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www.thoughtco.com
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| | | | | Astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt's discoveries led to the discovery of the expanding universe and distances between objects in the cosmos. | |
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theimaginativeconservative.org
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| | | | | By and large the educated elites in the Western world today are without religious belief and often animated by a "culture of repudiation," keen to banish old ideas of the sacred from public life and to remake the institutions and structures of civil society so as to reflect their own liberated lifestyle. (essay by Sir Roger Scruton) | |
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www.palladiummag.com
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| | | | | [AI summary] This article explores the complex and evolving role of Confucianism in contemporary China and its historical parallels with Japan's pre-WWII Confucian nationalism. It highlights the tensions between liberal and authoritarian interpretations of Confucianism, the influence of Japanese Confucianism on Chinese intellectuals, and the challenges faced by liberal Confucians in the face of rising authoritarianism. The piece also touches on the potential for Confucianism to be reformed to align with modern democratic values and the importance of a progressive reconstruction of Confucianism to counter authoritarian trends. | |
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talesoftimesforgotten.com
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| | | Today, most Jews, Christians, and Muslims simply call their god "God," but it is fairly common knowledge that the texts of the Hebrew Bible refer to the God of Israel by his proper name, which, in Hebrew, is written as four letters: ???? (YHWH), known as the tetragrammaton. At the time when the texts of ... Continue reading "Scholars Have Discovered How to Pronounce the True Name of God" | ||
