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- Category:Psychology Category:Public Depth psychology is a broad term that refers to any psychological ...6 KB (829 words) - 09:48, 29 January 2024
- 30, 1969) was a British psychologist, one of the pioneers of cognitive and ... He became a tutor at the University of Cambridge in 1909, and his ...9 KB (1,276 words) - 10:25, 11 April 2024
- 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
- applied even to areas such as the psychology of religion. A committed Christian ... Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, The Social Psychology of Religion. One of the co-founders ...16 KB (2,228 words) - 10:37, 10 March 2023
- method and its application to the study of human nature. Thus, he supported ... Hall was the first president of the American Psychological Association ...14 KB (1,985 words) - 07:30, 15 April 2024
- a philosophical model. He was a close friend of the U.S. German-born theologian ... May is best known for his work on the human struggles of living in ...14 KB (2,212 words) - 02:44, 16 December 2022
- played a major role in shaping the fields of personality psychology and ... ===On psychology of religion=== In his book, The Individual and His ...18 KB (2,581 words) - 03:25, 23 December 2022
- instinctual behavior and the development of social psychology. McDougall ... in Lancashire, England, as the second son of Isaac Shimwell McDougall and ...13 KB (1,861 words) - 10:35, 11 May 2023
- Category:Psychology Category:Public Humanistic psychology is an approach in psychology that emerged in ...22 KB (2,987 words) - 12:19, 4 February 2023
- Flow is the mental state of operation in which the person is fully ... The concept of the state of flow is similarly found in the traditions ...13 KB (1,998 words) - 17:43, 28 March 2024
- 1947) was a French psychiatrist, a student of Jean-Martin Charcot, whose ... He also became interested in philosophy and psychology while still ...12 KB (1,594 words) - 05:23, 24 November 2022
- on kinship, family, and religious beliefs of the Tallensi and Ashanti people ... his master’s degree from the University of Cape Town in 1926, and went ...8 KB (1,075 words) - 16:31, 9 November 2022
- Category:Psychology Analytical psychology is the movement started by Carl Jung and his ...23 KB (3,347 words) - 18:57, 26 July 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
- Ashrama, in the Hindu religion (from Sanskrit āśramaḥ: meaning ... has a two-fold meaning: first, it refers to the doctrine of the "four ...8 KB (1,212 words) - 04:45, 18 August 2023
- in psychometrics and an influential theorist of intelligence. He contributed ... The study of intelligence has been fraught with controversy, particularly ...13 KB (1,868 words) - 04:24, 6 October 2022
- Category:Psychology Thanatology is the academic, and often scientific, study of death ...12 KB (1,762 words) - 15:06, 30 April 2023
- region = Western Philosophy and Psychology | era = Nineteenth/Twentieth ... main_interests = Pragmatism, Psychology, Psychology of Religion, Epistemology ...19 KB (2,743 words) - 00:33, 21 May 2023
- a person, community, tradition, or locus of inspiration. The object of ... 'loyalty' to a particular view of divinity, allegiance to a particular ...13 KB (1,952 words) - 00:32, 25 March 2024
- 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
- Category:Psychology Biological psychology, of biopsychology, is the application of the ...23 KB (3,212 words) - 17:55, 31 October 2023
- refers to either (a) the content or meaning of a meaningful declarative sentence ... The existence of propositions in the former sense, as well as the ...13 KB (1,904 words) - 00:23, 2 December 2022
- widely with varied meanings in the fields of philosophy, analytical psychology ... such as Dao (Tao), the Vedic notion of rta, and the Hindu and Buddhist ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 21:00, 3 November 2022
- 22, 1951) was an American sociologist, one of first sociologists who pursued ... essential socially beings, the understanding of whose interactions and interdependencies ...10 KB (1,419 words) - 18:20, 12 February 2024
- by authoritarian systems. In this aspect of his thinking he was influenced ... Fromm's chief influence remains in the field of humanistic psychology ...15 KB (2,268 words) - 19:26, 13 February 2024
