Western societies have become less religious over recent decades and centuries. According to research, many European countries value religion as the least important. According to Hämäläinen and Tomaszewska (2017), “in most European Union countries, less than 10 percent of people … Continue reading Anthropology: Exploration of Secularization in the Contemporary World
The existence of art as a defined form and concept has a complex story, dating well back into human prehistory. By the time ancient civilizations flourished in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, India, China, and elsewhere, art -painting, sculpture, poetry, music, architecture- … Continue reading History of Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art
In the modern era, science was used to oppress indigenous people’s rights. Moreover, coloniality of knowledge and epistemicide erased all other forms of knowledge different to the European ones. What was believed to be true was ‘’discovered’’ by science and … Continue reading Anthropology: Loss of Indigeneity through Coloniality of Power and Knowledge in South America
The Age of Enlightenment was an intellectual and philosophical movement during the 17th and 18th centuries. From the beginning of the 1600s, people began the debate about who should govern a nation. Absolutism became less common and found an end, … Continue reading The Age of Enlightenment: Ideas, Concepts, and Important Philosophers