Sunday, September 26, 2010

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Kant's moral law and the laws of the state: conflict or cooperation?

This saw yet another mind ... er, discussion, started as usual from my shamelessly lurk bioethics and news sites looking for the most number of articles (abortion, euthanasia , free unions, artificial insemination, cloning, and similar amenities). I noticed that on the most "modernist", who often deny the individualism and selfishness that permeates the being contemporary human to the marrow, is often referred to self, personal responsibility, to complete freedom over his own body and mind. In contrast, on the most "conservative" (both of Catholic lay people), I found a strong moral sense attached to the laws of the State and the duties it imposes on the person. So it has awakened in me an old question, brought up by my former professor of philosophy: the relationship between Kant's moral law and the laws of the State.
My dear professor, exasperated by the continuing oversight of my fellow (yes, I was a real nerd, even the math teacher listened without saying a word!) used to say:
" do not have to listen to me because I punish you, but because you are convinced that it is the right thing to do! . Result? One can imagine ^ _ ^. I do not know how Mancini has endured a whole year to my class.
The reference to Kant's moral law is explicit in the words of Professor, as well as criticism of any kind of moral philosopher heteronomous, that is externally imposed and intended to achieve an end. The laws of the state fall into this second category. Are imposed by an entity external to man and provide for specific rights, duties and responsibilities, mandatory, otherwise the various sanctions and penalties (in extreme cases).
the mentality of today tend to emphasize now to one now to another form of regulation, without pausing to reflect that they are not mutually exclusive but complement each other. Just as the modernist and the conservative position are both ends up wrong. I will try, in my small way, to show that a synthesis is possible.
Starting from Kant's moral law (known in short, every book that then change the words!):
"Always act in such a way that the maxim of thy will may become the law of universal value"
It is clear from way, which indicated that the law has a value FORMAL. It guides you in the law. And as the law encourages the exercise of willpower on the impulse of feeling. You have to because, regardless of what you want. Count the principle upstream of the will, the intention with which it operates. This principle is found precisely in the form of the moral law. So that the good is given by following the moral law.
Against any wrong interpretation, Kant is specific to each individual to translate into reality the moral law, depending on the conditions under which it is located. These conditions involve the interaction of some single individual with more people, in a network of various social relations. And here comes the fun part. How do I to enforce for all people the moral law? Because it is rational and objective, it must be true beyond human needs. In theory. But in practice can be realized?
Because the moral law is independent of individual experience, needs to force a sponsor who can ensure the implementation without contradicting it. This guarantor is the state conceived by Kant. In fact, the philosopher does not deny at all, as a good rationalist, the laws of the State and its function. He knows very well that the man has strong selfish impulses and therefore needs to be regulated by law.
State for him to be based on three principles:
- Freedom
- Equality in front of the law
- Independence man that free
Only such a state can drive according to the moral law and its own laws, which in fact derived from the first, society.
Now, the company is something natural and necessary in human history and must not allow neither individualism nor other types of queens despotic. Although cosmopolitan, Kant recognizes the importance of society as a place where men relate to each other evolve. But this development is only possible if every man, even if they conflict with each other, shall be guided by laws. This significant statement, for which men are like trees:
" are forced to find another one above the other and of themselves, because they grow beautiful and straight, while others, who, in freedom and isolated each other, bring arms to taste grow up crippled, crooked and winding. "
This tells us that yes we have freedom over our bodies and our minds, but we're not really men if we fail to relate to each other. The ethical dimension of man, I repeat what I said in the preceding, it begins when he enters the other. The other is a mirror, a promotion, the spark that ignite the flame.
However, it remains the problem of emotional sphere. Kant relegated to the noumenal and puts it in the shade than the right, and I think this is a serious error, which affected the validity of his theories in later philosophical systems. The sentiment is an impulse and that is what drives us to know, to love and open ourselves to life. A life force, the main engine of man. But the sentiment can, and should be aided by reason. Especially in the social and relational. Before you say I'm free to do what I feel, nobody can force me to feel certain feelings and emotions, to have ties to a third party, you must also think: ok, it is pure hypocrisy to pretend emotions, but the other person? I really have the right to hurt her just because I do not like a genius? And here
successor respect, duty, and the educational force of the law. Why selfish impulse is human and natural, but only if it bears fruit allows the person to live in harmony with others without sacrificing their individuality. The heteronomous moral, mitigated the influence of the sphere of thumb on them, as are the younger sisters of Kantian moral law. It puts into practice the moral law, to ensure their compliance without forcing it, and foster the individual.
rules and obligations are not loops around the neck, but useful and necessary for man to cultivate the strength of will and the good called freedom. The problem today is precisely to have a weak will, as now only relying on the modernist position now only a conservative can not be that mature. The prohibitions are used to this, to give the limits and make it understand its importance. I conclude with the second moral law (there are three but the first to include all) of Kant, which summarizes a bit 'all the talk about the company:
"Make sure you always treat your neighbor as an end and never merely as a means ".