- 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
- 31, 1939) was an Austrian psychologist, one of Sigmund Freud's closest ... contexts, particularly in the areas of personal growth and self-actualization ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 05:54, 18 November 2022
- Abhidharma (Sanskrit) or Abhidhamma (Pāli) is a category of Buddhist ... Historically, Abhidharma started as an elaboration of the teachings ...14 KB (1,967 words) - 04:47, 14 June 2023
- was a clinical psychologist. Her main areas of research included schizophrenia ... Her research garnered the attention of respected psychological institutions ...13 KB (1,952 words) - 04:08, 6 November 2022
- interactions or interplay. The rites of play are evident throughout ... Johan Huizinga gave an extensive analysis of play in his Homo Ludens ...11 KB (1,669 words) - 01:53, 10 April 2023
- Often referred to as the "father of modern parapsychology," ... then an area closer to mysticism than psychology, let alone a "hard ...13 KB (1,908 words) - 01:09, 8 February 2023
- known for first describing the phenomenon of classical conditioning, which ... father, Peter Dmitrievich Pavlov, was one of Ryazan's most respected ...11 KB (1,563 words) - 07:43, 12 March 2024
- 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
- psychologist who theorized the existence of fluid and crystallized intelligences ... One of the most important results of Cattell's application of ...19 KB (2,804 words) - 19:07, 16 April 2023
- not hold rigidly to a single paradigm or set of assumptions, but instead draws ... In philosophy and theology, eclecticism is the practice of selecting ...12 KB (1,821 words) - 18:01, 12 February 2024
- 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
- Category:Psychology be called the "structural theory" of psychoanalysis in his 1923 ...17 KB (2,701 words) - 23:59, 12 February 2024
- 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
- founded the humanistic approach to psychology. He developed Nondirective ... Rogers was born on January 8, 1902 in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb ...21 KB (3,040 words) - 00:14, 19 January 2024
- symptomatic, from sema, sign) is a theory of the aspects of meanings of ... There are various kinds of studies in semantics in various fields ...13 KB (1,868 words) - 17:49, 25 January 2023
- 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychology. He was ... Born in Kesswil, in the Swiss canton of Thurgau on July 26, 1875, ...31 KB (4,736 words) - 19:19, 26 November 2023
- dilemma" (so named because a version of it first appeared in Plato ... He discusses Abraham's dilemma of offering his son Isaac by a ...13 KB (1,986 words) - 15:31, 29 January 2024
- to indicate the improper usage of science or scientific claims. ... The charge of scientism often is used as a counter-argument to appeals ...22 KB (3,110 words) - 02:36, 21 April 2023
- 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
- 1757) was an English philosopher and founder of the Associationist school of ... David Hartley was born in June 1705 in the vicinity of Halifax, Yorkshire ...9 KB (1,402 words) - 07:56, 28 January 2024
- 1945) was a Dutch historian, a philosopher of culture, and one of the founders ... The Autumn of the Middle Ages (1919), a masterpiece of cultural history ...10 KB (1,498 words) - 06:44, 5 April 2024
- book Psychopathia Sexualis (1886), a study of "sexual perversity," ... , and studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg. ...13 KB (1,783 words) - 09:26, 10 August 2022
- Category:Psychology Category:Submitted The collective unconscious refers to that part of the unconscious ...15 KB (2,390 words) - 22:33, 7 January 2024
- the Encyclopædia Britannica and his book Religion of the Semites (1889), which ... Despite such accusations, Smith was a firm believer in religion and ...12 KB (1,721 words) - 10:46, 12 May 2023
- Category:Psychology Abnormal psychology is the field devoted to the study of causes of ...21 KB (2,860 words) - 21:27, 25 January 2024
- Abstraction is the process of generalization by reducing the information ... Abstraction in philosophy is the process of forming a concept by identifying ...15 KB (2,253 words) - 06:45, 14 June 2023
