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1926) founded the first American department of sociology at the University ... Albion Woodbury Small was born in Buckfield, Maine, the son of Reverend ...

1908) was a British philosopher and leader of the Neo-Hegelian school in ... Caird published two sets of Gifford lectures, The Evolution of Religion ...

Positivism is a family of philosophical views characterized by a highly ... #The belief that science involves the idea of the unity of science ...

is commonly regarded as the fundamental unit of counting and measurement. For ... known as the "identity element" of multiplication (or multiplicative ...

2017) was Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science, Emeritus ... Kaplan was one of the foremost scholars in international relations ...

and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Award of the Peace Prize to Lord Boyd ... After three years of teaching, he returned to the university to study ...

who contributed to the development of ethnography and anthropology ... Germany, into a prosperous bourgeois family of merchants. He studied at different ...

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 ...

was a German philosopher born of Jewish parentage in Belarus ... Although there are some disputes about the year of Maimon’s birth ...

omnipotence only to God. In the philosophies of Western monotheistic religions ... There are a variety of views of omnipotence, and the five most representative ...

Nicholas of Cusa (born in 1401 in Bernkastel-Kues, Germany – died ... Nicholas was instrumental in developing the concept of “panentheism ...

Today Mach is probably best known for his positivistic account of ... Mach had an enormous range of scientific interests. According to Peter ...

strongly influenced by the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl and the hermeneutic ... Merleau-Ponty taught philosophy at a number of different high schools throughout ...

played a significant role in the development of Russian philosophy and poetry ... Solovyov did not think of himself as a philosopher, but as a prophet ...

ran counter to the prevailing rationalism of his day. Shestov rejected any ... He emigrated to France in 1921, fleeing from the aftermath of the ...

bishop, a religious refugee, and one of the earliest champions of universal ... who had many practical ideas in the field of education. His numerous publications ...

essay written by John Jay. It was the second of The Federalist Papers, a series ... Federalist No. 2 established the premise of nationhood that would ...

statements (everyone agreed on the existence of analytic a priori and synthetic ... Logical positivism held that philosophy should aspire to the same ...

was an Austrian sociologist and philosopher of science and one of the founders ... Neurath was the driving force behind the Unity of Science movement ...

Alan Lloyd Hodgkin. Eccles was the recipient of many honors, including a knighthood ... in Natural Theology, a sweeping view of the scientific understanding ...

anthropologist who developed the theory of "structural-functionalism ... he soon became interested in the work of W. H. R. Rivers, Alfred North ...

used to identify the essential components of the given phenomenon or experience ... reduction. These techniques are parts of phenomenological researches ...

Unification Thought is the philosophy of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon ... First, it expresses a passion for the ideal of unity and harmony. Analysis ...

and statesman, the second president of India (1962-1967). Radhakrishnan was one of the foremost scholars of comparative religion ...

was instrumental in bringing the teachings of meditation and Kriya Yoga to ... He brought a more spiritual, as opposed to dogmatic, understanding ...

Jewish-American sociologist. He was a member of the Chicago school of sociology ... As a member of the Jewish immigrant minority, Wirth understood first ...

is a theory that asserts that the nature of complex things is reduced to ... positivists attempted to achieve the unity of science ("unified science ...

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 ...

philosopher and historian. He is seen as one of the most important proponents ... Collège de France. Gilson taught history of medieval philosophy from 1921 ...

Damascius (c. 460 C.E. – c. 538 C.E.) was the last head of the Neoplatonic ... Damascius' position as head of the Academy when it was closed ...

Britannica and his book Religion of the Semites (1889), which is ... history. His desire was to open the study of religion to a broader discourse ...

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (October 29, 1938 - ) is the current President ... For anyone to become head of their state is a significant achievement ...

and logician during the second half of the nineteenth century. He ... Lotze combined the monads of Gottfried Leibniz's spheres of individual ...

cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. Some of ... Bateson is most closely associated with the concept of the double ...

His systematized and refined the cosmologies of Plotinus and Iamblichus, and ... Proclus’ greatest concern was the elevation of the human soul to ...

