Definitions in General Knowledge
When you want to enrich your general knowledge, everything starts with definitions. General knowledge is a set of themes and concepts that must be mastered perfectly. For example, have you …
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French law. Methods of proof
Everyone has the right to a fair trial, and the method of evidence used must be be lawful and fair. Article 1315-1 of the Civil Code establishes five modes of …
Friedrich Nietzsche and justice
Short biography of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) Friedrich Nietzsche was born in Röcken, near Leipzig in Saxony, into a family of pastors. He attended high school in Pforta, then studied Greek …
Montaigne and medicine
Montaigne is skeptical about medicine. He himself was ill, he suffered from kidney stones from 1577 onwards. In the Essays, Montaigne in CHAPTER XXXVII, entitled “Of the resemblance of children to …
VI. B. Eastern Europe and the People’s Democracies
→ The people’s democracies around the USSR —the USSR sets up communist regimes in the Central European states (Romania in 1945, Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland in 1947, Czechoslovakia in 1948 …
Pascal – Maintaining prestige with humility
In 1670, Pascal warned in his Three Discourses on the Condition of the Great: The people who admire you may not know this secret. They believe that nobility is a …