- focus to philosophy and published a number of monumental works. He had a ... Jaspers saw a crisis of time in the loss of authentic existence of ...13 KB (1,830 words) - 07:16, 5 October 2022
- Category:Religion Automatic writing is the process or product of writing without using ...13 KB (1,841 words) - 07:04, 23 August 2023
- that constitutes overwhelming feelings of great pity, sorrow, laughter ... sense by Aristotle to describe the effect of music and tragic drama on an ...14 KB (2,260 words) - 00:10, 1 December 2023
- 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
- | religion = | footnotes = }} concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behavior ...17 KB (2,483 words) - 04:06, 15 November 2022
- and a leading philosopher and psychologist of the French Enlightenment. He ... 30, 1715, at Grenoble, France to a family of lawyers. Like his elder brother ...14 KB (2,137 words) - 04:37, 22 March 2024
- Positive psychology is a recent branch of psychology which emphasizes ... Researchers in this field analyze states of happiness, flow, values ...40 KB (5,742 words) - 16:04, 12 September 2023
- Category:Psychology or unfavorable attitude toward a group of people. Prejudicial beliefs ...22 KB (3,260 words) - 22:21, 30 November 2022
- 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
- was an American Jewish author and rabbi. Two of the themes that dominate his ... Jews had grown disillusioned as a result of the failed messianism of the ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 00:12, 4 December 2023
- was considered by many to be the grandfather of cognitive-behavioral therapies ... behaviorism and those that promoted religion as supportive of psychological ...22 KB (3,239 words) - 19:27, 15 March 2024
- by their experiences and sensory perceptions of the outside world. In general ... ==History of the notion== In the fourth century B.C.E., Aristotle originated ...9 KB (1,406 words) - 02:05, 27 February 2023
- He was the leading Aristotelian scholar of the Alexandrist group. His ... Pomponazzi also radically criticized what are generally thought of ...11 KB (1,608 words) - 05:29, 24 November 2022
- refers to ecstatic utterances, often as part of religious practices, commonly ... The origin of the modern Christian concept of speaking in tongues ...22 KB (3,243 words) - 16:54, 17 December 2022
- Psychology of religion Psychology of religion is the psychological study of religious experiences ...53 KB (7,102 words) - 01:28, 12 April 2023
- An Analogy is a relation of similarity between two or more things ... An analogy is either the cognitive process of transferring information ...19 KB (2,812 words) - 18:56, 26 July 2023
- Greek philospher and a favorite student of Aristotle, who appointed him ... Theophrastus was wrote a great number of books on a wide variety of ...10 KB (1,514 words) - 18:21, 30 April 2023
- 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
- He served as a professor at the University of Chicago as well as Harvard ... After his service in the war he applied to the University of Chicago ...13 KB (2,017 words) - 19:19, 23 May 2023
- Belief is the state of mind in which an individual is convinced of ... There is a degree of belief and certainty. While faith often includes ...14 KB (2,132 words) - 08:53, 27 September 2023
- Prize for non-fiction in 1974, for his The Denial of Death. The thesis of his work was that individuals live in terror of their ...20 KB (3,151 words) - 19:31, 13 February 2024
- and a spokesman for the Scottish school of Common Sense philosophy, founded ... Stewart and Reid insisted that human knowledge of particular causes ...13 KB (2,001 words) - 17:19, 12 February 2024
- Category:Psychology change" constitute an important part of the field of social psychology ...26 KB (3,918 words) - 18:25, 21 August 2023
- in her writing was revived by adherents of women's studies in the ... in Hartford, Connecticut, the daughter of Mary Perkins (formerly Mary ...12 KB (1,666 words) - 00:42, 5 December 2023
- Clinical psychology is the application of psychology to assess mental ... Clinical psychology is not to be confused with psychiatry, which is ...40 KB (5,433 words) - 18:22, 30 January 2024
- and an early pioneer in the use of psychoanalysis with children ... and opened a private practice. At the age of 40 he married Libusa Deutsch ...14 KB (2,061 words) - 04:19, 9 November 2022
