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91assertion — I noun adfirmatio, affirmation, allegation, announcement, asseveration, attestation, averment, avouchment, avowal, declaration, defensio, disclosure, enunciation, expression, insistence, insistence on a claim, insistence on a right, ipse dixit,… …
92Polis and its culture (The) — The polis and its culture Robin Osborne INTRODUCTION ‘We love wisdom without becoming soft’, Thucydides has the Athenian politician Pericles claim, using the verb philosophein.1 Claims to, and respect for, wisdom in archaic Greece were by no… …
93Augustine — Gerard O’Daly 1 LIFE AND PHILOSOPHICAL READINGS Augustine was born in Thagaste (modern Souk Ahras in Algeria) in Roman North Africa in AD 354. He died as bishop of Hippo (now Annaba, Algeria) in 430. His education followed the standard Roman… …
94Religion (Philosophies of) — Philosophies of religion Marcel, Jaspers, Levinas William Desmond Gabriel Marcel (1889–1973), Karl Jaspers (1883–1969) and Emmanuel Levinas (1906–) seem like a mere aggregate of thinkers. Jaspers, a German thinker who coined the phrase Existenz… …
95Idealism (italian) and after — Italian idealism and after Gentile, Croce and others Giacomo Rinaldi INTRODUCTION The history of twentieth century Italian philosophy is strongly influenced both by the peculiar character of its evolution in the preceding century and by… …
96One-Eyed Jacks — (1961) This film began as a STANLEY KUBRICK project. MARLON BRANDO had been hankering to make a Western since the mid 1950s, encompassing “the beautiful hills and the wild life of the old West,” according to JOHN BAXTER’s biography. By the… …
97insist — 01. My sister s boyfriend [insisted] that he drive us home after the party because it was so late and the buses had stopped running. 02. He went to the job interview at his wife s [insistence], and ended up getting the job. 03. The boys were… …
98fetish — 1. Fetish, meaning ‘a thing evoking special respect’ (and more precise meanings in anthropology and psychology), is now pronounced fet ish. The word is a 17c adoption of French fétiche, and was originally an African object or amulet having… …
99imperativeness — noun 1. the state of demanding notice or attention the insistence of their hunger the press of business matters • Syn: ↑insistence, ↑insistency, ↑press, ↑pressure • Derivationally related forms: ↑ …
100insisting — noun continual and persistent demands • Syn: ↑insistence • Derivationally related forms: ↑insist, ↑insistent (for: ↑insistence), ↑insist (for: ↑ …
