A visually cheesey video (but surprisingly informative) of the businessman turned Socialist Rober Owen. (Fans of the "Hof" be forewarned!)
A history-project documentary on Marx (updated with a funky-rocky soundtrack), with some salient quotations.
The unofficial "anthem" of international Socialism--The Internationale.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Newton's Less "Scientific" Side
Isaac Newton--the formulator of the great Universal Theory of Gravitation--became in the next century a hero of the Enlightenment...a paragon of reason and rationalism. These brief video clips discuss instead that Newton's infatuation with alchemy and heretical sects makes a much more complex (and human) person.
John Locke
Among Locke's many contributions to Enlightenment thinking, two of his most important were the "Essay Concerning Human Understanding" and "Treatises on Civil Government."
Galileo's Telescope
Although not the inventor of the telescope, Galileo was one of the first professional astronomers to turn the instrument on the heavens. His observation of the mountains of the moon, sunspots, and the phases of Venus, among many others, revealed that Aristotle, Ptolemy, and the other ancient "masters" had missed a great deal about Creation.
Copernicus and the Heliocentric Solar System
The heliocentric (or "sun centered") conceptualization of the Solar System by Copernicus moved humans from the center of Creation to the "third rock from the Sun."
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