- A near-death experience (NDE) is the event of maintaining a conscious ... cardiac resuscitation techniques, the number of NDEs reported continually increases ...19 KB (2,751 words) - 16:06, 11 November 2022
- Representationism or Representative Theory of Perception, also known ... The question then arises about the validity of human knowledge, and ...11 KB (1,589 words) - 19:41, 16 April 2023
- 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
- 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
- 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
- eve 02.jpg|thumb|right|300px|A community of interest gathers at Stonehenge ... preferences, needs, risks and a number of other conditions may be present ...25 KB (3,567 words) - 00:17, 8 January 2024
- charm, a "magnetic" quality of personality and/or appearance ... results or not depends on other aspects of the leader, namely whether ...16 KB (2,186 words) - 01:46, 4 December 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
- 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
- century, known chiefly as the author of the work on the Jewish principles ... To counter the anti-Jewish polemic of the time, Albo sought to forge ...13 KB (2,036 words) - 07:18, 10 August 2022
- Edmund Husserl's formulation, the study of experience and the ways in ... This emphasis on the intentional structure of experience makes phenomenology ...26 KB (3,647 words) - 02:57, 24 November 2022
- Category:Psychology Behavior therapy is a form of psychotherapy used to treat depression ...21 KB (3,092 words) - 16:57, 2 February 2024
- New Age Music, known as a combination of mostly instrumental pieces ... Music of the Spheres is cited in old scriptures, and the Greek philosopher ...8 KB (1,225 words) - 16:29, 11 November 2022
- Category:Psychology [[File:The Fox and the Grapes.jpg|thumb|300px|In the fable of "The ...24 KB (3,639 words) - 22:27, 7 January 2024
- is due to the strength and consistency of the interval between its first ... The frequent use of the octave is a part of most music, though there ...7 KB (1,075 words) - 23:50, 17 November 2022
- who helped to shape the new thought of the late sixteenth century ... Pierre Charron was born in Paris, one of the twenty-five children ...13 KB (1,975 words) - 05:20, 24 November 2022
- [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
- Hasshōdō) is the concise summary of the early Buddhist path of ... Specifically, the Noble Eightfold Path consists of the following eight ...22 KB (3,259 words) - 02:48, 17 January 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
- John Dewey (October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) is regarded as one ... Throughout most of his 92 years, Dewey was an internationally renowned ...20 KB (2,964 words) - 02:26, 9 February 2023
- neuroanatomist and physiologist, the father of phrenology. He was also one ... Gall's work pioneered our understanding of the function of the ...14 KB (2,093 words) - 05:20, 9 April 2024
- logician and Franciscan friar William of Ockham. Originally a tent ... The origins of what has come to be known as Ockham's razor are ...19 KB (2,872 words) - 23:50, 17 November 2022
- simultaneously. This is the most common form of polygamy. The man may marry ... wife simultaneously, is the most common form of polygamy ...15 KB (2,204 words) - 08:44, 24 November 2022
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- #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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Category:Psychology Category:Paranormal The term parapsychology refers to the scientific study of certain ...23 KB (3,205 words) - 11:26, 11 March 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: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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- [[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
- 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
- The question of the meaning of life is perhaps the most fundamental ... This question has resulted in a wide range of competing answers and ...50 KB (7,753 words) - 02:49, 9 November 2022
- in America, but fell gradually out of favor from that time on. Parsons ... Coming could not occur until man rid himself of all social evils, and sought ...14 KB (1,904 words) - 21:04, 13 November 2020
