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7 September 2017

• 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..."