Philosophy and Philosophers

Niccolò Machiavello (1469-1527) was a figure of the Italian Renaissance. He was a capital figure in politics and in one of his books he wrote that "the end justifies the means" (which should be understood in context )though)

Unfortunately, many careless readers interpreted that any evil action can be justified if it is done for a good purpose. And the word "Machiavellian" is often used to describe a crafty, secret or tricky plan.

The Ukrainian Catholic Church is in full union with the Roman Catholic Church so they share the same beliefs and doctrines.

Sir Thomas More's 1516 work had the Latin title Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia, which translates roughly into "A Truly Golden Little Book, No Less Beneficial Than Entertaining, of the Best State of a Republic, and of the New Island Utopia".

Aristotle was a teacher of Alexander the Great.

1200s.

Niccolo Machiavelli

The Italian scholar Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374).

Johannes Kepler and Sir Isaac Newton

The Age of Reason, also called the Enlightenment, occured during the seventeenth and eighteenth century (1600's and lasted until the late 1700's). This was a period in history when philosophers emphasized the use of reason as the best method of learning the truth.

Mary, the Mother of Jesus, was conceived without original sin.

Saint Anselm.

Roger Bacon.

Neoplatonism was the system that was used in an attempt to address the differences between Christianity and other religions thus promoting the ideal of religious tolerance.

neoplatism

Denis Diderot (1713-1784) viewed societal progress as independent of the growth of knowledge and technology, and wrote many works involving the laws of probability.

He founded the world's first university, the Academy, that lasted for about 900 years

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sophists :)

Francesco Petrarch

humanism

neoplatonism

Scholasticism

God is the creator of all things and he does not need mans opinion .