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• Adolf von Harnack
  ...publications from 1873-1912. Harnack traced the influence of Hellenistic philosophy on early Christian writing and called on Christians to question the authent ...idered that from its earliest origins, [[Christian]] [[faith]] and Greek [[philosophy]] were so closely intermingled that the resultant system included many [[be
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• Logic
  '''Logic''' (from [[Ancient Greek|Classical Greek]] λόγος [[logos]]; meaning word, thought, idea, argument, account, rea Traditionally, logic is studied as a branch of [[philosophy]], one part of the classical [[Trivium (education)|trivium]], which consist
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• Chapter 11 - Going Through Samaria
  ...lf of the month of August the apostolic party made its headquarters at the Greek cities of Archelais and Phasaelis. ...The gospel of the kingdom is to be preached to all men -- Jew and gentile, Greek and Roman, rich and poor, free and bond -- and equally to young and old, ma
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• Francois Fenelon
  ...is remembered mostly as one of the main advocates of [[Quietism (Christian philosophy)|quietism]] and as the author of ''[[The Adventures of Telemachus]]'', a sc ...sent to the [[University of Cahors]], where he studied [[rhetoric]] and [[philosophy]]. When the young man expressed interest in a career in the church, his un
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• Eugenics
  ...is not meant to be definitive, and is taken from "Development of a Eugenic Philosophy" by Frederick Osborn in ''American Sociological Review. Throughout history, The word ''eugenics'' derives from the Greek word ''eu'' (''good'' or ''well'') and the suffix ''-genēs'' (''born''), a
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• History
  The word '''history''' is derived from the [[Ancient Greek]] ἱστορία, ''historía'', meaning "a learning or knowing by inquiry ...ocial sciences]], Scott Gordon and James Gordon Irving, ''The History and Philosophy of Social Science''. Routledge 1991. Page 1. ISBN 0415056829 and can be see
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• Darkness
  ...t are doomed to “burning despair and ice-cold darkness.” (Nab 78.25)[4] In Greek Mythology, three layers of night surround Tartarus,[5] a place for the wors ...ough she is equally associated with motherhood and benevolence. In Chinese philosophy Yin is the feminine part of the Taijitu and is represented by a dark lobe.
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• Deduction
  For a detailed treatment of deduction as it is understood in [[philosophy]], see [[Logic]]. For a technical treatment of deduction as it is understo ...ning was developed by [[Aristotle]], [[Thales]], [[Pythagoras]], and other Greek philosophers of the Classical Period (600 to 300 B.C.). Aristotle, for exam
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• Paper 160 - Rodan of Alexandria
  ...dan was now [[earnestly]] [[engaged]] in the task of [[harmonizing]] his [[philosophy]] of life with [[Jesus]]' new religious [[teachings]], and he had come to [ ==160:1. RODAN'S GREEK PHILOSOPHY==
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• Thoughts & Comments: Paper 105
  ...s became Greek philosophy, of which, Frederick Copleston was to say, "This philosophy of the Greeks was really their own achievement, the fruit of their vigor an ...pment and its consequents have done much to sterilize British and American philosophy since then.
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• 149:2 The Attitude of the People
  ...much of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_philosophy Greek philosophy] into early [[Christianity]], two great [[mistakes]] were made:
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• Chapter 2 - The Sojourn at Rome
  ...tist since any and all such assertions of attitude are the very essence of philosophy. Nabon was a Greek Jew and foremost among the leaders of the chief mystery cult in Rome, the M
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• Quantity
  ...investigation and cannot be assumed to exist [[A priori and a posteriori (philosophy)|a priori]] for any given property. The linear [[continuum (mathematics)|co * Klein, J. (1968). ''Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra. Cambridge''. Mass: MIT Pres
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• Desire
  ==In philosophy== In philosophy, desire' has been identified as a philosophical problem since Antiquity. In
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• Gesture
  ...y are ubiquitous. Gestures have been documented in the [[arts]] such as in Greek vase paintings, Indian Miniatures or European [[paintings]]. ...on studies, consciousness research, literary studies, translation studies, philosophy, art and art history.
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• Democracy
  ...e 5th-4th century BC to denote the political systems then existing in some Greek city-states, notably [[Athens]] following a popular uprising in 508 BC. De ...s a small number of related forms of [[government]] and also a [[political philosophy]]. Even though there is no universally accepted definition of 'democracy',
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• Art History
  ...From them it is possible to trace the ideas of [[Xenokrates of Sicyon]], a Greek sculptor who was perhaps the first art historian. As a result, Pliny's wor ...eorg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel|Hegel]]'s ''Lectures on Aesthetics''. Hegel's philosophy served as the direct inspiration for [[Karl Schnaase]]'s work. Schnaase's '
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• Idealism
  The approach to idealism by Western [[philosophy]] has been different from that of East. In Western thought ''the ideal'' re ...ough thought. [[Bernard Williams]] and Myles Burnyeat have maintained that Greek philosophers never conceived of idealism as an option, because they lacked
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• Albert Einstein
  ...older than Albert by ten years. He gave Albert books on [[science]] and [[philosophy]], amongst them Ludwig Büchner's (1824–1899) materialistic Force and Mat ...ass at the patent office in Berne. A year later he married Mileva Maric, a Greek Orthodox Serbian, with whom he had [[romance|fallen in love]] when they wer
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• Jealousy
  ...and further from Low [[Latin]] zelosus (full of zeal), in turn from the [[Greek]] word ζήλος (zēlos), sometimes "jealousy", but more often in a [[goo ...as not until the postclassical era that Latin borrowed the late and poetic Greek word ''zelotypia'' and the associated adjective ''zelosus''. It is from thi
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