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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 (4,795 words) - 08:46, 12 May 2024
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- ) 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- [[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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
