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  2. Great man theory - Wikipedia

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    Great man theory. Napoleon, a typical great man, said to have created the "Napoleonic" era through his military and political genius. The great man theory is an approach to the study of history popularised in the 19th century according to which history can be largely explained by the impact of great men, or heroes: highly influential and unique ...

  3. Phronesis - Wikipedia

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    Phronesis is a disposition or habit, which reveals the being of the action [clarification needed] while deliberation is the mode of bringing about the disclosive appropriation [jargon] of that action. In other words, deliberation is the way in which the phronetic nature of Dasein ’s insight [clarification needed] is made manifest.

  4. Aristotle Onassis - Wikipedia

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    Aristotle Socrates Onassis ( / oʊˈnæsɪs /, US also /- ˈnɑː -/; [1] Greek: Αριστοτέλης Ωνάσης, romanized : Aristotélis Onásis, pronounced [aristoˈtelis oˈnasis]; 20 January 1906 – 15 March 1975) [2] was a Greek and Argentine [3] [4] business magnate. He amassed the world's largest privately-owned shipping fleet and ...

  5. Manticore - Wikipedia

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    Persian: مرد; mard + خوردن; khordan ); [a] [4] [5] [6] i.e., man-eater. The ultimate source of manticore was Ctesias, Greek physician of the Persian court during the Achaemenid dynasty, and is based on the testimonies of his Persian-speaking informants who had travelled to India.

  6. Zeno's paradoxes - Wikipedia

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    Zeno's paradoxes. Zeno's paradoxes are a series of philosophical arguments presented by the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea (c. 490–430 BC), [1] [2] primarily known through the works of Plato, Aristotle, and later commentators like Simplicius of Cilicia. [2] Zeno devised these paradoxes to support his teacher Parmenides 's philosophy ...

  7. Theodor W. Adorno - Wikipedia

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    e. Theodor W. Adorno ( / əˈdɔːrnoʊ / ə-DOR-noh, [8] German: [ˈteːodoːɐ̯ ʔaˈdɔʁno] ⓘ; [9] [10] born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund; 11 September 1903 – 6 August 1969) was a German philosopher, musicologist, and social theorist . He was a leading member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory, whose work has come to be ...

  8. Philosophy of history - Wikipedia

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    Philosophy of history. Philosophy of history is the philosophical study of history and its discipline. [1] The term was coined by the French philosopher Voltaire. [2] In contemporary philosophy a distinction has developed between the speculative philosophy of history and the critical philosophy of history, now referred to as analytic.

  9. Xiaomi - Wikipedia

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    A Xiaomi Exclusive Service Centre for customer support in Kuala Lumpur. Xiaomi Corporation ( / ˈʃaʊmi /; [2] Chinese: 小米 集团 ), commonly known as Xiaomi and registered as Xiaomi Inc., is a Chinese designer and manufacturer of consumer electronics and related software, home appliances, automobiles and household hardware.