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- Most broadly, mind is the organized totality of the mental processes of an ... Aspects of mind are also attributed to complex animals, which are ...35 KB (5,274 words) - 18:47, 9 November 2022
- ) 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
- 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
- ("Precious Master"), followers of the Nyingma school regard him ... Many details about the life of Padmasambhava are debated including ...11 KB (1,775 words) - 06:13, 18 November 2022
- in elaborating on and securing the legacy of his uncle, Émile Durkheim ... philosophy, and Mauss entered the University of Bordeaux where Durkheim was ...15 KB (2,315 words) - 03:05, 6 November 2022
- after Weininger's suicide at the age of 23. Today, the book is often ... however, it continues to be held up as a great work of lasting genius ...11 KB (1,680 words) - 10:52, 11 March 2023
- Uncertainty is a term used in subtly different ways in a number of ... The philosophical problematics of uncertainty are often tied to a ...17 KB (2,527 words) - 01:33, 3 May 2023
- Category:Psychology Brainwashing refers to the systematic application ... in Religion Issues, later Psychology of Religion) in its 1990 annual ...29 KB (4,296 words) - 22:37, 20 November 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
- Category:Psychology The Unconscious is a rich concept with a multi ... * Psychology of religion * Dream * Subconscious mind * Humanistic psychology ...34 KB (4,920 words) - 01:35, 3 May 2023
- Pedagogy, literally translated, is the art or science of teaching ... able to embrace both the art and science of pedagogy, acting as "parents ...26 KB (3,614 words) - 17:11, 26 March 2023
- physician and philosopher, the earliest of the materialist writers of ... L'Art de jouir, in which the purpose of life was found in the pleasures ...12 KB (1,863 words) - 21:12, 4 October 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
- Anxiety disorders are a cluster of mental disorders characterized ... There are several types of anxiety disorders, the major ones being ...33 KB (4,406 words) - 05:56, 11 August 2023
- work on this tribe, and her studies of West Indian and African American ... 27, 1875, in New York City, as the eldest of three children of Henry Clews ...11 KB (1,553 words) - 17:40, 13 February 2024
- Phonetic Alphabet, is the central teaching of the Nyingma school of Tibetan ... Many Tibetan lamas, particularly of the Nyingma and Kagyu schools ...18 KB (2,673 words) - 01:18, 16 January 2023
- #039; to spread Gnostic teachings. Author of over 60 books, Samael Aun Weor ... sexual practices as the highest form of religious devotion and articulated ...39 KB (5,837 words) - 11:35, 6 September 2022
- 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
- research ranges from the analysis of short contacts between anonymous ... social status and the social structures of society, social change, social ...28 KB (3,873 words) - 15:03, 27 April 2023
- A library classification is a system of coding and organizing library ... Library classification forms part of the field of library and information ...25 KB (3,639 words) - 22:33, 25 October 2022
- Thomism is the philosophical school that followed in the legacy of ... , Pope Pius X cautioned that the teachings of the Catholic Church cannot ...28 KB (4,356 words) - 22:59, 30 April 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
- Virgins remained celibate for 30 years on penalty of death]] Virginity is a term used to describe the state of never having engaged ...20 KB (2,940 words) - 20:34, 3 May 2023
- The ethics of care is a normative ethical theory often considered ... ethics consider the family as the foundation of ethics, care ethics is critical ...15 KB (2,198 words) - 04:34, 22 March 2024
- 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
- |name =University of Rome "La Sapienza" |native_name ... University of Rome La Sapienza (Italian Università degli Studi di ...13 KB (1,764 words) - 13:09, 3 May 2023
- The social sciences are a group of academic disciplines that study ... distinct disciplines. However, the origins of their ideas and goals are located ...53 KB (7,429 words) - 21:46, 30 January 2023
- educator. He was a pioneer in the field of secular religious studies. ... reached a popular readership. His defense of religious studies as a secular ...21 KB (3,067 words) - 09:56, 11 March 2023
- whose work centered around theistic ideals of religious consciousness, interpersonal ... into a Jewish family. Buber spent much of his childhood in the house ...16 KB (2,486 words) - 16:30, 6 November 2022
- Sir Francis Galton (February 16, 1822 – January 17, 1911), cousin ... to lead to an increase in the number of people manifesting the desirable ...23 KB (3,472 words) - 04:50, 9 April 2024
- is known as the "father" of phenomenology, a major philosophical ... Modern philosophy discarded the framework of thought of medieval philosophy ...17 KB (2,508 words) - 18:15, 12 February 2024
- arts college in 1928 and commenced a program of graduate studies in 1955. Affiliated ... Nicknamed the "University in the Forest" because of the ...19 KB (2,571 words) - 17:43, 30 January 2024
- des sciences psychiques (The Future of Psychic Sciences) (1907). The ... The experience of déjà vu seems to be quite common among adults ...17 KB (2,710 words) - 17:28, 12 February 2024
