Medieval Futures: Attitudes to the Future in the Middle Ages

Russia has always been a country with large Islamic population. From the Middle Ages the dialogue between Christians and Muslims has always been an integral part of the Russian culture. The article highlights the stages of the Christian-Muslim dialogue in Russia. From the point of view of its authors, this dialogue became fully developed by the middle of 19th century. In its subsequent development it has already passed the three main stages, which are labelled as the “tsarist”, the “Soviet” and the “early post-Soviet”. According to the authors the present situation can be described as the “late post-Soviet” stage. The article comprises a description and definition of this stage as well as a prognosis of its development in the future.

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Paideia of “Freedom as a Truth” and Paideia of “Truth as a Freedom”

The Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy ◽

10.5840/wcp20-paideia19985126 ◽

1998 ◽

pp. 129-136

Author(s):

Mark V. Zhelnov

Keyword(s):

Middle Ages ◽

The Future ◽

The Middle Ages

This paper traces the development of the idea of Paideia as 'freedom as a truth' in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance to the idea of Paideia as 'truth as a freedom' that characterizes the present and is directed toward the future. It comments on the ideas of Schelling and Heidegger which have contributed toward this transformation.

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The Causes of the Great War

American Political Science Review ◽

10.2307/1945759 ◽

1915 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 16-35 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Edward Raymond Turner

Keyword(s):

Middle Ages ◽

Great War ◽

Half Century ◽

The People ◽

The Future ◽

History Of ◽

Military Strength ◽

The Great War ◽

The Middle Ages

In 1806 Prussia engaged in war with Napoleon. The swiftest of his triumphs followed. In two months the Prussians had surrendered their fortresses, and seen annihilated the greatness which Europe had failed to crush in the time of Frederick the Great. A period of humiliation followed, and for some years the people lived under the conqueror's yoke.Deliverance came when Napoleon, stretching too far his power, and arousing the spirit of peoples, was defeated by Europe in arms. The liberation which alone Prussia could not have accomplished, was yet wrought partly by herself, for deliverance was preceded by regeneration in which her military system was fundamentally reformed. But it may be that what remained after all as the principal heritage from these years was the abiding sense that Prussia had suffered from being weak, and that only through military strength could there be safety in the future.The expansion and greatness of Prussia left unfulfilled the old idea of a united Germany. Through the middle ages and down to this time Germany had remained disunited, and weak and despised because of it. The smallest states had now disappeared, but still there were larger ones, grouped under Austria in vague and shadowy empire. And the history of Germany in the half century which followed the downfall of Napoleon is a record of yearning and striving on the part of people filled with distant memories, and noble aspiration after that strength and union which had come to their neighbors and yet been denied to themselves.

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Sustained UK marine observations. Where have we been? Where are we now? Where are we going?

Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences ◽

10.1098/rsta.2013.0332 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 372 (2025) ◽

pp. 20130332 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Nicholas J. P. Owens

Keyword(s):

Middle Ages ◽

Marine Environment ◽

Marine Science ◽

The Enlightenment ◽

Future Needs ◽

The Future ◽

The Status ◽

Modern Era ◽

The Middle Ages ◽

Observation Networks

This introduction traces the earliest interaction of ancient humans with their marine environment, through marine explorations in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, to the development of early marine science in the Enlightenment. This sets the scene for how marine observations developed in the modern era and explains the status of today's marine observation networks. The paper concludes with an assessment of the future needs and constraints of sustained marine observation networks and suggests the lessons from a long history might be the key to the future.

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