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- 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
- as a representative in the Louisiana House of Representatives, U.S. Senator ... South Carolina. In 1824, his father was one of the founders of the first Reform ...16 KB (2,409 words) - 06:37, 28 February 2023
- de France, giving it the title "History of Systems of Thought," and ... Michel Foucault is best known for his critical studies of various ...48 KB (6,765 words) - 17:10, 9 November 2022
- = "science") means "study of value." Although questions ... sought to characterize the notion of value in general, of which ...19 KB (2,855 words) - 07:20, 23 August 2023
- [[Image:Virgil Solis - Tereus Philomela.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Rape ... Rape is a form of assault involving the non-consensual use of the ...32 KB (4,983 words) - 17:22, 16 April 2023
- orang utan, and orangutang) is any member of two species of great apes with ... Hominoidea (order Primates). Members of the Hominidae family, which ...14 KB (1,986 words) - 10:40, 11 March 2023
- and influential thinker in the history of Western thought. He was a student ... Among the most famous of his philosophical contributions are the accounts ...37 KB (6,078 words) - 08:02, 24 November 2022
- – July 17, 1887) was an activist on behalf of the indigent insane. She created ... Dorothea Lynde Dix was born in the tiny frontier village of Hampden ...13 KB (2,071 words) - 09:38, 15 January 2023
- violence occurs in all cultures; people of all races, ethnicities, religions ... and loved, perpetrated by those who are part of one's family and thus ...31 KB (4,715 words) - 16:43, 29 January 2024
- In religion, folklore, and mythology, a demon (also rendered daemon ... Most religions and cultures of the world accept the existence of demons ...32 KB (5,129 words) - 09:29, 28 January 2024
- " is the mythical figure who, in most of Western cultures, brings gifts ... The modern depiction of Santa Claus as a plump, jolly man wearing ...16 KB (2,522 words) - 03:18, 23 December 2022
- States to become an outspoken champion of capitalism. She was best known ... Her novels were based upon the projection of the Randian hero, a man ...20 KB (2,901 words) - 07:26, 23 August 2023
- anthropologist who developed the theory of "structural-functionalism ... College, Cambridge University to study psychology, economics, and the natural ...15 KB (2,175 words) - 18:05, 20 July 2023
- Tibetan Buddhism is the body of religious Buddhist doctrine and institutions ... The earliest well-documented influence of Buddhism in Tibet dates ...27 KB (3,993 words) - 23:24, 30 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
- that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure, joy, and satisfaction ... Ages, beauty is a constitutive element of the cosmos associated with ...19 KB (2,937 words) - 10:19, 26 September 2023
- unpleasant effects. It is understood to be of three kinds: Moral evil, natural ... The monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam usually ...41 KB (6,708 words) - 23:52, 24 March 2024
- Lama, without any qualifiers. The fifth of 16 children of a farming family ... After the collapse of the Tibetan resistance movement in 1959, Tenzin ...36 KB (5,468 words) - 03:45, 30 April 2023
- Category:Psychology Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of willfully ...31 KB (4,676 words) - 21:40, 26 February 2023
- ("to yoke")) refers to a series of interrelated ancient Hindu ... During the twentieth century, the philosophy and practice of Yoga ...28 KB (4,293 words) - 11:10, 25 May 2023
- The term religion (from Latin: religio meaning "bind, connect ... *Psychological approaches. The psychology of religion involves the ...54 KB (7,792 words) - 03:38, 8 December 2022
- "wool") is a mystical tradition of Islam dedicated to experiencing ... Sufis believe that excessive rationalism blocks human understanding ...29 KB (4,602 words) - 13:45, 28 April 2023
- in Childhood and Adolescence (Hove: Psychology Press, 2000, ISBN 0-86377 ... According to the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), an estimated ...25 KB (3,785 words) - 05:13, 31 July 2023
- |affiliations = Association of American Universities |website ... initial $1 million endowment in the hopes of making a contribution to the ...32 KB (4,475 words) - 14:20, 3 May 2023
- to Western intellectuals. His analyses of Far Eastern tradition also ... Ishikawa Prefecture, the fourth son of physician Ryojun Suzuki (he ...19 KB (2,874 words) - 07:35, 12 January 2024
- a British analytic philosopher. A student of Ludwig Wittgenstein, she became ... read "Mods & Greats" (a course of study in classics, ancient ...23 KB (3,440 words) - 07:26, 15 April 2024
