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14 September 2017
- 10:5410:54, 14 September 2017 diff hist +1,532 N North-South Created page with "(Problem of Relations)This term is used to characterize the relations between the industrialized, technologically-developed countries (the North) and the developing countries..." current
- 10:5210:52, 14 September 2017 diff hist +3,144 N Non-violence Created page with "Generally refers to some or all of the following: a system of moral concepts that disavows violence; the mass movement led by Mahatma Gandhi in India in the first part of the..." current
- 10:4810:48, 14 September 2017 diff hist +385 N Nihilism Created page with "1) Systematic negation of life. 2) Negation of humanist values. 3) Anti-humanism. This term was first used by Turgenev in his 1862 novel Fathers and Sons. The term “nihilist..." current
- 10:4510:45, 14 September 2017 diff hist +1,865 N New surpassing the old Created page with "General tendency of the development of living structures, society and of human consciousness. If life is taken, not as an isolated and singular occurrence, but as a step of gr..." current
- 10:4310:43, 14 September 2017 diff hist +1,754 N Nongovernmental organization (NGOs) Created page with "International, national and local organizations created through citizen initiative, with common extra-governmental objectives of a social, political, religious, cultural, scie..." current
- 10:4110:41, 14 September 2017 diff hist +1,793 N New right Created page with "Ideological and political current that emerged in the developed countries in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Initially it included groups of leftist intellectuals disillusion..." current
- 10:3810:38, 14 September 2017 diff hist +935 N New poor Created page with "Category of workers forming as a result of the economic restructuring brought about by the scientific-technical revolution. It is made up of office workers, engineers, technic..." current
- 10:3710:37, 14 September 2017 diff hist +892 N New order Created page with "1) Hitlerian expression referring to an economically and politically centralized Europe under the control of Germany. 2) Expression that came into vogue during the presidency..." current
- 10:3510:35, 14 September 2017 diff hist +1,094 N New left Created page with "Designation of the array of groups of heterogeneous philosophical ideas and political orientations which emerged in the decades of the sixties and seventies of the twentieth c..." current
- 10:3310:33, 14 September 2017 diff hist +1,491 N New Humanism Created page with "The representatives of this movement have a clearly defined position in relation to the current historical moment. For them it is indispensable to construct a humanism that wi..." current
- 10:3210:32, 14 September 2017 diff hist +1,166 N Neoliberism Created page with "(New Liberalism) Progressive social reforms of liberal governments after 1908. Its principal exponents were David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill. Present-day n. admits man..." current
- 10:3010:30, 14 September 2017 diff hist +1 Neocolonialism No edit summary current
- 10:3010:30, 14 September 2017 diff hist +780 N Neocolonialism Created page with "(New Colonialism)Second wave of colonialism (*) in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During that period countries such as Belgium, the United States, Italy, Japan,..."
- 10:2510:25, 14 September 2017 diff hist +1,184 N Nationalism Created page with "Pertaining or relating to a nation. Doctrine and movement glorifying the national personality or what is presented as such by its proponents; doctrine of political, economic,..." current
- 10:2410:24, 14 September 2017 diff hist +424 N National socialism Created page with "Name adopted by the old German Workers’ Party in Munich in 1920. The Nazi ideology (an apocope of National-sozialistische) is similar to that of right wing romantic authorit..." current
- 10:2110:21, 14 September 2017 diff hist +3,445 N National problem Created page with "The complex of cultural, economic, juridical, social and linguistic relationships established within a single or contiguous territory. The national problem exists between diff..." current
- 09:5609:56, 14 September 2017 diff hist +1,584 N Nation Created page with "(OF from L. nationem from nasci, to be born). The inhabitants of a country, ruled by the same government; the territory of that country; a group of persons who generally speak..." current
13 September 2017
- 09:2709:27, 13 September 2017 diff hist +1,044 N Movement of nonaligned nations Created page with "A movement of states that have declared their foreign policies as based on non-participation in military or political blocs. This movement condemns colonialism, neo-colonialis..." current
- 09:2509:25, 13 September 2017 diff hist +1,323 N Modernization Created page with "(from L. modernum, recent, and from moderno, recently come into existence, that has happened recently). Way to confer a modern form or appearance to something. To perfect, to..." current
