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Hace 17 horas · Carl Schmitt (/ ʃ m ɪ t /; 11 July 1888 – 7 April 1985) was a German jurist, political theorist, geopolitician and prominent member of the Nazi Party.. Born in Plettenberg in 1888, Schmitt studied law in Berlin, Munich, and Strasbourg.In 1916, he married his first wife, Pavla Dorotić, but divorced her after realizing that she had pretended to be a countess.
Hace 17 horas · Etymology and literary origins. The term jihad is derived from the Arabic root jahada, meaning "to exert strength and effort, to use all means in order to accomplish a task".In its expanded sense, it can be fighting the enemies of Islam, as well as adhering to religious teachings, enjoining good and forbidding evil. The peaceful sense of "efforts towards the moral uplift of society or towards ...
Hace 17 horas · Ethics is the philosophical study of moral phenomena. Also called moral philosophy, it investigates normative questions about what people ought to do or which behavior is morally right. The main branches of ethics include normative ethics, applied ethics, and metaethics. Normative ethics aims to find general principles that govern how people should act. According to consequentialists, an act ...
Hace 17 horas · Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities.Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities. Atheism is contrasted with theism, which in its most general form is the belief that at least one deity exists.
Hace 17 horas · Alice O'Connor (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum; February 2 [O.S. January 20], 1905 – March 6, 1982), better known by her pen name Ayn Rand (/ aɪ n / EYEN), was a Russian-born American author and philosopher. She is known for her fiction and for developing a philosophical system she named Objectivism.Born and educated in Russia, she moved to the United States in 1926.
Hace 17 horas · The Democratic Party is one of the two major political parties of the United States political system and the oldest active political party in the country as well as in the world. The Democratic Party was founded in 1828. It is also the oldest active voter-based political party in the world. The party has changed significantly during its nearly two centuries of existence.
