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- October 13, 1715) was a French philosopher of the Cartesian school. His philosophy ... sympathy for the vision in God and aspects of occasionalism and Berkeley ...

Lama) in the Gelugpa (Dge-lugs-pa) sect of Tibetan Buddhism. The Panchen ... The current (eleventh) incarnation of the Panchen Lama is a matter ...

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1947) was a Hungarian-born sociologist, one of the founding fathers of classical ... which is now Hungary. He was the only child of a Hungarian father and a German ...

; "School of Mo") or Moism is a Chinese Philosophy founded ... individual piety and submission to the will of "heaven," or "Shang ...

1945) was a prominent Japanese philosopher of the Meiji era. Nishida Kitaro ... Nishida Kitaro was born on June 17, 1870, in the Mori section of Unoke ...

Born in the Netherlands, he lived most of his life in England and wrote ... He was known for The Fable of the Bees (1714), which was first published ...

educator. He was a pioneer in the field of secular religious studies. ... the major BBC television series, The Long Search (1977) while his The World’s ...

perception, and suggested that all knowledge of objects outside the self comes ... work “La citta del sole” (The City of the Sun). == Life == ...

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

the Lynds pioneered applying the methods of cultural anthropology to the ... A. in 1914, and started to work as an editor of the trade magazine Publishers ...

and a highly successful popularizer of several natural sciences. He ... the basis for the 1997 Robert Zemeckis film of the same name starring Jodie ...

known for propagating the Vaishnava doctrine of bhedabheda dvaitadvaita, duality ... and non-duality. He defines three categories of existence, God (Isvara), souls ...

takes its defining inspiration from the work of Aristotle. Since Aristotle ... During the seventeenth century, modern philosophy began to develop ...

modern mathematical logic and analytic philosophy. Although he remained obscure ... Frege began his studies at the University of Jena in 1869, moving to Göttingen ...

The term Indian philosophy may refer to any of several traditions ... All the schools of Indian philosophy are characterized by some common ...

25, 1821 – April 12, 1912) was the founder of the American Red Cross. As ... with my life if need be; as the daughter of an accepted Mason, he had me ...

by the Germans, though remained a prisoner of war and was not sent to a concentration ... He advocated an “Ethics as First Philosophy,” in which the ethical ...

Gadamer. Ricoeur published a large body of work on a variety of philosophical ... Ricoeur’s philosophy is often called a philosophical anthropology ...

is best known as an early advocate of utilitarianism. He was a political ... Bentham argued in favor of individual and economic freedom, including ...

worst) are two opposing worldviews or states of mind. The former amounts to ... are fundamentally evil, that life is devoid of meaning and thus destined to ...

The Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism (JOKB) Korea's largest denomination ... The Jogye order came fully into prominence following the end of the ...

objective idealist philosopher. He was one of the most influential philosophers ... Josiah Royce was born November 20, 1855, in the remote mining town ...

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diplomat and the third secretary-general of the United Nations from 1961 ... As a devout Buddhist and practitioner of meditation, Thant brought ...

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A library classification is a system of coding and organizing library ... Library classification forms part of the field of library and information ...

Movement Analysis, and other developments in the art of dance. One of the founders of European Modern Dance, Laban raised the status ...

and the role he played in the development of the larger cultural movement ... Herder challenged Kant’s approach to philosophy and criticized his ...

Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University ... arts college in 1928 and commenced a program of graduate studies in 1955. Affiliated ...

India. He is best known as the founder of the Arya Samaj "Society ... who believed in the infallible authority of the Vedas. Dayananda advocated ...

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 ...

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

31, 1939) was an Austrian psychologist, one of Sigmund Freud's closest ... contexts, particularly in the areas of personal growth and self-actualization ...

30, 1969) was a British psychologist, one of the pioneers of cognitive and ... England. After receiving a private education, he entered St. John's ...

11, 1994) was an Austrian-born philosopher of science. He was one of the ... has noted, "If one looks at the course of Feyerabend's life, one ...

Religions (originally titled The Religions of Man) which sold over two million ... Born and raised a Methodist, Smith studied and practiced many of the ...

was a Korean independence activist and one of the early leaders of the Korean ... Many consider Ahn Chang-ho to be one of the key moral and philosophical ...

