As for the Middle Ages, while Berlin could admit that the period might have been superior to what followed in some respects greater public order, intellectual security, social cohesion etc.—he regarded it as by and large an intellectually blank period, because of the very stability and conservatism of its intellectual life.
FINALISTS -- "Arc of Justice: A Saga Of Race, Civil Rights and Murder in the Jazz Age," by Kevin Boyle; "Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860, volumes 1 & 2" by Michael O'Brien.
More than anyone else, he brought their universe of ideas back to life, notably in his 2004 book Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860.
This perspective on our virtues must itself derive from a second-order intellectual virtue, one that allows us to reliably monitor and adjust our first-level cognitive dispositions (Sosa 1980).
This nomos-phusis debate raised a fundamental challenge to the ordering intellectual assumptions of the polis, even though the sophists advertised themselves as teaching skills for success within it, a number of them being employed as diplomats by cities eager to exploit their rhetorical abilities.
Eventually, patients with AD experience profound cognitive dysfunction that affects memory encoding and storage, language, and higher-order intellectual abilities.
Meanwhile, major cracks develop in the world legal order protecting intellectual property rights, threatening the livelihoods of companies like I.B.M., Microsoft and Merck.
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Among his many international awards were the Lotus Prize (1969), the Lenin Peace Prize (1983), the French medal of Knight of Arts and Belles Letters (1997), the wisām (order) of intellectual merit from Moroccan King Muhammad VI in 2000, and the 2001 Lannan Foundation Prize for Cultural Freedom.
Duveen met Berenson in London in 1906, when the latter was already internationally celebrated for bringing order — and intellectual glamour — to Italian Renaissance art, which had sunk into a chaos of fanciful attributions, deteriorated and heavily repainted works, robust cottage industries in the production of fakes, and general befuddlement.
Among the subjects he investigated over five decades were the effect of birth order on intellectual performance; whether the mere presence of spectators can influence a performer for good or ill; and whether smiling can be a cause, as well as a consequence, of a good mood.
