... 1 The End of Comparative Philosophy and the Task of Comparative ThinkingHeidegger andthe Other Commencement | 31never appears as such, for then it would be a thing and thus nameable and handed ... erent from the Other. The Auseinandersetzung is an encounter of the Self andthe Other, and we must learn to let go of the assertively polemic connotations which often accompany the word “confrontation,” ... alert the reader to these problems throughout the book, but I nevertheless venture forth. The main focus is thus on lan-guage and on the logos of dialogue, and on the supposed Nothingness as the...
... refuteitself endlessly. Levinas’s response to this return of the refuted istwofold. On the one hand, it attests to the saying of the said, to the fact that the self-contradictory nature of the thesis (the ... speakof the other and others, when it is a question of the third, of justice and politics, must I not necessarily rejoin the theoret-ical language and logic of theodicy? But let us remain with the ... Levinasstandswith Job and against the theodicy of the friends. This wouldbe a more familiar interpretation. But note that it is not only the friends who stand indicted in their propounding of a theodicy,...
... community costs and benefits. Related to the preceding proposition is the perceived share of the commu-nity cost imposed on, andthe benefit to be garnered by, the individual. The greater the perception ... 7, and 8; and members of 4, 7, and 8may be managed by allowing them the opportunity and/ orability to share in the benefits. P7 returns to a considerationof the importance of self-interest and ... however, they donot have the ability to tell their friends that they would ratherplay ball than drink. They continue to drink because they donot want to be perceived as socially deviant; they...
... funded research and development center sponsored by the OSD, the Joint Staff, the Unified Combatant Commands, the Department of the Navy, the Marine Corps, the defense agencies, andthe defense ... 3).Colonial Times e events in England of the 17th century were all familiar to the American colonists. Ideas concerning service, the role of the militia, and the hostility toward the concept of a standing ... than did those drafted during the Civil War (Chambers, 1991). Even then, when the needs of the mass army ended, so did the need and legitimacy of the draft.17 While there was some interest in...
... of all the chemical and physiological changes that takeplace within the body. This includes the transformation of food intoenergy, the growth and repair of muscle and bone tissue, andthe creationof ... concepts:• The health risks of being overfat• The role that metabolism plays in fat gain and loss• The dangers of the reverse fat pattern andthe hormonal differencesin men and women• The changes ... normal woman car-ries hers in the hips and buttocks area. When your fat crosses the line and your body begins to take on the fat pattern of the oppositegender, then you have developed a potentially...
... Sopplimenti[musicali]…. Therefore there is another practice, which we shall call the second. But if we decideto call the practice of the Greeks and Romans another practice (and there is no doubt that ... father-in-law, and friend. His vision stands behind the book as its direct and itsdialectical stimuli, and his insight has allowed him to understand and encourage my need for both.He read the ... with the observation of the precepts and good rules left by the Theorists and observed by allpractitioners, we can reach our goal, then what point is there in going beyond these limits and searching...
... Europe and Eurasia, and the chapters in the second half of the book focus explicitly on this region and its problems after theend of communism in 1989 andthe collapse of the 32 THEORY AND COMPARISONas ... his agenda for the future. But by and large, the idea was not far-fetched: that theend of proxy wars, fueled by the ambitions of great powers and marketed with the rhetoric of capitalism and ... identities and their attendant sense of communal solidarity are not immutable, but they are enduring; the trappings of nationalism, while themselves surely invented and manipulated by political and...
... situa-tion: the news media view every jab at Darwin as a resuscitation of theBible fun-damentalists from the black -and- white movie. The hard sciences suffered their own cultural blow in the 1960s, the ... the universe (often in Latin). Nextare the mathematical formulas that explain the substance of the parts and howthey move, and then what scientists call the “metaphors”—tree of life, big bang,double ... grasp the sheercomplexity. With simplicity and general readers in mind, I have avoided the mathematics and draw sparingly on the parts andthe metaphors. This book talksmostly with scientists and...
... experience, and then became quite independently the source of the goring-ox laws of the Book of Exodus.75He left the exact source undefined: the biblical rules derive their inspiration from these ... legal texts, in the INVENTING GOD’S LAW Introduction: The Basic Thesis and Background 5extend to Israel and Judah until the mid-ninth-century BCE and not significantly so until the mid-eighth ... theory of textual dependence. The present study contends that the similarities between CC and LH are of such a nature that they allow for hypothesizing the existence, and CC’s use, of minor...
... asking them, she prepared a tray oficed tea and sandwiches and carried the tray out to them on the curb. The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments ... or what they are.They will bow lightly and then come over and put the gentlest hand on a part of your body whereyou are deeply wounded. With their most loving care, let them touch the part ... as the Coconut Monk on an island in the Mekong Delta. When our boat arrived, the monksgreeted us and showed us around. They explained to us their teachings of peace and nonviolence.Then they...
... speak of the experience to the one he had shared it with, his grandfather. The scream of agony was matchedby the silence and shame in which the experience was buried.Sometimes the bond with the ... self and other and we experience the other from the inside of life as such.In this profound experience of self and other, merged and yet separatelypresent, silence becomes the fertile void the ... as Field and Reciprocity 634 What Beauty Can Tell Us: The Face of Nature 955 A Severe and Pervasive Apathy: Trauma, Destructiveness, and theEnd of the World 1296 The Future andthe Possible...
... fixed. The deformations of theend plate,vertebral body, and basivertebral vein were calculated. The change of the vertebral body volume and cross-sec-tional areas along the basivertebral vein and ... model andthe basivertebral vein were then computed.Results: The volume change of the vertebral body was about 0.1 cm3 (16.3% of the basivertebralvein) for the four loading conditions. The ... vertebralbody and cross-sectional areas and that of the basivertebral vein, due to the inward bulging of the end plate under compression. This volume change could initiate the reverse flow of blood from the epidural...
... purposes)distinctive as are the cultures, and they change and evolvewith them [2]. The "role of dying" andthe belief in Everlasting LifeIn the past, the acceptance of the role of dying was ... home. The first things I saw were there, the first scents, the first tastes, the earth, the wheat fields , the idea of going back to the placefrom where you left off, to return to your mother's ... the event demands an adequate script and ritual, where aes-thetic canons are elevated compared to everyday stand-ards; an aesthetics that is supposed has been expressed in times and cultures of the...