Mary Baker Eddy (July 16, 1821 – December 3, 1910) was the pioneer ... Mary Baker Eddy overcame years of ill health and great personal struggle ...

view that everything in existence is of an all-encompassing immanent ... have been discussed as long ago as the time of the Ancient Greek philosophers ...

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 ...

Russian formalism was an influential school of literary criticism ... members are widely considered the founders of modern literary criticism. ...

metaphysics that found an all-inclusive unity in the Absolute Spirit (non ... His philosophy can be best understood within the contexts of German ...

the Mathematical Seminar at the University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5. Meeting ... was meant as a manifestation of the unity of science movement […] Original ...

Italian psychiatrist, the founder of the psychological movement ... guide each person to understand the meaning of human life in all its contexts ...

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 ...

and an influential figure on matters of political and social policy ... Bosanquet’s major works include A History of Aesthetic (1892), The ...

who served as the last General-Secretary of the International Missionary ... church order, that bishops, symbolizing unity of faith and practice, can ...

twelfth-century Franco-Jewish rabbi and critic of Maimonides. to attempt a systematic integration of Aristotelianism into Jewish ...

She was a notable first female in a variety of additional positions, including ... Sauvé's main objective was to see to the fulfillment of national ...

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 ...

who gained his position in the history of Western philosophy by opening ... Fichte must be credited with reintroducing the idea of a direct contact ...

1924 - February 4, 2020) was the President of Kenya from 1978 until 2002 ... he claimed, a distinctive African tradition of leadership. He claimed to be ...

politician who was for many years the voice of the young nation of Israel ... Born in South Africa, he excelled as a student of foreign languages ...

an influential twentieth century advocate of Pan-Africanism, and the leader ... As Ghana's leader and as an advocate of pan-Africanism, he continued ...

Dialectical materialism is the philosophical expression of Marxism ... struggle. It follows the Hegelian principle of the philosophy of history, ...

was a Kenyan politician, the third President of Kenya, serving from December ... 30, 2007, for his second term as president of the Republic of Kenya after ...

Islamic philosophy (الفلسفة الإسلامية) is a branch ... thinkers, and contributed to the development of modern European philosophy ...

Scriabin began composing in the style of the lush romanticism of Frédéric ... old, his mother, a concert pianist, died of tuberculosis. Scriabin's ...

psychologist who helped found the school of transpersonal psychology. He ... His humanistic model allowed psychologists and students of psychology ...

an American linguist. Originally a student of Semitic languages, he is best ... ” indicates his parents were the followers of Sabbatai Zevi or Tsvee (1626 ...

radiation that falls on it, without any of the radiation passing through ... When heated, the black body becomes an ideal source of thermal radiation ...

which teaches that a single God, or a group of gods or deities, is responsible ... The resemblance of the "created" to the "creator" ...

Jewish works refer to him by the acronym of his title and name, RaMBaM ... Maimonides is typically regarded as the greatest of the medieval Jewish ...

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, 1854) was a German philosopher and one of the three great representatives ... identified with Romanticism and the spirit of the German “Sturm und Drang” ...

John Duns Scotus (c. 1266 – November 8, 1308) was one of the most ... by undermining the Augustinian concept of divine illumination of the ...

German philosopher, the main representative of nineteenth century German Idealism ... system practically unrivaled in the scope of its ambition. Hegel’s highly ...

Continental philosophy, as the phrase is used today, refers to a set ... who found it useful for referring to a range of thinkers and traditions that ...

Sunni Muslims are the larger of the two main branches of Islam. Sunni ... or example of the Prophet Muhammad. They represent the branch of Islam ...

and the role he played in the development of the larger cultural movement ... to philosophy and criticized his lack of understanding about the role ...

known as an early promoter and popularizer of Charles Darwin's evolutionary ... As a professor of comparative anatomy at the University of Jena, Haeckel ...

quot; (Greek: axios = worth; logos = "science") means "study ... sought to characterize the notion of value in general, of which ...

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in 1919 after serving on the city council of Metz, he was arrested in 1940 ... Schumans's concept of supra-national democracy and his vision ...

) 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 ...

