... The first study of the value of the sublime is the treatise ascribed ...17 KB (2,550 words) - 21:10, 26 February 2023
- discipline that involves application of the principles of physics for ... The beginnings of mechanical engineering go back to the craftsmen ...21 KB (2,997 words) - 03:49, 9 November 2022
- Malthus is widely regarded as the founder of modern demography. He made ... The influence of Malthus' theories was substantial. His theory ...20 KB (2,912 words) - 15:46, 6 February 2024
- He is regarded as an avant-garde writer of fantasy, satire, the grotesque ... Although the place (or date) of his birth is not reliably documented ...11 KB (1,822 words) - 09:39, 11 April 2024
- which teaches that a single God, or a group of gods or deities, is responsible ... The resemblance of the "created" to the "creator" ...31 KB (4,834 words) - 01:16, 7 April 2022
- Kon-Ska, which means meaning "Children of the Middle Waters." Today ... and be recognized as Osages, an identity of which they can remain proud. ...22 KB (3,480 words) - 10:50, 11 March 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
- Limbo is a Roman Catholic theological term, referring to the concept ... The word limbo (late Latin limbus) is a word of Teutonic derivation ...12 KB (1,931 words) - 04:09, 29 October 2022
- The conscience refers to a person’s sense of right and wrong. Having ... ==The elements of conscience== Conscience refers to a person’s sense ...25 KB (3,722 words) - 21:26, 7 September 2023
- (a form of individualist anarchism) Ian Adams, Political Ideology Today ... capitalism. It advocates the elimination of the state; the provision of ...50 KB (7,105 words) - 19:00, 26 July 2023
- disorder characterized by an obsessive fear of gaining weight due to a distorted ... According to the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), an estimated ...25 KB (3,785 words) - 05:13, 31 July 2023
- Freedom of religion is a political principle guaranteeing freedom ... The Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations ...36 KB (5,594 words) - 10:49, 11 April 2024
- or what is spoken, (but coming to mean thought or reason or an explanation ... Traditionally, logic is studied as a branch of philosophy. Since the ...31 KB (4,895 words) - 20:58, 3 November 2022
- The House of Romanov (Рома́нов, pronounced [rʌˈmanəf] ) was the second and last imperial dynasty of Russia, which ruled ...20 KB (3,088 words) - 04:57, 16 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
- logician and Franciscan friar William of Ockham. Originally a tent ... The origins of what has come to be known as Ockham's razor are ...19 KB (2,872 words) - 23:50, 17 November 2022
- Democracy is the name given to a number of forms of government and ... Democracy is also a peaceful way for a group of any size to settle ...75 KB (11,285 words) - 09:26, 28 January 2024
- history, astrology, and health. Most of his work consisted of diagnosing ... he was a prophet pointing to hidden depths of, and new possibilities for ...23 KB (3,585 words) - 18:08, 12 February 2024
- General relativity (GR) is a theory of gravitation that was developed ... Previously, Newton's law of universal gravitation (1686) had ...66 KB (9,838 words) - 15:01, 26 September 2022
- As with all paranormal or "psi" phenomena, the existence ... == Types of ESP == The term Extra-sensory perception (ESP) was used ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 12:32, 21 January 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
- and occultist. He is known for his system of mnemonics based on organized ... the Dominican priesthood and Italy in search of a stable academic position ...16 KB (2,416 words) - 13:28, 15 December 2022
- 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
- the Jewish term gentile, the Islamic notions of infidel and kafir, and the ... used to criticize and demonize the adherents of non-Christian faiths since ...24 KB (3,484 words) - 10:58, 11 March 2023
- to being a woman, and yet becoming president of both the American Psychological ... her greatest interest becoming the study of self. Calkins is deservedly ...14 KB (1,967 words) - 16:15, 7 November 2022
