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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2528090 | Christian values
Christian values historically refers to the values derived from the teachings of Jesus Christ and taught by Christians throughout the history of the religion. The term has various applications and meanings, and specific definitions can vary widely between denominations, geographical locations an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2533064 | Bid rigging
Bid rigging is a fraudulent scheme in procurement auctions resulting in non-competitive bids and can be performed by corrupt officials, by firms in an orchestrated act of collusion, or between officials and firms. This form of collusion is illegal in most countries. It is a form of price fixing and m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2571345 | Julian Gumperz
Julian Gumperz (May 12, 1898 in New York City – February 1972 in Gaylordsville, Connecticut) was a United States-born German sociologist, communist activist, publicist, and translator.
Julian Gumperz studied political economy at Halle University. He left university as a committed Marxist and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2577361 | Kapparot
Kapparot (, Ashkenazi transliteration: , ) is a customary atonement ritual practiced by some Jews on the eve of Yom Kippur. This is a practice in which a chicken or money is waved over a person's head and the chicken is then slaughtered in accordance with halachic rules.
"Kapparah" (), the singular... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2578822 | News council
A news council is an organization set up to look into complaints about journalism, such as inaccuracy and bias. The methods that are used vary substantially from one country to another.
Complaints against British newspapers and magazines are heard by the Press Complaints Commission, which is fu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2589946 | Animal sanctuary
An animal sanctuary is a facility where animals are brought to live and to be protected for the rest of their lives. Unlike animal shelters, sanctuaries do not seek to place animals with individuals or groups, instead maintaining each animal until its natural death. However, they can offer rehom... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2603115 | Wildlife management
Wildlife management attempts to balance the needs of wildlife with the needs of people using the best available science. Wildlife management can include gamekeeping, wildlife conservation and pest control. Wildlife management draws on disciplines such as mathematics, chemistry, biology, ecolo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2604581 | Anniceris
Anniceris (; fl. 300 BC) was a Cyrenaic philosopher. He argued that pleasure is achieved through individual acts of gratification which are sought for the pleasure that they produce, but he also laid great emphasis on the love of family, country, friendship and gratitude, which provide pleasure even wh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2607325 | Project DReaM
Project DReaM was a Sun Microsystems project aimed at developing an open interoperable DRM architecture that implements standardized interfaces. Its primary goal was the creation of a royalty-free digital rights management industry standard. On 22 August 2005, Sun announced that it was opening up P... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2612156 | Stephen R. L. Clark
Stephen Richard Lyster Clark (born 30 October 1945) is an English philosopher and professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Liverpool. Clark specialises in the philosophy of religion and animal rights, writing from a philosophical position that might broadly be described as Christ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2616799 | Illegalism
Illegalism is a tendency of anarchism that developed primarily in France, Italy, Belgium and Switzerland during the early 1900s as an outgrowth of individualist anarchism. Illegalists embrace criminality either openly or secretly as a lifestyle. Illegalism does not specify the type of crime, though it... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2623876 | Public security
Public security is the function of governments which ensures the protection of citizens, persons in their territory, organizations, and institutions against threats to their well-being – and to the prosperity of their communities.
To meet the increasing challenges in the public security area... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2662575 | Sandy Mitchell
Sandy Mitchell was one of seven men incarcerated in Saudi Arabia between December 2000 and August 2003 for the bombing death of Christopher Rodway, a British National living in Riyadh. While in prison, he was tortured and forced to make a televised confession in which he detailed the methods and a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2673476 | John Philoponus
John Philoponus (; ; c. 490 – c. 570), also known as John the Grammarian or John of Alexandria, was a Byzantine Alexandrian philologist, Aristotelian commentator and Christian theologian, author of a considerable number of philosophical treatises and theological works. A rigorous, sometimes polem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2677803 | Barbary Coast, San Francisco
The Barbary Coast was a red-light district during the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries in San Francisco which featured dance halls, concert saloons, bars, jazz clubs, variety shows, and brothels. Its nine block area was centered on a three block stretch of Pacific Str... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2692820 | Humanist Movement
The Humanist Movement is an international volunteer organisation that promotes nonviolence and non-discrimination. It is not an institution. It takes its inspiration from the current of thought referred to as New or Universal Humanism that has been developed since 1969 by its founder Mario Rodr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2719370 | Kiddush Hashem
Kiddush HaShem ( "sanctification of the Name") is a precept of Judaism. It includes sanctification of the name of God by being holy.
