Introduction to scientific humanities, an historical perspective:Case study
Case study - 5 pages - Politic philosophy
“[The book] revolutionized the study of Natural History, and carried away captive the best men of the… age”1—such were the words that the co-discoverer of the theory of natural selection, Alfred Russel Wallace, used to describe Charles Darwin's seminal work On the Origin of...
Introduction to scientific humanities: An historical perspective
Case study - 2 pages - Politic philosophy
“Animals are bodies and their vital operations are either movements or actions which require movements. But bodies and movements are the subject of Mathematics. Such a scientific approach is exactly Geometry. Similarly, the operations of animals are carried out using instruments and...
On just war
Case study - 7 pages - Politic philosophy
When, in the sacred Hindu text the Bhagavad Gita, Prince Arjuna asks Lord Krishna about the righteousness of his participation in a war that would entail him killing his cousins, Lord Krishna explains to him that it is his duty as a warrior to take up this role, and that he should do it as best...
The corrosion of character: The personal consequences of work in the new capitalism
Case study - 2 pages - Politic philosophy
The text we have is extracted from a book written by Richard Sennett in 1998 about new capitalism and its consequences on work and on personal lives. In this extract we have two chapters of the book. The first chapter, called “Drift”, is based on a true story of a family to show that...
Do we live better than our parents used to?
Case study - 15 pages - Politic philosophy
Our parents, born during The Glorious Thirty, lived the first years of their life in a society still untouched by oil crisis, very prosperous but so rigid and socially unfair. They grew up with the appearance and early spread of HIV, and lived in the uncertainties caused by the Cold War…...
Decolonization
Case study - 3 pages - Politic philosophy
India was Britain's first colony to be decolonized, in 1947, for a multitude of reasons. First of all, Britain had promised India, before the war began a transfer of power, to make the sub-continent more independent. Furthermore, Britain had already started an “Indianization” of the...