Saturday, September 25, 2010

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St. Hildegard of Bingen: 'witch' Christian

The title of this post is contradictory, I know, perhaps ridiculous, but it is not. The character which I am about to speak, Hildegard of Bingen, is a figure very unique in the Western esoteric and mystical. First of all, it is striking that this is a woman. Today, the esoteric (commonly known as witches or sorcerers, but also by many other names) are perhaps more numerous and more capable than males in magic, but at the time of Hildegard was not the case. Hildegard lived during the Middle Ages and is able to enjoy a unique freedom and comparable to that of men, anticipating the advent of the concept of chivalry and courtly woman, but some modern women's claims.
Hildegard was born in 1098 in a village near Alzey, Rhenish Hesse, a pair of noble. Satuli weak from an early age, Hildegard was sent to eight years in the convent of Disibodenberg. But the real cause of this transfer is supposed to be another. The girl always shows her dowry with her more often, or clairvoyance. Understanding, reasoning on this information, as the facts are easy.
At that time people, especially women, considered magical or supernatural gifts that they had to choose between two paths: to go into a convent and become mystics or be accused of witchcraft. The noble or at least those with more economic opportunities chose the first option, while the others were automatically condemned. I have already spoken on the Inquisition in the post.
short, Hildegard has all it takes to become a witch with the flakes. Fortunately, the parents decide to act before it is too late and recommend to the daughter Jutta of Sponheim, another young aristocrat who takes the task of educating Hildegard. And so the child can reveal all of its incredible potential to become an adult, a very influential person outside the monastery. Despite having a quiet character, in fact, Hildegard did not send word to anyone and is not afraid of anything. Quarrels with the Emperor Frederick Pope legitimized when they oppose the three anti-popes, ending their friendship, and she responds in kind to some of the monks who criticize his style too "free." In fact, Hildegard uses dressing magnificently during the holidays and is adorned with jewelry of her companions, because the woman is for her benevolence and charity of Christ. But this woman is famous for having revived the concept, foreshadowed by the "macho" of the Church, the feminine side of God the Creator He used it to call God Mother, identifying this aspect of the feminine personification of Wisdom (the Hebrew Shekinah cabalistic and that I talked so much about the old post). And Wisdom is the inspiration for his mystical visions that Hildegard contains the following books:
Scivias (you know the way): consists of three parts, with a clear reference to the Trinity. The first illustrates the nature of God and the cosmos, the choirs of angels, the creation of man. In the second speaks of the Fall and the Church. In the third concludes with the divine virtues and with the advent of the Kingdom of God
Meritorum Liber Vitae (Books of the merits of life): describes in detail the virtues and human penis, with consequences in the afterlife
Liber Divinorum Operum (The book of divine works): basically a Christian cosmology, however, focused on the role of men and women (to emphasize the fairness of the two genres to the holy and the special dignity that she was the female sex ) in creation, seen as co-creator next to the angels and God's interests Hildegard

