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50 relations: American Academy of Neurology, American Academy of Political and Social Science, Ancient Greek philosophy, Antipositivism, Asceticism, Attitude (psychology), Bestseller, Betrayal, Criticism, Critique of Cynical Reason, Cynicism (philosophy), Dementia, Depression (mood), Distrust, Doubt, Economic materialism, Encarta, Ethics, Faith, George Bernard Shaw, Greed, Hope, Human, Human nature, Ideal (ethics), Management, Mass society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Melancholia, Misanthropy, Moral realism, Naivety, Neurology (journal), Nihilism, Opposite (semantics), Pessimism, Peter Sloterdijk, Philip H. Mirvis, Pierre Bourdieu, Pragmatism, Rational choice theory, Religion, Resentment, Science Daily, Skepticism, Society, The Sublime Object of Ideology, Virtue, Weltschmerz, William Bennett.
American Academy of Neurology
The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) is a professional society representing over 34,000 neurologists and neuroscientists.
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American Academy of Political and Social Science
The American Academy of Political and Social Science was founded in 1889 to promote progress in the social sciences.
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Ancient Greek philosophy
Ancient Greek philosophy arose in the 6th century BC and continued throughout the Hellenistic period and the period in which Ancient Greece was part of the Roman Empire.
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Antipositivism
In social science, antipositivism (also interpretivism and negativism) proposes that the social realm cannot be studied with the scientific method of investigation applied to the natural world; investigation of the social realm requires a different epistemology.
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Asceticism
Asceticism (from the ἄσκησις áskesis, "exercise, training") is a lifestyle characterized by abstinence from sensual pleasures, often for the purpose of pursuing spiritual goals.
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Attitude (psychology)
In psychology, attitude is a psychological construct, a mental and emotional entity that inheres in, or characterizes a person.
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Bestseller
A bestseller is, usually, a book that is included on a list of top-selling or frequently-borrowed titles, normally based on publishing industry and book trade figures and library circulation statistics; such lists may be published by newspapers, magazines, or book store chains.
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Betrayal
Betrayal is the breaking or violation of a presumptive contract, trust, or confidence that produces moral and psychological conflict within a relationship amongst individuals, between organizations or between individuals and organizations.
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Criticism
Criticism is the practice of judging the merits and faults of something.
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Critique of Cynical Reason
Critique of Cynical Reason is a book by the German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk, published in 1983 in two volumes under the German title Kritik der zynischen Vernunft.
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Cynicism (philosophy)
Cynicism (κυνισμός) is a school of thought of ancient Greek philosophy as practiced by the Cynics (Κυνικοί, Cynici).
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Dementia
Dementia is a broad category of brain diseases that cause a long-term and often gradual decrease in the ability to think and remember that is great enough to affect a person's daily functioning.
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Depression (mood)
Depression is a state of low mood and aversion to activity that can affect a person's thoughts, behavior, tendencies, feelings, and sense of well-being.
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Distrust
Distrust is a formal way of not trusting any one party too much in a situation of grave risk or deep doubt.
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Doubt
Doubt is a mental state in which the mind remains suspended between two or more contradictory propositions, unable to assent to any of them.
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Economic materialism
Materialism is a personal attitude which attaches importance to acquiring and consuming material goods.
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Encarta
Microsoft Encarta was a digital multimedia encyclopedia published by Microsoft Corporation from 1993 to 2009.
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Ethics
Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong conduct.
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Faith
In the context of religion, one can define faith as confidence or trust in a particular system of religious belief, within which faith may equate to confidence based on some perceived degree of warrant, in contrast to the general sense of faith being a belief without evidence.
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George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and political activist.
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Greed
Greed, or avarice, is an inordinate or insatiable longing for unneeded excess, especially for excess wealth, status, power, or food.
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Hope
Hope is an optimistic state of mind that is based on an expectation of positive outcomes with respect to events and circumstances in one's life or the world at large.
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Human
Humans (taxonomically Homo sapiens) are the only extant members of the subtribe Hominina.
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Human nature
Human nature is a bundle of fundamental characteristics—including ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—which humans tend to have naturally.
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Ideal (ethics)
An ideal is a principle or value that one actively pursues as a goal, usually in the context of ethics, and one's prioritization of ideals can serve to indicate the extent of one's dedication to each.
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Management
Management (or managing) is the administration of an organization, whether it is a business, a not-for-profit organization, or government body.
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Mass society
Mass society is any society of the modern era that possesses a mass culture and large-scale, impersonal, social institutions.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
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Melancholia
Melancholia (from µέλαινα χολή),Burton, Bk.
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Misanthropy
Misanthropy is the general hatred, dislike, distrust or contempt of the human species or human nature.
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Moral realism
Moral realism (also ethical realism or moral Platonism) is the position that ethical sentences express propositions that refer to objective features of the world (that is, features independent of subjective opinion), some of which may be true to the extent that they report those features accurately.
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Naivety
Naivety (or naïvety or naïveté) is the state of being naïve, that is to say, having or showing a lack of experience, understanding or sophistication, often in a context where one neglects pragmatism in favor of moral idealism.
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Neurology (journal)
Neurology is a peer-reviewed medical journal published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins on behalf of the American Academy of Neurology, of which it is the official journal.
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Nihilism
Nihilism is the philosophical viewpoint that suggests the denial or lack of belief towards the reputedly meaningful aspects of life.
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Opposite (semantics)
In lexical semantics, opposites are words lying in an inherently incompatible binary relationship, like the opposite pairs big: small, long: short, and precede: follow.
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Pessimism
Pessimism is a mental attitude.
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Peter Sloterdijk
Peter Sloterdijk (born 26 June 1947) is a German philosopher and cultural theorist.
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Philip H. Mirvis
Philip H. Mirvis (born 1951) is an organizational psychologist and faculty member at Boston College, in the Center for Corporate Citizenship.
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Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Felix Bourdieu (1 August 1930 – 23 January 2002) was a French sociologist, anthropologist, philosopher, and public intellectual.
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Pragmatism
Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition that began in the United States around 1870.
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Rational choice theory
Rational choice theory, also known as choice theory or rational action theory, is a framework for understanding and often formally modeling social and economic behavior.
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Religion
Religion may be defined as a cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, world views, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, or spiritual elements.
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Resentment
Resentment (also called ranklement or bitterness) is a mixture of disappointment, anger and fear.
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Science Daily
Science Daily is an American website that aggregates press releases and publishes lightly edited press releases (a practice called churnalism) about science, similar to Phys.org and EurekAlert!.
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Skepticism
Skepticism (American English) or scepticism (British English, Australian English) is generally any questioning attitude or doubt towards one or more items of putative knowledge or belief.
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Society
A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same geographical or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations.
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The Sublime Object of Ideology
The Sublime Object of Ideology is a 1989 book by Slovenian philosopher and cultural theorist Slavoj Žižek.
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Virtue
Virtue (virtus, ἀρετή "arete") is moral excellence.
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Weltschmerz
Weltschmerz (from the German, literally world-pain, also world weariness) is a term coined in the 1830s by the German author Jean Paul and denotes the kind of feeling experienced by someone who believes that physical reality can never satisfy the demands of the mind.
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William Bennett
William John Bennett (born July 31, 1943) is an American conservative pundit, politician, and political theorist, who served as Secretary of Education from 1985 to 1988 under President Ronald Reagan.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynicism_(contemporary)
