REL 212 Winston Churchill on Islam

About Islam he wrote: 

“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property – either as a child, a wife, or a concubine – must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die: but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.”

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill KG OM CH TD PCc DL FRS RA (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, army officer, and writer, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. As a Member of Parliament (MP), he represented five constituencies over the course of his career, in both England and Scotland. As Prime Minister, Churchill led Britain to victory during the Second World War. He was Conservative Party leader from 1940 to 1955. Translated from Swedish, his citation upon receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 reads, "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values".

REL 212: Jerusalem

Seal

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REL 212: LDS Mormon Temple

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ATD: Mindfulness

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Organizations report 65 percent lower share price over time and 18 percent lower productivity because of disengaged employees. You have the power to positively influence employee engagement and organizational productivity by being a mindful leader. In this webcast, you’ll learn the steps to become a mindful leader. 

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REL 212 Christmas Anti-Muslim

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REL 212 HUM 112 Atatürk

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Progressive Delusion Horowitz

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Democratic Governors Discriminate Against Christians and Violate the First Amendment

 Christianity was advanced by bold leaders willing to give everything, even their freedom and their lives, like the Apostle Paul. Some of Paul's letters were written when he was in prison for preaching the Gospel. Here in America -- a nation birthed in religious freedom — such courage in the face of persecution is needed once again.

Liberty Counsel now has five federal lawsuits representing churches and pastors in Maine, Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois and California against the illegal, unconstitutional orders of lawless governors.

The facts of our case in Illinois, where city officials threatened to seize and destroy the churches we represent in Chicago, are shocking. However, the recent actions of CA Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Pasadena City Prosecutor have brought a new level of tyranny against faithful Christians in America.

"It has come to the attention of the Pasadena City Prosecutor's Office that your facility is not operating in compliance with the order of Governor Newsom.... We have information that your church was conducting live indoor church services at the location where anywhere from 50 to 100 people or more attended."

That's how the letter to Harvest Rock Chapel in Pasadena began. Issued Thursday, August 13, by the Criminal Division of the Pasadena City Prosecutor’s Office, the letter cited Gov. Newsom's unconstitutional total ban on worship:

"This letter is to remind you that violation of these orders are criminal in nature. Each day in violation is a separate violation and carries with it a potential punishment of up to one year in jail and a fine for each violation.... Your compliance with these orders is not discretionary, it is mandatory. Any violations in the future will subject your church, owners, administrators, operators, staff and parishioners to the above-mentioned criminal penalties as well as the potential closure of your church." [emphasis added]

Harvest Rock Church closed in mid-March. Churches are more (at least they should be) than an auditorium where people enjoy music and hear a message. Closing the ministries took a toll on the community. The elderly were isolated, the sick suffered, the children mourned for fellowship and every social ill increased.

Seeking God's direction, Pastor Ahn knew it was time to reopen. Pentecost Sunday, May 31, was the first in-person worship in months. The joy of fellowship was palpable and moving.

On July 6, Gov. Newsom banned singing and chanting. Then on July 13, he banned ALL WORSHIP, even in private homes. On July 17, Liberty Counsel filed a federal lawsuit.

Since the prosecutor's letter on August 13, this faithful immigrant pastor, along with the church's staff, and EVERY parishioner face daily criminal charges, each punishable for up to one year in prison and daily fines.

Liberty Counsel has formally responded to the Pasadena prosecutor reminding the prosecutor of some indisputable facts of constitutional law...

1. Americans have a RIGHT to religious freedom, unencumbered by the demands and edicts of government officials.

The City of Pasadena has no authority to prohibit people from attending church. In fact, the Supreme Court has expressly forbidden such action. The Court's decision in the 1947 case Everson v. Bd. Of Educ. Of Ewing Twp., 330 U.S. 1, 15 clearly states: "Neither a state nor the Federal Government can set up a church . . . Neither can force nor influence a person to go to or to remain away from church against his will." (emphasis added).

