doi:10.1177/1354068820923722Berk EsenSebnem GumuscuSAGE Publications
As a child, Crummell personally overheard the racist senator John C Calhoun declare that ‘if he could find a Negro who knew the Greek syntax, he would then believe that the Negro was a human being.’ A hideous test, obviously – and, as Crummell points out, a rigged one too: Calhoun ...
But after all this, we may then ask, that if trade is to be associated with the origin of philosophy, why did not philosophy start with the Phoenicians? After a fashion, perhaps it did. The man credited with being the first Greek philosopher, Thales of Miletus, Θαλῆς ὁ Μι...
it did not seem necessary to have a separate class of slaves as every previous society had had. Feudalism also created a power vacuum in which independent cities specializing in production and trade could ourish. But when the balance of power changed after the Black Death, and serfdom bega...
To the everyday observer, Adolf Hitler and Nazism appear the main architects of the downfall of Weimar democracy – but the Nazi rise to power still required a collapse in the economic order, to allow Hitler and his party to emerge from the margins of German politics and become a national ...
Such was the discourse of the notables and the learned persons. What must draw our attention is the synonym they gave for that excitement. That synonym was democracy. They had first met democracy in the shape of the government of the people, the government of free and equal citizens, where...
Maybe that’s why they do not want anyone to learn classical Greek and Latin anymore. People might actually read and educate themselves. In the Middle East, in early Christian times, the Christians were slaughtered by Jews mostly. If you read Roman and Greek (pagan) historians who did not ...
Greek wordAkrasia: to know what we should do combined with a persistent reluctance to actually do it. “To be a good human is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control, that can lead you to be shattered in very extreme circum...
The Greek prefix “a-” means without; thus an atheist is without belief and doesn't believe in any gods — and atheism is just the lack of belief in any gods. Atheists can simply say that the existence of any god hasn't been reliably proven. For many, atheism is also the ...
Hope is an ancient Greek curse. Hope is only a substitute for the thing you hope for; it’s what you’re left with after everything else has fled. Hope is always, always disappointed. No movement that bandies around words like hope ever delivers on its promises. No movement that talks...