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• 74:8 The Legend of Creation
  ...s]], such [[concepts]] for a long time [[profoundly]] [[influenced]] the [[philosophy]] of many [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_culture Occidental] people
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• Difference
  ...erm ''différance'' then played a key role in Derrida's engagement with the philosophy of [[Edmund Husserl]] in ''Speech and [[Phenomena]]''. The term was then el ...lready caught up in sensible [[metaphor]]s ("[[theory]]," for instance, in Greek, means "to [[vision|see]]").
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• Jewish philosophy
  ...prophecy, the human soul, and the principles of human conduct. Finally, as philosophy, it studies notions that are primarily of philosophical interest, such as t Chronologically, Jewish philosophy may be divided into three phases: (1) its early development in the Diaspora
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• Humanities
  ...nguages|ancient and modern languages]] and [[literature]], [[history]], [[philosophy]], [[religion]], [[visual arts|visual]] and [[performing arts]] (including ...y]]. Nevertheless, the influence of classical ideas in humanities such as philosophy and literature remain strong.
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• 92:5 The Great Religious Leaders
  ...of revealed [[truth]] depended for the advancement of the [[morality]], [[philosophy]], and [[religion]] of [[mankind]]. ...lity]] what [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato Plato] was to [[Greek]] [[philosophy]], and while there were religious repercussions to the teachings of both, s
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• Inference
  [[Greek philosophy|Greek philosophers]] defined a number of [[syllogism]]s, correct three-part infer a large body of theories at the interface of philosophy, logic and artificial
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• Gifford Lectures
  ...of these works have become [[classics]] in the fields of [[theology]] or [[philosophy]] and their relationship to [[science]]. ...ael_Polanyi Michael Polanyi] ''Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy'', ISBN 0-226-67288-3
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• Hope
  '''Hope''' was personified in Greek mythology as [[Elpis]]. When [[Pandora]] opened Pandora's Box, she let out ...proach incorporates contributions from [[psychology]], [[anthropology]], [[philosophy]] and [[theology]] as well as classical and contemporary [[literature]] and
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• Materialism
  The [[philosophy]] of '''materialism''' holds that the only thing that can be truly proven t ...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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• Metaphysics
  '''Metaphysics''' is the branch of [[philosophy]] investigating principles of [[reality]] transcending those of any particu ...ed collections. Aristotle called some of the subjects treated there "first philosophy."
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• Golden rule
  == Ancient Greek philosophy == The Golden Rule was a common principle in ancient Greek philosophy. A few examples:
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• Metaphor
  '''Metaphor''' (from the [[Greek language|Greek]]: ''μεταφορά'' - ''metaphora'', meaning "transfer") is language th The metaphor, according to [[I. A. Richards]] in ''The Philosophy of Rhetoric'' (1936), consists of two parts: the '''tenor''' and '''vehicle
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• Esotericism
  ...eksô'' meaning «the outside things». The probable first appearance of the Greek [[adjective]] ''esôterikos'' is in [[Lucian of Samosata]]'s "The Auction o The term ''esoteric'' first appeared in English in the [[1701]] ''History of Philosophy'' by [[Thomas Stanley (author)|Thomas Stanley]], in his description of the
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• Dimensions
  ...word "States" (French ''Etat'') rather than "Planes", in his [[cosmic]] [[philosophy]], but the meaning is the same. ...lding of steadily denser planes or spheres from the spiritual summit, what Greek mythology described as "Chaos", until the lowest and most material world is
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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 ;*[[Post-romanticism]]: Reaction to [[naturalism (philosophy)|naturalism]], opposes external-only observations by adding internal observ
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• Ethics
  ...he [[adjective]] of [[ἤθος]] ''ēthos'' "custom, habit"), a major branch of philosophy, is the study of [[Value theory|value]]s and [[Custom (law)|custom]]s of a ...e judged. These theories may be derived from [[theology]] or [[Naturalism (philosophy)|naturalism]].
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• Actuality
  ...central themes of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle Aristotle's] [[philosophy]] and [[metaphysics]]. With these two notions, Aristotle [[intends]] to pro ...derstood]] (indeed, if we do not take into account these multiple aspects, philosophy may lose some of its [[universal]] scope). In numerous passages of his Meta
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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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• Pedagogy
  ...ield are classified as an Ed. D., Doctor of Education or a Ph.D. Doctor of Philosophy). The term is also used to denote an emphasis in [[education]] as a special
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• Humanity
  ...nguages|ancient and modern languages]] and [[literature]], [[history]], [[philosophy]], [[religion]], [[visual arts|visual]] and [[performing arts]] (including Ancient Greek art saw a veneration of the human physical form and the development of equi
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