2. Government entities may not discriminate against one constitutionally protected right while promoting another.

The prosecutor's letter to Harvest Rock Church was particularly appalling because he asserts that the city has been enforcing the governor's orders against all gatherings in the city. Not true!

As reported with pictures and video by the local and national media, on at least three occasions - June 1, June 6 and June 10 – hundreds, if not thousands, of people gathered in the streets of Pasadena as part of the BLM protests shaking the country. No social distancing or masks were required, let alone enforced. Even when the protestors blocked the expressway on June 1, the city prosecutor issued NO threats of criminal sanctions or enforcement against the protestors.

3.  The First Amendment is not just for the state's favored speech.

The fact of the matter is, NONE of the rights enumerated within our Constitution may be impaired. And just as no government may remove any right enumerated, neither can a government official — even Pasadena's city prosecutor – show favor to one protected right (the right to peaceably assemble), over another (the right to worship according to one's conscience).

4.  The threat of criminal sanction against only religious adherents is reminiscent of tyrannical regimes, not America. We are a nation birthed with religious freedom.

We stand ready to vindicate the constitutional rights of Harvest Rock Church, Pastor Ché Ahn and all of Harvest Rock Church's members and congregants in Pasadena’s criminal courts.

We will not stop until religious freedom is FULLY RESTORED.

No pastor or parishioner in America should be forced to make a choice between worshipping in church and sitting in prison.

Progressive Era Napolitano

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REL 212: Witchcraft

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Data Analytics Retention

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How to Learn AI

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How Deep Learning Works

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Corporate Microlearning for Higher Ed

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AI Plan Courses

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AI Writing

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Personalized AI Education

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Packback AI Discussion

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How AI Will Destroy Education

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AI in Education

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Future Proof Education Startup

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Ed Tech Learning Platform

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Data, AI, Collaboration

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Experimenting with Flow Style

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Deep Learning Breakthroughs

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Mosul Eye

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Scriptures of the World's Religions 5th Edition By James Fieser and John Powers Copyright: 2015, McGraw Hill

Hinduism

Introduction

Vedas

Vedanta: The Upanis.ads and Their Commentaries

Yoga

Puran.as and Epics

Devotional Literature

Treatises on Dharma

Jainism

Introduction

Jaina Scriptures

Buddhism

Introduction

The Life of the Buddha

Pali Canon

Mahaya na Scriptures

Tibetan Buddhist Scriptures

Chinese and Japanese Buddhist Scriptures

Sikhism

Introduction

Sikh Scriptures

Confucianism

Introduction

Confucian Scriptures

Daoism

Introduction

Daoist Scriptures

Shinto

Introduction

Shinto Scriptures

Australian Aboriginal Religion

Introduction

Australian Aboriginal Myths

Zoroastrianism

Introduction

The Avesta

Pahlavi Writings

Zurvan Writings

Judaism

Introduction

Books of Moses

Conquest and United Kingdom

Divided Kingdom and Exile

Post-Exilic Writings

Rabbinic Writings

Medieval Judaism

Recent Movements

Orthodox Judaism: Service Prayer for the Day of Atonement

Christianity

Introduction

Jesus' Birth and Ministry

Jesus' Death

New Testament Church

Noncanonical Gospels

Early Statements of Faith

Church Fathers, Saints, and Mystics

The Rule of Saint Benedict

The Council of Trent

Pope Leo XIII On the Condition of Labor: Rerum Novarum

Protestant Statements of Faith

Recent Sectarian Movements

Islam

Introduction

Qur'an: Muhammad in Mecca

Qur'an: Muhammad in Medina

Hadith

Sunni and Shi'i Writings

Sufi Writings

Baha'i Faith

Introduction

The Bab

Baha'u'llah

Abdu'l-Baha

Shoghi Effendi

The Universal House of Justice

Indigenous Religions of the West

Introduction

Africa

War of the Gods: Yoruba Myth

America

Origin of Corn: Creek Myth

HUM 111 The Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic

The Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic

Overview

In the year 509 B.C., Roman patricians overthrew the Etruscan kings and founded the Roman Republic. The new government established magistrates with limited powers and terms of office, while taking into account the claims of the Senate and the people. The Republic eventually came to an end with the rise of Julius Caesar and the establishment of the Roman Empire under Augustus Caesar.