not end there. She is passionate about music and art, composing Carmina and the Ordo Virtutum (description of the Christian virtues to music), accompanying all of his writings with thumbnails worthy of being on a par with those of the most skilled ammanuensi. But are the works of esoteric flavor of natural magic to be more precise, to make a figure so important. These works are divided into:
Physica (Natural History): collect botanical and medical knowledge of his era. Is the healing power of herbs and stones, covering both scientific and holistic psychology. It is striking that the proposed remedies are valid, with slight modifications, to this day.
Liber causae et Curae (Book of the diseases and remedies): classifies various psycho-physical ailments of the person deciding on the basis of symptoms and type of patient the proper care. Important because it introduces the concept of "personal care", that is specific to each person (in fact, as we know today, the drugs may have different effects depending on who takes them).
Before concluding with the comment, I must mention the interest of Hildegard for the field we now call sexology. What revolutionary for its time and certainly not trivial. Hildegard fact gives great value to sex, seen as vital energy, both procreative point that the psychological-emotional. Body and soul are united to her, and then there is nothing shameful in carnal relations. Also stands out, which is confirmed by scholars, sexuality experienced by humans and that experienced by the woman. The man tends to be more "hot" and passionate, physically linked to the instinct, the woman rather more sober and reflective, as it mainly involved psychologically and emotionally. No wonder the rest of these statements. Christianity itself has never condemned the sex, he gave only the limits. The little people who have too much respect, like Tertullian (eh, was obsessed!), St. Augustine (well, he had his reasons), and Fathers of the Church some Westerners do not represent Christianity in its entirety. Clement of Alexandria stated that there is not one organ in the body of which to be ashamed and the major Western mystics such as Hildegard did not reject all human body size. During the Middle Ages to demonize the body we have thought a lot about the Cathars and the various Gnostic groups, precisely contrary to the Christian mystics (St. Francis composed the Canticle of the Creatures in open opposition to the Cathar view of the world) Just
body size is the basis of esoteric thought St. Hildegard. Its great merit is that it has enhanced the magic conception of the cosmos that had the pagans, or natural unity of the macrocosm the human microcosm. As in ancient magic nature had its own life, in the writings of Hildegard Viriditas it is pervaded by the vital energy that is placed by God in creation. By virtue of this energy plants, rocks and natural compounds act on the human body by changing both the physical and mental. This medicine is therefore holistic as it does not split the body from the psychic sphere and considers the individual parts on the basis of everything. The disease appears as Hildegard alteration of the interior of the human body, a lack of Viriditas, and therefore treatable with the help of natural elements that are full of vital energy and act as ricarira. Man può vivere bene solo se vive in armonia con il creato e, attraverso di esso, con Dio e con l'energia verdeggiante del cosmo.
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Friday, September 24, 2010

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A myth debunked: Tolkien's elves and chaste love

