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Nietzsche writes of the 'free spirit' or 'free thinker' (German: freigeist), and his role in society; [13] a sort of proto-Übermensch, forming the basis of a concept he extensively explores in his later work, Thus Spoke Zarathustra. A free spirit is one who goes against the herd, and "onwards along the path of wisdom" in order to better ...
With the introduction of cantonal church taxes in the 1870s, anti-clericals began to organise themselves. Around 1870, a "freethinkers club" was founded in Zürich.During the debate on the Zürich church law in 1883, professor Friedrich Salomon Vögelin and city council member Kunz proposed to separate church and state.
Freethought (sometimes spelled free thought) is an unorthodox attitude or belief. [1]A freethinker holds that beliefs should not be formed on the basis of authority, tradition, revelation, or dogma, [2] and should instead be reached by other methods such as logic, reason, and empirical observation.
[3] In 1930, the German Freethinkers League ('Deutscher Freidenkerbund') was renamed as Deutscher Freidenker-Verband (German Freethinkers Association) and Max Sievers was elected chairman. The largest organization of its sort in Germany at the time, by 1933, the German Freethinkers League had a membership numbering some 500,000. [ 4 ]
Roman numerals: for example the word "six" in the clue might be used to indicate the letters VI; The name of a chemical element may be used to signify its symbol; e.g., W for tungsten; The days of the week; e.g., TH for Thursday; Country codes; e.g., "Switzerland" can indicate the letters CH; ICAO spelling alphabet: where Mike signifies M and ...
Mary Wollstonecraft (UK: / ˈ w ʊ l s t ən k r ɑː f t / WUUL-stən-krahft, US: /-k r æ f t /-kraft; [1] 27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was an English writer and philosopher best known for her advocate of women's rights.
The April 2014 edition of The Freethinker contained an announcement that the May issue would be the last to appear in print; publication would continue online. [3] The Freethinker kept its own website until all new content was moved to a section of the Patheos website, the first article appearing on 16 July 2021.
The Free Thought — a Ukrainian-language newspaper published in Australia; The Freethinker, British journal, oldest surviving secularist publication in the world, first published in 1881; The Freethinker, a Whig newspaper founded in 1718 by Ambrose Philips and Hugh Boulter; The Freethinker, a 1994 film by Peter Watkins.