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• Agency
  ...sociology]] to refer to the capacity of an agent to [[act]] in a world. In philosophy, the agency is considered as belonging to that agent even if that agent rep ==In philosophy==
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• Eroticism
  ...better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of [[consumer]]." This [[confusion]], as Lynn Hunt writes, "[[demonstrate]] ...the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_greek_philosophy ancient Greek philosophy]'s "overturning of [[mythology]]" as a definition to [[understanding]] of t
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• 121:1 The Occident of the First Century After Christ
  ...wiki/Ancient_Greece#Hellenistic_Greece Grecian language and culture]—and [[philosophy]] to a certain extent. ...[happy]] and prosperous [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_class middle class] in those days; it had just begun to make its [[appearance]] in [https://en
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• Anti-intellectualism
  ...ectual pursuits, usually [[expressed]] as the derision of [[education]], [[philosophy]], [[literature]], [[art]], and [[science]], as impractical and contemptibl ...[elitism]] and academic elitism — proposing that the educated are a social class detached from the everyday concerns of the [[majority]], and that they [[do
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• 87:4 Good and Bad Spirit Ghosts
  ...eligion]]; and for ages many [[tribes]] clung to the old [[belief]] in one class of ghosts. They taught that man had good luck when the ghost was pleased, b ...] of the [[evolution]] of [[religion]] and in the expansion of [[human]] [[philosophy]].
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• Infinite
  ...ct concepts (usually linked to the idea of "without end") which arise in [[philosophy]], [[mathematics]], and [[theology]]. ...to [[limit (mathematics)|limit]]s, [[aleph number]]s, [[class (set theory)|class]]es in [[set theory]], [[Dedekind-infinite set]]s, [[large cardinal]]s,Larg
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• Concepts
  ...ll of the entities, [[phenomena]], and/or relations in a given category or class by using definitions. Concepts are abstract in that they omit the [[differ ...y and cognitive science as concept learning and category formation. In the philosophy of [[Kant]], any purely [[empirical]] theory dealing with the acquisition o
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• Ideal
  ...all circles. Since we can define the properties that the ideal member of a class should have, the value of any actual object can be empirically determined b [[Category: Philosophy]]
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• Theory
  ...[The Sciences|sciences]] (both natural and social) and the other used in [[philosophy]], [[mathematics]], [[logic]], and across other fields in the [[humanities] *1. it identifies this set of distinct observations as a class of [[phenomena]], and
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• Law
  ...ocial sciences and humanities as law enjoins the domain of [[politics]], [[philosophy]],[[ history]] and [[economics]], because any rule of [[contract]], [[tort] ...vernment]] is the definition of the right, the just and fair regulation of class [[difference]]s, and the enforcement of equality of opportunity under the r
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• Correspond
  ...lato Plato], and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle Aristotle]. This class of [[theories]] holds that the [[truth]] or the falsity of a [[representati [[Category: Philosophy]]
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• Universal
  ...he Rights of Man and of the Citizen]], for those heavily influenced by the philosophy of the [[Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] and its conception of a [[hum A '''universal proposition''' is one that affirms a [[property (philosophy)|property]] of all the members of a [[set]]. For instance, the proposition
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• Kindergarten
  *1: a [[school]] or class for [[children]] usually from four to six years old ...dia.org/wiki/Waldorf_education Steiner-Waldorf education] (the educational philosophy of which was founded by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Steiner Rudol
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• Bear & Co.
  ...Traditions is a publisher of books on [[indigenous culture]]s, [[perennial philosophy]], [[visionary art]], [[spiritual tradition]]s of the East and West, [[sexu {| class=sortable
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• Conscious
  ...d to ns. forming adjs. with the sense ‘conscious of{em}, aware of{em}’; as CLASS-CONSCIOUS, COLOUR-CONSCIOUS, etc. [[Category: Philosophy]]
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• Prejudice
  ...d a [[group]] of people or a single [[person]] because of [[race]], social class, [[gender]], ethnicity, [[sexual]] orientation, age, disability, [[politica ...: for example, in adherence to a particular metaphysical or methodological philosophy at the expense of other philosophies which may offer a more complete theore
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• Manner
  ...hese terms are also often used for members of a particular [[status|social class]]. [[Category: Philosophy]]
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• Philosophy
  ...y of philosophy might include (but are not limited to): How can changes in philosophy be accounted for historically? What drives the development of thought in it ...ern]], [[religious]] or [[secular]] — have had their own unique schools of philosophy, arrived at through both inheritance and through independent discovery. Suc
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• Templeton Library
  ...bership in the Elihu society. He graduated in 1934 as a top scholar in his class. He graduated with a M.A. degree in law. He was a Chartered Financial Analy ...lined. Uninterested in consumerism, he drove his own car, never flew first class and lived year-round in his peaceful ocean-side home in the Bahamas.
