Search results for "Man" - New World Encyclopedia

From New World Encyclopedia
  • account of the cosmic scheme and of man's place in it, as well ... case of Spinoza, in a clarified vision of man's place in the scheme ...
    9 KB (1,352 words) - 19:32, 13 February 2024
  • in this find. However, due to the Piltdown man hoax, consisting of fossilized ... " The Institute for the Study of Man in Africa was founded at Witwatersrand ...
    9 KB (1,299 words) - 01:37, 8 December 2022
  • a success, and he followed it up with The Man of Property (1906), the first ... *A Man Of Devon, 1901 (as John Sinjohn) *The Island Pharisees, 1904 ...
    11 KB (1,514 words) - 06:40, 8 April 2024
  • animals perceive their world by instincts, man has created his own universe ... English (Cassirer 1944, 1946). An Essay on Man was an introduction to the ...
    13 KB (1,820 words) - 19:34, 13 February 2024
  • in this context: "The cultured man is an artist, an artist in ... sciences to bear upon the betterment of man's lot, while subjecting ...
    15 KB (2,208 words) - 04:42, 18 August 2023
  • turtle); 3) Varaha, (boar); 4) Narasimha, a (man-lion); 5) Vamana, (dwarf); ... is commonly depicted as being a fair-skinned man, especially in comparison ...
    10 KB (1,539 words) - 05:51, 26 August 2023
  • #039;s signature song, "Stand by Your Man," was one of the biggest ... public. In her 1979 memoir, Stand by Your Man, Wynette relates that she ...
    18 KB (2,712 words) - 04:00, 27 February 2023
  • ===Observations on Man=== His principal work Observations on Man, his Frame, his Duty, and his ...
    9 KB (1,402 words) - 07:56, 28 January 2024
  • The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (French: La Déclaration des droits de l'Homme et du citoyen) is one of the fundamental ...
    17 KB (2,728 words) - 23:49, 26 July 2022
  • boxing champion. He became the oldest man to win the heavyweight title at the age of 37. A smooth, agile fighter and consummate counter-puncher ...
    9 KB (1,442 words) - 02:33, 1 August 2022
  • marked by contradictions, and as a true Renaissance man, he cannot be easily categorized. He lived until well into the seventeenth century without writing ...
    10 KB (1,651 words) - 15:42, 6 May 2023
  • by Jose Ortega y Gasset "the first man of the philosophical paradise ... delivered a lengthy lecture, entitled Man's Particular Place (Die ...
    14 KB (2,180 words) - 00:58, 9 November 2022
  • original sin as a consequence of the Fall of Man, but it taught that a human ... of salvation is cooperation between God and man from start to finish. ...
    14 KB (2,147 words) - 17:49, 25 January 2023
  • * the humorous man (Polish człowiek zabawy) - develops among those ... * the working man (Polish człowiek pracy) - develops among the working ...
    11 KB (1,469 words) - 07:56, 21 May 2021
  • concept of the relationship between God and man. Böhme developed an explanation ... important gift God gave humanity, allowing man to seek divine grace as a ...
    15 KB (2,409 words) - 12:46, 6 November 2021
  • his theories in L'Homme machine (Man a Machine, 1747), applying ... the theologians mourn in La Mettrie a good man and a wise physician. (Eulogy ...
    12 KB (1,863 words) - 21:12, 4 October 2022
  • of the mid twentieth century. As a young man, Baldwin was primarily influenced ... father and may never have even known the man's identity. Instead, ...
    12 KB (1,855 words) - 08:53, 18 March 2024
  • by not only Fry's artwork, but the man himself. As an active and ... and landscapes. He had his first of many one-man exhibitions in London in 1920 ...
    10 KB (1,594 words) - 17:21, 12 February 2024
  • include "A Red, Red Rose", "A Man's a Man for A' That ... where the haggis is laid down. "A Man's A Man for A' That ...
    16 KB (2,522 words) - 18:46, 22 November 2023
  • be dominated by her husband (Gen. 3:16). The man, rather than living in a paradise ... :For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were ...
    17 KB (2,619 words) - 02:15, 18 November 2022
  • for example, an act of killing an innocent man is wrong because it is the ... beings. Aristotle considers the good for man to be eudaimonia, which is ...
    13 KB (2,107 words) - 05:34, 27 February 2023
  • She Would if She Could in 1668, and The Man of Mode or, Sir Fopling Flutter ... Molière was to France, but he was a rich man living at his ease, and he ...
    15 KB (2,460 words) - 08:05, 23 January 2023
  • in the oldest extant Japanese poetry anthology, Man'yōshū (Collection of Myriad Leaves), particularly in Volumes One and Two. He has been ...
    13 KB (2,022 words) - 02:25, 5 October 2022
  • novel was published in 1920. Titled, One Man's Initiation: 1917, it ... *One Man's Initiation: 1917 (1920) *Three Soldiers (1921) ...
    11 KB (1,597 words) - 04:56, 3 August 2022
  • Essentially, love for God and for fellow man was the basis of deism. His ... simple and universal duties towards God and man, the first consisting in the ...