- to be regarded alongside Walt Whitman as one of the two great American poets ... personae, so she didn't write as part of any school or movement. She ...17 KB (2,587 words) - 18:16, 13 February 2024
- rabbinic literature, which are primarily of an exegetic and homiletic nature ... ==Part of the Jewish oral law== The Haggadah is part of Judaism's ...13 KB (1,890 words) - 17:38, 27 January 2024
- Max Wertheimer (April 15, 1880 – October 12, 1943) was one of the ... Starting with the observation of apparent movement, the phi phenomenon ...13 KB (1,949 words) - 01:04, 9 November 2022
- the Butler Act, which forbade the teaching of any theory of evolution in ... ... that it shall be unlawful for any teacher in any of the Universities ...29 KB (4,801 words) - 17:27, 25 January 2023
- Cricket is a bat-and-ball sport contested by two teams, usually of ... Cricket has been an established team sport for hundreds of years. ...49 KB (7,998 words) - 06:22, 11 January 2024
- and mathematical psychologist, and a pioneer of cognitive science. A longtime ... Tversky was an astute observer of human behavior, recognizing that ...28 KB (4,170 words) - 09:22, 18 June 2021
- and social critic, known as the "Sage of Baltimore" and the "American ... this case, which tackled the issue of the proper teaching of biology ...28 KB (4,252 words) - 18:12, 29 July 2023
- The Age of Enlightenment, sometimes called the Age of Reason, refers ... to establishing an authoritative system of aesthetics, ethics, government ...33 KB (4,666 words) - 04:36, 30 April 2021
- Sayyid Qutb ; October 9, 1906 (The Library of Congress has his birth ... Alternative spellings of his first and last names include Saïd, Syed ...31 KB (4,669 words) - 02:31, 21 April 2023
- Football is the name given to a number of different team sports. The ... The varying forms of football have several aspects in common. They ...41 KB (6,352 words) - 10:33, 10 November 2023
- Academic freedom is the freedom of teachers, students, and academic ... Proponents of academic freedom believe that the freedom of inquiry ...23 KB (3,336 words) - 07:10, 14 June 2023
- Massachusetts in the United States House of Representatives and later served ... Butler was born in Deerfield, New Hampshire, the son of Captain John ...20 KB (3,004 words) - 09:28, 28 September 2023
- social critic, and a leading advocate of Christian Socialism. Tawney ... 30, 1880, in Calcutta, India, the son of a respected Sanskrit scholar ...14 KB (1,999 words) - 01:48, 14 December 2022
- The Bible portrays Moses as the first person to learn the true name ... Moses was one of greatest miracle-workers of all time, and his dramatic ...40 KB (6,642 words) - 20:52, 26 August 2020
- ministry. However, while at the University of Edinburgh he lost his Christian ... a divine will that worked through the agency of heroes and leaders. In his ...21 KB (3,187 words) - 18:40, 30 April 2023
- Magna Carta Libertatum ("Great Charter of Freedoms"), is an English ... Magna Carta was originally created because of disagreements between ...62 KB (10,535 words) - 05:01, 5 November 2022
- hoaxer Édouard Isidore Buguet (1840-1901) of France fakes telekinesis in ... is the ability to influence the movement of matter or energy through mental ...21 KB (3,027 words) - 23:15, 2 December 2022
- mathematical physicist who recast the the laws governing the motion of bodies ... Hamilton was the fourth of nine children of Archibald Hamilton, a ...21 KB (3,257 words) - 10:47, 12 May 2023
- The Book of One Thousand and One Nights ( Hazār-o Yak Šab, ... Kitāb 'Alf Layla wa-Layla; also known as The Book of a Thousand ...16 KB (2,579 words) - 15:31, 30 April 2023
- The Copperheads were a faction of Democrats in the North (see also ... War and all its bloodshed (3.09 percent of the population) could have ...19 KB (2,857 words) - 02:59, 8 January 2024
- was the business manager and managing editor of the Chicago Tribune newspaper ... as a British citizen by nativity. At the age of nine, he and his family traveled ...26 KB (4,040 words) - 00:43, 11 August 2022
- who has often been called “the father of existentialism.” Although ... is best known for such notions as his stages of existence, “faith in the ...47 KB (7,286 words) - 02:01, 27 February 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
