^*Johannes Paul Friedrich Richter (1763–1825), known by his pen-name of Jean Paul, was one of the most popular German writers of his age. Selina, published posthumously in 1827, is an unsuccessful attempt to think clearly what his religious beliefs actually amount to: Jean Paul decides he cannot accept Christianity, but finds it impossible to surrender a number of beliefs, e.g. the belief in immortality, of which he could never have had any conception except as constituents of the Christian religion he rejects.

^* Appeared in Plato’s Republic trying to argue that ‘might is right’. One of the first cultivators of rhetoric, characterized as being more concerned with winning arguments than with truth.

^† Literally, ‘A lover of truth’. Generic title for a philosopher.