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Aeschylus (UK: / ˈ iː s k ɪ l ə s /, [1] US: / ˈ ɛ s k ɪ l ə s /; [2] Ancient Greek: Αἰσχύλος Aischýlos; c. 525 /524 – c. 456 /455 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian often described as the father of tragedy.
1141 – Judah Halevi was killed on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. 1180 – Abraham ibn Daud was martyred. 1204 - Maimonides died from exhaustion after extensive traveling. [2] 1277 – Pope John XXI (usually identified with the logician Peter of Spain) was killed by the collapse of a roof. 1284 – Siger of Brabant was stabbed to death by his clerk.
The horse was also killed and another worker was seriously injured. [496] [497] Anthony Hensley 14 April 2012: The 37-year-old was killed by a swan while kayaking across a pond at a residential complex in Des Plaines, Illinois. After getting too close to the bird's nest, the swan attacked him, threw him out of the kayak and prevented him from ...
Michael Gelven, (1937-2018) was a Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Northern Illinois University, where he taught for 46 years.Gelven held a Ph.D. in philosophy from Washington University, penned a well known commentary on Martin Heidegger's Being and Time, and wrote several books as well as numerous scholarly articles.
Thompson's 1981 book The Time Falling Bodies Take To Light: Mythology, Sexuality, and the Origins of Culture was reviewed in the New York Times Book Review by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt. Lehmann-Haupt concluded: In The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light, William Irwin Thompson has gone part of the way toward rescuing mysticism from its Western ...
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Murphy was born in Ithaca, New York.He earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy from University of California, Berkeley in 1923, then went on to earn a doctorate there. He took an appointment at University of Chicago in 1927, then went to Cornell University in 1928 before returning to Chicago in 1929.
David Lee Hull (June 15, 1935 – August 11, 2010) [1] was an American philosopher who was most notable for founding the field philosophy of biology. [2] Hull is recognized within evolutionary culture studies as contributing heavily in early discussions of the conceptualization of memetics.