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writers such as Chillingworth had argued that human understanding was limited,
Locke tries to determine what those limits are
John Locke - 0 views
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"Though the familiar use of the Things about us, takes off our Wonder; yet it cures not our Ignorance."
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The Achilles' Heal of Capitalism - 0 views
Communist Manifesto (Chapter 3) - 0 views
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disastrous effects of machinery and division of labour
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It proclaimed the German nation to be the model nation
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It Didn't Start With Einstein - 0 views
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Here is an article about einstein in the context of the modernist movement. It is written in response to Time magazine's suggestion that einstein kicked off artistic and moral relativism. the author disagrees with this statement. It is a good article to understand einstein in the greater context of modernism.
Theories of Religion in Early 20th Century Psychology@Everything2.com - 0 views
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Freud believed humanity is moving through three stages of development: Tribal, Religious, Scientific. He believed society would eventually cast off the unnecessary and unfounded ideals of religion in trade for the exactitudes and truth offered by the scientific method.
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Unlike Sigmund Freud, who believed religion to be an illusory wish fulfillment for the weak minded, Carl Jung advocated religion as an indispensable part of an individual's psychological development. Jung viewed the mind as having three components: the ego, the personal unconscious, and the collective unconscious. Freud's vision of the mind did not include a collective unconscious. Instead, Freud proposed a moral super-ego, which grew to become the mind's administrator according to a learned sense of morality. Jung believed the self-actualizing properties of Freud's super ego pre-exist in the mind as a collective unconscious which is to be discovered through introspection as opposed to learned from experience.
Twitter, Facebook, and social activism : The New Yorker - 2 views
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This is in many ways a wonderful thing. There is strength in weak ties, as the sociologist Mark Granovetter has observed. Our acquaintances—not our friends—are our greatest source of new ideas and information. The Internet lets us exploit the power of these kinds of distant connections with marvellous efficiency. It’s terrific at the diffusion of innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, seamlessly matching up buyers and sellers, and the logistical functions of the dating world. But weak ties seldom lead to high-risk activism.
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The evangelists of social media don’t understand this distinction; they seem to believe that a Facebook friend is the same as a real friend and that signing up for a donor registry in Silicon Valley today is activism in the same sense as sitting at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro in 1960.
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The Gift Economy and Commodity Culture - 1 views
A Logic Named Joe - 1 views
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Say you punch "Station SNAFU" on your logic. Relays in the tank take over an' whatever vision-program SNAFU is telecastin' comes on your logic's screen. Or you punch "Sally Hancock's Phone" an' the screen blinks an' sputters an' you're hooked up with the logic in her house an' if somebody answers you got a vision-phone connection. But besides that, if you punch for the weather forecast or who won today's race at Hialeah or who was mistress of the White House durin' Garfield's administration or what is PDQ and R sellin' for today, that comes on the screen too.
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it made Joe a individual
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But I think he went kinda remote-control exploring in the tank.
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Fear! Living Under a Mushroom Cloud, a collection at the Museum at the Wisconsin Histor... - 0 views
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America's post-World War II period is often portrayed as a time of affluence and contentment, but fear of atomic war and Communist infiltration also marked the era and affected the decisions Americans made about their lives and futures. Fear of atomic bomb attacks on the nation's cities helped motivate people to move to the relative safety of the suburbs. Some Americans built fallout shelters to protect their families while others, shocked by the prospect of nuclear annihilation at any moment, sought to live for the present.
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Once the first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan, Americans realized a new era in history, one defined by the ability of humans to destroy their world.
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Positive portrayals of atomic bomb blasts, along with toys and games that made light of atomic bomb destruction like those in the case below, may have helped diffuse some of the fear the American public felt about the bomb by desensitizing them to the devastation an atomic bomb could cause.
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