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11 · Admissions Interview (cont'd)

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Kirkegaard

Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a 19th century Danish philosopher and one of the progenitors of existential philosopher

Camus

Albert Camus was a 20th century Algerian-born French author of existentialist texts.

Dennis Gabor

Dennis Gabor, born Gábor Dénes, was a 20th century Hungarian physicist who invented holography, for which he received the Nobel Prize.

"...Hobbes is just Rousseau in a dark mirror..."

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was a British philosopher and author of Leviathan. In it, he suggests that the only escape from living in a state of nature that is "solitary, nasty, brutish, and short" is to build societies. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was the Swiss-French philosopher who wrote The Social Contract, in which he advances the same argument but idealizes the state of nature.

Hegel

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a highly influential German philosopher.

creatus

Latin for "creation," the line over the a indicates the vowel is pronounced as in "hate" rather than in "father."

pinioned

To pinion is to disable a bird by clipping its wings.

Nunn Bush

A brand of shoes

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half nelson

a wrestling hold where both arms are pinned behind the back


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