As I entered the payphone booth the phone rang. While answering the phone I was beamed through the space time continuum to some third or even fourth dimension. When I exited the booth I found myself in a classical room filled with early philosophers. Among these were Anaximander, Heraclitus, Anaxagoras, Parmenides, and even Socrates. I then proceeded to enter their discussions. Discussions about reality and how we, as humans, perceive life and its characteristics.
Anaximander: The apeiron cannot be one and simple Thales, my mentor, is incorrect as the infinite cannot be water. Of the infinite, there is no beginning, but this seems to be the beginning of the rest, and to contain all things and steer all things, as all declare who do not fashion other causes aside from the infinite and this is divine. For it is deathless and indestructible. Thus the arche is the apeiron.
Nick: So the elements are what make up everything. You"re telling me that fire is to water as air is to earth. Thus the changing seasons keep us in cyclical order and without one of these four elements we would not exist. .
Anaximander: Yes, if one element is to destroy its opposite the cosmos will become chaos.
Nick: That would be the end of man kind, and even the universe. Oh no!! Could that really happen?.
Anaxagoras: No Anaximander, nothing is controlled by the elements. The mind is the key to our beginnings. Still growing, the mind is our driving force behind the separation of all things. Now governing the ways in which many things are to be. Then all things were together, unlimited in both amount and smallness. For even the small was unlimited. Everything is a product of one whole. For air dominates, being unlimited and largest in proportion. .
Nick: So the mind is the key to our beginning.
Anaxagoras: Yes.
Parmenides: A beginning must have no beginning. Thus there can be no beginning. Being is not generated, and imperishable.
The term renaissance means "rebirth". The European Renaissance was a period in history of renewed interest in the arts. The Renaissance began in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In this Renaissance Europe had an increase in politics, urban commercial economy, education, art, and music. ... New forms of painting, art, and sculpture arose during the Renaissance. ...
This late medieval cultural movement in European civilization brought renewed interest in classical learning and values. The Renaissance began in Italy during the late 13th century and widely spread throughout Europe, finally ending in the 17th century. ... These tales formed the basis of many European literary works, such as Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet. ... Dramatic political changes occurred in Europe during the Renaissance. ... The Renaissance was a time that created a whole new culture. ...
History "The Renaissance" The renaissance was a period of time during the 1300's when Italy changed. The Renaissance spread throughout Western Europe, reaching its height in the 1500's. ... Renaissance artist gained work by attracting the support of a rich patron-a noble, a king, of even a pope. ... Renaissance art explored the physical world and the individual's role in it. ... As the plague started to die out, the rest of Europe started to prosper again, and the renaissance began spread into northern Europe. ...
The Renaissance overlapped a period in European history called the Middle Ages. ... During the Renaissance many European scholars and artists studied the art and way of learning of Ancient Greece and Rome. ... The fact that the cities Italy, so strategically located between the Levant and Western Europe, were the oldest and wealthiest of the towns and helps to account for the leadership of Italy in the Renaissance. ... Even though the church had periods of weakness, it went hand and hand with extraordinary popular fervor in every part of Europe. ... The Renaissance was clearly a great peri...
The Renaissance/Early Modern Period is distinguished from other periods in European history almost entirely in intellectual or cultural terms. ... European historians overwhelmingly tend to place Europe's major break with its medieval and classical past with the discovery of America and the Reformation. ... Of all the practices of Renaissance Europe, nothing is used to distinguish the Renaissance from the Middle Ages more than humanism as both a program and a philosophy. ... In pursuing this program the argument goes that the humanists literally created the European Renaissance and ...
The Renaissance The Renaissance was a new age when people became less concerned with the mysteries of heaven and more interested in the things around them. ... One thing we can learn from the Renaissance age is learn how the Renaissance began and flourished in the Italian city-states. ... The scholars in the western part of Europe developed an interest in writings of the ancient Greeks and Romans. ... The second thing we can learn from the Renaissance is how France was influenced by the Italian Renaissance. ... The third and last thing I learned from the Renaissance age was how the Englis...
The Renaissance was a rebirth of culture, to put it simply. ... At the beginning of the Renaissance, Italy was divided into some 250 self governing city-states, ranging from small towns of 2,000 individuals to some of the largest cities in Europe during that time, such as Florence, Milan, and Venice which all had about 100,000 citizens each. ... Despite the possible downfalls that the republic had on Venice, they had much power throughout Europe. ... Prior to Renaissance thinking Medieval Europe considered life to be sinful - that people should only be concerned about their duty to God and the...
The Renaissance was a time when humanity began to rise from the intellectual decline of the Middle Ages. ... During this Renaissance, or "Rebirth," there were many historical, theoretical and artistic issues that informed and shaped the aesthetic attitudes in Italian and Northern European art. ... The technical advancements made in the Renaissance toward aesthetics were numerous also. ... To the Renaissance artist this meant you were creating something divine, and thus, were almost God-like. ... Grazia however, did not have a unified meaning to the artists of the High Renaissance. ...
The Artistic Renaissance The early Renaissance artists began their careers as apprentices to masters in craft guilds. ... Renaissance artists considered the imitation of nature their primary goal. ... His statue of David, is the first known life-size freestanding bronze nude in European art since antiquity. ... The final stage to Renaissance art, which flourished between 1480 and 1520, is called the High Renaissance. The shift of High Renaissance was marked by the increasing importance of Rome as a new cultural center of the Italian Renaissance. ...
The Renaissance was born around the 1300s when Europe experienced an explosion of creativity, a rebirth of art and learning. ... Other places in Europe were busy fighting wars, the Hundred Years" War, in particular. However, Italy had three very important advantages that allowed the Renaissance to initiate: growth of urban centers, merchants, and a classical heritage. ... It changed life in Europe and spread education and ideas. ... Clearly, this revolutionary printing press from the northern Renaissance has become the exact antithesis of the beginning of the previous uneducated Middle Ages....
