Homage
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HOMAGE
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to:
- all men and women along History, often anonymous heroes, who contributed to the emancipation of each and every person from all possible origins through the development of Science, the spread of Knowledge and the increase in individual and collective Freedom and Equality − the only effective sources of Human Dignity.
[to emancipate derives from the Latin expression ex manus capere = to take off from hand]
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[two mural paintings by Josep Maria Sert (1934) in the
Council Chamber room of the League of Nations (United Nations) Office in Geneva]
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to:
- all men and women along History, often anonymous heroes, who fought to conquest social (civil and political) rights for each and every person from all possible origins, in the long, slow, and still far-from-achievement, process that led to the establishment of relevant practices and, among other fundamental rules and laws, to the writing and approval (10th December of 1948) of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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namely…
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… to a roman classic epicurean hedonist, a materialist (atomist), empiricist and rationalist ancestor of Modernity:
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LUCRETIUS
[ Titus LUCRETIUS CARUS ]
(~94 aC – ~50 aC)
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and…
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… to two eminent thinkers that, in XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries, strongly inspired a progressist Radical Enlightenment:
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Baruch SPINOZA
[ Bento de ESPINOSA / Benedictus de SPINOZA ]
(24 November 1632 – 21 February 1677)
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CONDORCET, marquis de
[ Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas CARITAT ]
(17 September 1743 – 28 Mars 1794)
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guided by two seminal historians of European Modernity:
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John Bagnell BURY
(16 October 1861 – 1 June 1927)
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Jonathan Irvine ISRAEL
(26 January 1946 – )
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Nothing can dwindle to nothing, as Nature restores one thing from the stuff of another, nor does she allow a birth, without a corresponding death. [translated]
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Lucretius [Titus Lucretius Carus] (~99BC-~55BC)
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