Michele Pasin / Quotes

Il pennello e la spada

Il samurai si presenta, al senso comune, come un guerriero. Così, però, se ne coglie soltanto una parte della rigorosa formazione. La cultura letteraria era il complemento dell’arte della guerra, benché non tutti i samurai potessero fregiarsene.1 L’espressione «il pennello e la spada» si attaglia a molti di loro. I più intellettuali elaborarono una visione del mondo che trova la sua collocazione tra le grandi correnti della filosofia giapponese. Nei manuali, manca un capitolo apposito. I samurai furono sottili psicologi, oltreché filosofi della politica. Oggi L’arte della guerra di Sun-tzu viene giustamente ritenuta un’opera essenziale per la comprensione della filosofia cinese. Si spera che crollino analoghi pregiudizi nei confronti dei samurai per poter travalicare il livello filmico di rappresentazione dozzinale, dai duelli micidiali e acrobazie volanti dove una persona ne abbatte una trentina. Una scelta delle figure più significative ne illustrerà lo spessore.

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#samurai #philosophy #literature #war

Advaita means not-two

Over the intervening years I had been surprised by the increasing number of people who were coming to feel the same way. Not only had Buddhism made steady…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #nondualism #Buddhism #self #religion #literature

Confirmational reading

The use of scientific literature and databases is rapidly shifting from ‘exploratory’ reading to ‘confirmational reading’ to check elements of the hypotheses…

Prof.dr. B. Mons #scholarly-communication #reading #scientific-articles #communication #article #literature

Defining periods and settling terminological disputes

The design of such thesauri contributes to: the basic problems of how to define cultural periods and their interrelations (even when precise time, space and…

Thesauri Of Historical Periods – A Proposal For Standardization. #cultural-period #terminology #communication #literature

Enriching museum records with the Simple Event Model

As information about the historical context of the object is currently not present in the museum database, we automati- cally enrich the database records with…

Digital Hermeneutics: Agora And The Online Understanding Of Cultural Heritage #historical-events #historical-context #war #book #Simple-Event-Model

Finding Win/Win role models

One thing I have found particularly helpful to Win/Lose people in developing a Win/Win character is to associate with some model or mentor who really thinks…

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey) #character #relationship #literature #movies

Four generals for Byzantine fault tolerance

divisions surround an enemy camp. After observing the enemy, the generals must communicate among themselves and come to consensus on a plan of action. They…

Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #computer-science #communication #war #algorithm