For some time I was dying to write this post, exactly when I received this winter Morgoth's Ring, the tenth volume of the History of Middle Earth. Now that I finally got the documentation and the time I can take action.
I came across several articles about sexuality in Tolkien's elves who have teased my little non-critical vein. In these articles, will link the two most important at the end (to Uljanka is a starting point), they made several references to the fact that Tolkien was a Catholic and therefore considered sex outside of wedlock something dirty and finalized mainly for procreation. The usual modern preconceptions, in fact. Because in modern society where a love story written contains no sex is just an alarm. The author is politically correct, retrograde, bigoted, and many other nice things. And if one holds to certain values \u200b\u200b"old" even in everyday life, and certainly kept us Tolkien, is a scandal. In these cases, once it comes to platonic love, because no appearance of sexual activity. But what is first of all this blessed platonic love that all appointed time? In
concenzione is a common idealized love, spiritual, as opposed to carnal love and passion. Poor Plato, the which traces the origin of this concept, did not intend that. Platonic love is a love so that tends to transcend the reality of the senses to achieve the perfect world of ideas, but has a dual nature, is both spiritual and carnal! It involves both the mind and body. Eros, the daimon that Plato uses to represent the love, the allegory of love is understood as generating power and spiritual union. This balance of forces leads to harmony, no disorder of the passion. Why the passion is very different from love. We must not forget that many fans of the legends make it a bad end because they end consumed from the heat of passion, a love that is degenerate, chaotic, destructive. A love that is based almost entirely on the gender dimension and is not tempered by reason, by force of will. As Denis de Rougemont says about Tristan and Isolde
"Tristan and Isolde ... do not love what they love is love and the very fact of loving. And act as if they understood that this which is opposed to love and devotes the guarantees in their hearts, to exalt forever the instant of killing that is the obstacle
death "
Behold, these words express the passion (understood as the exaltation of the physical side and selfish love, attention, not as the absence of flesh!) would be harmful.
Found that platonic love is not for chaste love, let us analyze the case of the elves of Tolkien.
The Eldar are an interpretation of the Norse elves, with the addition of Finno-Ugric influences I would say is Gaelic. Certainly it is undeniable that Tolkien was inspired by Christian principles, as evidenced by the monotheistic religion elf. However, it is known the contempt of Tolkien to the forced allegory, and in fact the sources from which it draws its inspiration are many and always mixed together. It makes no sense to say that Tolkien elves = good Catholics. Sexuality for the elves Tolkien is linked to procreation as for Christians, this is true, but there are particular cultural and religious rules and customs that link to pagan peoples. Sex is seen as generating life force, and has always been considered a sacred , connected to religion, giving rise to the various "sacred marriage" and sacred prostitution. Regardless of how you consider the morality of it all, immediately evident in the sacredness of sex as an expression of life. Sex and procreation are two things connected to all civilizations, without necessarily exclude the sentimental and erotic side. Some people have emphasized more the latter aspect than others, the fact is that no one has denied the first aspect. And after this concept was born the institution of marriage. Marriage and its connection to the concept of procreation and family plays a very important religious and social role in all early civilizations, was not invented by Christians. In addition, the male virility was connected to its power-generating. Having so many children was a source of pride.
For Eldar sex is sacred in the true sense of the word. In this essay, Laws and Customs of the Eldar, we learn that two lovers also choose at a young age and that the engagement is one year. This year the two get to know and can also dissolve bonding, although this is not done lightly. The marriage takes place with the consent of families and is considered unbreakable. Just because it is the sexual act to make it so. Not the ceremony, not the various formalities. In times of war, or even if you prefer, rituals are often avoided and engagements. Just the consent of the two lovers, and say a religious formula. It follows as a carnal union is the culmination of a love relationship "spiritual" is what makes true love. Even if the test specifies that the Eldar are masters of their own bodies and not allow themselves to be misled by lust, it is clear that a loving relationship without the sexual component is not acceptable for them. Sexual desire is for power generating, and tends to decrease with time as the interest of the elves turns to other things, but this seems normal to immortal beings and also to be fortunately sessuomani
XD So for the elves and the trio sex-love-eternal life force is vital. The sacredness of everything is the same as in the ancient primitive religions, although it is expressed in a more rational way, then putting the impulse physical willpower. The fact that there are betrayals (I must point out that the marital betrayal was serious not only among Christians but also among the Germans are famous for the fidelity of their wives) or lascivious acts is only half true. It is rare but not unusual. Think Aredhel enmeshed by Eol Maeglin and passion for Idril, as well as the dark elves corrupted or not civilized like the Noldor (this is only mentioned in the essay but it is still important).
Regarding the relationship between the elves of Tolkien's mythology and models, it must be said that there are a lot of different races of elves and those that were known to be seducing the Tuatha de Danaan, the Celtic fairies. The Noldor more closely resemble the Norse Light Elves, and indeed are far from being a nation suffering from gooders. Considering the function sacred sex for the High Elves, it is clear that this profile was consistent with the Tolkien reference model. Then we have also added Christian values \u200b\u200bcan only be a good indicator of originality. Why were his followers to have misunderstood the relationship with the elven sex and to have given rise to the coupling-chaste love elves. If anything it is more correct to talk about the similarities between the elven love or chivalry and courtly love, but not repudiation of sexuality or its exclusive use for procreation.