]) (February 28, 1533 – September 13, 1592) was one of the most ... motto that "I am myself the matter of my book" was viewed by ...

[[Image:Photo of William Graham Sumner.jpg|250px|right|thumb|William ... sociologist, famous for his strong support of laissez-faire economy, free ...

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

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 ...

Jewish philosophy refers to philosophical inquiry informed or inspired ... Jewish philosophy can be considered to take two directions; the use ...

– February 21, 1677), is considered one of the great rationalists of seventeenth ... Spinoza was born to a family of Sephardic Jews, among the Spanish ...

physics theory with a similar name, see Theory of Relativity evaluate beliefs and behaviors only in terms of, for example, their historical ...

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by authoritarian systems. In this aspect of his thinking he was influenced ... Fromm's chief influence remains in the field of humanistic psychology ...

quot;) is a central figure in the religion of Jainism, revered as the twenty ... Mahavira's later life was an example of rigorous asceticism. ...

Pavel Josef Šafařík, also known by the Slovak spelling of his name ... local culture while realizing the extent of Slavic oppression. While most ...

was an American Jewish author and rabbi. Two of the themes that dominate his ... Jews had grown disillusioned as a result of the failed messianism of the ...

Category:Education [[Image:Tee-ball wity Peace Corps volunteer, Honduras ... Service learning is a method of teaching, learning, and reflecting ...

States thereafter. He was a leading member of the Vienna Circle and probably ... I see him as the dominant figure in philosophy from the 1930s onward, ...

the scientific revolution. His theory of 'observation and experimentation ... as a philosophical advocate and defender of the scientific revolution. ...

at Harvard University, where he is Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute ... a more pluralistic approach to the question of the literary canon. There has ...

name Jalalu'ddin has the meaning Majesty of Religion. Rumi wrote over 65,000 verses of intoxicated poetry on the Sufi path ...

and influential thinker in the history of Western thought. He was a student ... Among the most famous of his philosophical contributions are the accounts ...

The Indian city of Varanasi, (also known as Benares, Banarasm Benaras ... A major city of Hindu learning, Varanasi is commonly referred to as ...

educator, and social thinker. The founder of "anthroposophy," ... === Childhood and education === Rudolf Steiner was born on February ...

Asia. He is credited with the translation of some 1,330 fascicles of scriptures ... Xuanzang’s detailed account of his travels, Journey to the West ...

The Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (Devanāgarī: ... and technology-oriented institute of higher education established ...

- January 9, 1927) was a British-born author of books on political philosophy ... This philosophy would later be applied by the Nazis in their Final ...

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). ...

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

research ranges from the analysis of short contacts between anonymous ... social status and the social structures of society, social change, social ...

century Gujarati literature, and was one of several Gujarati writers and ... rule. Manilal's beliefs led him to search for perfection and love in ...

Category:Education Category:Law Category:Sociology in employment, housing, or education—but also to redress the ...

Victorian literature is the body of poetry, fiction, essays, and letters ... During the nineteenth century the novel become the leading form of ...

de France, giving it the title "History of Systems of Thought," and ... Michel Foucault is best known for his critical studies of various ...

the Mathematical Seminar at the University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5. Meeting ... The Vienna Circle (in German: der Wiener Kreis) was a group of philosophers ...

German loosely translated to "The wind of freedom blows") ... university located 37 miles southeast of San Francisco and 20 miles ...

Rietveld and J. J. P. Oud. The artistic philosophy that formed a basis for ... that he called compositions, consisting of rectangular forms of red, yellow ...

but known to his friends as Van, was one of the most influential American ... Quine falls squarely into the analytic philosophy tradition while ...

Saint Brendan of Clonfert, or Bréanainn of Clonfert (c. 484 – c ... who is chiefly renowned for his legendary quest to the Isle of the ...

The Dominican Order, originally known as the Order of Preachers, is ... Aquinas, Albertus Magnus, St. Catherine of Siena, and Girolamo Savonarola ...

) (born 1058 C.E. in Tus, Khorasan province of Persia in modern day Iran; ... Al-Ghazali condemned the earlier attempts of Al-Farabi and Avicenna ...

