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The Silver Lining: Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

...t – The Fourth Law of Robotics IX. Surrogates: The Interrupted Self X. Avatar: The Ecology of Environmentalism XI. The Invention of Lying: Fact and... ... suicide, go bankrupt, endure major depressive episodes, do drugs. But this massive landscape of resulting devastation does not deter him. He prefer... ...tently immoral, that the film loses its urgent ambivalence, its surrealistic moral landscape and deteriorates into another banal comedy of situatio... ...n is often neglected or wilfully ignored. Also Read: Psychophysics Return The Ecology of Environmentalism "It wasn't just predictable curmud... ...he straitjacket of the formalism of distributive justice - known as human-welfare ecology or emancipatory environmentalism - backfired. These led ... ... tendencies and is gradually being scientifically debunked. The proponents of deep ecology radicalize the ideas of social ecology ad absurdum and p...

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From Chaos to Harmony

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...ality. For this reason, while we are trying to cope with one problem, such as ecology, other problems will emerge from all sides, and ever more quic... ... Faerman, A. Oppenheim, The Y chromosome pool of Jews as part of the genetic landscape of the Middle East, The American Journal of Human Genetics, ...

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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

...hoose their future, to hang on to their local structures, their own ethnic landscape, the customs of local communities and human values? The informati... ...tinguishing features; the many thousands of human forms of living, village landscapes, different languages and dialects, different folk music, the who... ..., I'd build one of those bungalow-style houses. I think it suits a village landscape, too. Here in our village, we only have one house with a grass ro... ...as it's made of bricks and concrete and they are easy to get. It suits the landscape on a good road, but not in a forest. It's quite popular today. Th... ...ds were adapted to the nature of riversides, and they formed the cultural landscape of the river valleys. (1 Lampang City lies in the heart of the... ...e education and production of an urban workforce. (15 Theories of cultural ecology consider the choices made by individual people to be the foundation... ...2001; 9.3.2001; 22.3.2001; 22.11.2001. Finland: STAKES 2003. 52. On the ecology of opium farming by mountain peoples Geddes 1976. On drug-related c... ...2001; 9.3.2001; 22.3.2001; 22.11.2001. Finland: STAKES 2003. 52. On the ecology of opium farming by mountain peoples Geddes 1976. On drug-related c... ...odemocraphic Variation and Family Composition in Four Thai Villages. Human Ecology Vol. 10, No 4, 439– 454. Freedman, Maurice 1970 (1958). Lineage Or...

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The Religious Dimension

By: Donald Broadribb

...nes The Dreaming is the joining of time and space. Totemic Beings gave the landscape the form it has, and became transformed into the specific feature... ... the form it has, and became transformed into the specific features of the landscape, while also continuously becoming the various animal and vegetati... ...d their con- tinuing support by that land. For example, the open park-like landscape of much of the fertile regions of the continent has been enhanced... ... is the primary content of the myths of The Dreaming. They transformed the landscape as they established “tracks” through the hunting and wandering in... ...the culture. Often the Totemic Beings then metamorphosed into parts of the landscape. Features such as rock formations, caves, old trees, or waterhole... ...dentification with the world which Aboriginal peoples experience. The deep ecology of modern theorists such as Arne Naess 155 offers a “new” conscious... ...rne Naess 155 offers a “new” consciousness for Western cul- ture, yet deep ecology is fundamentally the intuitive wisdom of indigenous people worldwid... ...y a source of fulfillment for our physical and psychologi- cal needs. Deep ecology arises from the experience of organic whole- ness with our world, a... ...hical, noncompetitive, less regulated, and very much anticonsumerism. Deep ecology, in which nature is recognized as part of the self, accords with Ju...

