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...out how many persons are in a crowd by counting the number of human bodies. If we accept this, we would sort out the nature of persons by sorting out the nature of human beings, and the latter task certainly is best conducted by a biologist. However, in ordinary language we sometimes do distinguish between ‘person’ and ‘human being’. Consider, for example, someone...

...out of a common stock of Romantic ideas and feelings about the Orient. Here we shall be trying to come to some understanding of how, why and to what effect the prince's ‘pleasure-dome’ translated some of the modes and ideas of Romanticism into the language of architecture. As we do so, we'll be thinking about the Pavilion as what we might call a ‘cultural...

...out more about this history in Session 3. Image: British Museum....Introduction: Introduction - How did empires begin? How were they experienced and maintained? How did they end and what legacies have they left behind? This course will help you to answer these questions by exploring three concepts that are vital for understanding empires: power, resistance, and legacies....

...out an explicit message in this poem. If you feel that you have understood the gist of it, even at a distance in time of well over three-quarters of a century, he was probably right that it was not necessary to do so. Not spelling out his meaning allowed him to be brief and concise, and also to add colour and interest by encapsulating it in a little scene, complete with...