Of an evening, officers of the African Service might peruse a new work of history or philosophy: an eerie precursor of the Nazi officers who relaxed to the sound of Beethoven after a day in the gas chambers.
The first five installments of the series are something of an art-history and philosophy course.
Ibn Khaldun wrote his penetrating works on the philosophy of history some 700 years after Karbala.
Stanley Fish, a literary theorist, has suggested that the entire history of Western thought could be written as a history of the debate between Socrates and the sophists, namely that between philosophy and rhetoric.
Their commentary may have cultural force in the mainstream media, but it often lacks the sedimentary depth accrued by serious trench work in the history of ideas, science and technology, or philosophy.
The sorts of cultural niches that this channel would occupy the arts, sciences, history and philosophy are increasingly inhabited by small commercial channels, such as Artsworld or The History Channel.
My many initiatives and collaborations encompass innovative educational outreach approaches to art and zoological history, ecological anthropology and aesthetics, the history of ideas, exploration, environmental psychology, comparative literature, philosophy and ethics, global biodiversity field research, systematics, deep demography and animal rights.
He likes companies that have a lengthy history of steady earnings growth, and, in most cases, the model I base on his philosophy requires companies to have posted increasing earnings per share each year for the past ten years.
According to Mr Shamdasani, an eminent historian of psychology and psychiatry at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London, these included medical psychology, philology, anthropology, history, philosophy, theology and biology.
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