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JRR Tolkien is well-known and beloved for his renowned Hobbit and Lord of the Rings fantasies. Tolkien is lesser known, however, for his non-fiction insight...

Like a great many problematic and disputed concepts in society today, the idea of animal rights can be traced to the Enlightenment period in the seventeenth ...

The following article by Dr. Pnina Galpaz Feller is reprinted with the kind permission of The Schechter Institutes which, since 1984, has been researching an...

What’s the most important word in the English language? Indeed, what is the most important word in any language? The most important word will be the word th...

Nearly everyone today believes in human rights...or at least, they say they believe in human rights. But when pushed to give a coherent definition of rights...

The following excerpt is from an essay, contributed to the 1948 UNESCO symposium on human rights, by Chinese scholar, Chung-Shu Lo. Before Considering the ge...

The following is an excerpt from Aldous Huxley’s contribution to the 1947-48 UNESCO symposium on human rights. Huxley offers a bleak outlook for humanity, i...

The following is Yale professor, F. S. C. Northrop's 1947 contribution to the UNESCO symposium on the meaning of and value of human rights. A Bill of Rights ...

Desiderius Erasmus, the most brilliant and most important leader of German humanism, b. at Rotterdam, Holland, October 28, probably in 1466; d. at Basle, Swi...

Knight, Lord Chancellor of England, author and martyr, born in London, 7 February, 1477-78; executed at Tower Hill, 6 July, 1535. He was declared a saint by...

A French poet and historiographer, born at Venice, 1363; died in France, 1430. Although an Italian by birth, she was French at heart as well as in education ...

English poet, born in London between 1340 and 1345; died there, 25 October, 1400. John Chaucer, a vintner and citizen of London, married Agnes, heiress of on...

Greek philosopher and educational reformer of the fifth century B.C.; born at Athens, 469 B.C.; died there, 399 B.C. After having received the usual Athenian...

Born at Böckelheim on the Nahe, 1098; died on the Rupertsberg near Bingen, 1179; feast 17 September. The family name is unknown of this great seeress and pro...

A writer of the second century, known to us almost exclusively from Eusebius, who tells us that he wrote in five books in the simplest style the true traditi...

Medieval philosopher, theologian, and mystical writer; b. 1096, at the manor of Hartingham in Saxony; d. 11 March, 1141. The works of Derling and of Hugonin ...

The great St. Augustine's life is unfolded to us in documents of unrivaled richness, and of no great character of ancient times have we information comparabl...

Italian poet, born at Florence, 1265; died at Ravenna, Italy, 14 September, 1321. His own statement in the "Paradiso" (xxii, 112-117) that he was born when t...

Historian and Doctor of the Church, born 672 or 673; died 735. In the last chapter of his great work on the "Ecclesiastical History of the English People" Be...

Roman statesman and philosopher, often styled "the last of the Romans", regarded by tradition as a Christian martyr, born at Rome in 480; died at Pavia in 52...