Search results for "Theory of justification" - New World Encyclopedia

From New World Encyclopedia
  • Cranmer and Matthew Parker, as a co-founder of Anglican theology. He was also ... Hooker believed that the Church of England should be a broad, tolerant ...
    12 KB (1,851 words) - 21:41, 8 December 2022
  • perform certain acts, they govern ways of acting and of being treated ... as opposed to imperfect duties such as acts of charity). Whether these duties ...
    21 KB (3,233 words) - 01:39, 15 December 2022
  • Ethical intuitionism refers to a core of related moral theories, influential ... Secondly, and primarily, intuitionism in ethics refers to a cluster ...
    20 KB (3,141 words) - 04:32, 22 March 2024
  • important contributions to the development of the Austrian school of economics ... service to workers by paying them in advance of payment the owners receive ...
    19 KB (2,982 words) - 04:42, 22 March 2024
  • His initial insight was that a social group of human beings in many ways functions ... Karlsruhe, Germany. His father was the head of the household staff of the ...
    10 KB (1,388 words) - 06:38, 15 April 2024
  • "Victorious Christ") is the name of Gustaf Aulén's groundbreaking ... This particular doctrine of the atonement attempts to explain why ...
    13 KB (2,011 words) - 21:44, 10 December 2023
  • Epistemology or theory of knowledge is the branch of philosophy that ... is sometimes referred to as the theory of justification. ...
    41 KB (6,380 words) - 19:10, 13 February 2024
  • information science to refer to the practice of creating and maintaining headings ... Although theoretically, any piece of information on a given book is ...
    12 KB (1,766 words) - 19:17, 22 August 2023
  • Self defense refers to acts of violence committed for the purpose ... Self defense and defense of others (in the United States called alter ...
    26 KB (4,174 words) - 17:48, 25 January 2023
  • “from later”) refer primarily to species of propositional knowledge. A ... The historical source for contemporary understanding of the a priori ...
    11 KB (1,601 words) - 07:08, 13 June 2023
  • "Art for art's sake" is the usual English rendition ... The concept was adopted by a number of French, British and American ...
    11 KB (1,602 words) - 10:50, 16 August 2023
  • [[File:The Fox and the Grapes.jpg|thumb|300px|In the fable of "The ... mental toll this takes on the person. This theory, first proposed by Leon Festinger ...
    24 KB (3,639 words) - 22:27, 7 January 2024
  • work in such subjects as decision theory and epistemology. His highly ... Nozick was born in Brooklyn, the son of a Jewish entrepreneur from ...
    12 KB (1,858 words) - 21:29, 16 April 2023
  • power based upon a certain legitimacy, justification, and the right to exercise ... Since the emergence of the social sciences, authority has been a subject ...
    10 KB (1,553 words) - 19:17, 22 August 2023
  • , based on a strict deconstruction of the term, refers to what people ... took common sense as the source and ground of justification for philosophical ...
    13 KB (2,021 words) - 04:14, 24 November 2022
  • reminiscence), or as it is also known, the theory of recollection, is one of ... The theory of anamnesis is a version of theory of innate ideas. Rationalists ...
    15 KB (2,367 words) - 18:58, 26 July 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
  • Egoism is the concept of acting in one’s own self-interest, and ... society; and ethical egoism by the challenge of numerous philosophical and ...
    28 KB (4,468 words) - 23:59, 12 February 2024
  • that represents the logical structure of truth-functional connectives ... The truth-values, truth or falsity, of the sentences in this argument ...
    21 KB (3,138 words) - 00:23, 2 December 2022
  • Political philosophy is a branch of philosophy, which studies fundamental ... existing or possible theories and practices of social, political matters, ...
    23 KB (3,233 words) - 08:37, 24 November 2022
  • 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

View (previous 50 | next 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)