He also wrote extensively about almost everything else: history, diplomacy, French literature, German literature (in this case, on the lack of it), religion, philosophy and the practical arts of government (in which he himself excelled).

ECONOMIST: Historical biography

It is commonly cited as one of the most important works of Armenian folklore, functioning as an encyclopaedia and repository of the entire range of knowledge about the heritage of Armenian people, their religion, mythology, philosophy, cosmology, customs and ethics.

UNESCO: Intangible Cultural Heritage

The major principles of the pact are drawn from international law, science, philosophy, religion, recent United Nations summit meetings and an international dialogue on global ethics generated at the conference and elsewhere.

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One of them considers America the culmination of the Enlightenment, cleaving to a rational philosophy that would indeed exclude religion and its icons from the public square.

ECONOMIST: Lexington

The relationship between religion and the state is not an abstruse question of political philosophy.

ECONOMIST: Pakistan

Perhaps the most influential of these is Confucianism not actually a religion, but rather a philosophy of life.

ECONOMIST: Stem cell research

Although classified by the Registrar General for Scotland as a form of religious marriage, humanism is not a religion, but a secular philosophy or belief system.

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