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- 1926) founded the first American department of sociology at the University ... Albion Woodbury Small was born in Buckfield, Maine, the son of Reverend ...7 KB (1,052 words) - 17:49, 19 December 2022
- 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
- Positivism is a family of philosophical views characterized by a highly ... #The belief that science involves the idea of the unity of science ...11 KB (1,561 words) - 05:45, 30 November 2022
- is commonly regarded as the fundamental unit of counting and measurement. For ... known as the "identity element" of multiplication (or multiplicative ...16 KB (2,188 words) - 06:29, 13 June 2023
- 2017) was Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science, Emeritus ... Kaplan was one of the foremost scholars in international relations ...9 KB (1,221 words) - 16:45, 12 April 2024
- and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Award of the Peace Prize to Lord Boyd ... After three years of teaching, he returned to the university to study ...11 KB (1,795 words) - 02:42, 4 November 2022
- who contributed to the development of ethnography and anthropology ... Germany, into a prosperous bourgeois family of merchants. He studied at different ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 06:01, 15 June 2023
- is commonly understood to be an integration of two or more pre-existing elements ... Synthesis as a resolution of conflicts is often achieved by conscious ...11 KB (1,635 words) - 01:58, 27 February 2023
- was a German philosopher born of Jewish parentage in Belarus ... Although there are some disputes about the year of Maimon’s birth ...7 KB (1,116 words) - 01:01, 4 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
- Nicholas of Cusa (born in 1401 in Bernkastel-Kues, Germany – died ... Nicholas was instrumental in developing the concept of “panentheism ...17 KB (2,645 words) - 23:33, 14 November 2022
- 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
- strongly influenced by the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl and the hermeneutic ... Merleau-Ponty taught philosophy at a number of different high schools throughout ...18 KB (2,661 words) - 00:45, 9 November 2022
- played a significant role in the development of Russian philosophy and poetry ... Solovyov did not think of himself as a philosopher, but as a prophet ...15 KB (2,232 words) - 20:48, 3 May 2023
- ran counter to the prevailing rationalism of his day. Shestov rejected any ... He emigrated to France in 1921, fleeing from the aftermath of the ...16 KB (2,451 words) - 22:05, 25 October 2022
- 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
- essay written by John Jay. It was the second of The Federalist Papers, a series ... Federalist No. 2 established the premise of nationhood that would ...20 KB (2,888 words) - 01:53, 26 March 2024
- statements (everyone agreed on the existence of analytic a priori and synthetic ... Logical positivism held that philosophy should aspire to the same ...13 KB (1,922 words) - 21:00, 3 November 2022
- was an Austrian sociologist and philosopher of science and one of the founders ... Neurath was the driving force behind the Unity of Science movement ...12 KB (1,753 words) - 05:54, 18 November 2022
- Alan Lloyd Hodgkin. Eccles was the recipient of many honors, including a knighthood ... in Natural Theology, a sweeping view of the scientific understanding ...14 KB (2,183 words) - 17:05, 5 April 2024
- anthropologist who developed the theory of "structural-functionalism ... he soon became interested in the work of W. H. R. Rivers, Alfred North ...15 KB (2,175 words) - 18:05, 20 July 2023
- used to identify the essential components of the given phenomenon or experience ... reduction. These techniques are parts of phenomenological researches ...9 KB (1,238 words) - 00:03, 13 February 2024
- Unification Thought is the philosophy of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon ... First, it expresses a passion for the ideal of unity and harmony. Analysis ...20 KB (3,078 words) - 01:38, 3 May 2023
- and statesman, the second president of India (1962-1967). Radhakrishnan was one of the foremost scholars of comparative religion ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 16:20, 27 July 2021
