Gandhi: An Author Profile
Mahatma Gandhi is the father of nonviolent resistance movements throughout the twentieth century, from India to the US to South Africa to the USSR.
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Confucius: An Author Profile
Confucius is not only one of the great minds of China, but has wielded an influence on the politics and culture of the entire world.
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The Great Conversation: Language
“The medium is the message,” Marshall McLuhan wrote, and when the Great Conversation touches on language, it’s hard to argue with him.
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The Great Conversation: Induction
Though often given second place beside deductive logic, induction is a powerful and surprisingly subtle instrument in the pursuit of knowledge.
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Voltaire: An Author Profile
As one of the principal architects of the French Enlightenment, Voltaire wields an influence on all subsequent world history.
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The Great Conversation: Element
Nature that fram’d us of four elements, / Warring within our breast for regiment, / Doth teach us all to have aspiring minds: / Our souls, whose faculties can comprehend / The wondrous architecture of the world …
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The Great Conversation: Citizen
The relation between citizenship and legal rights, sex, ethnicity, religion, economic class, and a host of other things has a complicated history.
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The Great Conversation: Temperance
“The archer that shoots over, misses as much as he that falls short, and ’tis equally troublesome to my sight to look up at a great light, and to look down into a dark abyss.” Michel de Montaigne
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The Great Conversation: Space
A vacuum is defined precisely by not being anything, unless sheer empty space is a thing. But if it is, what is it? How do you define it?
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The Bhagavad Gītā: A Book Profile
Though it has been available in European languages for only a couple of centuries, the Bhagavad Gita has had a tremendous influence on the world’s culture.
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