Konnor Drewen
2/3/011
Which do you think is a better roadmap of history, artifacts of the humanities (art, music, dance, theatre, literature, philosophy, architecture, etc.) or political/military conflicts? Why?
I think that military/political events make for a better roadmap than artifacts because the events of conflicts better show the political and emotional problems of a nation and show how they conquered and were conquered by other countries. That can help tell where some of a country’s culture and way of thinking came from. The political events can help show what kind of government a country was under at the time that a certain event happened. This could be of use because if it showed that there were major riots in a certain year it could be linked with the country being ruled under a dictatorship and the dictator could be hated and that causes the riots to break out against the government. Now artifacts of the humanities definitely still make a great roadmap of history. They could show past civilizations and their culture. They could also tell stories of things that happened hundreds of years ago. The philosophy of the ancient Greeks and Romans are still used today as major sources of knowledge. The ancient philosophy Sun Tzu said “For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.” Now my point of this quote is that in a way people still say this today. The way of saying to try to stop the fighting before it starts.
I disagree because we can learn so much from art and culture and we can see how we have improved over centuries. In war, you can't really see how it improves and it isn't always something you want to remember.
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