- Philosophy of religion is the application of the philosophical method ... known as religious studies: psychology of religion, sociology of religion ...73 KB (11,277 words) - 04:18, 24 November 2022
- In biological terms, a human being, or human, is any member of the ... Psychologically, humans have a highly developed brain capable of abstract ...94 KB (13,955 words) - 12:18, 4 February 2023
- reasoning cannot replace direct experience of God. He also mounted a strong ... Judah Ha-Levi is regarded as one of the greatest Hebrew poets. More ...27 KB (4,480 words) - 20:50, 4 October 2022
- , in order to eliminate the dichotomy of mind and body—has more general ... thought. Here lies the attractiveness of monism, which subsumes all ...36 KB (5,370 words) - 20:00, 9 November 2022
- As Pope, Innocent III represents the height of the medieval papacy. His papacy ... Lotario de' Conti di Segni was the son of Count Trasimund of ...15 KB (2,410 words) - 19:30, 5 March 2024
- writings about salvation and the nature of the cosmos influenced a number ... Böhme’s ideas about the process of Creation, the primacy of will ...15 KB (2,409 words) - 12:46, 6 November 2021
- Adoption is the legal act of permanently placing a child with a parent ... possibly the culture and even ethnic group of an individual has implications ...42 KB (6,335 words) - 06:13, 15 June 2023
- institution which has formed the foundation of the family throughout history ... Challenges to the institution of marriage in the twentieth century ...46 KB (7,206 words) - 14:15, 7 May 2024
- Category:Religion Merton, Thomas among the most recognized monastic figures of the twentieth century. His ...21 KB (3,278 words) - 21:22, 30 April 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
- The Baroque Churches of the Philippines refers to four Spanish-era ... the Portuguese, ventured over vast stretches of ocean to reach new countries ...20 KB (2,841 words) - 08:18, 20 September 2023
- nature," derived from the arrangement of Aristotle's works) is ... A central part of metaphysics is ontology, which is the study of being ...19 KB (2,966 words) - 16:22, 9 November 2022
- Violence is defined as "the use of physical force so as to injure ... World Health Organization's definition of violence as "the intentional ...62 KB (8,789 words) - 20:26, 3 May 2023
- June 14, 1970), a Polish philosopher and one of the most important philosophers ... Ingarden was critical to positivism and all forms of relativism, including ...16 KB (2,359 words) - 04:50, 16 December 2022
- Rainbow flag is the most recognized symbol of the LGBT rights movement.]] and people broadly fighting for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and ...37 KB (5,369 words) - 04:48, 18 April 2024
- Racial segregation is the separation, either by law or by action, ... Racial segregation is characterized by separation of people of different ...23 KB (3,411 words) - 22:42, 7 December 2022
- Aging or ageing is the process of becoming older. The term refers ... on humans. Aging represents the accumulation of changes in a human being over ...31 KB (4,318 words) - 06:45, 16 June 2023
- Honor has been defined in more modern times as the evaluation of a ... The ancient Greek concepts of honor (timē) included not only the ...15 KB (2,339 words) - 13:28, 2 February 2024
- #039;s idealism is based upon the notion of Absolute Spirit, his idealism ... His philosophy can be best understood within the contexts of German ...29 KB (4,323 words) - 17:06, 17 December 2022
- vary in size from a handful to many hundreds of individuals. There are as many ... daily basis. In turn, AA offers a community of recovering people who support ...34 KB (5,182 words) - 05:06, 17 June 2023
- Inference is the act or process of deriving a conclusion based on ... is traditionally studied within the field of cognitive psychology. ...20 KB (3,113 words) - 22:38, 5 February 2023
- Saint Ignatius of Loyola, also known as Ignacio (Íñigo) López de ... the hierarchical Church was in dire need of reform, and some of their greatest ...26 KB (4,095 words) - 19:47, 22 December 2022
- as Classical Yoga or simply Yoga) is one of the six orthodox (astika) schools ... concerned principally with the cultivation of the mind using meditation ...21 KB (3,177 words) - 00:10, 8 December 2022
- Judaism is the religious culture of the Jewish people. While far from ... laws and commandments to them in the form of the Torah. Jewish practice ...32 KB (4,795 words) - 08:46, 12 May 2024
- 1911 – February 8, 1960) was a philosopher of language and the main figure ... accolades for his work in and leadership of intelligence services and his ...17 KB (2,638 words) - 06:11, 3 August 2022
