why was it called the Divine Comedy?
it wasn't very funny
>>428094
Because it had a happy ending
Comedy in that sense is a story with a happy or at least okay ending.
>>428094
Ye olde words, anon.
Once upon a time, fiction was divided into comedy and tragedy, with extremely broad definitions of both terms that bore little resemblance to the modern usage.
Scientists always fall for the logical positivism meme. And they don't even realize it's a philosophical position with philosophical justifications....
They're pretty dumb to be honest. They have massive tunnel vision and because of that they don't realize their epistemic assumptions and treat the scientific methodology as axiomatic, they think it's common sense. And when someone approaches a problem with a different epistemological framework they think it's bullshit...
They're simply very bad at thinking outside of a scientific framework. Thoughts?
-feyerabend
I very much agree. Scientists really need to stick to science. Every time Stephen Hawking talks about something not science, especially philosophy, I cringe. Now I am sure there are some scientists who are capable of philosophical study and thought, but the mainstream ones are wholly unfit for it. These scientists believe we can enter a "post-philosophical age", which in itself is a philosophy. You can't stop doing philosophy because it's meta-everything.
>>427415
>and treat the scientific methodology as axiomatic
like every single epistemological framework ever.
>And when someone approaches a problem with a different epistemological framework they think it's bullshit
Thats their fucking job: to do science. They're not gonna care about other epistemological frameworks. They admit scientific methodology as their ideal and work from there.
Your issue isnt with scientists (even though I feel from your text and the pic you posted, its a very specific group of scientists...) but with a society that more and more gives ultimate credence to science as the provider of knowledge.
howdy, germanic servants
you leave the Saxons alone you bully.
>>427395
Franks are Germanic m8.
Hello, friend. I couldn't help but notice that barbarian tribes hailing from Asian and Afro-Arab territories have ruined our European masters.
http://www.bostonstandard.co.uk/news/local/startling-new-report-on-oak-island-could-rewrite-history-of-the-americas-1-7118097
What are your thoughts on this, /his/? This is pretty close to where I live.
TL;DR Roman artifacts and a Roman ship greatly preceding Christopher Columbus have been discovered on the East Coast, in Nova Scotia.
Other anons, how true is this article?
Personally, I'm not surprised that loners from a superpower traveled far and found north America.
The real trick wouldn't have been getting to America.
It would have been getting back.
Given how much maritime trade there was in classical antiquity, it doesn't surprise me that at least one ship would fuck up so badly they'd inadvertently conquer the Atlantic. But without triangular sails, booms, or any knowledge of the prevailing winds, it would be impossible to return to Europe.
>>426818
"Damn it Maximus, now look what you've done."
Has anyone who was not a king or emperor every claimed to be a god or an incarnation of a god, besides Jesus?
Have any of them had a significant following?
>Has anyone claimed to be a god or an incarnation of a god
Thousands
>>426117
I'm sure thousands of crazy people have. But in any other significant religion has someone claimed to be a god?
WE WUZ GODS AND SHIT
Why did the Roman Republic fail to become the world's first industrialized country?
>>423717
because the world isn't fucking sid meir's Civilization where you can just research techs in order.
>>423726
wood be cool though...
>>423717
Roman infrastructure is overhyped.
Infrastructure gives rise to industrialization.
What was Soviet pop culture like? Is it possible for pop culture to thrive in a non-capitalist country?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwFC626lRT4
You'll be surprised then. Their pop culture wasn't really that much different. Just not commercialised.
I know that in Poland they also developed music not unlike how it was in the west at the same time.
lel
It was pretty vibrant, especially in the 80s
Was he a racist white-supremacist who ruthlessly suppressed the black African minority in Rhodesia, or was he a misunderstood genuinely good character who did hat he could for the country to succeed?
Neither, he was just doing his duty.
Ian Smith dared Mugabe to walk through downtown Salisbury with him in the afternoon, with no security.
Mugabe quickly declined, as he knew only Ian Smith would walk back alive, as Mugabe would be torn to bits by the local population.
South Rhodesia never had anything like moral high ground so the second option is impossible
>>412092
both.
suppressing the black population is a good first step in making your country successful. you can see what happens when you don't suppress them.
Have any examples of awful artworks been preserved from the renaissance? I mean, if the modern day analogue of Raphael is, say, Stanley Kubrick, who was the renaissance analogue of Michael Bay?
Bay makes good movies you fag
>>431401
El Greco would be Tim Burton
>>431459
But the Greco was great
There seems to be an innate human desire to do exceptional things. Where does this desire come from?
How can you say that? For some people there is that desire, but most people are perfectly fine with mediocrity.
>>431379
Well if you fucked a qt 3.14 every day you would have the desire to do literally anything you want. sky is the limit
>>431379
There's probably millions of different explanations for ambition, I guess the easy explanation is evolutionary.
>ambitious man hunts with the most enthusiasm, gets the most meat/outruns the whatever
>gets the most food/fucks the most women/outruns the tiger the best
>passes on genes
And a million other reasons.
Am i missing out much?
>>430772
Yes
>>430772
No.
>>430772
I don't know.
Has anyone here even read Herodotus? It can't be believed. Any of it.
1. Book 3.102
>Here, in this desert, there live amid the sand great ants, in size somewhat less than dogs, but bigger than foxes. The Persian king has a number of them, which have been caught by the hunters in the land whereof we are speaking. Those ants make their dwellings under ground, and like the Greek ants, which they very much resemble in shape, throw up sand heaps as they burrow. Now the sand which they throw up is full of gold. The Indians, when they go into the desert to collect this sand, take three camels and harness them together, a female in the middle and a male on either side, in a leading rein. The rider sits on the female, and they are particular to choose for the purpose one that has but just dropped her young; for their female camels can run as fast as horses, while they bear burthens very much better.
Is it apropos that the "Father of History" seemed to just reiterate stupid stories he heard from a guy who knew a guy who knew a guy that knew the wife's cousin of some other guy who says that this thing happened?
The 300 at Hellespont is taken for true history; nothing could be more ridiculous. Thinking people can not believe it.
>>430456
>Is it apropos that the "Father of History" seemed to just reiterate stupid stories he heard from a guy who knew a guy who knew a guy that knew the wife's cousin of some other guy who says that this thing happened?
But anon, Ibn Khaldun railed against exactly that
>>430472
Go on.
>>430483
Why are common law legal systems so retarded?
I'm looking at South Carolina crimes and offenses, and chapter 3 (Offenses Against The Person) has 82 (EIGHTY-TWO) pages in a fucking Word document, font size 11.
45,000 thousand fucking words. One chapter.
In comparison, from where I come from, entire Criminal Code has 155 pages.
>>430090
>flexibility and judicial balancing of power against the rest of the state is bad because someone might have to read more.
Were your mother and father brother and sister?
Pleb
>>430096
I didn't even mention shit like precedents (tens of thousands of precedents).
ONE CHAPTER OF YOUR CRIMINAL CODE OF ONE FEDERAL ENTITY HAS 45000 WORDS
Did American jurists ever hear about concept of legal brevity?
>Everything that we know and love is reduceable to an absurd act of chemicals, and there is therefore no intrinsic value in anything
Debate me
DUPLICATE THREAD
>>429824
>>429854
That thread is shitty. OP talks about being an organic computer- SUDDENLY, we should no longer believe in the esoteric.
This is a less schizophrenic thread.
Do number exist in nature?
>>429858
The golden ratio only approximates those shapes, though.
>>429858
Radiation of particles approximates logarithmic decay, which points to the number e
