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Kenneth Earl Wilber II (born January 31, 1949) is an American philosopher and writer on transpersonal psychology and his own integral theory, a philosophy which suggests the synthesis of all human knowledge and experience. He became interested in Eastern literature, particularly the Tao Te Ching. He left Duke and enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, […] More

Tchouang Tseu ou Zhuangzi est un penseur chinois du IVe siècle av. J.-C. à qui l’on attribue la paternité d’un texte essentiel du taoïsme appelé de son nom – le Zhuangzi – ou encore le « Vrai classique de Nanhua », Nanhuazhenjing. Si Zhuang Zhou a réellement existé, on ne sait en tout cas que […] More

Marcel Proust, né le 10 juillet 1871 à Paris où il est mort le 18 novembre 1922, est un écrivain français, dont l’œuvre principale est la suite romanesque intitulée À la recherche du temps perdu, publiée de 1913 à 1927. Issu d’une famille aisée et cultivée (son père est professeur de médecine à Paris), Marcel Proust est un enfant de santé fragile, et il a toute sa vie de graves difficultés respiratoires causées […] More

Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) was the founder of American pragmatism (after about 1905 called by Peirce “pragmaticism” in order to differentiate his views from those of William James, John Dewey, and others, which were being labelled “pragmatism”), a theorist of logic, language, communication, and the general theory of signs (which was often called by Peirce […] More