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ps: I hope that if the Uljanka not take offense, I had mentioned long ago your opinion on this topic. Specifically that his article was the starting point for discussion and I just felt the need to deepen into the subject, from die-hard Tolkien fans who are ^ _ ^

Thursday, September 23, 2010

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The Acchiapparatti


Title : The Acchiapparatti
Author: Francesco Barbi
Genre: fantasy Low
Year: 2009
Publisher: Baldini Castoldi Dalai
Pages: 466

Plot
Gheshik undertaker is a hunchback who lives in Tilos and have a great passion for antique books. Precisely because of this feature ends up getting into trouble with a local squire and takes refuge with Zechariah acchiapparatti profession. Zechariah is crazy but apparently hides a kind heart and special skills, such as know the arcane language. Thanks to his knowledge Gheshik can decipher the book of a necromancer and discovers he has the key to unlocking the mystery contained in the pages of the manuscript. Part way along with his friend and prostitute at a time of Giloc Isolde, the city known for the death sentences carried out by the Reaper, a horrible monster who lives to kill and who escapes from his prison causing panic to the countryside. But as they proceed on the journey, facing all kinds of trouble because of his propensity for theft and imprudence, Gheshik realizes that the secret contained in the book of the witch-Ar Gular is more powerful and terrible than dare to imagine . While the origin of the demon described in the book becomes clear through the research of Melzo, Gheshik realizes that it can not control the creature evoked by the magician and that appears to contain the spirit. The daemon must be killed, but to die to expel their human side. And the only human being able to get in touch with being it is Gheshik.

Comment
Acchiapparatti The book is truly amazing. Certainly classified as Low fantasy, because the fantasy element affects only the story of the demon and the magician is able to mix all the ingredients of the classic fantasy to create something unique and original. There is a company of heroes, there's the look, there is a bloodthirsty monster, but there are no stereotypes. Gheshik is smart and ruthless, gets into trouble for his morbid curiosity and thirst for knowledge, Zechariah is a winner because of its extreme simplicity and behave really bad to bad. In the sense that the robbers are real bandits are a group for convenience only and do not make too much trouble to steal and kill, as well as Gamara the bounty hunter has the typical character grumpy and cynical of his craft. Yet you can never talk bad all round. That's the beauty of the novel. The characters are victims of cruelty and violence and are aware of being in the same boat, so that in the end it shows bits of humanity and good heart. The two main characters, Gheshik and Zachary, are grotesque, tragicomic, embroiled in absurd situations that have not chosen deliberately and who do not know how to get out. And the more they believe they have control, the worse their condition. The only drawback of the characters is the monster of Giloc, whose work is described through the eyes of families attacked. It learns from its history Melzo and feels his strong desire for freedom, expressed by the raw violence, but there is never a true immersion into his psychology. Would have been nice and charming "think" through the mind of a bloodthirsty monster that embodies nothing but the worst human instincts, proving certainly no worse than its master Ar-Gular and those who have to create it.
The most obvious flaws lie in the writing. It's not bad, Barbi know the techniques of writing and makes it a good use, especially that of the show and not tell. Although sometimes exaggerates, engaging in long infodump troublesome (for example the story of Gheshik and the piece where the bounty hunter reflects on weapons to use), the main scenes are described with due attention. The style is flat and with some typical expression, as in the description of the woods in the moonlight, but it is smooth and fits well with the atmosphere, "the funny" in history. Giving a final decision, I feel like comparing this novel to a bittersweet tale Boccaccio.

rating

8 - Very Good

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

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Bioethics: right, left, religious or atheist?


