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Disciplines in Society, Peace & Law
Peacemakers, jurists, teachers, ecologists and explorers.
Era
7 figures
Cicero
106 BCE – 43 BCERepublican theory and oratory that still frame constitutional argument.
Montesquieu
1689 – 1755Separation of powers, copied into nearly every written constitution since.
Rudolf Steiner
1861 – 1925Founded anthroposophic medicine with Ita Wegman; still practised in European hospitals.
Hannah Arendt
1906 – 1975The Origins of Totalitarianism remains the reference work on how republics fail.
Arne Næss
1912 – 2009Founded deep ecology and the case for nature's intrinsic worth.
J. R. Worsley
1923 – 2003Founded Five Element acupuncture and the colleges that carried it across the English-speaking world.
Giovanni Maciocia
1945 – 2018The Foundations of Chinese Medicine became the standard Western textbook of the field.