Albertus ' activity, however, was more philosophical than theological ( see Scholasticism ).

Albertus made this a central component of his philosophical system, arguing that an understanding of the celestial influences affecting us could help us to live our lives more in accord with Christian precepts.

Affirm the cleanliness of the individual after the state of madness, aggressive complete madness of a world abandoned to the hands of bandits .” Formal goals, creative goals, self-expression, political goals, spiritual goals, philosophical goals, and even more perceptual or aesthetic goals have all been popular pictures of what art should be like.

According to some scholars, the philosophical outlook of earliest Buddhism was primarily negative, in the sense that it focused on what doctrines to reject more than on what doctrines to accept.

They marked a shift from a largely apophatic ( negative ) philosophical trend within Buddhism to a decidedly more cataphatic ( positive ) modus.

While nations often strive for substantive harmony to facilitate cross-national distribution, philosophical differences about the optimal extent of regulation can be a hindrance ; more restrictive regulations seem appealing on an intuitive level, but critics decry the tradeoff cost in terms of slowing access to life-saving developments.

In this context, it is more readily construed as meaning " school of thought ", since it is also used to construct the names of philosophical schools contemporary with Confucianism: for example, the Chinese names for Legalism and Mohism end in jiā.

As Moism lost support by the time of the Han, the main philosophical contenders were Legalism, which Confucian thought somewhat absorbed, the teachings of Lao-tzu, whose focus on more mystic ideas kept it from direct conflict with Confucianism, and the new Buddhist religion, which gained acceptance during the Southern and Northern Dynasties era.

Following the examples of Vitruvius and the five books of the Regole generali d ' architettura by Sebastiano Serlio, published from 1537 onwards, Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola produced an architecture rule book that was more practical than the previous two books, which were more philosophical in nature, his Cinque ordini di erchitettura ( The Five Orders of Architecture ) from 1562 ; the book is considered " one of the most successful architectural textbooks ever written ", despite having no text apart from the notes and the introduction.

While Part One was mostly farcical, the second half is more serious and philosophical about the theme of deception.

Although the novel is farcical on the surface, the novel, especially in its second half, is more serious and philosophical about the theme of deception.

While some have strong political, scholarly, or philosophical orientations, others are more informal associations of teachers and students dissatisfied with certain aspects of traditional education.

This may be the philosophical equivalent of the more pragmatic arguments made by some scientists.

Associated with this increase in resolutions was an increasing vocabulary for tragic dialogue, often involving prefixes to refine meanings, allowing the language to assume a more natural rhythm while also becoming ever more capable of psychological and philosophical subtlety.

This contributed to the creation of a large number of more philosophical and poetical films.

However, there is wide dispute whether Popper's description of " historicism " is an accurate description of Hegel, or more a reflection of his own philosophical antagonists, including Marxist-Leninist thought, then widely held as posing a challenge to the philosophical basis of the West, as well as theories such as Spengler's which drew predictions about the future course of events from the past.

I would like < nowiki ></ nowiki > to remember Nausea, < nowiki > plays </ nowiki > No Exit and The Devil and the Good Lord, and then my two philosophical works, more particularly the second one, Critique of Dialectical Reason.

A prominent question in metaphilosophy is that of whether or not philosophical progress occurs, and more so, whether such progress in philosophy is even possible.

The intensity of debate spurred Catholic Church interventions against " heresy " and even a general confiscation of Rabbinic texts and in reaction, the defeat of the more radical interpretations of Maimonides and at least amongst Ashkenazi Jews, a tendency not so much to repudiate as simply to ignore the specifically philosophical writings and to stress instead the Rabbinic and halachic writings ; even these writings often included considerable philosophical chapters or discussions in support of halachic observance, as David Hartman observes Maimonides made clear " the traditional support for a philosophical understanding of God both in the Aggadah of Talmud and in the behavior of the hasid pious Jew " and so Maimonidean thought continues to influence traditionally observant Jews.

Nihilism ( or ; from the Latin, nothing ) is the philosophical doctrine suggesting the negation of one or more putatively meaningful aspects of life.

From the mid-fourth century BC onwards, evidence of the Greek use of crossbows becomes more dense and varied: Arrow firing machines ( katapeltai ) are briefly mentioned by Aeneas Tacticus in his treatise on siegecraft written around 350 BC.

From the mid-fourth century BC onwards, evidence of the Greek use of arrow-shooting machines becomes more dense and varied: Arrow firing machines ( katapaltai ) are briefly mentioned by Aeneas Tacticus in his treatise on siegecraft written around 350 BC.

" Ponet's treatise comes first in a new wave of anti-monarchical writings … It has never been assessed at its true importance, for it antedates by several years those more brilliantly expressed but less radical Huguenot writings which have usually been taken to represent the Tyrannicide-theories of the Reformation ".

