| Q. | Who was the First Scholastic Philosopher? | Related Search:
Philosophy | | | Kind of straightfoward question, but who is considered to be the First Scholastic Philosopher? Peter Abelard? Anselem? Peter Lombard?
| | A. | The Scholastics were started by Boethius.
"Boethius has been called by Lorenzo Valla the last of the Romans and the first of the scholastic philosophers." | | | |
| Q. | Describe the goals and methods of scholastic philosophy.? | Related Search:
Philosophy | | | Who were some major scholastic philosophers, and why are they important?
| | A. | the two primary ones would have to be Plato and Aristotle because they formed schools to teach others the importance of philosophy and in particular,how to think logically as well as how to present their ideas to others. | | | |
| Q. | Why was the name of harry Potter book 1 changed in America? | Related Search:
Books & Authors | | | Why when JK Rowling called it Harry Potter and the Philosophers stone did scholastic change it in all American versions to Harry Potter and the Sorcerers stone?
Has been bugging me for some time now and seems to make no sense as it is a title and American English isn't that different so why translate it?
Oh is anything else different? I'm curious. I am complete Harry Potter addict :P.
| | A. | The book's American editor, Arthur Levine, who was also responsible for editing out words and usages characteristic of British English, felt that Philosopher's Stone conveyed an incorrect idea of the subject matter, and that a title change was necessary. Rowling and Levine had agreed to change words only when they felt that it would otherwise be incomprehensible to American readers. Several alternative titles were discussed, and Rowling chose Sorcerer's Stone in the end.[4] The "translations" in the American edition led to criticism by many readers. The New York Times ran an article titled "Harry Potter, Minus a Certain Flavour" on July 10, 2000, which heavily criticised Scholastic's decision to Americanise the US Harry Potter editions.[5] Many felt that the translations insulted the intelligence of the American public. In their editions of the sequels, Scholastic did not Americanise the text as much and did not change the titles. | | | |
| Q. | Why are some harry potter books shorter with different publishers? | Related Search:
Books & Authors | | | I read My copy of Harry Potter and The Philosophers and its 223 pages, but with some other publishers its 309 pages. My book is published by Scholastic and i thought they they might have shortened it for younger readers but it might be the size of the print... why is my copy short?
| | A. | I just compared mine and my Bloomsbury (Australia) copy is 223 pages long and my Scholastic (US) copy is the same. It depends on font size, what the font is, the size of the page (my Bloomsbury copy is taller and less wide than Scholastic). Also, the Scholastic copy has illustrations at the start of each chapter, while the Bloomsbury copy doesn't.
Also hardback and paperback have different page sizes, as well as the fact that some publishers start numbering at the cover, while other start numbering when the actual story begins. They definitely didn't shorten it though.
Hope I helped. | | | |
| Q. | Why is the American Version of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone called The Sorcerer's Stone? | Related Search:
Books & Authors | | | I know the story behind the philosopher's stone: about contentment and so on, so i understand why the book and the "stone" in the book are so called but why the need for scholastic to change to the word sorcerer!
| | A. | Philosopher is a common word in the US... I've taken plenty of philosophy classes... but it probably does not carry the same exact meaning in both countries.. when we use the word philosopher, we are strictly talking about thinkers, people who try to answer questions by thinking through them. Sorcerer implies magic and supernatural powers, witchcraft, etc... and philosophy, to us, doesn't imply anything having to do with witchcraft. | | | |
| Q. | What is the opening paragraph to the UK/Bloomsbury version of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone? | Related Search:
Books & Authors | | | I have the Latin version and I'm trying to check my translation, but my American English version is the Scholastic form, and it's not matching up with my translation. I think this is because the Latin translator used a UK/Bloomsbury book. If someone could post the opening paragraph, that would help me figure out if this is the problem. If it is the problem, looks like I'll be ordering the Bloomsbury versions of the Potter series!
| | A. | The opening paragraph of Philosopher's Stone is:
Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.
Mr. Dursley was the director of a firm called Grunnings, which made drills. He was a big, beefy man with hardly any neck, although he did have a very large mustache. Mrs. Dursley was thin and blonde and had nearly twice the usual amount of neck, which came in very useful as she spent so much of her time craning over garden fences, spying on the neighbors. The Dursleys had a small son called Dudley and in their opinion there was no finer boy anywhere.
I don't believe there are any differences between Sorcerer's Stone and Philosopher's Stone in this instance. There is a list of changes between Philosopher's Stone and Sorcerer's Stone here:
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None of the differences affect the first paragraphs.