- a Carmelite nun, martyr, and saint of the Catholic Church, who died ... Nazi regime reacted by ordering the arrest of all Catholics in Holland of ...16 KB (2,393 words) - 20:38, 8 August 2023
- 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
- American cultural anthropologist, a pioneer of the feminist movement in America ... and an emphasis on the importance of early childhood development ...26 KB (3,818 words) - 03:56, 6 November 2022
- or key) is most often said to be the study of criteria for the evaluation ... Traditionally, logic is studied as a branch of philosophy. Since the ...31 KB (4,895 words) - 20:58, 3 November 2022
- meaning speech or argument) refers to a body of stories that attempt to explain ... Nevertheless, myths may tap into dimensions of human experience, often religious ...26 KB (3,852 words) - 22:45, 10 November 2022
- in society that are deemed to be the objects of discrimination. Since the late 1980s, advocates of the term use it to describe a preference ...38 KB (4,999 words) - 19:46, 31 October 2022
- B.C.E.) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato, and teacher of Alexander ... and Islamic philosophy. The beginning of "modern" philosophy ...37 KB (5,500 words) - 06:30, 12 August 2023
- is found in the mythological Cretan tale of Daedalus and Icarus, in the ... desirable middle between two extremes, one of excess and the other of deficiency. ...17 KB (2,574 words) - 06:15, 20 December 2022
- re-define the balance between reason and religion in light of the philosophical ... Rosmini founded a religious order called the Institute of the Brethren ...24 KB (3,716 words) - 05:44, 11 August 2023
- unpleasantness, pain is a critical component of the human body's defense ... According to the International Association for the Study of Pain ...18 KB (2,786 words) - 10:58, 11 March 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
- 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
- was a French novelist recognized as one of the founders of realism in ... gothic melodrama—particularly the novels of Walter Scott, Alexandre Dumas ...30 KB (4,901 words) - 13:28, 2 February 2024
- novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa ... Umberto Eco was born in the city of Alessandria in the region of Piedmont ...23 KB (3,384 words) - 01:32, 3 May 2023
- movements that are concerned with notions of cultural decline or decadence ... Fascists promote a type of national unity that is usually based on ...43 KB (6,085 words) - 00:42, 25 March 2024
- Exorcism (from Late Latin exorcismus—to adjure) is the practice ... The concept of possession by evil spirits and the practice of exorcism ...20 KB (3,223 words) - 23:55, 24 March 2024
- A family is a domestic group of people, or a number of domestic groups ... Studies in the psychology of religion suggest that how one practices ...66 KB (10,046 words) - 00:36, 25 March 2024
- themes in his work are death and the meaning of life. Influenced by the philosophy ... In September, 1874 he was sent to the Jesuit College of Sainte-Barbe ...15 KB (2,277 words) - 16:59, 7 November 2022
- speakers (not necessarily native speakers) of the Arabic language. It does ... Arabic literature emerged in the sixth century with only fragments ...44 KB (6,658 words) - 21:28, 11 August 2023
- American sociologist, who spent most of his career teaching at Columbia ... High School, he became a frequent visitor of the nearby Andrew Carnegie ...30 KB (4,398 words) - 21:28, 16 April 2023
- refers in its broadest sense to a denial of theism (the belief in the existence ... or not God exists received from him one of his famous "silences. ...41 KB (6,063 words) - 18:42, 19 August 2023
- Le Guin was one of the pioneers of a sub-genre of science fiction ... work is less concerned with the importance of technological change and development ...24 KB (3,578 words) - 13:45, 3 May 2023
- 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
- influenced by Marxist thought and a pioneer of "popular education." ... Freire's methods were successful in raising the level of literacy ...18 KB (2,693 words) - 01:43, 23 November 2022
- 01.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The Pyramid of the Moon in Tenochtitlán, ... society, in which people live in groups of settled dwellings comprising ...39 KB (5,726 words) - 22:29, 10 December 2023
- Incense is a material composed of aromatic organic materials that ... Incense is available in various forms and degrees of processing. Depending ...32 KB (4,937 words) - 12:45, 4 March 2024
- to as molestation) is defined by the forcing of undesired sexual acts by one ... Sexual behavior is related to the very purpose of human existence: ...18 KB (2,684 words) - 19:52, 21 April 2023
