Abelard: An Author Profile
AbelardAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard The intellectual revival that took place in eleventh and twelfth century Paris lies at the heart of western thought. ❧ Full name: […]
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Montesquieu: An Author Profile
MontesquieuAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard We have a general notion of the debt our government structure owes to the British, the Romans, even possibly the Iroquois; but
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Pasteur: An Author Profile
PasteurAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard From the shots we cajole our little ones through (or grimace over ourselves!) to the milk we pull from the fridge in
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Hugh of St. Victor: An Author Profile
Hugh of St. VictorAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard Little known today, the flowering of learning over which Hugh of St. Victor presided was one of the most
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The Great Conversation: Philosophy—Part I
The Great Conversation: Philosophy—Part I By Gabriel Blanchard The single broadest, most intricate, most bitterly disputed area of human thought and conversation. We can knock that out in
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Rousseau: An Author Profile
RousseauAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard The political and cultural cascades we tumble over today find their headwater in the cool, glassy well of Lake Geneva. ❧ Full
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St. Hildegard of Bingen: An Author Profile
St. Hildegard of BingenAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard Today we discuss the life and times of a renaissance woman—albeit the rennaissance in question was not that of
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Terence: An Author Profile
TerenceAn Author Profile By Gabrie Blanchard The frivolity of Terence’s plays conceals a great depth of human feeling. ❧ Full name: Publius Terentius Afer [püb-lē-ŭs tê-rĕn-tē-ŭs ä-fêŕ; see
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Boyle: An Author Profile
BoyleAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard We often, rightly, admire the intellectual gifts of great authors; yet there is a moral quality the sciences especially can’t go on
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Hughes: An Author Profile
HughesAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard Human dignity perennially demands both political and artistic expression; in Langston Hughes, both impulses are revealed. ❧ Full name: James Mercer Langston
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