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The spiritual testament of Paul Sheer

June 6, 2014 by Peter Holding

Introduction I regret never having met my maternal grandparents. They were secular Austrian Jews who fled Vienna shortly after the Anschluss (Nazi invasion) in 1938. They went from Austria through Czechoslovakia to what was then Palestine and then by boat to Australia via France. My mother, who was just six years old, remembers asking why the family was going to […]

Filed Under: family, history

There is a better way to organise production

June 6, 2014 by Peter Holding

Summary: Mondragon Corporation is a large corporation in Spain’s Basque country. It  is comprised of a network of worker managed co-operatives. It has assets of over $40 billion US and has in excess of 85,000 member employees. The Mondragon model is different to the employee share ownership schemes sometimes promoted in Australia. It is not a […]

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Stages of human history in less than 6,000 words (mainly for teens and adults who want a short summary of history)

May 25, 2014 by Peter Holding

Summary: Six stages of history are hunter gathers, farming societies, city states and empires, middle ages, early modern era and industrial revolution. The stages overlap and each later stage is shorter than the one that preceded it. Stages of history  It is useful to think of the history of human beings as falling into broad […]

Filed Under: for teens, history, philosophy Tagged With: city states and empires, early modern era, farming, Hunter gatherers, industrial revolution, middle ages

Christopher Pyne is my name

May 19, 2014 by Peter Holding

Lyrics Christopher Pyne is my name I come from Adelaide, Might be why I speak like this or I could be Alex Downer remade, In the autumn of two zero one four the razor came out but if you can afford, A nice big fat private school fee Chances are you can end up speaking like me “La la la, la la la, la la la la la, la la la la.” Christopher Pyne is my name I’m […]

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The Middle Age Philosophers

May 16, 2014 by Peter Holding

  The main philosophers of the Middle Ages were religious thinkers; St Augustine (354- 430 CE) and Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274 CE) for Christianity and Averroes ( 1126-1198 CE) for Islam. Augustine was influenced by the thinking of Plato and the teachings of the Neo-Platonist, Plotinus (204–270 CE). He thought that faith and reason could be reconciled […]

Filed Under: for teens, history, philosophy, religion Tagged With: Averroes, natural law, pre-destination, problem of evil, St Augustine, Thomas Aquinas

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