...a dialectical relation between postmodernity and the level of civilization and culture of a country; and this relation remains identically available ... ...amous heuristic ( Socratic) method with an admirable knowledge of the antique culture and with a paradoxist speech - almost a “twaddle” (in the way o... ...efore the paradoxists”. ”The popular wisdom -he said-, but also a part of the cultured creation, fits perfectly the classic paradoxist stencil”. We ... ...ge Anca, Florentin Smarandache, Justin Panta, N. Coande etc. The democracy of culture (including literature) appeared as an epiphenomenon of the (pr... ...n a complex style in what the excellence of the speeches is given by the vast culture of the three ones, by a deep ... philosophical wisdom (in order... ...lophiles. The informative insertions appear more rare (“They’ve butchered the Indians. They have no school in their language. They’ve forced them to...

...The Bhagavad Gita — or, in translation from Sanskrit, the Song of God — is the most important part of the Indian epic poem “Mahabharata”. The latter describes events that are 5-7 thousands years old. The Bhagavad Gita is a great philosophical work that played the same role in the history of India as the New Testament did in the h...

...ully. II. Issues in the Calculus of Rights IIA. The Hierarchy of Rights All human cultures have hierarchies of rights. These hierarchies reflect c... ...es, not primary ones. There have been periods in human history and there have been cultures devoid of either or both. The primary asymmetry seems t... ...with its proponents in the exact sciences as well - ran deeper than that. The very culture of commerce was thoroughly permeated and transformed. It... ...dependent. In some cases, pain is perceived as positive and is sought. In the Aztec cultures, being chosen to be sacrificed to the Gods was a high h... ... Texas, the Calusa in current day Florida, the Caddo and Iroquois confederacies of Indians in North America, the Cree in Canada, the Witoto, native... ...nes Decrees. But ethnic cleansing can be economic (ask the Chinese in Asia and the Indians in Africa). It can be physical (Croatia, Kosovo). It has... ...hich reflects gender role orientation. Joanne Meyerowitz, a professor of history at Indiana University and the editor of The Journal of American Hi... ...gh most of them are. The "noble savage" and the "wild savage" are both stereotypes. Indians in movies, note Ralph and Natasha Friar in their work ti... ...ndians in movies, note Ralph and Natasha Friar in their work titled "The Only Good Indian - The Hollywood Gospel" (1972) are overwhelmingly drunken...

... protest against a closed society, Romania of 3 1980's, where the whole culture was manipulated by a small group. Only their ideas and their publi... ... (miss)understanding by different people, schools, cultures; <A/Neut-A> = spectrum of <A> derivatives/deviations, because <A>... ... (miss)interpretations (miss)understanding by different people, schools, cultures; <Anti-A/Neut-A> = spectrum of <Anti-A> derivatives/deviations, ... ...ntism: Power countries deliberately ignore the arts, literature, science, culture, traditions of third world countries. More, they even boycott, sco... ... Athman (individual inward) blends with Brahman (collective inward) in Indian philosophy. Yogic meditation consists of purification of chak... ... Man must live in accordance with the natural world around him (Pueblo Indian philosophy). While genius should not! Credo quia absurdum (Lat.) ... ... [19] Le, Charles T., "The Smarandache Class of Paradoxes", in <Journal of Indian Academy of Mathematics>, Bombay, India, No. 18, 53-55, 1996. [20]... ...Haiku, Bucharest, 1994. [45] Veatch, H.B., "A Contemporany Appreciation", Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1974. [46] Vlastos, Gregory, "The ... ...) has the values: ‘true’, ‘false’, and ‘both true and false’. The ancient Indian metaphysics considered four possible values of a statement: ‘true (...

...nder discussion, as Asclepiades made that city one of the centres of medical culture. On the other hand, the fact that there is no trace of the Hypot... ...al peculiarities. For the body of a Scythian 80 differs from the body of an Indian in form, the difference resulting, it is said, from the different... ...at difference among men in the choice and avoidance of external things. The Indians delight in different things from our own people, and the enjoymen... ...arment of many colors and reaching to the feet, but we think it not so. The Indians ηα ῖο γπλαημὶ δεκνζίᾳ κίγλπληαη, but most of the other nations co...

