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Disciplines in Literature & Letters
Novelists, poets, philosophers, theologians, New Thought authors, historians and the students of language itself.
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8 figures
Cicero
106 BCE – 43 BCERepublican theory and oratory that still frame constitutional argument.
Marcus Aurelius
121 – 180Emperor whose private Meditations founded modern Stoic self-help.
Boethius
477 – 524Wrote Consolation of Philosophy awaiting execution; medieval Europe's bridge to antiquity.
Thomas Aquinas
1225 – 1274Fused Aristotle with Christianity; natural-law theory still shapes law and ethics.
Dante Alighieri
1265 – 1321Made a dialect into a nation's language and mapped the moral universe.
Leonardo da Vinci
1452 – 1519Proved that art and science are one act of looking.
Niccolò Machiavelli
1469 – 1527The Prince separated political analysis from moral instruction.
Primo Levi
1919 – 1987Chemist whose Auschwitz testimony is the standard of moral witness.