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Kayla Kim

Aristotle Politics - 0 views

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  • Kayla Kim on 25 Sep 12
     
    Politics by Aristotle, part of the Internet Classics Archive
Madison Zylstra

Plato, The Republic - 1 views

plato.stanford.edu/...plato-ethics-politics

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  • kayteelois on 26 Sep 12
     
    As this overview makes clear, the center of Plato's Republic is a contribution to ethics: a discussion of what the virtue justice is and why a person should be just. Yet because Socrates links his discussion of personal justice to an account of justice in the city and makes claims about how good and bad cities are arranged, the Republic sustains reflections on political questions, as well.
  • Madison Zylstra on 07 Nov 12
     
    This website goes deep into the ethics and politics of Plato's, The Republic.
Derek Larsen

Chaucer The Reactionary Ideology And The General Prologue to the Canterbury ... - 0 views

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  • Derek Larsen on 10 Oct 12
     
    An academic article that requires your BYU I.D. to view. It Suggests that The Canterbury Tales were written as political propaganda.
Lisa Halverson

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

www.huffingtonpost.com/...a-war-with-a-fla_b_707471.html

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  • 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,
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