For Plato, the physical things of the world must have bodily form. ... And, for Pieper, God's role in the life of every individual and the cardinal virtues of prudence, justice, courage, temperance, and love are the ways by which human beings understood truth. ... Henry David Thoreau had gone to Walden Pond, a small body of water outside Concord, Massachusetts, in order to write a book dedicated to his dead brother. ... Philosophy is in a sense inescapable: life confronts every thoughtful person with some philosophical questions, and nearly everyone is often guided by philosophical assum...

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.  Balanced compositions-- the arrangement of things like lines, colors and form were seemingly "correct".  Ancient Roman ideals were the inspiration for many works in Italy.  Larger than life figures appear in German art.  Dutch works of art began to show hints of daily life (hunting, farming) rather than religious themes.  French art featured clean simplicity. ... The humanists of the Renaissance rediscovered the Latin and Greek classics (hence the "rebirth" or "renaissance" of the classical world), that humanist philosophy stressed the di...

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