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<NODE_HINT hint="(490-430 BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. Called by Aristotle the inventor of the dialectic, he is best known for his paradoxes against motion." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/>
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<NODE_HINT hint="(1225-1274) was an Italian philosopher and theologian in the scholastic tradition. Aquinas had an enormous influence on subsequent Christian theology, especially that of the Roman Catholic Church, and on Western philosophy in general, where he stands as a vehicle and modifier of Aristotelianism." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

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<NODE_HINT hint="(70-19 BC) was an ancient Roman poet, the author of the Eclogues, the Georgics and the Aeneid. Aeneas' inner turmoil and shortcomings make him a more realistic character than the heroes of Homeric poetry, such as Odysseus." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

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<NODE_HINT hint="(1214-1294) was one of the most famous Franciscan friars of his time. He was an English philosopher who placed considerable emphasis on empiricism, and has been presented as one of the earliest advocates of the modern scientific method in the West." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

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<NODE_HINT hint="(480-524) was the author of Consolation of Philosophy, which he wrote in prison while awaiting his execution. His lifelong project was a deliberate attempt to preserve ancient classical knowledge." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

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<NODE_HINT hint="(1193-1280) was a Dominican friar who became famous for his comprehensive knowledge and advocacy for the peaceful coexistence of science and religion." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

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<NODE_HINT hint="(1463-1494) was an Italian Renaissance humanist philosopher and scholar, whose short influential life was brilliant, peripatetic, adventurous and almost theatrical in its eventfulness and intensity. He wrote the famous Oration on the Dignity of Man which has been called the 'Manifesto of the Renaissance'." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

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<NODE nodeID="Donatello">
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<NODE_HINT hint="(1386-1466) was a famous Florentine artist and sculptor of the early Renaissance." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Botticelli">
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<NODE nodeID="Michelangelo">
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<NODE nodeID="Raphael">
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<NODE_HINT hint="(1483-1520) was a master painter and architect of the Florentine school in the Italian High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and softness of his paintings." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Machiavelli">
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<NODE_HINT hint="(1469-1527) was a Florentine political philosopher, musician, poet, and romantic comedic playwright. Machiavelli was also a key figure in the Renaissance and the development of realist political theory." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

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<NODE_HINT hint="(535-475 BC) known as 'The Obscure', he disagreed with Thales, Anaximander, and Pythagoras about the nature of the ultimate substance, but instead claimed that the nature of everything is change itself. Heraclitus is recognized as one of the earliest dialectical philosophers." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

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<NODE_HINT hint="(1844-1900) German philologist and philosopher, produced critiques of religion, morality, contemporary culture, and philosophy, centered around the life-affirming and life-denying qualities of different attitudes and beliefs." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="FriedrichAlbertLange">
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<NODE_HINT hint="(1828-1875) Lange maintains that neither materialism nor any other metaphysical system has a valid claim to ultimate truth. For empirical phenomenal knowledge materialism with its exact scientific methods has done most valuable service. Ideal metaphysics have a value as the embodiment of high aspirations, in the same way as poetry and religion." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Schopenhauer">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schopenhauer" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1788-1860) was a German philosopher most famous for his work The World as Will and Representation. He saw salvation, deliverance, or escape from worldly suffering in aesthetic contemplation, sympathy for others, and ascetic living. Schopenhauer said he was influenced by the Upanishads, Immanuel Kant, and Plato. He also appreciated the teachings of the Buddha and even called himself a Buddhaist." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Hume">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hume" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1711-1776) was a Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian. Hume along with his fellow members of the Scottish Enlightenment advanced the idea that the explanation of moral principles is to be sought in the utility they tend to promote." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Rousseau">
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<NODE_HINT hint="(1712-1778) was a Geneva-born philosopher of the Enlightenment whose political ideas influenced the French Revolution, the development of socialist theory, and the growth of nationalism." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Berkeley">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Berkeley" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1685-1753) was an Irish philosopher whose primary philosophical achievement is the advancement of subjective idealism, which states that individuals can only directly know sensations and ideas of objects, not abstractions such as matter." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Wittgenstein">
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<NODE_HINT hint="(1889-1951) was an Austrian philosopher who wrote on the foundations of logic, the philosophy of mathematics, language, and the mind. 'At the core of all well-founded belief, lies belief that is unfounded.'" width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Freud">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freud" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1856-1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology. Freud is best known for his studies of sexual desire, repression, and the unconscious mind." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Jung">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Jung" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1875-1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychology. Jung emphasized understanding the psyche through exploring the worlds of dreams, art, mythology, world religion and philosophy." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Buddha">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautama_Buddha" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(560-480 BC) was a spiritual teacher in the ancient Indian subcontinent. The Buddha taught that suffering is an inherent part of existence; that the origin of suffering is ignorance and the main symptoms of that ignorance are attachment and craving; and that attachment and craving can be ceased by following his teachings." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Locke">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Locke" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1632-1704) was a British Empiricist. Locke argued a government could only be legitimate if it received the consent of the governed through a social contract and protected the natural rights of life, liberty, and estate." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Leibniz">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1646-1716) was a German polymath. He invented calculus independently of Newton and invented the binary system, foundation of virtually all modern computer architectures." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Hamann">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamann" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1730-1788) was a German philosopher and Pietist Protestant. 'Our knowledge is piecemeal - no dogmatist is in a position to feel this great truth, if he is to play his role and play it well; and through a vicious circle of pure reason skepsis itself becomes dogma.'" width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Herder">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Gottfried_Herder" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1744-1803) was a German poet, critic, theologian, and philosopher. Herder was one of the first to argue that language determines thought. 'A poet is the creator of the nation around him, he gives them a world to see and has their souls in his hand to lead them to that world.'" width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Kierkegaard">