- 2009) was an American scholar, a professor of philosophy and prolific author ... He was known for his academic research into a wide range of philosophical ...15 KB (2,047 words) - 10:33, 11 April 2024
- Category:Psychology [[Image:Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes 003.jpg ... A dream is the experience of a sequence of images, sounds, ideas, ...30 KB (4,528 words) - 17:34, 30 January 2024
- 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
- 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
- A Morality play is a type of dramatic allegory, performed in a theater ... Morality plays survived the disenchantment of the church and the wrath ...15 KB (2,390 words) - 21:20, 9 November 2022
- Ontology is a major branch of philosophy and a central part of metaphysics ... The conceptual division of this branch of philosophy was established ...15 KB (2,218 words) - 00:43, 18 November 2022
- He joined a Zen monastery at the age of 16 and was fully ordained ... quot; in his book, Vietnam: Lotus in a Sea of Fire.Quan Nhu, [http://www ...19 KB (2,907 words) - 18:34, 30 April 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
- The Cyrenaics were one of the two earliest Socratic schools of philosophy ... Several of Aristippus’ followers modified this doctrine by distinguishing ...9 KB (1,293 words) - 06:55, 12 January 2024
- Category:Psychology Category:Paranormal The term parapsychology refers to the scientific study of certain ...23 KB (3,205 words) - 11:26, 11 March 2023
- Category:Philosophy and religion best known for his books The Meaning of Revelation (1941), Christ and ...24 KB (3,589 words) - 18:47, 29 July 2023
- 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
- Category:Psychology first discussed by Sigmund Freud as part of his psychoanalytic theory and ...32 KB (4,936 words) - 09:11, 28 January 2024
- Trance is a state of semi-consciousness in which a person is not self ... channeling, prayer, and altered states of consciousness. The person may ...33 KB (4,676 words) - 00:39, 2 May 2023
- or religious view that the truth value of certain claims — particularly ... to have absolute or certain knowledge of the existence or nonexistence ...18 KB (2,675 words) - 06:46, 16 June 2023
- Category:Psychology Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family ... [[Image:Catlin - Dance to the berdache2.jpg|thumb|250 px|Detail of ...20 KB (2,817 words) - 17:59, 31 October 2023
- evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was also one of ... Early in his career, Gould developed with Niles Eldredge the theory ...30 KB (4,344 words) - 04:42, 28 April 2023
- 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
- existentialist philosopher. Tillich was one of the most influential Protestant ... Paul Tillich appeared on the scene at the beginning of the twentieth ...22 KB (3,350 words) - 01:34, 23 November 2022
- Category:Psychology Many ancient cultures speculated on the nature of the human mind, ...60 KB (8,560 words) - 12:29, 1 February 2024
- Initiation is a rite of passage marking entrance or acceptance into ... The components of the initiation vary widely from study of scripture ...23 KB (3,352 words) - 20:51, 17 June 2022
- 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
- worst) are two opposing worldviews or states of mind. The former amounts to ... are fundamentally evil, that life is devoid of meaning and thus destined to ...24 KB (3,705 words) - 00:57, 18 November 2022
- break in the relation occurs in a variety of forms, such as the estrangements ... Christian theologians have suggested that the three levels of alienation ...16 KB (2,390 words) - 18:22, 21 July 2023
- The term Indian philosophy may refer to any of several traditions ... All the schools of Indian philosophy are characterized by some common ...22 KB (3,133 words) - 22:02, 4 February 2023
- tangible but more profound: the imparting of knowledge, positive judgment ... Education means "to draw out," facilitating the realization ...43 KB (6,163 words) - 18:17, 12 February 2024
- on the connection between psychiatry and religion, pioneering a trend in understanding ... Peck described human life as a series of obstacles to be overcome ...37 KB (5,607 words) - 04:44, 5 November 2022
- Lady under the Earth") was the goddess of the land of the dead, the Underworld ... Ereshkigal was the sole ruler of her kingdom, until she came to share ...12 KB (1,904 words) - 19:19, 13 February 2024
- The Secret of the Golden Flower ("Tai Yi Jin Hua Zong Zhi" ... “The Secret of the Golden Flower” is an esoteric guide to Daoist ...12 KB (1,770 words) - 17:27, 30 April 2023
- and statesman preeminent in the world of French politics and culture ... Orientales but did not graduate. At the age of 21 he left for Cambodia with ...14 KB (2,092 words) - 20:07, 26 July 2023
- 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
- 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
- feelings, behavioral responses, and a degree of pleasure or displeasure. Emotions ... attempted to identify the emotion with one of the components: William James ...51 KB (6,936 words) - 18:27, 13 February 2024
- Category:Psychology Category:Philosophy Category:Religion Category:Politics and social sciences ...31 KB (4,680 words) - 06:32, 1 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
