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111Seventeenth-century materialism: Gassendi and Hobbes — T.Sorell In the English speaking world Pierre Gassendi is probably best known as the author of a set of Objections to Descartes’s Meditations. These Objections, the fifth of seven sets collected by Mersenne, are relatively long and full, and… …
112Enlightenment (The Scottish) — The Scottish Enlightenment M.A.Stewart INTRODUCTION The term ‘Scottish Enlightenment’ is used to characterize a hundred years of intellectual and cultural endeavour that started around the second decade of the eighteenth century. Our knowledge of …
113Medieval music — Periods of Western art music Early Medieval   (500–1400) Renaissance (1400–1600) Baroque (1600–1760) Common practice Baroque (1600–1760) …
114Rhetoric — This article is about the art of rhetoric in general. For the work by Aristotle, see Rhetoric (Aristotle). Painting depicting a lecture in a knight academy, painted by Pieter Isaacsz or Reinhold Timm for Rosenborg Castle as part of a series of… …
115William Rowan Hamilton — infobox Scientist name = William Hamilton caption = William Rowan Hamilton birth date = birth date|df=yes|1805|8|4 birth place = Dublin, Ireland death date = death date and age|df=yes|1865|9|2|1805|8|4 death place = Dublin, Ireland residence =… …
116Cato the Elder — Marcus Porcius Cato Maior, Cato the Elder Marcus Porcius Cato[1] (234 BC, Tusculum – 149 BC) was a Roman statesman, commonly referred to as Censorius (the Censor), Sapiens (the Wise), Priscus (the Ancient), or Major, Cato the El …
117Erich Heller — (March 27, 1911 mdash; November 5, 1990) was a British essayist, known particularly for his critical studies in German language philosophy and literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Biography Heller was born at Chomutov (German:… …
118Friendship — Friend redirects here. For other uses, see Friend (disambiguation). Friendship is a form of interpersonal relationship generally considered to be closer than association, although there is a range of degrees of intimacy in both friendships and… …
119Byzantine Literature — • The four cultural elements included are the Greek, the Christian, the Roman, and the Oriental Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Byzantine Literature Byzantine Literature …
120PROVERBS, BOOK OF — (Heb. סֵפֶר מִשְׁלֵי, Sefer Mishlei), one of the three wisdom books of the Hagiographa, representing the affirmative and didactic element in wisdom (ḥokhmah), in contrast to the radical questioning of Job and Ecclesiastes. In its present form the …
