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#tradition
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
Hallucinogens as a shared ritual
Eventually, I fell asleep. When I woke up, I thought about the fact that I was now a person who had taken LSD. I was no longer a pharmacological virgin. Taking hallucinogens is a public ritual among some South American indigenous groups, and these societies provide much social…
LSD deserves indigenous reverence
treatment or spiritual tool, which made serious research on the drug impossible. He called the recreational use of LSD “careless and irresponsible” and felt it to be a tragic misunderstanding of the nature and meaning of these kinds of substances. He believed that we should…
Bulletin February/march 2015
Bibliographic citation
The practice of bibliographic citation to supporting materials was formalized in scholarly publishing more than a century ago. In this tradition, a "bibliographic citation" refers to a formal, structured reference to another scholarly work. In most fields, citations are made in…
Calvinism (wikipedia Contributors)
Calvinism: fundamental beliefs
Calvinism (also called the Reformed tradition, Reformed Christianity or the Reformed faith) is a major branch of Protestantism that follows the theological tradition and forms of Christian practice of John Calvin and other Reformation-era theologians. Calvinists broke with the…
Dio odia il Giappone (Douglas Coupland, M. Howatson and Anna Mioni)
Tu sei la nuova norma
. «Erano il miracolo giapponese del Dopoguerra in carne e ossa. Persino voi due contribuite alla loro normalità.» Io dissi: «Quindi io sono normale?». Sentirlo dire mi diede un certo piacere, poi però provai subito disgusto per quel mio stesso piacere. «A dire il vero sì, sei…
Hamlet On The Holodeck
Negative views of digital storytelling
The feely [with reference to what described by Huxley in Brave New World] offers an opposing image of a sensation-based storytelling medium that is intrinsically degrading, fragmenting, and destructive of meaning, a medium whose success implies the death of the great traditions…
La Formica Zen (italian Edition) ( )
Radici e rami
La continuità ci dà le radici; il cambiamento ci regala i rami, lasciando a noi la volontà di estenderli e di farli crescere fino a raggiungere nuove altezze" (Pauline R. Kezer)
Lo Spirito del Giappone (Leonardo Vittorio Arena)
L'epoca Meiji si apre all'Occidente
All’inizio dell’epoca Meiji (1868-1912), il Giappone si apre all’Occidente. È un periodo di rinascita culturale, caratterizzato da un notevole interesse per le filosofie europee e americane. Economicamente, questa fase segna la graduale trasformazione della società nipponica…
Scienza e arte secondo Nishi
Si evidenzia la dicotomia tra scienza (gaku) e arte (jutsu). Secondo Nishi, riecheggia la distinzione tra la «sostanza» o la «struttura» (t’i) e la «funzione» (yung), formulata nel taoismo e ripresa nel confucianesimo. Nishi considera interdipendenti il sapere scientifico e la…
Prendere in prestito e rielaborare
Per analizzare la mente giapponese si dovrà partire da questo curioso ibrido linguistico che non trova riscontri, in questa proporzione, in altre civiltà o etnie. Si tratta di una mente disponibile all’influsso esterno: riprende assunti e persino stili di vita stranieri per…
Taking Philosophical Dialogue Online
Interpretation (philosophy)
Here we expect students to grasp the meaning of philosophical concepts, propositions and texts. What constitutes successful interpretation is a contentious issue, but for the purposes of this study, I shall assume that there is agreement as to what would constitute an inept…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
Tibet became full of tulkus
‘It became like a system that if your teacher is supposed to be a highly realised being then his students would try to find his reincarnation, and Tibet became full of tulkus,’ said Ringu. ‘So some of them may be true reincarnations, some of them maybe not so much, so we don’t…