Histoire des sciences Essays

  • La paideia homosexuelle: Foucault, Platon et Aristote

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    premier livre de la Politique (1260b8-19), Aristote souligne l'importance d'une éducation appropriée des femmes, qui forment « une moitié de la population libre », et des enfants, qui deviendront « des citoyens participant au gouvernement de la cité ». Cette formation doit être définie « en tenant le regard fixé sur la constitution de la cité »: elle variera donc de concert avec les diverses formes de gouvernement. Pourtant, lorsqu'il analyse celles-ci, le Stagirite ne se préoccupe pas de leurs arrangements

  • Le Monde des Jeunes - French Essay

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    Monde des Jeunes - French Paper Pour celebrer notre centieme anniversaire on fera un reportage especial, dans lequel on va faire une comparaison entre Londre et Paris. !!!Londres contre Paris!!! Mon experience personelle de Paris etait un peu limitee donc j'y ai visite seulemont une fois. Mais je connais Londre comme mes poches. Le deux sont des villes tres anciennes avec beaucoup de monuments historiques. Paris a ete fonde au temps des Celtes, et Londres a ete fonde au temps des Romains

  • Golden Age Of Islam Essay

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    8th century to the 12th century, medieval Islam was at the height of its “golden age”. The latter is also referred to as “classical Islam”. Thanks to a documentary entitled Lorsque le Monde parlait Arabe as well as the readings from Buresi’s Geo-histoire de l’Islam, this paper will discuss this “golden age” of Islam, as well as the unique facets of this early Islamic civilization. Two questions arise when observing this subject: Firstly, what would explain the fact that philosophy ceased to be practiced

  • Lorenzo De Medici And The Renaissance

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    Lorenzo de Medici is one of the most important figures in the history of Italy. He lived and reigned during the golden age of the Renaissance in Florence in the late fifteenth century. Although not from a royal family or appointed to the throne, he held much political power as the ruler of Florence. Unlike the rulers of his day, he was among the few to directly immerse in the arts by commissioning works with some of the artists that led one of the most important eras in the world: the Italian Renaissance

  • Essay On Biscuit

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    NURSEL EYLÜL TUNÇÇEVİK ASSİGNMENT 2 FOOD SCİENCE BISCUIT Biscuit is a term of flour based baked products. The history of biscuit is back to 1690. At that time, the Champagne-conscious bakers to use their warm oven after défournage bread, had the idea to create a special paste that after suffering a first firing, was left in the bread oven where she finished drying. Hence the word ‘bis-cooked’ , that is to say, twice cooked. Originally, the cake was white. They wished to flavor the dough with vanilla

  • The Impacts Of Art During The Italian Renaissance

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    perspective of man. Researchers never again trust that the Renaissance denoted a sudden break with medieval esteems. The word Renaissance, which means 'rebirth' in French, was conceived in 1855 by Jules Michelet in his nineteen-volume masterpiece 'Histoire de France’ chronicled sources propose that enthusiasm for nature, humanistic learning, and independence were at that point display in the late medieval period and wound up prevailing in fifteenth and sixteenth century Italy simultaneously with social

  • Plan of Champ de Mars, Paris 1889

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    Plan of Champ de Mars, Paris 1889 This is a twenty-six by forty-eight centimeter plan of the Champ de Mars during the Exposition Universelle of 1889, used by visitors at the time of the fair, a bold political statement on the part of France, as well as an overwhelming success. The Third Republic was established in Paris in 1870, and by 1884, when preliminary studies for the the Exposition Universelle were launched, many political issues were still largely unresolved. In 1870 Napoleon III surrendered

  • When the Scientist turns Philosopher

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    the importance of the history of science for the philosophy of science, it has become customary for philosophers of science to support their philosophical considerations by appeal to real-life science. From the often historical material the philosopher seeks evidence for some general principles about the nature of science. If there is a common territory between science and philosophy, as many writers have affirmed, (1) it must also be possible to go from science to philosophy. This is indeed what

