Ivan Illich. Ivan Illich (/ɪˈvɑːn ˈɪlɪtʃ/;[1] 4 September 1926 – 2 December 2002) was an Austrian philosopher, Roman Catholic priest, and "maverick social critic"[2] of the institutions of contemporary Western culture and their effects on the provenance and practice of education, medicine, work, energy use, transportation, and economic development.
Personal life[edit] He wrote a dissertation focusing on the historian Arnold J. Toynbee and would return to that subject in his later years. In 1951, he "signed up to become a parish priest in one of New York’s poorest neighborhoods—Washington Heights, on the northern tip of Manhattan, then a barrio of fresh-off-the-airplane Puerto Rican immigrants. In 1961, Illich founded the Centro Intercultural de Documentación (fr) (CIDOC, or Intercultural Documentation Center) at Cuernavaca in Mexico, ostensibly a research center offering language courses to missionaries from North America and volunteers of the Alliance for Progress program[5] initiated by John F. Dennis Ritchie: The geek Prometheus - Computers.
Dennis Ritchie created no gadgets to entrance the lustful desire of hundreds of millions of well-heeled consumers, built no companies that bestride the corporate world like Colossus, and made no billions from his revolutionary contributions to the world of computer science. I would venture to guess that less than one-hundredth of 1 percent of the number of people who took shocked notice of the passing of Steve Jobs would even recognize his name. Time magazine will not rip apart its next issue to put the news of his death earlier this week, at age 70, on the cover. But the co-creator (with Ken Thompson) of the Unix operating system and author of the C programming language deserves more than just a moment of silence from programmers everywhere. The modern digital world is built out of the tools that he created, and their descendents.
A lifetime employee of Bell Labs and its various corporate spawn, Ritchie was a geek Prometheus. Frank Kameny obituary: The death and life of a gay rights pioneer. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images.
Frank Kameny’s little house in Northwest Washington, with its falling gutters and swaybacked sofa, must be the most modest building ever named a historic landmark. Kameny lived in the house on Cathedral Avenue for decades, and for decades, gay men who thought they were alone in the world, walked up the path of broken weed-choked stones to find … a movement. Compassion creates a family - latimes.com. Sister Margaret Farrell peers uncertainly over her shoulder as she tries to maneuver a lumbering minivan across several lanes of morning traffic on the Hollywood Freeway.
"I used to drive a cute little nun's car," she says, shaking her head. Her 23-year-old passenger, Leane, chuckles and leans out the window to guide her. They make a cheerful pair: the Irish nun and the transgender woman. Audio slideshow: An unlikely friendship. EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Dr. Rupert J. Ederer. Dr.
Rupert J. Ederer is Professor Emeritus of Buffalo State College (State University of New York). In addition to being a premier Catholic economist1 in the U.S. he is perhaps the greatest living authority on the great minds that helped to pioneer and develop Catholic social teaching since the 19th century. The English speaking world is in debt to Dr. Ederer for providing scholarly translations of the great German classics in Catholic social teaching. 1) Dr. Kenzaburō Ōe. Kenzaburo Oe at Japanisches Kulturinstitut Köln/Cologne (Germany), April 11, 2008 Kenzaburō Ōe (大江 健三郎, Ōe Kenzaburō?
, born January 31, 1935) is a Japanese author and a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature. Florence Price. Florence Beatrice Price (April 9, 1887, Little Rock, Arkansas – June 3, 1953, Chicago, Illinois) was an American composer.
Career[edit] Florence Price (née Smith) is considered the first black woman in the United States to be recognized as a symphonic composer. Even though her training was steeped in European tradition, Price’s music consists of mostly the American idiom and reveals her Southern roots. Ralph Harper, 80, Priest Who Explored Existentialist Themes - Obituary; Biography. Divinity School at the University of Chicago.
Caryll Houselander: An Appreciation. Personal Connections: The Phenomenology of Edith Stein // Hesburgh Libraries // University of Notre Dame. By Marianne Sawicki, Ph.D.
[These remarks are abridged from lectures delivered at St. John’s University in New York on October 15, 1998, and at the Carmelite Monastery in Baltimore on November 13, 1998. For a more technical discussion, see M. Sawicki, Body, Text, and Science (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1997).] Edith Stein was the student of the philosopher Edmund Husserl.
Introduction: Edith Stein's Life and Philosophical Context Edith was the darling and precocious baby sister of a large Jewish family. 1. The first of the four great early treatises is Stein's doctoral dissertation on "empathy," completed in 1916 and published the following year. P. J. O'Rourke. Patrick Jake "P.
J. " O'Rourke (born November 14, 1947) is an American political satirist, journalist, writer, and author. O'Rourke is the H. L. Happy 75th Birthday, Carl Oglesby! Carl Oglesby, wise and lyrical and very American voice of the healthy wing of the New Left, turns 75 this week.
Though he has not been in good health in recent years, I wish him the very happiest of birthdays. In our cowardly and conformist age, Carl had guts and he followed the beat of his own drummer. Herewith, from the May 19, 2008, issue of the indispensable American Conservative (www.amconmag.com), my ramblings on Carl and the New Left. See, also, my interview with Carl in Reason (www.reason.com/archives/2008/03/26/writer-on-the-storm). And may I request a favor of the computer literate in the audience? The ghosts of 1968 are haunting Barack Obama, which is tremendously unfair, I say as his coeval, given that our cohort spent the Chicago Democratic Convention sticking baseball cards in our bicycle spokes rather than pelting Mayor Daley’s finest with porcine epithets.
Max Scheler. Life and career[edit] From Munich to Cologne (1874–1919)[edit] Max Scheler was born in Munich, Germany, August 22, 1874, to a Lutheran father and an Orthodox Jewish mother.
As an adolescent, he turned to Catholicism, likely because of its conception of love, although he became increasingly non-committal around 1921. After 1921 he disassociated himself in public from Catholicism and the Judeo-Christian God,[3][4] committing himself with philosophical anthropology. Scheler studied medicine in Munich and Berlin, both philosophy and sociology under Wilhelm Dilthey and Georg Simmel in 1895.
Scheler has exercised a notable influence on Catholic circles to this day, including his student Stein and Pope John Paul II who wrote his Habilitation and many articles on Scheler's philosophy. D. Iacobescu. Hans Jonas. Jaroslav Pelikan. Jaroslav Jan Pelikan. Jean-Marie Lustiger. Aaron Jean-Marie Lustiger (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ maʁi lystiʒe] ( Life and work[edit] Early years[edit] Lustiger was born Aaron Lustiger in Paris, to a Jewish family. Norman Borlaug. Norman Ernest Borlaug (March 25, 1914 – September 12, 2009)[2] was an American biologist, humanitarian and Nobel laureate who has been called "the father of the Green Revolution",[3] "agriculture's greatest spokesperson"[4] and "The Man Who Saved A Billion Lives".[5][6] He is one of seven people to have won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal[7] and was also awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian honor.[8]
Walter Ciszek.