Hope that helps! | | | |
| Q. | Do you think these people spoke the truth or all of them are “anti-Semites”? | Related Search:
Religion & Spirituality | | | Do you think these people spoke the truth or all of them are “anti-Semites”?
"Why should we believe in God? We hate Christianity and Christians. Even the best of them must be regarded as our worst enemies. They preach love of one's neighbor, and pity, which is contrary to our principles. Christian love is a hinderance to the revolution. Down with love of one's neighbor; what we want is hatred. We must know how to hate, for only at this price can we conquer the universe...The fight should also be developed in the Moslem and Catholic countries, with the same ends in view and by the same means." (Lunatcharski, The Jewish Assault on Christianity, Gerald B. Winrod, page 44)
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"There is no doubt that the...Jews aided the Persians with all the men they could muster, and that the help they gave was considerable. Once Jerusalem was in Persian hands a terrible massacre of Christians took place, and the Jews are accused of having taken the lead in this massacre." (A History of Palestine from 135 A.D. to Modern Times, James Parkes, p. 81; The Iron Curtain Over America, John Beaty, p. 194).
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"The fact is that the Jews were known only as destroyers in ancient history, not creators. They have developed no science, have produced no art, have built no great cities, and alone have no talent for the finer things of civilized life. The Jews claim to be the torchbearers of civilization, but thorough their parasitic habits have deteriorated or destroyed every nation in which they have existed in large numbers." (Charles A. Weisman, Who is Esau-Edom?, p. 28).
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"Once we perceive that it is Judaism which is the root cause of antisemitism, otherwise irrational or inexplicable aspects of antisemitism become rationally explicable...Only something representing a threat to the core values, allegiances and beliefs of others could cause such universal, deep and lasting hatred. This Judaism has done..." (Why the Jews: by Denis Prager and Joseph Telushkin, 1985)
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Dr. Albert M. Gessman, writing in the Winter 1969 number of the conservative Jewish journal, "Issues." After contrasting critically almost nine pages of glaring differences between Judaism and Christianity to the disadvantage of the latter, and after reviewing the back-grounds of both religions, he concludes that, "A Judeo-Christian heritage or tradition in the proper sense of that hyphenated word does not exist; it has no foundation in historical fact." 'Modern Jewry' Jewish Encyclopedia, 1925 edition, Vol. 5, p. 41.
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"It is a favorite ruse of the Jews to represent the Christians as their only enemies; in reality the persecution of the Jews began long before the Christian era, nor has it since then been confined to countries where the Christian religion prevails. If Christendom is to be accused of ingratitude for the privilege of harboring numbers of Jews in her midst, the pagan world showed itself quite equally ungrateful. Egyptians, Persians, and Assyrians kept them in complete subjection; indeed, owing to their racial characteristics, it was found impossible even under the more liberal rägime of Alexander the Great's successors to receive them into the community of nations." (World Revolution, Nesta Webster, p. 162).
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AQUINAS, THOMAS, Saint. 13th century scholastic philosopher. In his "On the Governance of the Jews," he wrote: "The Jews should not be allowed to keep what they have obtained from others by usury; it were best that they were compelled to worked so that they could earn their living instead of doing nothing but becoming avaricious."
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DIO CASSIUS. Second century Roman historian. Describing the savage Jewish uprising against the Roman empire that has been acknowledged as the turning point downward in the course of that great state-form: "The Jews were destroying both Greeks and Romans. They ate the flesh of their victims, made belts for themselves out of their entrails, and daubed themselves with their blood... In all, 220,000 men perished in Cyrene and 240,000 in Cyprus, and for this reason no Jew may set foot in Cyprus today." (Roman History)
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A.N. FIELD, in Today's Greatest Problem: "Once the Jewishness of Bolshevism is understood, its otherwise puzzling features become understandable. Hatred of Christianity, for instance, is not a Russian characteristic; it is a Jewish one."
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"The Jews are not a part of a vast Whole which they re-integrate in dying, but they are a Whole in themselves, defying space, time, life, and death. Can God be outside the Whole? If he exists, necessarily he confounds himself with this Whole...Thus Divinity in Judaism is co
| | A. | ok il only cover one of these.. st.tommy said they can't hold onto their gains from usury ..which is excessive interest on loans... which are always taken out in desperation so to charge them was seen as unfair since you made like $20 a year or so back then.... so he thought they should give back
the only reason that jews were money lenders was that they weren't allowed other jobs | | | |
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