Ernst Heinrich Weber made important discoveries about the sense of touch and invented the idea of the just-noticeable difference between two similar physical stimuli. He founded psychophysics, the branch of psychology that studies the relations between...

Ernst Karl Heinrich Veith of Wauconda A memorial service for Ernst Karl Heinrich Veith, 80, will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Saturday, at Willow Creek Chapel, Entrance B, 67 E. Algonquin Road, South Barrington. Born Jan. 9, 1925, in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, the...

Substantial corrections are needed in Max Weber's and Ernst Troeltsch's analysis of the role of natural law in the rationalization of Christianity during the Middle Ages, but their basic insight is valuable. Weber and Troeltsch suggest that adaptation of the Stoic concept of natural...