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  • 1651 book Leviathan set the agenda for much of subsequent Western political ... Hobbes also contributed to a diverse array of fields, including history ...
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  • As a philosopher, he was an early proponent of Empiricism. Locke also made ... him, John Locke is considered the first of the three major British Empiricists ...
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  • date back about 2500 years with the arrival of Judaism, ... followed by arrival of Christianity around 2000 years ago. ...
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  • Norse: Jarizleifr) was thrice Grand Prince of Novgorod and Kiev, uniting ... His patronage of learning and his forging international ties helped ...
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  • Kantianism refers to a line of thought that is broadly based on the ... The revolutionary impact of Kant’s critical method on western thought ...
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  • - October 13, 1715) was a French philosopher of the Cartesian school. His philosophy ... sympathy for the vision in God and aspects of occasionalism and Berkeley ...
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  • He served as a professor at the University of Chicago as well as Harvard ... After his service in the war he applied to the University of Chicago ...
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  • He was Member of the Parliament of England briefly and was also a ... William Petty was born in Romsey on May 27, 1623 to a family of middle ...
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  • The American Federation of Labor (AFL) was one of the first federations ... in the United States for the first half of the twentieth century, even ...
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  • and academic. Bloom championed the idea of "Great Books" education ... Readers Digest article about the University of Chicago and told his parents ...
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  • mathematical physics. He introduced the idea of electrical potential and developed ... almost entirely self-taught. He was the son of George Green, a baker, and ...
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  • Constitutional Convention over the inclusion of slaves in a state's total ... In the United States Constitution, the Three-fifths Compromise is ...
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  • dao was often modified by other nouns, each of which represented a subset ... Tian Dao is explained using the concepts of yin and yang. The resulting ...
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  • and around the Wadi Qumran (near the ruins of the ancient settlement of Khirbet ... treasures ever discovered. Many of the scrolls today are housed ...
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  • was born in Liverpool. Jevons was one of three men to simultaneously ... his remarkable insights and understanding of a wide ranges of issues. Although ...
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  • 1996) was the thirty-ninth Vice President of the United States serving under ... Spiro Agnew was born Spiros Anagnostopoulos in the Towson section ...
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  • Shi'a Muslims adhere to the teachings of the Islamic prophet Muhammad ... or minimized, depending on the agenda of the commentator. Shi'a ...
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  • is the most complete surviving account of ancient Greek and Roman skepticism ... Almost nothing is known of Sextus Empiricus’s personal life, including ...
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  • and theologian who is considered one of the most important philosophers ... Pennsylvania, in 1897, as the son of a minister, Francis Cope Hartshorne ...
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  • Yi Hwang (李滉, 이황 1501-1570) was one of the two most prominent ... in the Joseon court and bureaucracy for most of his life, holding 29 government ...
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