- was instrumental in bringing the teachings of meditation and Kriya Yoga to ... He brought a more spiritual, as opposed to dogmatic, understanding ...22 KB (3,146 words) - 07:48, 18 November 2022
- Jewish-American sociologist. He was a member of the Chicago school of sociology ... As a member of the Jewish immigrant minority, Wirth understood first ...10 KB (1,432 words) - 04:10, 4 November 2022
- 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
- Hazrat Inayat Khan (July 5, 1882 – February 5, 1927) was the founder ... Indian family (he was a great-grandson of Tipu Sultan, the famous eighteenth ...13 KB (2,071 words) - 19:28, 6 September 2022
- philosopher and historian. He is seen as one of the most important proponents ... Collège de France. Gilson taught history of medieval philosophy from 1921 ...8 KB (1,224 words) - 04:37, 22 March 2024
- Damascius (c. 460 C.E. – c. 538 C.E.) was the last head of the Neoplatonic ... Damascius' position as head of the Academy when it was closed ...10 KB (1,407 words) - 18:07, 24 January 2024
- Britannica and his book Religion of the Semites (1889), which is ... history. His desire was to open the study of religion to a broader discourse ...12 KB (1,721 words) - 10:46, 12 May 2023
- Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (October 29, 1938 - ) is the current President ... For anyone to become head of their state is a significant achievement ...17 KB (2,476 words) - 17:14, 13 February 2024
- 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
- 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
- His systematized and refined the cosmologies of Plotinus and Iamblichus, and ... Proclus’ greatest concern was the elevation of the human soul to ...21 KB (3,257 words) - 23:05, 30 November 2022
- Mary Baker Eddy (July 16, 1821 – December 3, 1910) was the pioneer ... Mary Baker Eddy overcame years of ill health and great personal struggle ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 16:00, 7 November 2022
- view that everything in existence is of an all-encompassing immanent ... have been discussed as long ago as the time of the Ancient Greek philosophers ...28 KB (4,312 words) - 06:37, 18 November 2022
- thereof, such as the Holy Spirit. (The study of the Holy Spirit in Christian ... quot; in the Latin Vulgate instead of anima (soul), which was rendered ...17 KB (2,627 words) - 21:55, 28 October 2020
- Russian formalism was an influential school of literary criticism ... members are widely considered the founders of modern literary criticism. ...22 KB (3,136 words) - 18:18, 22 December 2022
- metaphysics that found an all-inclusive unity in the Absolute Spirit (non ... His philosophy can be best understood within the contexts of German ...29 KB (4,323 words) - 17:06, 17 December 2022
- the Mathematical Seminar at the University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5. Meeting ... was meant as a manifestation of the unity of science movement […] Original ...34 KB (4,936 words) - 20:14, 3 May 2023
- Italian psychiatrist, the founder of the psychological movement ... guide each person to understand the meaning of human life in all its contexts ...19 KB (2,962 words) - 21:30, 16 April 2023
- traits, and criminality on the basis of the shape of the head (by reading ... these do not correspond to the level of complexity that Gall described ...15 KB (2,198 words) - 05:06, 24 November 2022
- 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
- who served as the last General-Secretary of the International Missionary ... church order, that bishops, symbolizing unity of faith and practice, can ...30 KB (4,685 words) - 22:01, 25 October 2022
- 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
- She was a notable first female in a variety of additional positions, including ... Sauvé's main objective was to see to the fulfillment of national ...18 KB (2,686 words) - 17:42, 2 April 2024
- the Western world by the Latinized version of his name, Alkindus) was known ... and admitted revelation as a superior source of knowledge in some matters of ...12 KB (1,748 words) - 04:13, 17 June 2023
- who gained his position in the history of Western philosophy by opening ... Fichte must be credited with reintroducing the idea of a direct contact ...16 KB (2,518 words) - 14:42, 1 August 2022
