“Windows To Spirituality”
Openness Openness is an overarching concept or philosophy that is characterized by an emphasis on transparency and collaboration. That is, openness refers to “accessibility of knowledge, technology and other resources; the transparency of action; the permeability of organisational structures; and the inclusiveness of participation”. Openness can be said to be the opposite of closedness, central authority and secrecy....
Knowledge Quotes Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Knowledge Quotes, Knowledge sayings, and Knowledge proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources. May these Knowledge Quotes from around the world inspire you to never give up and keep working towards your goals....
Defining Knowledge This article is about Defining Knowledge. Knowledge is evaluated and organized information with implications of being true, justified, and believed. Knowledge is often distinguished from opinion. Opinion implies one’s perspective without a claim for general or universal validity. The term knowledge is also used to mean the confident understanding of a subject, potentially...
Knowledge (Virtue) Knowledge, being a primitive fact of consciousness, cannot, strictly speaking, be defined; but the direct and spontaneous consciousness of knowing may be made clearer by pointing out its essential and distinctive characteristics. It will be useful first to consider briefly the current uses of the verb “to know”. To...
Authenticity (Philosophy) Authenticity is a philosophical concept that denotes the genuine, original, true state of human existence. The concept arises from the insights that human beings generally live or exist in an inauthentic way and that the genuine sense of self and its relationship with others (including God and/or other people), have been...
Freedom Freedom is traditionally understood as independence of the arbitrary will of another. Such a state is contrasted with slavery. A slave is constantly subject to the will of another. By contrast a free person can do whatever he chooses as long as he does not break the law and infringe on...
Normative Ethics Normative ethics is the study of ethical behaviour, and is the branch of philosophical ethics that investigates the questions that arise regarding how one ought to act, in a moral sense. Normative ethics is distinct from meta-ethics in that the former examines standards for the rightness and wrongness of actions, whereas the latter studies the meaning of...
Applied Ethics Applied ethics refers to the practical application of moral considerations. It is ethics with respect to real-world actions and their moral considerations in the areas of private and public life, the professions, health, technology, law, and leadership. For example, the bioethics community is concerned with identifying the correct approach to moral issues in...
Sexual Ethics Sexual ethics or sex ethics (also sexual morality) is a branch of philosophy that considers the ethics or morality or otherwise in sexual behavior. Sexual ethics seeks to understand, evaluate and critique interpersonal relationships and sexual activities from a social, cultural, and philosophical perspective. Some people consider aspects of human sexuality, such as gender identification and sexual orientation, as well...
Moral Psychology Moral psychology is a field of study in both philosophy and psychology. Historically, the term “moral psychology” was used relatively narrowly to refer to the study of . Moral psychology eventually came to refer more broadly to various topics at the intersection of ethics, psychology, and philosophy of mind. Some of the main topics...
Two Wolves The story of the Two Wolves is a popular legend of unknown origin, sometimes attributed to the Cherokee or Lenape people that is also known as “Which one do you feed“, “Grandfather Tells“, “The Wolves Within“, and “Tale Of Two Wolves“. It is a story of a grandfather using a metaphor of...
Self-awareness Quotes We have collected and put the best self-awareness quotes. Enjoy reading these insights and feel free to share this page on your social media to inspire others. Self-awareness is the capacity for introspection and the ability to reconcile oneself as an individual separate from the environment and other...
Self-reflection Quotes We have collected and put the best self-reflection quotes. Enjoy reading these insights and feel free to share this page on your social media to inspire others. Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old self-reflection quotes, self-reflection sayings, and self-reflection proverbs, collected over...
Observation Quotes We have collected and put the best observation quotes. Enjoy reading these insights and feel free to share this page on your social media to inspire others. Observation is the active acquisition of information from a primary source. In living beings, observation employs the senses. In science, observation can...
Subjectivism Subjectivism is the doctrine that “our own mental activity is the only unquestionable fact of our experience”, instead of shared or communal, and that there is no external or objective truth. The success of this position is historically attributed to Descartes and his methodic doubt, although he used it as an epistemological...
Individualism Individualism is the moral stance, political philosophy, ideology and social outlook that emphasizes the intrinsic worth of the individual. Individualists promote the exercise of one’s goals and desires and to value independence and self-reliance and advocate that interests of the individual should achieve precedence over the state or a social group while opposing external...
Antinatalism Antinatalism, or anti-natalism, is the ethical view that negatively values procreation. Antinatalists argue that humans should abstain from procreation because it is morally wrong (some also recognize the procreation of other sentient beings as problematic). In scholarly and in literary writings, various ethical foundations have been presented for antinatalism. Some of the earliest surviving formulations of the idea...
The Hero Of Thought And Action The person of thought and action moves actively while making plans; they are deeply concerned with bringing peace to the world, and representing the movement of raising once again the statues of our soul and meaning, which we have been knocking down continuously for...
Action And Thought The field of our struggle for the inheritors of the Earth can be summarized as “action and thought.” In fact, the true path of existence in life goes through a potentially transforming action and thought which is also able to transform others. In fact every existence, from...
The World Awaited This article covers the dreams, hopes and aspirations of the writer’s for “The World Awaited“. When we ponder great historical events we can see that thought and action live within one another, that they are interlaced in togetherness; action is, on the one side, planned and fed...