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Constitution Bill of Rights, Judge Napolitano

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REL 212: Wu Wei, Daoism

Wu Wei

HUM 112 HIS 105 Gil Scott Heron

Gil Scott Heron

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qGaoXAwl9kw

Introduction to Philosophy Parts 9-14

Part 9 Moral Problems

A Defense of Abortion
Judith Jarvis Thomson

On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion
Mary Anne Warren

Why Abortion Is Immoral
Don Marquis

Virtue Theory and Abortion
Rosalind Hursthouse

Famine, Affluence, and Morality
Peter Singer

Part 10: Society

Democracy
John Dewey

Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Martin Luther King Jr.

What Is a Liberal Education?
Sidney Hook

Crito
Plato

On Liberty
John Stuart Mill

Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
Karl Marx

Part 11: Social Justice

A Theory of Justice
John Rawls

Distributive Justice
Robert Nozick

The Republic
Plato

Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes

Part 12: Art

The Republic
Plato

According to Plato, why is the work of the artist at the third remove from the essential nature of a thing?

Poetics
Aristotle

Do you agree with Aristotle that the first essential of tragedy is plot and characters come second?

Part 13: Life and Death

The Trolley Problem
Judith Jarvis Thomson

Can you imagine another hypothetical case akin to that of the trolley?

Phaedo
Plato

According to Socrates, how could Crito be of most service?

Writings
Epicurus

According to Epicurus, why is death nothing to us?

The Handbook
Epictetus

How does Epictetus recommend that we deal with loss?

Part 14: The Meaning of Life

Philosophy and the Meaning of Life
Robert Nozick

Does Nozick believe any formula can capture the meaning of life?

Part 8: Moral Theory

Part 8: Moral Theory

How Not to Answer Moral Questions
Tom Regan

Moral Isolationism
Mary Midgley

The Nature of Ethical Disagreement
Charles L. Stevenson

The Rationality of Moral Action
Philippa Foot

Kant’s Ethics
Onora O’Neill

Assessing Utilitarianism
Lewis P. Pojman

A Supreme Moral Principle?
Steven M. Cahn

Virtue Ethics
Bernard Mayo

The Ethics of Care
Virginia Held

Happiness and Morality
Christine Vitrano

Existentialism
Jean-Paul Sartre

Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle

Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: The Categorical Imperative
Immanuel Kant

Utilitarianism
John Stuart Mill

HIS 105 HUM 112 Identity Politics

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HUM 111: Greek gods in Color

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HIS 105 HUM 112 JFK

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Ian Hunter James Mastro

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Free Video, Image, and Audio Resources

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HIS 105, HUM 112 Heroes of the Second World War

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Bennet’s New Latin Grammar

www.thelatinlibrary

HUM 111 Elizabeth I to the Glorious Revolution

“From Elizabeth I to the Glorious Revolution”

 

Overview:

The 16th and 17th centuries witnessed a growing crisis in the English monarchy, which was not resolved until the Glorious Revolution. The appeal to natural law, especially as formulated by John Locke, as the standard by which to govern political society, along with the idea of the necessity of the separation of powers to guard against tyranny, influenced not only English politics, but later, American revolutionaries.

Part 7: Identity and Immortality

Personal identity deals with philosophical questions that arise about ourselves by virtue of our being people (or, as lawyers and philosophers like to say, persons). This contrasts with questions about ourselves that arise by virtue of our being living things, conscious beings, material objects, or the like.

Many of these questions occur to nearly all of us now and again: What am I? When did I begin? What will happen to me when I die? Others are more abstruse. Personal identity has been discussed since the origins of Western philosophy, and most major figures have had something to say about it.

