Despite the fact China India and the Arabic world were more advanced then Europe for centuries
Why did modern science develop in europe
Paradigm shifts caused by political turmoil
>>1545833
European Exceptionalism of course.
Why do people here meme about HRE and yet have a hard one for Byzantine Empire?
For all its flaws, Holy Roman Empire was actually the dominant military powerhouse of Europe for a few centuries.
Meanwhile, Bynzantie was a shitty "Empire" that couldn't defend itself neither against arabs nor europeans, it couldnt even take up with italian city states.
>>1543931
This post is a disgrace to the study of history. It clearly has a bias, and treats historical nations as either good or bad, a flawed concept in regards to historical countries.
People like you are who are ruining /his/. You can't seem to understand that history doesn't give a shit what you think. I don't even like the Byzantine Empire. I'm just pissed off that people like you think you can talk about history
>>1543966
I am sorry that I am runing your browsing experience.
But an anonymous imageboard like 4chan is bound to attract a lot of shitposting. I browse /his/ for lighthearted and tongue-in-cheek historical discussions.
There are discussion formats far more suited for the sort of biasless study of history you desire. Maybe you should try /r/AskHistorians?
Quality post OP
Why has the Left rejected the ideas of great anti-colonial thinkers when they are meant to be anti-colonial? Why are they so euro-centric in their ideas? Is it racism?
Is this weak bait? Yes.
Because mao can't into agriculture
>>1541266
No I am really interested. There is no one who calls themselves a Maoist anymore but at one time, China was seen as the path forward for socialist revolution. What happened?
>>1539301
Probably America. You could also draw parallels between both Republics slowly sliding towards a dictatorship
>>1539301
Why are people so autistic about being muh spiritual successor to Rome
>>1539314
inferiority complex
What was the highest point of civilization?
Roman Republic?
Mesopotamia?
Yuan Dynasty?
Other?
>>1546577
THIS IS A BLUE BOARD DELET THIS NOW OR ILL REPORT YUO
>>1546577
Literally right now dense fuck
>>1546577
Is that woman dabbing?
Who were the ancestors of the ancient greeks?
Plato said the Greeks plagiarized their gods from the Egyptians, so it's safe to assume the first Greeks were also black
>>1547688
The native people (Minoan or people related to them in the mainland) who mixed with the invading Indoeuropeans.
>>1547696
Minoans were from Anatolia originally you memer.
Why polytheism was never able to compete with monotheism?
>>1545219
Seems to be doing quite well in India and China
>>1545219
It's not about whether they were poly or mono, it's about the fact that the monotheistic religions eventually created an elaborately formal system and centralised (by comparison) system of leadership, plus it actively converted and evangelised in a way that no traditional cult ever did. The old polytheistic faiths were not religions in the sense that many people think of today, they were cults (the old fashioned meaning of the word).
think about all the gods you had to memorize, just one is a lot easier ayy lmao
Why were Poles so bitterly opposed to Communism?
Was it because they were Catholcucks?
>>1544101
It is associated with Soviet Union, which is seen as another incarnation of the Russia, a.k.a. the Eastern opressor
That's pretty much it.
>>1544114
Even countries that used to like Russia now hate communism thanks to the Warsaw Pact faggotry.
>>1544117
Notice that anti-commie butthurt is the strongest in Ukraine and Poland
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/07/how-archaeologists-found-the-lost-medieval-megacity-of-angkor/
Kind of crazy how a city of a million people could almost disappear like that. Really underlines how big the gaps are in our historical knowledge, even from relatively recent periods.
>Archaeological researcher Piphal Heng, who studies Cambodian settlement history, told Ars that the LiDAR maps peeled back the forest canopy to reveal meticulous grids of highways and low-density neighborhoods of thousands of houses and pools of water. There was "a complex urban grid system that extended outside the walls of Angkor Thom and other large temple complexes such as Angkor Wat, Preah Khan, and Ta Prohm," he said. With the new data, scientists had solid evidence that the city of Angkor sprawled over an area of at least 40 to 50 square km. It was home to almost a million people. The scattered, moated complexes like Angkor Wat and Angkor Thom were merely the most enduring features of what we now know was the biggest city on Earth during the 12th and 13th centuries.
I guess to get replies I should say something like WHITE PEOPLE BTFO AGAIN, TOP KEK.
