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	Spinoza, Baruch. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		His independence of thought led to his excommunication from the Jewish group in 1656; at about that time he abandoned the Hebrew form of his name, Baruch, for the Latin form, Benedict.
		When ideas are confused or contradictory it is not because they are false (in the sense of contrary to fact) but because they are incomplete or improperly related to the totality of experience.
		Ideas are active and move us to act; an absence of action may be accounted an absence of insight: knowledge, virtue, and power are one.
	www.bartleby.com /65/sp/Spinoza.html (971 words)

	Michel Foucault (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		The point of a genealogical analysis is to show that a given system of thought (itself uncovered in its essential structures by archaeology, which therefore remains part of Foucault's historiography) was the result of contingent turns of history, not the outcome of rationally inevitable trends.
		Foucault's idea is that the various modern bodies of knowledge about sexuality (various "sciences of sexuality", including psychoanalysis) have an intimate association with the power structures of modern society and so are prime candidates for genealogical analysis.
		Thought is no longer pure representation and therefore cannot be separated from an "unthought" (i.e., the given empirical and historical truths about who we are).
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/foucault (6167 words)

	Literature Thought World
		She then investigates the implications of this idea for normative issues, analyzing the role of compassion in private and public reasoning and the attempts of authors both philosophical and literary to purify or reform the emotion of erotic love.
		Key Ideas in Human Thought - Key Ideas In Human Thought is a compilation of several thousand short essays on some of the most important terms and concepts that have shaped the modern world.
		By turns melancholy and erotic, his memoir is also the name of a 13-year-old Jewish girl who recorded her thoughts, impressions, dreams, and cherished hopes during the buildup to the literature of memoir, one of a dark, foreboding man wearing a goatee.
	wo0.mavgeo.com /literaturethoughtworld.html (1327 words)

	Unification Thought - New World Encyclopedia Preview
		Unification Thought expresses its essence in the motto, "living for the sake of others." The altruistic spirit of service of Unification Thought is embodied in the concept of give-and-take, and this concept underlies all service activities, all educational activities, as well as the organized movement for peace in Unificationism.
		Human beings because we are (ideally) constituted by genuine love, are entitled (in fact ideally suited) to manage and administer the natural world.
		Human beings consisting of man and woman are understood as the substantial embodiment of these polar principles and the archetypal model of all beings in the world.
	www.newworldencyclopedia.org /preview/Unification_Thought (2930 words)

	Mathematics & Thought
		Thus the ideas, now in the minds of contemporary mathematicians, lie very remote from any notions which can be immediately derived by perception through the senses; unless indeed it be perception stimulated and guided by antecedent mathematical knowledge.
		This means that they express an unanalyzed complex of ideas by the mere modification of a word; whereas in English, for example, we use prepositions and auxiliary verbs to drag into the open the whole bundle of ideas involved.
		The key to the patterns means this fact: —that from a select set of those general conditions, exemplified in any one and the same occasion, a pattern involving an infinite variety of other such conditions, also exemplified in the same occasion, can be developed by the pure exercise of abstract logic.
	www.hyattcarter.com /mathematics-thought.htm (6843 words)

	A History of Extropic Thought (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Human desire enters in strongly here because those things worth preserving to the individual and the community tend to be recorded and fixed, from cave paintings to ceremonial burial objects to pyramids to mythology.
		My definition of humanism is: Social (consensual) mediation between subjective self and objective nature evolving in the direction of their conjunction by means of sharing and remembering human purposes used to evaluate truth (interpreting maps of objective nature) and as a catalyst for approaching ever closer to truth (improving maps of objective nature).
		was repelled by the sterility of mechanistic thought.
	home.comcast.net /~reillyjones/history.html (11801 words)

