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Kayla Kim

Aristotle Politics - 0 views

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    Politics by Aristotle, part of the Internet Classics Archive
Taylor Halverson

Chapter 8: Classical Greek Philosophy - 0 views

This topic is for key words and great works found in Chapter 8 of the History of Creativity textbook.

Classical Greece

started by Taylor Halverson on 29 Aug 12 no follow-up yet
myjay27

Virgil: The Aeneid - 0 views

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    Super interesting
Allison Yost

Aesop's Fables - 0 views

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    Another site linking to some of Aesop's most well-known fables.
erinrae18

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales - 0 views

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    Welcome to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, an electronic presentation of the classic poem in several editions.
Blake Pumphrey

Cicero - 0 views

dozman12

Oedipus the King - 0 views

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    Good summation of the classic Greek tale with easy to read language and pop references.
winnieng

Law by Cicero - 0 views

Lisa Halverson

Matt J. Rossano: How the Myth of the Flat-Earth Dogma Started the Religion-Science War - 0 views

  • Lactantius was a fourth-century pagan convert to Christianity who took particular delight in arguing against pretty much everything any pagan philosopher ever said, including that the earth was round.
  • Cosmas Indicopleustes
  • tealthily misrepresent a few church fathers as flat-earthers (Basil, Chrysostom) and to argue that the non-flat-earthers were a few brave soles swimming against a colossal tide.
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  • rigen, Ambrose, Augustine, Clement, and Aquinas
  • . It was a classic fight of good vs. evil, progress vs. regress, ignorance vs. enlightenment -- just what the papers needed to sell copy
  • There never was a flat earth dogma
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  • They fabricated a false history highlighted by a non-existent dogma and used them to brand religion as unceasingly reactionary, dim-witted, and anti-science.
  • Claiming that science and religion have known only unrelenting warfare betrays one's ignorance of history and possibly one's social/political agenda.
  • tarting a war on false pretenses is nothing new. But when a few nineteenth-century academicians declared a science-vs.-religion war, they did us all a disservice.
  • John W. Draper (1811-188
  • Christianity was currently opposing progress because it has always been an impediment to science, reason, and progress. An especially egregious example of this was the Church's insistence on a flat earth,
Drew Flack

Hammurabi's Code - 0 views

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    I found ANOTHER great source for Hammurabi's code. Check it out.
Taylor Halverson

Chapter 7: Classical Greece: Living Creatively - 3 views

This topic is for key words and great works found in Chapter 7 of the History of Creativity textbook.

Greece

started by Taylor Halverson on 29 Aug 12 no follow-up yet
Allison Perkins

Classical Orders of Greek Architecture - 1 views

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    This video discusses the different types and orders of pillars designs. I used it to help explain the differences in Capitals, or tops of the pillars.
Bradley DeBroux

Aristotle's Physics - 1 views

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    The key term "quintessence" is discussed mostly in the second paragraph.
bbalkman

The Lion Gate at Mycenae - 0 views

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    This website is education based and has great information!
kurt hickman

Aristotle, Physics - 0 views

Courtney Headman

Plato: The Republic - 0 views

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    Can be used to settle some of the scholarly debates surrounding Plato's: The Republic. This resource not only allows a deeper understanding of this classic text, but it can also reveal other ulterior motives for Plato's impressive blueprint for a sociopolitical utopia.
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