Posted in History, Philosophy on November 12, 2007 | No Comments »
“A man does not attain to the universal by abandoning the particular, nor to the everlasting by an endeavour to overleap the limitations of time and place. The abiding reality exists not somewhere apart in the air, but under certain temporary and local forms of thought, feeling, and endeavour. We come most deeply into communion [...]
Posted in History, tagged Constantinople, Crusades, history classes for adults, Islam, Middle East, Powell History, Western civilization on November 8, 2007 | 4 Comments »
In preparation for my upcoming Powell History course, the Islamist Entanglement (coming February 2008!), I’ve decided to create a blog series on relations between the West and the Middle East, entitled “Milestones.” It will be a weekly feature on PHR, providing historical insight into the modern-day situation in which America now finds itself entangled.
The first of the [...]
Posted in History, tagged American History, Columbus on November 5, 2007 | No Comments »
“Columbus Week” at Powell History comes to a close. Of course, its been quite a bit longer than a week, but in my view, Columbus deserves the extra attention.
To close off the series, I decided it would be nice, in the spirit of Powell History Recommends, to point out one writer who has done reasonably [...]
Posted in American History, Columbus, History, Philosophy, World History, tagged Columbus, Immanuel Kant, Objectivism applied to history, the Discovery of America on November 1, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The Discovery of America is not merely the name of an event; it is a historical abstraction.
Like all historical abstractions it has unique characteristics that make it a particular type of cognitive tool, akin to concepts, but distinct.
Historical abstractions–like the Renaissance, the American Revolution, the Civil War–are mental integrations of historical information into a mental [...]
