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In the essay, Benjamin uses poetic and scientific analogies to present a critique of historicism. [4]One interpretation of Benjamin in Thesis I is that Benjamin is suggesting that despite claims to scientific objectivity, the historical materialism of vulgar Marxists is actually a quasi-religious fraud or conversely that theology is an essential and ultimately unavoidable backdrop to ...
Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was a British and American author and journalist. [2] [3] He was the author of 18 books on faith, religion, culture, politics, and literature. He was born and educated in Britain, graduating in the 1970s from Oxford with a degree in philosophy, politics, and economics.
Christopher Robert Browning (born May 22, 1944) is an American historian and is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). A specialist on the Holocaust, Browning is known for his work documenting the Final Solution, the behavior of those implementing Nazi policies, and the use of survivor testimony. [1]
Philosophy of history is the philosophical study of history and its discipline. [1] The term was coined by the French philosopher Voltaire. [2] In contemporary philosophy a distinction has developed between the speculative philosophy of history and the critical philosophy of history, now referred to as analytic.
Christopher Warren Morris (born June 7, 1949) [1] is professor and chair of philosophy at the University of Maryland, where he is also a member of the Faculty of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Policy. [2] [3] His main research areas are moral, legal and political philosophy as well as practical rationality. [4]
The development of Christian ideas represents a break with the philosophy of the Greeks, bearing in mind that the starting point of Christian philosophy is the Christian religious message. Lara divides Christian philosophy into three eras: Early philosophy: Patristics (2nd–7th centuries) Medieval philosophy: Scholastics (9th–13th centuries)
Following Spengler, Yockey identified eight "high cultures" in world history, which he saw as spiritual superorganisms which impress humans into their service. [13] He argued that these cultures have their own souls which determine their religious expression, science, art forms, politics and morality through succeeding life phases of birth, growth, maturity, fulfillment of destiny, and death.
Christopher Shields (born 26 July 1958) is an American philosopher and the Henry E. Allison Endowed Chair in the History of Philosophy at the University of California San Diego. [1] [2] He was formerly the George N. Shuster Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. [3] He is the editor of Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. [4]