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

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

which included sexual and personal freedom of expression and for amassing ... a small village in the Narsinghpur District of Madhya Pradesh state in India ...

) was an influential Chinese master of Chan (Zen in Japanese) Buddhism ... Huangbo developed the concept of oneness of beings, one of the central ...

those empowered to use force and other forms of coercion and legal means to ... The responsibilities of police include fighting crime, but more generally ...

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

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

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 ...

Parenting is the process of rearing children by promoting and supporting ... where the individual learns the meaning of life, develops one's “whole ...

historian and writer] He was a champion of the nineteenth-century ideals ... His observations represented the excitement of sociological discovery, made ...

Particle physics is a branch of physics that studies the elementary ... Our understanding of the nature of physical existence derives in large ...

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

Mansūr Nizār al-Azīz (975-996) at the age of 11 on October 14, 996 with ... Initially, Barjawan, his wasita (the equivalent of a vizier, as intermediary ...

) was a non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany, consisting of ... The six core members of the group were arrested by the Gestapo, convicted ...

are usually credited with being the founders of analytic philosophy. A prolific ... Russell was born at the height of Britain's economic and political ...

playwright, and essayist. With the end of Realism and its attempt to ... Sologub had much in common with the French writers of the fin de siècle ...

for "discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements" ... , contributed to the discovery and isolation of ten elements, developed ...

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 ...

Prize for Literature. He is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers ... Born into a lower middle-class Muslim family in the Gamaleyya quarter ...

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

"wool") is a mystical tradition of Islam dedicated to experiencing ... Sufis believe that excessive rationalism blocks human understanding ...

known as Sahajanand Swami, is the founder of the Swaminarayan Sampraday ... name Nilkanth Varni. He settled in the state of Gujarat around 1799. In 1800 ...

2005, Bedford, Massachusetts U.S.) was one of the twentieth century's ... Mayr's theories on speciation remain the leading view of how ...

Behavior therapy is a form of psychotherapy used to treat depression ... The history of behavior therapy progressed during the same time that ...

storage, retrieval, and dissemination of information. Information science ... understanding problems from the perspective of the stakeholders involved and ...

Category:Education Category:library and information science ... [[Image:LibraryCongressWashDC.jpg|thumb|400px|right|Main Library of ...

Cyberethics, also referred to as internet ethics, is a branch of applied ... Rather than straightforward application of traditional ethical theories ...

potential applications. It includes study of subjects such as theories of ... Ultimately, the goal of those working in the field of educational ...

public figure. He served as the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations ... While widely recognized as a leading representative of Judaism in ...

Academic publishing is the subfield of publishing which distributes ... transitions from print to electronic formats of publication; publications on ...

traditional societies in certain regions of the world, particularly among ... rulings against it, is the existence of an "outcaste" group ...

His seminal book The Organization of Behavior, published in 1949 ... memory. He sought to understand the function of the brain and its relationship ...

Saint Gregory of Nazianzus (329–January 25, 389 C.E.), also known ... The promulgation of his (at times contested) theological perspectives ...

the social behavior or the social relations of a society, community of people ... many other social sciences. Among many forms of creating social change are ...

Throughout his life, Fuller was concerned with the question of whether ... synergetics. He also created a large number of inventions, mostly in the fields ...

generally known as Henri Poincaré, was one of France's greatest mathematicians ... === Early life and education === Poincaré was born on April 29, 1854 ...

Feminism comprises a number of social, cultural and political movements ... Historians of feminism have identified three “waves” of feminist ...

Positive psychology is a recent branch of psychology which emphasizes ... Researchers in this field analyze states of happiness, flow, values ...

Ecotourism, or ecological tourism, is a type of tourism in which the ... tourism supports conservation through education by offering tourists insight ...

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

Deconstruction is a term in contemporary philosophy, literary criticism ... Subjects relevant to deconstruction include the philosophy of meaning ...

Medicine is the science and practice of establishing the diagnosis ... Medicine is the science and practice of the diagnosis, prognosis, ...

The Chicago School is one of the better known American "schools ... Economists of the Chicago school are known for applying economic analyses ...

