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all of these things were present under the tyranny of king george III. the magna carta reserved all of these rights from the invasiveness inherent in they system of tyranny. but to echo my previously ...

The very intent to protect what is rightfully ours, shifts the responsibility of a government from only legislating in the parameters they are given, to assuming power in all areas, save those which a ...

lots of anti federalist points to be made although they were scarcely mentioned in the reading..

although the social discrepancies between parties tend to monopolize the political spectrum these da ...

let me just start off in saying that by the end of this reading, the image of all these guys in one hotel in Brussels was the most exciting thing ever. how did all these geniuses exist at the same ti ...

you know when you have those moments when your brain flashes outside the realm of what its normally capable of? everything before newton led up to newton and everything after him was based of of him, ...

wow cool reading. Michelson and Morley basically send the idea of ether on its way, although it still exists in other ways today. They essentially accomplish this by proving with a fairly simple yet i ...

let me just start off by sayin that 'light' was often used as a substitute for the word truth, and can be interpreted as such in the reading if you're looking for a philosophical take... but to get ba ...

it may very well be true that no man can achieve pure objectivity, but the integrity of a historian lies in his ability to recognize his subjectivity and either present it as such, or check it with co ...

i think that science elevates the causality of history to the necessity of science. in this way they both rely on each other. In order to figure out how history is changing we need science. In order t ...

i was a little worried my question might be off track a bit but it seemed as though talking about philosophy in a big picture sense helped people clarify the history/science distinction, which is what ...

the disciplines of history and science have played the biggest role in our discussions thus far and yet a majority of the readings have been about philosophers first and foremost. how do you think the ...

the order of this reading moves from specific philosophy to general world view and although this is the logical transition i think it might have been more conducive to understanding if it had gone the ...

Most of this reading seemed to me self evident and at times overstated, that is until i came to the understanding that he Galileo was using certain philosophical logic to establish a methodology for m ...

this is from a letter that martin luther king jr. wrote while in jail, justifying his conscious decision to disobey the law.

"One may well ask: "How can you advocate breaking some laws an ...

When considering the question of what is history, one must first consider why is history. First and foremost the answer to 'why history' is 'for knowledge' (as apposed to for entertainment). So why do ...