The reach of their members extended to military leaders, religious elders, scholars, nobles, ealdormen and philosophers, as well as criminal masterminds. While the Order was virtually unopposed in its dominion over humanity during the first several centuries of its existence, several individuals and...
This second volume of Voegelin's magisterial Order and History, The World of the Polis, explores the ancient Greek symbolization of human reality. Taking us from the origins of Greek culture in the Pre-Homeric Cretan civilizations, through the Iliad and Odyssey, Hesiod, and the rise of ...
The figure of Dik膿 in Aeschylus is not exactly the same as in Hesiod: it has a cosmic dimension; it grants also afterlife to individuals, while not excluding salvation. These features match several Orphic fragments and testimonies, especially those quoted by Greek philosophers. Therefore, an ...
The greatest of the Greek philosophers, from Plato and Aristotle to Plotinus, considered the evidence of purpose in nature to be compelling and clear. The Stoics, for example, spoke of a logos or "reason" that embodied order and purpose within the cosmos. In general, these philosophers were ...
Greek philosophersenergyentropythermodynamicsnon-equilibriumdissipationself-organizationfree will and spacespontaneityfluctuationsThe notion of heat is thoroughly analyzed and its historical links are searched particularly with relation to both the Greek philosophy (Milesians, Pythagoreans, atomists, etc.) and...
Eric Voegelin (1901-1985) was one of the most original and influential philosophers of our time. Born in Cologne, Germany, he studied at the University of Vienna, where he became a professor of political science in the Faculty of Law. In 1938, he and his wife, fleeing Hitler, emigrated ...
communities and some schools across America. Making is available to ordinary people who aren't tied to big companies, big defense labs or research universities. The maker philosophy echoes old ideas advocated by John Dewey, Montessori, and even ancient Greek philosophers, as we pointed out ...
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throughout the period 508–322 BC, Athens was the highest performing polis in terms of “wealth, power, security, stability and cultural influence.”8Athens’ outstanding performance in the prosperous Greek world was driven by the establishment of the first large-scale democratic government in recor...
aThe ancient Chinese and Greek philosophers not only lived under different geographic conditions, but different economic ones as well. 古老中国和希腊哲学家不仅居住在不同的地理情况,但不同经济那些下。 [translate] a今天是愉快的一天 Today is happy one day [translate] a买一送一 Buying one and ...