For us as social primates we have our own set of behaviors that make us most successful. I was then asked over and over again, “Why survive?” As if the answer could only be some supernatural force at worked. And yet it seems to me that survival is just the nature of life. I ...
an abstract essence but a quality that could be tested in the forum or on the battlefield. Finally, Classical literature was rich in eloquence. In particular, humanists considered Cicero to be the pattern of refined and copious discourse, as well as the model of eloquence combined with wise ...
A man named Francesco Petrarch helped to found these beliefs, by studying classic Roman sources such as the scholar Cicero. Petrarch believed that these classics works could teach someone to be wise and virtuous (class notes). He helped to make Humanism a popular movement among intellectuals of ...
The lesson plans and activities were put together and developed with the idea that parents and children could learn alongside one another about humanism. The plans and activities are intentionally kept simple–so that families can easily incorporate activities and discussion within their daily lives. ...
Con: This is a tale, not a story. That is, there’s no protagonist trying to accomplish anything; this is just a collection of disconnected events. The only common element besides the environment is Amir’s obsession over Mani, and that isn’t described well enough to make us believe ...
Interestingly, the industry as well the academic community seems to have accepted the dominant role of OTAs, which is, in my view, structurally more important. • Decisions whose consequences could affect human rights must still be made by humans: there seems to be a rather uncritical uptake...
who avowed to treat of men as they were and not as they ought to be, history would become the basis of a newpolitical science. Similarly, direct experience tookprecedenceover traditional wisdom. The dictum ofLeon Battista Albertithat an essential form of wisdom could be found only “at the ...
Hence, it could be more fruitful to view digital humanism as a true transformation of, or even a challenge to, traditional humanism, rather than its reprisal or renewal. This often means that the dominant idea of the human based on the white, cisgender, heteronormative, able-bodied, adult,...
smallFootnote13if we restrict the analysis to the set of OECD member States – a group where measurement errors should be less of an issue. Descriptive statistics suggest that rich countries could have fared better during the crisis if they had been better prepared and more cooperative as we ...
Yet Tao could be the way that gives all ways, the very source of our power to think what reason, mind, meaning, logos properly [authentically] mean to say--properly by their proper [eigenen, own] nature. Perhaps the mystery of mysteries of thoughtful Saying conceals itself in the word ...