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Charlemagne and the Carolingian Renaissance

A lecture giving a good overview of Charlemagne's reign and achievements. Only problem is it only touches on important subjects but does provide a base for further studying.

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Lecture 16: The Romantic Era

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The Laws of the Twelve Tables, c.450 B.C.

or arbiter legally appointed who has been found guilty of receiving a bribe for giving a decision. 5. Treason: he who shall have roused up a public enemy or handed over a citizen to a publi

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Emily Avery

We begin to build that grandiose brick
wall that will prevent us from getting anything important out of history.
The study of history can be fun
why study history in the first place?
we study
history so that we won't repeat the mistakes of the past.
school of historical
interpretation
If we have learned from
the past then over the centuries we ought to have
accumulated so much knowledge that things like war,
poverty, injustice and immorality ought not to exist.
lack of understanding of history,
i.e. the actual historical context in which these writers
conceived and executed their theoretical work, made my
understanding of their philosophy one-sided.
Ideas have a history.
They undergo a process of
development. They change, are modified, are distributed
or are forgotten only to reappear years, decades or
perhaps even centuries later.
Well, for me, it's a Socratic issue. Socrates was a man
of knowledge but not that much knowledge. As a freshman
in high school you probably knew more than Socrates. But,
Socrates was a wise man. He had wisdom because he knew
only one thing: that he knew nothing. His
"job," so to speak, was to question the
Athenian youth. It was not enough to know something. You
had to know why you knew it. And this, of course, brought
him to the greatest question of all: what is knowledge?
What can we know? Well, for Socrates, again, his
knowledge consisted in the realization that he knew
nothing. This Socratic irony leaves us rather high and
dry but I think there is a greater issue at stake here.
"Know thyself."
This classical pedagogical method is
called the Socratic method.
Steven Kreis
Can you learn history without the
Socratic dialogue as your guide? Yes, it can be done. All
I am trying to suggest here is that your experience with
history will be a much richer one if you keep in mind
that history means self-knowledge and as students, that
should be one of the most important things to you.