The phrase "sanctification of the Name" does not occur in the Hebrew Bible, but the instruction "to sanctify [God]" and the converse command "you shall not prof... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2732315 | Jumo
Jumo was a social network service and website launched on November 30, 2010, to index charities so that people can find and evaluate them. Jumo was founded by Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes. On August 17, 2011 he announced Jumo was merging with the GOOD organization, providing a social engagement platform... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2740513 | Incitement to ethnic or racial hatred
Incitement to racial or ethnic hatred is a crime under the laws of several countries.
In Australia, the Racial Hatred Act 1995 amends the Racial Discrimination Act 1975, inserting Part IIA - Offensive Behaviour Because of Race, Colour, National or Ethnic Origin. It does... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2755188 | André Gorz
André Gorz (né Gerhart Hirsch; born 9 February 1923 – 22 September 2007), more commonly known by his pen names Gérard Horst and Michel Bosquet, was an Austrian and French social philosopher and journalist.
He co-founded "Le Nouvel Observateur" weekly in 1964. A supporter of Jean-Paul Sartre's exi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2771227 | Foundation for Thought and Ethics
The Foundation for Thought and Ethics (FTE) was a Christian non-profit organization based in Richardson, Texas, which represented itself as a “Christian think tank”. It published textbooks and articles promoting pseudoscientific creation science and intelligent design, abstinenc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2794874 | Charles W. Mills
Charles Wade Mills is a Jamaican philosopher, having been born there in 1951. He is known for his work in social and political philosophy, particularly in oppositional political theory as centered on class, gender, and race. Mills is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at The Graduate Center, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2806736 | Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) is a global standard for the good governance of oil, gas and mineral resources. It seeks to address the key governance issues in the extractive sectors.
The EITI Standard requires information along the ext... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2810332 | Justice in the Quran
Justice is a central theme in the Qur’an, dictating the traditions of law and how they should be put into practice. There are two ways in which justice operates: in a legal sense and in a divine sense. Regarding justice in the legal sense, the Qur’an tells Muslims not only how to conduct the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2819388 | Kaufmann Kohler
Kaufmann Kohler (May 10, 1843 – January 28, 1926) was a German-born American Bible scholar, Reform rabbi and theologian.
Kaufmann Kohler was born into a family of rabbis in Fürth, Bavaria. He received his rabbinical training at Hassfurt, Höchberg near Würzburg, Mainz, Altona, and at Frankfur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2819973 | Michael Bratman
Michael E. Bratman (born July 25, 1945) is an American philosopher who is Durfee Professor in the School of Humanities & Sciences and Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University.
Bratman graduated from Haverford College in 1967 and earned his Ph.D. in philosophy at Rockefeller University ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2841370 | Shen Dzu
Shen Dzu or God Pig, sometimes known as Holy pig (Traditional Chinese: 神豬, Simplified Chinese: 神猪; Mandarin Pinyin: shénzhū, Wade–Giles: shen-chu, Hokkien POJ: sîn-tu), are pigs that have been chronically fattened for use in Hakka religious and cultural ceremonies, for example, the Lunar New Year celebr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2847218 | Fred Dretske
Frederick Irwin "Fred" Dretske (; December 9, 1932 – July 24, 2013) was an American philosopher noted for his contributions to epistemology and the philosophy of mind.
Born to Frederick and Hattie Dretske, Dretske first planned to be an engineer, attending Purdue University. He changed his mind... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2855778 | Laura Rodríguez
Laura Fiora Rodríguez Riccomini (1957–1992) was a Chilean political activist from the Humanist Party. In 1989 she became the world's first Humanist to win a seat in parliament, after claiming victory as part of the "Concertación" coalition.