- Mississippi is a state located in the Deep South of the United States ... in the nation, based largely on the value of slaves, who were counted as ...35 KB (5,105 words) - 11:10, 10 March 2023
- Marxism-Leninism is an adaptation of Marxism developed by Vladimir ... Communist parties subscribed to the teachings and legacy of Karl Marx ...15 KB (2,166 words) - 08:40, 10 March 2023
- that carries its own motor. Most definitions of the term specify that automobiles ... The automobile is one of the technologies—along with such others ...30 KB (4,553 words) - 07:06, 23 August 2023
- at Harvard University, and the author of several books, including A ... John Bordley Rawls was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He was the second ...20 KB (2,773 words) - 07:09, 3 August 2022
- A society is a grouping of individuals, which is characterized by ... Beginning with the family, human life is one of interdependence and sharing ...31 KB (4,695 words) - 19:52, 8 November 2022
- perform other tasks such as keeping records of humans' actions, acting ... beings is an ancient and common feature of most world religions, but only ...37 KB (6,014 words) - 18:04, 27 July 2023
- Islamic philosophy (الفلسفة الإسلامية) is a branch ... thinkers, and contributed to the development of modern European philosophy ...29 KB (4,094 words) - 21:49, 8 March 2024
- simultaneously. This is the most common form of polygamy. The man may marry ... wife simultaneously, is the most common form of polygamy ...15 KB (2,204 words) - 08:44, 24 November 2022
- Anglo-Saxon England refers to the period of English history from the ... English monarchs bear the title "Duke of Normandy." England also ...18 KB (2,773 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
- that is directly involved in the promotion of cancer or in the facilitation ... Common examples of carcinogens are tobacco smoke, inhaled asbestos ...14 KB (1,935 words) - 19:12, 26 November 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
- that every person is the absolute owner of their own life and should be ... and freedom. Libertarians are suspicious of the ability of government and ...55 KB (8,054 words) - 11:02, 7 March 2023
- payment for goods and services and repayment of debts, such as taxes, in a ... The primary functions which distinguish money are as a medium of exchange ...51 KB (7,687 words) - 16:23, 18 June 2023
- holiday record today. He starred in scores of western films, and also played ... many times on the Forbes magazine list of the four hundred richest men ...12 KB (1,776 words) - 06:42, 18 April 2024
- Deprogramming is the process of removing a person thought to be under ... Supporters of deprogramming portray the practice as an antidote to ...23 KB (3,474 words) - 09:48, 29 January 2024
- diverse explanations about the structure of the universe that open the ... special intention or plan for the appearance of humans in the universe, and ...36 KB (5,492 words) - 06:15, 31 July 2023
- Land pollution is the degradation of earth's land surfaces often ... The Industrial Revolution set in motion a series of events which impinged ...12 KB (1,940 words) - 21:14, 22 October 2022
- and a professor at the London School of Economics. He is counted among ... Popper was born in Vienna (then part of Austria-Hungary) in 1902 to ...33 KB (4,906 words) - 07:20, 5 October 2022
- most prominent in the first few centuries of the Common Era. It is also ... The origins of gnosticism are not clearly known, but there is general ...36 KB (5,554 words) - 19:08, 31 December 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
- a well-known Russian revolutionary, and one of the leading figures of nineteenth ... in 1865 and helped to formulate many of the philosophical principles ...43 KB (6,370 words) - 17:48, 9 November 2022
- he developed an interest in the development of customs associated with marriage ... Pursuing this he gathered large quantities of material and developed ...15 KB (2,215 words) - 05:07, 3 August 2022
