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4 days ago · William Bradford's Plymouth Plantation reflects Puritan beliefs, emphasizing divine providence and a community centered around religious faith. In contrast, Thomas Paine's The Age of Reason ...
2 days ago · Today, we stand on a precipice, confronting a future defined by environmental collapse, the erosion of democracy, and wars of unprecedented destructiveness: a new age of empire, perhaps the last in a cycle of such ages that, for all we really know, may represent only a modest fraction of the human experience.
2 days ago · The relationship between self-interest and enlightenment is quite easy to understand, even if it's a bit unintuitive. We commonly think that following our animal sentiments, our feelings, our emotions, is what leads us to be immoral, to be selfish. And reason is what teaches us morality, makes us better. But Rousseau flips it on its head.
2 days ago · This gradually diminished the Church’s dogmatic influence on society, fostering a deeper appreciation of humanity and the natural world. In his work De Hominis Dignitate Oratio [ Oration on the Dignity of Man , 1486], Pico della Mirandola (see Chap. 2 ) emphasized the greatness of the human being as an intermediate reality between the world and God, making it a true manifesto of the ...
2 days ago · Thomas Edison (Lee) Campus 8099 College Parkway Fort Myers, FL 33919 (239) 489-9300 Charlotte Campus 26300 Airport Rd. Punta Gorda, FL 33950 (941) 637-5629 Collier Campus 7505 Grand Lely Drive
7 hours ago · Interactions and mutual influences among Egypt and the various cultures of the Near East and the Mediterranean can be seen beginning in the 4th millennium bce and intensify during the Bronze Age. 102 The openness of the Egyptian polytheistic system allowed for the import of foreign deities. 103 Already in Early Dynastic times, various features for staging the divine king were adopted from the ...
3 days ago · In Singapore, the median age that citizen mothers have their first child is 30.6 years (according to the Population in Brief 2020). It is also at this age that the median salary of females starts falling behind males.