Rodríguez was born in Santiago, Chile. She married ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2858505 | Environmental vegetarianism
Environmental vegetarianism is the practice of vegetarianism when motivated by the desire to create a sustainable diet that avoids the negative environmental impact of meat production. Livestock as a whole is estimated to be responsible for around 18% of global greenhouse gas emission... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2871898 | Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University promotes research and dialogue in ten major ethics focus areas: Bioethics, Business Ethics, Campus Ethics, Character Education, Government Ethics, Internet Ethics, Journalism and Media Ethics, Leadership Ethics, S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2886200 | Hate week
Hate Week is a fictional event in George Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four". Hate week is a psychological operation designed to increase the hatred of the population for the current enemy of the totalitarian Party, as much as possible, whichever of the two opposing superstates that ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2889584 | Jonathan Glover
Jonathan Glover (; born 1941) is a British philosopher known for his books and studies on ethics. He currently teaches ethics at King's College London. Glover is a fellow of the Hastings Center, an independent bioethics research institution in the United States, and is a Distinguished Research Fe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2894539 | Frugality
Frugality is the quality of being frugal, sparing, thrifty, prudent or economical in the consumption of consumable resources such as food, time or money, and avoiding waste, lavishness or extravagance.
In behavioral science, frugality has been defined as the tendency to acquire goods and services ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2902209 | Securities fraud
Securities fraud, also known as stock fraud and investment fraud, is a deceptive practice in the stock or commodities markets that induces investors to make purchase or sale decisions on the basis of false information, frequently resulting in losses, in violation of securities laws.
Securi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2903033 | Green brands
Green brands are those brands that consumers associate with environmental conservation and sustainable business practices.
Such brands appeal to consumers who are becoming more aware of the need to protect the environment. A green brand can add a unique selling point to a product and can boost ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2907123 | Matthew 5:39
Matthew 5:39 is the thirty-ninth verse of the fifth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament and is part of the Sermon on the Mount. This is the second verse of the antithesis on the command: "eye for an eye". In one of the most famous verses in the New Testament, Jesus here rejects rev... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2908344 | Biblical courtship
Biblical courtship, also known as Christian courtship is a conservative Christian alternative to dating. It is a response to secular dating culture within various American Christian communities, c. 1985 to present. Motivated by concern for the need of Christian values in contrast to secular da... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2916020 | Coronach
A coronach (also written coranich, corrinoch, coranach, cronach, etc.) is the Scottish Gaelic equivalent of the Goll, being the third part of a round of keening, the traditional improvised singing at a death, wake or funeral in the Highlands of Scotland and in Ireland. Though observers have reported hea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2922819 | David Braine (philosopher)
David Braine (1940 – 17 February 2017) was a British analytic philosopher with interests in analytic Philosophy of religion and Metaphysics, who sought to marry the techniques and insights of analytical philosophy and Phenomenology to the Metaphysics of classical Thomism. His "The Real... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2924982 | Consent (BDSM)
Consent within BDSM is when a participant gives their permission for certain acts or types of relationships. It bears much in common with the concept of informed consent and is simultaneously a personal, ethical and social issue. It is an issue that attracts much attention within BDSM, resulting i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42626 | Serial killer
A serial killer is typically a person who murders three or more people, usually in service of abnormal psychological gratification, with the murders taking place over more than a month and including a significant period of time between them. While most authorities set a threshold of three murders, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44282 | Turning the other cheek
Turning the other cheek is a phrase in Christian doctrine from the Sermon on the Mount that refers to responding to injury without revenge and allowing more injury. This passage is variously interpreted as commanding nonresistance, Christian pacifism, or nonviolence on the part of the vic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45067 | Transnational Radical Party
The Transnational Radical Party (TRP), whose official name is Nonviolent Radical Party, Transnational and Transparty (NRPTT), is a political association of citizens, members of parliament and members of government of various national and political backgrounds who intend to adopt nonvi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45441 | Conservation movement
The conservation movement, also known as nature conservation, is a political, environmental, and social movement that seeks to protect natural resources, including animal and plant species as well as their habitat for the future. Evidence-based conservation seeks to use high quality scienti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45506 | World peace
World peace, or peace on Earth, is the concept of an ideal state of happiness, freedom and peace within and among all people and nations on Planet Earth. This idea of world nonviolence is one motivation for people and nations to willingly cooperate, either voluntarily or by virtue of a system of gove... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46029 | Wisdom
Wisdom, sapience, or sagacity is the ability to think and act using knowledge, experience, understanding, common sense and insight. Wisdom is associated with attributes such as unbiased judgment, compassion, experiential self-knowledge, self-transcendence and non-attachment, and virtues such as ethics and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7159985 | Nel Noddings
Nel Noddings (; born January 19, 1929) is an American feminist, educationalist, and philosopher best known for her work in philosophy of education, educational theory, and ethics of care.
