http://www.essentiallifeskills.net Essential Life Skills, a website dedicated to contributing to your personal growth and development en-us Life skills Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:55:52 GMT Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:55:52 GMT essentiallifeskills.net http://www.essentiallifeskills.net/whatsnew.html Here's what's new and the latest additions for your information and enjoyment. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:55:51 GMT http://www.essentiallifeskills.net/leibniz.html Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, known as the last 'universal genius,' was an outstanding polymath, and one of the intellectual giants of the seventeenth century. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:45:22 GMT http://www.essentiallifeskills.net/johnlocke.html John Locke was considered by many to be the greatest British philosopher of all time and the father of modern empiricism, he was also a big influence to the writings of Berkeley, Kant and Hume. 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