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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Ethical intuitionism refers to a core of related moral theories, influential ... Secondly, and primarily, intuitionism in ethics refers to a cluster ...
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  • important contributions to the development of the Austrian school of economics ... service to workers by paying them in advance of payment the owners receive ...
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  • His initial insight was that a social group of human beings in many ways functions ... Karlsruhe, Germany. His father was the head of the household staff of the ...
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  • "Victorious Christ") is the name of Gustaf Aulén's groundbreaking ... This particular doctrine of the atonement attempts to explain why ...
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  • Epistemology or theory of knowledge is the branch of philosophy that ... is sometimes referred to as the theory of justification. ...
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  • information science to refer to the practice of creating and maintaining headings ... Although theoretically, any piece of information on a given book is ...
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  • Self defense refers to acts of violence committed for the purpose ... Self defense and defense of others (in the United States called alter ...
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  • “from later”) refer primarily to species of propositional knowledge. A ... The historical source for contemporary understanding of the a priori ...
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  • "Art for art's sake" is the usual English rendition ... The concept was adopted by a number of French, British and American ...
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  • [[File:The Fox and the Grapes.jpg|thumb|300px|In the fable of "The ... mental toll this takes on the person. This theory, first proposed by Leon Festinger ...
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  • work in such subjects as decision theory and epistemology. His highly ... Nozick was born in Brooklyn, the son of a Jewish entrepreneur from ...
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  • power based upon a certain legitimacy, justification, and the right to exercise ... Since the emergence of the social sciences, authority has been a subject ...
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  • , based on a strict deconstruction of the term, refers to what people ... took common sense as the source and ground of justification for philosophical ...
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  • reminiscence), or as it is also known, the theory of recollection, is one of ... The theory of anamnesis is a version of theory of innate ideas. Rationalists ...
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  • and was the first appointed professor of sociology in a British university ... England, into the prominent Anglican family of Rev. Reginald Hobhouse and ...
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  • Egoism is the concept of acting in one’s own self-interest, and ... society; and ethical egoism by the challenge of numerous philosophical and ...
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  • that represents the logical structure of truth-functional connectives ... The truth-values, truth or falsity, of the sentences in this argument ...
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  • Political philosophy is a branch of philosophy, which studies fundamental ... existing or possible theories and practices of social, political matters, ...
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  • American psychologist. He is regarded as one of the most significant social ... the scientific method, he rejected any type of Reductionism, such as the Behavioristic ...
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  • claim that "moral judgments are capable of being objectively true, because ... the ontological and epistemological assumptions of theism. ...
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  • is used in juridical and ethical discussions of law and ethics, and often is ... Critics use the term pejoratively for the use of clever but unsound ...
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  • that attempts to reduce diverse forms of knowledge including concepts ... psychologism on the ground that principles of logic are universally true ...
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  • and logician. His logical analysis of mathematical problems made ... family in Prague, which was then part of the Austrian Empire. His father ...
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  • at Harvard University, and the author of several books, including A ... John Bordley Rawls was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He was the second ...
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  • considered to be an extinct species of the genus Homo, which lived ... H. ergaster is the early phase or subspecies of H. erectus. Problematic specimens ...
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  • a human being. Utilitarianism is a moral theory according to which welfare ... back to Plato and ancient Greek discussions of eudaimonia. The most important ...
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  • Normative ethics is one of three main component areas of inquiry of ... have either moral principles as standards of right action or virtues as ...
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  • a moral and political connotation. In terms of morality, ‘absolutism’ ... In terms of politics, ‘absolutism’ refers to a type of government ...
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  • Causality is one of the central notions in our conception of the world ... As a number of philosophers (including Nicolas Malebranche and David ...
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  • Limbo is a Roman Catholic theological term, referring to the concept ... The word limbo (late Latin limbus) is a word of Teutonic derivation ...
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  • observation statements, and judgments of perception have also been used ... A number of questions arose about such alleged protocol sentences: ...
