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• Doubt
  ...nded between two contradictory propositions and unable to assent to either of them[1] (compare [[paradox]]). ...se both deliberate questioning of uncertainties and an [[emotion]]al state of indecision as "doubt".
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• Social movement
  ...ovements''' are a type of |group action. They are large informal groupings of [[individual]]s and/or [[organization]]s [[focus]]ed on specific [[politics ...many of the major social movements of the last hundred years grew up, like the Mau Mau in Kenya, to oppose Western colonialism.
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• New Religious Movement
  ...ual]], or philosophical [[movement]] of recent [[origin]] that is not part of an established denomination, church, or religious [[tradition|body]]. ...from mainstream [[society]]. Its use is not [[universal]]ly accepted among the groups to which it is applied.[1]
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• Transcendentalism
  ...called ''American Transcendentalism'' to distinguish it from other uses of the word ''[[transcendental]]''. ...ized through the individual's intuition, rather than through the doctrines of established religions.
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• Eugenics
  ...its various advocates as a [[social responsibility]], an altruistic stance of a society, meant to create healthier, stronger and/or more [[intelligence|i ...forced sterilization of persons deemed genetically defective, the killing of institutionalized populations, and genocide.
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• Equality
  ...cial, and civil rights[2] or as a social philosophy advocating the removal of economic inequalities among people. ...east largely egalitarian. It is considered by some to be the natural state of [[society]].[3][4][5]
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• Esotericism
  ...as contrasted with the "scientific" or "traditional religious" beliefs of the society without or "at large". In contrast, exoteric [[knowledge]] is knowl ...of Samosata]]'s "The Auction of Lives", § 26 (also called "The Auction of the Philosophical Schools"), written around AD 166. [https://paginasesotericas.
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• Difference
  ...with the philosophy of [[Edmund Husserl]] in ''Speech and [[Phenomena]]''. The term was then elaborated in various other works, notably in his essay "Diff ...difference, sometimes referred to as ''espacement'' or "spacing") concerns the force which differentiates elements from one another and, in so doing, enge
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• Byzantine
  ...covery of Constantinople by the Byz.) to 1453, when Constantinople fell to the Turks. ==Period of the Late Roman Empire (4th–mid-7th C.)==
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• Flow
  ...szentmihályi], the [[concept]] has been widely referenced across a variety of fields. ...lar mental states include: to be ''on the ball'', ''in the zone'', or ''in the groove''.
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• Euthanasia
  *2. The means of bringing about a gentle and easy death. Also transf. and fig. ...proposal that the [[law]] should sanction the putting painlessly to death of those suffering from incurable and extremely painful diseases.
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• Shame
  ...such, covering oneself, literally or figuratively, is a natural expression of shame.[1] <center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''''Shame''''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Cat
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• Theognis
  ...legiac]] poetry of Greece before the [[Alexandrian period]] is included in the 1,400 verses ascribed to Theognis. ...ognidea'' as we possess them; the question is fully discussed in the works of Harrison and Hudson-Williams.
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• August Jaccaci
  '''August "Gus" Jaccaci''' works with leaders throughout the world who want to one of the world's foremost social
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• James Agee
  ...e U.S. His autobiographical novel, ''[[A Death in the Family]]'' 1957, won the author a posthumous [[Pulitzer Prize]]. ...Agee was six, his father died in an automobile accident, and from the age of seven he and his younger sister, Emma, were educated in boarding schools.
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• Progress
  ...which implies that with a [[finite]] amount of [[space]] and [[energy]] in the [[universe]], all events will recur indefinitely. ...ef in progress was a dominant paradigm in the 18th and 19th centuries, and the Industrial Revolution.
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• Totalitarianism
  ...promulgated by institutional means to direct the most significant aspects of public and private life)[3]. ...and [[criticism]], the use of mass [[surveillance]], and widespread use of state [[terrorism]].
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• Fundamentalism
  ...n fact, some scholars claim that those who are devoted without question to the [[Scientific method|scientific worldview]] sometimes approach it as uncriti <center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''''Fundamentalism''''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?
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• Phase Change
  ...the two phases may be vastly different. As an example imagine transition of liquid water into vapour at boiling point. ...yticity generally stems from the interactions of an extremely large number of particles in a system, and does not appear in systems that are too small.
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• Fear
  ...elates to future events, such as worsening of a situation, or continuation of a situation that is unacceptable. <center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''Fear''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category
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