- de Balzac, is credited with the development of literary realism. Decades before ... Madame Bovary, explored the provincial life of the bored and adulterous Emma ...16 KB (2,534 words) - 14:05, 14 December 2021
- doctor. Lacan’s ‘return to the meaning of Freud’ profoundly changed ... Lacan's work has had a profound impact on the development of ...49 KB (7,514 words) - 08:30, 18 March 2024
- sources and have been used in a variety of traditional religious practices ... chosen in contrast with recreational use of the same substances. These ...32 KB (4,699 words) - 18:57, 13 February 2024
- Calvinist lines following his experience of working with John Calvin in ... Many of the details of Knox's early life are unclear. His place ...27 KB (4,483 words) - 14:37, 18 August 2023
- The Toraja (meaning "people of the uplands") are an ethnic ... social events, usually attended by hundreds of people and lasting for several days. ...36 KB (5,331 words) - 23:49, 9 January 2024
- Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is a branch of philosophy; it ... Baumgarten in 1735 to mean "the science of how things are known via the ...53 KB (8,177 words) - 05:51, 16 June 2023
- orator best known for his work in the fields of comparative mythology and comparative ... Campbell's recognition of the universality of human stories allows ...35 KB (5,311 words) - 17:54, 6 May 2024
- emotion that involves a subjective character of unpleasantness, aversion, harm ... to the body or to the mind. Examples of physical suffering are pain ...35 KB (5,768 words) - 21:32, 26 February 2023
- City, noted for his dense and complex works of fiction. Hailing from Long ... regarded by many readers and critics as one of the finest contemporary authors ...33 KB (4,941 words) - 22:49, 30 April 2023
- statesman, dramatist, and writer of the Silver Age of Latin literature ... Born in Córdoba, Spain in 4 B.C.E., Seneca was the second of three ...18 KB (2,996 words) - 09:45, 26 January 2023
- was an influential liberal thinker of the nineteenth century. John ... greatest happiness for the greatest number of people, and distinguished among ...27 KB (4,047 words) - 07:56, 3 August 2022
- 200 books and articles in various fields of science. He was well versed ... Razi's portrait adorns the great hall of the Faculty of Medicine in ...24 KB (3,833 words) - 01:39, 8 December 2022
- wide readership for his lyrical explorations of spirituality and psychology ... fused dreamlike awareness and Jungian psychology with realism. The novel ...29 KB (4,532 words) - 10:19, 22 January 2024
- John LaFarge (March 31, 1835 – November 14, 1910) was one of the ... A founder and leader of the American watercolor movement by the late ...18 KB (2,681 words) - 02:30, 9 February 2023
- beak without teeth. Common characteristics of birds include the laying of ... has been observed to reach a flying speed of at least 124 mph (200 km/h ...31 KB (4,741 words) - 02:41, 8 March 2023
- a generic term referring to the continuation of existence after death, typically ... Is death the end, or is there something of people that survives after ...65 KB (10,516 words) - 06:08, 16 June 2023
- Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (October 7, 1900 – May 23, 1945) was ... He rose to power on the foundation of his absolute loyalty to Hitler ...23 KB (3,561 words) - 16:24, 15 May 2024
- a Franciscan theologian, philospher, general of the Franciscan Friars Minor ... He rejected Aristotle’s concept of the eternity of the world, ...20 KB (3,032 words) - 07:21, 17 November 2023
- was inextricably associated with religion, ethics, aesthetics, political ... While Western philosophy is closely related to conceptual components ...28 KB (4,111 words) - 09:55, 1 April 2024
- at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own ethnic culture ... they have adopted their values and standards of behavior. The problem is that ...38 KB (5,665 words) - 04:36, 22 March 2024
- pedagogy emphasized the importance of an environment that supports ... Montessori saw psychological development proceeding through a sequence ...21 KB (3,176 words) - 04:11, 6 November 2022
- Service learning is a method of teaching, learning, and reflecting ... ==History of Service Learning== Service learning can be traced back ...26 KB (3,814 words) - 19:49, 21 April 2023
- 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) - 16:42, 14 May 2024
- [[File:Initiation ritual of boys in Malawi.jpg|right|330px|thumb|Initiation ... quot; or "person") is the study of humanity (see genus Homo). ...28 KB (3,944 words) - 06:17, 31 July 2023
- most prominent in the first few centuries of the Common Era. It is also ... The origins of gnosticism are not clearly known, but there is general ...36 KB (5,554 words) - 19:08, 31 December 2023
- Category:Religion Category:Psychology Category:Sociology Category:Lifestyle ...26 KB (3,963 words) - 10:13, 26 January 2023