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<NODE_HINT hint="(1813-1855) was a Danish theologian and considered the first existentialist philosopher. He thought that to have faith is at the same time to have doubt. 'Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.'" width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Schleiermacher">
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<NODE_HINT hint="(1768-1834) was a German student of Kant, whose work has had a profound impact upon the  field of Hermeneutics. Like Herder, he believes that language, and therefore thought, are fundamentally social in nature." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Jacobi">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Heinrich_Jacobi" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1743-1819) was a German philosopher who made his mark on philosophy by coining the term nihilism and promoting it as the prime fault of Enlightenment thought and Kantianism." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Spinoza">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinoza" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1632-1677) was one of the great rationalists of 17th-century philosophy and, by virtue of his magnum opus the Ethics, one of the definitive ethicists. Spinoza argued that God and Nature were two names for the same reality, the single substance (meaning 'to stand beneath' rather than 'matter')." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Hegel">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich_Hegel" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1770-1831) A German philosopher who argued that History and the concrete are important in getting out of the circle of the perennial problems of philosophy. Hegel's main philosophical project was to take contradictions and tensions and interpret them as part of a comprehensive, evolving, rational unity that, in different contexts, he called 'the absolute idea' or 'absolute knowledge'." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Emerson">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1803-1882) was an American author, poet, and philosopher. Emerson was strongly influenced by the Vedas, and much of his writing has strong shades of nondualism. 'Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning.'" width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Goethe">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goethe" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1749-1832) was a German polymath: he was a poet, novelist, dramatist, humanist, painter, the author of Faust. Goethe argued for a change that would become the basis for 19th century thought - organic rather than geometrical, evolving rather than created, and based on sensibility and intuition, rather than on imposed order, culminating in, as he said, a 'living quality' wherein the subject and object are dissolved together in a poise of inquiry." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Dostoevsky">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dostoevsky" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1821-1881) is considered one of the greatest Russian writers. His works often feature characters living in poor conditions with disparate and extreme states of mind, and exhibit an uncanny grasp of human psychology. Dostoevsky engendered fully dramatic novels of ideas where conflicting views and characters are left to develop unevenly into unbearable crescendo." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Wagner">
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<NODE_HINT hint="(1813-1883) was an influential German composer, conductor, music theorist, and essayist, primarily known for his operas. Nietzsche proposed Wagner's music as the Dionysian rebirth of European culture in opposition to Apollonian rationalist decadence." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Heidegger">
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<NODE_HINT hint="(1889-1976) attempted to reorient Western philosophy away from metaphysical and epistemological and toward ontological questions, that is, questions concerning the meaning of being. 'Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home.'" width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Sartre">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Paul_Sartre" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1905-1980) was a French existentialist philosopher, dramatist and screenwriter, novelist and critic. He believed that novels and plays describing fundamental experiences have as much value as do philosophical theories. 'Man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world - and defines himself afterwards.'" width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Confucius">
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<NODE_HINT hint="(551-479 BC) was a famous Chinese thinker and social philosopher. His philosophy emphasised personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice and sincerity. Confucius' teaching can be considered a Chinese variant of humanism." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Newton">
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<NODE_HINT hint="(1643-1727) was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, and natural philosopher. He described universal gravitation, the three laws of motion and developed calculus, laying the groundwork for classical mechanics. Newton refashioned the world governed by an interventionist God into a world crafted by a God that designs along rational and universal principles." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Husserl">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Husserl" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1859-1938) was a German philosopher, known as the father of phenomenology, which takes the intuitive experience of phenomena (what presents itself to us in phenomenological reflexion) as its starting point and tries to extract from it the essential features of experiences and the essence of what we experience." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Godel">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_G%C3%B6del" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1906-1978) was a logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics. Gödel is best known for his two incompleteness theorems, the most famous theorem stating that for any self-consistent recursive axiomatic system powerful enough to describe the arithmetic of the natural numbers, there are true propositions about the naturals that cannot be proved from the axioms." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Marx">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1818-1883) was a German philosopher, political economist, and socialist revolutionary. He is most famous for his analysis of history in terms of class struggles, summed up in the opening line of the introduction to the Communist Manifesto: 'The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.'" width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Carnap">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Carnap" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1891-1970) was a leading member of the Vienna Circle and a prominent advocate of logical positivism. Pseudoproblems in Philosophy asserted that many philosophical questions were meaningless, the way they were posed amounted to an abuse of language." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Averroes">
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<NODE_HINT hint="(1126-1198) was an Andalusian-Arab philosopher and physician, a master of philosophy and Islamic law, mathematics, and medicine. Averroes tried to reconcile Aristotle's system of thought with Islam. He believed that the soul was not eternal, and that in fact all beings share one soul." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Mill">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1806-1873) was an English political economist, liberal, socialist, and utilitarian thinker. Mill proposes that each individual has the right to act as he wants, so long as these actions do not harm others, and that free discourse is a necessary condition for intellectual and social progress." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Bain">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Bain" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1818-1903) was a Scottish educationalist and early psychologist. He demanded that psychology should be cleared of metaphysics, allowing it to be acquired as a distinct positive science." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Jefferson">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1743-1826) was the third President of the United States and principal author of the Declaration of Independence. He promoted classical liberalism, republicanism, and the separation of church and state." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Montaigne">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montaigne" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1533-1592) was one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance. Montaigne is known for inventing the essay; he became famous for his effortless ability to merge serious intellectual speculation with casual anecdotes and autobiography. 'I am myself the matter of my book.'" width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Shakespeare">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1564-1616) was an English poet and playwright widely regarded as the greatest writer of the English language. 'There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.'" width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Pascal">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1623-1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. He collaborated with Fermat to create the mathematical theory of probabilities. Pascal agreed with Montaigne that achieving certainty in axioms and conclusions through human methods is impossible." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Fermat">