  • Renaissance Essay

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    existed? Despite the nature, origins and even existence of the Renaissance being subject to intensive investigation by many historians, the traditional understanding of the European renaissance as being defined as the bridge between the Middle Ages and modern era has resonated in society throughout time. Exemplified through the influx of creative arts, literature and philosophy of that time, Swiss cultural historian Jacob Burckhardt defined this bridge as being the result of an immense intellectual

  • King Phillip

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    King of Spain, only son of the Emperor Charles V, and Isabella of Portugal, b. at Valladolid, 21 May, 1527; d. at the Escorial, 13 Sept., 1598. He was carefully educated in the sciences, learned French and Latin, though he never spoke anything but Castilian, and also showed much interest in architecture and music. In 1543 he married his cousin, Maria of: Portugal, who died at the birth of Don Carlos (1535). He was appointed regent of Spain with a council by Charles V. In 1554 he married Mary Tudor

  • The Ethical Values of the Music Art of the Ancient Greeks: A Semiotic Essay

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    The Ethical Values of the Music Art of the Ancient Greeks: A Semiotic Essay ABSTRACT: Humanity requires for its satisfaction Beauty and Good, that is, love, wisdom, and courage. Put differently, the necessity of order, equilibrium, and harmony. These values ground one of the most elevated planes of the spiritual life: music. Its moral force in the education of the mind, soul, and behavior of the human person has been emphasized by the ancient Greek philosophers. This important message exists

  • Charles Marius Barbeau’s Ethnography and the Canadian Folklore

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    Charles Marius Barbeau’s Ethnography and the Canadian Folklore Born on 5 March 1883, in Sainte-Marie-de-Bauce, Charles Marius Barbeau is widely seen as the first Canadian educated anthropologist. He graduated from Université Laval in Québec, from his studies of law, in 1907; he never practised law. Upon graduating, Marius was awarded – as the first French-Canadian recipient – the Cecil Rhodes scholarship which allowed him to study at Oxford University where he was introduced to the emerging

  • Charles Darwin's Religious Beliefs

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    Term Paper: Throughout history, many have inquired into Charles Darwin’s religious beliefs and have come up with a wide variety of answers. Why are his personal beliefs important when dealing with a matter of science that Darwin researched? Darwin excluded the question of a Creator from his works because it was irrelevant to his scientific research, and the debate regarding Darwin’s faith arises due to his conflicting accounts of his personal faith as well as the way his early childhood and teenage

  • Creationsim vs. Evolution

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    Creationsim vs. Evolution Intro Who or what really is our greatest of great ancestors? Most major religions and early groups of people have an answer to this common question. The Greek myths declare that only Geia (the Earth) and a great sea of Chaos were in the beginning, and in a soap opera fashion the gods eventually came forth, who eventually created humans (Bierlein 47-8). The Chippewa/Algonquin Native Americans believe that the great Earth Mother had two sons, a good one and a bad

  • Education for Cosmopolis

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    Education for Cosmopolis ABSTRACT: An education for Cosmopolis is a kind of mediation between a cultural matrix and the meaning and value it confers on personal and communal self-appropriation, as genuine human beings, through history. The main strategy for a cosmopolitan educative integrates, around the notion of Cosmopolis, the tasks of an education conceived as a personal achievement and an education conceived as a legacy one generation shares with another. Cosmopolis, as a higher viewpoint

  • The Illusion of Racial Identity

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    In common sense thought, race is simply a fact: humans are not all alike, there are whites, blacks and yellows, maybe reds and browns too, and these different kinds are races, and that's just a feature of the way the world is. However, recent work on the concept of "race" shows that "race" and "race"-talk can be understood by analogy to what Foucault suggests about psychiatry and mental illness coming into being together: (1) it is now beginning to appear than "race" and racism came into existence

  • An Analysis of George Bataille's The Story of the Eye

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    New York: Routledge, 1994. Stoekl, Allan. Introduction. Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939. Georges Bataille. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1985. ix-xxv. Suleiman, Susan Rubin. "Transgression and the Avant-Garde: Bataille's Histoire de l'oeil." On Bataille: Critical Essays. Ed. and trans. Leslie Anne Boldt-Irons. Albany: SUNY P, 1995. 313-33.