- it does not entirely capture the meaning of the Greek word. One important ... between these two central concepts is one of the important preoccupations ...33 KB (5,174 words) - 04:41, 22 March 2024
- Yi Hwang (李滉, 이황 1501-1570) was one of the two most prominent ... in the Joseon court and bureaucracy for most of his life, holding 29 government ...18 KB (2,733 words) - 11:12, 24 May 2023
- as an inventor and scientist. At the age of 56 he entered into a spiritual ... his theology as for his mysticism, for much of it was centuries ahead of its ...37 KB (5,627 words) - 17:59, 13 February 2024
- | religion = [Russian Orthodox] | notableworks= Crime and Punishment ... Dostoevsky's other Quixote.(influence of Miguel de Cervantes' Don ...29 KB (4,183 words) - 07:25, 15 April 2024
- 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
- who recast the the laws governing the motion of bodies in a simplified and ... Hamilton was the fourth of nine children of Archibald Hamilton, a ...21 KB (3,257 words) - 10:47, 12 May 2023
- The term Greek mythology refers to the collection of tales belonging ... on the culture, arts and literature of Western civilization. Indeed ...45 KB (6,635 words) - 21:31, 12 July 2023
- approximately 15.5 miles (25 km) southwest of Mostar and near the border ... When word spread of these visions, millions flocked to the town for ...28 KB (4,419 words) - 09:37, 10 March 2023
- , Austro-Bavarian: Weăn,) is the capital of Austria, and also one ... Today Vienna is a center of European culture, with more than one hundred ...42 KB (5,917 words) - 20:13, 3 May 2023
- was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties ... and agnosticism that marked him as one of the most famous American lawyers ...21 KB (3,485 words) - 22:33, 10 December 2023
- is a Christian belief, based on the Book of Revelation 20:1-6, that Christ ... These millennial views in Christianity, in spite of their differences ...47 KB (6,873 words) - 18:00, 9 November 2022
- (January 23, 1947 - ), was President of Indonesia from July 2001 to ... Sukarnoputri means "daughter of Sukarno" (Sanskrit) and ...23 KB (3,414 words) - 09:38, 10 March 2023
- ) was a non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany, consisting of ... The six core members of the group were arrested by the Gestapo, convicted ...22 KB (3,366 words) - 17:23, 4 May 2023
- Franz Boas (July 9, 1858 – December 22, 1942) was one of the pioneers ... Boas was exposed to natural history. Of his work at the gymnasium, ...37 KB (5,468 words) - 05:16, 9 April 2024
- was the lead singer and predominant lyricist of the Doors, and is considered ... Of Scottish and Irish ancestry, Jim Morrison was the son of United ...31 KB (4,948 words) - 20:58, 3 April 2024
- Canada. Founded in 1821, McGill is one of the oldest universities in ... degrees and diplomas in over 300 fields of study, including medicine. ...36 KB (4,859 words) - 09:30, 10 March 2023
- was an American historian and philosopher of science who wrote extensively ... D. in 1949. While there, primarily because of his editorship of the Harvard ...29 KB (4,408 words) - 22:54, 30 April 2023
- 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
- author from Carthage in the Roman province of Africa. He was the first Christian ... Holy Spirit was not the orthodox position of the Catholic Church. He also ...57 KB (8,333 words) - 20:17, 31 January 2024
- Neocolonialism is a term used by post-colonial critics of developed ... ) and a critique of modern capitalist businesses involvement in nations ...50 KB (7,266 words) - 04:29, 11 March 2023
- a process by which the texts and languages of Western philosophy (in particular ... Subjects relevant to deconstruction include the philosophy of meaning ...49 KB (7,258 words) - 09:03, 28 January 2024
- 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
- Augustine of Hippo or Saint Augustine (November 13, 354 – August ... Born in what is present-day Algeria as the eldest son of Saint Monica ...65 KB (10,156 words) - 11:55, 9 May 2024
- Desire has been the subject of religious and philosophical speculation ... The most basic of these meanings (the literal meaning) is "thirst ...23 KB (3,709 words) - 09:57, 29 January 2024
- ethical judgments are primarily expressions of one's own attitude and ... Influenced by the growth of analytic philosophy and logical positivism ...34 KB (5,141 words) - 18:27, 13 February 2024
- Mind, Ethics, Politics, Aesthetics, Religion | influences = John Locke ... notable_ideas = Problem of causation, Induction, Is-ought problem | ...48 KB (7,545 words) - 08:05, 28 January 2024
- 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