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<NODE_HINT hint="(1908-1986) was a French philosopher. De Beauvoir's The Second Sex, published in French in 1949, sets out a feminist existentialism with a significant Freudian aspect. Her analysis focuses on the concept of The Other. It is the (social) construction of Woman as the quintessential Other that de Beauvoir identifies as fundamental to women's oppression." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

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<NODE_HINT hint="(1785/6-1859/63) German professors who were best known for publishing collections of authentic folk tales and fairy tales, and for their work in linguistics, relating to how the sounds in words shift over time." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Durer">
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<NODE_HINT hint="(1471-1528) was a German painter, wood carver, engraver, and mathematician. Born in Nuremberg, Germany, he is best known for his woodcuts in series." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Luther">
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<NODE_HINT hint="(1483-1546) was a German monk, priest, professor, theologian, and church reformer. Luther posted 95 Theses on the Castle Church door in Wittenberg for a disputation on indulgences, condemning greed and worldliness in the Church as an abuse." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Erasmus">
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<NODE_HINT hint="(1466-1536) was a Dutch humanist and theologian. As a scholar, he tried to free the methods of scholarship from the rigidity and formalism of medieval traditions; but he was not satisfied with this." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="ThomasMore">
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<NODE_HINT hint="(1478-1535) was an English lawyer, author, statesman, and Catholic martyr. He is recognised as having a major influence on developing equity as an additional legal system in English law. More coined the word 'utopia', a name he gave to an ideal, imaginary island nation whose political system he described in a book published in 1516." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Coleridge">
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<NODE_HINT hint="(1772-1834) was an English poet, critic, and philosopher who was one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Wordsworth">
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<NODE_HINT hint="(1770-1850) was a major English romantic poet who helped launch the Romantic Age in English literature. '...but little heard of among Men, The external World is fitted to the Mind'" width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Thoreau">
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<NODE_HINT hint="(1817-1862) was an American author, development critic, naturalist, transcendentalist, pacifist, tax resister and philosopher who is most famous for his written account, Walden, a reflection upon simple living amongst nature, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civic government as moral opposition to an unjust law." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Hawthorne">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Hawthorne" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1804-1864) was a 19th century American novelist and short story writer." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Longfellow">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1807-1882) was an American poet whose work is based on familiar and easily understood themes with simple, clear, and flowing language. His poetry created an audience in America and contributed to creating American mythology." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="MargaretFuller">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Fuller" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1810-1850) was a journalist, critic and women's rights activist. She edited the transcendentalist journal, The Dial for the first two years of its existence." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Frege">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Frege" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1848-1925) was a German mathematician who became a logician and philosopher. He helped found both modern mathematical logic and analytic philosophy." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Tarski">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Tarski" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1902-1983) was a logician and mathematician of considerable philosophical importance. Tarski's mathematical interests were exceptionally broad for a mathematical logician." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Russell">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell%2C_3rd_Earl_Russell" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1872-1970) was a British philosopher, logician, and mathematician. Russell saw logic and science as the principal tools of the philosopher. He believed that the main task of the philosopher was to illuminate the most general propositions about the world and to eliminate confusion. In particular, he wanted to end what he saw as the excesses of metaphysics." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="ChristiaanHuygens">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiaan_Huygens" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1629-1695), was a Dutch mathematician and physicist. Huygens receives credit for his role in the development of modern calculus, for his arguments that light consisted of waves, and for writing the first book on probability theory." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Schelling">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Wilhelm_Joseph_von_Schelling" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1775-1854) was a German philosopher who believed that a transcendent apprehension through artistic creativity, or a mystical intuition through religious experience is required to realize the reality of the 'Godhead'. 'History as a whole is a progressive, gradually self-disclosing revelation of the Absolute.'" width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Peirce">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Peirce" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1839-1914) was an American polymath, with contributions to logic, mathematics, philosophy, and the theory of signs, or semeiotic. Peirce believed that any truth is provisional, and that the truth of any proposition cannot be certain but only probable. Peirce's pragmatism may be understood as a method of sorting out conceptual confusions by linking the meaning of concepts to their operational or practical consequences." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Schiller">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Schiller" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1759-1805) was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and dramatist. He developed the concept of the Schöne Seele (beautiful soul), a human being whose emotions have been educated by his reason, so that Pflicht und Neigung (duty and inclination) are no longer in conflict with one another; thus beauty, for Schiller, is not merely a sensual experience, but a moral one as well." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Darwin">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1809-1882) was an English naturalist who produced considerable evidence that species originated through evolutionary change and proposed that natural selection is the mechanism by which such change occurs." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Quine">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard_Van_Orman_Quine" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1908-2000) was an American philosopher and logician. His major writings include 'Two Dogmas of Empiricism', which attacked the distinction between analytic and synthetic propositions and advocated a form of semantic holism. 'In point of epistemological footing, the physical objects and the gods differ only in degree and not in kind. Both sorts of entities enter our conceptions only as cultural posits.'" width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Einstein">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1879-1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist. He played a leading role in formulating the special and general theories of relativity; moreover, he made significant contributions to quantum theory and statistical mechanics." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="FrancisBacon">
<NODE_LOCATION visible="false"/><NODE_LABEL label="Francis Bacon" backColor="FF6666" textColor="000000" fontSize="14"/>
