The beauty of well-ordered societies, of "wisdom…consisting in the united tendency of thoughts, ideas, and particular volitions to one general purpose," of the natural fitness of actions and circumstances (having made a promise, for example, and keeping it), "of a building, of a flower, or of the rainbow" are examples (True Virtue, 1765; Edwards 1957–, vol. 8, 561 62).
It is important also to identify three other powerful tendencies of thought that influenced all of the social sciences.
Given the variety, Enlightenment philosophy is characterized here in terms of general tendencies of thought, not in terms of specific doctrines or theories.
As creativity researcher Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi notes in his 1996 article for Psychology Today entitled "The Creative Personality," creative people "show tendencies of thought and action that in most people are segregated.
Although Cobb is most often described as a theologian, the overarching tendency of his thought has been toward the integration of many different areas of knowledge, employing Alfred North Whitehead's transdisciplinary philosophical framework as his guiding insight.
He, too, could blur moral distinctions among the things he disliked, between the BBC and the Ministry of Love, for instance; he apparently thought of the Ministry of Love as the logical consequence of the mass media's "tendency" to thought control.
The increasing Catholic, conservative, and anti-Dutch tendencies of his thought were reflected in his Histoire du royaume des Pays-Bas (1839; "History of the Kingdom of the Netherlands") and his "Essai sur le mouvement des partis en Belgique" (1852; "Essay on the Party Movement in Belgium").
In an era in which peers like Foucault and Derrida, students at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, concentrated on "the three H's" (Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger), Deleuze's decision to write on empiricism and Hume was already a provocation, early evidence of the heterodox tendencies of his thought.
Anarchism is a philosophy that embodies many diverse attitudes, tendencies and schools of thought; as such, disagreement over questions of values, ideology and tactics is common.
