In this phase of change, no idea has social acceptance and so none has ontological status in the community.

Leopold believed that harm was frequently done to natural systems out of a sense of ownership and this idea eclipsed community.

He expanded the idea of community to include the environment and the farm.

This idea challenges the possibility of representing the world perfectly with language, because it acknowledges that the mechanisms of any language condition the thoughts of its speaker community.

In the United States William Rainey Harper, first president of the University of Chicago developed the concept of extended education, whereby the research university had satellite colleges of education in the wider community, and in 1892 he also encouraged the concept of correspondence school courses to further promote education, an idea that was put into practice by Columbia University.

While controversial at first, various forms of this idea have become accepted to some degree by many within the scientific community.

At least one work of fiction, the film Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, uses Gaia philosophy as a central point to the plot, and may arguably represent a fictional parallel to Sir James Lovelock in the character of Dr. Cid, who is met with skepticism from the scientific and social community when he promotes the idea of a " living Earth ".

Al-Nuwayri in his Nihaya reports that the Prophet is alleged to have said what he feared most for his community were the practices of the people of Lot ( although he seems to have expressed the same idea in regard to wine and female seduction ).

Over time, his idea has been implemented in various degrees, and is more commonly known as " community journalism ".

The concept of a peaceful community of nations had been proposed as far back as 1795, when Immanuel Kant's Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch outlined the idea of a league of nations to control conflict and promote peace between states.

" That a community has different components whose interests must be balanced in any good regime is an idea with classical precedents, but Machiavelli's particularly extreme presentation is seen as a critical step towards the later political ideas of both a division of powers or checks and balances, ideas which lay behind the US constitution ( and most modern constitutions ).

Thanks to Carmack's idea of extending video game life by adding unlimited expandability ( extensibility already played a big role in Doom ), an enormous Internet community of gamers and programmers alike has arisen and many modern multiplayer games are extensible in some form.

While biologists sometimes use the concept of race to make distinctions among fuzzy sets of traits, others in the scientific community suggest that the idea of race is often used in a naive or simplistic way.

Although the simplest GUTs have been experimentally ruled out, the general idea, especially when linked with supersymmetry, remains a favorite candidate in the theoretical physics community.

The idea of creating surrogate users for usability testing is an ambitious direction for the Artificial Intelligence community.

Vernadsky first popularized the concept of the noosphere and deepened the idea of the biosphere to the meaning largely recognized by today's scientific community.

This idea is held by a significant minority within the physics community.

While still emulating Walt Disney's original idea of showcasing new technology, it is closer to a world's fair than a " community of tomorrow ".

Some of the urban planning concepts from the original idea of EPCOT would instead be integrated into the community of Celebration much later.

The idea of a confrontation between a modern Christian and a remote, pagan community continued to intrigue Shaffer, who performed painstaking research on paganism.

Transportation and community planners began to promote the idea of compact cities and communities in the early 1970s.

* The idea that God chose the Jewish people for any purpose, in any way, is " morally untenable ", because anyone who has such beliefs " implies the superiority of the elect community and the rejection of others ".

Central to its mission was the idea of " community action ", the participation of the poor in framing and administering the programs designed to help them.

The design innovations commonly associated with Gropius and the Bauhaus — the radically simplified forms, the rationality and functionality, and the idea that mass-production was reconcilable with the individual artistic spirit — were already partly developed in Germany before the Bauhaus was founded.

Longtime believed by Egyptologists to be " air shafts " for ventilation, this idea has now been widely abandoned in favor of the shafts serving a ritualistic purpose associated with the ascension of the king ’ s spirit to the heavens.

Greenpeace also states that " there was no single founder, and the name, idea, spirit, tactics, and internationalism of the organization all can be said to have separate lineages ".

Charles de Gaulle described the role he envisaged for the French president when he wrote the modern French constitution, stating the head of state should embody " the spirit of the nation " for the nation itself and the world: une certaine idée de la France ( a certain idea about France ).

Manitou means spirit, and the rest of the word refers to the idea of a place.

The idea of a place with a spirit, or an area of spirit, was a general idea that would have referred to many places before the province was made official in 1870.

Manitoba is referring to the idea of spirit in some way, and some place associated with Lake Manitoba.

All learned men and doctors of divinity say that God created it in the beginning ; but it is not so: the very idea lessens man in my estimation ... We say that God Himself is a self-existing being ... Man does exist upon the same principles ... Bible does not say in the Hebrew that God created the spirit of man.

Although the " mind " and " intelligence " of humanity were still considered to be co-eternal with God, and not created, Brigham Young introduced the idea that the " spirit ", which he distinguished from the " mind " or " intelligence ", was indeed created and not co-eternal with God.

Among Latter-day Saints the idea of " spirit birth " was described in its modern doctrinal form in 1909, when the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issued the following statement:

Prayer may be directed towards a deity, spirit, deceased person, or lofty idea, for the purpose of worshipping, requesting guidance, requesting assistance, confessing sins or to express one's thoughts and emotions.

The idea that direct election is required for legitimacy also contradicts the spirit of the Great Compromise, whose actual result was manifest in the clause that provides voters in smaller states with slightly more representation in presidential selection than those in large states.

The idea was first clearly expressed by 19th century thinkers, such as Wilhelm von Humboldt, who saw language as the expression of the spirit of a nation.

As an example, a critic of Plantinga's idea of " a mighty nonhuman spirit " causing natural evils may concede that the existence of such a being is not logically impossible but argue that due to lacking scientific evidence for its existence this is very unlikely and thus it is an unconvincing explanation for the presence of natural evils.

Many UUs reject the idea of deities and instead speak of the " spirit of life " that binds all life on earth.

Another influential philosopher writing on fine art was Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, who emphasized the idea of the artist belonging to the spirit of his time, or zeitgeist.

The idea of a spirit entirely independent of organic activity, must therefore have appeared to him very doubtful ; yet he appears to have contented himself with developing his doubts and difficulties on the point, without positively rejecting it.

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Samuelson applied the term " shibboleth " in works including Foundations of Economic Analysis to an idea for which " the means becomes the end, and the letter of the law takes precedence over the spirit.

Mikhail Zetlin, in his book on The Five, writes, The very idea of a conservatory implied, it is true, a spirit of academism which could easily turn it into a stronghold of routine, but then the same could be said of conservatories all over the world.

These instructions and supplementary instructions to ships ' captains, which attempted to balance an adherence to standing orders with the need to exploit emerging opportunities in a battle, proved heavily influential over the next hundred years and shaped the idea that an aggressive fighting spirit should be at the core of British naval doctrine.