    9 KB (1,411 words) - 16:56, 7 November 2022
  • In the case of the man yelling at the dog, one might naturally explain ... such as the one given above for the man's yelling? G. E. M. Anscombe ...
    15 KB (2,383 words) - 05:40, 15 June 2023
  • J.” Brown, an enterprising, self-educated man, in 1886. Margaret had always ... I wanted a rich man, but I loved Jim Brown. I thought about how I ...
    10 KB (1,600 words) - 03:54, 6 November 2022
  • the concept of the "dignity of man," embodying the new Renaissance ... Florence. Cosimo de’ Medici took the young man into his household and became ...
    12 KB (1,803 words) - 16:15, 6 November 2022
  • mentioned in a parable by Jesus about a poor man (Lazaurs) and a rich man ... Bethany or Lazarus of the Four Days, was a man who lived in the town of Bethany. ...
    15 KB (2,333 words) - 17:59, 25 October 2022
  • same time affirms that in a true marriage, a man and a woman become one flesh ... #039;s power. (In theory, the abduction of a man also constitutes an impediment ...
    12 KB (1,862 words) - 05:11, 31 July 2023
  • that health depended on the harmony between man and nature, and on the balances ... === Man as microcosm === Paracelsus regarded Nature as a living organism ...
    18 KB (2,761 words) - 07:39, 18 November 2022
  • is our life; And there is no remedy when a man cometh to his end" (Wis ... from the Jewish High Holiday liturgy, "Man begins from dust and ends ...
    11 KB (1,829 words) - 18:44, 20 November 2023
  • Homo erectus ("upright man") is an extinct species of the genus Homo. It lived from about 1.8 million years ago (mya) to 50-70,000 ...
    14 KB (2,119 words) - 12:01, 2 February 2024
  • underpinnings. His second seminal work, Man for Himself: An Inquiry into ... In an addendum to his book The Heart of Man: Its Genius For Good and ...
    15 KB (2,268 words) - 19:26, 13 February 2024
  • writer, author of the unfinished long novel The Man Without Qualities (Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften), one of the most important Modernist novels ever ...
    18 KB (2,958 words) - 01:45, 16 December 2022
  • the time in which it was published, and the man by whom it was written. A ... Charron was decidedly skeptical as to man's ability to attain truth; ...
    13 KB (1,975 words) - 05:20, 24 November 2022
  • this revolutionary spirit in his films. His Man with Movie Camera was one ... an upcoming project which seems likely to be Man with the Movie Camera, calling ...
    19 KB (2,880 words) - 15:49, 10 October 2020
  • of male figures, including Two Men Standing, Man, and Seated Figure (Classic ... in the mid-1950s. He had his first one-man show, which consisted of his ...
    10 KB (1,460 words) - 15:38, 6 May 2023
  • and mysterious; when it does reveal truth to man, its revelations are evil ... :Fallen man's inability fully to comprehend haunting reminders ...
    15 KB (2,145 words) - 20:30, 19 May 2020
  • 1930, she published Pilgrims of ‘48: One man's part in the Austrian ... * Goldmark, Josephine C. [1930] 1975. Pilgrims of ‘48: One man& ...
    10 KB (1,535 words) - 02:16, 11 August 2022
  • Diogenes Laertius describes Xenophon as “a man of great distinction in all ... than the dialogues of Plato. Xenophon was a man of action as well as a philosopher ...
    13 KB (2,062 words) - 14:29, 20 May 2023
  • every form of tyranny over the mind of man." This sentence is taken ... against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. |- | style="border:1px ...
    9 KB (1,344 words) - 04:39, 31 July 2022
  • *a man who paid the bride price but looked for another bride was not ... If a man seduces a virgin who is not pledged to be married and sleeps ...
    14 KB (2,300 words) - 02:03, 12 January 2023
  • to have been a gift from the gods, the young man, fashioning a pair of crude ... Guo Lao is typically portrayed as an elderly man astride a white donkey (which ...
    10 KB (1,682 words) - 15:18, 3 December 2022
  • His reputation as a man of learning is demonstrated by the tradition ... ...to become a truly good man, perfect as a square in hands and feet ...
    7 KB (1,177 words) - 22:13, 29 January 2023
  • Confucius’ view of the unity between man and nature, were asserting ... denying that heaven has any purpose for man, whether benevolent or hostile ...
    10 KB (1,654 words) - 22:51, 3 May 2023
  • quasi-matrimonial relationship with a man of higher social status. The ... of common-law marriage. In cases where the man is married, or has several ...
    20 KB (2,953 words) - 08:14, 14 January 2023
  • *"The needy animal knows how much it needs, but the needy man ... but to overcome it is the mark of a rational man." ...
    8 KB (1,214 words) - 09:28, 28 January 2024
  • Due to his willingness to embrace a white man and former enemy as his brother ... century. He was described as a large man, over six feet tall, muscular ...
    11 KB (1,744 words) - 22:17, 7 January 2024
  • civility, and compassion for his fellow man, including not only Jews but ... Love of one's fellow man was considered by Hillel as the kernel ...
    16 KB (2,728 words) - 13:17, 22 January 2024

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