I have already mentioned in previous posts that in my many passions is bioethics. For lovers of esoteric religions and bioethics is a discipline that can not and should not be ignored. Unfortunately, there is a lot 'of confusion about this subject, as I noted recently. I was wandering through the Internet in search of a modern theologian wrote that I really appreciate (while disputing some things, no one is perfect ^_^): Hans Kung. He has written a very interesting article on euthanasia from several points of view and I wanted to mention it in an article on the theology that I am preparing. The eye rogue I then fell on several sites called "secular", including UAAR (atheists, agnostics, rationalists Union), and here my mind has given birth to another reflection.
In the post about the burning of the Koran I have already referred to as a result of bioethics colloborazione that exceeds their cultural and personal. I also explicitly condemned the ethical relativism, and it is from these two statements that I want to leave.
Bioethics deals with ethical issues related to human life, understood in its biological sense but also philosophical and social. The oncologist VR Potter, who first used the term by giving the present meaning, defines this discipline as the science of survival. This is, in my opinion, the best definition that contains the other drawn by subsequent bioethicists. The values that bioethics advocates are thus related to human existence in its various forms, and then embraces her birth, growth and death, shedding light on what behaviors are good and which are not. Bioethics is divided into two areas: Bioethics
-general, on moral philosophy, bioethics
-applied, which applies the principles of the general to specific cases.
addition to this division, there is one on ethical attitudes, of which only some are compatible with the principles of bioethics. The current ethics are:
- Ethics subjectivist-libertarian : everyone is master of himself and can do whatever they want, without being under the control of any external rule.
- utilitarian ethic: it is simply the individual and his personal satisfaction. So what is useful for that person is automatically good.
- technical and scientific ethics, sees the progress in science and the good of humanity. What can the science is ethically right.
- ecological ethics : focuses on the environment. The man must act in harmony with nature without disturbing the balance.
- personalistic ethics: humans correlates with society and with others. He says that if something is useful for an individual, not necessarily it is another.
- religious ethics: it derives from a sacred vision of the world, cognugandola with different religious beliefs. Possiedeprincipi socially useful, valid for non-believer.
Among these types of ethics, the first three are usually discarded in bioethics, and there are also discussions on the latest. I say usually because there are people who, by appealing to the "freedom" and ethical relativism, declares that everyone has the right to do what he wants and all ethics is another. If so, then there would be no laws and even the state. Men can not live without rules, based only on spontaneity, on the fickle will a single moment. Anarchy is bad at least since the dictatorship. I speak from rational person with common sense, nor a Catholic, nor by an atheist, nor a communist or in the name of another ideology. Have a reason, in fact, means to realize that if you want to live well with other people, both in social as in the family, please adhere to rules that protect the freedom of all without oppressing anyone. It goes without saying that the sacrifice is implied. And this is perhaps one of the major problems in the application of bioethics in the life of every day. No one wants to sacrifice in the name of a common good. Even worse, no one wants to recognize the value of one point of view other than their own, seeking a happy medium to avoid the chaos.
This became a beast when I read of secular bioethics and religious bioethics. Bioethics bioethics must be just, plain and simple. You must take care of the human person, Catholic or atheist that the follower of another creed. This must be based on common values \u200b\u200band not objectionable. Unfortunately it is not easy to determine these values. On all sides there is hostility and inability to grasp the positive things the opposite faction. The fault lies with everyone, of course, without distinction of party and religion. Everyone pulls water to his mill and staple the allegations. We begin by making a picture black opponent, in a few concise words and throwing shit at will, without the slightest regard to discern strengths and weaknesses. Is not the usual excuse of traditionalism and modernism, with all the factions deployed to advance on both sides. Infuse is that what we inculcate the right and the Church are on the side of tradition, the left on the side of modernity, and the center does not know which side to take. As if the traditional and the modern incarnation, from time to time based on the feedback, now the absolute good now evil.
Only a lucid reason and without pregidizi can understand that bioethics needs the values \u200b\u200bthat promote human dignity, and these values \u200b\u200bcan be part also opposing sides. Diversity is an asset, not a threat. One must compare them with respect, ready to accept what the other has to offer, but also to understand the importance of the value that follows. Recalling that everyone can fall by the zeal of fanaticism by supporting radical positions and exaggerated. I want to conclude with the statement by Umberto Eco about the existence of universal semantic notions that are common to all cultures. From these general principles arise the fundamental rights of every man who must always be respected and protected. As always says Eco
"The ethical dimension begins when he enters the other."

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Monday, September 13, 2010

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And if a Christian says, to fire Karl Marx's Capital? Hermes Trismegistus