- 1924 - February 4, 2020) was the President of Kenya from 1978 until 2002 ... he claimed, a distinctive African tradition of leadership. He claimed to be ...24 KB (3,582 words) - 06:24, 15 January 2023
- politician who was for many years the voice of the young nation of Israel ... Born in South Africa, he excelled as a student of foreign languages ...12 KB (1,691 words) - 07:15, 13 June 2023
- an influential twentieth century advocate of Pan-Africanism, and the leader ... As Ghana's leader and as an advocate of pan-Africanism, he continued ...26 KB (3,734 words) - 04:40, 4 March 2023
- Dialectical materialism is the philosophical expression of Marxism ... struggle. It follows the Hegelian principle of the philosophy of history, ...15 KB (2,180 words) - 10:24, 29 January 2024
- was a Kenyan politician, the third President of Kenya, serving from December ... 30, 2007, for his second term as president of the Republic of Kenya after ...24 KB (3,416 words) - 18:22, 8 December 2022
- 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
- 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
- psychologist who helped found the school of transpersonal psychology. He ... His humanistic model allowed psychologists and students of psychology ...21 KB (3,192 words) - 06:31, 14 June 2023
- an American linguist. Originally a student of Semitic languages, he is best ... ” indicates his parents were the followers of Sabbatai Zevi or Tsvee (1626 ...15 KB (2,104 words) - 05:46, 13 June 2023
- 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
- 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
- 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
- A concept is a constituent of thought or generalized idea, that designates ... and expressing them with language. Theories of concepts are thus closely tied ...20 KB (3,052 words) - 02:41, 8 January 2024
- 20, 1854) was a German philosopher and one of the three great representatives ... identified with Romanticism and the spirit of the German “Sturm und Drang” ...20 KB (2,983 words) - 06:43, 15 April 2024
- John Duns Scotus (c. 1266 – November 8, 1308) was one of the most ... by undermining the Augustinian concept of divine illumination of the ...15 KB (2,194 words) - 04:59, 3 August 2022
- German philosopher, the main representative of nineteenth century German Idealism ... system practically unrivaled in the scope of its ambition. Hegel’s highly ...43 KB (6,642 words) - 07:00, 18 April 2024
- Continental philosophy, as the phrase is used today, refers to a set ... who found it useful for referring to a range of thinkers and traditions that ...19 KB (2,642 words) - 02:47, 8 January 2024
- Sunni Muslims are the larger of the two main branches of Islam. Sunni ... or example of the Prophet Muhammad. They represent the branch of Islam ...27 KB (4,335 words) - 13:53, 28 April 2023
- and the role he played in the development of the larger cultural movement ... to philosophy and criticized his lack of understanding about the role ...18 KB (2,775 words) - 14:41, 1 August 2022
- known as an early promoter and popularizer of Charles Darwin's evolutionary ... As a professor of comparative anatomy at the University of Jena, Haeckel ...18 KB (2,494 words) - 21:22, 20 March 2024
- quot; (Greek: axios = worth; logos = "science") means "study ... sought to characterize the notion of value in general, of which ...19 KB (2,855 words) - 07:20, 23 August 2023
- [[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
- in 1919 after serving on the city council of Metz, he was arrested in 1940 ... Schumans's concept of supra-national democracy and his vision ...19 KB (2,911 words) - 21:29, 16 April 2023
- ) was a Neoplatonist philosopher, a student of Plotinus and the editor of ... Most of the known details of the personal life of Porphyry are found ...10 KB (1,415 words) - 05:40, 30 November 2022
- ) and born as Ahmad Khān Abdālī, was the founder of the Durrani ... The Pashtuns of Afghanistan often call him Bābā ("father" ...21 KB (3,377 words) - 06:52, 16 June 2023
- , was a French anthropologist who became one of the twentieth century's ... Though thought of as French, Claude Lévi-Strauss was born in Bruxelles ...19 KB (2,894 words) - 10:55, 19 December 2023
- by the texts, traditions and experience of the Jewish people. Judaism ... Jewish philosophy can be considered to take two directions; the use ...28 KB (4,179 words) - 03:01, 1 August 2022
