Great Thinkers
Featuring ideas and major works of great thinkers: philosophers - Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau, Voltaire, Kant, Foucault, Locke, Machiavelli, Sartre, Proust, Beauvoir, Fayol, Confucius; scientists & inventors - Faraday, Marie Curie, Einstein, Copernicus, Edison, Newton; writers & authors - Shakespeare, Milton, Woolf, Maupassant, Tolstoy; explorers & pioneers - J. Cook, Lindbergh; composers - Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert; artists - van Gogh, Matisse, Goya; innovators - Da Vinci, Freud, Jung; historians; teachers - Boulanger, Montessori; impresario - Sergei Diaghilev, Cousteau; business & management gurus - Drucker, Fayol; and world leaders.
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Friedrich Engels Biography
Brief biography, philosophy and work of German socialist, writer, and political theorist Friedrich Engels, known for dialectical materialism, and disciple of Karl Marx.
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Mary Shelley Biography
This article is a biography of novelist Mary Shelley, English horror writer famous for Frankenstein and wife of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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The Early Life of Rudolf Steiner
A look at the early life, works and philosophical influences of the enigmatic founder of anthroposophy and the Waldorf education movement.
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Walking on Water by Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Engle, the author of several novels, children's fantasy books, and memoirs, reflects on the intersection of her faith in God and her work as an artist.
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Pascal's Wager
Blaise Pascal offered those who cannot find God through reason a means that helped them reasonably live as though He exists.
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Educational Contributions of Leo Tolstoy
Though known best for his novels, Leo Tolstoy also made significant contributions to educational practices through his research and writings about how children learn.
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Thales of Miletus
He was an astronomer, an engineer, a speculative thinker, and one of the earliest of Greek philosophers, whose names remains synonymous with wisdom...
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Margaret Laurence Biography
Jean Margaret Laurence nee Wemyss, one of Canada's most revered writers, presented a wonderful depth of feelings in her characters such as Morag in The Diviners.
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Charles Darwin's Letters
The letters of Charles Darwin, author of the Origin of Species, can be viewed free online, allowing the reader an intimate access to his family and scientific life.
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