Noddings received a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physical science from Montclair State College in N... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7277939 | Diotima of Mantinea
Diotima of Mantinea (; ; ) was an ancient Greek prophetess and philosopher thought to have lived circa 440 B.C.E., who plays an important role in Plato's "Symposium". In the dialogue, her ideas are the origin of the concept of Platonic love.
The name Diotima means one who honors or is h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7332678 | Friendship bench
The Friendship Bench is a tool for positive mental and emotional health used in various settings. It is used as a psychological intervention to address depression usually by trained lay health workers.
In Zimbabwe, the Friendship Bench approach to therapy uses listening and "problem-solving... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7405764 | History of the cooperative movement
The history of the cooperative movement concerns the origins and history of cooperatives across the world. Although cooperative arrangements, such as mutual insurance, and principles of cooperation existed long before, the cooperative movement began with the application of coo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7414016 | Richard Brandt
Richard Booker Brandt (17 October 1910 – 10 September 1997) was an American philosopher working in the utilitarian tradition in moral philosophy.
Brandt was originally educated at Denison University, a Baptist institution he was shepherded to by his minister father, and graduated in 1930 wit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7439311 | Sadayoshi Fukuda
Fukuda was the pseudonym of , born on 6 April 1917. He studied philosophy at Hosei University (Tokyo), graduating in 1940. In 1944 he was sent to Halmahera; he returned to Japan in 1946. Two years later he started teaching philosophy at his old university, where he would stay until 1970. Thereaf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7451085 | Islam and masturbation
There are varying scholarly opinions regarding the permissibility of masturbation () in Islam. Islamic scripture does not specifically mention masturbation. There are a few "hadiths" mentioning it, but they are classified as unreliable. Unless one refers to the Hadith in question
The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7464459 | Amani Trust
The Amani Trust was a Zimbabwean non-profit non-governmental organization dedicated to preventing organized violence and torture, to advocacy for the rights of victims and to rehabilitation of victims through community-based care. It was established in 1993 and had its headquarters in Harare. The org... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7476080 | Institute on Biotechnology and the Human Future
The Institute on Biotechnology and the Human Future (IBHF) is an affiliate of the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and is housed at IIT’s Chicago-Kent College of Law. The IBHF was founded in 2004 by Lori Andrews, J.D., and Nigel M. de S. Cameron, Ph.D., to di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7502686 | Code of Conduct for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and NGOs in Disaster Relief
The Code of Conduct for International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and NGOs in Disaster Relief was drawn up in 1992 by the Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response (SCHR) to set ethical standards for ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7543506 | Mylan Engel
Mylan Engel Jr. (born 1960) is a full professor of philosophy at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb.
