Search results for "Self-knowledge" - New World Encyclopedia
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- The term natural philosophy, or the philosophy of nature (Latin, philosophia naturalis), has several applications, according to its historical ...13 KB (1,838 words) - 22:42, 28 March 2023
- Mechanics (from the Greek term Μηχανική ) is a branch of physics involving study of the movement of physical bodies when subjected to ...11 KB (1,457 words) - 03:51, 9 November 2022
- Luis Molina (born 1535 in Cuenca, Spain; died October 12, 1600 in Madrid) was a Spanish Jesuit theologian and philosopher who devised the theological ...12 KB (1,719 words) - 02:57, 5 November 2022
- The Nuremberg Code is a landmark document that delineates a set of fundamental ethical standards for research with human subjects and arose as ...13 KB (1,956 words) - 15:28, 10 October 2021
- Jakob Friedrich Fries (August 23, 1773 – August 10, 1843) was a German philosopher in the Kantian tradition. Unlike Immanuel Kant’s immediate ...9 KB (1,390 words) - 12:47, 6 November 2021
- Category:Educators and Educational theorists Comenius, John Amos [[Image:Relief Komensky.jpg|thumb|200px|Comenius on relief at school building ...15 KB (2,350 words) - 00:05, 8 January 2024
- Representationism or Representative Theory of Perception, also known as indirect realism, epistemological dualism, the veil of perception, and ...11 KB (1,589 words) - 19:41, 16 April 2023
- Edwin Smith Papyrus, or Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, is a preserved medical document from ancient Egypt that traces to about the sixteenth to ...9 KB (1,436 words) - 23:57, 12 February 2024
- Francium (chemical symbol Fr, atomic number 87) is a radioactive metal found in minute amounts in uranium and thorium ores. Although many isotopes ...6 KB (795 words) - 04:56, 9 April 2024
- category:image wanted Uncertainty is a term used in subtly different ways in a number of fields, including philosophy, statistics, economics, ...17 KB (2,527 words) - 01:33, 3 May 2023
- Shri Madhvacharya (shortened as Madhva) (1238 – 1317 C.E.) was a Indian philosopher-sage who founded the Dvaita (dualistic) school of Hindu ...15 KB (2,212 words) - 04:55, 5 November 2022
- The Three Jewels (also called the Three Treasures or Triple Gem) are three religious vows that are made in the process of becoming a Buddhist ...14 KB (2,028 words) - 23:03, 30 April 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Botta, Paul-Émile Paul-Émile Botta (December 6, 1802 – March 29, 1870) was ...8 KB (1,273 words) - 16:48, 21 November 2022
- Reason, in philosophy, is the ability to form and operate upon concepts in abstraction, in accordance with rationality and logic. Discussion ...15 KB (2,212 words) - 01:41, 8 December 2022
- Epistemology or theory of knowledge is the branch of philosophy that studies the nature, origin, and scope of knowledge and belief. The term ...41 KB (6,380 words) - 19:10, 13 February 2024
- but as a living approach to the quest for self-knowledge. ==Influence in the West== Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel referred to Indian thought ...17 KB (2,516 words) - 14:43, 3 May 2023
- Alain de Lille (älăN' də lēl) , (Also called Alain of Lille, Lanus ab insulis, or De Insulis, Alain von Ryssel, Alanus de lnsulis) ...11 KB (1,642 words) - 04:25, 17 June 2023
- Category:Public Protagoras (in Greek Πρωταγόρας) (c. 481 B.C.E. – c. 420 B.C.E.) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher born in Abdera ...6 KB (889 words) - 08:16, 2 December 2022
- Wisdom is a type of knowledge, similar to phronesis, that includes judgment for its proper applications to a given situation. The status of wisdom ...11 KB (1,692 words) - 23:18, 17 May 2023
- John Fiske (1842 - 1901), born Edmund Fisk Green, was an American philosopher, historian and writer who popularized European evolution theory ...10 KB (1,417 words) - 06:36, 8 April 2024
