Category: Philosophy

What does the German yell in Gladiator? Regarding the movie Gladiator, a Quora user asked what the Germanic war leader yells right before the big battle with the Roman legions. Answer: ‘Ihr seid verfluchte hunde!, which translates to, ‘You are cursed dogs! ‘ What was put in Maximus wound in Gladiator? In the 2000 film […]

What do you do when your child asks Santa? What to do when kids ask ‘Is Santa real? ‘ Ask why they’re asking. Ask what it would mean to them if he were real or not. Let the child lead. Talk about the spirit of Santa. Advise them to be kind to other believers. Lie […]

How do you get into Westworld? The guests take a train there. A real life train that they enter on via the Delos headquarters. Lets start from the beginning. The rich guest books their tour of WestWorld (or maybe some other park owned by Delos) and they take a train to the main headquarters. Can […]

Why was it easier for the church to side with Galileo 1992? 2. (Contextualization) Why was it easier for the Church to side with Galileo in 1992 than in 1633? It is easier to side with Galileo because of how much the time had changed. There was more research with all of the sciences that […]

Is gender an attribute? Gender is a term used to exemplify the attributes that a society or culture constitutes as “masculine” or “feminine”. How were gender roles created? Historically, gender roles have been largely attributed to biological differences in men and women. Although research indicates that biology plays a role in gendered behavior, the extent […]

Who stopped the Ottoman Empire in Europe? After almost two hundred years of Croatian resistance against the Ottoman Empire, victory in the Battle of Sisak marked the end of Ottoman rule and the Hundred Years’ Croatian–Ottoman War. The Viceroy’s army, chasing the fleeing remnants at Petrinja in 1595, sealed the victory. Does Turkey count as […]

What is the problem of skepticism? Through such questioning, skeptics have indicated the basic problems that an investigator would have to resolve before he could be certain of possessing knowledge—i.e., information that could not possibly be false. Some critics of skepticism have contended that it is an untenable view, both logically and humanly. What is […]

What does colonial gaze mean? The ‘colonial gaze’ is a term that has come to refer to a structure of representation which figures as a mode of intervention in itself, as well as providing the pretext for a variety of other forms of practical intervention. Is Decolonisation always violent? Decolonisation is further inherently violent because […]

What is meant by direction? Direction is defined as the path that something takes, the path that must be taken to reach a specific place, the way in which something is starting to develop or the way you are facing. An example of direction is when you go right instead of left. What is the […]

What is the law of illumination? The law states that Illuminance at a point on a plane is proportional to the cosine of the angle of light incident (the angle between the direction of the incident light and the normal to the plane). The maximum Illuminance occurs when the element of area receives the light […]