>>1539788
Indeed.
Kind of crazy is also the fact that we are trying to colonize other planets when we didn't even map ours completely
>>1539917
Space colonization is exclusively a White people thing.
Are the Personality Types as described by the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator okay for discussion on this board?
>>1548353
I think it belongs here actually, since it's talking about a very "humanities" related discussion and not some creepy/weird thing.
>>1548379
Depends on what you mean by humanities. It's a silly personality test designed on flawed assumptions with very little validity. The only people who take it seriously are psych freshmen and upper management wannabes.
ITT: Philosophers who you think should be more well-known (at least, on /his/),
and a related work you'd recommend to other Anons.
Essentially, just give resources to each other.
i) Heraclitus,
Fragments, http://www.classicpersuasion.org/pw/heraclitus/herpate.htm
ii) A. N. Whitehead
Process and Reality, http://www.univpgri-palembang.ac.id/perpus-fkip/Perpustakaan/Filsafat/Epistemologi/Whithead/Process%20and%20Reality%20-%20An%20Essay%20in%20Cosmology.pdf
iii) Maurice Blondel
L'Action (if you can read French), http://classiques.uqac.ca/classiques/blondel_maurice/action/blondel_action_1893.pdf
iv) Meister Eckhart
Sermons, http://christianmystics.com/Ebooks/Meister_Eckhart_Sermons/eckhart.pdf
v) Saul Kripke
Naming and Necessity, http://www.class.uh.edu/phil/garson/NamingandNecessity.pdf
vi) W. V. O. Quine
Two Dogmas of Empiricism, https://jonathankvanvig.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/quine-two-dogmas-of-empiricism2.pdf
Pic related
>>1548333
Everyone knows about Heraclitus.
Kripke and Quine are very famous (Kripke being a living genius) but no one knows about them here because most of the people reading philosophy around here are from /lit/, and /lit/ mostly reads the Continentals, likely because Continental philosophy is much closer to literature than Analytic philosophy.
I never see Kierkegaard discussed anymore.
what makes modern philosophy valuable ?
is it in any science beneficial to our scientific/cultural progress ?
or is it at least indirectly meaningful because it provides good mental exercise ?
is the common accusation of it being meaningless blabber even answerable ?
>>1547947
sense not science *
Good philosophy is engaging, life-affirming, and profound.
If you want to understand where political ideologies come from it's pretty important to learn the 'cannon' of western philosophy.
Anyone on /his/ believe in Deism ?
No, deism was blown out of the water by quantum mechanics
https://youtu.be/ubjGZ5UVsQM
Nope. Pantheist here.
I feel like most modern spiritual movements are pantheistic in nature.
Every country should return to its pagan faith so they can be more pantheistic and worship God though appreciation of life and creation in all :)
>>1548355
pretty much this
there is far too much similarity in religions (in terms of their morals and myths) for me to believe simply one is right and every single other faith is and always has been wrong
Just love and peace maaaaaannn
>literally all of their best works of art were stolen from other countries
MOST SERENE
>>1547841
>>literally all of their best works of art were stolen from other countries
Another 3rd Reich thread
>>1547841
Anybody have a historical fantasy were Venice is just burned to the ground and annihilated?
Something like being besieged in the 16-17 century and just damaged to such an extent that it would latter just be small Hapsburg port inhabited by some Swabian settlers called Venedig.
I just hate them for their arrogance throughout the centuries and for sacking Constantinople.
>>1548542
Seeing photo of bombed out cities makes me think of the same thing happening to other major cities.
Something about the annihilation of priceless artwork is so lurid.
When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not.
Yeah thanks I feel very reassured now!
It is actually rather reassuring.
>>1547837
Is life really a thing, though? I mean, we are dying all the time without noticing it, but since we're so unstable and chemically active, we perceive shit, react to shit around us, we eat shit to rebuild our dying bodies, etc.
Life seems to be like what happens if you jump in a pool. Lots of noise and splashes in the first second, but very quickly it all calms down to flat water, and it was water all along.
>>1547848
Please explain me how. This world is full of people who wish they wouldn't exist and I can't understand how this is possible. I believe the worst unthinkable hell is still an infinitely better condition than non-existance, and with infinite time you could even train yourself to like it.