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  • 111Julien Offray de La Mettrie — Full name Julien Offray de La Mettrie Born 19 December 1709 Saint Malo, France Died 11 …

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  • 112Religious violence — The Crusades were a series of a military campaigns fought mainly between Christian Europe and Muslims. Shown here is a battle scene from the First Crusade. Religious violence is a term that covers all phenomena where religion, in any of its forms …

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  • 113Moralia — Plutarch Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus Μέστριος Πλούταρχος Bust of Plutarch located at the Archaeological Museum of Delphi. Born Circa 46 CE Chaeronea, Boeotia D …

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  • 114Criticism of Islam — For criticism of Islamic extremism, see Criticism of Islamism. For fear of or prejudice against Islam, rather than simple criticism, see Islamophobia …

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  • 115Quietism (Christian philosophy) — Quietism is a Christian philosophy that swept through France, Italy and Spain during the 17th century, but it had much earlier origins. The mystics known as Quietists insist with more or less emphasis on intellectual stillness and interior… …

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  • 116Ancient Greek medicine — The Hippocratic Corpus, is a collection of around seventy early medical works from ancient Greece strongly associated with the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates and his teachings. The first known Greek medical school opened in Cnidus in 700 BC …

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  • 117Theodorus the Atheist — Theodorus ( el. Θεόδωρος) the Atheist, of Cyrene, was a philosopher of the Cyrenaic school who lived around 300 BC. He lived in both Greece and Alexandria, before ending his days in his native city of Cyrene. As a Cyrenaic philosopher, he taught… …

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  • 118Diogène d'Œnoanda — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Diogène. Diogène d Œnoanda (ou Oinoanda) est un épicurien grec du IIe siècle qui a fait graver un résumé de la philosophie d Épicure sur un portique de mur dans la ville antique de Œnoanda en Lycie (Asie… …

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  • 119Lettre à Ménécée — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Ménécée. La Lettre à Ménécée est une lettre écrite par le philosophe Épicure à son disciple Ménécée[1]. Le texte résume la doctrine éthique d Épicure[2] et propose une méthode pour atteindre le bonheur …

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  • 120physical science — physical scientist. 1. any of the natural sciences dealing with inanimate matter or with energy, as physics, chemistry, and astronomy. 2. these sciences collectively. [1835 45] * * * Introduction       the systematic study of the inorganic world …

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