- 09:2309:23, 13 September 2017 diff hist +2,878 N Middle strata Created page with "(a particular aspect of the notion of social layer, from Sociology). A sociological category designating an important part of the social structure of modern society and of soc..." current
- 09:2109:21, 13 September 2017 diff hist +1,172 N Method Created page with "(from Gr. methods,; meta, after, beyond, among; and hoods, way). Path of investigation, knowledge; mode of reaching an objective. Set of operations of practical or theoretical..." current
- 09:1909:19, 13 September 2017 diff hist +125 N Metalinguistics Created page with "Study of the interrelationships between the language and culture of a given people. category: Dictionary of New Humanism" current
- 09:1709:17, 13 September 2017 diff hist +205 N Metalanguage Created page with "1) Specialized language used to describe a natural language. 2) Formal language that employs special symbols, used to describe the syntax of programming languages. category..." current
- 09:1409:14, 13 September 2017 diff hist +2,617 N Materialism Created page with "(from L. materia, matter). Philosophical doctrine that considers matter as the sole constitutive reality of the real world. According to this view, matter in its higher forms..." current
- 09:1309:13, 13 September 2017 diff hist +2,515 N Marxism Humanism Created page with "Marxism is considered as a theory whose initial formulation is owed to Karl Marx. The majority of the exponents of this current tend to form a doctrinaire body known as M-L.,..." current
- 09:1109:11, 13 September 2017 diff hist +1,309 N Marginalized people Created page with "(from L. margo, extremity and border of something). A term used in contemporary sociology to characterize a large social group made up of persons who have ceased to belong to..." current
- 09:0709:07, 13 September 2017 diff hist +793 N Manipulation Created page with "(from L. manipulus, to handle with the hand). Action and effect of deceiving or applying moral coercion. System of psychological pressure to apply duress to the behavior of ot..." current
- 09:0609:06, 13 September 2017 diff hist +467 N Machiavellianism Created page with "Political doctrine of the Italian writer Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), who advises the use of bad faith when necessary to advance the policies of a state. His position is k..." current
12 September 2017
- 12:3512:35, 12 September 2017 diff hist −1 Anarchism No edit summary current
- 12:3412:34, 12 September 2017 diff hist +42 Anarchism No edit summary
- 12:3212:32, 12 September 2017 diff hist +2 Anarchism No edit summary
- 12:3112:31, 12 September 2017 diff hist +16 Anarchism No edit summary
- 11:2611:26, 12 September 2017 diff hist +22,660 Humanize the Earth →Author's Conference current
- 11:2211:22, 12 September 2017 diff hist +2,600 Humanize the Earth →Explanation
- 11:1411:14, 12 September 2017 diff hist +27 Human being No edit summary
- 11:0311:03, 12 September 2017 diff hist 0 Love No edit summary current
- 11:0211:02, 12 September 2017 diff hist +2 Love No edit summary
- 09:4309:43, 12 September 2017 diff hist +806 N Love Created page with "(ME. love, luve). Affection that moves one to seek a real or imaginary good and to desire its possession. The word l. has very diverse meanings, but represents an inclination..."
- 09:4209:42, 12 September 2017 diff hist +4,562 N Liberty Created page with "Supreme and essential value of human existence. In religious consciousness, l. is conceived as a spiritual gift that is bestowed upon human beings, allowing them to choose bet..." current
- 09:4009:40, 12 September 2017 diff hist +1,795 N Liberalism Created page with "Political doctrine traceable to John Locke (1632-1704), one of its most important theorists. Locke writes: “The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power..." current
- 09:3909:39, 12 September 2017 diff hist +1,430 N Leisure Created page with "(from L. licere, to be permitted). Entertainment or recreational pursuits, especially in works of invention or imagination which form and develop the human personality. Refers..." current
- 09:3809:38, 12 September 2017 diff hist +1,224 N Legitimism Created page with "(from L. legitimus, according to the Law, and from Fr. légitimiste). Principle presented at the International Congress of European powers in Vienna in 1814-15 by French diplo..." current
- 09:3609:36, 12 September 2017 diff hist +1,427 N Legitimacy Created page with "(from L. legitimus, lawful). Quality of being genuine, authentic. Achieved through legitimation, the act of making legitimate; that is, verifying or validating the truth of a..." current
- 09:3209:32, 12 September 2017 diff hist +1,434 N Legislation Created page with "System of norms and rules that regulate the activity and conduct of the citizens and institutions of a state. Juridical order. Also understood as the science of laws. L. is a..." current
- 09:3109:31, 12 September 2017 diff hist +778 N Leader Created page with "(ME. leder; a leader, from laedan, to lead). The director, chief, or head of a political party, parliamentary faction, social group, or other collectivity. The person or team..." current