* The monk Bede ( c. 672 – 735 ) wrote in his influential treatise on computus, The Reckoning of Time, that the Earth was round (' not merely circular like a shield spread out like a wheel, but resembl more a ball '), explaining the unequal length of daylight from " the roundness of the Earth, for not without reason is it called ' the orb of the world ' on the pages of Holy Scripture and of ordinary literature.

The treatise is not a compendium of all that the Hellenistic mathematicians knew at the time about geometry ; Euclid himself wrote eight more advanced books on geometry.

The work is a complete and systematic treatise on mining and extractive metallurgy, illustrated with many fine and interesting woodcuts which illustrate every conceivable process to extract ores from the ground and metal from the ore, and more besides.

He became more interested in music theory and completed a treatise on the subject, Neues musicalisches System ( 1742 / 3, published 1752 ).

For tho'all nations count universally by tens ( originally occasioned by the number of digits on both hands ) yet 8 is a far more complete and commodious number ; since it is divisible into halves, quarters, and half quarters ( or units ) without a fraction, of which subdivision ten is uncapable ...." In a later treatise on Octave computation ( 1753 ) Jones concluded: " Arithmetic by Octaves seems most agreeable to the Nature of Things, and therefore may be called Natural Arithmetic in Opposition to that now in Use, by Decades ; which may be esteemed Artificial Arithmetic.

The third is the astrological treatise known sometimes in Greek as the Apotelesmatika ( Ἀποτελεσματικά ), more commonly in Greek as the Tetrabiblos ( Τετράβιβλος " Four books "), and in Latin as the Quadripartitum ( or four books ) in which he attempted to adapt horoscopic astrology to the Aristotelian natural philosophy of his day.

An articulation of this philosophy could be found explicitly in Vannevar Bush's treatise on postwar science policy, Science — The Endless Frontier: " New products, new industries, and more jobs require continuous additions to knowledge of the laws of nature ...

There is evidence that Julius Caesar used more complicated systems as well, and one writer, Aulus Gellius, refers to a ( now lost ) treatise on his ciphers:

The more important of the fragment collections are the Nirangistan fragments ( 18 of which constitute the Ehrbadistan ); the Pursishniha " questions ," also known as " Fragments Tahmuras "; the Aogemadaeca " we accept ," a treatise on death ; and the Hadokht Nask " volume of the scriptures " with two fragments of eschatological significance.

The treatise of Khayyám can be considered as the first treatment of parallels axiom which is not based on petitio principii but on more intuitive postulate.

A treatise On Sense Perception and its objects is important for a knowledge of the doctrines of the more ancient Greek philosophers regarding the subject.

The 710-page work followed the pattern of Coke's Institutes of the Lawes of England, but was far more methodical ; James Fitzjames Stephen said that Hale's work " was not only of the highest authority but shows a depth of thought which puts it in quite a different category from Coke's Institute ... is far more of a treatise and far less of an index or mere work of practice ".

His memoir and management treatise, My Years with General Motors, was more or less finished around this time ; but its publication was held up for nearly a decade longer by GM's legal staff, who feared that it would be used to support an antitrust case against GM.

' Tennov notes how limerence may dissolve soon after its initiation, as in an early teenage buzz-centered crush ', but is more concerned with the point when ' limerent bonds are characterized by " entropy " crystallization as described by Stendhal in his 1821 treatise On Love, where a new love infatuation perceptually begins to transform ... attractive characteristics are exaggerated and unattractive characteristics are given little or no attention ... a limerent object '.

His marked opposition to the philosophy of Hegel, then dominant in Berlin, was shown more clearly in the short tract, Neue Grundlegung zur Metaphysik ( 1822 ), intended to be the programme for his lectures as Privatdozent, and in the able treatise, Grundlegung zur Physik der Sitten ( 1822 ), written, in direct antagonism to Kant's Metaphysic of Ethics, to deduce ethical principles from a basis of empirical feeling.

The Beruf unserer Zeit, in addition to the more specific object the treatise had in view, which has been already treated, expresses the idea, unfamiliar in 1814, that law is part and parcel of national life, and combats the notion, too much assumed by French jurists, especially in the 18th century, and countenanced in practice by Bentham, that law might be arbitrarily imposed on a country irrespective of its state of civilization and history.

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The work is more of a sociological and philosophical treatise on the basis of human relations than a how-to guide on etiquette, but the German word “ Knigge ” has come to mean “ good manners ” or books on etiquette.

Still more was it the object of his Augustinus, a bulky treatise on the theology of St. Augustine, barely finished at the time of his death.

In the meantime he was engaged upon a much more important logical treatise, which appeared in 1874 under the title of The Principles of Science.