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Examples from

History

Socrates

Socrates

question-and-answer
method of teaching
as
a
means
of
achieving
self-knowledge

Be accused of
Contaminate

Plato

founded the Academy


(386 B.C.)

Philosopher

Broad knowledge

Rene
Descartes

analytic geometry
I think,
therefore I am

Francis Bacon

Knowledge is power.
Of truth, Of Study

challenge(question)
the authority.

Plan vs Action
Concept vs practice

Rousseau

The Social Contract


The Confession

Prize vs success

Sartre


1964

A
leading
existentialist
Being
and
Nothingness


Broad knowledge

Bertrand Russell

1950

Principia
Mathematica
A History of Western
Philosophy

Past vs present

Adam Smith

Wealth of Nations

Motivation inner outer


Satisfaction

Abraham H. Maslow

(Need-hierarchy
Theory)

self-actualization
needs
esteem
needs
love and
belonging needs
safety
needs

physiological needs

Perseverance
Adversity
Past and present

Beethoven

The No.5 Symphony

Early education

Mozart

Perfectionist
perseverance

Michelangelo

Benefit of Broad knowledge


The meaning of trivial practice

Leonardo da Vinci

Mona Lisa
The Last
Supper

Past and present

Euclid

Euclidean geometry

Incidence vs inevitability

Archimedes

Archimedes Laws
cry of eureka (I have
found it)

Present vs. past


By product

Sir Isaac Newton

Principia
Mathematica (1687)
If I have
seen further it is by
standing
on
the
shoulders of Giants.

Past and present

Johannes Kepler

Kepler's laws

Past and present

Nicolas
Copernicus

heliocentric ordering
of planets


Challenge authority

Galileo

1623

Practice and education

Magellan

Interests
authority

Columbus

1492, New World

Challenge authority

Charles Darwin

1849, The Origins of


Species

Originality
incidence

Michael Faraday

1813

electromagnetic
induction (1831)

Thomas Edison

microphone,
the
phonograph, and an
incandescent lamp

James Watt

Break new

Incidence
interests


Efforts and praise

Pasteur

Ordinary people success

Wright Brothers

1903 12 17

Franklin D. Roosevelt

New Deal, 3R Policy


Pearl
Harbor,
1941.12.7
Pacific War
Yalta,
Big
Three,
Joseph Stalin
postwar world order

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