Ancient Wisdom

[criança, filho(a)]. Places (lugares): village (vila), school (escola, colégio, faculdade), Chicago. Things (coisas): computer (computador), tree (árvore), cereal. Ideas (ideias), abstractions (abstrações), feelings (sentimentos), states (estados): wisdom (sabedoria), concentration (concentração), freedom (liberdade), joy (alegria), love (amor), fear (medo),faith (fé). Actions (ações): writing (escrita), dance (dança), walk (caminhada). Qualities (qualidades): honesty…

cases much more figurative, realist, than all the images from past cultures. It is in its resemblance, not only analogical but technological, that the image is most immoral and perverse.29 For Baudrillard then, as Debray rather nicely puts it, the ancient homo videns has become engulfed by homo ludens and a false sense of play.30 To play only with images is in this neo-reformist analysis to lose the real, to go blind if blindness is defined as the inability to see the truth. The…

hermeticism and alchemy, previously ignored by historians as “occult” and irrelevant “magic” provided the substrate for the rise of modern science. Coudert concluded “that it was not Hermeticism but rather a revived Gnosticism in combination with ancient science which launched the outlook of Bacon, Comenius, Hartlib, and, later, Newton.”17 Whether or not such 17th-century thinkers were, in fact, 13 Stephen D. Snobelen, “Isaac Newton, Heretic: The Strategies of a Nicodemite,” BJHS…

and economic features of the Hellenistic world. In: WALBANK, F. W. et al. (Eds.). The Cambridge Ancient History. v. 7, part 1: the Hellenistic world. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. p. 257-320. EHRENBERG, Victor. The Greek state. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1960. FERGUSON, W. S. The leading ideas of the new period. In: COOK, S. A.; ADCOCK, F. E.; CHARLESWORTH, M. P. (Eds.). The Cambridge ancient history. v. 7: the Hellenistic monarchies and the rise of Rome. Cambridge:…

silence until they came to the place where the forest fell utterly away before the deep gorge that surrounded the elven capital. Here, since ancient times, was the city's first line of defense, a gorge no mounted man could cross, one that men on foot would be mad to try. Two bridges spanned this gorge, and these were of fast burning wood. Elves had, in ancient times, died defending that bridge, had a time or two had reason to burn it and deny the crossing to foes. Sir Chance wiped…

torment and pain in such magnitude, it has often been worse than death itself. Who, if not the Creator, is the Source of that suffering? Throughout history, how many individuals have been willing to suffer and endure any pain in order to attain superior wisdom and to achieve spiritual elevation? How many of them voluntarily subjected themselves to unbearable agonies for the sake of finding at least a drop of spiritual perception and understanding of the Higher Force, and for the sake of…

Das Menschenbild des Alten Testaments, 1949. 10 Cf. K. GALLING, Das Bild vom Menschen in biblíscher Sicht, p. 68.; W. ZIMMERLI, Das Menschenbild des Alten Testaments, p. 38. 11 A. R. JOHNSON, The Vitalíty of the Individual in the Thought of Ancient Israel, 1949. 12 G. Pmoux, L'homme dans l'Ancien Testament, 1953. § 1. INTRODuÇAo 24 vida." Seguindo a trilha de uma especialização crescente em todos os ramos do saber, foram aparecendo depois monografias exaustivas sobre…

em seu pensamento, o que levou muitos comentadores atuais a classificá-la como uma “teóloga feminista” – ou a ser reverenciada pelos movimentos feministas do século XX, através, por exemplo, de Bárbara Newman, especialmente em sua obra Sister of wisdom: St. Hildegard’ theology of th feminine, de 1997 –, não podemos dizer que de fato Não é por acaso que a maioria das personagens simbólicas das visões de Hildegarda aparece com formas femininas, como, por exemplo, quando descreve e…

teriam transformado uma imagem pretensamente homogênea em suas origens em um conjunto poliédrico de doutrinas e personagens. O próprio Burkert afirma isso no Prefácio à edição alemã de sua obra fundamental sobre o pitagorismo, Lore and Science in Ancient Pythagoreanism: Se Pitágoras não se apresenta às nossas mentes como uma figura bem delineada, em pé na luz brilhante da história, isto não é simplesmente o resultado de acidentes ao longo do percurso da tradição histórica (Burkert 1972:…

detours. Yet for all its flaws, it was still the fastest way out of the mountains. The Spine was one of the only places that King Galbatorix could not call his own. Stories were still told about how half his army disappeared after marching into its ancient forest. A cloud of misfortune and bad luck seemed to hang over it. Though the trees grew tall and the sky shone brightly, few people could stay in the Spine for long without suffering an accident. Eragon was one of those few—not…