(legal opinions based on religious law) and several professions of faith, the most beautiful of which is theWāsiṭiyyah, two works merit particular attention. One is hisAl-Siyāsat al-sharʿiyyah(“Treatise on Juridical Politics”), available in French and English translations. The other,...
“Minor Works”) include fragments concerning the history of philosophy; the famous treatise “Über die Universitäts-Philosophie”; the enigmatically profound “Transzendente Spekulation über die anscheinende Absichtlichkeit im Schicksale des Einzelnen” (“Transcendent Speculation on the Apparent ...
Hebelonged to the academy of philosophy in the state of Qi before becom-ing magistrate of a district in Chu in 255. His major work, the Xunzi,taught that humanity is evil by nature and can become good only throughrigorous training. This view provoked much controversy because itopposed the ...
LONGMORE, Sir Thomas (1816-95), Surgeon General, C.B., F.R.C.S.E., served in Crimea; Professor of Army Surgery, Netley (from 1863); Hon. Surgeon to Queen Victoria (from 1868); author of Treatise on Gunshot Wounds; Treatise on Ambulances; and Sanitary Condition of the British and ...
“Treatise on Painting” “Battle of Anghiari” “St. Jerome” “Virgin and Child with St. Anne” “Portrait of Ginevra de’ Benci” “The Virgin of the Rocks” “The Benois Madonna” movement / style Renaissance Milanese school Early Renaissance ...
The job of the lintel is to bear the loads that rest on it (and its own load) without deforming or breaking. Failure occurs only when the material is too weak or the lintel is too long. Lintels composed of materials that are weak in bending, such as stone, must be short, while lin...
(1907–15; abridged ed., The New Golden Bough, 1964), a famous and influential treatise on ancient religion that presents sacrifice as a means for rejuvenating a god; and Henri Hubert and Marcel Mauss,“Essai sur la nature et la fonction du sacrifice,” L’Année sociologique (1899; Eng...
complexity. For a long time, therefore, he was regarded primarily as a sensitive cultural historian who lacked the power of systematic thought. Only posthumously, through the editorial and interpretative work of hisdisciples, did the significance of the methodology of his historical philosophy of ...
Rousseau and Rameau must at that time have seemed unevenly matched in a controversy about music. Rameau, already in his 70th year, was not only aprolificand successful composer but was also, as the author of the celebratedTraité de l’harmonie(1722;Treatise on Harmony) and other technical wo...
“Treatise on Painting” “Battle of Anghiari” “St. Jerome” “Virgin and Child with St. Anne” “Portrait of Ginevra de’ Benci” “The Virgin of the Rocks” “The Benois Madonna” movement / style Renaissance Milanese school Early Renaissance subjects of study architecture mechanics painting...