	Encryption in the Service of Human Rights (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Human Rights Watch has not evaluated the specific provisions of the various legislative proposals tabled, nor is it at this time putting forth a model policy on encryption.
		Alerting the key owner so that the key could be changed would expose and possibly compromise a criminal investigation, but keeping the key owner in the dark would give the government the ability to conduct an unlimited search.
		When the incremental utility of key recovery is weighed against the threat to speech and privacy of individuals worldwide, it is not at all clear that the balance is in favor of law enforcement.
	www.aaas.org /spp/cstc/pne/events/crypto/dinah.htm (2896 words)

	Philosophy - University Libraries
		A broadly based, alphabetically arranged dictionary of "ideas" (2500 entries) that covers intellectual/philosophical history including the arts, science, religion, economics, and philosophy itself.
		Alphabetically arranged by idea or thinker, it is cross-referenced within the text and the index.
		Typical entries include the history, meaning, and context of ideas as varied as aesthetics, chaos theory, federalism, and Rastafarianism.
	www.wmich.edu /library/sg/38/45 (497 words)

	Vital Standard and Life Economy: The Economic Thought of Lewis Mumford \| Accounting from AllBusiness.com
		The backdrop for his thought is the imperative of material conditions for human realization, in short, the organization and expenditure of energy in economic systems with their supporting institutional structures.
		Human life does not flourish under a regime of compulsive dynamism in which change for the sake of further change blocks the possibility of maintaining a dynamic equilibrium or promoting autonomous development of the person (Mumford 1964, 397).
		Humans could go about their rounds of work, play, and social intercourse in a cultural and economic framework respectful of unborn generations and their basic needs, for "a meaningful world is one that holds a future that extends beyond the incomplete personal life of the individual" (76).
	www.allbusiness.com /accounting/892063-1.html (8307 words)

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		There are three fundamental aspects of this study: 1) the study of mental processes, 2) the study of the uses of consciousness, and 3) the study of the total relationship of the organism to its environment.
		John Watson is usually thought of as the father of Behaviorism, and said that thinking was just a subvocalized speech.
		Edward Tolman, in the 1930¹s, finally stated that it seemed that human beings could not be understood merely by stimulus and response events, but also by the goals and plans formed in the minds of people.
	www.columbia.edu /~lks16/cognition.html (876 words)

	The mathematics of human thought
		He was particularly keen to ensure that his mathematics really did capture laws of mental activity, and to this end he spent a great deal of time reading psychological literature and familiarizing himself with what the philosophers had to say about mind and logic.
		By and large, the only substantial difference between the 1854 book and the earlier pamphlet of 1847 was the addition of his treatment of probability, using his new algebraic framework.
		Boole wanted his algebra to encompass all of Aristotle's insights into human reasoning (the famous Greek "All men are mortal" syllogisms) as well as the Stoics' logic of propositions (what we now refer to as propositional calculus).
	www.maa.org /devlin/devlin_01_04.html (1881 words)

	SAGE - the natural home for authors, editors and societies - Key Ideas in Sociology
		Key Ideas in Sociology is the only compact and portable book for undergraduate readers that links issues regarding post-modern society to the ideas and individuals that gave rise to sociological thinking in the late 19th century.
		This is the ideal text for idea and history oriented introductory sociology courses.
		KEY IDEAS shows how ideas developed by one theorist evolve and are further shaped by subsequent theorists, reflecting on different historical circumstances.
	www.sagepub.co.uk /book.aspx?pid=105891 (241 words)

	ACRL - Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education
		By ensuring that individuals have the intellectual abilities of reasoning and critical thinking, and by helping them construct a framework for learning how to learn, colleges and universities provide the foundation for continued growth throughout their careers, as well as in their roles as informed citizens and members of communities.
		For students not on traditional campuses, information resources are often available through networks and other channels, and distributed learning technologies permit teaching and learning to occur when the teacher and the student are not in the same place at the same time.
		Several key accrediting agencies concerned with information literacy are: The Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE), the Western Association of Schools and College (WASC), and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS).
	www.ala.org /ala/acrl/acrlstandards/informationliteracycompetency.htm (3861 words)

	tc_23.html
		The IAAI is an encyclopedia of alternative thinking, a compendium of strange, suspicious, condemned, and exiled ideas that for various reasons were denied entry into the history of the humanities but with the anthology have a chance to be realized in the future.
		There are books that have never been written; there are schools and trends of thought that never have emerged as a historical fact but still abide as a logical possibility, and therefore, exist as the reality of thinking.
		This is a retroactive history of thought read not from the previous periods to the present but from the present to the past, which will also integrate the openness of the future.
	www.emory.edu /INTELNET/tc_23.html (4152 words)