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  • The Council of Trent was the 19th Ecumenical Council of the Roman ... It entrusted to the Pope the completion of some sections of its work ...
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  • offering two solutions or possibilities, of which neither is acceptable ... In formal logic, the definition of a dilemma differs markedly from ...
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  • Philosophical discussion of coercion has focused on three distinct ... contrary to his preferences or will because of a threat administered by another ...
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  • In mathematics, the concept of a curve tries to capture the intuitive ... function (as in learning curve), or graph of a function (Phillips curve). ...
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  • Knowledge is evaluated and organized information with implications ... Knowledge can be studied from a variety of disciplinary perspectives ...
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  • during a discussion in the Munich School of Philosophy]] scientist, and sociologist in the tradition of critical theory, best known ...
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  • and psychologist, a major philosopher of the “philosophy of life” ... the natures, conditions, and justifications of human knowledge particularly ...
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  • He was a co-founder of the World Zionist Organization together with ... As a social critic, he wrote a number of controversial books, including ...
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  • Dialectical materialism is the philosophical expression of Marxism ... struggle. It follows the Hegelian principle of the philosophy of history, ...
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  • ; "Rest") was the tenth and last of the antediluvian patriarchs ... Despite portraying the death of nearly the whole of mankind as well ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • John Duns Scotus (c. 1266 – November 8, 1308) was one of the most ... by undermining the Augustinian concept of divine illumination of the ...
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  • only with lies as statements—not lies of demeanor or costume or some ... by philosophers, by jurists, and others. One of the Ten Commandments, for example ...
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  • The World Heritage Site known as the Monasteries on the slopes of ... In 1994 UNESCO designated these fourteen monasteries, part of a much ...
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  • In law, defamation is the communication of a statement that makes ... The legal requirements of proving defamation are often difficult to ...
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  • The Curse of Ham (also called the curse of Canaan) refers to the curse ... The "curse of Ham" had been used by some members of Abrahamic ...
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  • three different but related meanings, all of them derived from the word ... theology and mysticism recognizes the limits of conceptual understanding or ...
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  • ), is a variant of Marxism-Leninism derived from the teachings of ... the preferred term by the Communist Party of China (CPC) and that the word ...
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  • Justice is the ideal, morally correct state of things and persons ... important: "Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth ...
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  • It refers to the “supreme principle of morality” (4:392), from which ... " Since maxims are, roughly, principles of action, the categorical imperative ...
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  • associated with the establishment of Confucianism as the official ... are preserved in the Standard History of the Western Han Dynasty (Han ...
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  • highly influential figure in the development of neo-classical economics, and ... Ysidro Francis Edgeworth (the order of his given names was later reversed ...
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  • Diodorus Cronus (fourth century, B.C.E.) was a Greek philosopher of ... will be true.” He also raised the paradox of future contingency with his ...
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  • from South Carolina during the first half of the nineteenth century. Calhoun ... war with Britain in 1812 and a vast program of internal improvements afterwards ...
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  • economy, focuses on understanding the role of human-made institutions in ... Behavioral economics is another hallmark of institutional economics ...
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  • French philosopher Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) of decision theory to the belief ... :"Before entering into the proofs of the Christian religion, ...
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  • Georg Simmel (March 1, 1858 – September 28, 1918) was one of the ... social groupings were no more than the sum of their parts, a view that is ...
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  • His seminal book The Organization of Behavior, published in 1949 ... memory. He sought to understand the function of the brain and its relationship ...
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  • Altruism is the selfless concern for the welfare of others. Altruism ... Altruism can be distinguished from a feeling of loyalty and duty. ...
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  • rabbi, Jewish philosopher, and exegete of the geonic period, known for ... quot; is apparently the Hebrew equivalent of his Arabic name, "Sa& ...
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  • A cult, strictly speaking, is a particular system of religious worship ... globally controversial. The rise and fall of several groups known for mass ...