- 09:2909:29, 12 September 2017 diff hist +1,084 N Law Created page with "(ME. lawe, laghe; AS. lagu, law, that which is laid or fixed, from licgan). Obligatory or necessary rule, an act of sovereign authority. A necessary relationship between the p..." current
- 09:2709:27, 12 September 2017 diff hist +1,523 N Laughter Created page with "(ME. laughen; AS. hlehhan, hlihhan, to laugh). A uniquely human physiological and behavioral property. Movement of the mouth and other parts of the face that demonstrates the..." current
- 09:2609:26, 12 September 2017 diff hist +1,178 N Landscape of formation Created page with "The individual’s emplacement at any moment in their life is effected through representations of past events and more-or-less possible future occurrences, such that, upon com..." current
11 September 2017
- 08:5408:54, 11 September 2017 diff hist +3,390 N Justice Created page with "(from L. justitia). 1) Ethical value that regulates the spiritual and social life of the human being; the social virtue par excellence. It is the foundation of law, reason and..." current
- 08:5308:53, 11 September 2017 diff hist +2,326 N Jesuitism Created page with "Doctrine, system and religious, political and social principles of the Jesuits or attributed to them; practice of dissemblance as a system of life. The Society of Jesus, a re..." current
- 08:5208:52, 11 September 2017 diff hist +2,006 N Internationalism Created page with "I. and the various internationalist doctrines recognize important distinctions among themselves, involving on occasion positions irreconcilably opposed, as in the case of the..." current
- 08:5008:50, 11 September 2017 diff hist +1,029 N Intention Created page with "A complex concept that reflects the unity and interaction of the various processes that predetermine a given practical behavior of the human being. I. comprises a chain of eve..." current
- 08:4908:49, 11 September 2017 diff hist +717 N Innovation Created page with "Action and effect of changing or altering things and ideas or images, introducing something new. Process of introducing new products and technologies into the economic system,..." current
- 08:4808:48, 11 September 2017 diff hist +672 N Internal landscape Created page with "Configuration of reality that corresponds with the perception of the internal senses, weighted by memory data of and the intentional posture of the consciousness, which varies..." current
- 08:4608:46, 11 September 2017 diff hist +1,144 N Initiative Created page with "(from L. initiare, to begin). Manifestation of the social activity of human beings when they take it upon themselves to make a decision that involves their personal participat..." current
- 08:4608:46, 11 September 2017 diff hist +1,311 N Individualism Created page with "(from L. individuus, individual, indivisible). A moral position that places the highest absolute priority on the personal, private interest over interpersonal, collective, or..." current
- 08:4408:44, 11 September 2017 diff hist +1,495 N Imperialism Created page with "The policies of a State that tends to place foreign populations and states under its political, economic, or military control. In this sense, political annexation is the clear..." current
- 08:4308:43, 11 September 2017 diff hist +1,732 N Immigration Created page with "(from L. im, into, variant of in, and migrare, to move). Act of arriving in a country in order to take up residence in it. This step is taken for objectives that may be person..." current
- 08:4108:41, 11 September 2017 diff hist +3,065 N Idealism Created page with "Platonism and neo-Platonism are frequently referred to as idealist philosophies, but given that, from the perspective of the theory of universals these philosophers are consid..."
9 September 2017
- 20:5320:53, 9 September 2017 diff hist +1,273 N Humanity Created page with "(from L. humanitas: human genre) Sensitivity, compassion for the misfortunes of our fellow humans; benignancy, gentleness, affability. In a broad sense, h. encompasses all ge..."
- 20:5120:51, 9 September 2017 diff hist +465 N Humanitarianism Created page with "Practical activity aimed at solving specific problems of individuals and human groups. H. does not attempt to modify the structures of power, but frequently contributes to sha..."
- 20:4720:47, 9 September 2017 diff hist +218 N Humanist Created page with "1) In a broad sense, any person who manifests a humanist attitude (*). 2) In a more restricted sense, any person who participates in the activity of the Humanist Movement (*)...."
- 20:4420:44, 9 September 2017 diff hist +983 N Humanist, Related Words Created page with "The word “umanista,” which designated a specific type of scholar, came into use in Italy in 1538. Concerning this point we refer the reader to the observations of Augusto..." current
- 20:4220:42, 9 September 2017 diff hist +23,548 N Humanist Statement or Statement of new Humanism Created page with "Presented at the second Humanist International (*) and the first Humanist Forum (*) on October 7–8, 1993 in Moscow, this statement constitutes the basis of the ideas of New..."