The title is clear: this article does not deal with the fantasy nor the esoteric. It concerns something that has troubled me deeply and I decided to write a few words. Thus creating a new section Off Topic, to talk about what I blend for the head but that does not deal with the fantasy nor the esoteric (and politics, of course).
I am a Christian bigot, and I appreciate Marx. Nice way to start, right? By reading this statement, one might say that is an antithesis automatically. Because for most people a Christian bigot by definition (which bigotry can be applied to many categories, even misinterpreting the term), it could not even tolerate the sight of the Capital, the Communist Manifesto and all that relates to that broad political movement dismissed with the simple word of communism (I'm going to explain politics, hate). The opposite is true for a communist, or could never endure the sight the Bible or any religious text. Bear in the sense to refrain from trimming critical acidic and sentences, as if you had the supreme evil opposite.
All this to introduce the concept of relativism and blind intolerance. Two things that, well before 2012, will bring ruin to the company. These two gentlemen are once knocked on the door of religion (not the first time, eh), triggering a real storm that involved some other "sectors." The crime, in a nutshell, is this: the threat by the Rev. Terry Jones, of burning the Quran on the 11th September. A day that brings back painful memories, of course. But it also brings to question the human inability to live together in harmony for the common good. Even if nothing is done, the actions by both the religious world and politically and I noticed there were little tolerance (except by the Catholics, I have to admit this, and of Obama himself).
The point is that in this modern society everyone wants to do but continue to live in the modern prejudice that you charged the past ages. Express an opinion or even against modernity with a traditional feeling, with conviction, is synonymous with bigotry and respectability and inversely tradition irrationally refuses to accept the innovations. Because everything is right and wrong at the same time, depends on the person, by culture and society. And any attempt to reconcile different views and to find points of encounter for the good of all, it seems unnecessary and ridiculous. Every time you mention religion to an atheist it feels almost meet in terms of contempt or neglect, and vice versa for an atheist of the faithful is the fruit of evil. So also among the opposing political camps. We will stick to preconceived idea and you do not want to go further.
But Islam is a religion inhuman, I hear. By nature intolerant, disrespectful of women and against all modernity. This is fanaticism, not religion. In the Koran there is nothing that fundamentalists practice and tradition does not is something imposed by force. Some time ago, Donna Moderna intervened a theologian who explained his Islamic religion with sincerity and clarity. If there are people who interpret the sacred text literally, and give it powers which by its nature can not have, does not mean that religion is the same stuff from the garbage. And if in the name of this religion is wrong to other people, it can not be automatically condemned. Why all wrong. Because bigotry is bad for everyone, whatever their social background, political and religious views.
So you go back to the license application. Burning a text regarded as contrary to Catholic doctrine was the practice in the Middle Ages and the Index of Forbidden Books was abolished only by the Second Vatican Council. But Christianity was certainly not the only "motion" to enforce censorship. The cultural and political censorship has always existed and has used very unorthodox methods. The destruction of a work was the lesser punishment. There were people who paid with their lives to defend their position, people of various religious and political positions, and none of the opponents you ever wondered if there could be a meeting place, an alternative to destruction. We are just so different, we men can not share the same value?
The answer, at least in my opinion, is that we are different but also similar. Even cultures that seem to have nothing in common originally looked like and continue to express themselves in similar behaviors. Substantially all men seek happiness and serenity, this is obvious. Seek Him in different sources, which may be different religions, and this should not and can not be disputed. Instead you can act on the social, human beings understood as a person. Bioethics exists for this, to protect life in all its forms, overcoming cultural differences and religious and ethical relativism grim. Then of course those who have particular beliefs and values, use them as the primary basis of his ethics, this is a human right. But this not a priori justified criticism of different views and refusal to find a middle ground acceptable to all.
Certainly it is not easy for anyone to open up different. People tend to line up sharply from one side or another in every aspect of life, seeing everything black or white. In terms of social and human I can not. And even as political and religious does not hurt to evaluate objectively false doctrine and also contrary to that followed and to identify the strengths and weaknesses. We all have a reason, just use it without prejudice. Prejudices that are not excusable with the upbringing of any kind. The ability to reason and critical thinking are learned over time. I have been educated to Christianity and morality "old", I have freely chosen to continue to follow these values \u200b\u200bbut I want to see clearly in every issue. The only responsible for the injury is the deliberate ignorance and accepted by choice.
So the Christian who is supposed to be bigoted and antimaterialist, may well find it useful to Marx's thought in economic and social fields, and in turn a follower of Marxist ideas (I use the term cautiously, because Marx himself rejected the idea the base of the so-called Marxism) can find positive values \u200b\u200bin the social doctrine of the Church and the teachings of equality and solidarity of Christ. Everyone keeping their original characteristics, as it should be.
point out that, politically, this is hardly feasible. It would, in the words of my old professor of philosophy, the party of Bra (voted number, please! ^_^): Holds his right hand, holding the left, and also holds the bulk of the center. Better safe than sorry at the level of ethics and morality.

