Philip Melanchthon (1497 1560), humanist and colleague of Martin Luther, is best known for his educational reforms, for which he earned the title Praeceptor Germaniae ...
Continue Reading →This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This ...
Continue Reading → If there exists on any subject a philosophy (that is, a system of rational knowledge based on concepts), then there must also be for ...
Continue Reading →Principles of Political Economy (1848) by John Stuart Mill was one of the most important economics or political economy textbooks of the mid-nineteenth century. It ...
Continue Reading → Girard Desargues was a French mathematician and engineer, who is considered one of the founders of projective geometry. Desargues’ theorem, the Desargues graph, and ...
Continue Reading →Ever since humankind raised its head toward the heavens in search of universal understanding and spiritual fulfilment, wars, pogroms, persecution, prejudice, and contempt have been ...
Continue Reading →James Mill (1773-1836) was a Scottish historian, economist, political theorist, and philosopher. He was the father of influential philosopher of classical liberalism, John Stuart Mill. ...
Continue Reading →Frederick the Great (1712-1786), King of Prussia, initiated the Seven Years’ War in 1756; outfought the formidable French, Russian, and Austrian armies aligned against him; ...
Continue Reading →The freedom of the seas — meaning both the oceans of the world and coastal waters — has been among the most contentious issues in ...
Continue Reading → Two Treatises of Government is a work of political philosophy published anonymously in 1689 by John Locke.Locke’s family was sympathetic to Puritanism but remained ...
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