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10. A Chinese Sage Creates a Guide for Personal Conduct
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A Chinese Sage Creates a Guide for Personal Conduct
"Forget injuries; never forget kindness." " What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small seeks is in others." "Have no friends not equal to yourself." So spoke the Chinese philosopher K'ung-Tze better known as Confucius (551-478 B.C.)
Confucius believed that all people live within limits established heaven, which for him meant both a supreme being and the fixed cycles of nature. All the same they are resonsible for their actions and how they treat others- and heaven depends upon them to carry out its good intentions. His rues for the virtuous life were simple: to love others , to honor ones parent, to do things because they are right and not merely to win advantages. He put heavy emphasis on rituals and on setting a good example as a means to ensure the spread of righteousness.
A Chinese Sage Creates a Guide for Personal Conduct
"Forget injuries; never forget kindness." " What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small seeks is in others." "Have no friends not equal to yourself." So spoke the Chinese philosopher K'ung-Tze better known as Confucius (551-478 B.C.)
Confucius believed that all people live within limits established heaven, which for him meant both a supreme being and the fixed cycles of nature. All the same they are resonsible for their actions and how they treat others- and heaven depends upon them to carry out its good intentions. His rues for the virtuous life were simple: to love others , to honor ones parent, to do things because they are right and not merely to win advantages. He put heavy emphasis on rituals and on setting a good example as a means to ensure the spread of righteousness.
9. Enlightened Asia Seeker Founds an Enduring Philosophy
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Enlightened Asia Seeker Founds an Enduring Philosophy
In the beginning it was said that Buddha found enlightenment beneath the bod-hi tree, near what is now Nepal. Siddhartha Gautama was a pampered prince born around 563 B.C. he frustarted his father who tryed to sheild him from the sight of suffering and death.
Siddhartha Gautama became a wondering holy man who eventually founded the 4 Noble Truths which today brings all Buddhists together.
"Most of that suffering, including fear of death can be traced to "desire", the minds habit of seeing err-thing through the prism of the self and its well being. Yet this craving can be transcended leading to peace and eventully Nirvana. The means to reach Nirvana lies in the Eight fold Path of proper views, resolve, speech, action, livlihood, effort, mindfulness, and concentration.
Enlightened Asia Seeker Founds an Enduring Philosophy
In the beginning it was said that Buddha found enlightenment beneath the bod-hi tree, near what is now Nepal. Siddhartha Gautama was a pampered prince born around 563 B.C. he frustarted his father who tryed to sheild him from the sight of suffering and death.
Siddhartha Gautama became a wondering holy man who eventually founded the 4 Noble Truths which today brings all Buddhists together.
"Most of that suffering, including fear of death can be traced to "desire", the minds habit of seeing err-thing through the prism of the self and its well being. Yet this craving can be transcended leading to peace and eventully Nirvana. The means to reach Nirvana lies in the Eight fold Path of proper views, resolve, speech, action, livlihood, effort, mindfulness, and concentration.
8. People Learn to Rule Themselves
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People Learn to Rule Themselves
Pretty much everywhere in the ancient time people were ruled by emperors, kings, and pharaohs The exception was the Greece where many of the city states adopted a form of government called "demokratia" meaning demos- the people & Kratis- rule.
Around the 16th century B.C. the Athenians established a system in which citizens were chosen to fill slots in government to debate in the Assembly. Of course women, slaves and even men under 20 were not allowed to be chosen.
The Romans later adapted the Greek forms to create a republic, in which citizens voted for senators, consuls, and tribunes. But with the fall of Rome, representative government already weakened by the Romes transition from republic to empire, "demokratia" went into a long retreat.
The American and French revolutions would prove to be the turning point. Today most of the world's people live under an elected government, however imperfect it is.
People Learn to Rule Themselves
Pretty much everywhere in the ancient time people were ruled by emperors, kings, and pharaohs The exception was the Greece where many of the city states adopted a form of government called "demokratia" meaning demos- the people & Kratis- rule.
Around the 16th century B.C. the Athenians established a system in which citizens were chosen to fill slots in government to debate in the Assembly. Of course women, slaves and even men under 20 were not allowed to be chosen.
The Romans later adapted the Greek forms to create a republic, in which citizens voted for senators, consuls, and tribunes. But with the fall of Rome, representative government already weakened by the Romes transition from republic to empire, "demokratia" went into a long retreat.
The American and French revolutions would prove to be the turning point. Today most of the world's people live under an elected government, however imperfect it is.