... français. Et dans celles-ci, l’auteur cite des textes exemplaires pour leur culture de contradictions, antinomies, antithèses, anti-phrases, antago... ...tually informed and temperamentally predisposed), the playsome (as an act of culture, cf. Huizinga), according the formula of a calculation of proba... ...t în consonan ţă, dar şi în rezonanţă cu teatrul american şi cu cel din aria indian ă. Documentat, cum altfel?, când subiectul tratat te împinge spr... ...e the paradoxists”. “The popular wisdom – he said –, but also a part of the cultured creation, fits perfectly the classic paradoxist stencil”. We d... ...anu în sanskrit ă) 217 „TAT TWAM ASI” „Eu sunt El” (celebr ă mantra indian ă şi titlul unei poezii de M. Eminescu) „ACHINTYA BHEDA BHEDA ... ...„Doctrina simultaneit ăţii unităţii şi diferen ţierii” ( Şcoal ă filosofic ă indian ă înfiin ţat ă de Chaitanya Mahaprabhu) 218 DON DONNELLY (U...

...ued force Of meditation on the inhuman deeds Of those who conquered first the Indian Isles, Went single in his ministry across INTRODUCTION—CHILDHOOD ... ...with deepest radiance, stood alone Beneath the sky, as if I had been born On Indian plains, and from my mother’s hut Had run abroad in wantonness, to ... ...Almost as silent as the turf they trod. Nor less, when spring had warmed the cultured Vale, Moved we as plunderers where the mother bird Had in high p... ...n the threshold, there I found Both elevation and composed delight: 120 With Indian awe and wonder, ignorance pleased With its own struggles, did I me... ... lorded over and possessed By naked huts, wood built, and sown like tents Or Indian cabins over the fresh lawns And by the river side. That very day, ... ...sinian privacy. I spake Of thee, thy chestnut woods, and garden plots 665 Of Indian corn tended by dark eyed maids; Thy lofty steeps, and pathways roo... ...pression worse than death 195 Salutes the being at his birth, where grace Of culture hath been utterly unknown, And poverty and labour in excess From ...

...arian protest against a closed society, Romania of 1980’s, where the whole culture was manipulated by a small group. Only their ideas and their publ... ...otalitarisme contre une societé fermée, la Roumanie des années 1980, où la culture entière était manipulée par un petit groupe. Seulement leurs idée... ...ible to fix it broken. Champagne yes, philosophic no. And now hear this Indian tale, more than 25 years old joke, that ends in a … mathematical f... ... … mathematical formula! Once upon a time, somewhere in North America, an Indian chief and his squaw had a son. Being the first child, it was born ... ...on the hide of a hippopotamus. You can well imagine the great voyage of the Indian chief, by pony, by canoe, walking and so on to Africa whence he re... ...tarian protest against a closed society Romania of 1980’s, where the whole culture was manipulated by a small group. Only their ideas and their publ... ...black for the night, somehow naive, of Navajo, Zuni, Apache, Hopi and Pima Indian tribes), and Mexico, between 1988-2000, in a paradoxist way: - p... ...ia); Free Romanian Writer Association (Fran ţa); World Academy of Arts and Culture (SUA); Liga Cultural ă Oltenia; East and West Literary Foundation...

...ing, preparing for a time yet to come. In 1958 I met Maria, a lovely West Indian lady who became my first full-time girlfriend. There had been other... ...hom were in sync with either the rhythm of their excited hearts, the West Indian Steel Drum Band, the roving Dixieland Jazz En­ semble, or the moveme... ...n that moment I realized freedom. According to the perverse values of our culture, I had been robbed of the root of my identity. And with the loss o... ...nking and being that are moving us towards the millennium, as "the rising culture" brings sweeping social changes to the global human society. $8.9...

... The Odyssey is not an adventure tale but is a book of wisdom (every great culture has one). We all can use it to profoundly understand ourselves an... ...scribed throughout the Odyssey. Alchemy is something found in all world cultures. It has its own specific language, and it also is described with... ...nspires poets and prophets, leaving to the identity and creativity of each culture the freedom to organize and develop the inspiration they have rec... ...them. The Christian ascetics do not agree with this theory but I prefer Indian wisdom and the wisdom of Homer when dealing with this subject. The... ...oo, is a free choice made by the I Person, helped along or hindered by the culture and the environment it lives in. The type of prayer that I wan... ... Cosmic SELF, is a task that can take a lifetime to accomplish. In Western culture little is mentioned about the connection that must be made betwee...

