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Essay - Imagery For Intellectual Heritage II

In this blog, there are countless images that are both abstract and realistic. Each image serves the purpose of explaining the context of the Intellectual Heritage II Classwork. Themes are mentioned as Hashtags, as well as quotes from the readings we have done throughout the semester, and original fragments made by myself to represent the context of famously known ancient philosophers and scientists. 

These images were selected to flow through different sections, each related to either Philosophy, Mythology, Science, Nature, or Civilization. The Hashtags are helpful in navigating through time how each image is important in conceptualizing human civilization, how we are connected deeply to nature, the relevance of studying mythology and philosophy, and how science may further contribute to our understanding of the wold and even further the universe. 

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“I told myself the science was too complicated and that the environmentalists were dealing with it.” 

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“A dollop of creme fraiche can mask the channel edge of a wounded chicken breast.”  

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“Nature is not a place to visit, it is home” 

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“A fundamental insight of feminism has been its understanding of power and power relationships.” 

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“Some people are surprised that the Republicans are waging a war on women, or that they voted against equal pay for women. I’m not surprised at all. In some ways, it may be a good thing. They’re defending the patriarchy, which is a wounded beast! And wounded beasts are always dangerous.” - Jane Fonda

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“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” - Galileo Galilei

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“Earth and sky are two superimposed planes of the universe - a floor and a ceiling”

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“man and wife, masculinity and femininity, mind and body, spirit and nature.” 

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“Who would have thought from so basic a beginning that the road to understanding life on earth would lead to our discovery that the whole history is written and duplicated in every one of our cells?” - Charles Darwin

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To understand consciousness

is to know that civilization is complicated

and human development of wisdom is constant. 

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Will justice prevail

under the circumstances of civilization

and human desire

over virtuous belief? 

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Does the ego affect reason? 

Will a man eager for power

destroy the lives of others

to get it? 

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One must find a reason for the nature of things,

to organize their understanding

of the universe. 

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“Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.” - Aristotle

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“Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guildmaster and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, that each time ended, either in the revolutionary reconstitution of society at large or in the common ruin of the contending classes.” - Karl Marx

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“Many forms of government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” - Winston Churchill