7. The Week Gets Seven Days
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The Week Gets Seven Days
Could you imagine having a 10 week? Once upon a time both the ancient Egyptions and Chinese did. The 7 day week originated with ancient Babylon. They worshiped the sun and moon as gods, they also studyed the stars and noticed that most of them stayed in place execpt for 5 that moved back and fourth throughout the year. They identified the moving stars (Planets) with Gods and Godesses and they gave to each of the 7 days of the week the names of one of the seven deities connected to the sun, the moon, and the 5 moving starts (Planets).
The Week Gets Seven Days
Could you imagine having a 10 week? Once upon a time both the ancient Egyptions and Chinese did. The 7 day week originated with ancient Babylon. They worshiped the sun and moon as gods, they also studyed the stars and noticed that most of them stayed in place execpt for 5 that moved back and fourth throughout the year. They identified the moving stars (Planets) with Gods and Godesses and they gave to each of the 7 days of the week the names of one of the seven deities connected to the sun, the moon, and the 5 moving starts (Planets).
6. The Alphabet Emerges
The Alphabet Emerges
"The Chinese began using pictograms, pictures standing for words, around 5000 B.C. Egypt was another home of early writing; its hieroglyphs were a combination of characters and pictograms. The oldest known date from 3400 to about 3200 B.C.
Some time around 1000 B.C. the Phoenicians came in contact with the ancient Greeks, who absored and adapted the Phoenician alphabet and gave it a name, drawn from the 1st 2 letters of the Greek alphabet alpha and beta. The Greeks passed it in to the Etruscans, who handed it on the Romans, Who delivered it to the rest of us."
"The Chinese began using pictograms, pictures standing for words, around 5000 B.C. Egypt was another home of early writing; its hieroglyphs were a combination of characters and pictograms. The oldest known date from 3400 to about 3200 B.C.
Some time around 1000 B.C. the Phoenicians came in contact with the ancient Greeks, who absored and adapted the Phoenician alphabet and gave it a name, drawn from the 1st 2 letters of the Greek alphabet alpha and beta. The Greeks passed it in to the Etruscans, who handed it on the Romans, Who delivered it to the rest of us."
5. King Hammurabi Lays Down the Law
King Hammurabi Lays Down the Law
Revviled and admired, envied and feared, ancient Babylon the remains of which lie some 50 miles south of Baghdad has for centuries been shrouded in myth. Yet thing could be more real than the magnificent code of Hammurabi stele, a 7ft high column of basalt upon which Babylons king inscribed 282 codified laws and punishments in cuneiform, the Babylonian scripts predate the hieroglyphs. This ancient tablet is one of the earliest known written records of the laws that give order and shape to human society.
Revviled and admired, envied and feared, ancient Babylon the remains of which lie some 50 miles south of Baghdad has for centuries been shrouded in myth. Yet thing could be more real than the magnificent code of Hammurabi stele, a 7ft high column of basalt upon which Babylons king inscribed 282 codified laws and punishments in cuneiform, the Babylonian scripts predate the hieroglyphs. This ancient tablet is one of the earliest known written records of the laws that give order and shape to human society.
4. Mankind Envisions Life After Death
Mankind Envisions Life After Death
"The Great Pyramid of Giza, one of the oldest surviving monumental structures, is a testament to one of humankind's most enduring and compelling Ideas: The Afterlife. Their is virtually no civilization that hasn't developed some notion of life after death. In the absence of of anything that could be called reliable physical evidence, men and women of every era and culture have reached for a picture of life's journey in which the grave is merely an entryway to a new stage, not a final destination.
How ________ Saw the after life....
The Egyptions: ...was a journey with the jackal headed God Anubis, to the souls final judgment The Greeks: .... Imagined an under world imagined by Hades
Both Hinduism & Buddhism: ..... the soul is reborn after death
Christians: ..... As a place place to go Heaven or Hell, all depending on your actions while you where alive.
"The Great Pyramid of Giza, one of the oldest surviving monumental structures, is a testament to one of humankind's most enduring and compelling Ideas: The Afterlife. Their is virtually no civilization that hasn't developed some notion of life after death. In the absence of of anything that could be called reliable physical evidence, men and women of every era and culture have reached for a picture of life's journey in which the grave is merely an entryway to a new stage, not a final destination.
How ________ Saw the after life....
The Egyptions: ...was a journey with the jackal headed God Anubis, to the souls final judgment The Greeks: .... Imagined an under world imagined by Hades
Both Hinduism & Buddhism: ..... the soul is reborn after death
Christians: ..... As a place place to go Heaven or Hell, all depending on your actions while you where alive.