- or behaviour (British English) is the range of actions and mannerisms in response ... The primary focus of this article is human behavior, which includes ...40 KB (5,552 words) - 21:51, 20 March 2023
- for his attempt to reconcile the criticisms of the Enlightenment with traditional ... Because of his profound effect on subsequent Christian thought, he ...45 KB (6,434 words) - 06:42, 15 April 2024
- et Bonis Artibus (Latin: "For Religion and Culture") ... |country = Italy, but partially extraterritorial of the Holy See ...17 KB (2,554 words) - 16:14, 17 January 2014
- Category:Psychology [[Image:Vilhelm Pedersen, bójka ubt.jpeg|thumb ... Conflict is a state of disagreement between two or more parties. This ...32 KB (4,807 words) - 18:58, 15 May 2020
- Ethics (from the Greek ethos – custom) in the sense of systems of ... ethics begins with the Greek Sophists of the fifth century B.C.E., who ...21 KB (3,178 words) - 04:33, 22 March 2024
- Category:Psychology [[Image:Carl_Jung_(1912).png|right|thumb|200px ... refers to an idealized or prototypical model of a person, object, or concept ...28 KB (4,297 words) - 06:17, 12 August 2023
- Category:Psychology [[File:MyersBriggsTypes.png|thumb|300px|A chart with descriptions ...29 KB (4,215 words) - 22:41, 10 November 2022
- is a political essay by John Jay, the fifth of The Federalist Papers. It was ... Federalist No. 5 addresses the idea of states forming regional confederacies ...14 KB (1,988 words) - 01:54, 26 March 2024
- 1894 – August 25, 1956), was a professor of entomology and zoology, who ... With the air of scientific respectability, Kinsey's publications ...23 KB (3,418 words) - 08:17, 20 July 2023
- famous for his contribution to theories of cultural evolution. His approach ... Marvin Harris was born in Brooklyn, New York, into a poor family of ...11 KB (1,566 words) - 08:40, 10 March 2023
- in 1755, the university has grown to be one of the largest institutions in ... whose name was later added to the name of the institution in his honor ...19 KB (2,791 words) - 01:43, 11 March 2023
- and was the first appointed professor of sociology in a British university ... England, into the prominent Anglican family of Rev. Reginald Hobhouse and ...12 KB (1,737 words) - 20:13, 25 October 2022
- which included sexual and personal freedom of expression and for amassing ... a small village in the Narsinghpur District of Madhya Pradesh state in India ...28 KB (4,136 words) - 03:34, 1 October 2023
- Wisdom is a type of knowledge, similar to phronesis, that includes ... all actions and decisions. Applications of personal wisdom include one ...11 KB (1,692 words) - 23:18, 17 May 2023
- 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
- Deprogramming is the process of removing a person thought to be under ... Supporters of deprogramming portray the practice as an antidote to ...23 KB (3,474 words) - 09:48, 29 January 2024
- Virtue ethics is one of three major theories in normative ethics, ... The roots of the tradition of virtue ethics lie in the works of Plato ...28 KB (4,212 words) - 20:38, 3 May 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
- :For the later Greek writer see Xenophon of Ephesus. [[Image:Xenophon ... a Greek mercenary, historian and follower of Socrates. In 401 B.C.E. he ...13 KB (2,062 words) - 14:29, 20 May 2023
- commonly used in the religious practice of Hinduism and Tibetan Buddhism ... "to access progressively deeper levels of the unconscious, ultimately ...23 KB (3,394 words) - 16:47, 24 October 2023
- Tītânes) were a race of powerful deities that ruled during the legendary ... the Titans in the Titanomachy ('War of the Titans'). The Titans ...15 KB (2,163 words) - 16:42, 23 July 2020
- Thomist tradition, and economist. Like many of his fellow Roman Catholic theologians ... For a New Political Economy, and at the end of his life, worked on An Essay ...12 KB (1,786 words) - 11:19, 28 September 2023
- a leading figure in the study of human fossils. A strong supporter ... 5, 1866 in Aberdeen, Scotland, the sixth of 10 children to John Keith and ...11 KB (1,719 words) - 11:11, 16 August 2023
- danse 1874.jpg|right|200px|thumb|An artifact of "high culture": a ... or to honor), generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic ...40 KB (5,823 words) - 13:34, 4 July 2023
