Germany is known for being the country of poets and thinkers.

Gaza breeds thinkers, and the only thing it teaches them is that they should do the thinking themselves.

And then you've got the word minds. They make great journalists, and they also make really, really good stage actors.

First, he profoundly influenced not only his own field of economics, but also the social sciences more broadly.

Milton Friedman was a giant among modern social thinkers for at least two reasons.

In November 2012, Foreign Policy named Bassel one of the world's 100 top global thinkers.

In other words, for anti austerians, the eurozone suffered a crisis of competence, not a crisis of confidence.

I recently debated one of the key thinkers behind the decision to liberate Iraq from Saddam Hussein.

To further understand the current evolution of contemporary African philosophy, here are five thinkers that you ought to keep track of from the continent 1.

It is, of course, possible to trace the concept of universal rights at least as far back as seventeenth century English thinking about natural law.

American newspapers need to publish op ed pieces not only by Americans interpreting the Middle East, but also by representative thinkers from the Middle East itself.

Groups of critical thinkers the experts should be on hand to advise on how to avoid second order disasters.

This training enabled them to compare the debased state of affairs of their time with the norms and aspirations of earlier generations of clerics and thinkers.

American newspapers need to publish op ed pieces not only by Americans interpreting the Middle East, but also by representative thinkers from the Middle East itself.

They will expand their pool of thinkers to include scientists from necessarily innovative regions.

One also regrets that not much is done in India to keep alive the philosophy and spirit of Mahatma Gandhi, one of Asia s few twentieth century universal thinkers.

Instead, he has received support from other intellectuals, such as the 3,400 members of the PEN American Center, the writers organization that fights for freedom of expression.

It was also the birthplace of a spiritual heritage, of thinkers and artists, of a specific mode of creativity and search for meaning beyond pragmatic negotiations with daily life.

Most thinkers back then accepted the Arab estimates that the universe was two hundred million miles across, which is enough room to swing quite a few cats or Oxford atheists!

They will expand their pool of thinkers to include scientists from necessarily innovative regions.

Scholars, thinkers, intellectuals, writers, scientists, people of arts, culture and media and the youth, who play an instrumental role in initiation and sustainment of dialogue among civilizations

Dmitri Likhachev, one of Russia's most respected intellectuals in the communist era, said that there is no such thing as the Russian soul we can create whatever future we want.

If the FIS group is lucky, there will also be some radical input from thinkers that do not presently have access to first world infrastructure.

If liberal philosophers are of limited guidance in dealing with our enemies, perhaps one of the 20th century's most illiberal thinkers can help.

But can we justifiably defend morally compromised artists and intellectuals on the basis of their work s merit, yet condemn ordinary people for often less grave offenses?

But can we justifiably defend morally compromised artists and intellectuals on the basis of their work s merit, yet condemn ordinary people for often less grave offenses?

The US government doesn t really know what it is doing in Africa, because over the years America s aid agency has been largely emptied of its leading thinkers and strategists.

In 1502, the University of Wittenberg was founded, and it gave a home to some important thinkers, such as Martin Luther a professor of theology beginning in 1508 and Philipp Melanchthon a professor of Greek starting in 1518.

Thus, a sharp, focused challenge to the assertions of religious orthodoxy has emerged in the work of such important thinkers as Abdolkarim Soroush (Iran), Abdelmajid Charfi (Tunisia), Fazlur Rahman (Pakistan), and Mahmud Muhammad Taha (Sudan).

MADRID Since the publication in 1918 of the first volume of Oswald Spengler s The Decline of the West, prophecies about the inexorable doom of what he called the Faustian Civilization have been a recurrent topic for thinkers and public intellectuals.

My hopes lie in the country s public thinkers, whom I trust will use the their space in the media to remind the country of these urgent issues, and also in this new generation of French people.

Paulo Rabello de Castro, a University of Chicago trained economist and one of Brazil s wittiest thinkers, has called the country s October presidential elections a choice between more of the same and the same without more.