Definitions Transcendentalism- a system of philosophy, especially that associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson and other New England writers, that emphasizes intuition or the divine Romanticism- in the arts, the style and theories of the romantic movement, or the movement itself Aphorism- a literary, artistic, and philosophical movement originating in the 18th century 11. ... Influenced by such schools of thought as English romanticism, Neoplatonism, and Hindu philosophy. ... Thoreau's best-known work is Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854), which embodies his philosophy and refle...

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I tend to separate myself from nature, making one definition for humans, and another for everything else. ... With multiple philosophies: preservation, conservation, and reservation- the intention for a solution remains conjointly different. ...

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Building Effective Local Partnerships (Local Government Management Board) offers as a definition: A partnership is an agreement between two or more partners to work together to achieve common aims (Watson 1989). ... • Differences of philosophy and ways of working. ...

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Lockean philosophy concerning the natural rights of man also serves amajor role in an American's idea of rights. ... A more general and logical definition of a right is a claim upheld by the law, in which case the Bill of Rights becomes important (Benn 195). ...

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Even with this definition, I found more lies beneath. ... Beauchamp, Professor of Philosophy at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics wrote an article entitled "Euthanasia" for Encarta (the online encyclopedia), describing the different forms of euthanasia as follows: a) active euthanasia is painlessly putting individuals to death for merciful reasons, as when a doctor administers a lethal dose of medication to a patient; b) passive euthanasia involves not doing something to prevent death, as when doctors refrain from using an artificial respirator to keep alive a terminally ill ...

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This is a largely Christian philosophy that attempts to bring together three main things: taking human life is seriously wrong, defending citizens and justice of states, and protecting innocent human life as well as defending important moral values. ... The Vatican believes that there is little evidence of just cause of the war in Iraq, and denounces the idea of a preventive war as a "war of aggression" that does not fit the definition of a "just war." ...

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