For many centuries, there was very little scientific advancement due to a restraint the Catholic Church had over Europe during the Middle Ages, but this all changed during The Scientific Revolution. During the Middle Ages, the Catholic Church had created a system of beliefs based on the teachings o...
1. In "Homo Loquens"," Marshall Poe describes his theories on speech communication. Within his ideas, he points out disadvantages in speech, and how society tends to interpret it. One disadvantage that Poe pointed out was the idea of privacy, and how with speech, nothing can ever be private. "You have to be pretty good with masks, makeup, or false mustaches to fool anyone looking right at you, and most of us aren't (Poe 39). ...
Galileo wrote:By the aid of a telescope, anyone may see that all the disputes which have tormented the philosophers through so many ages are resolved at once by the unmistakable evidence of our eyes, and we are freed from wordy disputes upon this subject, for the Milky Way is nothing else but a collection of innumerable stars planted together in groups? ... In 1597, his friend, Jacopo Mazzoni, a philosopher, published a book against the motion of the Earth. ...
Strenghts and Weaknesses of Immanuel Kant's Concept of Nature A philosophical reflection on a disturbed relation with nature in the light of the ecological crisis Summary This study seeks to identify the frameworks of philosophical-theological co-operation between intuitions, ideas, beliefs...
"The human skin is an artificial boundary: the world wanders into it, and the self wanders out of it, traffic is two-way and constant" - Bernard Wolfe, 1963 Since the conception of man, philosophers and historians the world over have struggled to define what it means to be human. ...
"The world is enigmatical, every thing said and every thing known and done, and must not be taken literally, but genially. We must be at the top of our condition to understand any thing rightly." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A Condensation of Its Context Toward the end of his notebook, "Naturalist," Ralph Waldo Emerson entered sentence (dated 1853) that marks a symbolic vision of nature familiar to his readers and, in more recent years, of concern to his ecologically minded critics: "He is the richest who has most use for nature as raw material of tropes and symbols with which to describe his life....
