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• Morality
  In its third usage, 'morality' is synonymous with [[ethics]], the systematic philosophical study of the moral domain. [https://www.philosophyblog.com.au/ethics-vs-mor ...position, known as moral relativism, often cites empirical evidence from [[anthropology]] as evidence to support its claims. [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mo
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• Humanities
  ...s are sometimes described as "humanists". But that term also describes the philosophical position of [[humanism]], which some "[[antihumanist]]" scholars in the hum ...er and example of tradition for political morality. In the west, the Greek philosophical tradition, represented by the works of [[Plato]] and [[Aristotle]], was dif
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• Human Being
  ...ocial learning and [[language acquisition]] in juvenile humans. [[Physical anthropology|Physical anthropologists]] argue that a reorganization of the structure of The most widely accepted view among current [[anthropology|anthropologists]] is that ''Homo sapiens'' originated in the African [[sava
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• Star Visitor Spirituality: A Synopsis
  ...ard the more primitive human culture, and the Visitors holding to elevated philosophical and moral principles (Boylan, 1996). ...help solve the archeological mystery of the Missing Link, and the cultural anthropology mystery of the sudden arising of Sumerian and proto-African high cultures w
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• Johann Georg Hamann
  ...late [[German Enlightenment]]. Although he remained outside ‘professional’ philosophical circles, in that he never held a University post, he was respected in his t ...s to have seen his work as one that examines the foundations and nature of philosophical and theological critique itself. Rather like the late [[Wittgenstein]], his
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• Emotion
  ...An influential theory here is that of Richard Lazarus (1991). A prominent philosophical exponent is Robert C. Solomon (e.g. ''The Passions, Emotions and the Meanin ...alyses and cross-cultural comparisons of a range of human activities; some anthropology studies examine the role of emotions in human activities. In the field of [
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• Romance
  This area of concern, related to philosophical and religious questions of [[identity]] and personhood, is addressed below ...e question of spirituality in romance, taking into account many religious, philosophical and historical views. For example, in realizing that romantic love can neve
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• Mythology
  ...strong mythological aspects that sometimes develop into deep and intricate philosophical systems. These items are not mythology, but contain mythic themes that, for [[Category:Anthropology]]
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• Sacrifice
  ...ionalist, argued that God always held sacrifice inferior to [[prayer]] and philosophical [[meditation]]. However, God understood that the Israelites were used to th [[Category: Anthropology]]
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• Prayer
  ...f prayer is attested in written sources as early as 5000 years ago. Some [[anthropology|anthropologists]], such as Sir [[Edward Burnett Tylor]] and Sir [[James Geo ...ayer'' which lists six types of prayer: primitive, ritual, Greek cultural, philosophical, mystical and prophetic. (Christian theology ISBN 0-8010-2182-0)
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• Astronomy
  ...in their cultural context, utilizing [[archaeology|archaeological]] and [[anthropology|anthropological]] evidence. ...mi paradox]]? The existence of life elsewhere has important scientific and philosophical implications.
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• Power
  ...discuss the specific ways in which feminists with different political and philosophical commitments — influenced by phenomenology, radical feminism, socialist fe ...Butler, Drucilla Cornell, and Nancy Fraser. 1995. Feminist Contentions: A Philosophical Exchange, ed. Linda Nicholson. New York: Routledge.
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• The Shaman Reborn in Cyberspace
  ...Signs of all Times: Entoptic Phenomena in UpperPalaeolithic Art’, Current Anthropology, 29, pp. 201-45. #Lewis-Williams, J.D. and Dowson, T.A. (2000), Images of P ...The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings, New York: Vintage.
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• Magic
  ...[[traditio]]ns and organisations, ranging from distinctly religious to the philosophical, following this trend. [[Category:Anthropology]]
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