Intellectual
An intellectual is a person who uses his or her intellect and critical thinking skills to work, study, reflect, or ask and answer questions about a wide variety of different ideas. Intellectuals are often times authors, artists, writers for newspapers, and college professors.
There are some people who do not like intellectuals because they are not traditional or practical. This is called "anti-intellectualism".
Intellectual Media
Erasmus of Rotterdam was one of the foremost intellectuals of his time.
Foreign Policy magazine named the lawyer Shirin Ebadi a leading intellectual for her work protecting human rights in Iran.
The front page of L'Aurore (13 January 1898) featured Émile Zola's open letter J'Accuse…! asking the French President Félix Faure to resolve the Dreyfus affair.
The Congregational theologian Edwards Amasa Park proposed segregating the intellectuals from the public sphere of society in the United States.
The economist Milton Friedman identified the intelligentsia and the business class as interfering with capitalism.
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Other websites
- Intellectual checklist Archived 2015-09-22 at the Wayback Machine