3 The World of Mathematical Form Takes Shape
The World of Mathematical Form Takes Shape
In some weird way we can all thank mother nature for math. Yes it would have came along some other point in time but it all stems from the Nile River in Egypt flood every year and wiping away property line and boundry markers. In soon time the Egyptions learned to estimate the land by dividing them into squares triangles and rectangles thus inventing geometry. The earliest form of math.
"Geometry introduced the idea of ideal forms existing outside the physical world. it opened vistas onto forms and ratios so beautufil they seemed to offer a look into the mind of God."
In some weird way we can all thank mother nature for math. Yes it would have came along some other point in time but it all stems from the Nile River in Egypt flood every year and wiping away property line and boundry markers. In soon time the Egyptions learned to estimate the land by dividing them into squares triangles and rectangles thus inventing geometry. The earliest form of math.
"Geometry introduced the idea of ideal forms existing outside the physical world. it opened vistas onto forms and ratios so beautufil they seemed to offer a look into the mind of God."
2. Multitude of Gods Give Way to one Almighty
Multitude of Gods Give Way to one Almighty
In the society's of the ancient world there were numerous Gods and Goddesses. Sometime in the 14th century B.C. in Egypt Pharaoh Amenhotep IV made a radical attempt to introduce Monotheism belief in the existence of one god or in the oneness of God. His God was was Athen, the life giving disc of the sun. In 1346 B.C. he changed his name and christened hims self Akhenaten (Servant of Athen) He closed all temples and had all scripturs with with the text "Gods, plural" erased, moved to Akhetaten which made the new capital and dedicated it it Athen, the new God!
It fell to the tribes of Israel to become the first people to embrace decisively the worship of a single God. Their commitment to the belief in one God began the the very early arise of the Bible The Old Testament.
In the society's of the ancient world there were numerous Gods and Goddesses. Sometime in the 14th century B.C. in Egypt Pharaoh Amenhotep IV made a radical attempt to introduce Monotheism belief in the existence of one god or in the oneness of God. His God was was Athen, the life giving disc of the sun. In 1346 B.C. he changed his name and christened hims self Akhenaten (Servant of Athen) He closed all temples and had all scripturs with with the text "Gods, plural" erased, moved to Akhetaten which made the new capital and dedicated it it Athen, the new God!
It fell to the tribes of Israel to become the first people to embrace decisively the worship of a single God. Their commitment to the belief in one God began the the very early arise of the Bible The Old Testament.
1. Prehistoric Man Imagines a World Inhabited by Spirits
Prehistoric Man Imagines a World Inhabited by Spirits
"The world is alive" You might say that was the central tenet of the earliest form of religion, one that we generally call "animism." Its a term that was coined in 1871 by pioneering british anthropologist Edward Burntt Tylor. He used it to describe what he concluded was one of the first spiritual intuitions, the belief among prehistoric people that all things, both living and inanimate, are inhabited by spirits."
What he was saying was that everything has a soul, everything with a heart beat and even sticks and stones.
For the primitive they believed that their were ways to please these other souls though rituals.
this worldwide view eventually turned into Polytheism. Even in the modern age we live in today their are still tribes and religions were their is this animistic way of looking at thing; looking at objects with a kind of respect due to the very basic belief that it may have a soul.
"The world is alive" You might say that was the central tenet of the earliest form of religion, one that we generally call "animism." Its a term that was coined in 1871 by pioneering british anthropologist Edward Burntt Tylor. He used it to describe what he concluded was one of the first spiritual intuitions, the belief among prehistoric people that all things, both living and inanimate, are inhabited by spirits."
What he was saying was that everything has a soul, everything with a heart beat and even sticks and stones.
For the primitive they believed that their were ways to please these other souls though rituals.
this worldwide view eventually turned into Polytheism. Even in the modern age we live in today their are still tribes and religions were their is this animistic way of looking at thing; looking at objects with a kind of respect due to the very basic belief that it may have a soul.
"Ideas are funny things. Invisible and weightless, they have no material substance, yet they have the power to change the course of history. Or as the french writer Victor Hugo put it: "One can resist invading armies: one cannot resist an invasion of ideas."
~Time Magazine~
100 Ideas
That Changed The World
"The 100 we (Time Magazine) settled upon stood out to us in part because taken together they demonstrate the many different things an idea can be. Those would include centuries-in-the-making developments like the alphabet and codified law; schools of thought like stoicism and existentialism; cultural watersheds that took place on many fronts, like humanism and romanticism; individual intellectual breakthroughs like thos of Descartes or Darwin; and crucial inventions like photography and computers. And while the ideas under discussion in this book are not the only ones that shaped the course of human affairs, we're confident they rank among the most important."
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