Though initially sarcastic and self-possessed to the point of arrogance ( Leiko is actually a Japanese name meaning " arrogant ") her relationship with her new lover causes her to become more contemplative.

Legend says that Lord Narasimha manifested himself here as a huge of rock in “ Yoga mudra ” ( in an entwined contemplative posture ) and hence it acquired the name of “ Penusila ” ( huge rock ) and in course of time became famous as “ Penchalakona ”.

The six or so remarkable books he published from 1914 to 1918 — El Rastro Flea-Market, El Doctor Inverosímil Improbable Doctor, Greguerías, Senos, Pombo, El circo Circus — illustrate most of his main characteristics: his search for a new fragmentary genre of short prose poems ( giving them the arbitrary name of greguerías ), his exaltation of trivial everyday objects, his emphasis on eroticism, his exuberant self-projection and exclusive dedication to art, his playful humour, his contemplative secular mysticism, and above all his cult of the image, especially witty surprising images.

Ralph Gabriel gave it the name of Protestant philosophy of Progress.

Anarchism is generally defined as the political philosophy which holds the state to be undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful ,< ref name =" definition ">

Although the Indian and Greek concepts of the atom were based purely on philosophy, modern science has retained the name coined by Democritus.

* Analysis is the name of a prominent journal in philosophy.

So aesthetics began now to be the name for the philosophy of art.

By contrast, in mainstream Analytical philosophy the topic is more confined to abstract investigation, in the work of such influential theorists as W. V. O. Quine, to name one of many.

BASIC is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages whose design philosophy emphasizes ease of use ; the name is an acronym from Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.

" Critical philosophy " is also used as another name for Kant's philosophy itself.

There have been attempts to incorporate democracy, republicanism, and industrialism into Chinese philosophy, notably by Sun Yat-Sen ( Sūn yì xiān, in one Mandarin form of the name ) at the beginning of the 20th century.

** Cartesianism, name given to the philosophy of René Descartes

" As such, it is both part of the field of education and a field of applied philosophy, drawing from fields of metaphysics, epistemology, axiology and the philosophical approaches ( speculative, prescriptive, and / or analytic ) to address questions in and about pedagogy, education policy, and curriculum, as well as the process of learning, to name a few.

Following his retirement, Hayek spent a year as a visiting professor of philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he continued work on Law, Legislation and Liberty, teaching a graduate seminar by the same name and another on the philosophy of social science.

The Cyrenaics were an ultra-hedonist Greek school of philosophy founded in the 4th century BCE, supposedly by Aristippus of Cyrene, although many of the principles of the school are believed to have been formalized by his grandson of the same name, Aristippus the Younger.

Ibn Sina ( 980 – 1037 ), known by the Latin name Avicenna, was a medical researcher from Bukhara, Uzbekistan responsible for important contributions to the disciplines of physics, optics, philosophy and medicine.

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However, the name " nominalism " emerged out of debates in medieval philosophy with Roscellinus.

Rand stated that she chose the name because her preferred term for a philosophy based on the primacy of existence —" existentialism "— had already been taken.

This shortened name is the same as that of t ' ai chi philosophy, sometimes resulting in confusion between the two.

Sartre's key proposition about the priority of existentia over essentia is, Sartre's statement that " existence precedes essence " does, however, justify using the name " existentialism " as an appropriate title for a philosophy of this sort.

By the era of Greek philosophy in the fifth century BCE, Metis had become the Titaness of wisdom and deep thought, but her name originally connoted " magical cunning " and was as easily equated with the trickster powers of Prometheus as with the " royal metis " of Zeus.

Though practitioners of religious humanism did not officially organize under the name of " humanism " until the late 19th and early 20th centuries, non-theistic religions paired with human-centered ethical philosophy date to the Enlightenment era.

An American clairvoyant by the name of Catherine Adams has written, “ My philosophy is to teach and practice spiritual freedom, which means you have your own spiritual guidance, which I can help you get in touch with.

That girl last night, what was her name??

For a blood-chilling ring of terror to the very sound of his name was the tool he needed for the job he'd promised to do.

No man's name brought more cheers when it was announced in a rodeo.

My lovely caller -- Joyce Holland was her name -- had previously done three filmed commercials for zing, and this evening, the fourth, a super production, had been filmed at the home of Louis Thor.

Her name was L'Turu and she told me many things.

Bill Doolin's ambition, it appeared, was to carve out his name with bullets alongside those of Jesse James and Billy the Kid, and Bill Tilghman had sworn he would stop him.

Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.

The difference came down to this: The Southern States insisted that the United States was, in last analysis, what its name implied -- a Union of States.

I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

Neither was Henrietta hoydenish like Jo, who frankly wished she were a boy and had deliberately shortened her name, which, like Henrietta's, was the feminine form of a boy's name.

But neither was Lilian her baptismal name.

Though she did not then know its name, this strange new fruit was a banana.

It seems to me now, in a long backward glance, that many of the Hetman's conceits and odd actions -- together with his grim posture when brandishing the hatchet in the name of Mr. Hearst -- were keyed with the tragedy which was to close over him one day.

An accompanying sympathetic letter explained that inside the envelope was a name for Mrs. Coolidge's first granddaughter.

The name inside the envelope was `` Cynthia ''.

Her name was Esther Peter.

Pike was stunned by the first blast against his character, which was published in the March 4th issue of The Gazette under the name `` Vale ''.

Under Fosdick the first executive officer of the CTCA was Richard Byrd, whose name in later years was to become synonymous with activities at the polar antipodes.

I had had my name taken out of the telephone book, and this was partly because of a convict who had been discharged from Sing Sing and who called me night after night.