- total) is the idea that all the properties of a given system (biological ... The general principle of holism was concisely summarized by Aristotle ...23 KB (3,318 words) - 16:10, 25 January 2023
- The object of cell biology, a cell is the structural and functional ... Knowing the composition of cells and how cells work is fundamental ...11 KB (1,596 words) - 23:46, 3 December 2023
- – September 18, 1924) was a leading member of the philosophical movement ... Bradley's contributions to moral philosophy and the philosophy ...14 KB (2,066 words) - 00:02, 25 March 2024
- the Muslim world, he nominated the leader of the Shi'a community as ... He founded the famous 'Bayt al-Hikmah' (House of Wisdom} ...24 KB (3,663 words) - 05:21, 30 April 2021
- 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
- famous for his work on the ethnology of religion and mythology, and ... Lodz, Russia (today Poland), into the family of Adolf and Johanna Radin. His ...11 KB (1,587 words) - 01:29, 23 November 2022
- on truth at the first meeting of the Unity of Science movement, an outgrowth ... in his being invited to address the Unity of Science Congress, held in September ...27 KB (4,019 words) - 20:34, 20 July 2023
- from the southern Low Countries, was one of the inventors and major proponents ... to philosophy lies in his acceptance of Averroism in its entirety, ...10 KB (1,606 words) - 14:38, 27 January 2023
- philosophy or process theology, is a system of thought with its essential ... Whitehead argued that reality consists of entities called "units ...23 KB (3,480 words) - 23:03, 30 November 2022
- , in order to eliminate the dichotomy of mind and body—has more general ... thought. Here lies the attractiveness of monism, which subsumes all ...36 KB (5,370 words) - 20:00, 9 November 2022
- noted for developing a "theory of roughness" in nature and ... Mandelbrot was one of the first to use computer graphics to create ...24 KB (3,447 words) - 10:15, 28 September 2023
- Ecology or ecological science, is the scientific study of the distribution ... and biotic environment or as "the study of the structure and function ...38 KB (5,612 words) - 18:02, 12 February 2024
- philosopher and the first Jewish fellow of an Oxbridge college (Dictionary ... Space, Time and Deity was one of the last attempts by a British philosopher ...15 KB (2,284 words) - 02:18, 23 December 2022
- on numerous topics, including philosophy of history and aesthetics, and ... Croce offered his “philosophy of spirit” as a humanistic alternative ...15 KB (2,246 words) - 09:08, 27 September 2023
- Pope to expand the papal territory by force of arms, and was a prominent patron ... Urban easily attracts criticism. Yet in both of these he but followed the example ...14 KB (2,102 words) - 17:03, 7 September 2023
- Uncertainty is a term used in subtly different ways in a number of ... The philosophical problematics of uncertainty are often tied to a ...17 KB (2,527 words) - 01:33, 3 May 2023
- Political philosophy is a branch of philosophy, which studies fundamental ... While political science focuses on existing or possible theories and ...23 KB (3,233 words) - 08:37, 24 November 2022
- Magadha (मगध) formed one of the sixteen Mahājanapadas (Sanskrit ... from circa 684 B.C.E. to 424 B.C.E. Two of India's major religions ...20 KB (3,019 words) - 04:57, 5 November 2022
- German philosopher, known for his critique of religious belief. He is commonly ... Feuerbach emerged in the 1840s as a leader of the Young Hegelians ...24 KB (3,623 words) - 02:37, 5 November 2022
- that is highly resistant to the flow of an electric current. Dielectric ... An important application of dielectrics is to separate the plates ...14 KB (1,888 words) - 14:27, 29 January 2024
- 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
- Persian and Muslim poet, Sufi, theoretician of mysticism, and hagiographer ... His most famous work, The Conference of the Birds, rejoices in the ...25 KB (4,069 words) - 00:42, 25 March 2024
- "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
- The Frankfurt school is a school of neo-Marxist social theory, social ... Frankfurt school theorists were critical of Marx-Leninism and the ...23 KB (3,258 words) - 05:11, 9 April 2024
