Search results for "Society of the Friends of Truth" - New World Encyclopedia
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- and logician. His logical analysis of mathematical problems made ... family in Prague, which was then part of the Austrian Empire. His father ...15 KB (2,299 words) - 11:18, 28 September 2023
- Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (also Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam ... Erasmus attacked many abuses committed by the Church, but was unsympathetic ...25 KB (3,912 words) - 19:18, 13 February 2024
- was a German mathematician and scientist of profound genius who contributed ... with strong convictions, but was tolerant of those with other views. His ...24 KB (3,635 words) - 06:45, 5 April 2024
- colonist, an early and courageous proponent of the separation of church and ... A religious separatist, Williams questioned the right of the colonists ...17 KB (2,483 words) - 02:41, 16 December 2022
- 1967. Tracy is still widely considered one of the most skillful actors of ... In 1999, the American Film Institute named Tracy among the Greatest ...13 KB (2,011 words) - 19:15, 7 February 2023
- The term interreligious dialogue (or interfaith dialogue) refers to ... The rise of interreligious dialogue has been made possible by the ...33 KB (5,242 words) - 16:49, 26 February 2022
- theologian and socialist recognized as one of the most important thinkers ... His friends included some of the leading intellectuals of his time ...29 KB (4,360 words) - 10:32, 11 April 2024
- a French writer and dramatist, best known as the author of the novel series ... 36 years old. Thirteen years later, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature ...26 KB (3,958 words) - 21:37, 16 April 2023
- introduced Christianity and Western ideas to the Chinese Empire in the sixteenth ... In 1601, Ricci became the first foreigner from the West to enter the ...19 KB (2,924 words) - 16:54, 7 November 2022
- to consider) refers to any doctrine or way of thought denying the ability ... Originating in the human tendency to question the reliability of any ...31 KB (4,697 words) - 22:44, 29 January 2023
- American psychologist. He is regarded as one of the most significant social ... precise methodologies. Although committed to the scientific method, he rejected ...22 KB (3,262 words) - 20:09, 25 October 2022
- The history of the missions of the Jesuits in China in the early modern ... The first attempt by Jesuits to reach China was made in 1552 by Saint ...29 KB (4,469 words) - 08:20, 3 April 2024
- Rishipattana, Isipatana) refers to the deer park where Gautama Buddha ... The Buddha mentions Isipatana as one of the four places of pilgrimage ...15 KB (2,311 words) - 03:29, 23 December 2022
- 28, 551 B.C.E. – 479 B.C.E.) is one of the world's foremost exemplary ... Confucius taught personal and public morality, correctness of social ...28 KB (4,530 words) - 19:00, 15 May 2020
- was a German philosopher, who ranks as one of the literary grandfathers of ... Stirner was a member of a group of German intellectuals calling themselves ...35 KB (5,494 words) - 00:59, 9 November 2022
- 12, 1989) was an American philosopher in the school of pragmatism, known ... He argued, controversially, that members of such groups as the Communist ...27 KB (3,748 words) - 14:49, 31 May 2023
- Freedom is traditionally understood as independence of the arbitrary ... A slave is constantly subject to the will of another. By contrast ...28 KB (4,455 words) - 10:43, 11 April 2024
- when they pass through a crystal, similar to the pattern light exhibits when ... near Koblenz, in what was then Prussia, the son of Julius von Laue, a ...27 KB (3,968 words) - 01:05, 9 November 2022
- topics. For nearly 60 years he traveled the world, pointing out to people ... India, and in 1909 met C.W. Leadbeater on the private beach at the Theosophical ...52 KB (7,928 words) - 12:38, 1 August 2022
- poet, critic, and editor whose journals, The English Review and The Transatlantic ... Born Ford Hermann Hueffer, the son of Francis Hueffer, he was Ford ...15 KB (2,279 words) - 06:21, 1 April 2024
