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- 701: Friedrich Nietzsche
- ... comments Nietzsche made concerning the will-to-power theory, the constant reference to the superman, and his sometimes vigorous patriotism? One of the most significant contributions Nietzsche made was in the area of psychology not philosophy. One of the most significant conclusions he came to in this field was that traditional morality consists of different expressions for the same thing, that "good" actions and "bad" actions can ultimately derive from the ...
- 702: Mohandas Gandhi
- ... 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 Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience," and he was persuaded by John Ruskin's plea to give up industrialism for farm life and ...
- 703: John Lennon: Biography
- ... 197). The group included George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and myself. We originally formed in 1958, but it wasn't until 1960 that we decided to name ourselves the Beatles (World Book 191). My philosophy of the Beatles was, "when you said it, it was crawly things; when you read it, it was beat music (The New Book of Knowledge 108). I, along with Paul, wrote most of the Beatles ...
- 704: Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
- Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac "Physical Laws should have mathematical beauty." This statement was Dirac's response to the question of his philosophy of physics, posed to him in Moscow in 1955. He wrote it on a blackboard that is still preserved today.[1] Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (1902-1984), known as P. A. M. Dirac, was the ...
- 705: Georg Cantor
- ... father let Georg study mathematics. In 1862, Georg Cantor entered the University of Zurich only to transfer the next year to the University of Berlin after his father's death. At Berlin he studied mathematics, philosophy and physics. There he studied under some of the greatest mathematicians of the day including Kronecker and Weierstrass. After receiving his doctorate in 1867 from Berlin, he was unable to find good employment and was ...
- 706: Freud and Marx
- ... is the values of one's parents internalised. He went further to then explain that unhappiness in life is caused by the conflict between the Id and the SuperEgo. As stated, all of Frued's philosophy was very conflict oriented so it is not difficult to understand then how Freud applied this view macrocosmically to society as a whole. Freud addressed this in his essay, "Civilization and It's Discontents". In ...
- 707: John Muir's Trail in History
- ... way to the door of his pine cabin. In later years he turned seriously to writing; publishing 300 articles and 10 major books composed of his travel journals. They recounted his travels, expounded his naturalist philosophy, and beckoned everyone to "climb the mountains and get their good tidings"(Muir, Life and Letters, 34). Muir's love of the high country gave his writings a spiritual quality. His readers, whether they be ...
- 708: James Bryant Conant
- ... challenging the academically talented. He states that "too many boys were neglecting courses in the humanities in favor of science and mathematics, and too many able girls were avoiding science, math, and foreign languages." His philosophy can be reflected in today's society and it has both negative and positive aspects. Many high schools today separate the so called "academically gifted" from the "academically challenged". They have developed special classes for ...
- 709: John Bates Clark
- ... its share of the profits for their hard work. The labor's higher wages and the industries' higher profits would increase incomes and better the social living for everyone. Among Clark's works are The Philosophy of Wealth (1886), The Distribution of Wealth (1899), and Essentials of Economic Theory (1907). His son, John Maurice Clark, also became a noted economist, and even co-wrote some work with his father, but his ...
- 710: Martin Luther King Jr.
- ... King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a fine and strong man and should be viewed as such, along with other American heroes, such as Abraham Lincoln, and George Washington. He truly believed in his philosophy till his death. Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 19, 1929, to Albert and Martin Luther King Sr. He was the second child in the family, with an older sister, and a younger ...
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