The 'angle of Louis' is a well-known anatomical landmark. Formed by the junction between the manubrium and sternal body, it marks the level of the 2nd rib and defines the boundary between the superior and inferior mediastinum. Despite our familiarity with this angle, there remains confusion over the eponym. This is reflected by the variations of the name in the literature Louis, Ludovici, Ludov...

This essay historically explores philosophical views about the nature and significance of human sexuality, starting with the Ancient Greeks and ending with late 20th-century Western philosophy. Important figures from the history of philosophy (and theology) discussed include Sappho, Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, St. Jerome, the Pelagians, St. Thomas Aquinas, Michel de Montaigne, Rene Descart...

This article elaborates a claim, first introduced by Wilhelm Dilthey, that metaphysics represents an illusory flight from the tragedy of human finitude. Metaphysics, of which psychoanalytic metapsychologies are a form, transforms the unbearable fragility and transience of all things human into an enduring, permanent, changeless reality, an illusory world of eternal truths. Three "clinical cases...

Ganesaratnam K. Balendiran, Frank Schnütgen, Giovanna Scapin, Torsten Börchers, Ning Xhong, Kap Lim, Roseline Godbout, Friedrich Spener and James C. Sacchettini Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-2128. Department of Biochemistry, University of Münster, Wilhelm Klemm-Straße 2, D-48149 Münster, Germany. present address: Institut de Genetique e...

Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (1781-1832) and Georg Wilhelm Hegel (1770-1831) are two representatives of German Idealism, both whom developed impressing category systems. At the core systems is question relation Absolute to its determinations finite beings. Both idealists try deduce their respective from immediacy Absolute. use combinatorial methods get known new categories or constellations ...

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher (1844-1900), he has been appropriated as leading figure in modern philosophy by many scholars. One of the most famous theories proposed is Nihilism. Nihilism belief that all religion and moral principles are rejected, life meaningless. believes “every belief, every considering something true necessarily false because there simply no world”. I...

The height of one the most outstanding floods Neva on September 10 (21), 1777 is practically not captured walls buildings and structures in St. Petersburg. In this context, leveling catalog, which reflects more than 700 marks flood, plans with location these within Petersburg, seems to be absolutely unique very relevant. author catalog Friedrich Wilhelm Bauer, quartermaster general, surveyor, c...

Within this short paper I do not intend to compare systems of philosophies; rather, I am trying here to compare kinds of philosophizing, hereby not all of its main aspects but its core, namely: whether or not some philosophizing is related to some fix-point, so to speak: to some Archimedean point, and thereby, whether or not such philosophizing is leading to a closed system of philosophy. In or...

A quantitative analysis of bird species richness and abundance in habitats in and adjacent to rainforest in northeast Queensland, Australia, is presented. Bird assemblages in five habitats surrounding tropical rainforest were compared using line transects over a six-week period in the winter dry-season, between July and September 1995. Data were analysed using the Shannon–Weaver index of biodiv...