metals and plants could be medicinal when used properly. He though mercury could cure syphilis. -Why did people believe in these "magical" beliefs? People thought the world could be understood through simple keys to nature. The theories of Neo-Platonism‚ a Renaissance era school of thought based on Plato’s belief that "truth lay in essential but hidden "forms"" contributed to these beliefs. Jewish cabala also contributed to this - this form of thought taught that the universe may be built around
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― 225 ― http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft5m3nb3ft&chunk.id=d0e9454&toc.id=d0e9454&brand=ucpress 9 Renaissance and Reformation An Essay on Their Affinities and Connections This essay was commissioned by the organizers of the Fourth International Luther Congress‚ held in St. Louis in 1971. I tried to demonstrate in it not only the affinities of the Reformation with the Renaissance but also the European-wide character of the impulses underlying the Reformation
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The Humanities‚ Vocationalism and the Public Good: Exploring ‘the Hamlet Factor’ Laurence Wright The humanities‚ like most academic disciplines‚ face questions of popular and public perception. The sciences‚ for instance‚ increasingly attract challenges‚ sometimes of dubious validity‚ from passionate advocates of so-called ‘deep ecology’ outside the academy‚ and from postmodern science studies within it. Educationists worldwide face growing discontent with the quality and character of public education
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Current critical debate discusses contemporary poetry in terms of the Pound‚ Stevens or Williams’ era‚ forgetting T. S. Eliot‚ the poet who presided over the literary scenario for almost half a century. Eliot’s bookishness‚ political conservatism and religious leanings‚ together with the Modernist cultivation of an erudite‚ culturally charged idiom‚ have constituted a serious source of critical discontent. For the adepts of Marxist hermeneutics‚ his work came to represent “a privileged‚ closed‚ authoritative
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Social justice is defined as justice exercised within a society‚ particularly as it is exercised by and among the various social classes of that society. A socially just society is defined by its advocates and practitioners as being based on the principles of equality and solidarity; this pedagogy also maintains that the socially just society both understands and values human rights‚ as well as recognizing the dignity of every human being.[1][2] The Constitution of the International Labour Organization affirms
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English literature Medieval Drama The variety of Dramatic forms of medieval drama Form classical Greek times‚ and in many other cultures‚ theatre has maintained strong religious connections. The origins of English theatre are religious too. 1- Forms of Medieval drama: The first forms of medieval drama are related to Religious form‚ i.e. all related to different festivals mass and holidays. It was prominent during Easter and Christmas. For instance‚ Tropes is a dramatic performance‚ in
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SI G NS‚ IN F O R M A T I O N‚ N O R MS A ND SYST E MS Ronald Stamper School of Management Studies University of Twente POBox 217‚ 7500 AE Enschede The Netherlands Tel: +31.53.894038 Fax: +31.53.339885 email: r.k.stamper@sms.utwente.nl In The Semiotics of the Workplace‚ edited by B. Holmqvist and P.B. Andersen in 1995‚ (c) 1994 Ronald Keith Stamper. All rights reserved. Signs‚ Information‚ Norms and Systems Ronald Stamper The motivation behind the work reported here has been practical
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I Introduction: pluralism and the Greeks 1. PLURALISM IN HISTORY To chart the course of pluralism is not a straightforward task. Isaiah Berlin devoted much of his career as a historian of ideas to chronicling and combating the hegemony in Western theory of pluralism’s great rival‚ monism. But what we know about the development of pluralism itself—that is to say‚ which thinkers and which ages can safely or firmly be placed in the pluralist ‘camp’—lacks a comparable certainty. In this way‚ Berlin
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"Da Vinci" redirects here. For other uses‚ see Da Vinci (disambiguation). [pic] |Leonardo da Vinci | |[pic] | |Self-portrait in red chalk‚ Royal Library of Turin | |Circa 1512 to 1515[nb 1] | |Born |Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci | |
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12th and 13th centuries. Renaissance thinkers continued the medieval tradition of grammatical and rhetorical studies. In theology‚ the medieval traditions of Scholasticism‚ Thomism‚ Scotism‚ and Ockhamism were continued in the Renaissance. Medieval Platonism and Aristotelianism were crucial to Renaissance philosophical thought. The advances of mathematical disciplines‚ including astronomy‚ were indebted to medieval precedents. The schools of Salerno‚ Italy‚ and
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