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Vor 6 Tagen · Condorcet‘s most enduring work is 1795‘s "Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Spirit," which he wrote while in hiding from the Jacobins. In this treatise, he articulated the concept of the perfectibility of humanity and envisioned a future of unending progress.
10. Mai 2024 · Vitruvian Man, drawing in metalpoint, pen and ink, and watercolour on paper (c. 1490) by the Renaissance artist, architect, and engineer Leonardo da Vinci. It depicts a nude male figure with the arms and legs in two superimposed positions so that the hands and feet touch the perimeters of both a square and a circle.
Vor einem Tag · The evolution of human intelligence is closely tied to the evolution of the human brain and to the origin of language. The timeline of human evolution spans approximately seven million years, from the separation of the genus Pan until the emergence of behavioral modernity by 50,000 years ago.
16. Mai 2024 · Comte’s belief in the importance of sociology as the scientific study of human society remains an article of faith among contemporary sociologists, and the work he accomplished remains a remarkable synthesis and an important system of thought. Auguste Comte, French philosopher known as the founder of sociology and of positivism.
- Comte was educated by private tutors until he was nine years old and later attended the local lycée in Montpellier. In 1814, at age 16, he was admi...
- Comte’s major works include his six-volume Cours de philosophie positive (1830–42; “Course of Positive Philosophy”; The Positive Philosophy of Augu...
- Comte died of cancer.
- A philosopher, mathematician, and social scientist, Comte was best known as the originator of positivism, an approach to the philosophy and history...
Vor einem Tag · Mahatma Gandhi (born October 2, 1869, Porbandar, India—died January 30, 1948, Delhi) was an Indian lawyer, politician, social activist, and writer who became the leader of the nationalist movement against the British rule of India. As such, he came to be considered the father of his country.
- Initially, Gandhi’s campaigns sought to combat the second-class status Indians received at the hands of the British regime. Eventually, however, th...
- Gandhi’s family practiced a kind of Vaishnavism, one of the major traditions within Hinduism, that was inflected through the morally rigorous tenet...
- Within India, Gandhi’s philosophy lived on in the messages of reformers such as social activist Vinoba Bhave. Abroad, activists such as Martin Luth...
- Gandhi’s father was a local government official working under the suzerainty of the British Raj, and his mother was a religious devotee who—like th...
- As lauded a figure as Gandhi has become, his actions and beliefs didn’t escape the criticism of his contemporaries. Liberal politicians thought he...
23. Mai 2024 · 8 Reiner Stach, Kafka: The Early Years, trans. Shelley Frisch (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017), 161–68.See also Steven Beller, “The Hilsner Affair: Nationalism, Anti-Semitism and the Individual in the Habsburg Monarchy at the Turn of the Century,” in T. G. Masaryk 1850-1937, vol. 2 (Thinker and Critic), ed. Robert B. Pynsent (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1990), 52–76 ...
Vor 3 Tagen · At its core lies the concept of ego identity, that elusive yet essential sense of self that emerges from the crucible of psychosocial conflict. Here, Erikson’s brilliance shines brightest, as he invites us to contemplate the myriad influences that shape our identities, from family and peers to culture and historical context.
