Humanism gained ground in the Renaissance in part as a revival of classical learning, and such a revival included new study of classical humanism from the Greek and Roman world. Classical humanism placed an emphasis on philosophy and codes of ethics, notably embodied in the writings of Plato and A...

Discovering Fire “After man has mastered the winds the waves and the tides, some day he will harness for God the energies of love, and then for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire” (Teilhard de Jardin) This...

Joyce, James was born on February 2, 1882 in Rathgar, a suburb of Dublin. The oldest of 10 children, his family moved to different part of Ireland during his upbringing. In 1898, he began to attend University College, Dublin, and four years later he moved to Paris. He returned to Dublin in 1903 beca...