Born in Alabama and educated at Vanderbilt University and the University of Arizona, he was hired by Northern Illinois University in 1988. Engel has also served as Guest Professor at the Univ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7559364 | Season for Nonviolence
Season for Nonviolence was established in 1998 by Arun Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi's grandson, as a yearly event celebrating the philosophies and lives of Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. Today, he co-chairs the Season along with Rev. Michael Bernard Beckwith of the Agape Internation... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7571029 | De spectaculis
De Spectaculis, also known as On the Spectacles or The Shows, is a surviving moral and ascetic treatise by Tertullian. Written somewhere between 197-202, the work looks at the moral legitimacy and consequences of Christians attending the circus, theatre, or amphitheatre.
Tertullian argues tha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7580142 | Peter Glassen
Peter Glassen (1920–1986) was a professor of philosophy at the University of Manitoba from 1949 until his death in 1986. He was an analytic moral philosopher, publishing several articles in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He was also known for his arguments against metaphysical materialism, and spe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7614405 | Stephanus of Alexandria
Stephanus of Alexandria (Stephanus Alexandrinus, Stephanos of Alexandria; ) was a 7th-century Byzantine philosopher, astronomer and teacher. He was a public lecturer in the court of Heraclius (610-641 AD). In the manuscripts he is called the Universal Philosopher.
He taught on Plato ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7624133 | Julia Annas
Julia Elizabeth Annas (born 1946) is a British philosopher who has taught in the United States for the last quarter-century. She is Regents Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona.
Annas graduated from Oxford University in 1968 with a B.A., and from Harvard University with an A.M. (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7641341 | New Times (politics)
New Times was an intellectual movement among leftists in Great Britain in the late 1980s. It was centred on the Eurocommunist faction of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), and most of the intellectual groundwork for the movement was laid out in the latter party's official theoretic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7642917 | Whitewashing (censorship)
To whitewash is a metaphor meaning "to gloss over or cover up vices, crimes or scandals or to exonerate by means of a perfunctory investigation or through biased presentation of data".
The first known use of the term is from 1591 in England. Whitewash is a cheap white paint or coat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7670972 | Obsessive love
Obsessive love or Obsessive love disorder (OLD) is a condition in which one person feels an overwhelming obsessive desire to possess and protect another person, with an inability to accept failure or rejection. Symptoms include an inability to tolerate any time spent without that person, obsessive... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7673913 | Bradley Shavit Artson
Bradley Shavit "Brad" Artson (born 1959) is an American rabbi, author, speaker, and the occupant of the Abner and Roslyn Goldstine Dean's Chair of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the American Jewish University in Los Angeles, California, where he is Vice-President. He supervises t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7676441 | Australian Aboriginal avoidance practices
Aboriginal avoidance practices refers to those relationships in traditional Aboriginal society where certain people are required to avoid others in their family or clan. These customs are still active in many parts of Australia, to a greater or lesser extent.
Avoida... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7707870 | Wesley J. Smith
Wesley J. Smith (born 1949) is an American lawyer and author, a Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute's Center on Human Exceptionalism, a politically conservative non-profit think tank. He is also a consultant for the Patients Rights Council. Smith is known for his criticism of assisted suicid... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7709402 | Johanne Agerskov
Johanne Elisabeth Agerskov (1873–1946) was a Danish medium. Together with her husband, Michael Agerskov, she was responsible for the ethico-religious, philosophical, and pseudo-scientific book, "Toward the Light" (in Danish, "Vandrer mod Lyset!"), first published by Michael Agerskov in Copenhage... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7720374 | Compliance and ethics program
Since about 1970, several major business and government excesses were seen in the United States to generate subsequent legal, public and political reaction. The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act is perhaps the legislation with the most significant influence in the development of ethics ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7732687 | Sullivan principles
The Sullivan principles are the names of two corporate codes of conduct, developed by the African-American preacher Rev. Leon Sullivan, promoting corporate social responsibility:
In 1977, Rev. Leon Sullivan, an African-American minister, was a member of the board of General Motors. At th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7780610 | Sissela Bok
Sissela Bok (née Myrdal; 2 December 1934) is a Swedish-born American philosopher and ethicist, the daughter of two Nobel Prize winners: Gunnar Myrdal who won the Economics prize with Friedrich Hayek in 1974, and Alva Myrdal who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982.
