John Hume - John Hume John Hume (born January 18, 1937) is a Northern Irish politician, one of the most important figures in the political history of Northern Ireland. Hume was born in the traditionally Catholic nationalist city of Derry (also known as Londonderry), and educated at St. Columb's and the National University of Ireland. A founder member of the Credit Union party, later the SDLP, he became an member of the Northern Ireland parliament in 1969 and a Westminster MP in 1983. He succeeded Gerry Fitt as leader of the SDLP in 1979. He has also served as one of Northern Ireland's three MEPss. Hume is credited with being the thinker behind many of the recent political developements in Northern Ireland, from Sunningdale power-sharing to the Anglo-Irish Agreement.
John Rawls - John Rawls John Rawls (February 21, 1921 - November 24, 2002) was a Professor of Political Philosophy at Harvard University and author of A Theory of Justice (1971), Political Liberalism, and The Law of Peoples. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Biographical Sketch 2 Rawls's Contribution to Political and Moral Philosophy 3 A Theory of Justice 3.1 Method: The Original Position and Reflective Equilibrium 3.2 The Two Principles of Justice: The Liberty Principle and the Difference Principle 4 Criticism of A Theory of Justice 5 Political Liberalism 6 Annotated Bibliography 6.3 Works by Rawls 6.4 Selected Secondary Literature 7 Awards 8 Related Topics 9 External Links Biographical Sketch John Borden (Bordley) Rawls was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He was the second of five sons to William Lee.
John Douglas - John Douglas John Douglas (July 14, 1721 - May 18, 1807) was a Scottish man of letters and Anglican bishop. Douglas was born at Pittenweem, Fife, the son of a shopkeeper, and was educated at Dunbar and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he took his M.A. degree in 1743. As chaplain to the 3rd regiment of Foot Guards, he was at the Battle of Fontenoy, 1745. He then returned to Balliol as a Snell exhibitioner; became vicar of High Ercall, Shropshire, in 1750; canon of Windsor, 1762; Bishop of Carlisle, 1787 (and also dean of Windsor, 1788); and Bishop of Salisbury, 1791. Other honours were the degree of D.D. (1758), and those of Fellow of the Royal Society and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. Douglas.
John Payne Collier - John Payne Collier John Payne Collier (January 11, 1789 - September 17, 1883), English Shakespearian critic, was born in London. His father, John Dyer Collier (1762-1825), was a successful journalist, and his connexion with the press obtained for his son a position on the Morning Chronicle as leader writer, dramatic critic and reporter, which continued till 1847; he was also for some time a reporter for The Times. He was summoned before the House of Commons in 1819 for giving an incorrect report of a speech by Joseph Hume. He entered the Middle Temple in 1811, but was not called to the bar until 1829. The delay was partly due to his indiscretion in publishing the Criticisms on the Bar (1819) by "Amicus Curiae." His leisure.
John Home - John Home John Home (September 22, 1722 - September 5, 1808) was a Scottish poet and dramatist. He was born at Leith, where his father, Alexander Home, a distant relative of the earls of Home, was town clerk. John was educated at the grammar school in Leith, and at the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated MA, in 1742. Though interested in being a soldier, he studied divinity, and was licensed by the presbytery of Edinburgh in 1745. In the same year he joined as a volunteer against Bonnie Prince Charlie, and was taken prisoner at the Battle of Falkirk (1746). With many others he was carried to the castle of Doune in Perthshire, but soon escaped. In July 1746 Home was presented to the parish.
John Bright - John Bright John Bright (November 16, 1811 - March 27, 1889), was a British politician, associated with Richard Cobden in the formation of the Anti-Corn Law League. Bright was born at Rochdale in Lancashire -- one of the early centres of the Industrial Revolution. His father, Jacob Bright, was a much-respected Quaker, who had started a cotton mill at Rochdale in 1809. His own father, Abraham Bright, had been a Wiltshire yeoman, who, early in the 18th century, removed to Coventry, where his descendants remained. Jacob Bright had been educated at the Ackworth school of the Society of Friends, and apprenticed to a fustian manufacturer at New Mills. John Bright was his son by his second wife, Martha Wood, daughter of a tradesman of Bolton-le-Moors. She.
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke - Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke (1678 - December 12, 1751), was an English statesman and writer. He was the son of Sir Henry St John, Bart. (afterwards 1st Viscount St John), and of Lady Mary Rich, daughter of the 2nd Earl of Warwick. His exact date of birth is unknown, but he was baptized on October 10 1678, and was educated at Eton. He travelled abroad during 1698 and 1699 and acquired an exceptional knowledge of French, but also led an exceptionally dissipated and extravagant youth. Oliver Goldsmith reported that he had been seen to "run naked through the park in a state of intoxication." Swift, his intimate friend, said that he wanted to be thought the Alcibiades or Petronius of his.