- in the early twentieth-century philosophies of William James and John Dewey ... Upon the rise of analytic philosophy after World War II, the classical ...38 KB (5,567 words) - 22:10, 30 November 2022
- Hêphaistos) was the Greek god of fire, metals and metallurgy, and ... Though his forge traditionally lay in the heart of Lemnos, Greece ...15 KB (2,287 words) - 13:45, 9 February 2022
- Category:Psychology [[Image:Bullying Irfe.jpg|thumb|250 px|Bullying ... Bullying is the act of intentionally causing harm to others, through ...28 KB (4,146 words) - 18:43, 22 November 2023
- Category:Psychology Category:Anthropology Category:Paranormal ... influence the weather or crops, and as part of religious practices like shamanism ...35 KB (5,255 words) - 10:49, 9 March 2023
- Utopia is a term denoting a visionary or ideally perfect state of ... thought deals with morality, ethics, psychology, and political philosophy ...19 KB (2,908 words) - 14:05, 3 May 2023
- Seminary (UTS), is an accredited institution of higher learning offering programs ... in the ministry, serving a wide spectrum of denominations and broadening ...14 KB (2,005 words) - 18:06, 1 December 2023
- 1858 - November 15, 1917) is known as one of the originators of modern sociology ... foundation for research on the structure of human society. ...22 KB (3,327 words) - 18:01, 13 February 2024
- 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
- yoga")Lindsay Jones (ed.), Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd Ed. (Macmillan ... The origins of the scholarly Indian Yogācāra tradition were rooted ...17 KB (2,529 words) - 11:10, 25 May 2023
- Category:Psychology Category:Education [[Image:Leonardo_da_Vinci_helicopter_ ... Creativity is a process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts ...52 KB (7,713 words) - 06:21, 11 January 2024
- April 26, 121 – March 17, 180) was emperor of Rome from 161 C.E. until his ... Pius, so that he would be in the direct line of succession. After becoming ...16 KB (2,530 words) - 03:10, 6 November 2022
- and theologian. He was a prominent leader of the east-coast revivals of ... one of the greatest works in psychology of religion to appear in America ...24 KB (3,948 words) - 00:21, 4 August 2022
- and critical theory that were outcomes of twentieth-century French philosophy ... it can be broadly understood as a body of distinct reactions to structuralism ...25 KB (3,653 words) - 05:46, 30 November 2022
- 23 Oct. 2006] He was a leading proponent of the Zahiri school of Islamic ... Ibn Hazm reportedly produced four hundred works of which only 40 have ...15 KB (2,253 words) - 13:25, 4 February 2023
- 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
- 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
- This bias has the unfortunate consequence of people holding on to beliefs ... bias have been found in a wide range of political, organizational, ...53 KB (7,755 words) - 16:46, 10 May 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
- and author. He survived the horror of Nazi imprisonment in a Jewish ... scholarly world, and is remembered as one of very few political scientists ...11 KB (1,517 words) - 00:03, 9 January 2023
- [[Image:Blacktriangle.jpg|thumb|200 px|Artist's depiction of ... an "identified" object. Sightings of unusual aerial phenomena date ...29 KB (4,399 words) - 01:37, 3 May 2023
- opinion about the general orientation of his system, it must be acknowledged ... Unlike German Idealism, the prevalent philosophy of his day, Schopenhauer’s ...39 KB (6,008 words) - 17:37, 16 August 2023
- wheel) is a widely used concept in Indian religion and politics that underpins ... Another use of the term "chakra" is found in classical Indian ...24 KB (3,564 words) - 17:25, 30 September 2021
- college in 1861, it was the first member of the Seven Sisters to become ... For Vassar graduates, both men and women, to advance the world of ...12 KB (1,685 words) - 14:40, 3 May 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
- 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
- Scientology is a new religious movement based on the writings of L ... The organization presents itself as a fully integrated system of religious ...33 KB (4,873 words) - 17:26, 25 January 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
- Romanian playwright and dramatist, one of the foremost playwrights of ... The 'Theatre of the Absurd' is thought to have its origins ...15 KB (2,272 words) - 04:19, 23 March 2024
- 17, 2013) was a British writer, author of novels including The Grass ... , when she was writing on the theme of radical social issues (to which ...22 KB (3,145 words) - 21:11, 26 March 2024
- 1945) was a prominent Japanese philosopher of the Meiji era. Nishida Kitaro ... Nishida Kitaro was born on June 17, 1870, in the Mori section of Unoke ...15 KB (2,299 words) - 05:02, 15 November 2022
- is experiencing from within their frame of reference, that is, by placing ... a positive trait, facilitating the formation of good relationships and bringing ...46 KB (6,306 words) - 17:47, 28 December 2023
- such as cousins, vary. Whatever the extent of the prohibition, however, incest ... Many reasons underlie the incest taboo: Biological explanations of ...23 KB (3,379 words) - 21:59, 4 February 2023
