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Béatrice et Marie : de la «Vie nouvelle» à la «Comédie»
De nombreux passages de la ((Vie nouvelle)) de Dante Alighieri montrent l’influence du modèle marial sur la description de sa bien-aimée. Sans pour autant assimiler le ((libello)) à une ((Legenda sancte Beatricis)) qui, dans le sillage de celle de sainte Claire, proposerait une nouvelle figure de Marie à la dévotion des « fidèles » (comme une partie de la critique l’a suggéré autrefois), ni chercher seulement à contrebalancer le modèle christique qui s’est imposé pour Béatrice depuis les recherches de Charles S. Singleton (portant à la fois sur l’œuvre de jeunesse et la ((Comédie))), il nous semble intéressant de reprendre et de comparer certaines allusions mariales significatives qui sont proposées au début, au cœur et à la fin des deux récits, pour mieux comprendre les fonctions respectives attribuées aux deux femmes qui ont guidé le parcours du protagoniste (sachant que la troisième, Lucie, n’intervient pas dans le ((libello))).
Philosophy, Religion and Toleration
Religious faith connects strongly held ethical ideals to the belief that these are the commands of God, or a power above human reason. This can make people of hard religious belief to be intensely intolerant. How can we easily accept those who violate or dismiss principles that we consider the foundational to the moral order of the universe? Thus it is quite possible that religious people might be pious inside their own religion, but hateful towards others. Though most religious faiths set down often similar principles of moral conduct, and encourage adherents to live by principles of fellowship, kindness, and love, these injunctions often get circumscribed by the larger idea of their religion being the only ‘true’ religion...
Nando dalla Chiesa, «La scelta Libera. Giovani nel movimento antimafia»
Nando dalla Chiesa, in collaborazione con Ludovica Ioppolo, Martina Mazzeo e Martina Panzarasa, nel ventennale della nascita di Libera ha scritto un'accurata analisi storica e attuale di questa aggregazione di “associazioni, nomi e numeri contro le mafie, che raccoglie e mobilita decine di migliaia di giovani”. I dati delle iscrizioni al giugno 2014 registrano 6643 soci singoli, 358 associazioni, 163 scuole. Una sorta di manuale preciso e accurato sul movimento antimafia in Italia, utile anche per ulteriori ricerche e approfondimenti; per questo indispensabile è la bibliografia ragionata finale che occupa quasi ottanta pagine, suddivisa in titoli con relative sottosezioni.
End of Story
"For my part, I practice affirmative dissociation. Prompted mostly by a Nietzschean will to fiction and love of masks, I “fake it ‘til I make it,” assuming shrewd yet fragile identities, rotating signatures, reappropriating for myself syntactical maneuvers and rhetorical feints."
Franco Cassano, «Senza il vento della storia - La sinistra nell'era del cambiamento» (2014)
Scheda di lettura del saggio ((Senza il vento della storia - La sinistra nell'era del cambiamento)) del sociologo Franco Cassano, pubblicato nel 2014 da Laterza. In questo suo ultimo libro analizza “il posto” che la sinistra oggi stenta a trovare, stretta fra l'eredità del passato e la necessità di adeguarsi al cambiamento dei tempi, guardando in faccia alla realtà.
Bill Douglas Trilogy / La trilogie Bill Douglas «My Childhood» - «My Ain Folk» - «My Way Home» (Bill Douglas 1972 -1973 -1978)
Écosse. Un village minier près d'Édimbourg. 1945. Un enfant, son frère, leur grand-mère maternelle. Un prisonnier allemand.Mort de la grand-mère. Orphelinat. Grand mère paternelle. Un oncle. L'orphelinat encore. L'adolescence. La mine. Service militaire en Égypte. Rencontre de Robert. Ouverture. Les dialogues? Presque aucun. La musique? Aucune. L'action? Survivre. Le résultat? Au-delà des mots. Saisissement total. Comment en effet parler d'une telle œuvre? C'est un coup à l'estomac, un vent du Nord, une nuit charbonneuse.
Pluralism and Tolerance: Philosophers, Mystics and Religions
The belief in certain supernatural realities is an essential dimension of faith. And, by definition, they are that because we do not comprehend them in the same way as we comprehend objects and beings which we are capable of experiencing with our senses or those mathematic idealities that we understand. Faith therefore allows us to perceive the realities of God, His attributes, His angels and other entities and qualities of the same kind. It equally convinces us that, as human beings, we have the capacity for reaching these truths of a different kind than those of our senses or of our reason in the conventional sense within ourselves, and therefore posses an aptitude for the supernatural or the absolutely comprehensible.
Pluralism and Tolerance: Philosophers, Mystics and Religions
The belief in certain supernatural realities is an essential dimension of faith. And, by definition, they are that because we do not comprehend them in the same way as we comprehend objects and beings which we are capable of experiencing with our senses or those mathematic idealities that we understand. Faith therefore allows us to perceive the realities of God, His attributes, His angels and other entities and qualities of the same kind. It equally convinces us that, as human beings, we have the capacity for reaching these truths of a different kind than those of our senses or of our reason in the conventional sense within ourselves, and therefore posses an aptitude for the supernatural or the absolutely comprehensible.
Secularity in Indian History
A peculiar feature of the modern world is the asymmetry in the knowledge of the other between the West and the non-West. Nonwestern societies know a great deal more about Western history than Western societies know about theirs. Religious principles clearly possess a peculiar quality: because they are held with particular reverence by religious individuals who see them as principles created, or at least sanctioned by God rather than men.
Outline for a Discussion on Toleration
"There are a few ways of thinking about toleration: I define toleration as more or less absence of persecution; the acceptance of a plurality of religions, but not necessarily their acceptance into society as full and welcomed members/communities. Toleration can mean the acceptance of “difference” and a lack of interest beyond the instrumentality to maintain a coherent polity."