- capital vices or cardinal sins, are a list of the worst vices that cut a ... Much debate thrived over the relative merit of the Seven Deadly Sins ...16 KB (2,583 words) - 10:07, 26 January 2023
- Social constructionism is a theory of knowledge in sociology and communication ... With the rise of Post-Modernism, social constructionism became popular ...34 KB (4,832 words) - 00:18, 16 February 2022
- Karl Jaspers (1883 - 1969) pioneered the idea of the Axial Age. According ... Jaspers was led to realize the possibility of a political unity of ...15 KB (2,330 words) - 07:19, 23 August 2023
- philosopher, and scientist. He was one of the major Islamic philosophers ... Avicenna is also well known for his medical work, The Canon of Medicine ...23 KB (3,644 words) - 07:16, 23 August 2023
- that are felt by people due to a combination of factors. For example, a black ... gender and class are the major determinants of identity, and that minorities ...43 KB (5,848 words) - 10:41, 6 March 2024
- Category:Religion [[Image:D056449.png|300px|thumb|right|D056449. Design ... late 1800s, when séances were at the height of their popularity. The Ouija ...21 KB (3,205 words) - 10:52, 11 March 2023
- describes a large body of psychophysical techniques whose primary ... been, and continue to be, integral parts of religious life. ...38 KB (5,451 words) - 00:07, 13 July 2021
- early nineteenth centuries. It developed out of the work of Immanuel Kant in ... sensible contents derived from the object of cognition and the a priori ...23 KB (3,260 words) - 07:38, 24 January 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
- 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
- a Romanian historian, philosopher, theorist of religion, literary critic, ... His most significant contributions to the study of religion are his ...30 KB (4,475 words) - 18:55, 9 November 2022
- distinct claims relating to the diversity of moral principles, values, and ... Discussions of relativism usually begin with the empirical claim that ...30 KB (4,814 words) - 21:19, 9 November 2022
- 6, 1903) is a key figure in the development of library science. Cutter's ... Cutter was the editor of Library Journal from 1891-1893. One of the ...13 KB (2,026 words) - 01:48, 4 December 2023
- The brain is a centralized mass of nerve tissue enclosed within the ... Along with the spinal cord, the brain forms part of the central nervous ...28 KB (4,199 words) - 22:35, 20 November 2023
- Category:Psychology Category:Paranormal "clear-seeing") denotes a form of extra-sensory perception in ...14 KB (1,983 words) - 07:21, 14 January 2023
- he played a key role in the leadership of the Confessing Church that ... Bonhoeffer's writings, especially his book The Cost of Discipleship ...15 KB (2,197 words) - 14:34, 29 January 2024
- one’s decisions and actions. The interest of free will in philosophy primarily ... The principle of free will has scientific and religious implications ...51 KB (8,066 words) - 10:37, 11 April 2024
- Galen (Greek: Γαληνός, Latin: Claudius Galenus of Pergamum; ... Galen's experimental methods foreshadowed later developments ...12 KB (1,806 words) - 03:50, 18 April 2024
- and statehood or the outright overthrow of the extant government. Wars ... The factors leading to war are often complicated and due to a range ...40 KB (6,411 words) - 22:53, 3 May 2023
- | religion = Atheist | residence = Austria, (later) England ... | field = Neurology, Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis ...58 KB (8,678 words) - 21:59, 29 January 2023
- Hazing refers to any activity expected of someone in joining or participating ... Hazing is seen in many different types of social groups, including ...40 KB (5,725 words) - 16:55, 30 June 2022
- Category:Psychology Category:Paranormal term used to describe a wide variety of reported anomalous phenomena ...25 KB (3,499 words) - 11:26, 11 March 2023
- causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning. Such ... Psychology of religion Religious, spiritual, or transpersonal experiences ...72 KB (9,918 words) - 21:54, 14 November 2023
- to evil, popularly identified with the lusts of the flesh. It also leads to ... Judaism, the yetzer harah is not the product of the Human Fall, as in Christian ...17 KB (2,843 words) - 11:10, 24 May 2023
