One of those works was Catholic Demonstrations. The work strives to provide a “basis and justification for reconciliation of Protestantism and Catholicism.” 1 While Leibniz was in college, his baccalaureate thesis was De Principio Individui which was partly inspired by Lutheran nomination. This thesis was what sparked Leibniz’s future ideas of Monads. In 1710 Leibniz went on to write Theodicy and Monadology published in 1714. Baruch Spinoza was born in 1632 in Amsterdam; the middle son in a distinguished family in the Portuguese-Jewish community. He was a top pupil in the congregation’s Talmud Torah school and was possibly being taught to someday become a rabbi. Unfortunately, Spinoza never got to go into the upper level curriculum and
instead had to help run the family business. Later in Spinoza’s life, he leaves Judaism behind when he was banned from his community. It was thought he was banned for having different views about God than his faith believed. Two works written by Spinoza that are related to his theological ideas are the Short Treatise on God, Man, and his Well-Being, and Theological-Political Treatise. The Theological-Political Treatise actually caused quite the alarm with one critic calling it “a book forged in hell by the devil himself.”2 Leibniz was one of the philosophers who didn’t let science interfere with his belief in God. Rather, he used science in his life to come up with the existence of God. In researching many of his works and theories, you see that he mentions God quite often and uses God to explain many other works besides his work in theology. One work that does this is the Monadology. In the Monadology, Leibniz uses God to explain Monads and shares the connection god has with his theory of Monads. In his work related to Monads, Leibniz writes:
Galileo was born in Pisa Italy on February 15, 1564. Galileo was the first born child to Vincenzo Galilei and Giulia Ammannati. His family moved to Florence Italy after living in Pisa for ten years. In Florence he received education at the Camaldolese monastery in Vallombrosa. Later on in his life he decided to study medicine at the University of Pisa to study medicine. Wh...
What were the causes of the prison riots in the 1990`s and how effective was the government response?
If something isn’t right, there is a way to fix it. Violence of course is never the answer therefore, non-violent protests were started. Non-Violent protesting had a slow start then it spread around the world when it hit media attention. Non-violent protest also had more effectiveness than violent protests. Non-Violent protests may have taken a while, but the results were successful.
Rodney King a black man who lived in Las Vegas was severely beaten by four white police officers. The officers were brought into court and tried on charges of assault. The officers were acquitted of the assault charges. Immediately protestors took to the streets, to express their angry over the judge’s decision. Protestors found the ruling to be unfair and was fed up with the ill-treatment. The violent protest turned into a riot. A lot of damage occurred; over 50 people were killed, over 2,300 people injured, 8,000 arrests and estimated over $1 billion in property damage. The riots exposed the police abuse, poverty, and lack of economic opportunity. If it was not for the violent protestors no light would have been shed on the way black were being
Sexual abuse is a growing concern in society today. So many people are hurt by the actions of other people when they abuse them, especially in a sexual manner. The Catholic Church is also now being targeted for sexual offenders. Priests have been charged with sexually abusing young boys that are involved with the church. The church has been looking the other way on this issue for many years. The children as well as their family are being hurt and its time something was done to prevent the further exploitation of young boys in the Catholic Church.
Machiavelli was born on May 3, 1469 in Florence, Italy. Fortunately, Machiavelli had a excellent education as a child. Paolo da Ronciglione, a renown Latin teacher, taught Machiavelli. He then attended the University of Florence and received an excellent education there. Later Machiavelli pursued a career within the government, first he became a clerk, and then an ambassador. Soon after, Machiavelli became Chancellor of Florence and engaged in tons of diplomatic activity which also allowed him to travel frequently. It also placed him in charge of Florentine military, making ...
Dorothy Day was a well-known activist during the 1900s. She was most known for her protests and starting the Catholic Worker Movement with Peter Maurin. Dorothy Day was a non-violent activist who worked for peace, social justice, and people’s rights by protesting inequality and starting the Catholic Worker Movement.
A theodicy is a response to the problem of evil by proving that God exists, that he is perfect, and that he lets evil exist. Leibniz does this by saying that “the best plan is not always that which seeks to avoid evil, since it may happen that the evil is accompanied by a greater good” (Leibniz 89). He is saying that sometimes evil existing is for the better; it is followed by something better. The world is perfect because of its imperfections. Leibniz later goes on to say that without Adam’s sin, Jesus would not have come down to earth to die for our sins, and then resurrect three days later to forgive us of our sins. Leibniz then concludes that “this universe must be in reality better than every possible universe” (Leibniz 90). His response to the problem of evil shows readers that God is perfect because he has our best interests in mind, even when it does not seem that
new ideas on the Trinity in De Trinitatis errorbus libri vii. In his publication he attacked the
Franz Anton Mesmer was born on May 23,1734 in Iznang, Germany. He was the third of nine children. His mother was a homemaker, and his father was a forest warden. He had a happy childhood and played along streams and woodland. He began his education and started leaning Latin. He intended to become and Catholic priest in the beginning and was sent to Jesuit College in Konstanz. However, at age 16 he moved to Jesuit Theological School of Dillingen. He studied Metaphysics, Theology, and logic. When he was 20, he began studying at the Jesuit College of the University of Ingolstadt. At the University of Ingolstadt, he studied mathematics, philosophy, physics, theology, French, and Latin. At the end of the course he was awarded a degree in Doctor of Philosophy. After 5 years, when he was 25 he enrolled at the University of Vienna in Austria to study Law. However, he dropped law and studied medicine. He finished his medine degree at the age of 31.
Discrimination Against Catholics Source Based Sources B and C are useful for finding out the extent of discrimination against Catholics. From them we can get information about the types of discrimination Catholics faced. In source B we can see that Catholics faced discrimination in football, ‘ the second or third question is, what school did you go to son? And if its saint something, then all of a sudden the boy isn’t good enough’. This makes the source useful because we can see that discrimination happened in football.
He was born in Alexandria, Egypt and was the nephew of Theophilus, the patriarch of the city. He studied grammar at the age of twelve to fourteen, rhetoric and humanities from fifteen to twenty, and finally theology and biblical studies. He was so educated so well
Thomas Aquinas was born in 1225 into a noble family, where he lived in southern Italy. His family decided that he would be a church leader so at the age of six they sent him to the Benedictine monastery of Monte Cassino, and at fourteen he was sent to the University of Naples for further studying. When he joined the scholarly dominican order at the age of 20, he wanted to pursue
The Catholic community in the U.S. is composed today by people from different parts of the world. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, millions of people, especially from Europe, came to this country to settle their homes and start a new life or simply to take advantage of the opportunities that the new world gave them. Among those immigrants, a number of Catholics looked for continuing living their faith in their new home. In this essay, I want to focus mainly on two groups: Germans and Italians.
Born on July 22, 1822 in Hyncice, Czechoslovakia, Gregor Mendel got his start. He was born into a family of peasants where his father and grandfather's occupations consisted of gardening. At a very young age Mendel started his education studying under a local priest where he learned the basics of math, reading, and writing. By the time Mendel became a teenager, he was well on his way to becoming a man of science. In his late teens he was admitted to an institute of Philosophy where he studied for many years until he ran into financial trouble and could no longer afford to continue his schooling at the institute.