At various points in history, the prevailing view of work was that it was both unavoidable and distasteful. “To the ancient Greeks, work was a curse that prevented humankind from engaging in the more sublime and worthwhile pursuits of the mind and spirit,”wrote one pair of academicsstudying ...
The familiar term Word of the Lord comes from the Hebrew term דבר יהוה (dabar YHWH), what the Greeks called Logos. The term Dabar YHWH, or "Word of the Lord" also means "Pasture of the Alphabet". The mental equivalent of herd animals are the vast myriads of ...
Yet the concept dates back to the Greeks,“constituted in Greek as epimelesthai sautou,‘to take care of yourself’ ‘the concern with self,’‘to be concerned, to take care of yourself.’” Foucault posited that there were four main “technologies:” “(I) technologies of production, ...
HART: Although, it has to be said that theology got in the way as well, a little bit, because there were writers amongst the Greeks who had suggested that the sun was at the center and the earth was going around it. So it wasn’t just this new idea fromCopernicusandGalileo. It had...
---Baldwin I, Emperor of Latin Empire, 1205: A pious Catholic given an imperial title, you lord over a land of Orthodox Greeks who are, most likely, none too pleased by your rule. Take this artificially constructed empire and take charge of its fate, to turn it into a re...
Decimal representations of numbers were foreign to him. The ancient Greeks considered numbers as ratios of lengths. It is astonishing, that already known for thousands of years, e.g. the Babylonians used 60 as the base, positional notation didn't make its way into everyday use until recently...
Science and Mathematics –Why would the ancient Chinese have excelled at algebra and arithmetic but not geometry, which was the forte of the Greeks? Why do modern Asians excel at math and science but produce less in the way of revolutionary science than Westerners?
As debt thresholds that were not meant to be reached until many Boomers were well into their retirement have been pierced ahead of schedule, the squeeze will cause some very ugly intra-Boomer conflicts as each group seeks to secure a portion of the diminished pie, which we will examine later...
The Greeks expressed this fear in the Prometheus Myth – Prometheus brought the destructive power of fire, and more generally technology (“techne”), to man, for which Prometheus was condemned to perpetual torture by the gods. Later, Mary Shelley gave us moderns our own version of this myth...
Of course by now, after 7 or 8 seasons in the US, his English is good enough to get through one of those formulaic post-game interviews, yet he still insists on using an interpreter. Why? Because he knows that if the interview were ever broadcast in Japan, he would look foolish (...