Classical Chinese painting can be divided into three kinds: landscapes, figures and flowers-and-birds. Throughout the course of Chinese painting, images of emperors,philosophers(哲学家),and court ladies provide role models from the past;landscape and flower-and-bird paintings prove the central place...
This assignment will introduce you to some of the major historical figures in ancient Greece, both women and men, including poets, philosophers, mathematicians, warriors, and historians. This assignment is designed for 10th grade students.
dependent limitations on scientists’ insight into the diversity of their group. In arguing for these claims and analyzing DD detection, I will focus a type of DD that strikes me as intriguing but has so far been largely overlooked in philosophical research: While philosophers working on diversity...
263-65. Opposition to essentialism began long before Darwin on two fronts: among naturalists and among philosophers. In the latter connection, Mayr quotes Locke. 142 Figural Strategies in Th e Renaissance Pater (in the company of George Eliot, George Meredith, and Thomas Hardy) turns the ...
If you remember earlier in this study I taught how idealism is the belief that ultimate reality exists in ideas or forms- the reality of horse or chair is first an idea/invisible form- then what we see is sort of a second creation. Many of the early Greek philosophers held to this ...
Learn how the Scientific Revolution led to the Enlightenment. Review the inventions of the Scientific Revolution and study their influence on the...
Nearing the end of the Tudor Dynasty, philosophers like Sir Thomas More and Sir Francis Bacon published their own ideas about humanity and the aspects of a perfect society, pushing the limits of metacognition at that time. As England abolished its astrologers and alchemists, it came closer to ...
Part of what makes it difficult to find aconsensusamong philosophers about the definition of theirdisciplineis precisely that they have frequently come to it from different fields, with different interests and concerns, and that they therefore have different areas of experience upon which they find ...