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Supranational European Bodies - Wikipedia - 0 views

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  • Eric Beckman on 11 Apr 14
     
    A Venn diagram of the international organizations of Europe.  Fun with flags, too
Eric Beckman

HUMANITIES Magazine: The Islamic Scholar Who Gave Us Modern Philosophy - 1 views

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  • In the year 900, by far the most robust and impressive philosophical tradition was found not in Europe, but in the Middle East. Islamic scholars there had embarked on a wholesale program to recover the traditions of Greek philosophy (particularly the works of Aristotle), translate them into Arabic, and rethink their message in light of the newly revealed teachings of the Qur’an.
  • Eventually, however, the center shifted—first to the western part of the Islamic world in northern Africa and southern Spain, and then north to Christian Europe. What we call the Middle Ages was, in Islam, the great classical era of philosophy and science. After several centuries of flourishing, however, the study of philosophy and science faded in Muslim countries, even while it was being pursued with increasing vigor in the Latin West.
  • Averroës devoted much of his scholarly efforts to a series of commentaries on Aristotle, producing both brief epitomes and exhaustive, line-by-line studies.
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  • Many of his works no longer survive in Arabic at all, but only in Latin or Hebrew
  • like all the great philosophers, Averroës arrived at his share of heterodox views.
  • despite the brilliant development of philosophical thought in the early days of the Islamic caliphate, by the later Middle Ages it and other fields of secular learning were regarded with deep suspicion and given almost no institutional support.
  • By the middle of the thirteenth century, that philosophical curriculum had become thoroughly Aristotelian, and the great guide to Aristotle was none other than Averroës, who became known in the Latin West as simply “the Commentator.”
  • Eric Beckman on 30 Nov 11
     
    Article by a philosophy professor on the Islamic medieval scholar Averroes. Studied by Thomas Aquinas and others.
  • Mary JO Merrick-Lockett on 01 Dec 11
     
    Amazing how history has been rewritten, in the past and present, and then when old truths are unearthed, people are so reluctant to believe them. The power of the written word!
Eric Beckman

Fascism, Russia, and Ukraine by Timothy Snyder | The New York Review of Books - 0 views

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  • On January 16, the Ukrainian government, headed by President Yanukovych, tried to put an end to Ukrainian civil societ
  • But a maidan now means in Ukrainian what the Greek word agora means in English: not just a marketplace where people happen to meet, but a place where they deliberately meet, precisely in order to deliberate, to speak, and to create a political society
  • protests, until then entirely peaceful, became violent. Yanukovych lost support
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  • Yanukovych rescinded most of the dictatorship laws, lawless violence by the regime, which started in November, continued into February
  • h the hope that Ukraine could one day join the European Union, an aspiration that for many Ukrainians means something like the rule of law, the absence of fear, the end of corruption, the social welfare state, and free markets without intimidatio
  • a rival project, based in Moscow, called the Eurasian Union.
  • Putin wants Ukraine in his Eurasian Union, which means that Ukraine must be authoritarian, which means that the Maidan must be crushed.
  • dictatorship laws of January 16 were obviously based on Russian models
  • The Eurasian Union is the enemy of the European Union, not just in strategy but in ideology.
  • Rather than rejecting totalitarian ideologies, Eurasianism calls upon politicians of the twenty-first century to draw what is useful from both fascism and Stalinism.
  • taken Putin’s campaign against gay rights and transformed it into a weapon against European integration
  • Apart from the Jews, whose suffering was by far the worst, the main victims of Nazi policies were not Russians but Ukrainians and Belarusians.
  • After Stalin’s death communism took on a more and more ethnic coloration, with people who wished to revive its glories claiming that its problem was that it had been spoiled by Jews. The ethnic purification of the communist legacy is precisely the logic of National Bolshevism, which is the foundational ideology of Eurasianism today.
  • Ukraine is not a theater for the historical propaganda of others or a puzzle from which pieces can be removed. It is a major European country whose citizens have important cultural and economic ties with both the European Union and Russia. To set its own course, Ukraine needs normal public debate, the restoration of parliamentary democracy, and workable relations with all of its neighbors.
  • Eric Beckman on 11 Apr 14
     
    Written just before the crisis in Ukraine really blew up, this article by a leading academic 
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