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• Error
  ...ould be descriptive rather than prescriptive to avoid reinforcing dominant class [[value]] [[judgment]]s about what linguistic forms should and should not b [[Category: Philosophy]]
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• Equality
  ...me [[political]], [[economic]], social, and civil rights[2] or as a social philosophy advocating the removal of economic inequalities among people. ...n [[reality]], most political power still resides in the hands of a ruling class, rather than in the hands of the people.
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• Neurosis
  ...to be used in contemporary [[theoretical]] writing in [[psychology]] and [[philosophy]]. '''Neurosis''' is a class of functional mental disorders involving distress but neither [[delusions]]
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• Classics
  ...he [[Latin]] [[adjective]] ''classicus'' meaning "belonging to the highest class of citizens," and has further connotations of superiority, authority, and [ ...language and literature, Greek and Roman art and archaeology, history and philosophy. It is sometimes known as '''Greats''' after the nickname for the final exa
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• Sui Generis
  The expression was effectively created by scholastic [[philosophy]] to indicate an [[idea]], an entity or a [[reality]] that cannot be includ ...e are rights which are known as being ''sui generis'' to owners of a small class of works, such as intellectual property rights in mask wor]s, Hull designs
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• 195:0 After Pentecost
  ...ey could [[contemplate]] the [[inheritance]] of great accomplishments in [[philosophy]], [[art]], [[literature]], and [[political]] [[progress]]. But with all th ...terpreted by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_greek_philosophy Greek philosophy] and [[socialized]] in [[Christianity]], now boldly challenged the [[tradit
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• Mediocrity
  ...antity]], (2) [[moderation]], [[moral]] [[justice]], (3) middle [[social]] class or rank. All three are reflected in the uses of Middle French ''médiocre'' ...iple is the notion in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_science philosophy of science] that there is nothing very unusual about the [[evolution]] of o
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• 2012-02-01-How Is Life At the Next Level
  ...unities]] as those who come later. Imagine a world where [[science]] and [[philosophy]] walk hand-in-hand promoting [[social]] and [[individual]] [[growth]]. For ...ring success solely in the [[material]] sense. Those who have enjoyed this class of exaltation in this world often find it [[difficult]] to [[adapt]] to the
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• Structure
  ...and in the studies that reflect on them, as philosophy and especially the philosophy of mathematics. Indeed, modern mathematics has been defined in a very gener ...e their own free choices. "Structure" here to those factors such as social class, religion, gender, ethnicity, customs etc. which seem to limit or influence
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• Urantia Book - What Is It?
  *A. The Foreword is in a class all by itself. But it is a part of Part I -- it is not outside of Part I. ...ness and variety, is still a major testing procedure for new postulates in Philosophy and Religion.
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• Intellectual
  ...ind. Second, “intellectuals” as a recognizable occupational [[social class|class]] consisting of lecturers, professors, lawyers, doctors, scientists, engine == Modes of 'intellectual class' in nineteenth-century Europe ==
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• Sophism
  ...someone. In Ancient Greece, the sophists were a group of [[teachers]] of [[philosophy]] and [[rhetoric]]. ...[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens Athens], "sophist" came to denote a class of itinerant [[intellectuals]] who taught courses in "excellence" or "[[vir
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• Catharsis
  ...is that [[psychology]] and [[philosophy]] were not separate in [[Classical Philosophy]] Thus in classical mysticism, as well as current mystical traditions, kath The most conspicuous example of the first class is the [[scapegoat]]. Two goats were provided by the ancient Hebrews on the
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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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• 48:5 Mansion World Teachers
  ...n the [[universe]] [[headquarters]] worlds you will enter the schools of [[philosophy]], [[divinity]], and pure [[spirituality]].
