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• 94:5 The Struggle for Truth in China
  ...] God and [[salvation]] through [[faith]], they [[absorbed]] much of the [[philosophy]] and religious [[thought]] of the various countries traversed. But the [[t ...rly [[civilization]] because it was the first to achieve some measure of [[freedom]] from the abject [[fear]] of the gods, not even fearing the [[ghosts]] of
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• Pleasure
  ...ce of suffering, and pleasure itself as "freedom from pain in the body and freedom from turmoil in the soul". According to Cicero (or rather his [[character]] ...ook I, From Section IX, Torquatus sets out his understanding of Epicurus's philosophy.
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• 2011-01-17-Virtual Reality
  ...ods to save the time they haven’t got, so the religions offer pre-packaged philosophy with which to nourish the soul. But, if you have ever cooked a potato and m ...e them; for if you do, there is no shortage of their instant mashed potato philosophy to swallow.
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• University
  ...ubjects taught at the original universities, such as [[law]], [[logic]], [[philosophy]], and [[medicine]]. But the university’s main role in the development of ==Academic Freedom==
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• 2015-10-15-Free Will Depends Upon Creativity
  ...nces right within us. I think they have so much to do with our feelings of freedom, and the fact that our choices are possible and have such an effect on our ...so many of my friends and folks I talk with have almost no feeling of this freedom. It is not that their lives don’t matter, but they don’t feel this. The
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• 2003-09-21-Nature of Living Truth
  ...]. The olden [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_philosophy Greek philosophy] which colored the world view of [[the West]] over many centuries was kind ...that each act, each [[thought]], each [[intention]] be free. And in that [[freedom]] to find truth
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• 2009-03-01-Assurance, Search for Sustainability
  create an environment of freedom and space to grow in new directions. philosophy is rigid as a pail you may not ever recognize the error. If your philosophy
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• 2009-03-01-Assuring Growth of Civilization
  ...cleaning of your home of unnecessary objects can create an environment of freedom and space to grow in new directions. ...ilosophy is rigid as a pail you may not ever recognize the error. If your philosophy is adjustable you will note that error and may be alerted to extract it or
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• Adolf Harnack and the Search for Missing Christianity
  ...was a simple message that was subsequently obscured, particularly by the [[philosophy]], [[dogma]], and metaphysics of the post-apostolic and Nicean<!--why not N ...rom the ecclesiastical authorities for his insistence on complete academic freedom in the study of the Christian [[scripture]]s. In spite of the church's res
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• Death of God
  ...od''') is a widely-quoted and sometimes misconstrued statement by German [[philosophy|philosopher]] [[Friedrich Nietzsche]]. It first appears in ''[[The Gay Scie ...of belief in an [[Objectivity (philosophy)|objective]] and [[universality (philosophy)|universal]] [[morality|moral law]], binding upon all individuals. In this
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• 195:6 Materialism
  ...the [[scientific]] world are no longer wholly [[materialistic]] in their [[philosophy]], but the rank and file of the people still lean in that direction as a re 195:6.7 The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalism_(philosophy) mechanistic naturalism] of some supposedly educated men and the thoughtles
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• Medieval Philosophy
  '''Medieval philosophy''' is the philosophy of Europe and the Middle East in the era now known as medieval or the [[Mid The [[history]] of medieval philosophy is traditionally divided into three main periods:
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• Mahatma Gandhi
  ...led India to independence and has inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Gandhi is commonly known around the world as Mahatma Gand * Bondurant, Joan V. ''Conquest of Violence: The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict''. Princeton UP, 1988 ISBN 0-691-02281-X
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• The Revolution of Everyday Life/Chapter 1
  ...his self-contempt; and he learns this self-contempt from his consolation, philosophy. After somersaulting onto his own shoulders to shout his message to the wor Enlightenment philosophy accelerated the descent towards the concrete insofar as the concrete was in
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• Politics
  ...and application of [[power]]. Related areas of study include [[political philosophy]], which seeks a rationale for politics and an [[ethic]] of [[public]] beha ...anford.edu/entries/authority/] "Authority" at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]. [[Legitimacy]] is an attribute of government gained through the acquisiti
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• Adolf von Harnack
  ...publications from 1873-1912. Harnack traced the influence of Hellenistic philosophy on early Christian writing and called on Christians to question the authent ...idered that from its earliest origins, [[Christian]] [[faith]] and Greek [[philosophy]] were so closely intermingled that the resultant system included many [[be
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• Shelling's and Bakhtin's Process Thinking
  ...with Alfred North Whitehead and his interpreters only, and reveals process philosophy to be a broader and richer tradition than has generally been acknowledged. Keywords— process philosophy, Schelling, Bakhtin, Dostoevsky, ethics, art, being.
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• Personal
  ...tion]] may be treated as a "person" under the [[law]]. In the fields of [[philosophy]], [[theology]], and [[bioethics]], the definition of a person may exclude ...entre around the degree to which properties such as agency (both [[Agency (philosophy)|human agency]] and [[moral agency]]) and [[rights]] are recognized and ack
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• 195:8 Secular Totalitarianism
  ...affirm that man does not need [[God]]. But beware! this [[Atheism|godless philosophy]] of human [[society]] will lead only to unrest, animosity, unhappiness, wa ...[[political]] [[optimism]] is an [[illusion]]. Without [[God]], neither [[freedom]] and [[liberty]], nor [[property]] and [[wealth]] will lead to [[peace]].
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• 2011-05-02-Personal Creativity
  ...is the epitome of the inability to choose, the utter lack of any personal freedom--just to live a whole life so cooped up in one’s own reality that even th ...t this is where your freedom--your experience and your realization of your freedom lies.
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