Why is the Gupta period considered a Golden Age? Why is ancient Rome now underground? Why is it called the Renaissance? Why is Stonehenge famous? Why is the Middle East called the Middle East? Why did the Dark Ages happen? Why is the Rosetta Stone so important to Egypt?
Was the Industrial Revolution truly revolutionary? What historical events influenced the French mutiny in 1917? What are some factors that made Khmer Rouge come into power? How did the French Revolution embody the ideas of the Enlightenment? How did the American Revolution affect the C...
Attempts to restore a true picture of the events which caused the resignation of Commissar of Enlightenment Anatolii Basil'evich Lunacharskii within the context of the time, and to dispel the many conjectures, fabrications, and crude sketches that at times are passed off as the 'ultimate truth...
it points out all the ways in which we are “not good enough, emotionally unstable, wounded, and not well-adjusted enough” etc., etc. And on the other, it gives us all the tools to help us “get over” these pathologies (or give us theideathat we’re getting over them – until...
Weeks later, with someone who knew her as well as I did, and with no idea of what I could possibly begin to say, a provisional apophatic eulogy was drafted, going something like this: Anna Reinelt was someone who wanted to leave the world a better place than she found it, and she ...
In its purest form, this path toward enlightenment and wisdom leads to a sense of humility and appreciation for everything we have yet to understand. Philosophy is the backbone of an informed citizenry Students well versed in the philosophical underpinnings of liberal democracy are far more likely...
As Varoufakis aptly points out, feudalization does not mean that capitalism will suddenly disappear. On the contrary, feudalism can long coexist with sectors managed by capitalistic logic. This process does not happen quickly. Rather, it is a slowly growing trend which, alongside the ever present...
The Renaissance, The Enlightenment, the Marxist Utopianism came in succession and with both power and authority making the world wonder at the rebirth of the learning of the ancient world and at the prospect of an emerging world where what was once only a dream could evolve into a New World...
as a woman at birth, but was really an XY male with a disorder of sex development, and lived in Tunisia as a post-puberty man, something that would immediately have disqualified Khelif from the Olympics. As you see, the US is also pushing the Olympics to do what the NCAA did. ...
then the human race and the planet we call home have been on a downward trajectory ever since the beginning. In fact, Harvard psychology professorSteven Pinker— author of bestsellers likeEnlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress,The Better Angels of Our Nature: ...