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

Korean Buddhism is distinguished from other forms of Buddhism by its ... Korean Buddhism today consists mostly of the Seon lineage. Seon has ...

jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United ... Ginsburg spent much of her legal career as an advocate for gender ...

:Note: This article is about the institution and office of the Dalai ... The Dalai Lama (meaning "Ocean of Wisdom") is an institution ...

who is best known for pioneering works of Bengali poetry. He is popularly ... Born in a poor Muslim family, Nazrul received religious education ...

Music is an auditory art comprised of meaningful arrangements of sounds ... Generally, music is known through the cognition of specific arrangements ...

an 'a' at the end) was the ruler of the Maurya Empire from 273 ... in Sanskrit. Ashoka was the first ruler of ancient Bharata (India), after ...

Creationism, in its most widely used sense, is a set of religious ... In the first sense, creationism (not to be confused with the doctrine ...

identities. The term is used in a variety of ways to describe phenomena ... Many contemporary advocates of identity politics take an intersectional ...

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::See herbalism for the non-Chinese tradition of herbology. ... ), the Chinese art of combining medicinal herbs, is an important aspect ...

through self knowledge, by being aware of their thoughts and feelings ... was subsequently raised under the tutelage of Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater ...

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

years. The oldest extant works show signs of maturity indicating an even ... A revival of Tamil literature took place from the late nineteenth ...

) is the largest and newest territory of Canada; it was separated ... land" in Innuktitut, the language of Inuit. It is one of the most ...

The Methodist movement is a group of historically related denominations ... in the eighteenth century, among a group of men including John Wesley and ...

physicist who is widely regarded as one of the most significant scientists ... that energy is transmitted not in the form of an unbroken (infinitely subdivisible ...

Business ethics is a form of applied ethics (see the article metaethics ... In the increasingly conscience-focused marketplaces of the twenty ...

in Indian culture and based on teachings of the Vedas. Hinduism is the ... taught at universities results from the work of the theosophist, Annie Besant ...

Astrology is a group of systems, traditions, and beliefs in which ... While astronomy is the scientific study of astronomical objects and phenomena ...

Czech photographer, dubbed the "Poet of Prague." War I injury, which led to the amputation of his right arm, he took up photography ...

15, 1898, to battle the American annexation of the Philippines, officially ... Was U.S. intervention in 1898 disinterested altruism in support of ...

#039; national hero and the anniversary of Rizal's death is commemorated ... The seventh of eleven children born to a wealthy family in the town ...

feelings, behavioral responses, and a degree of pleasure or displeasure. Emotions ... attempted to identify the emotion with one of the components: William James ...

Planetary habitability is the measure of a planet's or a natural ... An absolute requirement for life is an energy source, and the notion ...

third edition, published in 1831. The title of the novel refers to the protagonist ... punished for his pains. He usurped the role of the gods. Shelley's novel ...

(1948), outraged conservative critics as one of the first major American novels ... used his sarcastic wit and excellent command of the English language to state ...

Criminology is the scientific study of crime as an individual and ... crime and ensuring the safety and well-being of all members of society. The ...

Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United ... and Indian War. For many years, control of the area was disputed by the ...

The Industrial Revolution was a major shift of technological, socioeconomic ... century, eventually affecting most of the world. The impact of this ...

was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme ... becoming a law professor at the University of Virginia. In the early 1970s ...

musician and critic who was a major figure of the modernist movement in early ... in style and technique, Pound rejected much of the modern world, especially ...

The Middle Ages form the middle period in a traditional division of ... With the demise of centralized Roman government in the West, trade ...

Marxism, in a narrow sense, refers to the thoughts and theories of ... thoughts, theories, and movements of Marxism have emerged since ...

Arabic: سليمان Sulayman) was the son of king David and the third king ... Nathan is Jedidiah, meaning "friend of God" (2 Samuel 12:25) ...

important and widely read American writers of the nineteenth century. In search of adventure, the young Melville left his native Massachusetts ...

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The Republic of India (Hindi: भारत गणराज्य ... name for the Indus River. The Constitution of India and common usage in Hindi ...

