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- 1221: Plato And Justice
- ... But this is where Plato contradicts himself because he had already stated you must tell the truth to be a moral individual. Another inadequacy I have found is Platos theory, really depends on the philosophy to be able to produce wise people. In two thousand years, that has clearly not happened. It seems is as if he contradicts himself once again because he had always defined philosophers as those who ...
- 1222: Peter The Great
- ... began changing things, starting with the cutting off of his beard. He also built a modern navy, as well as a modern army, and he also started new schools of navigation, mathematics, geography, politics, medicine, philosophy, and finally astronomy (2:2). He introduced the potato, and also encouraged the breeding of native Russian horses. He began the first Russian newspaper, and ordered the printing of over 600 books -- including a guide ...
- 1223: Poe And Thoreau
- ... in. For it is nature that he looks to as a source for fundamental truth. The deeper the relationship with Nature, the deeper the understanding of the basic mysteries of life. However, while Thoreaus philosophy and literature emphasized the inspiration of nature and the understanding of the basic mysteries of life, Edgar Allen Poe brought perspective to the darker side of the Romantic period. His success in the literary world ...
- 1224: Mahatma Gandhi
- ... would go to jail or even die before obeying an anti-Asian law. Thousands of Indians joined him in this civil disobedience campaign. He started protest campaigns and organized demonstrations, but never used violence. His philosophy was to never fight back against the atrocities, but still never retreat. This, he said, would decrease the hate against him and his fellow believers, and increase the respect felt towards him. Gandhis one ...
- 1225: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... Pallas leads the narrator to think that the raven speaks only of wisdom. When Poe published the story "The Raven", he also wrote an essay on the creation of the story, it was titled "The Philosophy of Composition." In that essay Poe describes the work of composing the poem as if it were a mathematical problem. The most important thing to consider is the fact that "The Raven," as well as ...
- 1226: Cicero
- ... Cicero lays no claim to originality in these works. Writing to Atticus, he says of them "They are transcripts; I simply supply words, and I've plenty of those." His importance in the history of philosophy is as a transmitter of Greek thought. In the course of this role, he gave Rome and, therefore, Europe its philosophical vocabulary.
- 1227: Compare And Cantrast WEB Du Bo
- ... During college he preferred the company of Black students and Black Bostonians. He graduated from Harvard in 1890. Yet he felt that he needed further preparation and study in order to be able to apply "philosophy to an historical interpretation of race relations." He decided to spend another two years at the University of Berlin on a Slater Fund Fellowship. W. E. B. Du Bois traveling widely in Europe, was delighted ...
- 1228: Classical Economist - Adam Smi
- ... is often thought of today as an economist, he was in fact (as his great contemporaries Hume, Burke, Kant, and Hegel recognized) an original and insightful thinker whose work covers an immense territory including moral philosophy, political economy, rhetorical theory, aesthetics, and jurisprudence. He laid the foundation for the capitalist, free market economy, and is one of the founders of modern day economics. Though his theories were formed more than two ...
- 1229: Thomas Hobbes
- ... forms of government. He became interested in why people allowed themselves to be ruled, and what would be the best form of government for England. Thomas Hobbes was the first great figure in modern moral philosophy. Hobbes had a pessimistic view of people; he believed humans were selfish creatures who would do anything to better their positions. He also thought that people could not be trusted to make decisions on their ...
- 1230: Calamitatum Of The Individual
- ... clever and distinct way of thinking by referring to dialectic, the art of examining options or ideas logically, as a weapon of war. "I chose the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these I chose the conflicts of disputation instead of the trophies of war." (p. 58, ll. 7-9). This is remarkable for the son of a soldier to make such a choice ...
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