Una Storia Globale dell’Umanità

Una storia globale dell'umanità Il primo manuale di geo-storia per gli studenti di tutta Europa! Nato dal progetto Get up and goals!, questo innovativo manuale di geostoria basato sull’approccio della storia globale (o world history) è pensato per studenti e studentesse fra gli 11 e 19 anni.I tre volumi del manuale sono tradotti e disponibili gratuitamente sul sito ufficiale del progetto nelle lingue di 12 paesi: Austria, Bulgaria, …

Camus, La peste non è solo la peste

(originally posted by Internazionale) “Per scrivere La peste, nel 1947, Albert Camus si era immerso nella storia delle pestilenze”, spiega nel video il filosofo Alain de Botton, per raccontare la condizione umana. “Lo scrittore francese aveva capito che quando si parla di morte non c’è via d’uscita dalla nostra fragilità e che la sofferenza è …

Badiou (a film by G. and R. Kalyan)

Badiou Film diretto da Gorav & Rohan Kalyan Prodotto da Jaden Adams e  Rohan Kalyan "Nietzsche ha scritto che ogni filosofia è sempre una biografia del suo pensatore. La vita di Alain Badiou suggerisce che può essere vero anche il contrario: dalla nascita in Marocco, agli eventi del maggio 1968 a Parigi, fino ai suoi …

Qualcuno dice che farei meglio ad andare a scuola

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAmmUIEsN9A Greta Thunberg realized at a young age the lapse in what several climate experts were saying and in the actions that were being taken in society. The difference was so drastic in her opinion that she decided to take matters into her own hands. Greta is a 15-year-old Stockholm native who lives at home …

The british empiricism: Locke, Berkeley and Hume

Qui sotto la presentazione con tutti i materiali per le lezioni. The British Empiricism Locke, Berkeley and Hume 

Empiricism and Ethics

About ethical, educational and political theory of John Locke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZiWZJgJT7I     2. About ethical, educational and political theory of George Berkeley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi6TbMEk_T4   3. About ethical, educational and political theory of David Hume https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS52H_CqZLE  

Locke, substance is just an idea

John Locke,  Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)  Chapter XXIII: Complex ideas of substances   1. The mind is supplied with many simple ideas, which come to it through the senses from outer things or through reflection on its own activities. Sometimes it notices that a certain number of these simple ideas go constantly together, and …

Hume, On causation

Here some extracts from David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature, (1739) Book 1, part III about cause and effect. 2: Probability, and the idea of cause and effect "To begin in an orderly fashion, we must consider the idea of causation and see from what origin it is derived. • It is impossible to reason …

The Constitution of the United States (1787)

 The Constitution of the United StatesThe Bill of Rights & All Amendments (Preamble) We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain …

The crusades

(this post adapts materials taken from BBC Bitesize and History.com) What started the crusades In the Middle Ages, the Muslim world stretched from India to Spain, including Jerusalem and the Holy Land. It was scientifically and culturally ahead of the Christian countries of western Europe. By 1070, more and more Turkish nomads were settling in …