Sumeria
Sumeria World's first civilization, dating from before 3000 bc, in
s Mesopotamia. The Sumerians are credited with inventing cuneiform writing, the first basic socio-political institutions, and a money-based economy. Major cities were
Ur, Kish, and Lagash. During the third millennium
bc, Sumeria developed into an imperial power. In
c.2340 bc, the Semitic peoples of Akkadia conquered Mesopotamia, and by
c.1950 bc the ancient civilization had disintegrated.
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German Idealism: the Struggle against Subjectivism, 1781-1801.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Theological Studies; 3/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...interpretation of German idealism as "essentially the culmination...the development of German idealism is not the culmination but...constructed their objective idealisms. On B.'s reading the trajectory of idealism thus moves from "the...
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Hegel, idealism and God: philosophy as the self-correcting appropriation of the norms of life and thought.(Georg Hegel)
Magazine article from: Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...can be said to have taken philosophical idealism to its most extreme point, the point of absolute idealism, and, from the perspective of much contemporary...understanding of the core commitments of idealism itself, and, two hundred years after...
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Magical realism and the legacy of German idealism.
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 4/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Realism and the Legacy of German Idealism by Christopher Warnes This article...the relations between Novalis's idealism and modern literary magical realism...remains faithful to an absolute idealism. Asturias and Carpentier are concerned...
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Beiser, Frederick. German Idealism: the Struggle Against Subjectivism, 1781-1801.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 12/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...important philosophical movement known as German idealism. German Idealism (GI) is well written, exquisitely argued, and...thesis is that, from its very inception, German idealism was a reaction against subjectivism, an attempt...
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What's wrong with idealism? (Column)
Magazine article from: Newsweek; 1/16/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...ve already shown that we believe in idealism. That's part of the reason we're here." She was right. In America, where idealism is the yardstick used to judge a generations...called materialistic and cynical, such idealism should be refreshing. Yet after a year...
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Bubner, Rudiger. The Innovations of Idealism.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 6/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...BUBNER, Rudiger. The Innovations of Idealism. Translated by Nicholas Walker. New...English-language assessment of German Idealism. His new volume, published originally...continuity between the "innovations" of Idealism and current practices in hermeneutics...
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Wilsonian Idealism in America.
Magazine article from: American Political Science Review; 12/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...Steigerwald's first book, Wilsonian Idealism in America, is a welcome study of an...reject the labels "Wilsonian" and "idealism." Nevertheless, he argues that Wilsonian...analysis of the emergence of Wilsonian idealism out of the trauma of World War I. Following...
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Heidegger and Kant: The question of idealism
Magazine article from: Philosophy Today; 1/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...but also on Kant's transcendental idealism? These are the main questions that I...will proceed by focusing on the motif of idealism, and how it operates between the two...fundamental ontology in Kant's transcendental idealism, and how, on the other hand, some...
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A System of Pragmatic Idealism, vol. 1, Human Knowledge in Idealistic Perspective.
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 6/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...book in a short space. "Idealism," Rescher tells us at...that Rescher's pragmatic idealism has only a little in common with the older idealisms--those of Berkeley...have given us the term 'idealism'. Those classic doctrines...
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THE INFLUENCE OF IDEALISM ON THE APOLOGETICS OF CORNELIUS VAN TIL
Magazine article from: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society; 9/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...identified with the Absolute of philosophical idealism.1 A couple of years earlier he had...interest in philosophy, and in particular idealism, had begun during his undergraduate...seen as directed against philosophical idealism. On the other hand, his interest in...
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Idealism
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion
Idealism Idealism as an ontological or epistemological doctrine holds that reality, or...role of mind ontologically or epistemologically yield various forms of idealism. As an ontological doctrine idealism can hold that reality is basically...
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idealism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
idealism the attitude that places special value...perceived through the senses. In art idealism is the tendency to represent things as...experience is a shadow. In modern times idealism has largely come to refer the source of...
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Absolute Idealism
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Absolute Idealism. ‘Idealism’ is the name sometimes given to philosophical theories...than material or independent of mind. ‘Absolute Idealism’ is distinguished from ‘Subjective Idealism...
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Realism and Idealism
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy
Realism and Idealism Norman A. Graebner Philosophically, realism and idealism comprise opposing approaches to the definition...While the American clash between realism and idealism owes an intellectual debt to antecedent European...
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Democracy and Idealism in an Expanding Nation
Book article from: American Eras
Democracy and Idealism in an Expanding Nation The Press and the Public Good . The role of the newspapers in a democratic society was an important issue...
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