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  • played a significant role in the development of Russian philosophy and poetry ... Solovyov did not think of himself as a philosopher, but as a prophet ...
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  • fight against each other for the control of political power. Some civil ... and is determined by usage, the effect of a civil war upon the population ...
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  • 11, 1994) was an Austrian-born philosopher of science. He was one of the ... has noted, "If one looks at the course of Feyerabend's life, one ...
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  • Colonialism is the extension of a nation's sovereignty over territory ... Negatively, attitudes of racial, cultural, religious and civilization ...
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  • be either a legal or religious process. Justification for annulment is that ... between two people that begins with the hope of a happy, long-term relationship ...
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  • involves uncertainty, distrust, or lack of sureness of an alleged fact ... Human beings generally live with beliefs in various degrees of certainty ...
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  • – September 18, 1924) was a leading member of the philosophical movement ... Bradley's contributions to moral philosophy and the philosophy ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • estranged from each other because one of them offends the other, eventually ... sense is done very often in the presence of a priestly figure who appeases ...
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  • The Epistle to the Ephesians is one of the books of the New Testament ... The primary theme of Ephesians is the church, its basic nature and ...
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  • An abstract is a brief summary, generally from 100 to 200 words, of ... There are mainly two types of abstracts—indicative (descriptive ...
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  • purify”) is the Roman Catholic doctrine of an intermediary state between ... In considering the end of human life, mainstream Christianity accepts ...
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  • is known as the "father" of phenomenology, a major philosophical ... Modern philosophy discarded the framework of thought of medieval philosophy ...
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  • Empiricism is a term in philosophy for a set of philosophical positions ... positions that emphasize the role of innate ideas, or a priori knowledge ...
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  • Etiology (alternately aetiology, aitiology) is the study of causation. ... theories, where it refers to the study of why things occur and the reasons ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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. ...
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  • , a Sanskrit word meaning "revered thought," is the name ... the "earlier" (pūrva) portions of the Vedas, the Samhitas and ...
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  • or reason or an explanation or a justification or key) is most often ... Traditionally, logic is studied as a branch of philosophy. Since the ...
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  • Orientalism is the study of Near and Far Eastern societies and cultures ... ==Meaning of the term== Orientalism derives from a Latin word oriens ...
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  • critic, and activist. He was a professor of English and Comparative Literature ... Academically speaking, Said was a follower of Post-structuralist theory ...
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  • sexual reproduction requires the mating of two organisms, male and female ... ==Evolution of the glyph== [[Image:Evolution2glyph.png|thumb|400px|left]] ...
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  • but rather pursued relentlessly the course of making human evolutionary science ... on the manifestations and human significance of love, the underlying focus ...
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  • notable_ideas = Problem of causation, Induction, Is-ought problem | ... the third, the most radical and, in the eyes of many, the most important of ...
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  • philosophy or process theology, is a system of thought with its essential ... Whitehead argued that reality consists of entities called "units ...
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  • Imperialism is the forceful extension of a nation's authority ... Yet, an interesting aspect of imperialism is that empires, both ancient ...
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  • - January 9, 1927) was a British-born author of books on political philosophy ... who died in 1927 prior to the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazis, was not ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • potential applications. It includes study of subjects such as theories of ... Ultimately, the goal of those working in the field of educational ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Special relativity is a fundamental physics theory about space and ... as a modification of Newtonian physics. It was created to deal with ...
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  • in welfare economics. He served on a number of royal commissions including ... the idea that government can, via a mixture of taxes and subsidies, correct ...
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  • first discussed by Sigmund Freud as part of his psychoanalytic theory and ... is to address the underlying causes of the pain these mechanisms are ...
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  • , Scottish philosopher, and a contemporary of David Hume, was a founder of ... 039;s father, Lewis Reid, came from a family of clergymen and government official ...
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  • exposure for adultery in Japan from Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs ... Punishment is the practice of imposing something unpleasant on a person ...
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  • 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 ...
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