The President's Budget for Fiscal Year 2013 Opportunity for All: The President’s Fiscal Year 2015 Budget A Roadmap for Growth, Opportunity, and Fiscal Responsibility: The President’s Budget provides a roadmap for accelerating economic growth, expanding opportunity for all Americans, and ensuring fiscal responsibility. It invests in infrastructure, job training, preschool, and pro-work tax cuts, while reducing deficits through health, tax, and immigration reform. Builds on Bipartisan Progress: The Budget adheres to the 2015 spending levels agreed to in the Bipartisan Budget Act and shows the choices the President would make at those levels. But it also shows how to build on this progress to realize the nation’s full potential with a fully paid for $56 billion Opportunity, Growth, and Security Initiative, split evenly between defense and non-defense priorities. Investing in American Innovation to Create Jobs and Opportunity Building a 21st Century Infrastructure Expanding Opportunity and Middle Class Security
Marsilio Ficino Biography[edit] Ficino was born at Figline Valdarno. His father Diotifeci d'Agnolo was a physician under the patronage of Cosimo de' Medici, who took the young man into his household and became the lifelong patron of Marsilio, who was made tutor to his grandson, Lorenzo de' Medici. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, the Italian humanist philosopher and scholar was another of his students. During the sessions at Florence of the Council of Ferrara-Florence in 1438–1445, during the failed attempts to heal the schism of the Orthodox and Catholic churches, Cosimo de' Medici and his intellectual circle had made acquaintance with the Neoplatonic philosopher George Gemistos Plethon, whose discourses upon Plato and the Alexandrian mystics so fascinated the learned society of Florence that they named him the second Plato. A physician and a vegetarian, Ficino became a priest in 1473.[4][5][6] Work[edit] His letters, extending over the years 1474–1494, survive and have been published. Death[edit]
Baruch Spinoza 17th century philosopher Baruch (de) Spinoza (;[14][15] Dutch: [baːˈrux spɪˈnoːzaː]; Portuguese: [ðɨ ʃpiˈnɔzɐ]; born Baruch Espinosa; later as an author and a correspondent Benedictus de Spinoza, anglicized to Benedict de Spinoza; 24 November 1632 – 21 February 1677[17][18][19][20]) was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese Sephardi origin.[12][21][22] One of the early thinkers of the Enlightenment[23] and modern biblical criticism,[24] including modern conceptions of the self and the universe,[25] he came to be considered one of the great rationalists of 17th-century philosophy. Inspired by the groundbreaking ideas of René Descartes, Spinoza became a leading philosophical figure of the Dutch Golden Age. Biography[edit] Family and community origins[edit] Statue (2008) of Spinoza by Nicolas Dings, Amsterdam, Zwanenburgwal, with inscription "The objective of the state is freedom" (translation, quote from Tractatus Theologico-Politicus, 1677) 17th-century Netherlands[edit] Early life[edit] Sources
Giordano Bruno's Multiverse, A Glimpse of His Many Worlds, Preface, David Lane An independent forum for a critical discussion of the integral philosophy of Ken Wilber Today is: Friday, August 03, 2018 Publication dates of essays (month/year) can be found under "Essays". David Christopher Lane, Ph.D. A Glimpse of His Many Worlds Preface David Lane Bruno has taught us that being skeptical is more important than blindly believing. I was raised in a relatively strict Roman Catholic household. I distinctly remember in first grade being taught about heaven and hell and the differences between venal and mortal sins. I took this lesson very seriously and started having some truly frightful nightmares about hell and had trouble sleeping many nights. As I matured I got so disgusted with this type of cultic thinking that I began seriously questioning the myopic views of my more orthodox religion teachers. I was devastated when I heard the news that I was being booted from the school, especially since I had only one more year before graduating. Giordano Bruno L.
The Educate America Foundation - Patriots When our enemies like candidate Obama, there must be a reason... They did their homework, they arn't as ignorant as most voters. Have you done your homework? - You are voting, right? They like him because he will help their cause. Look at these people and organizations up on the internet. If you want America to become what these people want, then by all means, after reading about them, do for your posterity what you now feel is right. "If a Nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be... While Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama "has tried to push his origins into the background, his 'Islamic roots' have won him a place in many Arabs' hearts." That's the observation of Iranian-born commentator Amir Taheri, whose column in Tuesday's New York Post notes that many Arabs and other Muslims see Obama as "one of them." Although Taheri did not note it, Obama has not proven his American Citizenship.
Dichtung und Wahrheit Aus meinem Leben: Dichtung und Wahrheit (From my Life: Poetry and Truth; 1811–1833) is an autobiography by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe that comprises the time from the poet's childhood to the days in 1775, when he was about to leave for Weimar. Structure[edit] The book is divided into four parts, the first three of which were written and published between 1811–14, while the fourth was written mainly in 1830-31 and published in 1833. Each part contains five books. History[edit] Goethe dictated schemes and drafts for Dichtung und Wahrheit, after he had finished his Theory of Colours, in summer 1810 in Carlsbad.[2] He first worked on the autobiography parallelly to his work on Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years; since January 1811, the autobiography became the main subject of his endeavor.[2] Goethe asked Bettina von Arnim to send him the notes that she had written down about his youth on the basis of meetings she had had with his mother out of a related interest. Goethe's intentions[edit]
Averroes ʾAbū l-Walīd Muḥammad bin ʾAḥmad bin Rušd (Arabic: أبو الوليد محمد بن احمد بن رشد), commonly known as Ibn Rushd (Arabic: ابن رشد) or by his Latinized name Averroës (/əˈvɛroʊ.iːz/; April 14, 1126 – December 10, 1198), was an Al-Andalus Muslim polymath, a master of Aristotelian philosophy, Islamic philosophy, Islamic theology, Maliki law and jurisprudence, logic, psychology, politics and Andalusian classical music theory, and the sciences of medicine, astronomy, geography, mathematics, physics and celestial mechanics. Averroes was born in Córdoba, Al Andalus, present-day Spain, and died in Marrakesh, present-day Morocco. He was interred in his family tomb at Córdoba.[6] The 13th-century philosophical movement based on Averroes' work is called Averroism. Averroes was a defender of Aristotelian philosophy against Ash'ari theologians led by Al-Ghazali. Name[edit] Biography[edit] Averroes was the preeminent philosopher in the history of Al-Andalus. Works[edit] Science[edit] Medicine[edit]
Men's Long Sleeve Pull Over - This mans sweater comes right out of the 40's. Exchange this to knit {*style:<b>21" 22" 23" 24" Width across Back or Front above armhole shaping </b>*} {*style:<b> 15' 15 ½ " 15 ½ " 16" Length of sleeve seam (including cuff) </b>*} John Gray: Steven Pinker is wrong about violence and war For an influential group of advanced thinkers, violence is a type of backwardness. In the most modern parts of the world, these thinkers tell us, war has practically disappeared. The world’s great powers are neither internally divided nor inclined to go to war with one another, and with the spread of democracy, the increase of wealth and the diffusion of enlightened values these states preside over an era of improvement the like of which has never been known. This has proved to be a popular message. Pinker was not the first to promote this new orthodoxy. Another proponent of the Long Peace is the well-known utilitarian philosopher Peter Singer, who has praised The Better Angels of Our Nature as “a supremely important book … a masterly achievement. Among the causes of the outbreak of altruism, Pinker and Singer attach particular importance to the ascendancy of Enlightenment thinking. There is nothing new in the suggestion that war is disappearing along with the “civilising process”.