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Palo, also known as Las Reglas de Congo, is a African diasporic religion that developed in Cuba during the late 19th or early 20th century. It draws heavily upon the traditional Kongo religion of Central Africa, with additional influences taken from Catholicism and from Spiritism.
He also studied philosophy, more specifically phenomenology, and the psychology of language. Although admitted to the legal bar, he never practiced law and instead worked as a secondary school Portuguese teacher. In 1944, he married Elza Maia Costa de Oliveira, a fellow teacher. The two worked together and had five children. [44]
Richard McKay Rorty (October 4, 1931 – June 8, 2007) was an American philosopher and historian of ideas.Educated at the University of Chicago and Yale University, Rorty's academic career included appointments as the Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, the Kenan Professor of Humanities at the University of Virginia, and as a professor of comparative literature at Stanford ...
Paolo Soleri (21 June 1919 – 9 April 2013) [1] was an American architect and urban planner. He established the educational Cosanti Foundation and Arcosanti.Soleri was a lecturer in the College of Architecture at Arizona State University and a National Design Award recipient in 2006.
Gregory Bateson (9 May 1904 – 4 July 1980) was an English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician, and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields.
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Paul Watzlawick was born in Villach, Austria in 1921, the son of a bank director. [1] After he graduated from high school in 1939, Watzlawick studied philosophy and philology at the Università Ca' Foscari Venice and he earned a PhD (doctor of philosophy degree) in 1949.
Derk Pereboom was born in the village of Pesse, near Hoogeveen, the Netherlands, on February 6, 1957.He received his BA in philosophy at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1978, where his teachers included Alvin Plantinga and Nicholas Wolterstorff.