Plato—and Nietzsche also—understood that “Civilization or, to say the same thing, education, is the taming of the soul’s raw passions—not suppressing or excising them…. To Plato and Nietzsche, the history of music is a series of attempts to give form and beauty to the dark, chaotic...
“We are living in one of the most unequal periods in modern history…. Wealthy interests have an outsize influence on our politics and our lawmaking. Corporations can buy more political influence than voters can demand for regular people. Whenever you see a radically unfit candidate running for ...
As an agnostic (leaning towards atheism if I was absolutely forced to choose) I was alternately impressed by the sheer scale of operations depicted here, where 200 workers make the kiswah cloth covering the Kaabah using only the finest and most expensive of material and vast legions of workers...
“We are living in one of the most unequal periods in modern history…. Wealthy interests have an outsize influence on our politics and our lawmaking. Corporations can buy more political influence than voters can demand for regular people. Whenever you see a radically unfit candidate running for ...
3. The Western Evaluation of the Values of the Chinese In the field of world civilization and cultural exchange,there is always a perspective of mutual observation and mutual evaluation. In the modern history of the thought exchange between China and the West,there are Chinese people opening thei...
History has justifiedthe Church in the belief that the masses of mankind desire a religion rich inmiracle, mystery, and myth. Some minor modifications have been allowed inritual, in ecclesiastical costume, and in episcopa...
I remain concerned about how new work on the origins of the Black Death is going to set medievalists and other people talking about Mongol history. We know what happens when diseases are associated with foreigners. But, as with the turn towards the Global Middle Ages, Mongol history can also...
Paul answers "all the world" (Romans 3:19).The Gentiles not only knew of God's Law from the testimony of their conscience, but they had direct contact with God's Revelation to Israel. The true history of mankind was known to all mankind. God's supernatural activity in Israel was known...
HISTORY IT HAS BEEN SAID, IS PHILOSOPHY TEACHING BY EXAMPLE; History is not simply a record of man's accomplishments. Even more, History is the story / record of God's interaction with man. It is indeed His Story ~ CJD
everything that went right in Italy, even when it didn’t go that well at all. He was particularly fond of saying he was responsible for successful, large-scale public works projects, such as the railroad system.” (Did Mussolini Really Keep the Trains Running on Time?history.howstuffworks....