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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 ...22 KB (3,262 words) - 20:09, 25 October 2022
- claim that "moral judgments are capable of being objectively true, because ... the ontological and epistemological assumptions of theism. ...15 KB (2,197 words) - 02:38, 16 November 2022
- 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 ...15 KB (2,220 words) - 14:26, 29 November 2023
- that attempts to reduce diverse forms of knowledge including concepts ... psychologism on the ground that principles of logic are universally true ...7 KB (1,004 words) - 23:31, 2 December 2022
- and logician. His logical analysis of mathematical problems made ... family in Prague, which was then part of the Austrian Empire. His father ...15 KB (2,299 words) - 11:18, 28 September 2023
- at Harvard University, and the author of several books, including A ... John Bordley Rawls was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He was the second ...20 KB (2,773 words) - 07:09, 3 August 2022
- 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 ...7 KB (1,033 words) - 12:10, 2 February 2024
- a human being. Utilitarianism is a moral theory according to which welfare ... back to Plato and ancient Greek discussions of eudaimonia. The most important ...37 KB (5,971 words) - 13:49, 3 May 2023
- Normative ethics is one of three main component areas of inquiry of ... have either moral principles as standards of right action or virtues as ...23 KB (3,536 words) - 02:48, 16 November 2022
- 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
- Causality is one of the central notions in our conception of the world ... As a number of philosophers (including Nicolas Malebranche and David ...23 KB (3,623 words) - 16:19, 3 December 2023
- Limbo is a Roman Catholic theological term, referring to the concept ... The word limbo (late Latin limbus) is a word of Teutonic derivation ...12 KB (1,931 words) - 04:09, 29 October 2022
- observation statements, and judgments of perception have also been used ... A number of questions arose about such alleged protocol sentences: ...18 KB (2,743 words) - 08:18, 2 December 2022
- 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 ...19 KB (2,903 words) - 08:28, 10 January 2024
- offering two solutions or possibilities, of which neither is acceptable ... In formal logic, the definition of a dilemma differs markedly from ...24 KB (3,799 words) - 15:21, 29 January 2024
- Philosophical discussion of coercion has focused on three distinct ... contrary to his preferences or will because of a threat administered by another ...26 KB (4,117 words) - 22:25, 7 January 2024
- In mathematics, the concept of a curve tries to capture the intuitive ... function (as in learning curve), or graph of a function (Phillips curve). ...14 KB (2,245 words) - 21:42, 23 June 2022
- Knowledge is evaluated and organized information with implications ... Knowledge can be studied from a variety of disciplinary perspectives ...16 KB (2,254 words) - 16:10, 15 October 2020
- during a discussion in the Munich School of Philosophy]] scientist, and sociologist in the tradition of critical theory, best known ...27 KB (3,751 words) - 21:47, 4 October 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
- He was a co-founder of the World Zionist Organization together with ... As a social critic, he wrote a number of controversial books, including ...17 KB (2,543 words) - 00:57, 9 November 2022
- 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
- ; "Rest") was the tenth and last of the antediluvian patriarchs ... Despite portraying the death of nearly the whole of mankind as well ...17 KB (2,732 words) - 18:11, 11 November 2023
- 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
- 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
- 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 ...19 KB (3,123 words) - 03:12, 5 November 2022
- The World Heritage Site known as the Monasteries on the slopes of ... In 1994 UNESCO designated these fourteen monasteries, part of a much ...16 KB (2,426 words) - 13:08, 10 March 2023
- In law, defamation is the communication of a statement that makes ... The legal requirements of proving defamation are often difficult to ...26 KB (4,112 words) - 09:09, 28 January 2024
- 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 ...14 KB (2,307 words) - 02:17, 15 January 2023
- three different but related meanings, all of them derived from the word ... theology and mysticism recognizes the limits of conceptual understanding or ...11 KB (1,539 words) - 00:39, 2 May 2023
- ), 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 ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 03:00, 6 November 2022
- 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
- It refers to the “supreme principle of morality” (4:392), from which ... " Since maxims are, roughly, principles of action, the categorical imperative ...22 KB (3,484 words) - 17:59, 30 November 2023
