privileging — priv·i·lege || prɪvɪlɪdÊ’ n. special individual right not enjoyed by others; benefit, right, advantage; prerogative, benefits given only to people of a particular group; immunity from legal prosecution v. grant special rights, give special… … English contemporary dictionary
Ash‘arites — (ash‘ariyya) The Ash‘arite school of theology was founded in the early fourth/tenth century by Abu al Hasan al Ash‘ari. Originally a theologian of the Mu‘tazilite persuasion, al Ash‘ari ultimately rejected his former school’s privileging of… … Islamic philosophy dictionary
Electroconvulsive therapy — Intervention ICD 10 PCS GZB ICD 9 CM 94.27 … Wikipedia
Logocentrism — In critical theory and deconstruction, logocentrism is a phrase coined by the German philosopher Ludwig Klages in the 1920s to refer to the perceived tendency of Western thought to locate the center of any text or discourse within the logos (a… … Wikipedia
Lorenzo Domínguez — (1901 1963)Lorenzo Domínguez (Santiago de Chile 1901 Mendoza, Argentina 1963) was a prolific Latin American sculptor whose art is a deliberate and personal synthesis of pre Columbian and Rapa Nui (Easter Island) aesthetics with a European… … Wikipedia
Male Studies in the Caribbean — Men s Studies in the Caribbean is an emerging interdisciplinary field that has its roots in family studies programs of the 1950s and 60s, and in feminine studies programs of the 1970s and 80s.[1] In the Caribbean Gender studies have concentrated… … Wikipedia
Christian privilege — is the overarching system of advantages bestowed on Christians. It is the institutionalization of a Christian norm or standard that establishes and perpetuates the notion that all people are or should be Christian. The privileging of Christians… … Wikipedia
Object-oriented ontology — (OOO) is a metaphysical movement that rejects the privileging of human existence over the existence of nonhuman objects.[1] Specifically, object oriented ontology opposes the anthropocentrism of Immanuel Kant s Copernican Revolution, whereby… … Wikipedia
Existence (Philosophy of) 3 — Philosophy of existence 3 Merleau Ponty Bernard Cullen à Henri Godin LIFE AND WORKS Maurice Merleau Ponty was born on 14 March 1908 into a petty bourgeois Catholic family in Rochefort sur Mer on the west coast of France. When he died suddenly, at … History of philosophy
absolutism — absolutism, absolutist state The term itself may be defined as a state form typical of societies in the process of transition from feudalism to capitalism , wherein power is concentrated in the person of a monarch, who has at his or her disposal… … Dictionary of sociology
