Saturday, June 7, 2008

SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF REALITY



Art, literature, history, music, philosophy, and science of what was then still usually called the Renaissance. Renaissance means, time of the great revival of art, literature, and learning in Europe beginning in the 14th century and extending to the 17th century, marking the transition from the medieval to the modern world.

He was Italian essayist, dramatist, historian, sketch writer, biographer, dialogist, writer of novellas, and poet. Nicola was born 3May of 1469, in Florence in Italy. Nicola Studied Latin under various tutors. He appointed to the second chancery of the republic, beginning in 1498; Ten of Liberty and Peace (government agency), chancellor and secretary; removed from office, jailed, and tortured by the Medici family when Spanish forces invaded Italy in 1512; appointed official historian of Florence, 1520.

He died of illness; June 21, 1527, in Florence in Italy.
Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke was one of the foremost political thinkers of 18th century. He was born in Dublin 12 January of 1729. His Vindication of Natural Society was published in 1756.From 1761 to 1783 he was back in Dublin as private secretary to the Marquis of Rockingham, at that time premier, and entered Parliament for the pocket borough of Wend over. In 1782, the best of Burke's writings and speeches belong to this period. An observation on the Present State of the Nation (1769) was a reply to George Grenville. Burke had vast knowledge of political affairs, a glowing imagination, passionate. Burke died July 9 in 1797, and was buried in a little church at Beaconsfield.

Doctrinaire means traditional and the term "radical" means its original signification and "ism" or creature that ought to be put out of the way by any.
A priori means that it exists in a given way independent of human perception of item short. A priori, that is, form these necessities of the mind or forms of thinking, which, though first revealed to us by experience, must yet have preexisted in order to make experience possible. --Coleridge. Applied to knowledge and conceptions assumed, in order to make experience rational or possible.

Reference: Oxford Dictionary, Historyguide.com & self.

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