Humanities

Religion and Modern Thought: Philosophy of Nothingness

KyotoSchool: Philosophy of Nothingness. Instructor: Shigenori Nagatomo Fall 02. Place: AB 606 Phone: x-1749 (O). Office Hours: Tues & Thurs.: 11:40-1:00. Course Description. We will be reading in this course some of the major thinkers belonging to the.

Term 1, Handout 4. the Verbal and the Visual: Virgil S Aeneid

Politics and Poetics 27.10.2016. Term 1, handout 4. The verbal and the visual: Virgil s Aeneid. Epic and the visual/multimedia : enargeia, aletheia. Ecphrases punctuating the Aeneid. 1.441-97: the temple of Juno at Carthage. 6.14-34: the engraved doors on the temple of Apollo at Cumae.

Expositor S Dictionaryof Texts- Hosea (William R. Nicoll)

Expositor s Dictionaryof Texts- Hosea (William R. Nicoll). Sir William Robertson Nicoll CH (October 10, 1851 - May 4, 1923) was a Scottish Free Church minister, journalist, editor, and man of letters.

Plato's Responses To

Plato and Regress Arguments page 1. Plato's Metaphysical Ideas as Responses to Ancient Regress Arguments. Samuel C. Wheeler III. University of Connecticut. This paper presents Plato's metaphysics as a response to regress arguments. These regress arguments.

Aesthetics and Terror Before 9/11

Russ CastronovoEnglish 940. Office Hours 1 W 8-9, 11:30-12:30. Aesthetics and Terror before 9/11. Our age does not have a monopoly on violence. As we ll see soon enough, the promise of the beautiful requires compulsion, if not constraint and force. Aesthetics.

Versailles Treaty Revision

Versailles Treaty Revision. AIMS OF THE BIG THREE. Georges Clemenceau, President of France blamed Germany = punishment/ hard justice / angry = revenge/ wanted to make Germany pay for the Damage/ felt threatened = wanted independent Rhineland/ get.

Medusa in the News

Medusa in the News. The Coastal Forces Heritage Trust (CFHT) held an event on 25th August to mark the centenary of the founding of Coastal Forces. It s a great story starting in WW1 with 50 foot fast boats armed with one or two torpedoes up against major.

Course Intro for Ancient and Medieval Philosophy

Intro Notes for. The term 'philosophy' is a transliteration of the Greek word φιλοσοφία, which itself is a compound word composed of the two concepts, φιλειν and σοφία. φιλειν is a verb which means to love or pursue. σοφία is a noun which means wisdom.

World Prehistory S 2000 / Owen: Moche P. 1

World Prehistory S 2000 / Owen: Moche p. 1. World Prehistory: Class 20. Copyright Bruce Owen 2000. Early Intermediate Period 200 BC-500 AD. emergence of complex chiefdoms and states with obvious very high status elites in several distinct regions, with different traditions.

Kant S Third Critiquethe New School for Social Research

Kant s Third CritiqueThe New School for Social Research. Jay BernsteinFall 2007. aesthetic reflective judgement. We have looked at 3 forms of reflective judgement. with respect to system (natural science as requiring a unified system).

Oedipus Rex Characters

Oedipus Rex Characters. OedipusRex is a noble king of Thebes, but heis stubbornly blind to the truth about himself. Heunknowingly killed his biological father King Laius, and proceeded to marry Jocasta, his biological mother.

Compare and Contrast the Three Cultures We Have Studied

Describe the afterlife according to Mesopotamian thought? Vampire bird comes and takes the dead person to the underworld, the dead turns into a man-bird, the dead have to eat dust and mud and live in total darkness, they have to become servants for the gods of the underworld. The Epic of Gilgamesh.