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  • 121Kierkegaard’s speculative despair — Judith Butler Every movement of infinity is carried out through passion, and no reflection can produce a movement. This is the continual leap in existence that explains the movement, whereas mediation is a chimera, which in Hegel is supposed to… …

    History of philosophy

  • 122Existence (Philosophy of) 3 — Philosophy of existence 3 Merleau Ponty Bernard Cullen à Henri Godin LIFE AND WORKS Maurice Merleau Ponty was born on 14 March 1908 into a petty bourgeois Catholic family in Rochefort sur Mer on the west coast of France. When he died suddenly, at …

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  • 123principle — Synonyms and related words: Procrustean law, a belief, a priori truth, activity, ambition, antecedents, article of faith, aspiration, at bottom, attitude, axiom, base, basement, basically, basis, bearing wall, bed, bedding, bedrock, belief,… …

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  • 124law — 1 Law, rule, regulation, precept, statute, ordinance, canon all designate a principle laid down or accepted as governing conduct, action, or procedure. Law, rule, and precept are also used as collective nouns to denote a body of laws, rules, or… …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 125free election — An election at which the voter is left in the untrammeled exercise, whether by civil or military authority, of his right or privilege,–that is, where no impediment or restraint of any character is imposed upon him either directly or indirectly… …

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  • 126dic|tate — «verb. DIHK tayt, dihk TAYT; noun. DIHK tayt», verb, tat|ed, tat|ing, noun. –v.t. 1. to say or read (something) aloud for another person or persons to write down: »The teacher dictated a spelling list. A businessman often dictates letters to his… …

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  • 127CANADA — CANADA, country in northern half of North America and a member of the British Commonwealth. At the beginning of the 21st century, its population of approximately 370,000 Jews made it the world s fourth largest Jewish community after the United… …

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  • 128KAPLAN, MORDECAI MENAHEM — (1881–1983), rabbi, philosopher, educator, activist, and founder of the reconstructionist school of thought. Kaplan was born in Svencian, Lithuania. His father, Israel Kaplan, was a talmudic scholar who immigrated to the United States in 1888,… …

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