- 20:3720:37, 9 September 2017 diff hist +662 N Humanist movement Created page with "Refers to the people who participate in the proposals of New Humanism (*). These proposals are outlined in broad terms in the Statement of the H.M. (*Humanist Statement). The..."
- 20:3420:34, 9 September 2017 diff hist +3,569 N Humanist moment Created page with "Historical situation in which a younger generation struggles against the generation in power in order to modify the dominant anti-humanist framework. Such a period is often id..."
- 20:3220:32, 9 September 2017 diff hist +488 N Humanist manifesto II Created page with "Published in 1974 and signed by numerous authors and others, among them B.F. Skinner, Jacques Monod and Andrei Sakharov. The author, Corliss Lamont, serves as nexus between Ma..." current
- 20:3120:31, 9 September 2017 diff hist +306 N Humanist manifesto I Created page with "Published in 1933 and signed by thirty-four well-known authors, among them John Dewey. Written with a strong naturalist tone. In this as in the later Humanist Manifesto II, th..." current
- 20:3020:30, 9 September 2017 diff hist +651 N Humanist international Created page with "Convergence of various national humanist parties into an organization without authority concerning the tactics of each individual member. The First H.I. was held in Florence,..."
- 20:2920:29, 9 September 2017 diff hist +736 N Humanist forum Created page with "Open forum of N.H. in which organizations and individuals participate to exchange contributions and experiences based on their interests, generally formalized in the following..."
- 20:2720:27, 9 September 2017 diff hist +877 N Humanist attitude Created page with "The h.a. existed long before words such as “humanism,” “humanist,” and others like them had been coined. The following positions are common to humanists of all culture..."
8 September 2017
- 12:5912:59, 8 September 2017 diff hist +430 N Humanist clubs Created page with "Informal, decentralized, nonpartisan organizations that promote both development of and open discourse regarding the proposals of N.H. in specific fields corresponding to the..."
- 12:5712:57, 8 September 2017 diff hist +380 N Humanism Created page with "1) Practice and/or theory of New Humanism (*). 2) Every position that supports the values defined by the humanist attitude (*). 3) Any activity that is in practice committed t..."
- 12:5512:55, 8 September 2017 diff hist +303 N Human landscape Created page with "Configuration of human reality based on the perception of the-other, of society and of objects produced with intentional meaning. The h.l. is not simple object perception, but..." current
- 12:5212:52, 8 September 2017 diff hist +965 N Historiology Created page with "Science of historical interpretation. H. establishes the prior conditions within which all interpretation of the temporal event takes place. It therefore deals with a prior co..."
- 12:5012:50, 8 September 2017 diff hist +869 N Historical moment Created page with "Every social situation finds itself in a determined h.m. wherein diverse generations coexist. An h.m. is differentiated from another when a rupturist generation disputes the p..."
- 12:4812:48, 8 September 2017 diff hist +2,302 N Historical Humanism condition of Created page with "HISTORICAL HUMANISM, conditions of From the temporal and physical points of view, the medieval pre-humanist European world was a closed environment which tended to deny the im..."
- 12:4712:47, 8 September 2017 diff hist +1,862 N Historical Humanism developing of Created page with "HISTORICAL HUMANISM, development of Only one hundred years after Petrarch (1304-1374), knowledge of the classics was ten times greater than it had been during the entire previ..."
- 12:4412:44, 8 September 2017 diff hist +1,325 N Historical Humanism Created page with "In the Western academic world it is customary to label as “humanism” the process of cultural transformation that, beginning in Italy, especially Florence, between the end..." current
- 12:4212:42, 8 September 2017 diff hist +341 N Hierarchy Created page with "(LL. hierarchia; Gr. hierarchia). Order or rank of persons or things; each of the nuclei or groupings that make up any ranking system. In information science, h. is understood..." current
- 12:4012:40, 8 September 2017 diff hist +1,592 N Grassroots social organizzations Created page with "Organizations that arise through the initiative of residents and neighbors of communities, ghettos and poor neighborhoods of larger cities, towns, other residential areas and..." current
- 12:3012:30, 8 September 2017 diff hist +895 N Golden rule Created page with "A moral principle found among a wide diversity of peoples, which expresses the humanist attitude (*). Following are examples of the various ways it has been expressed. Rabbi H..."
- 12:2912:29, 8 September 2017 diff hist +1,523 N Global problem Created page with "(*planetarization) Refers to the complex of problems currently affecting all inhabitants of the Earth. Of interest to all peoples, and their solution demands coordinated acti..."
