QuoteMirepoix (pronunciation: meer-PWAH) is the aromatic flavor base made by lightly cooking onions, celery, and carrots. The vegetables are cooked slowly in butter or oil in order to coax out the flavors without browning or caramelizing them.

Quoteegalitarianism, the belief in human equality, especially political, social, and economic equality. Egalitarianism has been a driving principle of many modern social movements, including the Enlightenment, feminism, civil rights efforts, and the establishment of international human rights.

Egalitarianism is often contrasted with hierarchy, the classification of people according to ability, economic power, social status, or other factors.

Egalitarian ideals were also a significant feature of the Enlightenment movement, which emphasized the common humanity of all members of society. Both these schools of thought have focused on one of the most fundamental propositions of egalitarianism, which is that all people are of equal moral worth. Many egalitarian movements go beyond this basic proposition, though. The modern-day notion of human rights, for example, supposes not only that all humans are of equal moral value but also that they have certain universal rights that can be equally claimed by all humans.

The American Declaration of Independence—largely written by Thomas Jefferson, who owned hundreds of enslaved humans as his property—famously stated, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness." Similarly, from the French Revolution came the phrase liberté, égalité, fraternité ("liberty, equality, fraternity"), emphasizing the revolutionaries' insistence on a society in which all members are free and equal, without royalty or aristocracy.

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QuoteThe egalitarian ideal of liberty and equality before the law is a core notion of liberalism, a school of political thought concerned with individual freedom. However, some egalitarian movements go further, suggesting that equality before the law is insufficient and that policies should be adopted to ensure equality along various measures of prosperity or development.

QuoteThe Greek adjective gnostikos ("leading to knowledge" or "pertaining to knowledge") was first used by Plato to describe the cognitive or intellectual dimension of learning, as opposed to the practical.

Whereas some researchers argue that the term gnostic should be restricted to the sects or schools that called themselves by that name, others extend the category to include additional religious movements that allegedly shared various distinctive features. Still others treat gnosticism as a world religion that existed from antiquity to early modern times—surviving, for example, in the mythology and ritual of the Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran (see below Influence).

Many of the so-called gnostic groups are characterized by a mythology that distinguishes between an inferior creator of the world (a demiurge) and a more transcendent god or order of being. Another frequently encountered theme is that there is a special class or race of humans that is descended from the transcendent realm and is destined to achieve salvation and to return to its spiritual origins. Salvation is understood as a revelation that reawakens knowledge (gnosis) of the race's divine identity; in contrast, the traditional Christian emphasis is on redemption through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

While the transcendent god or invisible spirit is inconceivable and ineffable, the pleroma (Greek: "full perfection") of the divine is a hierarchical family of personified aeons, who emerge as the fruit of the spirit's self-contemplation or self-expression.

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