That is why your courses were like a beam of light to me, for I was never aware of the fact that we have different logic, concepts, and definition of words from our predecessors and should hence put those thinkers back into their own historical context. Sadly, my fellow philosophy students and I usually fell into anachronism and criticized early thinkers a bit “unfairly” on many issues. By the time I took your Intellectual History from Middle Ages to 17th Century, I have already taken some classes on philosophy. Your conversation with Michael reminds of me the lectures and seminars I took with you at Texas A&M. Of course, the “technology factor” in the model I learned is vaguely defined and does not cover the many definitions and various effects of “intellectual technology” not directly related to economic production. In this model, technology growth is expressed endogenously by the factor capital as “productive externalities”, and individual workers, through “learning by doing,” obtain more “skills” as the capital grows. As I am reviewing macroeconomics, especially the different variations of Solow Model, I cannot help but link “intellectual technology” with the specific endogenous growth model, which attempts to led the model itself generate technological growth without an exogenous “manna from heaven”. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this new post. This comment is promoted from a discussion of Machiavelli and Intellectual Technology. You’ll be able to tell the difference between this and a real post, because it’ll say it’s posted by Bluejo, and not by Exurbe, because it will say “a promoted comment”, and also because it won’t be full of beautiful relevant carefully selected art but will have just one or two pieces of much more random art.

I may even go back and do this with some older especially awesome comments.

From now on, when this happens, I will extract it and promote it. The comment is already written and fascinating - but hidden down in a comment thread where many people may not notice it. Making it into an actual post would take valuable time. Welcome to a new feature here on Ex Urbe - the promoted comment.įrom time to time, Ada makes a long substantive chewy comment, which could almost be its own post. Vicenzo Foppa, Young Cicero Reading, 1464

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