... story, Mr. Rankin. When Miles died, he left an estate in one of the West Indian islands. It was in charge of an agent who was a sharpish fellow, wit... ... wish he would!! SIR HOWARD. Yes. A few years ago the collapse of the West Indian sugar industry converted the income of the es- tate into an annual l... ...t to have any property either. People will never understand about the West Indian Estate. They’ll think you’re the wicked uncle out of the Babes in th... ...his veins, he is developing artificially in the direction of sleekness and culture 59 Captain Brassbound’s Conversion under the restraints of an over... ... guiltless of any exercise of invention concern- ing the story of the West Indian estate which so very nearly serves as a peg to hang Captain Brassbou...

...te when he won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature. Sadhana is a collection of essays, most of which he gave before the Harvard University, describing Indian beliefs, philosophy and culture from different viewpoints, often making comparison with Western thought and culture. (Summary by Peter Yearsley/Wikipedia)...

... “Beneath low hills, in the broad interval Through which at will our Indian rivulet Winds mindful still of sannup and of squaw, Whose pipe... ...t appears to have been properly named Musketaquid, or Meadow River, by the Indians. For the most part, it creeps through broad meadows, adorned with s... ...lains and valleys of the substantial earth with the moccasoned tread of an Indian warrior, making haste from the high places of the earth to its ancie... ... Shad, and Alewives were formerly abundant here, and taken in weirs by the Indians, who taught this method to the whites, by whom they were used as fo... ...k there, you would go there again.” C HANNING. “The Indians tell us of a beautiful River lying far to the south, which they cal... ...ion of the worthies of the world, betrays the narrowness of his Euro pean culture and the exclusiveness of his reading. None of her children has done... ...Rice of those parts could even comprehend, and long anticipated this man’s culture,—a glance of his pure genius, which did not much enlighten him, but... ...n 211 HenryDavidThoreau to what interests himself. Men and women of equal culture, thrown together, are sure to be of a certain value to one an othe... ...woman who possesses a restless and intelligent mind, interested in her own culture, and earnest to enjoy the high est possible advantages, and I meet...

...N ATURE, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil—to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel... ...tation of man. We are told that within three miles of the center of the East Indian city of Singapore, some of the inhabitants are annually carried of... ... counted the rising cit ies, gazed on the fresh ruins of Nauvoo, beheld the Indians moving west across the stream, and, as before I had looked up the... ... koodoo and other antelopes raw, as a matter of course. Some of our northern Indians eat raw the marrow of the Arctic reindeer, as well as various oth... ...hey stand. They survive as long as the soil is not exhausted. Alas for human culture! little is to be expected of a nation, when the vegetable mould i... ... proportions unknown everywhere else.” I think that the farmer displaces the Indian even because he redeems the meadow, and so makes himself stronger ... ... begrimed with the dust of many a hard fought field. The very winds blew the Indian’s cornfield into the meadow, and pointed out the way which he had ... ...ve that I demand something which no Au gustan nor Elizabethan age, which no culture, in short, can give. Mythology comes nearer to it than anything. ... ...the skins of the dog and the sheep tanned.” But it is not the part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious; and ...

...ermines, or rather indicates, his fate. Self emancipation even in the West Indian provinces of the fancy and imagina Walden 7 tion what Wilberforce... ... I have Walden 17 not set my heart on that. Not long since, a strolling Indian went to sell baskets at the house of a well known lawyer in my neigh... ...he asked. “No, we do not want any,” was the reply. “What!” ex claimed the Indian as he went out the gate, “do you mean to starve us?” Having seen hi... ...mmer, it was formerly Walden 25 almost solely a covering at night. In the Indian ga zettes a wigwam was the symbol of a day’s march, and a row of th... ... first how slight a shelter is absolutely necessary. I have seen Penobscot Indians, in this town, living in tents of thin cotton cloth, while the snow... ..., I am deterred, for, so to speak, the country is not yet adapted to human culture, and we are still forced to cut our spiritual bread far thinner tha... ...s of intellect and genius, and is sensible only of the imperfection of his culture and the vanity and insufficiency of all his riches, and further pro... ...e by the pains which be takes to secure for his children that intellectual culture whose want he so keenly feels; and thus it is that he becomes the f... ... not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There is in this town, with a very few ex ceptions, no ...

