WebOdyssey Writing Workshop, an annual fantasy-writing workshop at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire, U.S. Books. Odyssey (novel), a 2007 novel by Jack McDevitt "Odyssey" (Ulysses part), the middle part of James Joyce's novel Ulysses; Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple, a book by former Apple Inc. CEO John Sculley

WebAnselm of Canterbury (/ ˈ æ n s ɛ l m /; 1033/4–1109), also called Anselm of Aosta (Italian: Anselmo d'Aosta) after his birthplace and Anselm of Bec (French: Anselme du Bec) after his monastery, was an Italian Benedictine monk, abbot, philosopher and theologian of the Catholic Church, who held the office of Archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109. After …

WebJohn Scotus Eriugena, also known as Johannes Scotus Erigena, John the Scot, or John the Irish-born (c. 800 – c. 877) was an Irish Neoplatonist philosopher, theologian and poet of the Early Middle Ages. Bertrand Russell dubbed him "the most astonishing person of the ninth century".The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy states he "is the most significant …

WebHistory Greco-Roman antecedents. The seven deadly sins as we know them had pre-Christian Greek and Roman precedents. Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics lists several excellences or virtues.Aristotle argues that each positive quality represents a golden mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice. Courage, for example, is the virtue of …

WebRothschild (German pronunciation: [ˈʁoːt.ʃɪlt]) is a name derived from the German zum rothen Schild (with the old spelling "th"), meaning "with the red sign", in reference to the houses where these family members lived or had lived. At the time, houses were designated by signs with different symbols or colors, not numbers. The name Rothschild in Yiddish …

WebOther. Georg Wilhelm Wanderer, German portrait-painter; Wanderer (company), a German automobile manufacturer Wanderer, 1986; Wanderer (AROS), a user interface based on Zune widget toolkit The Wanderers (band), a 1981 punk band established by Stiv Bators The Wanderer (criminal) (1958–2018), nickname for Norwegian criminal Terje Larsen The …

WebThe evil demon, also known as Descartes' demon, malicious demon and evil genius, is an epistemological concept that features prominently in Cartesian philosophy.In the first of his 1641 Meditations on First Philosophy, Descartes imagines that an evil demon, of "utmost power and cunning has employed all his energies in order to deceive me."This evil …

WebVoluntarism is "any metaphysical or psychological system that assigns to the will (Latin: voluntas) a more predominant role than that attributed to the intellect", or equivalently "the doctrine that will is the basic factor, both in the universe and in human conduct". Voluntarism has appeared at various points throughout the history of philosophy, seeing application in …

WebThe word "college" is from the Latin verb lego, legere, legi, lectum, "to collect, gather together, pick", plus the preposition cum, "with", thus meaning "selected together". Thus "colleagues" are literally "persons who have been selected to work together". In ancient Rome a collegium was a "body, guild, corporation united in colleagueship; of magistrates, …

WebBooks and periodicals. Athenaeum (German magazine), a journal of German Romanticism, established 1798; Athenaeum (British magazine), a weekly London literary magazine 1828–1921; The Athenaeum (Acadia University), a student newspaper of Acadia University, Nova Scotia; The Daily Athenaeum, the newspaper of West Virginia University; The …