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Renaissance humanist. Desiderius Erasmus (1466–1536). Humanist, advocate of free will. Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527). Political realism. Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543). Scientist, whose works affected Philosophy of Science. Sir Thomas More (1478–1535). Humanist, created term "utopia". Martin Luther (1483–1546). Major Western ...
A.C. Grayling: Prominent British philosopher, author of The Good Book: A Humanist Bible [39] David Gross: American particle physicist and string theorist. Along with Frank Wilczek and David Politzer, he was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of asymptotic freedom; one of 21 Nobel Laureates who signed the Humanist ...
American book publisher [29] George E. Bria: 1916–2017: 101: American journalist [30] Sir Harry Brittain: 1873–1974: 100: British journalist and founder of the Empire Press Union [31] Arthur Judson Brown: 1856–1963: 106: American clergyman, missionary and author [citation needed] William Slater Brown: 1896–1997: 100: American novelist ...
Scholar J. Brent Crosson argues that, while there is a widely-held belief that the birth of humanism was solely a European affair, intellectual thought from Africa and Asia significantly contributed as well. He also notes that during enlightenment, the universal man did not encompass all humans but was shaped by gender and race.
The following is a list of Renaissance humanists, ... Italian poet, court historian, and author of military works; Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) (French)
No author is named; instead, facing the title page was an engraved portrait done by Samuel Hollyer, [58] but 500 lines into the body of the text he calls himself "Walt Whitman, an American, one of the roughs, a kosmos, disorderly, fleshly, and sensual, no sentimentalist, no stander above men or women or apart from them, no more modest than ...
List of books by Amory Lovins; List of books by Martin Luther; List of books by Madonna; List of books by Thomas Hunt Morgan; List of works by Robert Morrison; List of works by Vladimir Nabokov; List of works by John Neal; List of books by Andre Norton; List of Dr. Seuss books; List of works by Pierre Schaeffer; List of works by Clark Ashton Smith
H.L. Mencken produced the first book on Nietzsche in English in 1907, The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, and in 1910 a book of translated paragraphs from Nietzsche, increasing knowledge of his philosophy in the United States. [266] Nietzsche is known today as a precursor to existentialism, post-structuralism and postmodernism. [267]