- associated with the establishment of Confucianism as the official ... are preserved in the Standard History of the Western Han Dynasty (Han ...11 KB (1,702 words) - 18:44, 2 May 2023
- highly influential figure in the development of neo-classical economics, and ... Ysidro Francis Edgeworth (the order of his given names was later reversed ...20 KB (3,082 words) - 06:16, 23 January 2023
- 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 ...17 KB (2,681 words) - 15:24, 29 January 2024
- 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 ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 16:58, 5 April 2024
- French philosopher Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) of decision theory to the belief ... :"Before entering into the proofs of the Christian religion, ...20 KB (3,286 words) - 08:59, 18 November 2022
- economy, focuses on understanding the role of human-made institutions in ... Behavioral economics is another hallmark of institutional economics ...34 KB (4,820 words) - 19:36, 5 March 2024
- 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 ...13 KB (2,026 words) - 08:04, 23 January 2023
- His seminal book The Organization of Behavior, published in 1949 ... memory. He sought to understand the function of the brain and its relationship ...24 KB (3,670 words) - 17:22, 30 January 2024
- Altruism is the selfless concern for the welfare of others. Altruism ... Altruism can be distinguished from a feeling of loyalty and duty. ...27 KB (4,209 words) - 08:39, 23 July 2023
- rabbi, Jewish philosopher, and exegete of the geonic period, known for ... quot; is apparently the Hebrew equivalent of his Arabic name, "Sa& ...22 KB (3,468 words) - 18:29, 22 December 2022
- A cult, strictly speaking, is a particular system of religious worship ... globally controversial. The rise and fall of several groups known for mass ...17 KB (2,544 words) - 06:44, 11 January 2024
- 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
- 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 ...23 KB (3,418 words) - 22:29, 10 December 2023
- 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 ...26 KB (3,955 words) - 16:54, 21 November 2022
- Colonialism is the extension of a nation's sovereignty over territory ... Negatively, attitudes of racial, cultural, religious and civilization ...36 KB (5,415 words) - 07:40, 14 January 2023
- 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 ...12 KB (1,862 words) - 05:11, 31 July 2023
- involves uncertainty, distrust, or lack of sureness of an alleged fact ... Human beings generally live with beliefs in various degrees of certainty ...15 KB (2,113 words) - 17:30, 30 January 2024
- – 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
- 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
- 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 ...32 KB (5,060 words) - 18:12, 21 August 2023
- 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 ...15 KB (2,422 words) - 19:05, 13 February 2024
- An abstract is a brief summary, generally from 100 to 200 words, of ... There are mainly two types of abstracts—indicative (descriptive ...17 KB (2,550 words) - 06:37, 14 June 2023
- purify”) is the Roman Catholic doctrine of an intermediary state between ... In considering the end of human life, mainstream Christianity accepts ...14 KB (2,345 words) - 14:29, 2 July 2022
- 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
- Empiricism is a term in philosophy for a set of philosophical positions ... positions that emphasize the role of innate ideas, or a priori knowledge ...34 KB (4,921 words) - 18:30, 13 February 2024
- Etiology (alternately aetiology, aitiology) is the study of causation. ... theories, where it refers to the study of why things occur and the reasons ...11 KB (1,616 words) - 04:37, 22 March 2024
- 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 ...19 KB (2,878 words) - 19:54, 7 May 2024
- 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. ...23 KB (3,509 words) - 10:54, 19 December 2023
- , a Sanskrit word meaning "revered thought," is the name ... the "earlier" (pūrva) portions of the Vedas, the Samhitas and ...18 KB (2,750 words) - 18:03, 9 November 2022
- or reason or an explanation or a justification or key) is most often ... Traditionally, logic is studied as a branch of philosophy. Since the ...31 KB (4,895 words) - 20:58, 3 November 2022
- Orientalism is the study of Near and Far Eastern societies and cultures ... ==Meaning of the term== Orientalism derives from a Latin word oriens ...18 KB (2,670 words) - 01:22, 18 November 2022
- critic, and activist. He was a professor of English and Comparative Literature ... Academically speaking, Said was a follower of Post-structuralist theory ...19 KB (2,870 words) - 23:50, 12 February 2024
- sexual reproduction requires the mating of two organisms, male and female ... ==Evolution of the glyph== [[Image:Evolution2glyph.png|thumb|400px|left]] ...19 KB (2,775 words) - 06:42, 13 June 2023
