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 […]
Stages of human history in less than 6,000 words (mainly for teens and adults who want a short summary of history)
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 […]
Christopher Pyne is my name
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 […]
The Middle Age Philosophers
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 […]
Ancient Greece- Precursors to modern philosophy and science
Summary: The Ancient Greeks set out most of the questions that have been of interest to philosophers as well as many questions addressed by modern science. The Pre-Socratic Greeks The Ancient Greeks set out most of the questions that have been of interest to philosophers as well as many questions addressed by modern […]