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#individuals
Adesso basta (Simone Perotti)
Il vero rivoluzionario è un individualista consapevole
Il vero rivoluzionario contemporaneo, quello che può seriamente far tremare l’establishment politico-economico, è oggi un consapevole, cocciuto, equilibrato individualista, che parte da sé, dal suo mondo, ci lavora sopra, fa di tutto per essere libero e consapevole come essere…
From Encyclopedia To Ontology: Toward Dynamic Representation Of The Discipline Of Philosophy
Problem: how to differentiate categories from individuals? a sep-driven approximation..
Another important aspect of ontology design concerns the drawing of a line between categories and individuals. For instance, should connectionism be considered an instance of the category philosophy of articial intelligence, or should it be treated as a subcategory with…
Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits
The 'inner enemy' of ascets is caused by abstention from or great irregularity in sexual intercourse
The Most Usual Means by which the ascetic and the sanctified individual seeks to make life more endurable comprises certain combats of an inner nature involving alternations of victory and prostration. For this purpose an enemy is necessary and he is found in the so called…
Lo Spirito del Giappone (Leonardo Vittorio Arena)
L'individuo subordinato alla collettività
L’individualità è subordinata alla collettività. Qui Nishi non sembra attenersi a Stuart-Mill, o lo interpreta liberamente. Si riferisce all’uomo in generale, non al singolo individuo. In merito a quest’ultimo ritiene di non potersi pronunciare.
Ryoshin, la coscienza innata
Cosa propone Onishi, dopo essersi sbarazzato di tutte le etiche fasulle? Egli si appella al ryoshin, termine confuciano dalla lunga storia. Meng-tzu fu il primo a usarlo, ma soltanto da Wang Yang-ming in poi gli si attribuisce una rilevanza etica centrale. Di solito lo si…
Distruggi l'io e servi gli altri
Per avere successo il giovane giapponese impara presto che dovrà essere flessibile, gradevole, di modeste pretese. Solo così si amalgamerà nella società, riscuotendo l’approvazione altrui, che, sola, gli dà un senso. Lo esprime il detto tradizionale, tuttora valido: messhi hoko…
Nishida Kitarō (stanford Encyclopedia Of Philosophy)
Self and other
Nishida maintains, the individual precisely as distinct entails a plurality of interrelated individuals. Where his previous analysis of individual self-awareness described it as a self- reflection of the universal of self-awareness, his description now incorporated the…
Organizational Structure - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Organizational structure
An organization can be structured in many different ways, depending on their objectives. The structure of an organization will determine the modes in which it operates and performs.Organizational structure allows the expressed allocation of responsibilities for different…
The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
The individual as a focal point of the universe
At one extreme, then, we have the sacred individual—the unique personal ego, separate from both nature and God—defined as such by a society which, almost in the same breath, commands him to be free and commands him to conform. At the other extreme is the coolie, the cog in the…
Society's game with self-contradictory rules
Yet the very society from which the individual is inseparable is using its whole irresistible force to persuade the individual that he is indeed separate! Society as we now know it is therefore playing a game with self-contradictory rules. Just because we do not exist apart…
There is no point whatever in making plans for a future which you will never be able to enjoy
..the individual—instead of fulfilling his unique function in the world—is exhausted and frustrated in efforts to accomplish self-contradictory goals. Because he is now so largely defined as a separate person caught up in a mindless and alien universe, his principal task is to…
A single bio-electronic body
All information will come in by super-realistic television and other electronic devices as yet in the planning stage or barely imagined. In one way this will enable the individual to extend himself anywhere without moving his body—even to distant regions of space. But this will…
Differentiation is not separation; the death of the individual is not disconnection but simply withdrawal
For every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree. To manifest individuality, every branch must have a sensitive connection with the tree, just as our independently moving and differentiated fingers must have a…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
Someones and Anyones
a quite useful way of simplifying three forms of subjective experience. The first she calls the ‘Someone’ scenario, which is the normal case of ‘you being different from someone else’. This is how we almost all, almost always, feel ourselves to be. ‘In brain terms, the Someone…