Term Papers on Analysis Of The Human Cultural Identity

Term Paper Title	Analysis Of The Human Cultural Identity
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Analysis of the Human Cultural Identity

     This paper is intended to contain the analysis of the human cultural
identity, as seen in the following five historical cultural periods:
Enlightenment Culture;  Greco-Roman Culture;  Judeo-Christian Culture;
Renaissance-Reformation Culture;  and Industrialization-Modernism Culture. It
also embodies examples of each era that are clearly stated, and how they relate
to the cultural period.

     The cultural identity of the Enlightenment  can be described as emphasizing
the possibilities of human reason. This idea can be illustrated with such
examples as Thomas Jefferson, Denis Diderot, and Protestantism.  Thomas
Jefferson was considered among one of the most brilliant American exponents of
the Enlightenment culture.  He had the time and the resources to educate himself
in many topics including history, literature, law, architecture, science, and
philosophy. He had the motivation and the connections to apply Enlightenment
political philosophy to nation-building.  Denis Diderot was a French
encyclopedist and philosopher, who also composed plays, novels, essays, and art.
He greatly influenced other Enlightenment thinkers with his translations of
Encyclopedie ou dictionnaire raisonne des sciences, des arts et des metiers,
usually known as Encyclopedie.  He used this translation  as a powerful
propaganda weapon against Ecclesiastical authority, and the semifeudal social
reforms of the time.  Protestantism is a good example also.  It is one of the
three major divisions of Christianity.  It displays the release of traditional
religion and the movement to worldly learning and the rise of protests against
the controlled way of expressing one's self.  It allows the human himself to
reason out the way that he thinks, instead of an authority telling him how to do
so therefore, extending his mind.

     The Industrialism-Modernism culture is a culture that represents social,
economical, and scientific advancement, as well as self-doubt, uncertainty, and
alienation.  These traits can be characterized with such examples as Werner
Heisenberg, Epicureanism, and Eli Whitney.  Werner Heisenberg was a German
physicist known especially for his development in quantum mechanics and his
principle of indeterminacy, or theory of uncertainty.  This theory explained how
it is impossible to know specifically the position and momentum of a particle,
an electron for example, with accuracy.  This demonstrates the distinctive
uncertainty of the culture.  It created a strong trend of mysticism among
scientists who perceive it  as a violation to cause and effect laws.
Epicureanism is a philosophy based on the teachings of the Greek philosopher
Epicuris.  His views coincide with those of Heisenberg in the way that they
display the incertitude of how it is impossible to know exactly what things will
do or go.  In example, he suggested that even atoms are free to move around
spontaneously, without order.  Any invention or its inventor would fit nicely
into this cultural topic.  Eli Whitney, for instance, and the cotton gin.  This
invention was one of the most important, it created a very substantial mo...

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