27、Rome: Geneva, the birthplace of Calvinism, the fanatical protestant sect that influenced so much of American culture, New England in particular, representing old American culture; Rome, a cradle of ancient civilization and the birthplace of the Renaissance, having many associations for cultivated...
(1977/1989, 152) Thus, MacIntyre claims that scientific reason turns out to be subordinate to, and intelligible only in terms of, historical reason, and criticizes Kuhn for failing to highlight these narrative connections between successive paradigms. MacIntyre’s concern in his three volumes on...
but are taken as the natural state of the world. The problem lies when we make prescriptive demands on others based on our privateUmwelt. It is what feeds racism, for instance. When you have an internal model of the world that sees one race as superior or inferior, you then create laws...
giving a total of 46 per cell.In addition to these, human cells have many hundreds of copies of themitochondrial genome.Sequencingof thehuman genomehas provided a great deal of information about each of the chromosomes. Below is a table compiling statistics for the chromosomes, based...
whom he regarded as the living images of Jesus Christ. Borromeo’s tastes inreligious artwere correspondingly plain androbust. He had little time for sophisticated, intellectuallyabstruseart in theHigh RenaissanceorManneristvein. Instead, he preferred the more-visceral and naturalistic traditions offolk...
A prelude was glimpsed in the 2007–2008 global financial crash triggered by the corporate collapse of the US housing market which, in turn, was precipitated precisely by the type of high-risk financial speculation that neoliberalism intrinsically encourages (Mann 2019). It should have been viewed...