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  • and logician during the second half of the nineteenth century. He ... Lotze combined the monads of Gottfried Leibniz's spheres of individual ...
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  • Freedom of speech is the ability to speak without censorship or limitation ... Freedom of speech is a key factor in the spread of information in ...
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  • is best known as an early advocate of utilitarianism. He was a political ... Bentham argued in favor of individual and economic freedom, including ...
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  • French physicist, philosopher and historian of science. His most influential ... At the young age of eleven, Duhem entered the Collège Stanislas. ...
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  • 6, 1884) was an Austrian monk whose studies of the inheritance of traits in ... more than 20,000 pea plants inside the walls of his monastery. He was a teacher ...
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  • , a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher, was one of the chief pioneers of the revival ... His clarification of the distinction between Platonic and Aristotelian ...
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  • medieval Korean noble and politician of the early Joseon dynasty. He ... Goryeo dynasty, took the Neo-Confucianism of Zuxhi and the Cheng brothers ...
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  • gained international fame as the co-author of The Polish Peasant in Europe ... information from written records of the society they were studying ...
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  • Theodora (c. 500 – June 28, 548) was empress of the Byzantine Empire ... She used her influence to promote the status of women, enhancing their ...
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  • Antitrust laws, or competition laws, are laws which prohibit anti ... The history of competition law reaches back further than the Roman ...
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  • a German ethnologist and archaeologist, one of the leading experts on prehistoric ... life does, noting three phases in the life of a culture. He also recognized ...
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  • 1908) was a British philosopher and leader of the Neo-Hegelian school in ... Caird published two sets of Gifford lectures, The Evolution of Religion ...
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  • philosopher who advocated a reconstruction of society based on idea that ... in units called “phalanxes” composed of male and female representatives ...
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  • quot;) refers to most important scriptures of Judaism that are the foundation ... oral law, encompassing the entire spectrum of authoritative Jewish religious ...
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  • Clarence Walker Barron (July 2, 1855 – October 2, 1928) is one of ... His notes of conversations, which revealed how closely connected and ...
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  • Astrophysics is the branch of astronomy that deals with the physics ... They have also observed the birth and death of stars, cosmic rays, the cosmic ...
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  • :Note: Zeno of Citium should not be confused with Zeno of Elea. ... Zeno of Citium (The Stoic) (sometime called Zeno Apathea) (333 – ...
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  • trauma on defenseless children. Victims of child abuse often become abusers ... The solution to the widespread phenomenon of child abuse cannot be found ...
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  • term designated a profession in or a group of teachers of rhetoric. Rhetoricians ... Socrates and Plato challenged sophist ideas of replacing rhetorical ...
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  • philosopher, and encyclopedist, and one of the first outspoken atheists ... place for all the intellectual figures of his time, radical and conservative ...
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