- 12:2812:28, 8 September 2017 diff hist +2,710 N Generations Created page with "As social production develops, the human horizon expands, but the mere existence of social objects does not guarantee the continuity of this process. For N.H., continuity is a..."
- 12:2612:26, 8 September 2017 diff hist +804 N Gandhism Created page with "Doctrine and social movement whose founder and leader was the Indian thinker and political figure Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, better known as Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948). In..." current
- 12:2512:25, 8 September 2017 diff hist +974 N Game Created page with "(From OE. gamenian, to play) Recreational activity without utilitarian purpose that gives human beings physiological satisfaction from childhood on and that develops skills by..." current
- 12:2312:23, 8 September 2017 diff hist +1,540 N Fraternity Created page with "From Gr. phratria, and from it LL. fraternitas, a brotherhood). Term for the brotherly love that unites all members of the human family. Such love is the tendency of human bei..."
- 12:2212:22, 8 September 2017 diff hist +4,251 N Feudalism Created page with "(From LL. feudum, fief). Based on the territorial grant a vassal received from a lord in exchange for military service. The origin of this institution in the Roman Empire, in..." current
- 12:2112:21, 8 September 2017 diff hist +66 N Feminism Created page with " (*Women’s issues”) category: Dictionary of New Humanism" current
- 12:2012:20, 8 September 2017 diff hist +3,276 N Fascism Created page with "Nationalistic, authoritarian, anti-communist political concept, the enemy of liberal democracy. Takes its name from the Roman allegory of state authority: a bundle of rods bou..."
- 12:1812:18, 8 September 2017 diff hist +2,348 N Family Created page with "(From L. familiam, immediate kinship; household and servants). Group of individuals who share some common domestic or nuclear condition. In botany and zoology the term f. desi..." current
- 12:1612:16, 8 September 2017 diff hist +959 N Faith Created page with "(From L. fides, faith). A belief (*) that is not based on rational argument. Acceptance of or agreement with words or statements based on the authority or reputation of their..."
7 September 2017
- 20:5420:54, 7 September 2017 diff hist +615 N External landescape Created page with "Configuration of reality corresponding to the perception of the external senses as filtered through the contents of the consciousness. Because the consciousness is an active s..." current
- 20:4920:49, 7 September 2017 diff hist +12,781 N Existensialist Humanism Created page with "A form of philosophical humanism (*). Immediately after the Second World War, the French cultural panorama was dominated by the figure of Sartre and existentialism (*), the cu..."
- 20:3620:36, 7 September 2017 diff hist +4,251 N Existensialism Created page with "(From LL. existentia). One of the most influential philosophical and cultural systems; a particular current of humanist thought that has as its objective the analysis and desc..." current
- 20:3320:33, 7 September 2017 diff hist +1,531 N Evolution Created page with "(From L. evolutionem: action and effect of evolving). The gradual and natural self-development of systems – social and organic – excluding abrupt or sudden transformations..."
- 20:3120:31, 7 September 2017 diff hist +1,848 N Equality Created page with "(From L. aequalitatem) Principle that recognizes in all citizens the capacity or possibility for the same rights. Human beings cannot be equal, because each one is a distinct..."
- 20:2620:26, 7 September 2017 diff hist +889 N Environmntalism Created page with "Extension and generalization of ecological concepts, transferring them into the realm of social reality. Emerging in the 1960s from movements advocating the protection of natu..."
- 20:2420:24, 7 September 2017 diff hist +121 N Environment Created page with "Term generally used to designate an integrated structure (*) of living systems. category: Dictionary of New Humanism"
- 20:2020:20, 7 September 2017 diff hist +2,437 N Enlightenment, The Created page with "(From L. lumen, light). Illumination of the understanding with the light of the intellect. In world history, this name, the Age of E. or Century of Light was given to the eigh..." current
- 20:1620:16, 7 September 2017 diff hist +219 N Epirical Humanism Created page with "Any humanism that is put into practice without historical or philosophical premises. E.H. is the clearest, most commonplace example of the exercise of the humanist attitude (*..."
