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Feb 28 |
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What was the situation of homosexuals in the early Soviet Union? I'm suggesting that your terms are anachronisms meaning that your question is unanswerable as there was no "gay" situation in 1917. |
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Feb 27 |
answered | “Brown-Bread Eater” meaning as used in an insult |
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Feb 27 |
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“Brown-Bread Eater” meaning as used in an insult Supply a fuller citation including the year of publication? |
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Feb 27 |
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What was the situation of homosexuals in the early Soviet Union? If homosexuality is culturally neutral why do Western medical practitioners use the term "men who have sex with men" in preference to "homosexual"? There are multiple conceptions of human freedom, substantive, formal, etc. The question isn't answerable without a specific perspective on the nature of human freedom being put in an answer. An Enlightenment Liberal bourgeois response will be substantially different to a Marxist response; one will emphasise the formal the other the substantive. What is sexual freedom anyway? |
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Feb 26 |
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What was the situation of homosexuals in the early Soviet Union? One big problem with this question is that "gay" culture and identity is a Western post-1968 phenomena—any answer will have to respond within a theoretical framework of the nature of human sexuality. Another problem is that the very real distinction between formal and substantive freedom requires an answer that uses a theorisation of human freedom. Within these limits, that any answer will be embedded in a particular discourse of what sexuality and liberation are, the question is answerable. |
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Feb 26 |
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What was the situation of homosexuals in the early Soviet Union? trivial grammar, spelling, run on sentence |
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Feb 24 |
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Examples of censorship causing economic decline As far as censoriousness you'd need to go back to the Reconquista—so does censoriousness advance certain economies? |
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Feb 24 |
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Why and how did some Germans choose to join the Stasi (Staatssicherheit)? For uncited speculation, there's usenet. |
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Feb 24 |
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Examples of censorship causing economic decline AFAIR the standard explanation of Spanish decline relates to long term secular inflation due to specie supply expansion—a feudal economy choking itself to death on gold. |
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Feb 24 |
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The history of the idea that lack of moral censure leads to decline Excellent conversion of a potentially argumentative discussion into a history of ideas question. |
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Feb 17 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on Why did China shut itself out of the world in the 15th century? |
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Feb 16 |
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Life in the middle ages for ordinary people? Care to source your assertions about early medieval taxation, corvee and tithe rates? |
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Feb 15 |
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Life in the middle ages for ordinary people? No worries! Keep clarifying your thesis and testing it against the sources. The topics of interest (religosity, levels and kinds of social mobility) are real issues in medieval social history. Try reading some Annales School histories of medieval France? |
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Feb 15 |
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Life in the middle ages for ordinary people? @grayQuant The "liberal" assumption isn't US "liberalism," it relates to the modernist project of human liberalism, assuming that "the individual person" is the origin of social action. Medieval persons existed in collective situations, there was no "turning" towards religion because their lives were as thoroughly saturated with religion as ours is with the concept of money (for example). |
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Feb 14 |
answered | Life in the middle ages for ordinary people? |
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Feb 14 |
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Life in the middle ages for ordinary people? "given that human nature is essentially unchanged (hope you agree)" dubious assumption. And here's some liberal anachronism, "Did they turn to religion." |
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Feb 13 |
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How did lower classes with aspirations to high social standing greet each other in the Paris of the 1630's? There's a listing at the encyclopaedia, above. This encyclopaedia page probably fills the needs for RPG fidelity to actual history. Louis XIII didn't have as much power as Louis XIV, but military success, combined with "discovered" genealogy records could advance people as fast as required—if causing grief amongst the old nobility. The systems and hierarchies of nobility developed in opposition to the centralising power of Louis XIV and in part in relation to the attempt of Louis XIV to control the nobility. So atypical and absurd advancement is fine—if it generates suitable conflicts. |
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Feb 13 |
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How did lower classes with aspirations to high social standing greet each other in the Paris of the 1630's? You'll need to be more specific about class, and how in the hell they think they're capable of changing their class position (1nd estate priests from bourgeois with a unique administrative capacity, noblesse de graduelle? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… ). The wikipage seems to help. Also, Dangerous Liasons. Or do you mean gutter snipes attempting to get an apprenticeship and thus possibly become Masters by marriage? |
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Feb 11 |
awarded | Custodian |
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Feb 11 |
reviewed | Reject suggested edit on Did Jefferson really say this quote about patriotism? |