...shall never forget. Miss Mackie was a member of one of the oldest and most cultured families of the North, and yet for two weeks she worked by my side... ...training, whether in the languages or mathematics, that gives strength and culture to the mind —but at the same time to give them the most thorough tr... ...ent was being tried for the first time, by General Armstrong, of education Indians at Hampton. Few people then had any confidence in the ability of th... ...dians at Hampton. Few people then had any confidence in the ability of the Indians to receive education and to profit by it. General Armstrong was anx... ...tern states over one hundred wild and for the most part perfectly ignorant Indians, the greater proportion of whom were young men. The special work wh... ... which the General desired me to do was be a sort of “house father” to the Indian young men—that is, I was to live in the building with them and have ... ...g to Hampton, I took up my residence in a building with about seventy-five Indian youths. I was the only person in the building who was not a member o... ...ntage, for the reason that I found the white people possessing a degree of culture and education that is not surpassed by many localities. While the c... ...th of the world in the direction of giving mankind more intelligence, more culture, more skill, more liberty, and in the direction of extending more s...

...to * The stories of the early Scandinavians. **An English authority on the culture of orchards and gardens. 5 Henry David Thoreau England, thence to ... ...f France” is said to be “a great resource for the wild boar.” Not only the Indian, but many indigenous insects, birds, and quadrupeds, welcomed the ap... ...limit. HOW THE WILD APPLE GROWS B UT THOUGH THESE ARE INDIGENOUS, like the Indians, I doubt whether they are any hardier than those back-woodsmen amon...

...ch them agri INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 23 culture and the domestic arts; to encourage them to that industry which a... ... the cultivator against the casualties incident to foreign markets. With the Indian tribes it is our duty to cultivate friendly relations and to act w... ...ithin their limits. It secures us against all future annoyance from powerful Indian tribes. It gives us several excellent harbors in the Gulf of Mexic... ...the same time that they made it more se cure and permanent. The care of the Indian tribes within our limits has long been an essential part of our sy... ...to all the great interests of the nation; to promote the civilization of the Indian tribes, and to proceed in the great system of internal improve me... ...in my power. It will be my sincere and constant desire to observe toward the Indian tribes within our limits a just and liberal policy, and to give th... ...on are much more so, for no such nation can long exist with out the careful culture of those feelings of confidence and affection which are the effec... ...vering and have been able to meet all the requirements of the service. Agri culture has been very slow in reviving, but the price of cereals at last ... ... interest with them. They are each of them building a racial character and a culture which is an impressive contribution to human progress. We wish on...

...n which the Dorian dwelt. The Chinese pagoda is plainly a Tartar tent. The Indian and Egyptian temples still betray the mounds and subter- ranean hous... ... path of science and of letters is not the way into nature. The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer’s boy stand nearer to the light by ... ... secur- ing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most re- quest is conformity. Self-rel... ... beam over the universe as on the first morning. 2. It is for want of self-culture that the superstition of Travelling, whose idols are Italy, England... ...ts of Egypt, history honestly confesses that man must have been as free as culture could make him. These appearances indicate the fact that the univer... ...l and of *St. Augustine, Confessions, B. I. 59 Emerson its moral aim. The Indian mythology ends in the same ethics; and it would seem impossible for ... ...se like a thickening of the skin until the vital organs are destroyed. But culture, revealing the high origin of the apparent world and aiming at the ... ...out railing or precision his living is natural and poetic. John Eliot, the Indian Apostle, drank water, and said of wine,—”It is a noble, generous liq... ...e. This circumstance gives a value to the Egyp- tian hieroglyphics, to the Indian, Chinese and Mexican idols, however gross and shapeless. They denote...

...es. Refulgent gold, and silver thrice refin’d, And scarlet grain and ceruse, Indian wood Of lucid dye serene, fresh emeralds But newly broken, by the ... ... such a growth has sprung Of rank and venom’d roots, as long would mock Slow culture’s toil. Where is good Lizio? where Manardi, Traversalo, and Carpi... ... fire: nor I alone, but these All for thine answer do more thirst, than doth Indian or Aethiop for the cooling stream. Tell us, how is it that thou ma... ...e more of kindly strength is in the soil, So much doth evil seed and lack of culture The Divine Comedy of Dante Purgatory 88 Mar it the more, and ... ...re as more they rose, Were such, as ‘midst their forest wilds for height The Indians might have gaz’d at. “Blessed thou! Gryphon, whose beak hath neve... ...eater moderation” v. 39. Its tresses.] Daniel, c. iv. 10, &c. v. 41. The Indians.] Quos oceano proprior gerit India lucos. Virg. Georg. 1. ii. 1... ...roprior gerit India lucos. Virg. Georg. 1. ii. 122, Such as at this day to Indians known. Milton, P. L. b. ix. 1102. v. 51. When large floods of ra...