- 20:1520:15, 7 September 2017 diff hist +217 N Epirical humanism Created page with "Any humanism that is put into practice without historical or philosophical premises. E.H. is the clearest, most commonplace example of the exercise of the humanist attitude (*..." current
- 20:1320:13, 7 September 2017 diff hist +1,006 N Emancipation Created page with "(From L. emancipare,, to deliver from guardianship or slavery). Process and goal of liberation from a condition of subjugation. Recovery of liberty, sovereignty, autonomy and..." current
- 20:0920:09, 7 September 2017 diff hist +541 N Elite Created page with "The most select, distinguished layer of informal leaders that stand out in each social group or corporation, and that develops and transmits ethical, aesthetic values, etc., a..." current
- 20:0020:00, 7 September 2017 diff hist +2,910 N Electoral system Created page with "(From Gr. syn, with, together, and histanai, to set). One of the components of the official and legitimate mechanism for the realization of democracy, for the participation of..." current
- 19:5419:54, 7 September 2017 diff hist +1,150 N Election Created page with "1. Process of electing; appointment to a position or office through a process of voting; essential democratic process for establishing an institution, filling a public office,..."
- 19:5219:52, 7 September 2017 diff hist +4,606 N Education Created page with "(L. educatio, the act of developing the physical, intellectual and moral faculties). System for transmitting and extending knowledge, skills and norms of conduct and social co..." current
- 19:4719:47, 7 September 2017 diff hist +2,003 N Economy Created page with "(Gr. oikonomia, management of a household). System of relations of production, distribution and services, and of the related enterprises ranging from family businesses to mult..."
- 19:4419:44, 7 September 2017 diff hist +3,234 N Ecology Created page with "We are indebted to Lamarck and Treviranus for the basis and name of the new science that after 1802 came to be called Biology. What was formerly referred to as Natural History..."
6 September 2017
- 20:2220:22, 6 September 2017 diff hist +1,110 N Dogmatism Created page with "(From dogma: L. dogma, the basic tenet of a doctrine). Mode of thinking that accepts certain opinions, doctrines and norms as unconditional postulates or principles, valid und..."
- 20:2020:20, 6 September 2017 diff hist +978 N Discrimination Created page with "(L. discriminare, to separate, differentiate). Designates a form of treating persons, organizations and states as inferior due to factors such as race, ethnicity, gender, age,..." current
- 20:1820:18, 6 September 2017 diff hist +499 N Diplomacy Created page with "(Gk. diploma, document). The science and art of inter-state relations; diplomatic corps and career; system of state institutions charged with undertaking negotiations with oth..." current
- 20:1720:17, 6 September 2017 diff hist +875 N Dignity Created page with "(L. dignitatem, moral excellence). 1) Moral value, recognition of the value of every human being as a personality for itself and for the society to which it belongs; 2) Honora..." current
- 20:1420:14, 6 September 2017 diff hist +1,378 N Dictatorship Created page with "(From L. dictaturam, temporary power of the dictator, named by the Roman Senate). Absolute power; a regime that is the product of armed violence and that practices terror, arb..." current
- 20:1220:12, 6 September 2017 diff hist +2,153 N Developing Countries Created page with "Group of countries where traditional societies predominate, or that are making the transition from preindustrial to industrial and postindustrial economies. Most of these coun..." current
- 20:0920:09, 6 September 2017 diff hist +1,711 N Developed Countries Created page with "Those countries of America, Asia, Oceania, and Europe notable for their high per capita gross national product, average life expectancy, low infant mortality, high average lev..." current
- 20:0720:07, 6 September 2017 diff hist +2,095 N Dehumanization Created page with "Process resulting in a reduction of human freedom. D. in interpersonal relations is characterized by the denial of the free subjectivity of others, as a consequence reducing t..."
- 19:5519:55, 6 September 2017 diff hist 0 Destructuring No edit summary
- 19:5019:50, 6 September 2017 diff hist +321 N Destructuring Created page with "Fragmentation or disintegration of a structure (*), in which the tendency of the process that gave it origin is discontinued. In a closed system, the disarticulation of both a..."
- 19:4819:48, 6 September 2017 diff hist +1,612 N Despotism Created page with "(From despot: Gr. despotes, a master, lord). Absolute and arbitrary authority. A social and political regime that emerged in the ancient Orient and later in pre-Columbian Amer..." current
- 19:4619:46, 6 September 2017 diff hist +1,882 N Dependency Created page with "(From depending, L. dependere, to be subordinated to a person or thing). Subjugation, subordination. A system of power relationships imposed by one entity on another (a strong..." current
- 19:4519:45, 6 September 2017 diff hist +1,354 N Demonstration effect Created page with "Used in N.H. to indicate a social event capable of acting as an example or model in places both near by and far removed. In the latter case, ever more rapid and numerous means..."