- Prussia. Quite generally regarded as one of history’s truly great thinkers ... the absolute, but speculative certainties of the continental rationalism ...48 KB (7,410 words) - 18:17, 23 January 2024
- Category:Psychology Category:Sociology Category:Anthropology ... Homosexuality refers to sexual interaction between individuals of ...91 KB (13,332 words) - 16:14, 25 January 2023
- quot;) is the English name for a cluster of Chinese religious and philosophical ... # a family of organized Chinese religious movements, such as the Zhengyi ...58 KB (8,657 words) - 22:14, 25 January 2024
- [[Image:Camuccini Lamentation over the Corpse of Socrates.jpg|thumb ... Death is the permanent end of the life of a biological organism. Death ...47 KB (7,217 words) - 08:56, 28 January 2024
- generally known as Henri Poincaré, was one of France's greatest mathematicians ... family in the Cité Ducale neighborhood of Nancy, France. His father, ...40 KB (5,908 words) - 07:01, 22 January 2024
- Popularly, Love is any of a number of emotions and experiences related ... The ancient Greeks described love with a number of different words: ...70 KB (11,122 words) - 04:14, 4 November 2022
- Philosophy is the systematic study of the foundations of human knowledge ... Traditionally at least, it is not the pursuit of knowledge for knowledge’s ...69 KB (10,119 words) - 04:14, 24 November 2022
- 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
- 275px|An African-American man drinks out of the "colored only" ... Racism refers to various beliefs maintaining that the essential value ...36 KB (5,283 words) - 17:19, 16 April 2023
- died in Adyar, India where she was President of the Theosophical Society from ... satisfied if I could have touched the hem of [her] garment" ...34 KB (5,469 words) - 04:59, 31 July 2023
- Mo) is a term applied to a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory ... Many theorists agree that we can distinguish between two senses of ...45 KB (6,401 words) - 05:50, 30 November 2022
- who practices medicine with the purpose of promoting, maintaining, or ... Both the role of the physician and the meaning of the word itself ...29 KB (3,911 words) - 19:59, 15 May 2020
- Feminism comprises a number of social, cultural and political movements ... Historians of feminism have identified three “waves” of feminist ...71 KB (9,858 words) - 17:15, 26 March 2024
- Nonviolence is the practice of being harmless to self and others under ... Forms of nonviolence draw inspiration from both religious or ethical ...51 KB (7,370 words) - 02:40, 16 November 2022
- ) or Madame Blavatsky, born Helena von Hahn, was a founder of the ... with the imperial project in India freed her of the obligation to value everything ...24 KB (3,559 words) - 13:46, 27 October 2022
- was a German mathematician and scientist of profound genius who contributed ... with strong convictions, but was tolerant of those with other views. His ...24 KB (3,635 words) - 06:45, 5 April 2024
- Medicine is the science and practice of establishing the diagnosis ... Medicine is the science and practice of the diagnosis, prognosis, ...53 KB (7,336 words) - 04:05, 9 November 2022
- Decolonization refers to the undoing of colonialism, the establishment ... newly independent nation cherished as a sign of membership in the community ...71 KB (10,085 words) - 19:16, 10 July 2023
- The union of Austria and Hungary, also known as the Dual (that of ... The newly created Austro-Hungarian Empire was a good example of a ...36 KB (5,334 words) - 18:41, 22 August 2023
- Ancient Western philosophy is marked by the formation and development ... the second period spans the lifetimes of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle; ...29 KB (4,278 words) - 04:19, 31 January 2023
- Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a country that ... Historians believe the vast steppes of Kazakhstan were where humans ...51 KB (7,364 words) - 17:17, 5 October 2022
- Propaganda is a specific type of message presentation directly aimed ... situations, propaganda involves deception of the audience, for a purpose ...32 KB (4,797 words) - 01:18, 12 April 2023
- tales often involve a far-fetched sequence of events that ultimately progress ... more than superficial references to religion and actual places, persons ...47 KB (7,154 words) - 00:31, 25 March 2024
- "Kan-Yu" which means 'The Law of Heaven and Earth.’ ... Feng shui is the ancient Chinese practice of placement and arrangement ...33 KB (4,875 words) - 13:00, 21 January 2023
- statesman. He was the ninth President of Israel, serving from 2007 to ... and led Alignment and Labor. At the time of his retirement in 2014, he ...47 KB (6,756 words) - 19:59, 21 April 2023
