Great Minds – Page 9 – Wealthy Psyche

Gilbert Ryle

Gilbert Ryle (1900–1976) was a prominent British philosopher, best known for his critique of Cartesian dualism. He was a leading f…

German historian who ignited the 1986 Historikerstreit with a single provocative thesis: that the Nazi Holocaust was a defensive r…

Italian semiotician and novelist who gave fascism studies its most widely circulated diagnostic tool: the concept of Ur-Fascism. I…

British political theorist who reoriented fascist studies around a single definitional core: palingenetic ultranationalism. His 19…

Robert Paxton is the historian who dismantled the search for a fixed fascist ideology and replaced it with a dynamic, five-stage m…

Giovanni Gentile built the philosophical architecture of Italian fascism. His system, 'actual idealism,' held that reality is noth…

Benito Mussolini gave fascism its name, its symbol, and its most explicit doctrine: the totalitarian state as an absolute. In 'The…

Duane P. Schultz was an American psychologist and a leading historian of psychology whose textbooks defined the field for generati…

Edwin Garrigues Boring was an American psychologist and a preeminent historian of psychology. His magnum opus, 'A History of Exper…

Ayn Rand built Objectivism, a philosophical system that grounds laissez-faire capitalism in rational self-interest rather than eco…

Ludwig von Mises is the economist who demonstrated that a socialist economy cannot rationally allocate resources because it lacks …

Karl Polanyi argued that the self-regulating market was not a natural development but a historically contingent and socially destr…