	Blogs Will Change Your Business
		While you may be putting it off, you can bet that your competitors are exploring ways to harvest new ideas from blogs, sprinkle ads into them, and yes, find out what you and other competitors are up to.
		A key part of his job, says a company spokesperson, is to help coordinate Plaxo's blogging efforts -- a pillar of Plaxo's promotional strategy.
		With this system, a user could subscribe to certain blogs, or to key words, and then have all the relevant items land at a single destination.
	www.businessweek.com /magazine/content/05_18/b3931001_mz001.htm (4138 words)

	Joseph Schaffner Library \| Northwestern University
		Covering current affairs, humanities, the social sciences, and the sciences, this database has citations, abstracts, and some full text from over 1,000 periodicals, including some popular magazines such as People, Time, and Newsweek.
		Humanities Abstracts contains citations from more than 450 periodicals in topics such as archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, the performing arts, philosophy, religion, world history, and world literature.
		The database focuses primarily on the Christian tradition and Western thought.
	www.library.northwestern.edu /schaffner/pathfinders/philosophy.html (1309 words)

	Key Ideas in Transactional Analysis
		The idea of three egos states and the transactional interactions between them are the most distinctive feature of transactional analysis and yet have the least amount of resonance in the literature.
		Hundreds of studies (for an excellent review, see Matlin and Stang, 1978) have shown that human beings strongly tend to be selectively positive in their language, thought, and memory and that people who are psychologically healthy show a higher level of positive bias.
		Arguably, prima facie evidence over the last centuries is that the human social condition-barring an ecological catastrophe-is steadily progressing in the positive direction of equality, cooperation, democracy, and humanitarianism, which supports the view that this is an innate trend of the species.
	www.tajnet.org /ta/KeyIdeasSummary.htm (3265 words)

	World History for Us All: Key Theme Seven
		The word spirituality refers to human awareness of a transcendental state of being, one that is beyond the material world of everyday life.
		In the ancient Mediterranean region and other places, people thought of their numerous gods and goddesses as part of a pantheon, or “household” of deities that controlled the universe as one big and sometimes quarreling family.
		Human beings learned long ago that peace, order, and cooperation within social groups, whether they be families, foraging bands, business partnerships, or nation-states, depend in the long run on guiding principles, standards, and rules of moral behavior.
	worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu /dev/themes/keytheme7.htm (2392 words)

	Reed College Library - Resource Guides (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Philosophical ideas are prominant in this interdiscipinary work with many signed articles written by authorities in their field.
		Around 2500 "ideas", many of which are outside of philosophy proper but have been important in philosophical thought.
		An electronic index to the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to 1993.
	library.reed.edu /reference/guides/philosophy/philosophyguide.html (1471 words)

	5. Alpha (α): Ideas
		This is true because the idea level encompasses all those disciplines that shape the human world.
		It is important to realize that, without the key idea (kinetic energy), creating this list is like tearing a leaf from a tree — it promptly dies.
		But if you ascend to the level of the idea, you might use it to compute the size and speed of the asteroid thought to have killed off the dinosaurs, or anything else that has mass and moves.
	www.arachnoid.com /levels/ideas.html (1868 words)

