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Alcuin of York

Alcuin (York, England current 735-Abbey of St. Martin of Tours, now France, May 1919, 804) English philosopher and theologian, Anglo-Latin poet, educator and clergyman, also known as Albinus. He was educated in the school of York, who led between 766 and 780 (it is said that he remained in York almost 50 years), when he was invited by Charlemagne to settle in the court of France, allocating income from three abbeys. The theologian accepted, and founded the famous academy or school Palatine, which Charlemagne himself came to be taught by dialectic and rhetoric. In addition to these two disciplines, Alcuin introduced as academic knowledge of grammar, arithmetic, geometry and music theory, which became central to medieval education. It also started the recovery and preservation of ancient texts, and revised the liturgy of the Church of Gaul. He wrote over 300 letters in Latin, which are a valuable source on the history of his time.

Alcuin returned to York between 790 and 793, then return to France, would be responsible for the Synod of Frankfort against English heretics of 794. However Alcunio of York held that the conversion from paganism should be by conviction and not by imposition. Between 796-797 would appointed abbot of Saint Martins, in Tours.

Alcuin had a significant influence on the formation of Roman Catholicism in Western Europe, particularly in the revision of the liturgy of the church open, there would introduce such a habit of singing the creed; reissued the Latin Vulgate, etc.. Despite being a great teacher, Alcuin is said that his writings show no originality, most of his poetry is far from satisfactory and despite his reputation for holiness is not in the Catholic calendar.

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Sri Aurobindo

Sri Aurobindo (August 15, 1872 Calcutta, Pondicherry 1950), yogi, nationalist, poet, critical thinker, spiritual leader of India. His full name was Aurobindo Ghose.

Sri Aurobindo was educated in England, in London and Cambridge (King's College), from 7 to 21 years, at the insistence of his father, Dr Krishnadhan Ghose, who had been one of the first native India to be educated in England, grew up ignorant of local culture and religion, wealth, which only came to incorporate into your brain after 1893, when he returned home. Worked for a time as a teacher of English and French at Baroda College. In 1906 Sri Aurobindo would be linked with the political movement in India exactly with the movement of resistance to British colonial rule, quickly becoming a spokesman for the nationalists, who demanded complete independence from Britain.

Sri Aurobindo in 1908, moved to Pondicherry, where he devoted himself to spiritual life, forming numerous disciples and followers.

Aurobindo developed a metaphysical-theological doctrine at a time and evolutionary emanationist through integration with elements from the Upanishads, Yoga School and the idealist tradition of the West. First of all stressed the unity of Brahma, conceived as an absolute right claimed by if it wants to leave itself and its own failure.

Brahma is the evolutionary drive that spilled into the manifold and has the three properties of Being, the Force-Consciousness and Bliss.

The reality is the product of the emanation and differentiation of the Absolute, the latter emerges as a powerhouse, the whole world, which unfolds in a series of forms to reach the area. While the material contains potentially higher forms, to which it evolves. The man represents the main point of the process of resorption of the world in "Divine Life", but in order to fully perform such resorption is necessary that the man overcome his desire for multiple and particular.

The instrument of this excess capital is the practice of Integral Yoga (Hatha Yoga), a series of spiritual exercises that lead man to the pure contemplative life and immersion in the Divine Life. The first stage in this process of deification is the formation of a superior man, a new "first man", the origin of the transformation and deification of the world.

Main works: Basis of Yoga, 1936.
- The Life Divine. The Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo, 3 vols., 1942.
- The Human Cycle, 1949.
- Lights on Life-Problems, 1950.
- On Yoga. I: The Synthesis of Yoga, 1950.
- The Foundation of Indian Culture, 1954.
_ Biografía: A. B. Purani, Life of S. A. (1872-1962), 2a ed., 1960.
— Véase S. K. Maitra, An Introduction to the Philosophy of S. A., 1942.
— Íd., íd., The Meeting of East and West in S. Aurobindo's Philosophy, 1956.
—N. K. Gupta, The Yoga of S. A., 2 vols., 1948-50.
— S. Bahrati, The Integral Yogi of S. A., 1949.
— H. Chaudhuri, The Philosophy of Integralism, or the Metaphysical Synthesis inherent in the Teaching of S. A., 1954.
— A. C. Das, S. A. and some Modem Problems, 1958.
— H. Chaudhuri y F. Spiegelberg, eds., The Integral Philosophy of S. A., 1960 (con colaboraciones de A. Ch Moore, PA Sorokin, N. Smart et al.) - VP Varma, The Political Philosophy of SA, 1961.

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Dog Moammar Gaddafi massacred his people

After constant barking mad dog Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, now another dog as much or more rabid Islamic dictator of Iran, Libya's Muammar al-Gaddafi, is dedicated to massacre their own people, the people who fed and endured since 1969. Gaddafi is a criminal and a recognized international terrorist. It is a genocide that will be made available to the International Tribunal as soon as possible because Gaddafi is committing crimes against humanity with impunity. Never mind that one of the dogs xiita and the other is Sunni. Both are criminals and enslave their people.

Meanwhile, the leaders of the European Union, as always, react later, timidly and very badly to such a slaughter of defenseless Libyan population. Apparently more interested in oil wells that hundreds of innocent civilian lives. I will conclude with a simple question: who are these that govern the EU?, What interests do they serve?.