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• Western Philosophy
  ...hat refers to [[philosophy|philosophical]] thinking in the [[Western world|Western or Occidental world]], as opposed to [[Eastern philosophy|Eastern or Orient ...ically, the term refers to the philosophical thinking of [[Western culture|Western civilization]], beginning with [[Greek philosophy]] in [[ancient Greece]].
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• 125:2 Jesus and the Passover
  ...those who hailed from the [[Orient|Far-Eastern]] and the remote [[Occident|Western countries]]. As a result of these [[contacts]] the lad began to entertain a [[Category: Tradition]]
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• Auctoritas
  ...under [[Founding Fathers]]), as an alternative to an intervening [[Western tradition]] of [[absolutism]], claiming absolute authority, as from [[God]] (see [[Di
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• 195:3 Under the Roman Empire
  195:3.2 [[Rome]] overcame the [[tradition]] of [[nationalism]] by imperial [[universalism]] and for the first time in ...ld's [[history]] for a [[good]] [[religion]] to make [[progress]] in the [[Western world]]. During the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_century first centur
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• Chinese Philosophy
  ...'. Pan Macmillan, 2002. ISBN 0-330-48730-2., but it draws on an oracular [[tradition]] that goes back to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic neolithic] tim ...[integrate]] concepts of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_philosophy Western philosophy], as steps toward modernization. By the time of the [https://en.
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• Occult
  ...h back into antiquity and which may be described as the Western esoteric [[tradition]]. Its principal ingredients have been identified as Gnosticism, the Hermet ...17th century, these kinds of [[idea]]s that are alternatively described as Western esotericism had a brief revival. Alchemy used to be common among highly imp
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• The Heterodox Tradition in Western Philosophy
  ==The Heterodox Tradition in Western Philosophy== There are two (or three) main highways along which western speculation about the
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• Duality
  ...e "malignant". Most religious systems have some form of moral dualism - in western religions, for instance, a conflict between [[goodness|good]] and [[evil]]. ...erceives a "self" that is distinct from the rest of the world. In mystic [[tradition]]s such as Zen or Sufism, a key to enlightenment is "transcending" this sor
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• Byzantine
  ...t the end of that century with the division of the empire into Eastern and Western halves under the sons of Theodosios I, Arkadios and Honorius. There is much ...anied by a cultural flowering that is here called “pre-Renaissance” (the [[tradition]]al term is “Komnenian renaissance”). Byz. took substantial steps towar
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• Philosophy
  ...470 BC–399 BC) ancient Greek philosopher credited with the foundation for Western philosophy.]]The '''history of [[philosophy]]''' is the study of philosophi ...[[Modernism|modern]]; [[Eastern hemisphere|Eastern]], [[Western hemisphere|Western]], [[religious]] or [[secular]] — have had their own unique schools of ph
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• Indian Philosophy
  ...e this definition, explaining that a cornerstone of Indian philosophy is a tradition of respect for multiple views: *[[Purva Mimamsa]] (or simply Mimamsa), the tradition of Vedic exegesis, with emphasis on Vedic ritual, and
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• Autumn
  ...August, September, and October, or possibly a few days later, depending on tradition. In Australia autumn officially begins on 1 March and ends 31 May. The vast ...f the primary [[harvest]], has dominated its themes and popular images. In Western [[cultures]], [[personification]]s of autumn are usually pretty, well-fed [
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• Literary theory
  ..."texts" comprises little more than "books belonging to the [[Western canon|Western literary canon]]." But the principles and methods of literary theory have b ...he [[New Critics]], and de Man was trained in the European [[hermeneutic]] tradition).
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• Spirit Guides
  "Spirit guide" is a term used by the Western [[tradition]] of Spiritualist Churches, [[mediums]], and psychics to describe an entity
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• Etymology
  ...ough etymological [[research]] originally grew from the [[philological]] [[tradition]], currently much etymological research is done on language families where ...ndicate former meanings of words to de-center the "violent hierarchies" of Western philosophy.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology]
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• Theology
  * understand more truly his or her own religious [[tradition]],<ref>See, e.g., Daniel L. Migliore, ''Faith Seeking Understanding: An Int * understand more truly another religious tradition,<ref>See, e.g., Michael S. Kogan, 'Toward a Jewish Theology of Christianity
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• New Religious Movement
  ...]] that is not part of an established denomination, church, or religious [[tradition|body]]. ...]s coined to refer to this [[phenomenon]]. The term was adopted in turn by Western scholars as an alternative to the older term [[cult]], which acquired a pej
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• Humanities
  The classics, in the Western academic tradition, refer to cultures of [[classical antiquity]], namely the Ancient Greek and ...y not have [[nationalism|nationalistic]] implications. The [[Western canon|Western Canon]] forms one such literature. The term "literature" has different mean
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• Note
  ...a [[sound]]; and 2) a pitched sound itself. Notes are the "atoms" of much Western music: discretizations of musical [[phenomena]] that facilitate performance ...ecific [[octave]]. For example, the now-standard tuning [[pitch]] for most Western music, 440 Hz, is named a′ or A4. There are two formal ways to define eac
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• Eastern philosophy
  ...pecific time and place. Many claim that geographical and time notions of "Western" and "Eastern" philosophy is too vague and imprecise, committing the [[fall ...rlooked in many North American and European universities, just as ancient "Western" and monotheistic claims are also overlooked in the last few decades, unlik
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