“In such a view, there exists a scientifically unexplainable point, which is the separation of the human mental activity from the natural world. While such beliefs, which separate human cognition from nature, could religiously be traced back to the bible, its scientific form in the West would possibly be rooted in the Cartesian mind and body duality.”
Yadegari, Shahrokh. "The Radif as a Basis for a Computer Music Model: Union of Philosophy and Poetry through Self-referentiality." PhD diss., University of California, San Diego, 2004. p. 115.
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“So here the key is in the ‘spell’ & in the belief behind the ‘spell’—or in a whole system of beliefs, in magic, in the power of sound & breath & ritual to move an object toward ends determined by the poet-magus.”
Rothenberg, Jerome. Technicians of the Sacred a Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1969. p. 386.
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“Custom is the reality, beliefs but the shadows which custom makes on the wall. Since the tales, in any case, are not really ‘explanatory’ in purpose or function, they naturally lack logic, system, and completeness.”
Stanner, W.E.H. “The Dreaming.” In Symposium of the Whole: A Range of Discourse toward an Ethnopoetics, edited by Jerome and Diane Rothenberg, 205. Berkeley; Los Angeles; London: University of California Press, 1983.
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University of California Press
“And so I think these three things all give you an idea of some of the difficulties of writing documents which is to mean something to a great many different peoples at different points of development, with different religious beliefs, and different legal systems, and with habits and customs that vary very greatly.”
Roosevelt, Eleanor. "Making Human Rights Come Alive." Speech, Speech to Pi Lambda Theta, Columbia University, New York City, New York, March 30, 1949.
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Iowa State University
“This demands that the reader also abstract from existing ways of looking at society and modes of thinking and attempt to perceive and think in a new way.
Uncritical thinking derives its beliefs, norms, and values from existing thought and social practices, while critical thought seeks alternative modes of thought and behavior from which it creates a standpoint of critique. Such a critical standpoint requires developing what Marcuse calls ‘negative thinking,’ which ‘negates’ existing forms of thought and reality from the perspective of higher possibilities.”
Marcuse, Herbert, and Douglas Kellner. One-Dimensional Man. London: Routledge, 2002. p. p. xiv-xv.
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