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Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais

A French Catholic priest, philosopher and political theorist. He was an ardent supporter of separ...

Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud

A French lawyer and statesman, a figure of the French Revolution.

François de La Rochefoucauld (writer)

François de La Rochefoucauld (writer)

A noted French moralist and author of maxims and memoirs

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Greek Neoplatonist philosopher, one of the last major classical philosophers

Marcus Terentius Varro

Marcus Terentius Varro

One of ancient Rome's greatest scholars and a prolific author

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Portraits and fashion: Sandro Botticelli, Portrait of a Young Woman

Portraits and fashion: Sandro Botticelli, Portrait of a Young Woman

khanacademy.org

Sandro Botticelli is best known for his masterpieces The Birth of Venus and Primavera, but during his prolific career, Botticelli also painted several portraits of contemporary Renaissance Florentines — including Portrait of a Young Woman, currently held in Florence’s Pitti Palace.Portraits of early modern women are especially important art historical survivals, because less information is known about women’s lives in this period. Although the figure in Botticelli’s Portrait of a Young Woman lacks flashing jewels and eye-catching brocades (as featured in this portrait by Pollaiuolo),...

How would George Fox respond to terrorism?

How would George Fox respond to terrorism?

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William Hanson’s excellent article "Police Power for Peace" (FJ Aug. 2004), brought to mind the thinking and views of George Fox on the use of violence by the state. Many Friends may be surprised to learn that although George Fox was a personal pacifist—he would not bear arms, and he (along with 11 others) declared in the Peace Testimony of 1661 that Friends, as individuals, would not bear arms and engage in war—he does not appear to have been an absolute pacifist with respect to his views concerning the use of violence by the state to police and to engage in war.Following September ...

Many aspects of Goethe

Many aspects of Goethe

Access to Goethe can be arduous; tools to facilitate our approach are always welcome. This year they come in the contrasting formats of a 1,000-page-volume of “essential” translations and a paperback addition to Oxford’s Very Short Introductions series. Together they reduce a prolific life’s work to manageable proportions, bearing in mind that the first complete edition of Goethe in German ran to 143 volumes and was put together over a period of thirty-two years.The dimensions of Goethe’s legacy are less of a hindrance than its diversity. This multi-talented individual was active, ov...

Winston Churchill: Hero or villain?

Winston Churchill: Hero or villain?

A statue of Winston Churchill was sprayed with graffiti during recent protests in London, with claims that the former prime minister was racist.Government ministers condemned the "vandalism and desecration" of the statue.But Britain’s wartime leader split opinion in his own lifetime, and remains a divisive figure today.To many he will always be known as the man who helped inspire the allies to victory in WW2, but some question other parts of his legacy....

Portraits and fashion: Sandro Botticelli, Portrait of a Young Woman

How would George Fox respond to terrorism?

Many aspects of Goethe

Winston Churchill: Hero or villain?

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Centenary of the birth of Wim Klein, CERN's first computer

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Centenary of the birth of Wim Klein, CERN's first computer

Before electronic computers were widely available at CERN, a Dutchman called Willem "Wim" Klein performed astonishing feats of mental arithmetic to help colleagues with their calculations. Klein, who through his long career became known as "The Human Computer," was born in Amsterdam in the N...

8 of the most beautiful works by Rachmaninoff to play on the piano

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8 of the most beautiful works by Rachmaninoff to play on the piano

In this article, we have selected for you eight of the most beautiful works by Rachmaninoff to play on the piano. From his Preludes to his Rhapsody on a theme by Paganini, as well as his famous Piano Concerto No. 2, immerse yourself in the history of the greatest masterpieces by Rachmaninoff for ...

The Pleasures and Punishments of Reading Franz Kafka

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The Pleasures and Punishments of Reading Franz Kafka

Reading the work of Franz Kafka is a pleasure, whose punishment is this: writing about it, too.In Kafka, no honor comes without suffering, and no suffering goes unhonored.Being asked to write about Kafka is like being asked to describe the Great Wall of China by someone who’s standi...