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  2. Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda - Wikipedia

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    Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda (1490 – 17 November 1573) was a Spanish humanist, philosopher, and theologian of the Spanish Renaissance. He is mainly known for his participation in a famous debate with Bartolomé de las Casas in Valladolid, Spain, in 1550–1551. The debate centered on the legitimacy of the conquest and colonization of America by ...

  3. Theology of Aristotle - Wikipedia

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    Theology of Aristotle. The Theology of Aristotle, also called Theologia Aristotelis ( Arabic: أثولوجيا أرسطو, romanized : Athulujiya Aristu) is a paraphrase in Arabic of parts of Plotinus ' Six Enneads along with Porphyry 's commentary. It was traditionally attributed to Aristotle, but as this attribution is certainly untrue it is ...

  4. Transmission of the Greek Classics - Wikipedia

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    The School of Athens. , were partly lost to Western Europeans for centuries. The transmission of the Greek Classics to Latin Western Europe during the Middle Ages was a key factor in the development of intellectual life in Western Europe. [1] Interest in Greek texts and their availability was scarce in the Latin West during the Early Middle ...

  5. Works of Aristotle - Wikipedia

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    The works of Aristotle, sometimes referred to by modern scholars with the Latin phrase Corpus Aristotelicum, is the collection of Aristotle 's works that have survived from antiquity. According to a distinction that originates with Aristotle himself, [citation needed] his writings are divisible into two groups: the "exoteric" and the "esoteric ...

  6. Eureka (word) - Wikipedia

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    The Eureka Stockade was a revolt in 1854 by gold miners against unjust mining license fees and a brutal administration supervising the miners. The rebellion demonstrated the refusal of the workers to be dominated by unfair government and laws. The Eureka Stockade has often been referred to as the "birth of democracy " in Australia.

  7. Aristotle - Wikipedia

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    Aristotle [A] ( Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs, pronounced [aristotélɛːs]; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the arts. As the founder of the Peripatetic school of ...

  8. Parva Naturalia - Wikipedia

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    The Parva Naturalia (a conventional Latin title first used by Giles of Rome: "short treatises on nature") are a collection of seven works by Aristotle, which discuss natural phenomena involving the body and the soul. They form parts of Aristotle's biology. The individual works are as follows (with links to online English translations):

  9. The Life of Reason - Wikipedia

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    The Life of Reason. The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress is a book published in five volumes from 1905 to 1906, by Spanish-born American philosopher George Santayana. It consists of Reason in Common Sense, Reason in Society, Reason in Religion, Reason in Art, and Reason in Science . The work is considered to be the most complete ...