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Maurice Jean Jacques Merleau-Ponty [2] ( French: [mɔʁis mɛʁlo pɔ̃ti, moʁ-]; 14 March 1908 – 3 May 1961) was a French phenomenological philosopher, strongly influenced by Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. The constitution of meaning in human experience was his main interest and he wrote on perception, art, politics, religion, biology ...
The World (book) Categories: René Descartes. Works by French writers. 17th-century French literature. 17th-century Dutch books. Philosophical works by writer. Modern philosophical literature.
Francine Descartes. Francine Descartes (19 July 1635, Deventer – 7 September 1640, Amersfoort) was René Descartes 's daughter. Francine was the daughter of Helena Jans van der Strom, [1] a domestic servant of Thomas Sergeant — a bookshop owner and associate of Descartes at whose house in Amsterdam Descartes lodged on 15 October 1634.
1964. ( 1964) Website. lfrdrdc .org. Lycée Français René Descartes Kinshasa is a French international school in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, [1] established in 1964. [2] It serves maternelle (preschool) through terminale, the final year of lycée (senior high school). In 2016–17 it had about 950 students.
Francis Bacon. Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban [a] PC ( / ˈbeɪkən /; [5] 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626), known as Lord Verulam between 1618 and 1621, was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England under King James I. Bacon led the advancement of both natural philosophy and the ...
The World (Tarot card), a Major Arcana in the tarot deck. Ontological world, by which human beings are able to make sense of things in general, see world disclosure. World view, the framework of ideas and beliefs through which an individual interprets the world. World B. Free (born Lloyd B. Free), an American basketball player.
French philosophy, here taken to mean philosophy in the French language, has been extremely diverse and has influenced Western philosophy as a whole for centuries, from the medieval scholasticism of Peter Abelard, through the founding of modern philosophy by René Descartes, to 20th century philosophy of science, existentialism, phenomenology, structuralism, and postmodernism.
The Strasbourg Cathedral in France, completed in 1439, was the world's tallest building until 1874. The first skyscraper was pioneered in Chicago with the 138 ft (42.1 m) Home Insurance Building in 1885. The United States would remain the location of the world's tallest building throughout the 20th century until 1998, when the Petronas Towers ...