Philosophy, and in particular metaphysics, has been killed off again and again, day after day, the deed done by a variety of assassins: eighteenth-cen...
I am agree that Bushido has some failures in the practice of the doctrine. But to be honest, I really think the problem is not in the samurai's part b...
I understand and respect your point. I didn't like war (even Mishima was rejected by Japanese army...) but I really respect the Samurai/Bushido though...
Exactly. It is very complex to get into Nirvana and Buddhism because it is a very deep content. Understand the history of India is pretty important to...
Probably you are interested in reading this: THE BASIC TEACHINGS OF BUDDHISM Because there is no substance or duration in Buddhism, the Buddhist view ...
Agreed :up: I only want to add a brief comment on your argument: The suffering or act of suffering caused by uncertainty. We never really know what wo...
Exactly. But this specific job has more hierarchy than autonomous regions so the state is the only one with competencies. Another similar examples: Ju...
Yes, you are close. But the work I am studying for is based on national laws. I live in Spain and we do not have states or ranches here. We are centra...
The test was for a public work. It is called land recorder. There were 182 topics included in the exam. But the exam is random and it only comes 4 dif...
This is the thread I was thinking of yesterday. Whenever I received the message: unsuitable I thought my life is a completely disaster. I came across ...
Yesterday I had an exam. I have been preparing for this more than three years. Sadly, I end up failing... Probably nobody noticed my absence in these ...
Just to add some more comments to your arguments, I would like to share a good work called How to Do Things With Words by J.L. Austin. According to th...
You are right. I should had started with a basic definition of mythology. The paper I read a few days ago contains a brief definition of what we can c...
Agree. I will never understood the tendency to degrade both philosophy and Greek mythology. My only guess is that some powerful people who control the...
It is true that an ordinary person doesn't care about mathematical formulas. Nevertheless, I assume that he or she gives more credibility to scientifi...
I experienced the same feeling :cry: I remember starting some threads and didn't get any answer... but as you perfectly said: that's not my prime moti...
To be honest, I personally think most of the people think in this way. In my view there are two different types of language: pure linguistic (fulfille...
Thanks for your kindly words, Amity. Appreciated them a lot. Whenever I start a thread I am worried about if the users would like it or not... I fully...
Yes, that's true. I didn't want to put the point number 5 because I was worried about being so tiresome. Nevertheless, I see you shared ir anyway, so ...
Completely agree. Sadly, we currently live in a social context which depends on scientific materialism. It looks like the truth is based on some mathe...
:lol: plot twist: countries with a deep tradition in Hinduism tend to have similar rituals. Such as India and Thailand: Hindus, though, aren’t the onl...
Sure, there are some cons towards mythology. A good example could be the lack of innovation.. Most of the tales pass through the story tellers without...
Thank you to you for taking part in my thread! :sparkle: Another common personification: Sun has a God Rê in Egyptian mythology; Helios in Greek mytho...
We were losing a lot of originality, indeed. I am agree with you in the fact that we should be more critical with our insight but... where is our real...
Agreed! This is a good difference between myth and philosophy too: the cause behind all things and arguments. That reduction of common cause come from...
:up: :flower: Related to muses there is also another interesting fact: there are no Muses of plastic arts (painting, sculpture, architecture), or of p...
:up: :yum: Fortunately! I think this is the path we should to keep. Never forget where art, literature, myths, philosophy come from. One of our duties...
Well, yes. I also think that the paper I shared fails to put mythopoetic in epistemology. But I didn't pretend to claim that I was agree with the auth...
That's a very good point, indeed. I wasn't aware of the process of transition. It is another big difference we have to consider of. It is true that (a...
Yes, it is :up: You already shared a link where that topic was discussed. Nevertheless, I found another paper who looks so interesting and I think it ...
I found in the paper a very important quote about Plato: The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consis...
Enjoy your retreat, friend. Art can only be understood in loneliness. :flower: May this song follow you, how you well taught me! :sparkle: https://m.y...
"Non-human" ancestors appeared again in another OP of yours but you didn't explain who are our non-human ancestors yet. So, if you pretend guarantee t...
:clap: :100: As Noble Dust explained previously, it is necessary to makes us feel an emotion that we don't usually feel. After seeing the paint I don'...
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