EXCITING THINGS
YOU CAN DO
The
Macroknow Library includes a network
of links that connect and relate the ideas of some of
the greatest thinkers that ever lived.
Here are a few exciting
things you can do with this network of links (please click on the
hyperlinks below for detailed sources),
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You can discover that the Hebrew Decalog (Ten
Commandments) is anticipated in ancient Egyptian spells in the
Book of the Dead (Chapter 125, The Judgment of the Dead) -
The
Declaration to the Forty-two Gods.
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You can
discover that Descartes'
"I
think, therefore I am,"
is descended from St. Augustine's "if
I am deceived, I am."
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You can compare Milton
Friedman's
definition of
capitalism
with Joseph
Schumpeter's and with Edward
Ayoub's.
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You can trace
the evolution of the concept of
time from St.
Augustine (there is no past and no future; there is only
the present), to Georg
W.F. Hegel
(the essential "now"), to Friedrich
Nietzsche
(gateway "Moment"; eternal return of the same), to Martin
Heidegger (the past as "no-longer-now"; the future as
"not-yet-now"), to
John Zerzan
(time as "a key manifestation
of the estrangement and
humiliation that characterize modern existence").
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You can learn
why
usury
has been hated since time immemorial - from Plato,
Aristotle, The
Old Testament, The
New Testament, The
Koran, St.
Thomas Aquinas, and
Edward Ayoub.
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You can learn the difference between
the
"bad man"
and the
"evil man"
from John Rawls.
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You can contrast
Immanuel
Kant's
"Act as if the maxim of
your action were to become through your will a universal law of
nature"
with George
Soros'
"Everybody
must look out for his or her own interests and moral
scruples can become an encumbrance in a dog-eat-dog world."
And you can
choose what books to include in your own personal library.
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