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...A. Mercurio’s innovative thought. It is difficult to make a short synthesis of this book, so here we will simply mention some of the papers presented by the Author that the book contains. The book opens with an “Invitation” and then proceeds with “The Myth of Sophia-Analysis: life as a work of art”, “Choral Group Research on life as a work of art”, “The Cosmological vision...

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...to another Sophia University of Rome 2 Published by The SOLARIS INSTITUTE of The SOPHIA UNIVERSITY OF ROME. (S.U.R.) ... ...onCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ You are free: to Share — to copy, distribute and transm... ...nditions: Attribution — You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they end... ...? If you start to learn to do it for yourselves, you will become precious role models for your children to imitate. ... ... If you start to learn to do it for yourselves, you will become precious role models for your children to imitate. First of all we must ask ou... ... dimensions? And does this mean that four dimensions don’t exist? 9. The role of art in the universe Sophia-Art has an even more interesting que... ...f the opposites within him and that set him apart from all the other Greek heroes? How much pain did he have to go through so he could transform him...

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...at Homer’s Odyssey 2 Published by The SOLARIS INSTITUTE of The SOPHIA UNIVERSITY OF ROME. (S.U.R.) ... ...onCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ You are free: to Share — to copy, distribute and transm... ...ditions: Attribution — You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endo... ...losely, both Poseidon and the Suitors, although against their will, play a role that actually favors the positive forces. Both are necessary to reac... ...e ability to create beauty that does not yet exist. Among all the Greek heroes that crowd the Iliad, Homer chooses Ulysses to show us that it is ... ...able of generating new life, today and for eternity. All the other Greek heroes are vague shadows when compared to him. They are shadows who cry o... ...s a mythical man and as an artist of his life, and I want to take him as a role model for my own life. When Homer speaks of the Ulysses who assau... ...e events described in this poem and that Ulysses played a very interesting role in. The Achaean princes are all in love with Helen (the search for ... ... has not yet completely left the maternal womb and, unlike the other Greek heroes, is willing to face any type of pain so as to be born completely. ...

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... seminar on Sophia- Art and Cosmo-Art. The same paper was expanded and presented at the Second Ulyssiads of the Sophia University of Rome, organized by the Institute in Tempio Pausania and held in Alghero, Sardinia, in the summer of 2005. This book is a synthesis of my ideas, which include Sophia-Analysis, Sophia-Art, Cosmo-Art and Existential Personalistic Anthropology....

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... on Wall Street. General Washing ton had been unanimously elected President by the first electoral college, and John Adams was elected Vice Presi de... ...e with greater anxieties than that of which the notification was transmitted by your order, and re ceived on the 14th day of the present month. On th... ...ceived on the 14th day of the present month. On the one hand, I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love,... ...ge of revolution and reformation. The wis dom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of... ...ty of another resort to them. Already have the gallant exploits of our naval heroes proved to the world our inherent capacity to maintain our rights o... ... to the genius of our scientists. And so each citizen plays an indispensable role. The productivity of our heads, our hands, and our hearts is the sou... ...GURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 310 querable will of heroes has struck with the swift, sharp thrust of lightning. Budapest is ... ...ignity. And, beyond this general resolve, we are called to act a responsible role in the world’s great concerns or con flicts—whether they touch upon... ...he long history of the world, only a few genera tions have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shank f...

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...s of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinating case studies, Boyle explains why gene sequences, basic business ideas and pairs of musical notes are now owned, why jazz might be illegal if it ...

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...Contents PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. ........................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I ? VICTOR HUGO?S ROMANCES ........................................................................ 15...

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...FAMILIAR STUDIES OF MEN & BOOKS by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicati... ... Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ... an electronic transmission, in any way. Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Cl... ...pying nearly as large a place, playing (so to speak) nearly as important a ROLE, as the man, Gilliat, who opposes and overcomes them. So we find the f... ...n act, there went none of that large, unconscious geniality of the world’s heroes. He was not easy, not ample, not urbane, not even kind; his enjoy- m... ...s, for he was not touched with a feeling of our infir- mities. The world’s heroes have room for all positive qualities, even those which are disreputa... ...hree days’ provision on his back, in the brave, self-helpful manner of all heroes. He kept a full diary while he was thus upon his journeys, but it is...