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Tolkien on Impossible Love

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

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Do Animals Have Rights?

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

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Things are not always as they seem

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

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The foundation of all reason

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

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Do "human rights" exist?

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

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Chung-Shu Lo: A Confucian Approach to Human Rights

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

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Aldous Huxley on the Current Situation Affecting Human Rights

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

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An Empirical Approach to Rights

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

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Desiderius Erasmus

Desiderius Erasmus, the most brilliant and most important leader of German humanism, b. at Rotterdam, Holland, October 28, probably in 14...

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Thomas More

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

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Christine of Pizan

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

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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

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Socrates

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

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Hildegard of Bingen

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

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Hegesippus

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 st...

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Hugh of St Victor

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

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St Augustine of Hippo

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 i...

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Dante Alighieri

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

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St Bede the Venerable

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 th...

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Boethius

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

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