Suchergebnisse
Suchergebnisse:
Vor 2 Tagen · Hope and humanity. 1 min read. GLOBAL. The Martyr and the Red Kimono: A Fearless Priest’s Sacrifice and a New Generation of Hope in Japan by Naoko Abe Chatto & Windus, 448 pages, £22. GETTY IMAGES. Honoured with a statue in Westminster Abbey, the Polish Catholic priest Maximilian Kolbe has become synonymous with the ideal of self-sacrifice.
Vor 3 Tagen · When: Wednesday, May 8, 2024, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM. Where: Online. As part of the Underworlds series, this event focuses on hope as a site of global dis/ordering. Moving beyond modernist modes of seeing and ordering the world – ways of governing often entangled with sentimental tropes of liberal hope – this event will reflect on hope as a set ...
Vor 4 Tagen · In The Future of History Alan Munslow tackles the big problem facing historians in the 21st century, the problem of whether history as we know it has a future and, if not, what historians should do about that. Munslow sees the main problem as methodological and, while this book does not solve that problem, it makes it inescapable ...
Vor 2 Tagen · A Union of Hope: 1869. Explore the story of Joseph and Rachel Moore, Black New Yorkers who made their home in Lower Manhattan’s tenements in the 1860s and 1870s. Joseph Moore moves from New Jersey to Manhattan in 1857, his wife Rachel from Kingston, New York in the same decade.
Vor 4 Tagen · In order to understand the character of history, the philosopher, in Oakeshott’s view, must first discover the system of postulates that underlies it – the differentia of the historical mode. In Oakeshott’s opinion the five most important of these are: the idea of past, of fact, of truth, of reality and of explanation.
- Michael Joseph Oakeshott
- 1933
Vor 4 Tagen · She told me about the war years and showed me the places in the house where history became palpable, such as the crawl spaces between floors, where my father and uncle often had to hide to avoid being unvoluntarily recruited for the Arbeitseinsatz, i.e. forced labour in German factories. She also pointed out the note that Otje scrawled on the wall next to the stairs leading to the attic, where ...
Vor 3 Tagen · WSF. Zeitgeist. v. t. e. Transhumanism is a philosophical and intellectual movement that advocates the enhancement of the human condition by developing and making widely available sophisticated technologies that can greatly enhance longevity, cognition, and well-being. [1] [2] [3] Transhumanist thinkers study the potential benefits and dangers ...