- but rather pursued relentlessly the course of making human evolutionary science ... on the manifestations and human significance of love, the underlying focus ...15 KB (2,208 words) - 04:42, 18 August 2023
- notable_ideas = Problem of causation, Induction, Is-ought problem | ... the third, the most radical and, in the eyes of many, the most important of ...48 KB (7,545 words) - 08:05, 28 January 2024
- 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
- Imperialism is the forceful extension of a nation's authority ... Yet, an interesting aspect of imperialism is that empires, both ancient ...24 KB (3,604 words) - 15:29, 4 February 2023
- - 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 ...19 KB (2,874 words) - 01:22, 4 February 2023
- 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 ...34 KB (5,037 words) - 15:37, 6 May 2023
- potential applications. It includes study of subjects such as theories of ... Ultimately, the goal of those working in the field of educational ...35 KB (4,855 words) - 18:18, 12 February 2024
- 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
- Special relativity is a fundamental physics theory about space and ... as a modification of Newtonian physics. It was created to deal with ...42 KB (6,653 words) - 19:12, 7 February 2023
- 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 ...32 KB (5,006 words) - 11:09, 16 August 2023
- first discussed by Sigmund Freud as part of his psychoanalytic theory and ... is to address the underlying causes of the pain these mechanisms are ...32 KB (4,936 words) - 09:11, 28 January 2024
- , 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 ...15 KB (2,355 words) - 22:50, 30 April 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
- 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 ...28 KB (4,406 words) - 10:38, 12 May 2023
- primarily with governance, political theory, epistemology,and religious ... him, John Locke is considered the first of the three major British Empiricists ...28 KB (4,356 words) - 16:04, 27 March 2024
- revivalist," was a major leader of the Second Great Awakening ... Finnney ignited a wave of spiritual transformation among a sector ...24 KB (3,726 words) - 19:08, 4 December 2023
- Grammar is the set of rules that allow a speaker to form an intelligible ... (grammatikḕ téchnē), which means "art of letters," from ...25 KB (3,469 words) - 22:17, 30 March 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
- all become the guiding principles of American identity. Emerson ... "no longer interested" in the rite of communion, Emerson left the ...20 KB (2,972 words) - 00:31, 8 December 2022
- 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
- The philosophy of science, a sub-branch of epistemology, is the branch ... ==Questions Addressed by Philosophy of Science== Philosophy of science ...72 KB (11,042 words) - 04:18, 24 November 2022
- Chinese philosophy has a history of several thousand years; its origins ... The central focus of Chinese philosophy throughout the ages has been ...21 KB (3,167 words) - 16:46, 10 December 2023
- Utopia is a term denoting a visionary or ideally perfect state of ... intelligence can bring about the betterment of society. It is usually characterized ...19 KB (2,908 words) - 14:05, 3 May 2023
- The meaning of the word truth extends from honesty, good faith, and ... is also understood not only as a matter of conceptual understanding, but ...66 KB (9,824 words) - 23:40, 15 January 2024
- Social Anthropology in Great Britain) is one of the four branches of general ... Any and all of these factors make up important aspects of culture ...26 KB (3,726 words) - 06:47, 11 January 2024
- served for many years in the British House of Commons as a member of the ... Burke was taken up by the literary and artistic circles of London ...23 KB (3,559 words) - 18:14, 12 February 2024
- educator, and social thinker. The founder of "anthroposophy," ... into Burgenland, Austria, in the foothills of the eastern Alps. ...49 KB (7,066 words) - 17:42, 22 December 2022
- 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
- which argues for the equal rights of all living beings. Næss called ... and Christianity's Saint Francis of Assisi, whose views include ...30 KB (4,407 words) - 09:08, 28 January 2024
- courtier and politician at the court of Louis XIV. Bossuet was a staunch advocate of the theory of political absolutism; ...26 KB (4,115 words) - 12:30, 6 November 2021
- religious ethics or law, or a fallen state of being. The religious concept ... Different theories on the origin of sin have been proposed by world ...36 KB (5,730 words) - 22:21, 29 January 2023
- Conflict is a state of disagreement between two or more parties. This ... or harmonious. Appreciating diversity of opinion, ability, and interest ...32 KB (4,807 words) - 18:58, 15 May 2020
- The sociology of religion is primarily the study of the practices ... Historically, sociology of religion was of central importance to sociology ...35 KB (5,329 words) - 21:52, 30 January 2023
- 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