- In sociology and biology, infanticide is the practice of intentionally ... In sociology and biology, infanticide is the practice of intentionally ...20 KB (2,994 words) - 22:37, 5 February 2023
- In biblical times the shofar was used as a signaling device in time ... The method of playing the shofar is similar to that of bugle, with ...13 KB (2,151 words) - 14:23, 27 January 2023
- A season is one of the major divisions of the year, generally based ... In some tropical and subtropical regions, where the amount of precipitation ...16 KB (2,431 words) - 17:37, 25 January 2023
- also the most important and authoritative of all the early Yoruba principalities. Beginning as simply the city of Oyo, it rose to prominence through ...14 KB (2,197 words) - 16:50, 11 September 2023
- A goat is a member of the genus Capra of the bovid (Bovidae) family ... a distinct species, C. hircus. It was one of the first animals domesticated ...18 KB (2,764 words) - 18:43, 30 August 2021
- In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 B.C.E. Bradford, Ernle Dusgate ... an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army ...47 KB (7,440 words) - 01:40, 26 September 2023
- combine Christian lore with a Celtic myth of a cauldron endowed with special ... The quest for the Holy Grail makes up an important segment of the ...17 KB (2,819 words) - 16:11, 25 January 2023
- Edward II (April 25, 1284 – September 21, 1327), of Caernarfon, ... to establish colleges in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge; he founded ...27 KB (4,277 words) - 18:25, 12 February 2024
- Liberal Party statesman and prime minister of the United Kingdom (1868–1874 ... Gladstone was famously at odds with Queen Victoria for much of his ...29 KB (4,472 words) - 12:12, 8 May 2023
- or public even if the consequences of that activity are not conclusively ... appropriate precautions even in the absence of scientific consensus that the ...46 KB (6,708 words) - 18:54, 17 February 2022
- Consciousness at its simplest refers to sentience or awareness of ... Beyond the problem of how to define consciousness, there are also ...56 KB (7,936 words) - 18:54, 14 January 2023
- Islamic feminism is a form of feminism concerned with the role of ... Muslim majority countries have produced more than seven heads of state ...30 KB (4,309 words) - 20:25, 1 April 2023
- November 1, 1894) reigned as Tsar (Emperor) of Russia from March 14, 1881 ... role that his father had granted members of the educated class, he gave ...18 KB (2,859 words) - 14:23, 18 July 2023
- dæmon, or daimon) is a supernatural being of malevolent intent, or a fallen ... Most religions and cultures of the world accept the existence of demons ...32 KB (5,129 words) - 09:29, 28 January 2024
- Gothic fiction began in the United Kingdom with The Castle of Otranto ... Prominent features of gothic fiction include terror (psychological ...19 KB (2,806 words) - 12:13, 24 January 2023
- The Chicago School is one of the better known American "schools ... Economists of the Chicago school are known for applying economic analyses ...28 KB (4,174 words) - 20:58, 9 December 2023
- thumb|300px|A sixteenth-century depiction of Ptolemy.]] Soter, a Macedonian general who became king of Egypt in 305 B.C.E., or other ...20 KB (3,023 words) - 17:01, 22 December 2022
- Wade-Giles: Liu Pang), was the first Emperor of the Chinese Han Dynasty (漢朝 ... replaced the harsh Legalist administration of the Qin with a Confucian system ...17 KB (2,890 words) - 20:34, 31 December 2021
- Desire has been the subject of religious and philosophical speculation ... The most basic of these meanings (the literal meaning) is "thirst ...23 KB (3,709 words) - 09:57, 29 January 2024
- quot; But technically, it is a specific form of sovereign state (a political ... It was given impetus by the throwing off of kings (for example, in the ...38 KB (5,803 words) - 04:09, 11 March 2023
- The Long Parliament is the name of the English Parliament called by ... after the English Civil War and at the end of Interregnum in 1660."Dissolving ...14 KB (2,082 words) - 21:03, 3 November 2022
- He was a founding member and one-time leader of the Communist Party of Italy ... Gramsci wrote more than 30 notebooks and 3,000 pages of history and ...43 KB (6,140 words) - 05:41, 11 August 2023
