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Augustine
Faith before reason
He maintained a materialistic view of things and on this account doubted the existence of immaterial substances and the immortali..."
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Classical Philosophy after Aristotle
Epicureanism
Most importantly, God is not the source or the creator of anything but is himself the result of a purposeless..."
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Once, a king gave a feast for the loveliest princesses in the realm. Now, a soldier who was standing guard saw the king’s daughter go by. She was most beautifu..."
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Aristotle
Before we can logically demonstrate or prove something, we must have a clear starting point for our reasoning process.
First philosophy, or what we ..."
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The great Plato
There are unchanging and universal truths, which human reason is capable of grasping.
Most of us dwell in the darkness of the cave. People have..."
"Instead of debating alternative theories of nature, philosophers addressed the problem of human knowledge, asking whether it was possible to discover any univer..."
"What are things really like ?
How can we explain the process of change in things?
The important thing to keep in mind , though , is that Greek philosophy from t..."
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12 October 2009
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2009 ..."
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In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden's central bank) established this Prize in memory of Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel Prize. Here are some facts and figure..."
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The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2009 is awarded to the German author Herta Müller
"who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts ..."
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Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge,United Kingdom
Thomas A. Steitz, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Ada E. Yonath, W..."
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Charles K. KaoStandard Telecommunication Laboratories, Harlow, UK, and Chinese University of Hong Kong
"for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmis..."
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Every cell in our bodies contains our entire genome, the blueprint for life, wrapped up within its chromosomes. Each time one of our cells divides to form two ..."
