The reasons for my detention quickly became clear as my interrogators rifled through a binder stuffed thick with copies of my writings on human rights abuses in southeastern Turkey, private email exchanges with human rights activists, transcriptions of phone calls, and pictures of me snapped in public places.
He and his wife, Zeng Jinyan, also are well-known Internet bloggers who have faced official scrutiny for years for their writings on human rights in China.
Machiavelli was focused on human nature and his writings capture eternal verities in the same way that Shakespeare's plays do.
In his writings on human evolution, Keith tended to emphasize the competitive factor and interpreted racial and national prejudice as inborn.
The notion of four world ages, sometimes associated with metals, occurs also in the works of Classical writers and in later speculative writings on human history.
Other light boxes use text and digitally rendered images to explore semantic threads in the 150 Psalms in the Bible, a diagram of the human body breathing, the writings and music of the medieval nun Hildegard of Bingen, the scores of Bach's and Beethoven's Masses and the circumstances in which Mozart's final work, the Requiem, was composed.
Although his reputation today is based on his writings about human evolution and biodiversity, which he first championed 20 years ago, it was in the field of entomology that he made arguably his greatest discovery: pheromones, now talked about in women's magazines as the secret of sexual attraction, but then utterly unknown.
The books were not included in the prophetic collection because they did not fit the content or the historical-philosophical framework of that collection, because they were originally seen as purely human and not divine writings, or simply because they were written too late for inclusion.
An English translation of Olivi's writings on human freedom would be of enormous value.
In light of Hume's observation it is not surprising that so much history was written by men prominent for their philosophical writings on human nature.