- . Historically, alimony arose as a result of the indissoluble nature of ... and wives owed each other a similar duty of support. Accordingly, courts ...15 KB (2,419 words) - 00:40, 9 January 2023
- Tongdosa Temple is one of the Three Jewel Temples of Korea, representing ... bell-shaped stupa believed to contain relics of the Buddha, the main representation ...15 KB (2,255 words) - 03:59, 1 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
- American circus. In addition, he was mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut, a ... joy and gaiety amid the drabness and labor of their lives. He also pioneered ...17 KB (2,684 words) - 04:19, 24 November 2022
- close friend Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, one of the influential figures in ... a provincial town some miles north of Stuttgart. Schiller was the ...18 KB (2,816 words) - 06:39, 15 April 2024
- Philosophical discussion of coercion has focused on three distinct ... contrary to his preferences or will because of a threat administered by another ...26 KB (4,117 words) - 22:25, 7 January 2024
- The Deep South is a descriptive category of cultural and geographic ... The Deep South is a belt stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to west ...16 KB (2,381 words) - 08:36, 15 January 2023
- ), also known as a state within a state, connotes a form of clandestine ... to a conspiracy designed to thwart the will of the people. It is typically ...29 KB (4,345 words) - 08:37, 15 January 2023
- act or event that goes against the ordinary laws of physics, which are especially ... but beneficial event (such as the survival of a natural disaster), or even ...43 KB (6,326 words) - 11:08, 10 March 2023
- In astrophysics and cosmology, dark matter is a major component of ... According to present observations of structures larger than galaxies ...31 KB (4,554 words) - 22:23, 25 January 2024
- Jewish rebels who fought against the rule of Antiochus IV Epiphanes of the ... in Jerusalem and combining the office of king and High Priest. This ...39 KB (6,358 words) - 14:51, 7 June 2023
- Theodicy is a specific branch of theology and philosophy, which attempts ... amongst the three points—the omnipotence of God, the goodness of God, and ...38 KB (6,068 words) - 17:55, 30 April 2023
- and a highly successful popularizer of several natural sciences. He ... the basis for the 1997 Robert Zemeckis film of the same name starring Jodie ...18 KB (2,690 words) - 12:47, 27 November 2023
- statesman, writer, lawyer, and soldier. One of the United States' most ... Hamilton put the new United States of America onto a sound economic ...32 KB (4,920 words) - 14:22, 18 July 2023
- or Estado da Índia) refers to the aggregate of Portugal's colonial ... sea and land routes to India with the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, discovered ...22 KB (3,152 words) - 00:27, 12 April 2023
- physicist famous for his application of probability theory to the study ... Boltzmann was born in Vienna, then capital of the Austrian Empire ...19 KB (2,826 words) - 02:38, 5 November 2022
- 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
- The Amalekites were a biblical people and enemy of the Israelites ... The Amalekites are unknown historically and archaeologically outside ...15 KB (2,384 words) - 02:37, 24 July 2023
- Choe Je-u (崔濟愚) (1824 - 1864) emerged as the founder of an indigenous ... Choe's religious teaching, and the rebellion that many followers ...18 KB (2,900 words) - 17:10, 10 December 2023
- In 1794, the Qajar family took full control of Iran as they had eliminated ... empire. Britain also established control of the Trucial States. In the ...27 KB (4,140 words) - 03:59, 7 December 2022
- The Shōwa period (昭和時代, Shōwa jidai, "period of enlightened ... by the Heisei period (1990– ), neither of these is widely associated ...23 KB (3,509 words) - 07:56, 7 October 2022
- 26, 1902) was an activist and a leader of the early women's rights ... Until their disagreement over ratification of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth ...33 KB (5,008 words) - 16:16, 13 February 2024
