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Einstein
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SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE IS THE MOST RELIABLE AND USEFUL KNOWLEDGE THAT HUMAN BEINGS POSSESS
KARL POPPER
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plato.stanford.edu/entries/popper
“SCIENCE IS PERHAPS THE ONLY HUMAN ACTIVITY IN WHICH ERRORS ARE SYSTEMATICALLY CRITICISED AND,. . . IN TIME, CORRECTED ~ KARL POPPER
JACQUES LACAN
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The French psychoanalyst Jaques Lacan reinterpreted Freud in terms of structural linguistics. As a result he became an important influence on structuralist thought.
Prayer
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Church
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LIVING TO THE FULL
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It is often the young who challenge the rules and regulations set out by society. For this reason, many young people were thrilled the freedom conveyed in Sartre’s statement that we all have “total choice of oneself”
Checking the Facts
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Members of the Vienna Circle believed that the true meaning of a statement is revealed when we ask ourselves what we have to do to establish its truth or falsehood, that the meaning of a statement can be revealed by its mode of verification. This man at the College of Arms is collecting information to identify the details of heraldic insignia
plato.stanford.edu/entries/vienna-circle
BERTRAND RUSSELL
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Russell spent the last 15 years of his lie actively campaigning against the manufacture of nuclear weapons. Even at the age of 90, he intervened with heads of state during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, when the USA told the Soviets to withdraw nuclear missiles from Cuba or face nuclear attack
“THE SECRET OF HAPPINESS IS TO FACE THE FACT THAT THE WORLD IS HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE” ~ RUSSELL
Yo, Ho, Neighbour....!
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
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“MAN IS A ROPE, TIDE BETWEEN BEAST AND SUPERMAN -- A ROPE OVER AN ABYSS” ~ Nietzsche
SHACKLED BY VALUE SYSTESM
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Nietzsche believed that innovators were constrained -- in the name of morality -- by values that set them on equal terms with the mass of mankind. This German illustration of 1895 shows Sunday tied by the value systems of Church and State.
The POWER of IDEAS
The Means of subsistence
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POLARIZATION OF THE CLASSES
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Marx’s theory defines social classes economically. He believed that technological advance would concentrate ownership and control into fewer and fewer hands, so that the capitalist class would get ever smaller while the working class grew larger
KARL MARX
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In 1845 Karl Marx was expelled from France and Germany for his revolutionary activities. He eventually settled in 1849 in London, where he spent many hours in the Reading Room of the British Library. He is buried in Highgate Cemetry.
Revolution in Europe
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During the 19th century the nationalist sentiments that sprang up throughout Europe provided a ideological impetus for several rebellions against existing imperial powers. This plate depicts a scene from 1848 revolution in Berlin
No news is good news
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no news is good news
idiom saying
said to make someone feel less worried when they have not received information about someone or something, because if something bad had happened, they would have been told about it:
We haven't heard anything from the hospital today, but I suppose no news is good news.
Source: Cambridge dictionary
