Holy Smoke And Mirrors – The Vatican Conspiracy December 24 2014 | From: Bibliotecapleyades The Mafia, the CIA, and the Vatican’s intelligence apparatus. Albert Vincent Carone is one of those people who spent his life dancing between raindrops and turning invisible wherever a shadow lingered.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1861 declaration by Tsar Alexander II that serfs were now legally free of their landlords. Until then, over a third of Russians were tied to the land on which they lived and worked and in practice there was little to distinguish their condition from slavery.
Georg (György) Lukács (1885–1971) was a literary theorist and philosopher who is widely viewed as one of the founders of “Western Marxism”.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (/ r uː ˈ s oʊ /; French: [ʒɑ̃ʒak ʁuso]; 28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th century, mainly active in France.His political philosophy influenced the Enlightenment across Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolution and the overall development of modern political …
Dr. Kristi Siegel Associate Professor, English Dept. Director, English Graduate Program Chair – Languages, Literature, and Communication Division
Fideisms Judaism is the Semitic monotheistic fideist religion based on the Old Testament’s (1000-600 BCE) rules for the worship of Yahweh by his chosen people, the ren of Abraham’s son Isaac (c1800 BCE).. Zoroastrianism is the Persian monotheistic fideist religion founded by Zarathustra (c628-c551 BCE) and which …
Buddhist philosophy refers to the philosophical investigations and systems of inquiry that developed among various Buddhist colleges in India following the death of the Buddha and later spread throughout Asia. Buddhism’s main concern has always been freedom from dukkha (unease), and the path to that ultimate freedom consists in ethical action …
A CONCISE FORMULATION: Two opposing tendencies are peculiar to Russian philosophy: one asserts the primacy of generalization and unification as tools for religious and historical transformation of reality and leads to ideocracy and totalitarianism; another defends the unsurpassable value of individuality and reveals the relativity and …
Karl Popper: Political Philosophy. Among philosophers, Karl Popper (1902-1994) is best known for his contributions to the philosophy of science and epistemology.