As a scientist, he made significant contributions to the American Enlightenment and the history of physics, particularly in the area of electricity. He invented the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove, among other things. Franklin played an important role in defining the American ethos...
fathers of the United States and the enlightenment thinkers of France. (49) Michelangelo (1475-1564) Italy, the only person in two independent fields of sculpture and painting. (50) urban ii (1042-1099) Rome, as the Pope of Rome, launched a Christian war that reacquired the holy ...
He remains among the linchpins of the American romantic movement, and his work has greatly influenced the thinkers, writers and poets that followed him. "In all my lectures," he wrote, "I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man." Emerson is also well known as...
some even founded libraries, most importantly, they loved to read. Among the favorites were the Bible, the classics (i.e. Cicero, Tacitus, Livy, Plutarch, etc.), and works written by Enlightenment Thinkers (John
About the Book: Even in his forties, Malcolm Gladwell was already one of the most influential thinkers of our times. Now at 55, he is nothing less than an icon. Even though – like all of his books – aNew York Timesbestseller,David and Goliathmay be his least famous book. But, in ...
Their products have no spirit of enlightenment about them, they are very pedestrian. The sad part is that customers don’t have a lot of that spirit either, but the way that we’re going to ratchet up our species is to take the best and to spread it around everybody so that everybody...
*The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment (1971) by Thaddeus Golas Out of Print G. I. Gurdjieff *Meetings With Remarkable Men Meetings with Remarkable Men is an eclectic mixture of art, philosophy, and religion. First published in USA 1963 ...
This title presents brilliant fictional journey through Western political philosophy with one of our most original thinkers. "The Curious Enlightenment of ... S Lukes - Verso 被引量: 36发表: 1996年 [Three patients with pneumonia due to Legionella associated with a sauna, a cooling tower and a...
Books of the 1970s Daniel Bell: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism Isaiah Berlin: Russian Thinkers Ronald Dworkin: Taking Rights Seriously Clifford Geertz: The Interpretation of Cultures Albert Hirschmann: Exit, Voice, and Loyalty Leszek Kolakowski: Main Currents of Marxism Hans ...
The origins of the new approach lies in the age of Enlightenment and even earlier - in the very core ideas of Christianity. WEEK 3 The beginning: the World Wars and genesis of the IR science Since the very beginning the development of political thought was hugely stimulated by wars. In the...