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• Conservatism
  ...hy|political philosophies]] that favor tradition and gradual change, where tradition refers to religious, cultural, or nationally defined beliefs and customs. ...ing, a way of living."''<ref>As part of introduction to ''The Conservative Tradition'', ed. R.J. White (London: Nicholas Kaye, 1950)</ref></blockquote>
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• Biblical Apocrypha
  ...a separate section at the end of his [[Old Testament]], following English tradition. In Greek circles, however, these books are not traditionally called ''Apoc ...cabees|3]] and [[4 Maccabees]] because they are not traditionally found in western Bibles, although they are in the [[Septuagint]]. Similarly, the [[Book of E
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• Salem
  [[Image:Western wall jerusalem night.jpg|right|thumb||230px|The [[Western Wall]], one of the holiest sites in [[Judaism]]]] ...he [[Second Temple]]. It is mentioned in the Bible 632 times. Today, the [[Western Wall]], a remnant of the Second Temple, is a holy site for Jews, second onl
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• Determinism
  ...ies and philosophical positions on the subject of determinism exist from [[tradition]]s throughout the world. ==Determinism in Eastern tradition==
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• Alchemy
  ...is, in Islamic countries to Hermetic and esoteric mystical schools, in the Western Middle Ages and Renaissance to Hermetism, Christian and sectarian mysticism ...ibility of alchemical texts for the noninitiate becomes almost a cliché in Western post-Renaissance alchemical literature. An author quoted by the fifteenth-c
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• Obedience
  Obedience is regarded as a [[virtue]] in many [[tradition]]al [[cultures]]; historically, children have been expected to be obedient ...wentieth century marked a remarkable reduction in respect for authority in Western [[culture]]s, and greater respect for [[individual]] [[judgment]] as a basi
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• Wealth
  ...hat supplied locally grown food). Agricultural economics continues these [[tradition]]s in the analyses of modern agricultural policy and related ideas of wealt ...respect with giveaways of wealth to the poorer members of society. Such [[tradition]]s make what are today often seen as [[government]] responsibilities into m
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• Intellectual History
  ...[[Geistesgeschichte]], the historical study of ideas has engaged not only western intellectual traditions, including, but not limited to, those in the [[far The social/intellectual context in the writings of western [[European history]] includes:
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• Imperium
  ...such magistrate was also escorted by [[lictor]]s bearing the [[fasces]] ([[tradition]]al [[symbol]]s of imperium and authority); when outside the [[pomerium]], ...God) in the person of the Pope and the secular ''imperium'' of the revived western Emperor since Charlemagne. Both would refer to the heritage of Roman law by
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• Capitalism
  ...lourished during the Late Middle Ages. Capitalism has been dominant in the Western world since the end of feudalism. From Britain, it gradually spread through ...tition [https://mises.org/story/1780 Free Trade and the American Political Tradition].
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• Buddhist Philosophy
  Views presented in early Buddhist tradition tend to support the notion that Buddhism is a practical philosophy rather t ...s pervasive inclusion of supernatural entities (not "gods" in the sense of Western [[monotheism]], of course)
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• Art History
  ===The critical tradition=== ...led an impressive library in Hamburg devoted to the study of the classical tradition in post-classical art and culture. Under Saxl's auspices, this library was
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• African Philosophy
  ...ticulated and documented philosophy exists, there is still a philosophical tradition. Put simply, even if there were no known African philosophers, there was A In the Christian tradition, [[Augustine of Hippo]] was a cornerstone of Christian philosophy and theol
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• Secularism
  ...argued that secularism is a movement toward modernization, and away from [[tradition]]al religious [[values]]. This type of secularism, on a social or philosoph ...f_Enlightenment Age of Enlightenment] in Europe, and plays a major role in Western society. The principles, but not necessarily practices, of separation of ch
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• Guilt
  ...cs]] as understood in [[Western civilization]]. This has led some[who?] in Western civilizations to question why the [[word]] [[ethos]] was adapted from Ancie
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• The Qur’ān
  ...alive, although the primary method of transmission was [[oral]]. Muslim [[tradition]] agrees that it was fixed in writing shortly after Muhammad's death by ord ...ent is qeryānā which refers to “scripture reading” or “lesson”. While most Western scholars consider the [[word]] to be derived from the Syriac, the majority
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• History
  ...in the West have been criticized for focusing disproportionately on the [[Western world]]. [[Jack Goody]] (2007) ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=jo1UVi4 Sources that can give light on the past, such as [[oral tradition]], [[linguistics]], and [[genetics]], have become accepted by many mainstr
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• Super-consciousness
  ...ciousness]] (New Thought), are expressions used in various [[spiritual]] [[tradition]]s to denote the consciousness of a [[human being]] who has reached a highe ...[moment]] filtered through his unconscious conditioning – a ‘reality’ that western psychology calls ‘projection’ (i.e., of the [[content]]s of the unconsc
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• 2005-04-05-Region of Van
  ...was not however the only place of such learning. There were places within Western parts of what you now know as Turkey, as there were places further to the N ...iki/Asclepius Asclepius], but know that there have been healing arts and [[tradition]]s practiced upon this site for millennia prior to the building of these re
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• University
  ...e first of two revivals of ancient [[Greek]] and [[Latin]] learning in the Western world, the second commencing with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italia ...emic costumes, rituals, and ceremonies provide an impression of unbroken [[tradition]] through the ages, as do the forms of teaching. But the conservatism of un
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