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Hace 15 horas · Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [a] (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath and writer, who is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a profound and wide-ranging influence on Western literary, political, and philosophical thought from the late 18th century to the present ...
Hace 2 días · Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (27 August 1770 – 14 November 1831) was a German philosopher and one of the most influential figures of German idealism and 19th-century philosophy.His influence extends across the entire range of contemporary philosophical topics, from metaphysical issues in epistemology and ontology, to political philosophy, the philosophy of history, philosophy of art ...
Hace 3 días · Footnote 81 After his apprenticeship ended he completed 19 book illustration commissions before the end of 1789, the cut-off date by which it is known he had acquired sufficiently accomplished mirror-writing skills in relief-etching to produce All Religions are One (1788–1794), There is No Natural Religion (1788–1794), Songs of Innocence (1789), The Book of Thel (1789) and The Marriage of ...
Hace 3 días · French Revolutionary wars, title given to the hostilities between France and one or more European powers between 1792 and 1799. It thus comprises the first seven years of the period of warfare that was continued through the Napoleonic Wars until Napoleon ’s abdication in 1814, with a year of interruption under the peace of Amiens (1802–03).
Hace 1 día · The history of writing traces the development of writing systems and how their use transformed and was transformed by different societies. The use of writing prefigures various social and psychological consequences associated with literacy and literary culture.. With each historical invention of writing, true writing systems were preceded by systems of ideographic and mnemonic symbols called ...
3 de mar. de 2024 · George Berkeley, an Irish philosopher, believed that everything exists in the mind and rejected the idea of material substance. His ideas continue to influence philosophy today. Berkeley’s philosophy of subjective idealism and the concept of “to be is to be perceived” challenged traditional views and had a lasting impact on the fields of ...
Hace 5 días · Knowledge leads to desire, which leads to action and ultimately results in consequences, both good and bad. Through abstention from actions and realization of the unchangeable essence of Brahma, individuals can attain Emancipation and escape the cycle of birth and death. Manu emphasizes that Brahma transcends all attributes and is superior to ...