Bok received her B.A. and M.A. in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7806603 | Poor relief
In English and British history, poor relief refers to government and ecclesiastical action to relieve poverty. Over the centuries, various authorities have needed to decide whose poverty deserves relief and also who should bear the cost of helping the poor. Alongside ever-changing attitudes towards p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7816144 | Kevin Wildes
Reverend Kevin William Wildes, S.J., Ph.D., (born September 27, 1954) is the former president of Loyola University New Orleans. He was formally installed as the school's 16th president on July 1, 2004.
During his second year in the position, he was charged with seeing the school through Hurrica... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7820125 | Asha
Asha (; also arta ; Avestan:"𐬀𐬴𐬀" "aṣ̌a/arta") is a Zoroastrian concept with a complex and highly nuanced range of meaning. It is commonly summarized in accord with its contextual implications of 'truth' and 'right(eousness)', 'order' and 'right working'. For other connotations, see meaning below. It is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7862242 | Gun violence
Gun-related violence is violence committed with the use of a gun (firearm or small arm). Gun-related violence may or may not be considered criminal. Criminal violence includes homicide (except when and where ruled justifiable), assault with a deadly weapon, and suicide, or attempted suicide, dependi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7895736 | Laments (Kochanowski)
The Laments (also "Lamentations" or "Threnodies"; ) are a series of nineteen threnodies (elegies) by Jan Kochanowski. Written in Polish and published in 1580, they are a highlight of Polish Renaissance literature, and one of Kochanowski's signature achievements.
Jan Kochanowski was a p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7921939 | Naphtali Hirz Wessely
Naphtali(-)Herz (Hartwig) Wessely, a.k.a. Naphtali(-)Hirz Wessely, also Wesel ( "Vezel"; born 1725, Hamburg – died February 28, 1805, Hamburg), was an 18th-century German Jewish Hebraist and educationist.
One of Wessely's ancestors, Joseph Reis, fled from Podolia in 1648 on account of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7931369 | Supreme Council for the Confucian Religion in Indonesia
The Supreme Council for the Confucian Religion in Indonesia (, MATAKIN; Chinese: 印尼孔教總會; pinyin: yìnní kǒngiào zǒnghuì) is a Confucian church established in 1955 in Indonesia, comprising the communities of practitioners of Confucianism mostly among Chinese ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7939943 | Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
The Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs is a New York City-based a 501(c)3 public charity serving international affairs professionals, teachers and students, and the attentive public. Founded in 1914, and originally named "Church Peace Union",... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7986129 | Concept Foundation
The Concept Foundation is a non-profit foundation which was established by the UNDP/UNFPA/WHO/WB Special program in Reproductive Health (WHO/HRP), PATH, the World Bank in 1989 in Bangkok, Thailand, "as a mechanism through which WHO’s rights associated with an injectable contraceptive, Cyclofem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8051695 | Henry Pachter
Henry Pachter was a Marxist intellectual and a libertarian socialist activist. Perhaps best known as an essayist, who dealt with both historical and political matters, he also authored a number of books on a variety of subjects. An exile from the Nazi regime, deeply concerned with the lessons offer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8094825 | Fear of commitment
In self-help literature, fear of commitment is the avoidance of long-term partnership or marriage. The concept is often much more pervasive, affecting school, work, and home life as well.
