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  • takes its defining inspiration from the work of Aristotle. Since Aristotle ... During the seventeenth century, modern philosophy began to develop ...
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  • He wrote on numerous topics, including philosophy of history and aesthetics ... Croce offered his “philosophy of spirit” as a humanistic alternative ...
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  • poet, critic and scholar, and a founder of German Romanticism. His study ... der Indier (On the Language and Wisdom of India, 1808) was a pioneering ...
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  • physician and philosopher, the earliest of the materialist writers of ... L'Art de jouir, in which the purpose of life was found in the pleasures ...
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  • known for being an outspoken critic of the Aristotelian philosophy ... made to memorize meaningless facts and rules of logic, and set out to reform ...
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  • Shestov was an irrationalist whose philosophy ran counter to the prevailing ... He emigrated to France in 1921, fleeing from the aftermath of the ...
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  • played a significant role in the development of Russian philosophy and poetry ... Solovyov did not think of himself as a philosopher, but as a prophet ...
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  • C.E.) was a Chinese philosopher and follower of Confucianism who argued that ... In the history of Confucianism, he is second only to Confucius in ...
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  • Pietro d'Abano (1257 - 1315) (his date of birth is also given ... Abano Terme. After studying medicine and philosophy at the University of Paris ...
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  • philosopher and the first Jewish fellow of an Oxbridge college (Dictionary ... Space, Time and Deity was one of the last attempts by a British philosopher ...
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  • Confucian moral philosopher and cosmologist of the Song dynasty, who is credited ... and Zhu Xi, who honored Zhang as one of the founders of the Study of ...
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  • February 22, 1901) was an Irish professor of "natural and experimental ... Stoney. Rev. FitzGerald was professor of moral philosophy in Trinity ...
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  • He served as a professor at the University of Chicago as well as Harvard ... World War, following his high school education, he decided to join the ...
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  • modern mathematical logic and analytic philosophy. Although he remained obscure ... Frege began his studies at the University of Jena in 1869, moving to Göttingen ...
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  • in Schlettstadt, which produced a number of prominent scholars, and at ... Strongly influenced by his teacher at the University of Paris, Jacobus ...
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  • publishing the first official observations of the transit of Mercury in 1631. Like many intellectuals during the first half of the sixteenth century ...
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  • – April 19, 1813) was a Founding Father of the United States. Rush lived ... Rush was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and attended ...
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  • this direction he helped lay the foundations of modern Korea. ... Henry Appenzeller was the second of three sons born to Gideon and ...
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  • Saint Isidore of Seville (Spanish: es|San Isidro or es|San Isidoro ... ) (c. 560 - April 4, 636) was Archbishop of Seville for more than ...
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  • and Northern Zhou (北周) Dynasties of northern China, and their successor ... also with literature, the arts, and problems of life and death. Yan stressed ...
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