<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1561-1626) was an English philosopher, statesman and essayist but is best known for leading the scientific revolution with his new 'observation and experimentation' theory which is the way science has been conducted ever since. In the context of his time, such methods were connected with the occult trends of hermeticism and alchemy." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Plutarch">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutarch" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(46-127) was a Greek historian, biographer, and essayist. His best-known work is the Parallel Lives, a series of biographies of famous Greeks and Romans, arranged as dyads to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. 'The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.'" width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Fichte">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichte" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1762-1814) was one of the founding figures of the philosophical movement known as German idealism. Fichte argued that self-consciousness was a social phenomenon. A necessary condition of any subjects' self-awareness, he argued, is the existence of other rational subjects. These subjects influence and summons the subject or self into an awareness of itself." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Diderot">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diderot" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1713-1784) was a French philosopher and writer. He was a prominent figure in what became known as the Enlightenment, and was the editor-in-chief of the famous Encyclopédie." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="d'Holbach">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_d%27Holbach" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1723-1789) was a French author, philosopher and encyclopedist. He is most famous as being one of the first outspoken atheists in Europe." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="EdwardGibbon">
<NODE_LOCATION visible="false"/><NODE_LABEL label="Edward Gibbon" backColor="FF6666" textColor="000000" fontSize="14"/>
<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Gibbon" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1737-1794) was an English historian and Member of Parliament. His most important work is The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Montesquieu">
<NODE_LOCATION visible="false"/><NODE_LABEL label="Montesquieu" backColor="FF6666" textColor="000000" fontSize="14"/>
<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montesquieu" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1689-1755) was a French political thinker who lived during the Enlightenment. He is famous for his articulation of the theory of separation of powers." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Asimov">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1920-1992) was a Russian-born American author and biochemist, a highly successful and exceptionally prolific writer best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Vonnegut">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1922-) is an American novelist and satirist.  Vonnegut's narration can be characterized by wild leaps of imagination and a deep cynicism, tempered by humanism." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="AdamSmith">
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<NODE_HINT hint="(1723-1790) was a Scottish political economist and moral philosopher. His Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was one of the earliest attempts to study the historical development of industry and commerce in Europe, and provided one of the best-known rationales for free trade, capitalism and libertarianism." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Godwin">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Godwin" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1756-1836) was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist. He is considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism, and one of the first modern proponents of anarchist philosophy." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Malthus">
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<NODE_HINT hint="(1766-1834) was an English demographer and political economist. He is best known for his pessimistic but highly influential views on population growth." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Ricardo">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ricardo" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1772-1823) was a political economist, often credited with systematizing economics, and was one of the most influential of the classical economists." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="JamesMill">
<NODE_LOCATION visible="false"/><NODE_LABEL label="James Mill" backColor="FF6666" textColor="000000" fontSize="14"/>
<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Mill" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1773-1836) was a Scottish historian, economist, political theorist, and philosopher." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Hutcheson">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Hutcheson_%28philosopher%29" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1694-1746) was an Irish philosopher and one of the founding fathers of the Scottish Enlightenment.  His ethical writing focus on the 'moral sense', arguing that benevolent feelings form an original and irreducible part of our nature, and that the test of virtuous action is its tendency to promote the general welfare." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="JamesMadison">
<NODE_LOCATION visible="false"/><NODE_LABEL label="James Madison" backColor="FF6666" textColor="000000" fontSize="14"/>
<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Madison" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1751-1836) was the fourth President of the United States. Known as the 'Father of the Constitution,' he played a leading role in the creation of the United States Constitution in 1787." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Chydenius">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Chydenius" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1729-1803) was the leading classical liberal of Nordic history. He proposes ideas of free trade and industry, explores the relationship between economy and society, lays out the principles for both liberalism, capitalism, and modern democracy." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Hayek">
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<NODE_HINT hint="(1899-1992) was an Austrian-born British economist and political philosopher. He is noted primarily for his defense of liberal democracy and free-market capitalism against socialist and collectivist thought in the mid-20th century. He proposed the connectionist hypothesis that forms the basis of the technology of neural networks and of much of modern neurophysiology." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Bentham">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Bentham" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1748-1832) was an English jurist, utilitarian philosopher, and legal and social reformer. He argued in favor of individual and economic freedom, including the separation of church and state, freedom of expression, equal rights for women, animal rights, the end of slavery, the abolition of physical punishment (including that of children), the right to divorce, free trade, and in defense of usury and homosexuality." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Ruskin">
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<NODE_HINT hint="(1819-1900) was an art critic, social critic, author, poet and artist. Ruskin's essays on art and architecture were extremely influential in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. 'Go to nature in all singleness of heart, rejecting nothing and selecting nothing.'" width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Carlyle">
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<NODE_HINT hint="(1795-1881) was a Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian. The combination of a religious temperament with loss of faith in traditional Christianity made Carlyle's work appealing to many Victorians who were grappling with scientific and political changes that threatened the traditional social order." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Popper">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Popper" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1902-1994) was an Austrian and British philosopher. Popper is best known for advancing empirical falsifiability as the criterion for scientific theory, and for his vigorous defense of liberal democracy and the principles of social criticism necessary for an 'open society'." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Lakatos">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imre_Lakatos" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1922-1974) was a philosopher of mathematics and of science. Lakatos tried to establish that no theorem of informal mathematics is final or perfect." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Laozi">
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<NODE_HINT hint="(6th century BC) is a major figure in Chinese philosophy whose existence is still debated; he is recognised as the founder of Daoism and author of the Daodejing. 'The Way that can be spoken of is not the constant Way.'" width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Zhuangzi">
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<NODE_HINT hint="(4th century BC) was a famous philosopher in ancient China. Zhuangzi's philosophy is mildly skeptical. He argued that natural dispositions to behavior combine with acquired ones - including dispositions to use names of things, to approve/disapprove based on those names and to act in accordance to the embodied standards." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Borges">