) and born as Ahmad Khān Abdālī, was the founder of the Durrani ... The Pashtuns of Afghanistan often call him Bābā ("father" ...

, was a French anthropologist who became one of the twentieth century's ... Though thought of as French, Claude Lévi-Strauss was born in Bruxelles ...

by the texts, traditions and experience of the Jewish people. Judaism ... Jewish philosophy can be considered to take two directions; the use ...

total) is the idea that all the properties of a given system (biological ... The general principle of holism was concisely summarized by Aristotle ...

The object of cell biology, a cell is the structural and functional ... Knowing the composition of cells and how cells work is fundamental ...

– September 18, 1924) was a leading member of the philosophical movement ... Bradley's contributions to moral philosophy and the philosophy ...

the Muslim world, he nominated the leader of the Shi'a community as ... He founded the famous 'Bayt al-Hikmah' (House of Wisdom} ...

Tongdosa Temple is one of the Three Jewel Temples of Korea, representing ... bell-shaped stupa believed to contain relics of the Buddha, the main representation ...

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 ...

on truth at the first meeting of the Unity of Science movement, an outgrowth ... in his being invited to address the Unity of Science Congress, held in September ...

from the southern Low Countries, was one of the inventors and major proponents ... to philosophy lies in his acceptance of Averroism in its entirety, ...

philosophy or process theology, is a system of thought with its essential ... Whitehead argued that reality consists of entities called "units ...

, in order to eliminate the dichotomy of mind and body—has more general ... thought. Here lies the attractiveness of monism, which subsumes all ...

noted for developing a "theory of roughness" in nature and ... Mandelbrot was one of the first to use computer graphics to create ...

Ecology or ecological science, is the scientific study of the distribution ... and biotic environment or as "the study of the structure and function ...

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 ...

on numerous topics, including philosophy of history and aesthetics, and ... Croce offered his “philosophy of spirit” as a humanistic alternative ...

Pope to expand the papal territory by force of arms, and was a prominent patron ... Urban easily attracts criticism. Yet in both of these he but followed the example ...

Uncertainty is a term used in subtly different ways in a number of ... The philosophical problematics of uncertainty are often tied to a ...

Political philosophy is a branch of philosophy, which studies fundamental ... While political science focuses on existing or possible theories and ...

Magadha (मगध) formed one of the sixteen Mahājanapadas (Sanskrit ... from circa 684 B.C.E. to 424 B.C.E. Two of India's major religions ...

German philosopher, known for his critique of religious belief. He is commonly ... Feuerbach emerged in the 1840s as a leader of the Young Hegelians ...

that is highly resistant to the flow of an electric current. Dielectric ... An important application of dielectrics is to separate the plates ...

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 ...

Persian and Muslim poet, Sufi, theoretician of mysticism, and hagiographer ... His most famous work, The Conference of the Birds, rejoices in the ...

"for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the ... Wigner is important for having laid the foundation for the theory ...

The Frankfurt school is a school of neo-Marxist social theory, social ... Frankfurt school theorists were critical of Marx-Leninism and the ...

or fine particles, are tiny particles of solid or liquid suspended in ... spray. Human activities, such as the burning of fossil fuels, also generate ...

magic and the occult, he also devoted much of his life to alchemy, divination ... Dee straddled the worlds of science and magic just as the two disciplines ...

the Nobel Prize in 1922. He was also part of the team of physicists working ... Niels Bohr is one of the most important scientists from Denmark; he ...

A society is a grouping of individuals, which is characterized by ... Beginning with the family, human life is one of interdependence and sharing ...

by Greek thought, particularly that of Plato. Throughout her life ... on February 3, 1909 to an agnostic family of Jewish origin. Her father was ...

Members of the Bahá'í faith understand history as an evolving ... Fundamental to Bahá'í teachings is unity: the unity of God ...

scientific circles, serving as the a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences ... from 1873-1912. He traced the influence of Hellenistic philosophy on early ...

diplomat who was the sixth secretary-general of the United Nations from January ... not responding quickly enough in the face of tragedies like the genocide ...

Raffaele Luigi Pecci, was the 256th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, ... Born in Carpineto Romano, near Rome, he was the sixth of the seven ...