The term "commitmentphobia" was coined in the popular self-help book "Men Who Can't Love" in 1987. Fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8147179 | PKP Open Archives Harvester
The PKP Open Archives Harvester is software used to accumulate and index freely available metadata, providing a searchable, web-based interface. It is open source, released under the GNU General Public License. It was created and is maintained by the Public Knowledge Project, in Vanco... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8198900 | Humanist celebrant
A humanist celebrant or humanist officiant is a person who performs humanist celebrancy services, such as non-religious weddings, funerals, child namings, coming of age ceremonies and other rituals. Some humanist celebrants are accredited by humanist organisations, such as Humanists UK, Humani... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8216055 | Source protection
Source protection, sometimes also referred to as source confidentiality or in the U.S. as the reporter's privilege, is a right accorded to journalists under the laws of many countries, as well as under international law. It prohibits authorities, including the courts, from compelling a journali... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8216996 | Homophobic propaganda
Homophobic propaganda (or anti-gay propaganda) is propaganda based on homonegativity and homophobia towards homosexual and sometimes other non-heterosexual people. Such propaganda supports anti-gay prejudices and stereotypes, and promotes social stigmatization or discrimination. The term "h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8234546 | Gloria Origgi
Gloria Origgi (born 1967) is an Italian philosopher at the CNRS in Paris (Institut Jean Nicod) who works on the theory of mind, epistemology and social sciences applied to new technology. She is the founder (in 2002) and director of the innovative project, a portal where many international virtual ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8240687 | Erazim Kohák
Erazim Kohák (21 May 1933 – 8 February 2020) was Czech philosopher and writer. His early education was in Prague. After communists took over Czechoslovakia in 1948, his family escaped to the United States. He died in February 2020 at the age of 86.
Kohák was born in Prague in May 1933. He studi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8241075 | Al-Isra, 26
Quran 17:26 (also notated Al-Isra, 26) is the twenty-sixth verse of "Al-Isra", the seventeenth chapter of the Quran, which relates to the controversies of the land of Fadak in modern-day Saudi Arabia.
The verse is also known as the Verse of Dhul Qurba.
writes:
This hadith is also include... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8243661 | Ezekiel Emanuel
Ezekiel Jonathan "Zeke" Emanuel (born September 6, 1957) is an American oncologist and bioethicist and senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. He is the current Vice Provost for Global Initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania and chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Healt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8247041 | William Wallace (philosopher)
William Wallace (11 May 184418 February 1897) was a Scottish philosopher and academic who became fellow of Merton College and White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford University. He was best known for his studies of German philosophers, most notably Hegel, some of whose works... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8259064 | Taboo on rulers
Taboos regarding rulers includes both taboos on people coming into contact with a ruler and the taboos regarding the ruler themselves.
Freud attributes the existence of such taboos to an unconscious current of hostility toward the king/ruler. In the following example the hostility toward ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8262468 | ReliefWeb
ReliefWeb is the largest humanitarian information portal in the world. Founded in 1996, the portal now hosts more than 720,000 humanitarian situation reports, press releases, evaluations, guidelines, assessments, maps and infographics. The portal is an independent vehicle of information, designed speci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8266721 | James Rest
James Rest was an American psychologist specializing in moral psychology and development. Together with his Minnesota Group of colleagues, including Darcia Narvaez, Muriel Bebeau, and Stephen Thoma, Rest extended Kohlberg's approach to researching moral reasoning.
James Rest was a professor at th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8274026 | Taboo on the dead
The taboo on the dead includes the taboo against touching of the dead, those surrounding them and anything associated with the dead.
A taboo against naming the dead is a kind of word taboo whereby the name of a recently deceased person, and any other words similar to it in sound, may not b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8294130 | Freedom and Culture
Freedom and Culture is a book by John Dewey. Published in 1939, the book is an analytical defense of democracy written in a time when democratic regimes had recently been replaced by non-democratic ones, and at a time when Marxism was considered a powerful political force.
According to D... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8408785 | Kavod HaBriyot
Kevod HaBeriyot (; literally in Hebrew: "honor [of/due to] the [God's] creations (human beings)" also variously translated as "individual dignity", "individual honor", or "human dignity" (in a specifically Talmudic sense which may or may not be the same as the secular concept of human dignity)) is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8413804 | History of fair trade
The fair trade movement has undergone several important changes since its early days following World War II. Fair trade, first seen as a form of charity advocated by religious organizations, has radically changed in structure, philosophy and approach. The past fifty years have witnessed mas... |
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