free forum make a forum for free message boards free forum hosting free phpbb forum phpbb create free forum

the readings really worked with the questions When are racial definitions self generated? and When are they imposed? It was interesting how related they were. It almost feels like instead of survival ...

less is a very open ended adjevtive, but reading people"s post it's been mostly taken mean finatial means. It's pretty interesting to think about the question if it meant just power, (and money ...

As far as I can figure, Fukuyama believes that history consisted of the evolution of human thought, actualizing itself as a political system. He, like Kojeve, thinks that history would end at the la ...

the entire reading felt like a power play between the three ways of finding truth in science: Math, Experimentation, and Theories/models.

At first, the real accomplishment was getting all three to ...

I used to think I understood the theory of relativity, and then light got tossed into the mix and fussed it all up.

So if the theory of relativity says that all motion is relative, it fits nicely ...

Newton's legacy is that the universe is predictable, and that secret to predicting the universe lies in elusive, but relatively simple rules. A "clockwork Universe" Maxwell validated th ...

Knaid, you have a point. History needs a purpose. But what exactly would that purpose be?
or if you rather, What exactly have we gained by "getting" a joke that we will (I hope) never hav ...

Turner and Marx both had interesting ideas about what/who we are in conflict with. You know in English class how you learned to write things like "man vs self" "man vs society" ...

The-thing-itself bit confused me too. As far as I can gather, Kant believed that reality shaped thought and thought shaped reality, a give and take type deal. He also thought " that there is a ...

Galileo has got some refreshing sass in his writing but even so i think this was the most difficult reading for me. Galileo went out of his way to prove that some aspects of objects exist only in ou ...

At the beginning, Thucydides came off as a hypocritical jerk. He accused Herodotus of being “Pleasing to the ear rather than truthful.” While at the same time Thucydides sometimes used similarly unrel ...

In response to Niko's post , I think you're right. They disagree on some aspects, but they do overlap. It's funny, because at the start of the reading Aristotle rejects the idea that there is an &quo ...

You gotta love the four causes, they’re so applicable. That said, I keep falling into the same trap when I get to the Final cause. There’s Formal Cause, ,the change itself, The Material cause, the stu ...