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Agathon (centre) greeting guests in Plato's Symposium, oil on canvas by Anselm Feuerbach, 1869; in the Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany.
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Bar graph of the United States Death Toll during major events. Infogram chart.
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Young boys working in a thread spinning mill in Macon, Georgia, 1909. Boys are so small they have to climb onto the spinning frame to reach and fix broken threads and put back empty bobbins. Child labor. Industrial revolution
The Rise of the Machines: Pros and Cons of the Industrial Revolution
Rural Irish landscape, Sligo, Ireland.
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When Was the Periodic Table Invented?
African Americans demonstrating for voting rights in front of the White House as police and others watch, March 12, 1965. One sign reads, "We demand the right to vote everywhere." Voting Rights Act, civil rights.
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Born c.1420 • Speyer
Died December 7, 1495 • Tübingen • Württemberg
Notable Works “Collectorium circa IV libros sententiarum”
Subjects Of Study William of Ockham • political economy • Scholasticism • economic theory
St. Thomas Aquinas
St. Thomas Aquinas
Italian Christian theologian and philosopher
Blessed John Duns Scotus
Scottish philosopher and theologian
St. Anselm of Canterbury
St. Anselm of Canterbury
archbishop and philosopher
William of Ockham
English philosopher
Godfrey of Saint-Victor
French philosopher
Suárez, Francisco
Francisco Suárez
Spanish theologian and philosopher
Francis Of Meyronnes
French philosopher
Henry of Ghent
French philosopher
Giles of Rome
Augustinian theologian
Hugh of Saint-Victor, undated engraving.
Hugh of Saint-Victor
French theologian
Johann Gottfried von Herder
Johann Gottfried von Herder
German philosopher
Paul Tillich
American theologian and philosopher
Rudolf Otto
Rudolf Otto
German philosopher and theologian
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Friedrich Schleiermacher
German theologian
Franz Rosenzweig
German philosopher
St. Albertus Magnus
St. Albertus Magnus
German theologian, scientist, and philosopher
Troeltsch, Ernst
Ernst Troeltsch
German theologian
Rudolf Bultmann
German theologian
Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer
Alsatian-German theologian and physician
Clauberg, engraving by J. Wielant
Johann Clauberg
German philosopher and theologian

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