As conservatives, liberals, and radicals debated issues of government, a new movement called nationalism was emerging. Nationalism is the belief that one 's greatest loyalty should not be toa king or an empire but to a nation of people who share a common culture and history. When the nation also had its own independent government, it became a nation-state. The region includes all or part of presentday Greece, Albania, Romania, and Turkey, and the former Yugoslavia.
Since the fall of the Roman empire, Italy had been divide into many city states. And while the nationalism destory empires, it also bulit nations. Italy was one of the country that form from the territory of crumbling empires.
Also it is like loyalty and devotion to one's nation or country, especially as above loyalty to other groups or to individual interests. And before the era of the nation-state, the primary allegiance of most people was to their immediate locality or religious groups.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Simon Bolivar and Latin American Revolutions
Simon Bolivar was born in July 24, 1783. He is born in Caracas, Venezuela. And also his parents die when he was still a child and he inherited the stuff from his father. When Simon Bolivar was in spain he met Maria Teresa Rodríguez del Toro y Alaysa, and he got marry with her in 1802. But after he returned to Venezuela in 1803, Maria Teresa Rodríguez del Toro y Alaysa die of the yellow fever. Because of her death, Simon Bolivar promise to never marry again.
Simon Bolivar was a South American political leader. Because he had successful won the independence for Latin American from Spain. Simon Bolivar, he the Liberator, he organized and led military forces, to free the northern protion century. But by 1827, due to personal rivalries among the generals of the revolution, civil wars exploded which destroyed the South American unity for which Bolívar had fought.
And also there is a country named after him.
Simon Bolivar was a South American political leader. Because he had successful won the independence for Latin American from Spain. Simon Bolivar, he the Liberator, he organized and led military forces, to free the northern protion century. But by 1827, due to personal rivalries among the generals of the revolution, civil wars exploded which destroyed the South American unity for which Bolívar had fought.
And also there is a country named after him.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
John Locke and "The Enlightenment"
John Locke was an Oxford scholar, medical researcher and physician, political operative, economist and idealogue for a revolutionary movement, as well as being one of the great philosophers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century. He says that all the people has their right, all persons have equal rights, and that government is responsible to, and derives its powers from, a free people. According to the Declaration of Independence, they believe in that the mens could create equal, and the government is created among by men. The mens is to derving the power of the government. And people don't want that anymore, he is trying to refuse the laws. Everybody should have the equal rights, they don't want hight taxes any more.
The intellectual movement called "the enlightenment" is usually associated with the 18th century. In the 14th and 15th century there emerged in Italy and France a group of thinkers known as the "humanists." The term did not then have the anti-religious associations it ahs in contemporary political debate. Almost all of them were practicing Catholics.
Galileo Galilei, For instance, was to use the same sort of logic the schoolmen had used reinforced with observation to argue in 1632 for the copernican notion that the earth rotes on its axis beneath the unmoving sun. The Church, and most partcularly the Holy inquisition, objected that the bible clearly stted that the sun moved through the sky and denounced Galileo's teachings, forcing him to recant what he had written and preventing him from teaching further. The church's triumph was a pyrrhic victory, for though it culd silence Galileo, it could not prevent the advance of science.
The intellectual movement called "the enlightenment" is usually associated with the 18th century. In the 14th and 15th century there emerged in Italy and France a group of thinkers known as the "humanists." The term did not then have the anti-religious associations it ahs in contemporary political debate. Almost all of them were practicing Catholics.
Galileo Galilei, For instance, was to use the same sort of logic the schoolmen had used reinforced with observation to argue in 1632 for the copernican notion that the earth rotes on its axis beneath the unmoving sun. The Church, and most partcularly the Holy inquisition, objected that the bible clearly stted that the sun moved through the sky and denounced Galileo's teachings, forcing him to recant what he had written and preventing him from teaching further. The church's triumph was a pyrrhic victory, for though it culd silence Galileo, it could not prevent the advance of science.
Friday, September 18, 2009
Copernicus and the Trial of Galileo
The geocentric was found from the early Greeks observed the sky and all that it contained. From their observations, the Greeks believed the Earth was the center of the moon, Sun, and the only known planets at that time, Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Jupiter. And the Greeks believe in that those planets were moving around the Earth in a clockwise direction. They said that the Earth is not the one that is moving, because no one felt the Earth is moving. Around 140 A.D. Claudius Ptolemy wrote thirteen volumes on the motion of the planets, and put the geocentric theory in its finest form. The Roman Catholic believe in the Ptolemaic theory, because they suggested the sun was motioned while the Earth were remainedin one place. And they have to believe it, cause the Church ws in the control during this period, and anyone that don't believe in it would be punished, or house arrest.
heliocentrism is the theory that the Sun is stationary and at the center of the solor system. But then in the lod back in time, everybody thinks that this is wrong. But what can they do, even thought that the peoples believes in it, thry can't tell anyone cause otherwise the will get arest. So thet they could only disagree with it.
And so this is how it gose.
heliocentrism is the theory that the Sun is stationary and at the center of the solor system. But then in the lod back in time, everybody thinks that this is wrong. But what can they do, even thought that the peoples believes in it, thry can't tell anyone cause otherwise the will get arest. So thet they could only disagree with it.
And so this is how it gose.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Scientific Revolition: The Scientific Method
The scientific revolution was a new way of thinking that the challenged these outdated ideas.
Long ago, the idea of science is from ancient Greeks and Romans, or from Bible.
The scientific revolution can be seen as a reaction against a medieval Aristotelian model of scientific explanation which stressed the internal essential nature of physical objects and the final cause connected with this internal nature. Medieval mode is an action that is explained by the object's internal nature which moved it to its final goal or telos. This mode was seen to be circular or empty because the only explanation that could be given of an object's essential form or internal nature was in terms of the object's actions.
This canused Galileo to reject the ideas of a secret internal nature as the cause of a things actions. Since it was impossible to perceive and served no explanatory function the idea of an internal nature was rejected. Instead it was seen that only some of the external properties of the object really objectively characterize the object and that these can be used to explain the other external properties.
A method of hypothesis and experiment under simplified and idealized conditions was devised to isolate out the primry properties and discover the laws that connected them to secondary properties. A model of how the world is was tested by deriving perdictions about observation from it.
And so this is how the scientific method goes like.
Long ago, the idea of science is from ancient Greeks and Romans, or from Bible.
The scientific revolution can be seen as a reaction against a medieval Aristotelian model of scientific explanation which stressed the internal essential nature of physical objects and the final cause connected with this internal nature. Medieval mode is an action that is explained by the object's internal nature which moved it to its final goal or telos. This mode was seen to be circular or empty because the only explanation that could be given of an object's essential form or internal nature was in terms of the object's actions.
This canused Galileo to reject the ideas of a secret internal nature as the cause of a things actions. Since it was impossible to perceive and served no explanatory function the idea of an internal nature was rejected. Instead it was seen that only some of the external properties of the object really objectively characterize the object and that these can be used to explain the other external properties.
A method of hypothesis and experiment under simplified and idealized conditions was devised to isolate out the primry properties and discover the laws that connected them to secondary properties. A model of how the world is was tested by deriving perdictions about observation from it.
And so this is how the scientific method goes like.
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