Hume - Hume Hume is the name of several people and places: David Hume is an 18th century philosopher from Scotland. John Hume is a contemporary politician from Northern Ireland. Hamilton Hume was an explorer from Australia. Lake Hume is an Australian lake named after Hamilton Hume. Hume Dam is the dam that forms Lake Hume. Hume, New South Wales is a shire on one side of Lake Hume. Hume, Victoria is city on the other side of Victoria from Lake Hume. This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page..
Hume's principle - Hume's principle Hume's principle is a standard for comparing any two sets of objects as to size. According to the principle, the number of F's is equal to the number of G's iff there is a one-to-one correspondence (a bijection) between the F's and the G's. It is enunciated in the chapter III of the first book of A Treatise of Human Nature, "Of Knowledge", where the eponymous David Hume examines the seven fundamental relations between ideas: (i) resemblance, (ii) identity, (iii) relation in time and place, (iv) proportion in quantity or number, (v) degrees in any quality, (vi) contrariety. (vii) causation. Concerning (iv), he argues that our reasoning about proportion in quantity, as represented by geometry, can never achieve "perfect precision and exactness, since its.
David Hume - David Hume David Hume (1711-1776), Scottish philosopher and historian and, with Adam Smith and Thomas Reid among others, one of the most important figures in the Scottish Enlightenment. Hume is sometimes regarded as the third and most radical of the so-called British Empiricists, after John Locke and George Berkeley (though the latter was Anglo-Irish); this bracketing of Hume, Locke, and Berkeley, though traditional, ignores the major influence on Hume of various Francophone writers such as Pierre Bayle and various other figures on the Anglophone intellectual landscape such as Isaac Newton, Samuel Clarke, Francis Hutcheson, and Joseph Butler. Humean philosophy is most famously understood as a thoroughgoing form of Scepticism, but many commentators have argued that the element of Naturalism is no less important. Hume scholarship has tended.
J. L. Mackie - J. L. Mackie John Leslie Mackie (1917-1981) was a philosopher, originally from Sydney, Australia. From 1967 until his death, he was a fellow of University College, Oxford. He was in 1974 elected a fellow of the British Academy. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Interests and character 2 Life 3 Publications 4 Other reading Interests and character Mackie was well known for his contributions to the field of meta-ethics, where he took the position of moral skepticism, arguing against the objective existence of right and wrong on fundamental grounds concerning what kinds of things those must be, if they exist. He was also well known for vigorously defending atheism, and arguing that the problem of evil made untenable the main monotheistic religions. Other areas to which he made.
January 18 - is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting. 1991 - Eastern Airlines shuts down after 62 years citing financial problems. 1993 - For the first time, Martin Luther King Jr. holiday is officially observed in all 50 United States states. 1995 - In southern France near Vallon-Pont-d'Arc a network of caves are discovered that contain paintings and engravings that are 17,000 to 20,000 years old. 1997 - In north west Rwanda, Hutu militia members kill 3 Spanish aid workers, 3 soldiers and seriously wound one other. 1997 - Boerge Ousland of Norway becomes the first person to cross Antarctica alone and unaided. Births 1689 - Montesquieu, French writer (†1755) 1779 - Peter Roget, lexicographer (†1869) 1782 - Daniel Webster, statesman (†1852) 1854 - Thomas Watson, telephone pioneer.
Jack Lang (Australia) - Jack Lang (Australia) John Thomas Lang (December 21, 1876 - September 27, 1975) was a prominent Australian politician during the early twentieth century. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party, and the Premier of New South Wales for two terms, from 1925-27, and again from 1930-32. He is the only Premier of any Australian State to have been dismissed by the State Governor (the representative of the British monarch) without there being an election or parliamentary vote of no confidence. This was due to his refusal to pay interest on government loans borrowed from financiers in the United Kingdom at the height of the Great Depression. Jack Lang's Early Life John Thomas Lang - familiarly known as "Jack" and nicknamed "The Big Fella" during his political career.
Jessica Tandy - some 65 years, Tandy found latter-day movie stardom in big-budget, major-studio releases and intimate dramas alike. From a young age she was determined to be an actress, and first appeared on the London stage in 1927, playing, among others, Katherine opposite Laurence Olivier's Henry V and Cordelia opposite John Gielgud's King Lear. She also worked in British films. Following her first marriage to actor Jack Hawkins, she moved to New York and met actor Hume Cronyn, who became her second husband and frequent partner on stage and screen. She made her American film debut in The Seventh Cross (1944), and appeared in The Valley of Decision (1945), The Green Years (1946, as Cronyn's daughter!), and Forever Amber (1947). After her Tony-winning performance as Blanche DuBois in the original Broadway production of.