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 ...

orator best known for his work in the fields of comparative mythology and comparative ... Campbell's recognition of the universality of human stories allows ...

Geopolitics attempts to explain international politics in terms of ... Geopolitics attempts to explain international politics in terms of ...

pdf Iqbal and Goethe] Yearbook of the Goethe Society of India ... works, which include the Tarana-e-Hind (Song of India), Asrar-e-Khudi (Secrets ...

1884) was an American inventor and founder of the McCormick Harvesting Machine ... are gifted with the ability to innovate in science or in technology fail to ...

is logically distinct both from early forms of animism, which personifies ... Neo-Pythagoreans and especially the Neo-Platonic school of Alexandria ...

Switzerland) was an Austrian writer, author of the unfinished long novel The ... As a result of Musil's background, he is an instrumental figure ...

community, and to build on his conception of the basic unity of mankind ... and between the Americas and the islands of the Pacific is historically ...

for his attempt to reconcile the criticisms of the Enlightenment with traditional ... Because of his profound effect on subsequent Christian thought, he ...

Protestantism encompasses forms of Christian faith and practice that ... churches, and the Restorationist movements of the late eighteenth and nineteenth ...

Prussia. Quite generally regarded as one of history’s truly great thinkers ... the absolute, but speculative certainties of the continental rationalism ...

Edmund Spenser (c. 1552 – January 13, 1599) was an English poet ... than towards an uncertain future, than that of many of his contemporaries ...

people known to have reached the summit of Mount Everest, propelling him ... A native of Nepal, Tenzing was born to a modest family there. His ...

Electromagnetism is the physics of the electromagnetic field: A field ... " This phenomenon forms the basis of operation for electrical generators ...

States thereafter. He was a leading member of the Vienna Circle and probably ... *1938. "Logical Foundations of the Unity of Science," in ...

The Dialectic (Greek: διαλεκτική) is a line of thought, ... is whether it over-emphasizes the role of conflict in development. In ...

two different languages and the practice of teaching children in their ... role in the world. With the advent of multicultural societies, and ...

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 ...

pedagogy emphasized the importance of an environment that supports ... Montessori saw psychological development proceeding through a sequence ...

good, should be relocated in small groups of less than ten, in distances ... was known to point out admirable qualities of various disadvantaged people ...

he is sometimes called "the father of scientific management." ... #039;s views may be too naive in terms of the relationship between workers ...

and responsibility for our choices. The goal of Humanistic psychology is to ... The following five postulates form the foundation of Humanistic psychology ...

In classical physics, free space, sometimes called the vacuum of free ... ==Properties of free space== Free space is characterized by the defined ...

. Historically, alimony arose as a result of the indissoluble nature of ... and wives owed each other a similar duty of support. Accordingly, courts ...

The question of the meaning of life is perhaps the most fundamental ... This question has resulted in a wide range of competing answers and ...

balance between reason and religion in light of the philosophical developments ... Rosmini founded a religious order called the Institute of the Brethren ...

movements that are concerned with notions of cultural decline or decadence ... Fascists promote a type of national unity that is usually based on ...

generally known as Henri Poincaré, was one of France's greatest mathematicians ... family in the Cité Ducale neighborhood of Nancy, France. His father, ...

Flowering plants or angiosperms are plants of the division Magnoliophyta ... as the primary means by which individuals of a species are dispersed across ...

1772 – September 27, 1833) was the founder of the Brahmo Samaj, one of the ... movement that has given birth to a number of leaders of the Bengali social ...

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modern China. It brought about an upsurge of Chinese nationalism, and a ... and towards communism. The introduction of Vernacular Chinese (白话 ...

but known to his friends as Van, was one of the most influential American ... invited to attend the September 1939 Unity of Science Congress in Cambridge ...

Creativity is a process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts ... and business. Unlike many phenomena in science, there is no single, authoritative ...

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 ...

; Postal map spelling: Ngan-hui, Anhwei or An-hwei) is a province ... has a history that provides a cross section of China's history. The Yangtze ...

