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  • Gorgias (in Greek Γοργἰας; c. 483 - 375 B.C.E.), was one of ... Originally a native of Leontini in Sicily, he was sent to Athens in ...
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  • the twentieth century. It includes a number of thinkers who emphasize common ... element in thinking and the primacy of the will over purely logical ...
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  • and educationalist who advanced the study of psychology with his work on ... For 20 years Bain was professor of logic and English literature at ...
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  • a moral and political connotation. In terms of morality, ‘absolutism’ ... In terms of politics, ‘absolutism’ refers to a type of government ...
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  • philosopher, is widely considered the father of Neoplatonism. Plotinus' ... Much of our biographical information about Plotinus comes from Porphyry ...
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  • philosopher, theologian and historian of science. His surname is pronounced ... Whewell’s philosophy of science included the claim that through ...
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  • years, and are regarded as national heroines of Vietnam. Vietnam as such did ... riding on elephants into battle. The stories of the Trưng sisters and of another ...
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  • to all slaves in the Confederate States of America. It was not a law passed ... on January 1, 1863, declaring the freedom of all slaves in the Confederate ...
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  • The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth ... England, the Pilgrims arrived off the coast of New England without a patent ...
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  • cannot be derived from others, while laws and rules can. Greek philosophy ... analysis itself. Critical self-analysis of its own procedures, methodologies ...
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  • lawyer, human rights activist and founder of Children's Rights Support ... headscarf and for allegedly shaking the hand of a man. Defending her, reformist ...
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  • In philosophy, materialism is a monistic (everything is composed of ... assuming the existence or non-existence of the supernatural. Materialists ...
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  • played a major role in shaping the fields of personality psychology and ... personality, recognizing that universal laws alone could never tell the ...
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  • Intermarriage is the marriage between two people of different backgrounds ... Intermarriage is a form of exogamy, or marrying outside of one's ...
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  • and human rights activist. The father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, he ... 1945 to study at the Theoretical Department of Lebedev Physical Institute ...
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  • that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure, joy, and satisfaction ... According to traditional Western thought from the antiquity through ...
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  • A Plastid is any member of a family of organelles found in the cells ... Plastids are the site of manufacture and storage of important chemical ...
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  • KaihsuTai.jpg|thumb|400px|right|A rally of the trade union UNISON in Oxford ... A labor union, or trade union, is an association of fair wage-earners ...
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  • Neo-Kantianism designates the revived or modified types of Kantian ... The return to Kant of Neo-Kantianism in the second part of the nineteenth ...
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  • Jewish works refer to him by the acronym of his title and name, RaMBaM ... Maimonides is typically regarded as the greatest of the medieval Jewish ...
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