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• Chaos
  '''Chaos''' (pronounced kayos) (derived from the Ancient Greek Χάος, ''Chaos'') typically refers to [[Random|unpredictability]], and i ...the word, the [[meaning]] of the word changed to "disorder". (The Ancient Greek for "disorder" is ''ταραχή'').
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• Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World
  ...nd Roman life and [[literature]], such as [[science]], social structure, [[philosophy]], and [[religion]], and contains comprehensive articles on central figures
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• Axiology
  '''Axiology''' (from [[Greek]] ἀξιᾱ, axiā, "value, worth"; and -λογία, -logia) is the study ...s://www.jstor.org/pss/2105883 Samuel L. Hart. Axiology--Theory of Values]. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
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• 160:0 Rodan of Alexandria
  ...dan was now [[earnestly]] [[engaged]] in the task of [[harmonizing]] his [[philosophy]] of life with [[Jesus]]' new religious [[teachings]], and he had come to [
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• Phenomena
  A '''phenomenon''' ([[Ancient Greek|Greek]]: φαινόμενo, pl. φαινόμενα'' is an observable event or, q In general, apart from its original use as a term in philosophy, ''phenomenon'' stands for any observable event. Some observable events ar
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• 195:1 Influence of the Greeks
  ...[[emergence]]; [[Jesus]], at [[moral]] and [[spiritual]] emergence. The [[Greek]] taught [[intellectual]] [[liberalism]] leading to [[political]] [[freedom *1. 195:1.3 The [[Greek]] [[mind]] was willing to borrow new and [[good]] [[ideas]] even from the [
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• Macrocosm and Microcosm
  '''Macrocosm and microcosm''' is an ancient [[Greek philosophy|Greek]] schema of seeing the same patterns reproduced in all levels of the [[cos ...3bc;ικρο- "Micro-", which are [[Greek language|Greek]] respectively for "large" and "small", and the word [[Cosmos|κ&#x1f
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• 195:2 The Roman Influence
  195:2.1 The [[Romans]] bodily took over [[Greek]] [[culture]], putting [[representative]] [[government]] in the place of go ...thout a [[religion]] [[worthy]] of the name. Small [[wonder]] that their [[Greek]] [[teachers]] were able to persuade them to [[accept]] [https://en.wikiped
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• Mimesis
  [[Mimesis]] (Ancient [[Greek]]: μίμησις from μιμεîσθαι) is a [[critical]] and [[philosop [[Category: Philosophy]]
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• Chinese Philosophy
  ...about the 6th century BC. Antony Flew & Stephen Priest, ''A Dictionary of Philosophy''. Pan Macmillan, 2002. ISBN 0-330-48730-2., but it draws on an oracular [[ ...s ISBN 0-14-044348-7 both appeared around 600 BCE, about the time that the Greek [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre_Socratics pre-Socratics] were writing.
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• 98:2 Greek Philosophic Thought
  ...espair. They sought for the solace of the [[soul]] in deep [[thinking]]— [[philosophy]] and [[metaphysics]]. They turned from the [[contemplation]] of [[self]]-[ ...Source." In so far as the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_philosophy Greek philosophers] gave [[recognition]] to the [[divine]] and the [[Absonite|sup
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• Empiricism
  ...e [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empiric_school Empiric school] of ancient Greek medical practitioners, who [[rejected]] the [[doctrines]] of the ([https:// Empiricism in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_science philosophy of science] emphasizes [[evidence]], especially as discovered in [[experime
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• Agnosticism
  [[Greek]] ''agnōstos'' [[unknown]], unknowable, from ''a''- + ''gnōstos'' known, ...[mystical]] [[knowledge]]. Early [[Christian]] church [[leaders]] used the Greek word ''gnosis'' (knowledge) to describe "[[spiritual]] [[knowledge]]." Agno
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• 98:1 The Salem Religion Among the Greeks
  ...iefs]] of the hordes of inferior [[slaves]] that had been brought to the [[Greek]] shores in increasing numbers. This adulteration produced a [[reversion]] ...]] the [[evolution]] of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_mythology Greek family of gods and goddesses]. This new [[religion]] was partly based on th
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• Cosmos
  ..., a '''cosmos''' is an orderly or harmonious system. It originates from a Greek term κόσμος meaning "order, orderly arrangement, ornaments," and is t == Philosophy ==
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• Patriotism
  ...with a [[nation]]-[[state]]. Scholar J. Peter Euben writes that for the [[Greek]] philosopher [[Socrates]], "patriotism does not require one to [[agree]] w
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• Classics
  ...e time known as [[classical antiquity]], roughly spanning from the Ancient Greek [[Bronze Age]] in 1000 [[BCE]] to the [[Dark Ages]] circa [[Common Era|CE]] ...ranking their cultural work. The word they used was ''[[canon]]''; ancient Greek for a carpenter's rule. Moreover, early [[Christianity|Christian]] Church F
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• Plato
  ...foundations]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_philosophy Western philosophy] and science. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_North_Whitehead Alfred .... Plato's dialogues have been used to teach a range of subjects, including philosophy, [[logic]], [[ethics]], [[rhetoric]], [[religion]] and [[mathematics]]. His
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• Anarchy
  Medieval Latin anarchia, from [[Greek]], from anarchos having no ruler, from an- + archos ruler — more at arch- '''Anarchy''' (from ''Greek'': ἀναρχίᾱ anarchíā, "without ruler") may refer to any of the fo
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• Archetype
  [[Latin]] archetypum, from [[Greek]] archetypon, from neuter of archetypos archetypal, from archein + typos In [[philosophy]], archetypes since [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato Plato] at least,
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