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- regnant of Sweden from 1632 to 1654. She was the only surviving legitimate ... and his wife Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg. As the heiress presumptive ...33 KB (5,367 words) - 21:12, 10 December 2023
- The 1755 Lisbon earthquake, also known as the Great Lisbon Earthquake ... The event was widely discussed by European Enlightenment philosophers ...16 KB (2,455 words) - 04:24, 29 October 2022
- phenomenological method for articulating the relation between the notion ... Oxford. From 1917 to 1919 he served in the Royal Air Force, and it may ...10 KB (1,458 words) - 22:05, 21 June 2024
- whose famous 1651 book Leviathan set the agenda for much of subsequent ... Hobbes was one of the first political philosophers who tried to explain ...29 KB (4,445 words) - 21:18, 30 April 2023
- influenced by Kierkegaard, Sartre, and the phenomenology of Husserl and ... Beauvoir is best known for her 1949 treatise Le Deuxième Sexe (The ...19 KB (2,875 words) - 22:12, 29 January 2023
- He converted to Catholicism and is the author of more than 60 books ... Maritain's early upbringing and education at the Sorbonne led ...18 KB (2,703 words) - 08:31, 18 March 2024
- of philosophical positions that emphasize the role of experience. The category ... philosophical positions that emphasize the role of innate ideas, or a ...34 KB (4,921 words) - 18:30, 13 February 2024
- A submarine communications cable is a cable laid beneath the sea to ... introduced their working telegraph in 1839, the idea of a submarine line across ...19 KB (2,734 words) - 21:23, 26 February 2023
- voices of a secular text, often in Italian. The madrigal has its origins in ... Its rise started with the Primo libro di Madrigali of Philippe Verdelot ...9 KB (1,342 words) - 04:56, 5 November 2022
- independent word of "existence." The word "existence," ... Modern existentialism maintained the distinction between essence and ...25 KB (3,698 words) - 10:29, 26 September 2023
- and humanist who greatly influenced the cultural and literary renaissance ... resigning his post as professor at the University of Madrid in protest ...25 KB (3,932 words) - 01:34, 8 September 2022
- 25, 1683 - September 12, 1764) was one of the most important French composer ... His theories regarding the relationship between functional harmony ...9 KB (1,322 words) - 17:12, 2 April 2024
- was marked by a series of difficulties with the Catholic French government ... Bayle attached footnotes to a number of the articles in which he presented ...10 KB (1,589 words) - 05:18, 24 November 2022
- context, is a theory that asserts that the nature of complex things is ... In the early twentieth century, for example, key logical positivists ...13 KB (1,960 words) - 02:59, 8 December 2022
- Sextus Empiricus (lived during the second or possibly the third century ... In his medical work, tradition maintains that Sextus belonged to the ...11 KB (1,515 words) - 10:12, 26 January 2023
- philosopher and Bishop of Cloyne, was one of the three great British Empiricists ... George Berkeley’s name in the history of philosophy is linked to ...23 KB (3,672 words) - 07:03, 18 April 2024
- composer, theorist, editor and organist of the Renaissance, and the foremost ... Morley was one of the first composers of madrigals to utilize the ...10 KB (1,490 words) - 21:24, 30 April 2023
- humans trying to understand what is the self that is conscious and ... in recent decades suggest strongly that the great apes have a level of ...35 KB (5,274 words) - 18:47, 9 November 2022
- Epistemology or theory of knowledge is the branch of philosophy that ... Much of the debate in this field has focused on analyzing the nature ...41 KB (6,380 words) - 19:10, 13 February 2024
- Pierre Nicole (1625 - November 16, 1695) was one of the most distinguished ... other Jansenists, who based their ideas on the teachings of Augustine of ...10 KB (1,535 words) - 05:25, 24 November 2022
