Born in Breslau in the Prussian Silesia as the grandson of Daniel Schleiermacher, a pastor at one time associated with the Zionites, and the son of a Reformed Church chaplain in the Prussian army, Sch ...
Wayne Proudfoot is an American scholar of religion and has written several works in that field, specializing in the philosophy of religion.Proudfoot was born 1939 and gained the degree of Master of Th ...
Moderation or abstinence See also: Alcoholism: ManagementStanton Peele argued that some AA groups apply the disease model to all problem drinkers, whether or not they are "full-blown" alcoholics. Alon ...
Main article: History of Alcoholics AnonymousAA sprang from The Oxford Group, a non-denominational movement modeled after first-century Christianity. Some members found the Group to help in maintainin ...
Self-help and mutual-help are very different from — though they may complement — service delivery by professionals: note for example the interface between local self-help and International Aid's ser ...
It has often been claimed that Wilhelm Wundt, the father of modern psychology, was the first to adopt introspection to experimental psychology though the methodological idea had been presented long be ...
The English meditation is derived from the Latin meditatio, from a verb meditari, meaning "to think, contemplate, devise, ponder".In the Old Testament, hāg? (Hebrew: ???) means to sigh or murmur, ...
Happiness forms a central theme of Buddhist teachings. For ultimate freedom from suffering, the Noble Eightfold Path leads its practitioner to Nirvana, a state of everlasting peace. Ultimate happiness ...
Inner peace (or peace of mind) refers to a state of being mentally and spiritually at peace, with enough knowledge and understanding to keep oneself strong in the face of discord or stress. Being "at ...
Emotional well-being is a term that has seen increasing use in recent decades. The implications of decreased emotional well-being are related to mental health concerns such as stress, depression, and ...
Three theoretical perspectives of compassion have been proposed, which are contrasted by their predictions and approaches of compassion.Compassion as a synonym of empathic distress, which is character ...
The word "character" is derived from the Ancient Greek word "charaktêr", referring to a mark impressed upon a coin. Later it came to mean a point by which one thing was told apart from others. There ...
Humanism increasingly designates an inclusive sensibility for our species, planet, and lives. While retaining the definition of the IHEU with regard to the life stance of the individual, inclusive Hum ...
Secular humanism is a comprehensive life stance or world view which embraces human reason, metaphysical naturalism, altruistic morality and distributive justice, and consciously rejects supernatural c ...
The word "Humanism" is ultimately derived from the Latin concept humanitas, and, like most other words ending in -ism, entered English in the nineteenth century. However, historians agree that the con ...