There are many physical constants in science. Some of the most widely ... * the speed of light in a vacuum c * the electric constant ε0, ...

educator, and social thinker. The founder of "anthroposophy," ... into Burgenland, Austria, in the foothills of the eastern Alps. ...

developed by Edmund Husserl, to the field of ethics and established phenomenological ... his doctoral thesis, titled An Evaluation of the Possibility of Constructing ...

sister kin," Totemism is an aspect of religious belief centered upon ... This form of religious activity is most commonly found within tribal ...

economy, focuses on understanding the role of human-made institutions in ... Behavioral economics is another hallmark of institutional economics ...

Thomism is the philosophical school that followed in the legacy of ... , Pope Pius X cautioned that the teachings of the Catholic Church cannot ...

a famous South Indian guru who has millions of followers around the world ... avatar (a "descent" or incarnation of God). His alleged miracles ...

Karl Jaspers (1883 - 1969) pioneered the idea of the Axial Age. According ... Jaspers was led to realize the possibility of a political unity of ...

who served as Bundeskanzler (Chancellor) of West Germany from 1974 to 1982 ... the conditions for peaceful resolution of conflict, and to end war. Speaking ...

Most scholars consider him to be the founder of the tradition of Western Marxism ... . Lukács studied at the universities of Budapest and Berlin, receiving ...

Baptist minister, known as the "father of modern missions." Carey ... Among those who assisted in the task of Bible translation was Ram ...

29, 1780) was (reigning) Archduchess of Austria and Queen of Hungary ... She was the eldest daughter of Emperor Charles VI, who promulgated ...

English name for the former Federal Republic of Germany, from its founding ... With an area of 95,976 square miles (248,577 square kilometers), or ...

"soul" denotes the inner essence of a being comprising its locus ... Throughout history, the belief in the existence of a soul has been ...

diverse explanations about the structure of the universe that open the ... special intention or plan for the appearance of humans in the universe, and ...

, located at the confluence point of the White Nile and the Blue ... and Islamic religious influence, the city of Khartoum was not founded until ...

and critical theory that were outcomes of twentieth-century French philosophy ... it can be broadly understood as a body of distinct reactions to structuralism ...

Philosophy of history or historiosophy is an area of philosophy concerning ... A philosophy of history begins with a few basic assumptions. First ...

Ancient Western philosophy is marked by the formation and development ... the second period spans the lifetimes of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle; ...

philosopher, and, for ten years, minister of state for the republic of Weimar. principle literary figure through a series of movements and upheavals in ...

==Evolution of the glyph== as the number represents. The Romans tired of writing 4 as IIII, but 3 continues ...

, dráō). The enactment of drama in theater, performed by actors ... between comedy and tragedy. They are symbols of the ancient Greek Muses, Thalia ...

called the Tokugawa period, is a division of Japanese history running from ... The Edo period is known as the beginning of the early modern period ...

activist from the Yankton Sioux tribe of South Dakota. He became one ... not civil rights, should be the basis of the United States government ...

The Klamath are a Native American tribe of the Plateau culture area ... With the loss of their resources and federal support services, as ...

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politician who served as the President of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973 ... Bhutto was executed in 1979 for allegedly authorizing the murder of ...

every prominent French intellectual of his day, including Raymond ... Kojeve's reading of Hegel was an anthropologizing one that emphasized ...

Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is a branch of philosophy; it ... Baumgarten in 1735 to mean "the science of how things are known ...

|name = Massachusetts Institute of Technology ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private, coeducational ...

Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P. (also Thomas of Aquin, or Aquino; c. 1225 ... for those studying for the priesthood (Code of Canon Law, Can. 252, §3). ...

history. For Freud it began as that part of the mind that contained our ... the collective unconscious, an accumulation of inherited experiences of all ...

B.C.E.) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato, and teacher of Alexander ... and Islamic philosophy. The beginning of "modern" philosophy ...

and scientist who served as the chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021, ... Safety from 1994. As the first female leader of the world's third largest ...

term broadly refers to the civilization of the Nile Valley between the ... Egyptian civilization had a bias towards unity, rather than towards ...

