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The philosophy of nature...
Positivism
A system of philosophy originated by M Auguste Comte which deals only with positives It excludes from philosophy everything but the natural phenomena or properties of knowable things together with their invariable relations of coexistence and succession as occurring in time and space Such relations are denominated laws which are to be discovered by observation experiment and comparison This philosophy holds all inquiry into causes both efficient and final to be useless and unprofitable...
Neoplatonism
A pantheistic eclectic school of philosophy of which Plotinus was the chief a d 205 270 and which sought to reconcile the Platonic and Aristotelian systems with Oriental theosophy It tended to mysticism and theurgy and was the last product of Greek philosophy...
Paracelsus
Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus originally Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim also called Theophrastus Paracelsus and Theophrastus von Hohenheim Born at Maria Einsiedeln in the Canton of Schwyz Switzerland Dec 17 or 10 Nov 1493 died at Salzburg Sept 23 or 24 1541 A celebrated German Swiss physician reformer of therapeutics iatrochemist and alchemist He attended school in a small lead mining district where his father William Bombast von Hohenheim was a physician and teacher of alchemy The family originally came from Wuumlrtemberg where the noble family of Bombastus was in possession of the ancestral castle of Hohenheim near Stuttgart until 1409 He entered the University of Basel at the age of sixteen where he adopted the name Paracelsus after Celsius a noted Roman physician But he left without a degree first going to Wurtzburg to study under Joannes Trithemius Abbot of Sponheim 1462 1516 a famous astrologer and alchemist who initiated him into the mysteries of alchemy He then spent many...
Philosophic
Of or pertaining to philosophy versed in or imbued with the principles of philosophy hence characterizing a philosopher rational wise temperate calm cool...
Scholasticism
The method or subtilties of the schools of philosophy scholastic formality scholastic doctrines or philosophy...
Judicial activism
Judicial activism, means a philosophy of judicial decision-making whereby judges allow their personal views about public policy, among other factors, to guide their decisions, usu. with the suggestion that adherents of this philosophy tend to find constitutional violations and are willing to ignore precedent, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 850....
Religion
Religion, in a wide sense, therefore, is those fundamental principles which sustain life and without which life will not survive, Aruna Roy v. Union of India, (2002) 7 SCC 368.Religion, in Australia, the Constitution gives right to a person to follow his own religious belief and can freely exercise his religion, A Commentary on the Constitution of India, Durga Das Basu, Vol. D, p. 198.Religion, in Sri Lanka, the Constitution guarantees a citizen freedom of religion subject to the restrictions prescribed by law in the interest of national unity, integrity and security, A Commentary on the Constitution of India, Durga Das Basu, Vol. D, p. 200.Religion, in U.K., the Protestant Church headed by the Crown is by law established and built into the fabric of the English Constitution. The State has accepted the Protestant Church as a religious body reflecting the Christian faith, A Commentary on the Constitution of India, Durga Das Basu, Vol. D, p. 200.Religion, is a matter of faith stemming fr...
Secularism
Secularism, as narrowly understood to mean neutrality of the State towards all religions and bereft of positive approach towards all religions, Aruna Roy v. Union of India, (2002) 7 SCC 368.Secularism, in the realm of Philosophy, is a system of utilitarian ethics, seeking to maximise human happiness or welfare quite independently of what may be either religious or the occult, Ziyauddin Burhanuddin Bukhari v. Brijmohan Ramdass Mehra, AIR 1975 SC 1788 (1800): (1976) 2 SCC 17: (1975) Supp SCR 281.Secularism, is a convenient label to distinguish all that is done in this world without seeking the intervention or favour of or appropriating a superhuman or divine power or being. In the realm of philosophy it is a system of utilitarian ethics, seeking to promote greatest human happiness or welfare, quite independent of what may be called either religious or the occult, Ziauddin Burhanuddin Bokhari v. Brijmohan Ramdas Mehra, (1976) 2 SCC 17....
jurisprude
jurisprude [back-formation (influenced by prude) from jurisprudence] : an individual who makes ostentatious show of learning in jurisprudence and the philosophy of law or who regards legal doctrine with undue solemnity or veneration [philosophers and s might long and profoundly debate the question of which was the greater right and which was the lesser "Howell v. State, 425 A.2d 1361 (1981)"] ...
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