June 15 - of Soissons: King Robert I of France is killed, King Charles the Simple is arrested by the supporters of Duke Rudolph of Burgundy 1094 - Valencia falls to El Cid 1215 - King John of England puts his seal to the Magna Carta 1616 - Pacifique Duplessis opens first school for Indian children in Canada, at Tadoussac, Quebec 1389 - Battle of Kosovo: Turks defeat Serbs and Bosnians 1590 - Pope Leo X threatens to excommunicate Martin Luther 1775 - American Revolutionary War: George Washington is appointed commander-in-chief of the United States Army 1776 - American Army of the Continental Congress retreats south, setting fire to Montreal, Quebec 1804 - The Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified 1814 - 500 Americans cross Lake Erie to burn and loot.
July 18 - a tunnel sparking a fire that will last days and virtually shut-down downtown Baltimore. Births 1635 - Robert Hooke, scientist (†1703) 1811 - William Makepeace Thackeray, author (†1863) 1821 - Pauline Garcia-Viardot, singer/composer (†1910) 1853 - Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate (†1928) 1863 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (†1914) 1864 - Ricarda Huch, writer (†1947) 1864 - Phillip Snowden, British politician (†1937) 1887 - Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian politician and famous traitor (†1945) 1902 - Nathalie Sarraute, writer (†1999) 1902 - Jessamyn West, author (†1984) 1902 - Chill Wills, actor (†1978) 1906 - Clifford Odets, author, playwright (†1963) 1909 - Andrei Gromyko, Soviet diplomat and President 1985-1989 (†1989) 1909 - Mohammed Daoud Khan, Afghani President (1973-1978).
Ian Paisley - wing that had killed over a thousand people in Northern Ireland since 1970 but which had since gone on indefinite ceasefire, was allowed to participate after the ceasefire. Paisley and his party opposed the Agreement in the referendum that followed its signing, and which saw the Agreement approved reasonably comfortably in Northern Ireland and by over 90% of voters in the Republic of Ireland. (As part of the deal, the south changed the wording of the controversial Articles 2 and 3 of its constitution, which had originally claimed its government's de jure right to govern the whole island of Ireland, including Northern Ireland. The DUP fought the resulting election to the Northern Ireland Assembly, to which Paisley was elected, while keeping his seats the Westminster and European parliaments. The DUP took.
Idea - sense are more or less imperfect copies. Chairs may be of different forms, sizes, colours and so forth, but “laid up in the mind of God” there is the one permanent idea or type, of which the many physical chairs are derived with various degrees of imperfection. From this doctrine it follows that these ideas are the sole reality (see also idealism); in opposition to it are the empirical thinkers of all time who find reality in particular physical objects (see hylozoism, empiricism, etc.). In striking contrast to Plato’s use is that of John Locke, who defines “idea” as “whatever is the object of understanding when a man thinks” (Essay on the Human Understanding (I.), vi. 8). Here the term is applied not to the mental process, but to anything whether.
Immanuel Kant - historical repute. He lived a very regulated life: the walk he took at three-thirty every afternoon was so punctual that local housewives would set their clocks by him. He never left Prussia, and rarely stepped outside his own home town. Despite the reputation he has earned though, he was considered a very sociable person: he would regularly have guests over for dinner, insisting that sociable company was good for his constitution. Around 1770, when he was forty-six, Kant read the work of the Scottish philosopher David Hume. Hume was fiercely empirical, scorned all metaphysics, and systematically debunked great quantities of it. His most famous thesis is that nothing in our experience can justify our assuming that there are "causal powers" inhering in things—that, for example, when one billiard ball strikes another.
Ireland in the 20th Century - The All-Ireland Champions are London (hurling) and Dublin (football) 1902 Archbishop Croke, patron of the GAA, dies at the age of 78. Waterford City confer the freedom of the city on John Redmond. The centenary of the Christian Brothers is celebrated. The UK Liberal Party stops its support for Home Rule. The All-Ireland Champions are Cork (hurling) and Dublin (football) 1903 St. Patrick's day becomes a national holiday in Ireland. Erskine Childers publishes The Riddle of the Sands. The Wyndham Land Act is passed - it solves the land purchase problem. The Independent Orange Order is founded in Belfast. The All-Ireland Champions are Cork (hurling) and Kerry (football) 1904 The Abbey Theatre is founded in Dublin June 10 - Bloomsday. James Joyce meets Nora Barnacle for the first time. The All-Ireland.