Friday, September 3, 2010

Bridal Bouquets Black And White




After a feast of Harmony novels, just to make my eyes with sheikhs and stalwart virgins forced into marriage (yes, I admit, I would like to be together I came to the !^_^), time to get back to serious matters. Waiting for the arrival of The Queen of the Damned and The Chess Black open this subsection dedicated to people who have written the history of magic and their works. Omit non-professional magicians (those of the epics, the number of priests and soothsayers) or charlatans to mention those who have had some relevance. I can not start from the famous Hermes Trismegistus. Who was he?
Hermes Trismegistus is a nebulous figure, similar to Romulus and King Arthur. Have been distributed to many merits, but the degree of identity is still unknown. The name is not random and invokes the god Hermes, the god of eloquence, connecting to the Egyptian Thoth. So the origins of this character are to be found in the Hellenic culture. A culture that merged with those derived from the Greek elements Eastern cultures, giving rise to different philosophies. Among them, the hermetic philosophy, which takes its name from Hermes Trismegistus.
This is therefore a wise magician, a knower of truth and a teacher. And how many of the essays is seen as a semi-god, as a mediator between the divine and the human, as indeed are Hermes and Thot. Moreover, many men have been deified in the past and many deities have undergone the process of evemerizzazione. Thus we find in the Cabala Hermes Trismegistus next to Moses, described as an essay in Upper Egypt who knew the same knowledge of the patriarch.
This is the hypothesis that had more spread throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The doctrine of Hermes, Hermeticism, alchemy becomes the basis of Western and cabal. In fact, the Cabalistic influence is obvious, so obvious as to suggest a possible identification of some Kabbalist with the legendary figure of Hermes. The Corpus Hermeticum, the work for which he is famous magician that seems to be the result of a reworking of the fourteenth century Kabbalistic knowledge. This is the Calvinist theory of Isaac Casaubon, who's certainly true considering that Hermeticism has spread widely in the Middle Ages and is mixed with the Cabala and alchemy. However, it is no doubt that philosophy has a hermetic and gnostic matrix was created in the Hellenistic period, around the fourth century AD, parallel to the spread of other philosophical currents of the Hellenic and Eastern religions. The discovery of the Nag Hammadi Corpus Hermeticum in the code is the proof of esoteric and gnostic Hermeticism. The mystery religions of Egypt described by Iamblichus very reminiscent of the magical operations contained in the work.
The Corpus Hermeticum contains 17 books and is divided into two parts, the Pymander and Ascelpius. Certainly the various writings have been modified by the Christian interpretation, but the meaning is esoteric and can be seen as a sign of common origin of all religions. Moreover it is in the mystical sphere that reveals the similarity of the various cults. The attention to the mystical sphere was very important in the Middle Ages and it is thought that the body has been redesigned for the first time in Michael Psellos 1050. But far greater was the intervention of Marsilio Ficino, Platonic humanist, who translated the Pymander for Cosimo de 'Medici in 1463. He traced the knowledge hermetic mystery cults and the Platonic philosophy. Analyzing the Pymander, we realize immediately that this is obvious. In
Pymander is explained the nature of God, which is the supreme good, his being infinitely superior to man and the possibility to reach it with knowledge. Knowledge is the magical Hermeticism, the Kabbalah and alchemy. Through formulas and natural elements that man can raise one's soul, gradually, to the divine plan. But it can also exert its will on nature's call and spiritual beings. Nell'Asclepius deepened this aspect of hermetic knowledge, an aspect that seems to counteract the beneficial purposes of the spell reported in Pymander. There is talk of telestikè, the art of demons and angels in jail for animate objects, a practice widely known and practiced in Egypt and in the same oriental mystery cults. However, there is not ever a positive or negative. The Hermetic magic is ambiguous, it can be as good as evil. Just as the alchemist can create new forms of matter, or destroying it and the Kabbalist can follow the path of Sephiroth or qlipoth.
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