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Fukuyama's thesis is that the world or at least most of it has stopped changing ideologically as it has reached the final form of government in western liberal democracy. Fukuyama lays down a clear an ...

as mentioned in a prior post the times when most things could be modeled explained through direct experimentation and observation was gone and now math and though experimentation took its place. Niels ...

Einstein’s effect on the theory of light established that the speed of light is the universal speed limit. (Nothing can go faster). He also said that from the point of view of one travelling closer to ...

Contat is not a historian he is telling a story. in my view being a historian would have required him to be reviewing and analyzing the massacre and its effects rather than recounting a story from his ...

the three thinkers believed that society or life were on the course to perfection, Marx and turner used a social Darwinist view, they all prescribed to the thought that change happened whether it was ...

Darwin's theory of evolution contains the thought that all current species are descended from a few progenitors rather than being separate creation. (72) he goes on to state that amongst the differing ...

Hegel's impact on history is in his thought on history not as a recording of events but rather as a mover of them as the "great transformer" and veiwing the future in terms of advancement
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Hegel:
1) "there is no reality until we know it." all reality is dependent on men to "know the outside world" as we are dependent on it
2)progress as a "succession of revolu ...

Hegel on the know er and what is known approached it in an odd way (well maybe not for a philosopher and just me) that the outside world is only real because we believe it to be so and that our senses ...

in reply to Mingwei

they were berry different in their thoughts and approaches it seems. while Aristotle did believe in learning from experience that experience was gained through observation and ...

Mr. Galilee refutes that one should follow popularly held belief but instead what you can experience yourself, "I say that the testimony of many has little more value than that of the few" h ...

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i think both are useful an overview is good if you want a brief understanding and desire to gather large amounts of information fast (thus U.S overview) but when more detail i ...

The assignment was to choose either Herodotus or Thucydides as the father of history. Here I find myself in a mental deadlock as in my view they are both the fathers of history but of different parts. ...

What are the important features/characteristics of his biological system?

The important characteristics of Aristotle’s biological system are based on a hierarchy of organisms. “beginning with the p ...