Search results for "Self-knowledge" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Wisdom is a type of knowledge, similar to phronesis, that includes judgment for its proper applications to a given situation. The status of wisdom ...11 KB (1,692 words) - 23:18, 17 May 2023
- John Fiske (1842 - 1901), born Edmund Fisk Green, was an American philosopher, historian and writer who popularized European evolution theory ...10 KB (1,417 words) - 06:36, 8 April 2024
- Vallabha, or Sri Vallabhacharya (1479 - 1531), was a devotional philosopher, who founded the Pushti sect in India and the philosophy of Shuddha ...15 KB (2,305 words) - 14:14, 3 May 2023
- , a Sanskrit word meaning "revered thought," is the name of one of the six astika ("orthodox") schools of Hindu philosophy ...18 KB (2,750 words) - 18:03, 9 November 2022
- Pyrrho (c. 360 B.C.E. - c. 275 B.C.E.), a Greek philosopher from Elis, was credited in antiquity as being the first skeptic philosopher and the ...12 KB (1,848 words) - 03:54, 7 December 2022
- Emmanuel Lévinas (January 12, 1906 – December 25, 1995) was a French, Jewish philosopher and Talmudic commentator. He fought for the French ...17 KB (2,583 words) - 18:22, 13 February 2024
- Marine Engineering is a profession practiced by members of a ship's crew who operate and maintain the propulsion and other systems on board ...7 KB (1,011 words) - 15:57, 6 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Kroeber, Alfred L. [[Image:ishi.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Anthropologist Alfred L. ...9 KB (1,305 words) - 08:17, 20 July 2023
- Category:Public Tabula rasa (Latin: "scraped tablet," though often translated "blank slate") is the notion, popularized by ...9 KB (1,406 words) - 02:05, 27 February 2023
- Anatomy may refer either to the internal structure and organization of an organism, to any of the parts of an organism, or to the branch of biology ...14 KB (2,224 words) - 19:02, 26 July 2023
- "Cogito, ergo sum" (Latin: "I am thinking, therefore I exist," or traditionally "I think, therefore I am") is a ...12 KB (1,920 words) - 22:26, 7 January 2024
- Averroes (Ibn Rushd) (1126 – December 10, 1198) was an Andalusian-Arab philosopher and physician, a master of philosophy and Islamic law, mathematics ...19 KB (2,761 words) - 07:15, 23 August 2023
- Levi ben Gershon ("Levi son of Gerson"), better known as Gersonides or the Ralbag (1288 - 1344), was a rabbi, philosopher, mathematician ...18 KB (2,668 words) - 18:28, 21 May 2024
- Tommaso Campanella (September 5, 1568 – May 21, 1639), baptized Giovanni Domenico Campanella, was an Italian philosopher, Counter-Reformation ...13 KB (2,009 words) - 03:56, 1 May 2023
- Category:Educators and Educational theorists Rogers, Harriet Burbank Harriet Burbank Rogers (April 12, 1834 - December 12, 1919) was an American ...7 KB (1,106 words) - 07:38, 25 June 2024
- to know ourselves. It is this search for self-knowledge and the personal question of “Who am I?” that motivated Ricouer in his development of ...18 KB (2,604 words) - 01:31, 23 November 2022
- Samkhya, also Sankhya, (Sanskrit for "Enumeration") is one of the orthodox or astika schools of Indian philosophy that recognizes the ...12 KB (1,797 words) - 02:13, 23 December 2022
- Category:Educators and Educational theorists Bagley, William Chandler William Chandler Bagley (March 15, 1874 – July 1, 1946), was an American ...11 KB (1,638 words) - 15:55, 7 May 2023
- Jean le Rond d'Alembert (November 16, 1717 – October 29, 1783) was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist and philosopher who ...12 KB (1,720 words) - 17:39, 2 April 2024
- Antinomy (Greek αντι-, against, plus νομος, law) literally means the mutual incompatibility, real or apparent, of two laws. It is a ...15 KB (2,342 words) - 06:35, 31 July 2023