- and good sportsmanship. Playing the majority of his career as a first baseman ... #039;s Disease. Long believed to be one of baseball's few unbreakable ...26 KB (4,116 words) - 02:49, 4 November 2022
- John Ernst Steinbeck (February 27 1902 – December 20 1968) was one ... conditions and events in the first half of the twentieth century. His ...27 KB (4,093 words) - 04:08, 3 May 2024
- Music is an auditory art comprised of meaningful arrangements of sounds ... Generally, music is known through the cognition of specific arrangements ...47 KB (7,194 words) - 19:07, 30 September 2023
- 275px|"Eugenics is the self-direction of human evolution": Logo ... Eugenics is a social philosophy which advocates the improvement of ...35 KB (5,140 words) - 04:18, 23 March 2024
- Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 ... Most Buddhist traditions share the goal of overcoming dukkha (suffering ...93 KB (13,393 words) - 18:33, 22 November 2023
- Philosophy of mathematics is the branch of philosophy that studies ... :* What are the sources of mathematical subject matter? ...31 KB (4,571 words) - 04:15, 24 November 2022
- Douglas MacArthur (January 26, 1880 — April 5, 1964) was one of ... MacArthur served in the U.S. Army most of his life, participating ...47 KB (7,075 words) - 17:30, 30 January 2024
- Chandos portrait that is believed to be of William Shakespeare]] dramatist. His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two ...56 KB (8,436 words) - 10:51, 12 May 2023
- after Christianity became the official religion of Europe and so suffered ... The dominant form of anti-Semitism from the nineteenth century until ...52 KB (8,069 words) - 12:28, 14 October 2023
- 023.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Executions of the Third of May by Francisco Goya]] Capital punishment, or the death penalty, is the execution of a convicted ...41 KB (6,212 words) - 21:02, 25 November 2023
- philosophy, primarily on the foundations of logic, the philosophy of mathematics ... Wittgenstein is widely regarded as having been one of the most influential ...59 KB (9,088 words) - 02:40, 5 November 2022
- Public opinion is the aggregate of individual attitudes or beliefs ... quot; developed as a concept with the rise of a "public" in the ...30 KB (4,541 words) - 18:05, 14 April 2023
- ” Widely considered to be the father of modern management, his many ... Having experienced the rise of Nazism in Germany in the 1930s, observed ...31 KB (4,468 words) - 14:47, 28 March 2023
- the Mathematical Seminar at the University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5. Meeting ... The Vienna Circle (in German: der Wiener Kreis) was a group of philosophers ...34 KB (4,936 words) - 20:14, 3 May 2023
- 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
- lit. The Book of Kings, ʃɒːhnɒːˈme|pron 977 and 1010 C.E. and is the national epic of Greater Iran. Consisting of ...59 KB (8,437 words) - 22:06, 30 March 2023
- are usually credited with being the founders of analytic philosophy. A prolific ... Russell was born at the height of Britain's economic and political ...75 KB (11,466 words) - 17:25, 29 September 2023
- abbreviated: CH), is a landlocked nation of 7.5 million people in Western ... ) translate as "Swiss Confederation," while the German name of ...52 KB (7,532 words) - 14:19, 28 April 2023
- Epistemology or theory of knowledge is the branch of philosophy that ... Much of the debate in this field has focused on analyzing the nature ...41 KB (6,380 words) - 19:10, 13 February 2024
- Augustan literature is a style of English literature produced during ... The chronological anchors of the era are generally vague, largely ...61 KB (9,767 words) - 03:12, 31 January 2023
- naturalist who achieved fame as originator of the theory of evolution through ... Considered the "father of evolutionary theory," Darwin made ...55 KB (8,376 words) - 23:18, 22 January 2023
- on a person. It can be used as a means of intimidation, as a deterrent ... Torture is almost universally considered to be a violation of human ...35 KB (5,314 words) - 04:41, 1 May 2023
- who served as the second Supreme Leader of North Korea from 1994 to 2011 ... become the heir apparent for the leadership of the Democratic People's ...64 KB (9,034 words) - 23:07, 3 March 2023
- Landscape Painting depicts the scenery of the European natural world ... in a religious subject, such as the themes of the Rest on the Flight into ...29 KB (4,569 words) - 20:24, 12 October 2021
- He often drew upon his own life experiences and addressed the nature ... The novel The Man in the High Castle bridged the genres of alternate ...41 KB (6,282 words) - 03:22, 24 November 2022
- is widely regarded as the premier chemist of the twentieth century. He pioneered ... advocate for greatly increased consumption of vitamin C and other nutrients ...44 KB (6,490 words) - 04:18, 29 October 2022