- The Great Society was a set of domestic programs proposed or enacted ... War choked off the Great Society. While some of the programs have been eliminated ...28 KB (4,129 words) - 12:21, 24 January 2023
- Korean literature is the body of literature produced in Korea or by ... The development of Korean Literature is quite unique due to the creation ...33 KB (5,273 words) - 00:25, 8 May 2021
- to satisfactorily demonstrate the existence of electromagnetic radiation waves ... As a pioneer opening the window onto the invisible but very real world ...15 KB (2,237 words) - 15:17, 25 January 2023
- Founded by a group of separatists who later came to be known as the ... Plymouth Colony was founded by a group of people who later came to ...62 KB (9,521 words) - 01:56, 10 April 2023
- thumb," which is really an extension of the wrist bone. It has reddish ... Panda is also a genus of the plant family Pandaceae. The word panda ...26 KB (4,054 words) - 11:57, 26 May 2023
- The Achomawi (also Achumawi, Ajumawi, and Ahjumawi) were one of several ... trade. However, the California Gold Rush of 1849 disturbed their traditional ...18 KB (2,714 words) - 07:37, 14 June 2023
- writer, political philosopher and one of the Founding Fathers of the ... tenth child. President John Adams was one of his cousins. Adams was a baptized ...14 KB (2,136 words) - 02:17, 23 December 2022
- #039;s law, represents the true beginning of electrical circuit analysis. Ohm offers a good example of the working of science through his experimental ...15 KB (2,285 words) - 06:57, 18 April 2024
- ) were a branch of the Goths, an East Germanic tribe that played a ... The Ostrogoths established a relatively short-lived successor state ...25 KB (3,947 words) - 04:44, 18 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
- The Isle of Man is a self-governing British Crown dependency, located ... The head of state is King Charles III, who holds the title of Lord ...38 KB (5,944 words) - 21:52, 8 March 2024
- The Nara period ( 奈良時代, Nara-jidai) of the history of Japan ... During the Nara period, the power and influence of Buddhism in Japan ...19 KB (2,810 words) - 01:25, 11 November 2022
- political philosopher, noted for his defense of liberal democracy and free ... 1899 in Vienna, Austria to a Catholic family of prominent intellectuals. He ...29 KB (4,353 words) - 11:04, 11 April 2024
- Rainbow flag is the most recognized symbol of the LGBT rights movement.]] and people broadly fighting for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and ...37 KB (5,369 words) - 04:48, 18 April 2024
- right|250px|Increasingly the world is thought of as a whole]] Globalization, as a concept, refers both to the "shrinking" ...36 KB (5,269 words) - 08:02, 24 January 2023
- update Alfred Nobel on the progress of the peace movement. After 1899 ... At the London Peace Congress of 1907 she spoke about how European ...26 KB (4,056 words) - 17:15, 29 September 2023
- history is very ancient, the formal role of cantor did not emerge until ... #039;s role to Jewish males over the age of 13. Non-Orthodox Jewish movements ...15 KB (2,193 words) - 19:28, 25 November 2023
- Revolution and was killed at the Battle of the Alamo. Bowie is also known ... He was born in Kentucky and spent most of his life in Louisiana. Bowie ...34 KB (5,434 words) - 08:55, 18 March 2024
- third century C.E., based on the teachings of the antipope Novatian, who ... for the Roman church during the persecution of Emperor Decius c. 250 C.E. ...17 KB (2,510 words) - 22:16, 16 November 2022
- Mills during the early 1800s made it a place of pilgrimage for social reformers ... earliest years was the key to the formation of good character and to the amelioration ...26 KB (4,155 words) - 01:46, 16 December 2022
- Carl Menger (February 28, 1840 – February 26, 1921) was the founder ... Poland on February 28, 1840. He was the son of a wealthy family; his father ...18 KB (2,699 words) - 19:20, 26 November 2023
- The history of the missions of the Jesuits in China in the early modern ... priest and missionary and founding member of the Society. Xavier, however ...29 KB (4,469 words) - 08:20, 3 April 2024