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<NODE_HINT hint="(1547-1616) was a Spanish novelist, poet and playwright. He is best known for his novel Don Quixote de la Mancha, which is considered by many to be the first modern novel." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Flaubert">
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<NODE_HINT hint="(1821-1880) was a French novelist who is counted among the greatest Western novelists. He is known especially for his first published novel Madame Bovary and for his scrupulous devotion to his art and style." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Dickens">
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<NODE_HINT hint="(1895-1990) was an American historian of technology and science. Particularly noted for his study of cities and urban architecture, he had a tremendously broad career as a writer that also included a period as an influential literary critic." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Melville">
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<NODE nodeID="Joyce">
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<NODE_HINT hint="(1882-1941) was an expatriate Irish writer and poet.  He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses, a masterwork in Modernist writing, celebrated for its groundbreaking stream-of-consciousness technique, highly experimental prose - full of puns, parodies, and allusions." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Jonson">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Jonson" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1572-1637) was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. He is best known for his plays Volpone and The Alchemist and his lyric poems." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Blake">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1757-1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Blake used illuminated printing for most of his well-known works, including Songs of Innocence and Experience. 'The imagination is not a State: it is the Human existence itself.'" width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Proust">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Proust" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1871-1922) was a French intellectual, novelist, essayist and critic, best known as the author of the semiautobiographical novel In Search of Lost Time, popularly known for its length and the author's notion of involuntary memory." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Camus">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Camus" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1913-1960) was a French author and philosopher and one of the principal luminaries of absurdism, a philosophy stating that the efforts of humanity to find meaning in the universe will ultimately fail because no such meaning exists." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Kafka">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1883-1924) was one of the major German-language novelists and short story writers of the 20th century. His writing is characterized by mundane yet absurd and surreal circumstances." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Lacan">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Lacan" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1901-1981) was a French psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and doctor, arguing for a 'return to Freud.' Lacan insisted Freud's ideas of slips of the tongue, jokes and suchlike all emphasised the agency of language in subjective constitution." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Valery">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Valéry" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1871-1945) was a French author and Symbolist poet, who wrote many essays and aphorisms on art, history, letters, music and current events. 'God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.'" width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Stein">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Stein" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1874-1946) was an American expatriate writer, poet, feminist, playwright, and catalyst in the development of modern art and literature. Her stream-of-consciousness experiments, rhythmical 'portraits', were designed to evoke 'the excitingness of pure being' and can be seen as an answer to Cubism in literature." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Yeats">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Butler_Yeats" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1865-1939) was an Anglo-Irish poet, dramatist, mystic and public figure. 'Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.'" width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Eliot">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._S._Eliot" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1888-1965) was an American poet, dramatist and literary critic, whose works include The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land, The Hollow Men, and Four Quartets. 'Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality.'" width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Picasso">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1881-1973) was a Spanish painter and sculptor. One of the most recognized figures in 20th century art, he is best known as the co-founder of cubism, along with Georges Braque." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Hemingway">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1899-1961) was an American expatriate novelist, short-story writer and journalist. His distinctive writing style is characterized by economy and understatement and had a significant influence on the development of twentieth century fiction." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Pound">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Pound" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1885-1972) was an American expatriate, poet, musician, critic, and major figure of the Modernist movement. 'Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.'" width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Shelley">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1792-1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets and is widely considered to be among the finest lyric poets of the English language. 'History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.'" width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Byron">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Byron%2C_6th_Baron_Byron" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1788-1824) was an Anglo-Scottish poet and a leading figure in Romanticism. Don Juan, Byron's masterpiece, has roots deep in literary tradition and involves itself with its own contemporary world at all levels - social, political, literary and ideological." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="MaryShelley">
<NODE_LOCATION visible="false"/><NODE_LABEL label="Mary Shelley" backColor="44CC44" textColor="000000" fontSize="14"/>
<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1797-1851) was an English novelist, the author of Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Ayer">
<NODE_LOCATION visible="false"/><NODE_LABEL label="Ayer" backColor="FF6666" textColor="000000" fontSize="14"/>
<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Ayer" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1910-1989) was a British philosopher known for his promotion of logical positivism, particularly in his books Language, Truth and Logic. Ayer's verification principle asserts that a sentence is meaningful only if it has verifiable empirical import." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Feyerabend">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Feyerabend" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1924-1994) was an Austrian-born philosopher of science. Feyerabend became famous for his purportedly anarchistic view of science and his rejection of the existence of universal methodological rules. Feyerabend argues that renormalization or other ad hoc methods are essential to the progress of science for several reasons." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Whitehead">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_North_Whitehead" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1861-1947) was an English mathematician who became an American philosopher. He wrote on algebra, logic, foundations of mathematics, philosophy of science, physics, metaphysics, and education. Whitehead was a process theist: just as the entire universe is in constant flow and change, God, as source of the universe, is viewed as growing and changing." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Fitzgerald">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._Scott_Fitzgerald" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1896-1940) was an Irish American Jazz Age novelist and short story writer, author of The Beautiful and Damned and The Great Gatsby. 