- 19:4219:42, 6 September 2017 diff hist +5,444 N Democracy Created page with "(Gr. demokratia, from demos, the people, and kratein, to rule). Political doctrine that is favorable to the intervention of the people in the government. A model of the State..." current
- 19:3919:39, 6 September 2017 diff hist +278 N Demagoguery Created page with "(From Gr. demagogós; dêmos, people, and ago, to lead). Method of agitation of the citizenry, using false promises, distorting facts to reach sinister ends. Obviously, N.H. c..." current
5 September 2017
- 20:3520:35, 5 September 2017 diff hist +1,731 N Critique Criticism Created page with "(From Gr. kritike discern, judge). Method of analysis and evaluation of reality, of social and individual activity, that makes it possible to establish correspondence or divor..." current
- 20:3320:33, 5 September 2017 diff hist +1,785 N Cosmopolitanism Created page with "(From Gr. kosmos, world, and polites, a citizen). Ideological current that regards the human being as a citizen of the world. C. emerged during the French Revolution of 1789,..."
- 20:3120:31, 5 September 2017 diff hist +1,008 N Corporativism Created page with "Ideological current that regards the corporation (an association of persons belonging to a profession, or form of activity) as the basis of society, and the corporate regime a..." current
- 20:2620:26, 5 September 2017 diff hist +2,238 N Cooperation Created page with "(From L. co, with and operacio, action). 1) Relationships formed in the process of joint activity, which stimulates and multiplies the results of common actions. C. presuppose..." current
- 20:2420:24, 5 September 2017 diff hist +1,831 N Consumerism Created page with "(From consume: L. consumere, to use up, destroy). The spending of things that are destroyed with use. We often hear the expression “consumer society,” indicating the pheno..."
- 20:2320:23, 5 September 2017 diff hist +1,926 N Conservative Created page with "(From conserve: L. conservator, to keep, or preserve an object, state or situation). Political doctrine that favors maintaining and continuing the existing regime, fetishistic..." current
- 20:2120:21, 5 September 2017 diff hist +1,960 N Consensus Created page with "(From consent: L. consentio, to be in agreement). Unanimous acceptance by all those who make up a corporation or group. A contract formed by agreement of all parties. This coi..." current
- 20:2020:20, 5 September 2017 diff hist +766 N Conformity Created page with "(From conform: L. conformo). 1) Characteristic feature in social behavior of uncritical or blind acceptance of the existing order and the dominant ideology, values, and norms...."
- 20:1820:18, 5 September 2017 diff hist +13,285 N Company-society Created page with "In “Company and Society: Foundations of a Humanist Economy” (“Empresa y Sociedad: Bases de una Economía Humanista”), and in diverse articles and seminars, José L. Mo..."
- 20:1620:16, 5 September 2017 diff hist +1,681 N Community For Human Development Created page with "A N.H. social and cultural organization founded by Silo (*Siloism), emerging in Argentina and Chile during the period of military dictatorships. Initial organization began in..."
- 20:1020:10, 5 September 2017 diff hist +663 N Communism Created page with "Social system in which property is the common possession of all the people in accordance with the principle: “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his..."
- 20:0920:09, 5 September 2017 diff hist +751 N Colonialism Created page with "(From colony: L. coloniam). A doctrine, that tends to legitimize the political and economic domination of a territory or nation, by the government of a foreign state. This is..." current
- 20:0820:08, 5 September 2017 diff hist +2,664 N Collectivism Created page with "(From collective: L. collectivum). Pertaining to any association or group of individuals. A doctrine, social system, and political movement, whose ideals are the holding of go..." current
- 20:0720:07, 5 September 2017 diff hist +1,613 N Cold war Created page with "Military and ideological confrontation between the USSR along with its satellites on one side, and the Western bloc led by the United States, on the other. The c.w. lasted fro..." current
- 20:0520:05, 5 September 2017 diff hist +1,375 N Coalition Created page with "1) Political or military alliance of two or more states against a common enemy (e.g., the Triple Entente of the First World War; the anti-Hitler alliance or c. of the Second W..." current
- 20:0320:03, 5 September 2017 diff hist +1,912 N Class Created page with "More or less large groups of people distinguished among themselves by their relationship to the means of production: (some possess it: bourgeoisie, landowners, bankers, etc.;..." current
- 20:0220:02, 5 September 2017 diff hist +1,395 N Civil war Created page with "(German werra: quarrel). Armed struggle between factions or groups within the same country that breaks out in crisis as the result of irreconcilable conflicts: political, soci..." current
- 20:0120:01, 5 September 2017 diff hist +9,246 N Christian humanism Created page with "A form of philosophical humanism (*). The following exposition of C.H. is excerpted from the section “Christian Humanism” in the book On Being Human: Interpretations of Hu..."