Southern European country with a population of approximately 60 million. It ... and France. The independent countries of San Marino and the Vatican ...

Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor, Companion of Honour (CH), ... she shared Adolf Hitler's hatred of Jews and dislike of Catholics ...

) was an American physicist known for expanding the theory of quantum ... He assisted in the development of the atomic bomb and was a member ...

command to save Noah, his family, and a pair of all animals from the Great ... take on board his family and representatives of all the animals and birds. ...

that contains information on all branches of knowledge or a particular branch ... (pron. enkyklos paideia), literally 'the things of boys/child ...

Critical theory is a term applied to a wide variety of critical approaches ... rejects the modernist assumptions of Western philosophy, including ...

The metric system is a decimalized system of measurement based on ... One goal of the metric system is to have a single unit for any physical ...

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, ...

that utilizes the behavior and effects of electrons for the production ... to cover electronic engineering amongst some of the older (notably American ...

or space habitation) is the concept of permanent, autonomous (self ... Many people think of space colonies on the Moon or Mars, but others ...

than revelation—should form the basis of religion. In England and the ... In France, on the other hand, Deism in the person of Voltaire took ...

– July 1, 1999) was the leader and founder of the Zimbabwe African People ... placed under house arrest in 1982, accused of plotting against Mugabe. Following ...

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 ...

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, ...

His work gave rise to a new generation of Muslim intellectuals and politicians ... Company. Personally affected by the turmoil of the Indian rebellion of 1857 ...

Norse: Jarizleifr) was thrice Grand Prince of Novgorod and Kiev, uniting ... His patronage of learning and his forging international ties helped ...

Egyptian Christian after the bulk of the Egyptian population converted ... In modern usage, it is frequently applied to members of the Coptic ...

for their own existence. It is the sum total of a being's knowledge and ... Components of the self-concept include physical, psychological, and ...

from the medieval Jewish communities of the Rhineland—"Ashkenaz ... Although in the eleventh century they comprised only three percent ...

Rosicrucianism (meaning "Rose Cross") refers to a family ... The meetings of these societies were held in private and thus Rosicrucians ...

and theologian who is considered one of the most important philosophers ... Pennsylvania, in 1897, as the son of a minister, Francis Cope Hartshorne ...

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at Harvard University, and the author of several books, including A ... John Bordley Rawls was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He was the second ...

update Alfred Nobel on the progress of the peace movement. After 1899 ... At the London Peace Congress of 1907 she spoke about how European ...

and literary critic, and is considered part of the American Romantic Movement ... The darkness that characterized many of Poe's writings appears ...

- August 16, 2018) was the Prime Minister of India, briefly in 1996, and ... in his native language, Hindi. His vision of India was that of an ancient ...

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Paris, where he eventually became Professor of Philosophy. He was a leading ... they had been viewed as a single body of work, when in fact Marx had ...

Augustine of Hippo or Saint Augustine (November 13, 354 – August ... Born in what is present-day Algeria as the eldest son of Saint Monica ...

is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each. It is widely ... on artificial turf, with a goal at each end of the field. The object of the ...

Philosophy is the systematic study of the foundations of human knowledge ... Traditionally at least, it is not the pursuit of knowledge for knowledge’s ...

one’s decisions and actions. The interest of free will in philosophy primarily ... The principle of free will has scientific and religious implications ...

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and physician who served as the second emir of al-Qaeda from June 16, 2011 ... and eventually attained the rank of emir. He was imprisoned from ...

rabbi, Jewish philosopher, and exegete of the geonic period, known for ... quot; is apparently the Hebrew equivalent of his Arabic name, "Sa& ...

emotion that involves a subjective character of unpleasantness, aversion, harm ... to the body or to the mind. Examples of physical suffering are pain ...

In physics, the Coriolis effect is an apparent deflection of moving ... force, which appears in the equation of motion of an object in a rotating ...

to acknowledge our common sense experience of the world as valid. The starting ... outside world is nothing but a projection of my own self is philosophically ...

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authority), and the political leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution ... leader (marja al-taqlid, "source of imitation") to many Shi ...

American public intellectual, was a scholar of extraordinary range who made ... energy to developing and promoting his style of libertarianism, developing ...

The Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles of State Policy and Fundamental ... to its citizens and the duties of the citizens to the State. Those ...

Desire has been the subject of religious and philosophical speculation ... The most basic of these meanings (the literal meaning) is "thirst ...

Popularly, Love is any of a number of emotions and experiences related ... The ancient Greeks described love with a number of different words: ...

by humans. The term encompasses the universe of living organisms and their ... essential character or fundamental quality of a person or thing, it is in ...

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the Cold War. He served as Second Secretary of the Communist Party of the ... Born in rural Russia in 1902, Suslov became a member of the All-Union ...

the ninth century, who became missionaries of Christianity among the Slavs ... named Leon. Cyril was reputedly the youngest of seven brothers, according to ...

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) is the capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate, which it is also ... least the eighth century, with some evidence of its existence in pre-Islamic ...

Lama, without any qualifiers. The fifth of 16 children of a farming family ... After the collapse of the Tibetan resistance movement in 1959, Tenzin ...

1600 in Rome, Italy and spread to most of Europe. In music, the Baroque ... One of the defining aspects of music of the Baroque era was its connection ...

Olfaction, the sense of smell, is the detection of chemicals dissolved ... taste. The chemicals that evoke a sensation of smell are called aromas, fragrances ...

all are independent. Arabs form the majority of the populations of Algeria ... designation birthed during the days of the British Empire, and encompasses ...

Justin Martyr (also Justin the Martyr, Justin of Caesarea, Justin ... evidently stirred up a sufficient quantity of controversy (either through ...

philosopher, and scholar – a professor of English literature, a literary ... he was named the "patron saint" of Wired magazine. ...

31, 1948) was the forty-fifth Vice President of the United States, serving ... Gore subsequently became chairman of the Emmy Award-winning American ...

military alliance established by the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on ... structure was built up under the direction of two U.S. supreme commanders ...

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climate which led to the emancipation of the serfs in 1861. He is known ... Herzen was an illegitimate child of a rich Russian landowner, Ivan ...

sources and have been used in a variety of traditional religious practices ... chosen in contrast with recreational use of the same substances. These ...

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An Indian reservation in the United States is an area of land managed ... President Andrew Jackson after the passage of the Indian Removal Act of 1830 ...

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and the United States, that is composed of multiple far-left, autonomous ... Antifaschistische Aktion inspired a variety of different movements, groups ...

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country in Central Europe with a population of over five million, bordering ... The eight hundred years of Hungarian oppression was openly confronted ...

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Arabic word for Islamic law, also known as the Law of Allah. It shows one of many ways that humanity strives to harmonize and maintain ...

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philosophy, primarily on the foundations of logic, the philosophy of mathematics ... Wittgenstein is widely regarded as having been one of the most influential ...

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to his or her disadvantage through the use of “soft” techniques such ... The origins of tai chi chuan are known only through legend and speculation ...

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philosophy refers to the belief that a part of a living being survives death ... The monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam generally ...

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The Democratic Republic of the Congo, often referred to as DRC or ... Formerly the colony of Belgian Congo, the country's post-independence ...

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World War II between the global superpowers of the Soviet Union and the United ... Instead, the "war" took the form of an arms race involving nuclear ...

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on August 19, 1946), was the 42nd President of the United States, serving ... United States experienced the longest period of peacetime economic expansion ...

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The Republic of Ireland, often referred to as simply Ireland, is a ... More than 40 million Americans, and millions of others around the ...

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly ... Ireland—with King Charles III as head of state. He is also head of state ...

Iran (ايران, Īrān), officially the Islamic Republic of Iran ... The history of Iran covers over four thousand years. Throughout history ...

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revolutionary and a founding father of the People's Republic ... Born the son of a wealthy farmer in Shaoshan, Hunan, Mao adopted a ...

and revolutionary. He governed the Republic of Cuba for 47 years as Prime ... and counter-revolution, including the Bay of Pigs Invasion of 1961. In response ...

Spain, officially the Kingdom of Spain ( Reino de España (both bordering Morocco). It is the largest of the three sovereign nations ...