'Here was a new generation, a new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success, grown up to find all gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths to man shaken.'" width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Delacroix">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delacroix" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1798-1863) was the most important of the French Romantic painters. Delacroix' use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of color profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists, while his passion for the exotic inspired the artists of the Symbolist movement." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Manet">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Manet" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1832-1883) was a French painter. His early masterworks The Luncheon on the Grass and Olympia engendered great controversy, and served as rallying points for the young painters who would create Impressionism." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Goya">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Goya" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1746-1828) was a Spanish painter and printmaker. He has been regarded both as the last of the old masters and as the first of the moderns. The subversive and subjective element in his art, as well as his bold handling of paint, provided a model for Manet and Picasso." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Velazquez">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Velazquez" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1599-1660) was a Spanish painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV. Velázquez's artwork proved a model for the realist and impressionist painters, in particular Édouard Manet." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Davidson">
<NODE_LOCATION visible="false"/><NODE_LABEL label="Davidson" backColor="FF6666" textColor="000000" fontSize="14"/>
<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Davidson_%28philosopher%29" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1917-2003) was an American philosopher. Published mostly in the form of short essays making no explicit use of any overriding theory, his work is nonetheless noted for a strongly unified character, focusing on philosophy of mind and philosophy of language." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Dennett">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Dennett" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1942-) is a prominent American philosopher, writing on philosophy of mind, science, and biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science. 'I view the standard philosophical terminology as worse than useless--a major obstacle to progress since it consists of so many errors.'" width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Dali">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dal%C3%AD" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1904-1989) was a Catalan-Spanish artist. He is best known for his surrealist work identified by its striking, bizarre, dreamlike images. The surrealists hailed what Dalí called the Paranoiac-critical method of accessing the subconscious for greater artistic creativity." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Rubens">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Paul_Rubens" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1577-1640) was the most popular and prolific Flemish and European painter of the 17th century. He was the proponent of an exuberant Baroque style which emphasized movement, colour, and sensuality." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Monet">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Monet" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1840-1926) was a French Impressionist painter. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Degas">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Degas" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1834-1917) was a French artist. While often identified as an Impressionist, Degas had his own distinct style, one developed from two very different influences, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, and Japanese prints." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="VanGogh">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Van_Gogh" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1853-1890) was a Dutch draughtsman and painter, classified as a Post-Impressionist. He became a pioneer of what came to be known as Expressionism, the tendency of an artist to distort reality for an emotional effect." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="James">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1842-1910) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious experience and mysticism, and the philosophy of pragmatism. 'The 'true' is only the expedient in our way of thinking, just as the 'right' is only the expedient in our way of behaving.'" width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Stoppard">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Stoppard" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1937-) is a British playwright, famous for plays such as The Real Thing, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, and Arcadia. Stoppard's plays are plays of ideas that deal with philosophical issues, yet he combines the philosophical ideas he presents with verbal wit and visual humor." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Dewey">
<NODE_LOCATION visible="false"/><NODE_LABEL label="Dewey" backColor="FF6666" textColor="000000" fontSize="14"/>
<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dewey" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1859-1952) was an American pragmatist philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer. Dewey characterizes knowledge as an instrumental, adaptive response to the environment in an attempt to actively restructure it. 'Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises.'" width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="KrafftEbing">
<NODE_LOCATION visible="false"/><NODE_LABEL label="Krafft-Ebing" backColor="FF6666" textColor="000000" fontSize="14"/>
<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_von_Krafft-Ebing" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1840-1902) was an Austro-German psychiatrist who wrote Psychopathia Sexualis, a famous study of sexual perversity." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Faulkner">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Faulkner" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1897-1962) was a Nobel Prize-winning Modernist novelist from Mississippi. Faulkner was known for using long, serpentine sentences and meticulously chosen diction. His work is known for literary devices like stream of consciousness, multiple narrations or points of view, and narrative time shifts." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Marquez">
<NODE_LOCATION visible="false"/><NODE_LABEL label="Márquez" backColor="44CC44" textColor="000000" fontSize="14"/>
<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Garc%C3%ADa_M%C3%A1rquez" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1928-) is a Colombian novelist, journalist, publisher, political activist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude.  His novels are some of the most popular in the genre of magical realism." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="HenryMiller">
<NODE_LOCATION visible="false"/><NODE_LABEL label="Henry Miller" backColor="44CC44" textColor="000000" fontSize="14"/>
<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Miller" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1891-1980) was an American writer, author of Tropic of Cancer, known for breaking with existing literary forms and developing a new sort of novel that is a mixture of novel, autobiography, social criticism, philosophical reflection, surrealist free association, and mysticism." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="EdmundWilson">
<NODE_LOCATION visible="false"/><NODE_LABEL label="Edmund Wilson" backColor="44CC44" textColor="000000" fontSize="14"/>
<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Wilson" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1895-1972) was an American writer, noted chiefly for his literary criticism. His book Axel's Castle: A Study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930 (1931) was a sweeping survey of Symbolism. Wilson was interested in modern culture as a whole, and many of his writings go beyond the realm of pure literary criticism." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Kundera">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan_Kundera" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1929-) is a Franco-Czech writer. He is best known as the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Kundera's characters are generally depicted specifically as figments of his imagination, not as real human beings merely depicted - as opposed to created - by his writing. " width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Whitman">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Whitman" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1819-1892) one of America's best and most influential poets. He abandoned the rhythmic and metrical structures of European poetry for an expansionist freestyle verse, which delivered his philosophical view that America was destined to reinvent the world as emancipator and liberator of the human spirit." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Ginsberg">
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<NODE_HINT hint="(1926-1997) was an American Beat poet, strongly influenced by Modernism, Romanticism, the beat and cadence of jazz, Buddhism and Judaism. 'America after all it is you and I who are perfect not the next world.'" width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Weber">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Weber" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