- The history of economic thought concerns thinkers and theories in ... Following Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, classical economists ...51 KB (7,537 words) - 12:02, 1 February 2024
- and short-story writer who is considered one of the foremost figures in world ... with the social and psychological anomie of modern life than were many ...30 KB (4,821 words) - 06:22, 6 May 2024
- were able to be exposed to a wider range of music than ever before, giving ... visual with the broadcast and recording of music videos and concerts. ...34 KB (5,125 words) - 20:42, 3 November 2020
- 1844 – August 25, 1900) is known as one of the main representatives of ... If a philosopher is to be a pioneer of thought, trying to open up ...52 KB (7,901 words) - 11:05, 11 April 2024
- mathematics, philosophy, and the theory of signs, or semeiotic, that he ... was scant until after World War II. Much of his huge output is still unpublished ...60 KB (9,018 words) - 22:24, 4 December 2023
- , killing between one-third and two-thirds of Europe's population. Almost ... Notable later outbreaks include the Italian Plague of 1629–1631 ...48 KB (7,671 words) - 23:50, 11 January 2023
- Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. German Nazism ... Fascism led to Italy's support of Hitler's Germany during ...34 KB (5,044 words) - 06:23, 11 March 2024
- Turkey, known officially as the Republic of Turkey (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti ... Turkey also contains the Sea of Marmara, which is used by geographers ...58 KB (8,535 words) - 00:22, 3 May 2023
- for Special Effects. He was the director of a number of critically lauded ... interpretations in viewers and critics. Many of Kubrick's films just as ...59 KB (9,500 words) - 19:51, 9 February 2023
- in Literature in 1934. Pirandello was one of the leading figures of modernity ... family in a village with the curious name of Caos (Chaos), a poor suburb ...35 KB (5,638 words) - 02:44, 5 November 2022
- 1775–1783), also known as the American War of Independence, was the military ... and occupy coastal cities, but control of the countryside and most of ...40 KB (5,862 words) - 06:46, 25 July 2023
- The cat (or domestic cat, house cat) (Felis catus) is a member of ... for at least 9,500 years, and it is one of humankind's most popular ...36 KB (5,931 words) - 01:01, 13 January 2023
- The illegal drug trade is a worldwide black market consisting of production ... The economic reality of the massive profiteering inherent to the drug ...41 KB (6,357 words) - 21:12, 30 January 2024
- and encouraged the use of her middle initial to facilitate this pronunciati ... Christian humanist. She was also a student of classical and modern languages. ...39 KB (6,001 words) - 17:27, 30 January 2024
- Divorce or dissolution of marriage is the ending of a marriage before ... A divorce must be certified by a court of law, as a legal action is ...63 KB (9,390 words) - 15:32, 29 January 2024
- An abortion is the removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus from ... methods carried out without the support of the medical community, which ...56 KB (8,002 words) - 06:28, 14 June 2023
- 1689), which corresponds to the last years of the direct Stuart reign in ... despair among Puritans, or the literature of rapid communication and trade ...54 KB (8,435 words) - 08:15, 4 August 2022
- Philosophy of language is the reasoned inquiry into the nature, origins ... First, philosophers of language inquire into the nature of meaning ...51 KB (7,646 words) - 22:42, 28 March 2023
- writer famous for his literary depictions of a libertine sexuality as well ... and blasphemy against Christianity. Many of the characters in his works ...57 KB (8,573 words) - 17:01, 30 June 2023
- There was systematic political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union, ... based on the interpretation of political opposition or dissent as ...199 KB (24,192 words) - 20:08, 19 September 2022
- Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, a country in ... federal republic, historically consisting of several sovereign states with ...115 KB (16,736 words) - 17:52, 14 December 2023
- ), officially the Republic of Austria ( Republik Österreich ... The origins of modern Austria date back to the ninth century, when ...90 KB (13,119 words) - 17:56, 22 August 2023
- ) was an American physicist known for expanding the theory of quantum ... He assisted in the development of the atomic bomb and was a member ...54 KB (8,060 words) - 20:15, 8 December 2022
- in its metropolitan area, and the capital of the geographic region of Macedonia ... ) or "co-reigning" city of the Byzantine Empire alongside ...256 KB (33,767 words) - 18:54, 1 April 2024
