Category: philosophyDocs

Periklis Sfyridis

Periklis Sfyridis

Periklis Sfyridis (born October 5, 1933, in Thessaloniki) is a contemporary Greek poet, prose writer, essayist, critic, and anthologist. His prose has been published in several languages. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrodemyXb1U Periklis Sfyridis was born in 1933 in Thessaloniki, where he lives. He graduated from the American College "Anatolia" in 1952. He studied medicine at the University of Thessaloniki (as a student of the Military Medical School) and worked as a cardiologist Read more [...]
William Somerset Maugham

William Somerset Maugham

William Somerset Maugham [ˈsʌməsɪt mɔːm] (January 25, 1874 in Paris – December 16, 1965 in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat near Nice), also known as W. Somerset Maugham, was an English novelist and playwright. He is one of the most widely read English-language authors of the 20th century. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35zdFvas0uQ William Somerset Maugham was the son of an English lawyer who worked for British clients in Paris. His older brother was the jurist Frederic Maugham. His parents Read more [...]
Ippolyt Guarinoni

Ippolyt Guarinoni

Hippolyt Guarinoni (also Ippolito Guarinoni and Hippolytus Guarinonius) (November 18, 1571 in Trento – May 31, 1654 in Hall in Tirol) was a physician and polymath who practiced in Hall. As a proponent of militant Catholicism, he was instrumental in the construction of St. Charles's Church in Volders and founded the anti-Semitic Anderl von Rinn cult. Hippolytus spent his childhood in Trento. He later moved with his father to Vienna and finally followed him to the court of Emperor Rudolf Read more [...]
Klauss Thomas

Klauss Thomas

Klaus Thomas (* 31 January 1915 in Berlin; † 10 July 1992 in Malsburg-Marzell) was a German Protestant pastor, physician, and psychotherapist. Klaus Thomas studied Protestant theology, philosophy, modern languages, psychology, psychotherapy, and medicine. During his studies, he was a member of the Arndt Berlin fraternity (in the Sonderhäuser Verband).[1] In 1940, he received his doctorate in philosophy from the Faculty of Philosophy at the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin.[2] In Read more [...]
Franz Anton Mesmer

Franz Anton Mesmer

Franz Anton Mesmer (/ˈmɛzmər/ MEZ-mər;[1] German: [ˈmɛsmɐ]; 23 May 1734 – 5 March 1815) was a German physician with an interest in astronomy. He theorized the existence of a process of natural energy transference occurring between all animate and inanimate objects; this he called "animal magnetism", later referred to as mesmerism. Mesmer's theory attracted a wide following between about 1780 and 1850, and continued to have some influence until the end of the 19th century.[2] In Read more [...]
Georg Hörmann

Georg Hörmann

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSGv1Y5jZO8 Georg Hörmann (born November 13, 1946 in Ulm) is a German psychologist, physician, psychotherapist, and retired professor of education at the Otto-Friedrich University in Bamberg. After graduating from the Humboldt-Gymnasium Ulm in 1965, Hörmann studied secondary school teaching (philosophy, Latin, theology, and education), musicology (master's degree), psychology (diploma), and human medicine. He earned the degrees of choirmaster (C-exam) at Read more [...]
Joachim Koch

Joachim Koch

Member of the Forum for Borderline Sciences and Crop Circles: We meet twice a year for our weekend conferences. The exchange in the areas of crop circles, geomancy, radiesthesia, photography, light phenomena, natural beings, ancient and modern history, archaeology, philosophy of science, UFOs, extraterrestrials, and borderline sciences, with exciting lectures outside the mainstream, is always a tremendous enrichment for all participants, as is the case with our FGK projects at home and Read more [...]
Hans Prinzhorn

Hans Prinzhorn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2Fxo1YNf7E&pp=ygUOaGFucyBwcmluemhvcm4%3D Hans Prinzhorn (6 June 1886 – 14 June 1933) was a German psychiatrist and art historian. Hans Prinzhorn als Abiturient (1904) Born in Hemer, Westphalia, he studied art history and philosophy at the universities of Tübingen, Leipzig and Munich, then receiving his doctorate under Theodor Lipps with the dissertation "Gottfried Semper's basic aesthetic views" in 1908. Read more [...]
al-Kindi

al-Kindi

Abū Yūsuf Yaʻqūb ibn ʼIsḥāq aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ al-Kindī (/ælˈkɪndi/; Arabic: أبو يوسف يعقوب بن إسحاق الصبّاح الكندي; Latin: Alkindus; c. 801–873 AD) was an Arab Muslim polymath active as a philosopher, mathematician, physician, and music theorist. Al-Kindi was the first of the Islamic peripatetic philosophers, and is hailed as the "father of Arab philosophy".[4][5][6] Al-Kindi was born in Kufa and educated in Baghdad.[7] He Read more [...]
Abu Bakr al-Razi

Abu Bakr al-Razi

Abū Bakr al-Rāzī, also known as Rhazes[a] (full name: أبو بکر محمد بن زکریاء الرازي, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyāʾ al-Rāzī),[b] c. 864 or 865–925 or 935 CE,[c] was a Persian physician, philosopher and alchemist who lived during the Islamic Golden Age. He is widely regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of medicine,[1] and also wrote on logic, astronomy and grammar.[2] He Read more [...]