Mohandas Gandhi
.... 2, 1869, in Porbandar, near
Bombay. His family belonged to the Hindu merchant caste Vaisya. His father had
been prime minister of several small native states. Gandhi was married when he
was only 13 years old.
When he was 19 he defied custom by going abroad to study. He studied law
at University College in London. Fellow students snubbed him because he was an
Indian. In his lonely hours he studied philosophy. In his reading he discovered
the principle of nonviolence as enunciated in Henry David T .....
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Aristotle (384 -322 BC)
.... his own school, the Lyceum. Because he taught
while walking around, his students were called the Peripatetic students, meaning
"walking" or "strolling". When Alexander died in 323 BC, Aristotle was charged
with impiety (lack of reverence to the gods) by the Athenians. The Athenians
probably did this because they resented
Lu-2 Aristotle's friendship with Alexander, the man who conquered
them. Aristotle fled to Euboea. He died there the next year.
ETHICS
Aristotle believed that th .....
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The Philosopher, Aristotle
.... in order to defend himself and others in need. This was accomplished by
those trained in rhetoric. Therefore those who taught this art stood to obtain
a lot of wealth from their endeavors. These were known as sophists with whom
much contempt was held by such philosophers as Socrates. "The greatest school
of Rhetoric in all Greece was at this period held in Athens by the renowned
Isocrates, who was at the zenith of his reputation."(Collins p. 11) A competitor
with this school was Plato's Academy .....
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Confucius
.... and
focus on the good of the country. The US definitely needs to do this. Every day
on television we see poor, famined children persuading us to support their
struggle. Them commercials should be outlawed. The commercials should be on the
poor famined kids in the United States. We have our own poverty problem in our
country. We should take care of that before we solve another countries problem.
The U.S. has also money and military force in the middle east. Sure we get some
valuable products from them, bu .....
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Edgar Allan Poe
.... he joined the army. He succeeded there and In 1829
he signed for an officer-training. This was the same year as he published his
second book "Al Aaraaf, Tamberlane and minor poems" but this time under the name
of Edgar A Poe. Before he left his training he got financial help from the other
cadets to publish his third version of the book, although Poe called this book a
second version. In this book there are famous poems as "To Helen" and "Israfel".
These poems show the musical effect that has come to chara .....
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Machiavelli
.... thoughts today would be looked at as dictatorial and likened with
the beliefs and felling of such hated groups as the Nazis. In today's system,
societies that have been lead by rulers with such a mentality have not lasted
very long. It seems that these days the general populace have much less
tolerance for those rulers that believe in doing anything for the sake of
themselves and supposedly the society at large. I believe that such rulers
today are not tolerated (and should not be tolerated) There .....
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Friedrich Nietzsche
.... God”(Bentley, p.82). At a very early age Nietzsche had already
displayed an aptitude for highly intellectual prowess. At fourteen, Nietzsche
left his home of Naumburg and went to an exclusive boarding school at the nearby
Schulpforta Academy. The school was famous for its grandeur of alumni that
included “Klopstock and Fichte”(Brett-Evans, p.76). “It was here that
Nietzsche received the thorough education in Greek and Latin that set him upon
the road to classical philology.”(Brett-Evans, p. 76) .....
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Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire): French Author And Philosopher 1694 - 1778 A.D.
.... Newton. After his return to Paris he
wrote a book praising English customs and institutions. The book was thought to
criticize the French government and Voltaire was forced to flee Paris again.
In 1759 Voltaire purchased an estate called "Ferney" near the French-Swiss
border where he lived until just before of his death. Ferney soon became the
intellectual capitol of Europe. Throughout his years in exile Voltaire produced
a constant flow of books, plays, pamphlets, and letters. He was a voice of
reason, .....
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Albert Einstein And His Theories
.... the world, he finished
secondary school in Arrau, Switzerland, and entered the Swiss National
Polytechnic in Zürich. Einstein did not enjoy the methods of instruction there.
He often cut classes and used the time to study physics on his own or to play
his beloved violin. He passed his examinations and graduated in 1900 by studying
the notes of a classmate. His professors did not think highly of him and would
not recommend him for a university position.
For two years Einstein worked as a tutor and s .....
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Albert Einstein
.... a secondary school teacher of math and physics.
Two years later, he acquired a post at the Swiss patent office in Bern.
While he was employed there from 1902 to 1909, he completed an extraordinary
range of publications in theoretical physics. Most parts of there were written
in his spare time. In 1905 he submitted one of his many scientific papers to the
University of Zurich to obtain a Ph.D. degree. In 1908 he sent another
scientific paper to the University of Bern and became a lecturer there.
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Albert Einstein
.... Bern and became lecturer there. The next year Einstein received a regular
appointment as associate professor of physics at the University of Zurich. By
1909, Einstein was recognized throughout Europe as a leading scientific thinker.
In 1909 the fame that resulted from his theories got Einstein a job at the
University of Prague, and in 1913 he was appointed director of a new research
institution opened in Berlin, the Kaiser Wilhelm Physics Institute.
In 1915, during World War 1, Einstein published a .....
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Charles Babbage
.... and to interest people in translating the works
of several foreign mathematicians into English. His studies also led him to a
critical study of logarithmic tables and was constantly reporting errors in them.
During this analysis, it occurred to him that all these tables could be
calculated by machinery. He was convinced that it was possible to construct a
machine that would be able to compute by successive differences and to even
print out the results. (He conceived of this 50 years before type-setting
m .....
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Georg Simon Ohm
.... looking for a better teaching
position. He found what he was looking for in 1817 when a job was made
available to him at Cologne Gymnasium. He now looked to research electrical
current. In 1827 he published Die galvanishce Kette, mathematisch bearbeit (The
Galvanic Circuit, Mathematically Treated). This was a mathematical description
of conduction in circuits modeled after Fourier's study of heat conduction.
This is also known as Ohm's Law.
Ohm's Law, which is Georg's greatest accomplishment, started .....
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Nikola Tesla
.... found employment with a young Thomas Edison in New Jersey,
but the two inventors, were far apart in background and methods. But, because of
there differences, Tesla soon left the employment of Edison, and in May 1885,
George Westinghouse, head of the Westinghouse Electric Company in Pittsburgh,
bought the patent rights to many of Tesla's inventions. After a difficult period,
during which Tesla invented but lost his rights to many inventions, he
established his own laboratory in New York City in 1887, whe .....
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Abraham Lincoln And Jefferson Davis
.... Abraham and Jefferson Davis shared several differences and
similarities. Lincoln was known to have an easy going and joking type attitude.
In contrast, Davis had a temper such that when challenged, he simply could not
back down (DeGregorio 89). Davis had been a fire-eater before Abraham Lincoln's
election, but the prospect of Civil War made him gloomy and depressed. Fifty-
three years old in 1861, he suffered from a variety of ailments such as fever,
neuralgia, and inflamed eye, poor digestion, insomn .....
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