Personal identity is sometimes discussed under the protean term self. And ‘self’ does sometimes mean ‘person’. But it often means something different: some sort of immaterial subject of consciousness, for instance (as in the phrase ‘the myth of the self’). The term is often used without any clear meaning at all.

 

Personal Identity: Crash Course Philosophy #19, 8:32

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=trqDnLNRuSc

Today Hank is building on last week’s exploration of identity to focus on personal identity. Does it in reside in your body? Is it in the collective memories of your consciousness? There are, of course, strengths and weaknesses to both of these ideas, and that’s what we’re talking about today.

https://youtu.be/trqDnLNRuSc

1. How are they all the Doctor?
2. What is the one thing that remains constant?
3. What is our essential property?
4. Summarize some of the ideas philosophers have come up with.
5. Describe a thought experiment.
6. What did Locke contribute?
7. What problems does memory entail?
8. Does any of this really matter?
9. Do you believe you have obligations to particular people in your life?

Part 7: Identity and Immortality

A Case of Identity
Brian Smart

The Problem of Personal Identity
John Perry

John R. Perry (born 1943) is Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Stanford University and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of California, Riverside. He has made significant contributions to philosophy in the fields of logic, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind. He is known primarily for his work on situation semantics (together with Jon Barwise), reflexivity, indexicality, personal identity, and self-knowledge.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=58R0yYh_odo

 8:41


https://youtu.be/58R0yYh_odo

What is the goal of the dialogue?
What does Miller contend?
What is the problem of the soul?
What is the memory view?
What are the two ways of thinking about the transporter works in Star Trek?
Which is correct?
In the third night what is reviewed about personal identity?

The Unimportance of Identity
Derek Parfit

Derek Parfit discussing personal identity in the documentary Brainspotting, 9:24

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uS-46k0ncIs

https://youtu.be/uS-46k0ncIs

How do we exist?
What are the four options on the checklist?
What happens after a brain transplant?
Are there one or two persons?
What happens with teletransportation?

Life after Death
Terence Penelhum

Metaphysics deals with the study of the nature of reality. Since the Enlightenment, reality has been seen through the lenses of both religion and science, and frequently there has been a conflict between the views of the two. Following the horrors of the Second World War, the attacks on the views of religion became particularly vigorous with science on the offensive.

Canadian philosophers in the postwar era have attempted, in a number of ways, to resolve these conflicts and to legitimize religious belief. A variety of approaches have been used. 

Some have attempted to address issues in the philosophy of religion by questioning underlying issues in metaphysics. Those following this approach within the analytic tradition include Kai Nielsen, Donald Evans (1963), and Terence Penelhum (1970).

Do We Need Immortality?
Grace M. Jantzen


Grace Marion Jantzen (24 May 1948 – 2 May 2006) was a Canadian feminist philosopher and theologian. She was professor of religion, culture and gender at Manchester University from 1996 until her death from cancer at the age of 57.

Arguably, her most famous work is Becoming Divine: Towards a Feminist Philosophy of Religion. In this book, Grace Jantzen proposes a new philosophy of religion from a feminist perspective. She also authored works on Christian mysticism and the foundations of modernity. Her approach was influenced by Continental scholarship, particularly that of Foucault.

In her final publication, Foundations of Violence, Jantzen, sketches the fascination with death and violence -- what she calls a 'necrophilia' -- that she believes has characterized much of Western culture from classical antiquity through Christianity to present paradigms. In Jantzen's view, this emphasis on violence and death comes at the expense of the physical body in the present (a denigration of the senses, sexuality and sensuality), and thus, establishes a yearning for mystical worlds beyond the here and now.

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
John Locke

PHILOSOPHY - History: Locke on Personal Identity #1, 11:30

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=462Y898PVn8

PHILOSOPHY - History: Locke on Personal Identity #1, 11:30

Part 1 of 3.  In this Wireless Philosophy video, Michael Della Rocca (Yale University) explores some of the puzzles and problems of personal identity that arise from the revolutionary work of the philosopher John Locke.

