Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 – 1900) has emerged as perhaps the most influential thinker of the recent past. To a significant degree, this is due to...
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 – 1900) has emerged as perhaps the most influential thinker of the recent past. To a significant degree, this is due to...
Throughout history, humans have watched the stars in the night sky. Observatories were built to aid in the study of celestial objects as a means...
Nero Claudius Caesar (37-68 ce) was the fifth of the five Julio-Claudian emperors and one of the most notorious. Two millennia after his death, his...
Nuclear winter is a term used to describe the potential environmental and climate effects resulting from a large-scale nuclear war. On December 23, 1983, five...
Noah is the main character of the cataclysmic flood story told in the biblical Book of Genesis (chapters 6-9). Noah represented the last generation of...
The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), although extremely critical of many thinkers, completely accepts Heraclitus’s concept of time and develops it further. When Nietzsche read Heraclitus...
Michel de Nostredame, more commonly known as Nostradamus (1503-1566), is criticized by some and acclaimed by many as a seer whose 942 quatrains (poems with...
Time in novels is based on a fundamental duality. Günther Müller, a German literature theorist, was the first who reflected thoroughly on this duality. In...
Sir Isaac Newton, English natural philosopher, mathematician, and physical scientist, revolutionized the theoretical concepts regarding the physical laws that govern the universe. The impact of...
During his short life, Saint Alexander Nevsky (1220-1263), born Aleksandr Yaroslavovich, made his mark in history as one of Russia’s best-known Christian military commanders; he...
Nicholas of Cusa (Kues) (1401-1464), a German cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, philosopher, jurist, mathematician, and astronomer, is widely considered as one of the...
The Navajo, or Dine (meaning “the people”), are the most numerous of the North American Indian tribes, having more than 290,000 people. The Navajo nation...
Nirvana is from a Sanskrit word that means “extinguishing.” It is also spelled nibbana. The idea of nirvana is found most prominently in Buddhism, although...
Mahayana Buddhist tradition attributes the founding of the Madhyamika School to Acharya Nagarjuna (c. 150-c. 250 CE), but this attribution is probably incorrect, because there...
The eternal now is a notion often linked with the nature of God, according to Western theology and according to various mystical, Asian, and so-...