	Religions Of America--Beliefnet.com
		The Vedic perception of maya, however, is most commonly analogized with prakrti, and a definite distinction between maya and prakrti does not appear until the philosophical writings of the Advaita Vedanta school of thought are produced.
		Logical thought dictates that a culture with such pronounced goddess worship would place a high degree of respect and independence upon females, especially since the essential nature of women is believed to stem from the Great Goddess herself.
		The worship of the Great Goddess in India is and has been a potent agent in both the evolution of the Hindu tradition of thought and the shaping of the Hindu lifestyle.
	www.beliefnet.com /study_groups/studygroup_message_list.asp?pageID=2&studyGroupID=3106&discussionID=141201&messages_per_page=4 (998 words)

	The Effects of Thought on Language
		This evidence supports the idea that humans are born with some sort of device that facilitates humans the ability to learn any language as infants.
		This may also be support for the idea that language does not influence the infants’ thoughts, since all infants can voice and recognize phonemes different then those of the language they are learning.
		Humans are biologically capable of learning any language, but once an individual has passed a certain age, he/she is less likely to develop new language skills.
	www.unc.edu /~jdumas/projects/languagethought.htm (1902 words)

	The Key School: About Key » Mission, Culture & History
		The Key School is founded upon the conviction that children are innately curious about themselves and the world; they want to learn, they want to discover, and they want to create.
		The School’s role is to nourish and guide this natural exuberance, energy, and delight in the search for meaning, so that each student may develop into an informed, thoughtful and constructive member of society, with a lifelong commitment to learning.
		The Key School was founded in 1958 by several tutors from nearby St. John's College who were interested in offering their children the finest possible academic foundation.
	www.keyschool.net /about_key/index.asp (379 words)

	Comments Submitted
		On a different matter I think that the idea that there higher education should help to control emotions in order to help yourself and others could be very ineffective and it could also promote a sense of elite among the educated people...
		The key to rationality and the advancement of human civilization is mastering the delicate balance of heart with head in a chaotic society that seeks to disrupt mental activities of any kind.
		Those who wish to debate the relative merits of reason and emotion in human thought and culture should first make sure that they are all talking about the same thing.
	www.uchicago.edu /docs/millennium/cacioppo/cacioppo_com_b.html (2053 words)

	Philosophy Subject Guides
		The Arts and Humanities Citation Index is the online version of Arts and Humanities Citation Index.
		It indexes selected major periodicals in each area of the humanities (i.e., literature, art, music, philosophy, etc.).
		Key Ideas in Human Thought, Kenneth MacLeish, ed.
	library.uno.edu /help/subguide/philosophy/philosophy.html (402 words)

	SRI AUROBINDO'S VISION -- Interpretation of Key Ideas of Sri Aurobindo -- Growth Online
		Sri Aurobindo's vision begins with the assertion that humans may not be the final rung on the evolutionary scale.
		It expresses in the great movements in the last century that have led to greater human liberty and freedom; to the emergence of democracy throughout the world; and to the growing sense among the general population that every person deserves to fulfill his potential in his own lifetime.
		Over time we see emerging a growing, developing, evolving humanity; a humanity that is becoming more conscious, more aware, that is perpetually transforming its own nature, so that the long term issues and problems of life that have been there since the creation -- inertia, incapacity, ignorance, falsehood, pain, and suffering -- are overcome.
	www.gurusoftware.com /GuruNet/AurobindoMother/AurobindIdeas/Vision.htm (5227 words)

	Wandwaver - Appendix 25
		While this definition may be thought surprising, one of its notable attributes is that it allows for the possibility that complexity may be reduced or even eliminated, at least for some human beings, by a process called "learning".
		The extension of this idea was not adopted until, late in the 19th century, it reached the eyes of the Peirces at Harvard, where Charles Sanders Peirce lauded this work and extended it still further as part of his general archetectonic of science and human belief.
		His contributions to systems thinking are characterized by his continuous aim to expand the scope of such thought, and to see how ideas thought in various disciplines to be unique to the discipline, had their counterparts in other disciplines.
	www.gmu.edu /departments/t-iasis/wandwaver/app25.htm (2720 words)

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