Word: philosophere
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Picasso was not a philosopher or a mathematician (there is no "geometry" in Cubism), but the work he and Braque did between 1911 and 1918 was intuitively bound to the perceptions of thinkers like Einstein and Alfred North Whitehead: that reality is not figure and void, it is all relationships...
A government concentrator, Kristol found a mentor in Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53, who advised his thesis on the French philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville.
President Neil L. Rudenstine named Robert C. Merton, the Harvard Business School (HBS) professor who shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics, as the first John and Natty McArthur University Professor. Cornel West '74, famed author and philosopher, will hold the first Alphonse Fletcher Jr. University Professorship. And William Julius...
Where? To no specific place, really. As we learned from the great moral relativists who have formed the bedrock of our education: There are no right answers; there is no center; everything is relative. The many roads we took to get here will continue on in separate lanes beyond this...
All these examples hint at the power of language among the characters in the book. What is most striking and intelligent about this pondering on language, however, pertains to the notion of meaning. Pella is entirely and explicitly aware of the ambiguity of words, the indeterminate meanings of utterances. Archbuilder...