What makes you the same person as the little kid growing up a number of years ago? 
Is the identity of a person tied to the persistence of a body or a soul or something else entirely? Can we even give any explanation at all of the persistence of a person?

A Treatise of Human Nature
David Hume

David Hume on Personal Identity -Kiana Crawford, 5:05

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jcnnmi_gPug

David Hume on Personal Identity -Kiana Crawford, 5:05

https://youtu.be/Jcnnmi_gPug

Are persons just impressions?
Hume rejects what?
What is an impression?
How does he explain impressions?
How can we construct identity?
What does Hume note?
What is causation?
How does Hume disagree with Locke?
Do you agree with Hume's view on personal identify as he had three strong arguments?
How would you recap Hume's arguments?

Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man
Thomas Reid

Thomas Reid (26 April 1710 – 7 October 1796) was a religiously trained Scottish philosopher, a contemporary of David Hume as well as "Hume's earliest and fiercest critic". He was the founder of the Scottish School of Common Sense and played an integral role in the Scottish Enlightenment.

The early part of his life was spent in Aberdeen and he graduated from the University of Aberdeen. He began his career as a Minister of the Church of Scotland but ceased to be a Minister (or called 'Reverend') when he was given a professorship at King's College, Aberdeen in 1752.

He obtained his doctorate and wrote An Inquiry Into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense (published in 1764). He and his colleagues founded the 'Aberdeen Philosophical Society' which was popularly known as the 'Wise Club' (a literary-philosophical association). Shortly after the publication of his first book, he was given the prestigious Professorship of Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow when he was called to replace Adam Smith.

He resigned from this position in 1781, after which he prepared his university lectures for publication in two books: Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man (1785) and Essays on the Active Powers of the Human Mind (1788). Reid was buried at Blackfriars Church in the grounds of Glasgow College and when the university moved to Gilmorehill in the west of Glasgow, his tombstone was inserted in the main building.

Reid believed that common sense (in a special philosophical sense of sensus communis) is, or at least should be, at the foundation of all philosophical inquiry. He disagreed with Hume, who asserted that we can never know what an external world consists of as our knowledge is limited to the ideas in the mind, and George Berkeley, who asserted that the external world is merely ideas in the mind. By contrast, Reid claimed that the foundations upon which our sensus communis are built justify our belief that there is an external world.

In his day and for some years into the 19th century, he was regarded as more important than Hume. He advocated direct realism, or common sense realism, and argued strongly against the Theory of Ideas advocated by John Locke, René Descartes, and (in varying forms) nearly all Early Modern philosophers who came after them. He had a great admiration for Hume and had a mutual friend send Hume an early manuscript of Reid's Inquiry. Hume responded that the "deeply philosophical" work "is wrote in a lively and entertaining matter," but that "there seems to be some defect in method," and criticized Reid for implying the presence of innate ideas.

5.2. INTROPHIL - Reid's Challenge to Hume, 2:13

Week five of the University of Edinburgh's "Introduction to Philosophy" (INTROPHIL) open online course. Dr Allan Hazlett School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences University of Edinburgh

https://youtu.be/GSDMIXAg3Zc

When should you only trust testimony according to Hume?
How does Reid challenge Hume's assumption?
How do Reid and Hume agree?
What is innate according to Reid?

