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PrincetonX: HOPEx HOPE: Human Odyssey to Political Existentialism

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Throughout our odyssey, we will meet many fellow travelers – thinkers, artists, politicians, real or fictional – who will help us get closer to the heart of humanity. Some we may admire, others we would be happy to have as friends, still others we may consider unkind, even evil. Still all are part of that remarkable mosaic that makes us who we are, and we have much to learn about them, and from them.

Abraham
Abraham
Bibilical Figure
King Agamemnon
King Agamemnon
Greek Mythology
Jean Améry
(1912-1978)
Sophie Amundsen
Sophie Amundsen
Fictional Character
Tullia d’Aragona
Tullia d’Aragona
(1510-1556)
Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt
(1906-1975)
Aristotle
Aristotle
(384 - 322 BCE)
Artemis
Greek Mythology
Isaac Asimov
(1920-1992)
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood
(1939-)
W. H. Auden
(1907-1973)
Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir
(1908-1986)
David Ben-Gurion
(1886-1973)
Jeremy Bentham
Jeremy Bentham
(1748-1832)
Sir Isaiah Berlin
(1909-1997)
Giovanni Boccaccio
(1313-1375)
Sandro Botticelli
(1445-1510)
Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary
Fictional Charactert
Mohamed Bouazizi
(1984-2011)
Louise Bourgeois
Louise Bourgeois
(1911-2010)
Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Bronte
(1816-1855)
Martin Buber
Martin Buber
(1878-1965)
Buddha
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
(1913-1960)
Jimmy Carter
(1924-)
Maria Casarès
Maria Casarès
(1922-1996)
Camille Claudel
Camille Claudel
(1864-1943)
Hillary Clinton
(1947-)
Lisa Cohen
Lisa Cohen
Fictional Character
Christopher Columbus
(1451-1506)
Confucius
(551-479 BCE)
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
(1809-1882)
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
(1830-1886)
Diogenes
(320 BCE)
Diotima of Mantinea
Diotima of Mantinea
(440 BCE)
Anna Grigoryevna Dostoevskaya
Anna G. Dostoevskaya
(1846-1918)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(1821-1881)
Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras
(1914-1996)
Adolf Eichmann
(1906-1962)
Viktor Frankl
Viktor Frankl
(1905-1997)
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud
(1856-1939)
Thomas Friedman
(1953-)
Erich Fromm
Erich Fromm
(1900-1980)
Robert Frost
(1874-1963)
Paul Gauguin
(1848-1903)
Anthony Giddens
Anthony Giddens
(1938-)
Alexander Hamilton
(1755/77-1804)
Hamlet
Fictional Character
PJ Harvey
PJ Harvey
(1969-)
Ahmed Hassan
Cinematographer
Václav Havel
(1936-2011)
Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger
(1889-1976)
Héloïse
Héloïse
(1090/1100-1164)
Patrick Henry
(1736-1799)
Adolf Hitler
(1889-1945)
Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
(1588-1679)
David Hume
(1711-1776)
Aldous Huxley
(1894-1963)
Iphigenia
Princess of Mycenae
Isaiah
Hebrew Prophet
Karl Jaspers
(1883-1969)
Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826)
Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc
(1412-1431)
Job
A Biblical Figure
Josef K.
Fictional Character
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
(1883-1924)
Frida Kahlo
(1907-1954)
Ellen Key
Ellen Key
(1849-1926)
Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
(1813-1855)
Lawrence Kohlberg
(1927-1987)
Kolya
Czech Drama Film
Stanley Kubrick
(1928-1999)
Peggy Lee
(1920-2002)
John Locke
(1632-1704)
Niccolo Machiavelli
(1469-1527)
Margaret MacDonald
Margaret MacDonald
(1864-1933)
Frances MacDonald
Frances MacDonald
(1873-1921)
René Magritte
(1898-1967)
Maharal of Prague
(1512/26-1609)
Clara Malraux
Clara Malraux
(1897-1982)
Mamah Borthwick
Mamah Borthwick
(1869-1914)
Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann
(1875-1955)
Karl Marx
Karl Marx
(1818-1883)
Abraham Maslow
(1908-1970)
Giovanni de' Medici
(1498-1526)
Michelangelo
(1475-1564)
Stanley Milgram
(1933-1984)
John S. Mill
(1806-1873)
Mirandola
(1463-1494)
Hosni Mubarak
(1928-)
Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch
(1919-1999)
Mulan
Mulan
Film; 1998
Benito Mussolini
(1883-1945)
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
(1844-1900)
Anna de Noailles
Anna de Noailles
(1876-1933)
Robert Nozick
Robert Nozick
(1938-2002)
Barack Obama
(1961-)
George Orwell
George Orwell
(1903-1950)
Jan Palach
(1948-1969)
Plato
Plato
(428/7-348/7 BCE)
Pliny the Elder
(23-79)
Karl Popper
Karl Popper
(1902-1994)
George Price
(1922-1975)
Vladimir Putin
(1952-)
Don Quixote
Fictional Character
Ayn Rand
(1905-1982)
John Rawls
(1921-2002)
Ronald Reagan
(1911-2004)
Diego Rivera
(1886-1957)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(1712-1778)
Charlotte Salomon
Charlotte Salomon
(1917-1943)
Sarah
Biblical Figure
Jean Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre
(1905-1980)
Girolamo Savonarola
(1452-1498)
Gershom Scholem
(1897-1982)
William Shakespeare
(1564-1616)
Amrita Sher-Gil
Amrita Sher-Gil
(1913-1941)
Sisyphus
Greek Mythology
Winston Smith
Fictional Character
Socrates
Socrates
(470-399 BCE)
Max Stirner
(1806-1856)
Dorothea Tanning
Dorothea Tanning
(1910-2012)
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher
(1925-2013)
Donald Trump
(1946-)
Ivan Turgenev
(1818-1883)
Mark Twain
(1835-1910)
Lope de Vega
(1562-1635)
Simone Veil
Simone Veil
(1927-2017)
Giambattista Vico
(1668-1744)
Jigme S. Wangchuck
(1955-)
Roger Waters
(1943-present)
Max Weber
Max Weber
(1864-1920)
Gerda Wegener
Gerda Wegener
(1886-1940)
Simone Weil
Simone Weil
(1909-1943)
Walt Whitman
(1819-1892)
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
(1854-1900)
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
(1882-1941)
Yitzhak Isaac Levy
(1919-1977)
Marguerite Yourcenar
Marguerite Yourcenar
(1903-1987)
Zarathustra
Zarathustra
(628-551 BCE)

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