- 19:5619:56, 5 September 2017 diff hist +1,607 N Christian democracy Created page with "Ideological and political movement of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It arose at the seat of Catholicism, stemming from Pope Leo XIII’s famous 1891 encyclical..." current
- 19:5419:54, 5 September 2017 diff hist +855 N Choice Created page with "(OFr ‘choix.’, meaning ‘choice’) [Option: L. optionem: liberty or faculty to choose]. 1) Related to the human capacity to make free decisions with knowledge of the cir..." current
- 19:5019:50, 5 September 2017 diff hist +858 N Chauvinism Created page with "A radical, extremist form of nationalism, characteristic of powers seeking to justify before public opinion wars of occupation, conquest, plunder, as well as “ethnic cleansi..." current
- 19:4819:48, 5 September 2017 diff hist +794 N Charity Created page with "(L. caritas). For some philosophical and religious currents c. is synonymous with “compassion”. Distinguished from tolerance (*). A moral quality involving the practice of..."
- 19:3719:37, 5 September 2017 diff hist +757 N Centrism Created page with "A specific political or ideological current, more or less equidistant from the “extremes” or more radicalized positions. As a rule, c. prefers the path of compromise, redu..." current
- 19:3619:36, 5 September 2017 diff hist +682 N Centers of cultures Created page with "Humanist organizations targeted to coordinate actions in defense of ethnic and cultural minorities in a given country. Such organizations work principally with immigrants and..." current
- 19:3519:35, 5 September 2017 diff hist +349 N Centers For Humanist Communication Created page with "Humanist meeting centers in communities and neighborhoods which serve as gathering places for activities of grassroots organizations and various action fronts (*). Before such..."
- 19:3219:32, 5 September 2017 diff hist +749 N Caste Created page with "(L. castus, pure, chaste). Social and religious class in despotic societies of the ancient Orient and pre-Columbian America (priests, warriors, farmers, artisans, etc.). In ge..." current
- 19:3119:31, 5 September 2017 diff hist +1,570 N Capitalism Created page with "Nineteenth and twentieth-century Sociology applies this term to the socioeconomic system whose motivating force is the accumulation of capital. Different schools of sociology..."
- 19:2919:29, 5 September 2017 diff hist +2,440 N Bureaucracy Created page with "(French; bureaucratie). The level of professional functionaries who serve the State and, in consequence, are direct participants in the administration of society. In principle..." current
- 19:2619:26, 5 September 2017 diff hist +1,998 N Bourgeoisie Created page with "(French; OFr. Burgeis). The dominant class in capitalist society, having ownership (*property, worker ownership) of the primary means of production in industry, the economy, t..."
4 September 2017
- 22:1222:12, 4 September 2017 diff hist +1,983 N Belief Created page with "A structure of pre-predicative ideation upon which other apparently “rational” structures are erected. B. determines the field or perspective chosen, from which an idea or..."
- 22:0822:08, 4 September 2017 diff hist +715 N Authoritariarism Created page with "(From authority: L. auctoritatem: power, force, order, dignity). 1) Irrational faith in and obedience to the person, institution, or social group that is considered the source..." current
- 22:0222:02, 4 September 2017 diff hist −8 Atheism No edit summary current
- 22:0222:02, 4 September 2017 diff hist +1,641 N Atheism Created page with "ATHEISM (from Gr.; a without; and theos, god). Literally, negation of divinity. Hence, rejection of religion and negation of any kind of supernatural or unknown powers. Genera..."
- 21:1821:18, 4 September 2017 diff hist +15 Anti-humanist attitude No edit summary
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- 21:1321:13, 4 September 2017 diff hist +2,073 N Army Created page with "ARMY (ME. armye, armeye; OFr. armee; It. armata; L. armata, army, fleet; f. of armatus, pp. of armare, to arm; arma, arms. The body of military forces of a state, especially t..."
- 21:0321:03, 4 September 2017 diff hist +1,800 N Anti-war movement Created page with "Movement against wars in general and any specific war, whether present or future. In antiquity, universal religions and ethical systems began to condemn warfare as an institut..." current
- 21:0021:00, 4 September 2017 diff hist +522 N Anti-humanist attitude Created page with "This is not a doctrinal position but a behavior that is in practice the inverted image of the humanist attitude (*). It does not refer to particular situations or to the commi..."
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