Yet he and many fellow-travellers adhere to a school of thought, influenced by Saudi Wahhabism among other currents, which holds the rival sect to be an elemental threat to Islam as a whole.Before their overthrow, Mr bin Laden's protectors in Afghanistan, the Taliban, mounted merciless pogroms against that country's Shia minority, the Hazara, on purely doctrinal grounds.
Wilson, whose thoughts were influenced by his studies of the smooth functioning of social insect societies with their rigid divisions of roles nurse ants, worker ants, and soldier ants asserted in a 1995 paper (Wilson 1995) that "a schedule of sex-and age-dependent ethics can impart a higher genetic fitness than a single moral code which is applied uniformly to all sex-age groups".
It is unclear to what extent suicidal thoughts are influenced by behavioral symptoms, as they signify sufferers' desires to avoid the later stages of the disease.
The stimulation of our senses is done by thought and influenced by our environment.
He admitted that sensation and imagination could be understood only if referred to the mind body complex but contended that acts of the pure intellect and of will (here his thought was influenced by that of St. Augustine, the great 5th-century Christian thinker) belonged to the mind as it was in itself.
Nishida's investigations inspired current interpretations of Mahayana Buddhism, just as his thought was influenced by Buddhist ideas.
It is undeniable that Leibniz read from an extraordinary range of sources and that his thought was influenced by a number of these texts.
Being raised in an East-European Jewish surrounding, Maimon's thought was influenced by the major intellectual movements of this arena.
We're constantly mutating as we grow, develop, age and decay, and what we tend to think of as "myself" is actually an ever-changing heap of body parts, thoughts and feelings, influenced by a vast range of past and present causes and conditions (family and cultural history, environment, schooling, biology and so on).
In the real world, our thoughts are more influenced by empathy and emotion.
Researchers report that a man with a severe brain injury can, by controlling his thoughts, influence scans of his brain activity and thereby answer simple questions.
