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    ...religion took hold; Greek rationalism was actively suppressed...contrast between this classical rationalism and the (in his description...councils until the eighth century. Mr. Freemans greatest...across the span of several centuries, which is manifestly not...republic built on Greek-style rationalism, the stoic virtues of its...
     
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    ...with an Air Pump Tackles Ethics at Olney Theatre. Byline...silken shifting between centuries and is breathtakingly similar...gardening in the 18th and 19th centuries, as well as a meditation...1999, the eve of a new century in which man has unlocked...moral quandaries. The 20th century is seen through the eyes...does double duty as the modern-day couple), a researcher...kitchen floor, opening up a centuries-old mystery about the...
     
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    A Revolution Fought in the Streets - but Forged on the Internet; the 20th Anniversary of the First Gulf War Reminds Us of a Time When Western Military Might Was the Wonder of the World. but...back to the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia which brought an end to a devastating era of religious war and established the modern concept of sovereignty. It cemented the principle that while you might abhor the beliefs and actions of a prince in...own citizens to stop this happening? There was little time for tortured debate about international law and eternal ethics in 2001 when Afghanistans Taliban regime refused to hand over Osama bin Laden in the wake of the September 11 terrorist...West had the capacity to oust thuggish rulers and stamp on their killing machines, but the first decade of the 21st century ended with Britain and America looking like weaker powers. The states seemed unable to impose democracy on the countries...
     
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    Vanquishing Modern Gods in Defense of Religion. Byline...and charm, Robert Royal guides the modern reader through two millennia of Western...the 18th-century Enlightenment, 20th-century Marxism, and postmodern cynicism...Royal points to the failure of several modern "gods" that "offered themselves...Inquisition, which "in the course of three centuries" killed "around three thousand...Lefever is founding president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and the editor...
     
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    ...Man Who Helped Shape Events in Final Century of Last Millennium. Byline: By MARTHA...of the most influential figures of modern times POPE JOHN PAUL II will be remembered...communicators and most influential figures of modern times. Born Karol Jozef Wojtyla on...hallmark of his reign. He likened the modern debates on euthanasia and abortion...encyclical, published to mark his 20th anniversary as Pontiff, called for...professor of moral theology and social ethics and then a bishop at the age of 38...
     

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    ...Karl Jaspers. In religion, rationalism is the view that recognizes...scholasticism . In the 18th cent. rationalism produced a religion of its...Heimann, Reason and Faith in Modern Society (1961); T. F...1971); R. L. Arrington, Rationalism, Realism, and Relativism...
     
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    ...niz m, yooti , in ethics, the theory that the...those affected by it. Utilitarianism is a form of consequentialism...presented a version of utilitarianism in which he rejected...pleasure. Later in the 20th cent., versions of utilitarianism have been propounded...J. C. Smart and B. Williams, Utilitarianism...
     
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    ...Forssmann Juan Ramon Jimenez 1957 Lester B. Pearson Sir Alexander R. Todd Tsung...A. Glaser Sir Macfarlane Burnet P. B. Medawar St.-John Perse 1961 Dag Hammarskjold...Childrens Emergency Fund Robert Burns Woodward Richard Phillips Feynman Shinichiro Tomonaga Julian...Max Delbruck Alfred D. Hershey Salvador B. Luria Samuel Beckett 1970 Norman E...Euler Alexandr I. Solzhenitsyn 1971 Willy Brandt Gerhard Herzberg Dennis Gabor Earl W...
     
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    ...established (c.600 b.c.) inquiry independent...was only in the early 20th cent. that psychology...process of knowing. Ethics deals with problems...with the Renaissance, modern philosophy, whose main...the early 6th cent. b.c., consisting of...Ages to the Nineteenth Century Scholasticism, the...culminated in England in the utilitarianism of John Stuart Mill...1901, repr. 1968); B. Russell, A History...
     
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    BARTH, KARL bart, 1886 1968, Swiss Protestant theologian, one of the leading thinkers of 20th-century Protestantism. He helped to found the Confessing Church and his thinking formed the theological framework for the...primary object was to lead theology back to the principles of the Reformation (called neo-orthodoxy). For Barth, modern theology with its assent to science, immanent philosophy, and general culture and with its stress on feeling, was...Church Dogmatics (Vol. I-IV, tr. 1936 62). See T. F. Torrance, Karl Barth (1966); R. E. Willis, The Ethics of Karl Barth (1971); E. Busch, Karl Barth (1976); G. W. Bromiley, An Introduction to the Theology of Karl...
     

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