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<NODE nodeID="Rawls">
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<NODE_HINT hint="(1921-2002) was an American political philosopher. Among the ideas from Rawls's work that have received wide attention are Justice as Fairness, and Public Reason, the common reason of all citizens in a pluralist society." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Berlin">
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<NODE_HINT hint="(1909-1997) was a political philosopher and historian of ideas. Berlin distinguished between two forms or concepts of liberty - negative liberty and positive liberty - and argued that the latter is politically dangerous because it tempts rulers to curtail people's negative liberties 'for their own good'." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

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<NODE_HINT hint="(1828-1910) was a Russian novelist, philosopher, Christian anarchist, pacifist, and educational reformer, author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Tolstoy's fiction consistently attempts to convey realistically the Russian society in which he lived." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Rilke">
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<NODE_HINT hint="(1875-1926) is generally considered the German language's greatest 20th century poet. His haunting images tend to focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Gandhi">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1869-1948) was a major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian Independence Movement. He was the pioneer and perfector of Satyagraha - resistance through mass civil disobedience strongly founded upon ahimsa (total non-violence)." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Cezanne">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_C%C3%A9zanne" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1839-1906) was a French artist, a Post-Impressionist painter. Cézanne's work demonstrates a mastery of design, colour, composition and draftsmanship. His often repetitive, sensitive, and exploratory brushstrokes are highly characteristic and clearly recognisable." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Poe">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allen_Poe" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1809-1849) was an American poet, short story writer, editor, critic and one of the leaders of the American Romantic Movement. Poe associated the aesthetic aspect of art with pure ideality claiming that the mood or sentiment created by a work of art elevates the soul, and is thus a spiritual experience." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Pushkin">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Pushkin" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1799-1837) was a Russian Romantic author who is considered to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. Pushkin pioneered the use of vernacular speech in his poems and plays, creating a style of storytelling mixing drama, romance, and satire." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Gogol">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Gogol" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1809-1852) was a Russian writer. Perhaps his best known work is Dead Souls, seen by many as the first 'modern' Russian novel.  His works are characterize by a mix of humor, social realism, the fantastic, and unusual prose forms." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Mallarme">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%C3%A9phane_Mallarm%C3%A9" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1842-1898) was a French poet and critic. He was a major French symbolist poet and rightly famed for his salons, occasional gatherings of intellectuals at his house for discussions of poetry, art, philosophy." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Wilde">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1854-1900) was an Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and short story writer. Known for his barbed and clever wit, he was one of the most successful playwrights and greatest celebrities of late Victorian London. 'All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.'" width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Nabokov">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Nabokov" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1899-1977) was a Russian-American author. Nabokov is noted for his complex plots, clever word play, and use of alliteration. He gained both fame and notoriety with his novel Lolita." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="MartinLutherKingJr">
<NODE_LOCATION visible="false"/><NODE_LABEL label="Martin Luther King Jr" backColor="FF6666" textColor="000000" fontSize="14"/>
<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King%2C_Jr." urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1929-1968) was an American political activist, the most famous leader of the American civil rights movement, and a Baptist minister.  He is considered a peacemaker throughout the world for his promotion of nonviolence and equality treatment for different races." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Derrida">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Derrida" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1930-2004) was an Algerian-born French literary critic and philosopher, the founder of 'deconstruction', a process of questioning the stability of binary oppositions within a text. 'No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.'" width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Woolf">
<NODE_LOCATION visible="false"/><NODE_LABEL label="Woolf" backColor="44CC44" textColor="000000" fontSize="14"/>
<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1882-1941) is one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century, preferring to be called humanist than a feminist. In her works she experimented with stream-of-consciousness, the underlying psychological as well as emotional motives of characters, and the various possibilities of fractured narrative and chronology." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="MaynardKeynes">
<NODE_LOCATION visible="false"/><NODE_LABEL label="Maynard Keynes" backColor="FF6666" textColor="000000" fontSize="14"/>
<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maynard_Keynes" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1883-1946) was a British economist whose ideas, called Keynesian economics, had a major impact on modern economic and political theory as well as on many governments' fiscal policies." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Seurat">
<NODE_LOCATION visible="false"/><NODE_LABEL label="Seurat" backColor="DD9900" textColor="000000" fontSize="14"/>
<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges-Pierre_Seurat" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1859-1891) was a French painter and the founder of Neoimpressionism. He thought that the knowledge of perception and optical laws could be used to create a new language of art using lines, color intensity and color schema to create harmony and emotion." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="deKooning">
<NODE_LOCATION visible="false"/><NODE_LABEL label="de Kooning" backColor="DD9900" textColor="000000" fontSize="14"/>
<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_de_Kooning" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1904-1997) was an abstract expressionist painter, who has a famous series of 'Woman' paintings. The savagely applied pigment and the use of colors that seem vomited on his canvas combine to reveal a woman all too congruent with some of modern man's most widely held sexual fears." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="ToulouseLautrec">
<NODE_LOCATION visible="false"/><NODE_LABEL label="Toulouse-Lautrec" backColor="DD9900" textColor="000000" fontSize="14"/>
<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_de_Toulouse-Lautrec" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1864-1901) was an important post-Impressionist painter, art nouveau illustrator, and lithographer, and recorded the bohemian lifestyle of Paris at the end of the 19th century." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Signac">
<NODE_LOCATION visible="false"/><NODE_LABEL label="Signac" backColor="DD9900" textColor="000000" fontSize="14"/>
<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Signac" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1863-1935) was a French neo-impressionist painter who, working with Georges Seurat, helped develop the pointillist style." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Wollstonecraft">
<NODE_LOCATION visible="false"/><NODE_LABEL label="Wollstonecraft" backColor="FF6666" textColor="000000" fontSize="14"/>
<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Wollstonecraft" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1759-1797) was a British writer, philosopher, and early feminist. She wrote several novels, essays, and children's books, but is best known for her A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Geddes">
<NODE_LOCATION visible="false"/><NODE_LABEL label="Geddes" backColor="FF6666" textColor="000000" fontSize="14"/>