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• Ideology
  ...common sense and several [[philosophical]] ideas proposed by the dominant class of a society to all members of this society. The main purpose behind an id == Ideology in Cognitive Science, Linguistics, Philosophy, Post-Modernism and Critical Theory ==
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• Paradox
  ...derlying known paradoxes has led to significant advances in [[science]], [[philosophy]] and [[mathematics]]. But many paradoxes, such as [[Curry's paradox]], do * A paradox which is in neither class may be an ''antinomy'', which reaches a self-contradictory result by proper
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• Social Status
  ...s with the Indian [[caste]] system. In other cases, status exists without class and/or informally, as is true with some [[Hunter-Gatherer]] societies such ...in social stratification. [[Max Weber]] distinguishes status from [[social class]], though some contemporary empirical sociologists add the two ideas to cre
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• Intellectual History
  ''Intellectual history'' is closely related to the [[history of philosophy]] and the [[history of ideas]]. Its central perspective suggests that idea ...e life of the mind. Second, 'intellectuals' as a recognizable occupational class consisting of lecturers, professors, lawyers, doctors, scientist, etcetera.
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• Triad
  ...]] [[three]] (in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoreanism Pythagorean philosophy]). ...and validating [[social]] structures in its [[content]]: such a tripartite class system is found in ancient Indian, Iranian, Greek and Celtic texts. In 1970
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• Social
  ...tialist]] and [[postmodernist]] thought, relationships between the [[Self (philosophy)|Self]] and the [[Other]]; ...niversal franchise]] and [[social ownership]] for the rule of a propertied class which had exclusive voting rights.
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• 2017-09-25-New Era Transition 25
  ...orporates both the vision intention with the mission</u>. The operational philosophy exists, works through and envelops every decision that is made in the organ ...to dominate and control, to control developments so that one mindset, one philosophy or one political orientation is dominant and gets its way. This simply doe
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• The Revolution of Everyday Life/ Chapter 13
  ...ves. By means of history men try to find one another and attain unity. The class struggle is but one stage, though a decisive one, in the struggle for the w ...he ruling class has every reason in the world to deny the existence of the class struggle, so the history of separation is necessarily indistinguishable fro
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• Islamic philosophy
  ...Islamic studies, and is a longstanding attempt to create harmony between [[philosophy]] ([[reason]]) and the religious teachings of [[Islam]] ([[faith]]). The attempt to fuse religion and philosophy is difficult because there are no clear preconditions. Philosophers typical
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• 92:6 The Composite Religions
  ...g/wiki/Pygmies Pygmies] of Africa have no [[religious]] [[reactions]] as a class, although some of them believe slightly in a [[spirit]] [[environment]]. Th ...n.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroastrianism Zoroastrian] teachings and [[Greek]] [[philosophy]], and formulated primarily by three [[individuals]]: [https://en.wikipedia
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• Neurologics
  The moist pulsating patterns\" of work and play, the script brought to class is nevertheless heavily imprinted by individuating and ego-nourishing strat [[Category: Philosophy]]
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• Literary theory
  ...ding texts, most of which are informed by various strands of [[Continental philosophy]]. ...on a very heterogeneous tradition of [[Continental philosophy]] and the [[philosophy of language]], any classification of their approaches is only an approximat
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• Materialism
  ...[[matter]] is the only substance. As a theory, materialism belongs to the class of [[Monist|monist]] ontology. As such, it is different from ontological th ...kers opposed to it, who regard it as a [[Spirituality|spiritually ]] empty philosophy. [[Marxism]] also uses ''materialism'' to refer to a "materialist conceptio
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• Reality
  In the strict sense of western [[philosophy]], there are levels or gradation to the nature and conception of reality. T According to the less realist trends in [[philosophy]], such as [[postmodernism]]/[[post-structuralism]], [[truth]] is subjectiv
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• Desire
  ...rama by showing cases where human desire is impeded by social conventions, class, or cultural barriers. As well, it is used in other literary [[genre]]s, su ==In philosophy==
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• Heinrich Heine-Bk.1
  ...live, it is not dead, and was hardly likely to be killed by the new German philosophy. No dog would even sniff at the spider web of Berlin dialectics, no cat cou ...naïve immediacy. She found that she was far too naked for a person of her class, the ancestral mother of so many future emperors and kings, and she demande
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