Gotama), also called Shakyamuni (“sage of the Shakyas,” in Pali "śakamuṇi ... Etymologically, the term Buddha is the past participle of the Sanskrit ...

North Pyeongan Province, which is now part of North Korea. He founded the ... teachings are published as the Exposition of the Divine Principle (1996). ...

Not to be confused with the People's Republic of China For the civilization of China and its history see China ...

Pio of Pietrelcina (May 25, 1887 – September 23, 1968) was a Capuchin ... Pio is renowned among Roman Catholics as one of the Church's ...

Protestants, Catholics, and a small number of Orthodox Christians. Although ... The Nestorians were accepted in China because of their ability to ...

and a national spokesman for the Nation of Islam. He was also founder ... As a fiery, socio-political critic of American Christianity's ...

Libya is a country in North Africa 90 percent of which is desert. ... , R'bw (Libu), which refers to one of the tribes of Berber peoples ...

| order=26th President of the United States | date1=September 14, 1901 ... | date of birth=October 27, 1858 | place of birth=New York City, New York ...

– September 28, 1970) was the president of Egypt from 1956 until his death ... Nasser is seen as one of the most important political figures in recent ...

together to challenge the immoral system of racial segregation. The movement ... The founding fathers of the United States had written of humanity ...

and endless debate as the topic of God. In the English language ... Throughout history, the vast majority of people in the world have ...

important and controversial English writer of the twentieth century, and ... Although he is now esteemed as one of the most important figures in ...

Much of Burroughs' work is semi-autobiographical, drawn from ... Burroughs was born in 1914, the younger of two sons of a prominent ...

Nepal, known officially as the State of Nepal, is a landlocked Himalayan ... Although the country is the birthplace of Siddhartha Gautama, who ...

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

North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ... The history of North Korea formally began with the establishment of ...

along with American and British Modernists of the Lost Generation, expatriates ... Barney was an early advocate of "free love." She opposed ...

by many as the greatest American leader of the twentieth century. His ... close to his birthday, King is only one of three Americans to have a national ...

Neocolonialism is a term used by post-colonial critics of developed ... ) and a critique of modern capitalist businesses involvement in nations ...

Science fiction (also, sf, SF, or sci-fi) is a broad genre of fiction ... Science fiction is part of, and in organizational or marketing contexts ...

"Respected Leader"), was one of the most prominent and highly ... at war with Britain have been the cause of arguments among historians ...

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

bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham ... Fred Shuttlesworth, and others, the campaign of nonviolent direct action culminated ...

Raised by Christian parents in the Igbo village of Ogidi in south ... When the region of Biafra broke away from Nigeria in 1967, Achebe ...

Homosexuality refers to sexual interaction between individuals of ... and sexual expression between individuals of the same sex. Today attitudes ...

), officially the Republic of Austria ( Republik Österreich ... The origins of modern Austria date back to the ninth century, when ...

The history of economic thought concerns thinkers and theories in ... Following Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, classical economists ...

A galaxy is a massive, gravitationally bound system consisting of ... May 18, 2018. all orbiting a common center of mass. Galaxies can also contain ...

until 1910, lasted for five centuries as one of the world's longest running ... Shortly following the declaration of the Korean Empire in 1897, the ...

[[Image:Skyscrapers of Shinjuku 2009 January.jpg|thumb|right|250 px ... cities formed in locations where a number of people were gathered to live ...

In biological terms, a human being, or human, is any member of the ... Psychologically, humans have a highly developed brain capable of abstract ...

Originally coined to criticize the actions of U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy ... During this time many thousands of Americans were accused of being ...

Christianity became the official religion of Europe and so suffered from ... The dominant form of anti-Semitism from the nineteenth century until ...

The Industrial Revolution was a transformation of human life circumstances ... human history, comparable to the invention of farming or the rise of the ...

Chandos portrait that is believed to be of William Shakespeare]] dramatist. His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two ...

territories, establishing the Empire of the Great Qing. The Qing Dynasty ... with Han Chinese culture, and saw the height of Imperial Chinese influence ...

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 ...

The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced ... Characterized by its use of Technicolor, fantasy storytelling, musical ...

A novel is a longer work of narrative fiction compared to a novella ... for "new," "news," or "short story of something ...

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