Dualism: The Struggle To Find Order and Meaning The struggle to find order in the world and to distinguish humans from other forms of life has been the primal exercise of philosophers throughout recorded history. ... In the early Sixteenth Century, Polish astronomer Nicolaus Mikolaj Kopernik ("Copernicus-) promulgated the theory that the earth and the other planets move around the sun. ... Notably, English physicist and mathematician, Sir Isaac Newton developed mathematics which could predict the orbits and velocities of Earth and the other planets around the Sun. ... Humanism an...

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"In the spectacles of gladiators sometimes, when the sun was violently hot, he would order the curtains, which covered the arena to be drawn aside, and forbad any person to be let out." ... This is one of the most bizarre acts that any person in recorded history is said to have done. ... He will go down in history books, not gloriously with great titles or accomplishments but rather as Suetonius sums up this Caligula "He was crazy both in body and mind." (284) ...

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