Roman Legions Augustus’ Reign

Months of Unprecedented Government Malfeasance: Imprimis Hillsdale

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The Entitlement Cure

The_Entitlement_Cure

Ian Hunter, Noddy Holder on Mott The Hoople

Rock legends with Noddy Holder on MTH

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtQe7BD ... e=youtu.be 
after MTH live in paris is an old programme by Noddy Holder on MTH

Higher Ed Leveraging Technology

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HIS 105, HUM 111 100 Hundred Years of Rock

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HUM 111: Pyramids

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REL 212: New Religions AI

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HUM 111-112 Renaissance, Reformation, & Counter-Reformation

Overview:

The Renaissance represents a discovery and rebirth of the glories of antiquity, as well as the dawn of the modern world. The great universities of Paris, Bologna, and Oxford were products of the Middle Ages, and had initiated the study of Aristotle and other ancient thinkers in relation the tenets of Christianity. The rise of humanism during the Renaissance represented a challenge to the scholastic thought of the Middle Ages: it was a strain of humanism which resulted in the Protestant Reformation. The Catholic Church responded by convening the Council of Trent, which initiated the Counter-Reformation.

HIS 105: The World Made Straight

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HUM 111: Church and State

 

Overview:

In the wake of the disintegration of the Roman Empire and the corresponding collapse of political cohesion throughout Western Europe in the fifth century, there arose numerous small kingdoms whose rulers came to rely on bishops and other leaders of the Church to help provide regional administrative order. The growth of royal power and the close interactions of Church and state officials gave rise to two fundamental political issues of the Middle Ages, which remain relevant even today: what constitutes the appropriate relationship between secular and spiritual authority, and what is the proper relationship between government and the governed.

HUM 111: Roman Toilets and Sanitation

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HUM 112: Immigration

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HUM 112: Impressionism or Why is Modern Art So Bad?

Why is Modern Art so Bad?  5:49

For two millennia, great artists set the standard for beauty. Now those standards are gone. Modern art is a competition between the ugly and the twisted; the most shocking wins. What happened? How did the beautiful come to be reviled and bad taste come to be celebrated? Renowned artist Robert Florczak explains the history and the mystery behind this change and how it can be stopped and even reversed.

https://youtu.be/lNI07egoefc

HUM 112 The Fire: Campus Rights

thefire.org/campus-rights

How the Liberal University Hurts the Liberal Student, 4:37

HUM 112 Slavery and Romanticism

Why Should We Thank the British for Being a Colony? 

5:24

Slavery and the slave trade were among the most important economic, political and cultural issues of the Romantic period. Although doubts about the justice and humanity of slavery had been raised as far back as the seventeenth century in the English-speaking world, and earlier in the Spanish, it was not until the second half of the eighteenth century that the trade in slaves received widespread condemnation, and it was not until well into the nineteenth century that slavery itself was successfully challenged and finally abolished. While some defended the slave trade as a necessary evil, by the late 1780s many European nations saw the emergence of popular movements for abolition and emancipation with clear majorities opposed first to the slave trade and, later, to slavery itself. In Britain, antislavery sentiment was widespread between 1780 and 1833, particularly in the 1780s and early 90s, and again in the 1820s and 30s. As such, antislavery can be identified as one of the key movements of the Romantic era. This centrality is reflected in the cultural productions of the period: poets, novelists, philosophers and political writers joined hands with dramatists, artists, printmakers and musicians both to reflect and to influence public opinion, and in many cases writers and artists were the leaders of local and national antislavery organisations.

The History of White People, Nell Irvin Painter

In point of contrast, in the remainder of the world, e.g., in Islamic areas the practice of slavery continued. 

Because internal growth of the slave population was not enough to fulfill the demand in Muslim society, massive numbers of non-Muslim slaves were imported, resulting in enormous suffering and loss of life from their capture and transportation.

The Muslim Arab slave trade was most active in West Asia, North Africa, and Southeast Africa. In the early 20th century (post World War I), slavery was gradually outlawed and suppressed in Muslim lands, largely due to pressure exerted by Western nations such as Britain and France. Among the last states to abolish slavery were Saudi Arabia and Yemen, which abolished slavery in 1962 under pressure from Britain; Oman in 1970, and Mauritania in 1905, 1981, and again in August 2007. However, slavery claiming the sanction of Islam is documented presently in the predominantly Islamic countries of Chad, Mauritania, Niger, Mali, and Sudan.