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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...iched between a bluff and a lake reflecting the marginal space of the Korean landscape. There were no classes for a while and the day was there to cel... ...fts that were tied to a few docks at a distance, he thought about the Korean landscape in general images: the croaking of frogs in the irrigated rice ... ...human creatures; and they weren't always so firmly in their right minds. The landscape seen from the moving bus was unremarkable but still the beauty ... ...reener fabric of grass after the evening's rain and exploring a more oceanic landscape with his sister as they splashed through an alien terrain in th... ...nt on how free to be greedy things could get without entirely destroying the ecology that was the base of it all whereas the original communism of Tro... ...it. On weekends they often went to nurseries to buy shrubs and trees for the landscape of her home as well as that of the school; but one Saturday mor...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...ody politic of "the Proletariat"). It failed and when it unravelled, it revealed a landscape of toxic devastation, frozen in time, an ossified natu... ...) meanings can be thought of as attractors. Contexts can be thought of as attractor landscapes in the phase space of language. They can also be desc... ...r landscapes in the phase space of language. They can also be described as fitness landscapes with optimum epistasis (interdependence of values ass... ... the rich, industrialized countries) is moonstruck. It surfs this beautiful, white landscape, in suspended disbelief. It holds it breath. It dares ... ...orders Indeed, personality disorders are an excellent example of the kaleidoscopic landscape of "objective" psychiatry. The classification of Axis ... ...the straitjacket of the formalism of distributive justice - known as human-welfare ecology or emancipatory environmentalism - backfired. These led ... ... tendencies and is gradually being scientifically debunked. The proponents of deep ecology radicalize the ideas of social ecology ad absurdum and p...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...ody politic of "the Proletariat"). It failed and when it unravelled, it revealed a landscape of toxic devastation, frozen in time, an ossified natu... ...) meanings can be thought of as attractors. Contexts can be thought of as attractor landscapes in the phase space of language. They can also be desc... ...r landscapes in the phase space of language. They can also be described as fitness landscapes with optimum epistasis (interdependence of values ass... ... the rich, industrialized countries) is moonstruck. It surfs this beautiful, white landscape, in suspended disbelief. It holds it breath. It dares ... ...orders Indeed, personality disorders are an excellent example of the kaleidoscopic landscape of "objective" psychiatry. The classification of Axis ... ...the straitjacket of the formalism of distributive justice - known as human-welfare ecology or emancipatory environmentalism - backfired. These led ... ... tendencies and is gradually being scientifically debunked. The proponents of deep ecology radicalize the ideas of social ecology ad absurdum and p...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

... many ways in which state communications policy is set and the communicative landscape tilted to favor the rich and powerful. 54 Macaulay worried abou... ...rate rock as a Ché Guevara, fighting heroically to bring about a new creative landscape in music. (It is almost as hard to take seriously the record in... ... the story of DeCSS, this little controversy has a lot to teach us about the landscape of intellectual property disputes, about the mental topography ... ... much on the DMCA, to the exclusion of the rest of the intellectual property landscape. Yes, the DMCA offers enormous potential for abuse, particularl... ...fear of legal action from the landmine patents that litter the technological landscape. As far as the participants are concerned, the patent pool is a... ... time, to rec- ognize its importance, and to change the way we thought about ecology, property, and economics in consequence. What we need is an envir... ...eeply influenced by two basic analytical frameworks. The first was the idea of ecology: the fragile, complex, and unpredictable interconnections between... ...rming. Despite the importance of these other factors, the ideas I mentioned— ecology and welfare economics—were extremely important for the environ- m... ...st as earth science built upon research into the fragile interconnections of ecology and on the Pigouvian analysis of eco- nomic externalities. I argu...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...ve studied. Stone-age tribes all over the world regularly set fire to entire landscapes. Fire was used as a form of mass slaughter to kill animals ... ...et firewood. Even when they can visibly see how they are destroying the very landscape around them and turning it into a mud-packed, filth-strewn, u... ...all positive feedback being destroyed and taken away from them. By living in landscapes of desolation and death with nothing alive, not one living t... ...how how ecologically responsible they are: as they systematically destroy the ecology of other living things. Science does the same. Science shows ... ...hey would have fled and never returned back to. To have a magically whitened landscape turn black… after rains which had before, cleansed the fores... ... build your house, where you will dig your well, lay your pipes, how you will landscape it, which trees you will cut down, which ones you will keep. ... ...they cooperate knowingly or unknowingly is totally irrelevant. The fields of ecology and eco-systems is based upon the fact that there are no excep...

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