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WOKE
By Charles Kocian
One great new of last week was Konstantin Kisin talk in Oxford Union, leaving its “woke” audience speechless, encouraging creativeness instead of complain. The video had 50 million views in a very short time. The “woke” term today is a deeply divisive term. In one extreme, means an antidote of any oppression; in the other, a kind of a hysterical Inquisition.
The Oxford Union, founded in 1823, is a debating society with members, primarily, from the University of Oxford. Is one of the world’s prestigious private students’ societies and one of Britain’s oldest university unions, which exists independently. It has a tradition of hosting some of the world’s most prominent individuals.
Oxford University is made up of thirty-nine semi-autonomous constituent colleges. Is the oldest university in the English-speaking world in continuous operation. Founded before, it grew rapidly from 1167, when King Henry II banned English students from attending the University of Paris. After a dispute between students in 1209, some academics went north-east to stablishing Cambridge University. Today, both are referred, as Oxbridge. At Oxford, all the colleges are self-governing institutions, each controlling its own membership and with its own internal structure and activities.
The Renaissance greatly influenced Oxford from the late 15th century onwards. After breaking with the Roman Catholic Church, Oxford’s method of teaching was transformed from its medieval scholastic to a Renaissance education method, and also as a centre of learning and scholarship
Ancient Athens.
Although “woke” was not a word in those days, the Ancient Agora of Athens was the primary meeting ground for Athenians, where famous philosophers had their debates. Socrates, Plato and Aristotle lived there, but the last two didn’t agree on metaphysics.
The metaphysical tetrahedron is a representation which I created to memorize how the fundamental premises of thought are related. They are fully explained in the Champion’s Renaissance book.
Just like a physical tetrahedron is a strong structure in architecture, the metaphysical tetrahedron is an absolute truth of nature.
CONCLUSION
Rational debates can conquer minds in all times, even of woke people, because, like it or not, accordingly to Aristotle, man is a rational-animal, therefore, reason: its essence, and, its essence, is that what make man human, and no other thing. But the fact that Aristotle did say it, although important, is not fundamental, because, the only knowledge that a true thinker respects, is the self-discovered truth from evidence, and the metaphysical tetrahedron helps that process.
Now answer to question 35.
QUESTION N° 35
The Allegory of the Metaphysical Tetrahedron illustrates how axiom-concepts and its corollaries connect each other.
a) True
b) False
The answer is: True.
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