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• Philosophy
  ...cke]], [[George Berkeley]] and others. It should be mentioned that [[John Locke]], [[Thomas Hobbes]] and [[Edmund Burke]] developed their well known politi ...ures include [[Sigmund Freud]], [[Friedrich Nietszche]], [[Ernst Mach]], [[John Dewey]]. [[Epistemology]] (theory of knowledge) and its basis was a central
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• Materialism
  ...well as [[Ludwig Feuerbach]], and, in England, the pedestrian traveller [[John "Walking" Stewart]], whose insistence that all matter is endowed with a [[m ...nett]], [[Willard Van Orman Quine|Quine]], [[Donald Davidson|Davidson]], [[John Rogers Searle|Searle]], [[Jerry Fodor|Fodor]] and [[Jaegwon Kim|Kim]]; oper
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• Justice
  According to most theories of justice, it is overwhelmingly important: [[John Rawls]], for instance, claims that "Justice is the first virtue of social i [[John Locke]] of the natural law believes that justice would become a natural law, it i
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• Wealth
  ...the Wealth of Nations] The theories of David Ricardo, [[John Locke]], [[John Stuart Mill]], and later, [[Karl Marx]], in the 18th century and 19th centu Land ownership was also justified according to [[John Locke]]. He claimed that because we admix our labour with the land, we thereby de
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• Constitution
  [[Image:Magna_carta_thumb.jpg|right|"Magna Carta to which King John of England agreed in 1215"]] ...nded and refined by the English barony when they forced [[John of England|John]] to sign the ''[[Magna Carta]]'' in [[1215]]. The most important single ar
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• Idealism
  ...oblem of knowing "external objects"--the problem that concerned Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, and other modern philosophers. But the Forms that the Cave-dwell Collier was influenced by John Norris's ([[1701]]) ''An Essay Towards the Theory of the Ideal or Intelligi
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• Responsibility
  :1691 LOCKE Consid. Money Wks. ...interview. However, he decides he will go to a concert instead. Arguably, John has moral responsibility for finding another appropriate babysitter for his
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• Secularism
  ...us and Epicurus, Enlightenment thinkers like Denis Diderot, Voltaire, John Locke, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Paine, and modern freethinkers # Yavuz, Hakan M. and John L. Esposio (2003) ‘’Turkish Islam and the Secular State: The Gulen Move
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• Sovereignty
  ...r [[representative democracy]] are founded. [[Machiavelli]], [[Hobbes]], [[Locke]] and [[Montesquieu]] are also key figures in the unfolding of the concept * According to the theory of [[Thomas Jefferson]], [[James Madison]] and [[John C. Calhoun]], the states had entered into an agreement from which they migh
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• Leadership
  ...ill tend to lead to effective leadership. Shelley Kirkpatrick and Edwin A. Locke (1991) exemplify the trait theory. They argue that "key leader traits inclu # Locke et al. 1991
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• Thomas Jefferson
  ...]], [[inventor]] and founder of the University of Virginia. When President John F. Kennedy welcomed forty-nine [[Nobel Prize]] winners to the White House i ...ition, frequently studied fifteen hours a day. His closest college friend, John Page of Rosewell, reported that Jefferson "could tear himself away from his
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• Perfection
  ...fection, as the Alum-works in Yorkshire, through the great Industry of Sir John Bourchier. ...eyed doubt as to whether perfection was attainable for man. According to 1 John 1:8, "If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is
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• Conservatism
  ...like [[Hobbes|Hobbes’]] [[Leviathan (book)|''Leviathan'']] or [[John Locke|Locke’s]] ''[[Two Treatises of Government]]''. Consequently, what it means to b ...o Basics (campaign)|Back to Basics]] campaign of British Prime Minister, [[John Major]]. In the [[European Union]], a conservative campaign sought to const
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• Free Will
  ...compatibilist or incompatibilist, hard determinist or libertarian. [[John Locke]], for example, denied that the phrase "free will" made any sense (compare The contemporary philosopher [[Galen Strawson]] agrees with Locke that the truth or falsity of determinism is irrelevant to the
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• Magic
  ...not the first of the age of reason, he was the last of the magicians." - [[John Maynard Keynes]] ...Givry, Grillot (1954). Witchcraft, Magic, and Alchemy, trans. J. Courtney Locke. Frederick Pub.
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• Culture
  ...high culture]], [[low culture]], [[folk culture]], or [[popular culture]]) John Befrger ''Ways of Seeing'', anthropologists understand "culture" to refer n ...well as musicians like [[Dizzy Gillespie]] and thinkers like [[Alain LeRoy Locke]], [[Frederick Mayer]] and [[Richard St. Barbe Baker]].
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• Cultural
  ...high culture]], [[low culture]], [[folk culture]], or [[popular culture]]) John Befrger ''Ways of Seeing'', anthropologists understand "culture" to refer n ...well as musicians like [[Dizzy Gillespie]] and thinkers like [[Alain LeRoy Locke]], [[Frederick Mayer]] and [[Richard St. Barbe Baker]].
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• Home
  :c950 Lindisf. Gosp. John xiv. 2 In hus fadores mines hamas menia sint [Ags. G. manea eardungstowa; V :1595 SHAKES. John II. i. 31 Till then faire boy Will I not thinke of home, but follow Armes.
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• Private
  ...ages of such Writers as were as yet surviving, might bee admitted. 1690 J. LOCKE Ess. Humane Understanding III. xi. 254 For Words..being no Man's private po ...ball across the pitch for a throw-in and it hit my old Cambridge team-mate John Francis in the privates. He dropped like a stone.
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