<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Patrick_Geddes" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1854-1932) was Scottish biologist and botanist, known also as an innovative thinker in the fields of urban planning and education. Geddes shared the belief with John Ruskin that social processes and spatial form are related. Geddes demonstrated this theory through his work in Edinburgh's 'Old Town'." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Kepler">
<NODE_LOCATION visible="false"/><NODE_LABEL label="Kepler" backColor="33AACC" textColor="000000" fontSize="14"/>
<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Kepler" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1571-1630) was a German mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, and an early writer of science fiction stories. He is best known for his laws of planetary motion." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Pynchon">
<NODE_LOCATION visible="false"/><NODE_LABEL label="Pynchon" backColor="44CC44" textColor="000000" fontSize="14"/>
<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Pynchon" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1937-) is an American writer based in New York City. He is noted for his dense and complex works of fiction, including  V., The Crying of Lot 49, and Gravity's Rainbow." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Salinger">
<NODE_LOCATION visible="false"/><NODE_LABEL label="Salinger" backColor="44CC44" textColor="000000" fontSize="14"/>
<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._Salinger" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1919-) is an American author best known for The Catcher in the Rye. A major theme in Salinger's work is the strong yet delicate mind of 'disturbed' adolescents." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Kerouac">
<NODE_LOCATION visible="false"/><NODE_LABEL label="Kerouac" backColor="44CC44" textColor="000000" fontSize="14"/>
<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kerouac" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1922-1969) was an American novelist, writer, poet, artist, and part of the Beat Generation. He called his style Spontaneous Prose, a literary technique akin to stream of consciousness." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Burroughs">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Burroughs" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1914-1997) was an American novelist, essayist, social critic, painter and spoken word performer. Burroughs' work is semi-autobiographical, drawn from his experiences as an opiate addict." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Williams">
<NODE_LOCATION visible="false"/><NODE_LABEL label="Williams" backColor="44CC44" textColor="000000" fontSize="14"/>
<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Carlos_Williams" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1883-1963) was an American poet closely associated with Modernism and Imagism. Williams tried to invent an entirely fresh form, an American form of poetry whose subject matter was centered on everyday circumstances of life and the lives of common people." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="DeLillo">
<NODE_LOCATION visible="false"/><NODE_LABEL label="DeLillo" backColor="44CC44" textColor="000000" fontSize="14"/>
<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_DeLillo" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1936-) is an American author best known for his novel White Noise, with its postmodern themes of rampant consumerism, media saturation, novelty intellectualism, underground conspiracies, the disintegration and re-integration of the family, and the promise of rebirth through violence." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Hesse">
<NODE_LOCATION visible="false"/><NODE_LABEL label="Hesse" backColor="44CC44" textColor="000000" fontSize="14"/>
<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Hesse" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1877-1962) was a German-born poet, novelist, and painter. His best known works include Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Swedenborg">
<NODE_LOCATION visible="false"/><NODE_LABEL label="Swedenborg" backColor="FF6666" textColor="000000" fontSize="14"/>
<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Swedenborg" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1688-1772) was a Swedish scientist, philosopher, seer, and theologian. At age fifty-six he experienced visions of the spiritual world and claimed to have talked with angels, devils, and spirits by visiting heaven and hell." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Milton">
<NODE_LOCATION visible="false"/><NODE_LABEL label="Milton" backColor="44CC44" textColor="000000" fontSize="14"/>
<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Milton" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1608-1674) was an English poet, best-known for his epic poem Paradise Lost, which depicts the creation of the universe, earth, and humanity, conveys the origin of sin, death, and evil, engages with political ideas of tyranny, liberty and justice, and defends theological positions on predestination, free will, and salvation." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Brentano">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Brentano" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1838-1917) was an influential figure in both philosophy and psychology. Brentano is best known for his reintroduction of the concept of intentionality - the content of every psychological act, its direction to an object." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Foucault">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1926-1984) was a French philosopher known for his critical studies of psychiatry, medicine, and the prison system, and exploring the relation between power and knowledge. In The Archaeology of Knowledge, he details how truth claims emerge during various epochs on the basis of what was actually said and written during these periods of time." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Scheler">
<NODE_LOCATION visible="false"/><NODE_LABEL label="Scheler" backColor="FF6666" textColor="000000" fontSize="14"/>
<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Scheler" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1874-1928) was a German philosopher known for his work in phenomenology, ethics, and philosophical anthropology. Scheler's phenomenology centered around a theory of ranked values - and a disorder 'of the heart' occurs whenever a person prefers a value of a lower rank to a higher rank, or a disvalue to a value." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Saussure">
<NODE_LOCATION visible="false"/><NODE_LABEL label="Saussure" backColor="FF6666" textColor="000000" fontSize="14"/>
<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_de_Saussure" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1857-1913) was a Geneva-born Swiss linguist responsible for significant developments in linguistics.  He proposed that language may be analyzed as a formal system of differential elements, apart from the messy dialectics of realtime production and comprehension." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Durkheim">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Durkheim" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1858-1917) was a french sociologist, one of the fathers of sociology. Durkheim explained the existence and quality of different parts of a society by reference to what function they served in keeping the society healthy and balanced, insisting that society was more than the sum of its parts." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Bergson">
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<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Bergson" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1859-1941) was a French philosopher. Among other of his views on life, he felt laughter is a corrective evolved to make social life possible for human beings. 'To perceive means to immobilize. We seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.'" width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Comte">
<NODE_LOCATION visible="false"/><NODE_LABEL label="Comte" backColor="FF6666" textColor="000000" fontSize="14"/>
<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_Comte" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1798-1857) was a French positivist thinker and came up with the term of sociology to name the new science made by Saint-Simon. Comte is famous for his 'law of three phases' - Theological, Metaphysical, and Scientific - one of the first theories of the social evolutionism." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Spencer">
<NODE_LOCATION visible="false"/><NODE_LABEL label="Spencer" backColor="FF6666" textColor="000000" fontSize="14"/>
<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Spencer" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1820-1903) was an English Philosopher and prominent classical liberal political theorist." width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Donne">
<NODE_LOCATION visible="false"/><NODE_LABEL label="Donne" backColor="44CC44" textColor="000000" fontSize="14"/>
<NODE_URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Donne" urlIsLocal="false" urlIsXML="false"/>
<NODE_HINT hint="(1572-1631) was a Jacobean poet, preacher, and metaphysical poet. 'And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.'" width="200" height="150" isHTML="true"/></NODE>

<NODE nodeID="Ryle">
<NODE_LOCATION visible="false"/><NODE_LABEL label="Ryle" backColor="FF6666" textColor="000000" fontS