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  • 81Kant: Critique of Judgement — Patrick Gardiner Kant’s third Critique, the Critique of Judgement, was published in 1790 and was intended as he himself put it to bring his “entire critical undertaking to a close.” So conceived, it was certainly in part designed to build upon… …

    History of philosophy

  • 82Mill, John Stuart: Ethics and politics — J.S.Mill Ethics and politics R.F.Khan ON LIBERTY John Stuart Mill’s mature views on ethics and politics are to be found in On Liberty (published in 1859), Utilitarianism (1861), Considerations on Representative Government (1861) and The… …

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  • 83Comte and positivism — Robert Brown COMTE’S AIMS The chief aim of all of Auguste Comte’s publications, and the constant mission of his entire working life, was the improvement of human character through the perfecting of human society. He was convinced that the… …

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  • 84al-‘Amiri, Abu al-Hasan Muhammad ibn Yusuf — (d. 381/992):    Like his intellectual forebear al Kindi, al ‘Amiri sought above all to show the harmonizability of Islam and philosophy, while granting primacy to the former. Although his best–known work, Exposition of the Merits of Islam (al… …

    Islamic philosophy dictionary

  • 85Hanbalites — (hanabila)    Founded by Ahmad ibn Hanbal (164–241/780–855), Hanbalism is a robustly traditionalist school of jurisprudence and theology. The most conservative of the four major Sunni schools of jurisprudence, it depends almost exclusively on the …

    Islamic philosophy dictionary

  • 86essential — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. substantial, material, constitutional, fundamental, elementary, absolute; necessary, needful, requisite, cardinal, indispensable, vital; inherent, intrinsic, basic. See necessity, part, importance.… …

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  • 87requirement — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. want, necessity;the necessary or requisite; requisition, demand; needfulness, essentiality, indispensability; urgency, exigency, sine qua non, matter of life and death. See compulsion, command. II… …

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  • 88Requirement — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Requirement >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 requirement requirement need wants necessities Sgm: N 1 necessaries necessaries necessaries of life Sgm: N 1 stress stress exigency pinch sine qua non …

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  • 89López Rodó, Laureano — b. 1920, Barcelona    Politician and academic    An administrative lawyer who obtained a Chair at the University of Santiago de Compostela at the age of 25, López Rodó was typical of a new breed of highly gifted civil servants who came to… …

    Encyclopedia of contemporary Spanish culture

  • 90ПОСТУЛАТ ФУНКЦИОНАЛЬНОЙ НЕОБХОДИМОСТИ ИЛИ УНИВЕРСАЛЬНЫЙ ФУНКЦИОНАЛИЗМ — (postulate of functional indispensability or universal functionalism) доктрина в некоторых формах функционализма (см. также Функция), согласно которой в каждом типе цивилизации любой обычай, материальный предмет, идея и убеждение выполняет… …

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