... 1 ANTONIO MERCURIO THE ULYSSEANS The Theorem and the Myth for traveling from one universe... ...traveling from one universe to another Sophia University of Rome 2 Published by The SOLARIS INSTITUTE of The SOPHIA UNIV... ........................................................ 38 CHAPTER IV: The Religious Conception of the World and the Sophiartistic Conception of the ... ...e we could remember Christopher Columbus as well as the man who opened the Northwest passage, who is less renowned. It is not easy to give up the... ..., the whole world will celebrate Christopher Columbus and his discovery of America. But we all know perfectly well that it was not Christopher Colum... ...ill. This is true as of 1988, and not in Europe but also in America, of all places. Therefore, since we are convinced by our sensory perceptions, we ... ...of soul, but no one is born with a pre-made soul. Throughout the history of peoples and nations, many different types of souls have been chosen and t... ... steps. The first one has to do with going from childhood to adulthood. In indigenous tribes this passage comes about through initiation rites that ...

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...ugust 13, 1813, p. 6. 37278_u00.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page ii James Boyle The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Pres... .../08 11:04 AM Page ii James Boyle The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Press New Haven & London ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 372... ... author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2008... ...sible. Yale University Press were sup- portive and critical in all the right places. I would like to thank them for agreeing to release this work unde... ...ps you led a party of adventurers into some empty land, conveniently free of indigenous peoples. Now your task is to make the society work. You have a... ...a party of adventurers into some empty land, conveniently free of indigenous peoples. Now your task is to make the society work. You have a preference... ...The symbolic end of rivalry comes when I am playing the song in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, at the very moment that you are both downloading and list... ...different kind, books which are the rally- ing points of great political and religious parties. What is likely to happen if the copy- right of one of ...

... economic welfare all depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons 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...

...Series Publication Democracy and Education by John Dewey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ies Publication Democracy and Education by John Dewey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...ion we speak of the life of a savage tribe, of the Athenian people, of the American nation. “Life” covers customs, institutions, beliefs, victories an... ...y social institution, economic, domestic, 11 John Dewey political, legal, religious, is its effect in enlarging and improving experience; yet this ef... ...a fish because it is necessary to the fish’s activi- ties—to its life. The north pole is a significant element in the environment of an arctic explore... ...themselves on the surface of our ordinary experiences. In similar fashion, peoples still existing, but remote in space, Brit- ish, Germans, Italians, ... ...ology. We have already noted the defects of a psychology of learning which places the individual mind naked, as it were, in contact with physical obje... ...n that has nothing to do with the experi- enced facts of life, it is found indigenous in experience:— the factor by which past experiences are purifie...

...Excerpt: Renewal of Life by Transmission. The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. A stone when struck resists. If its resistance is greater than the force of the blow...

...Contents Chapter One: Education as a Necessity of Life .............................................................................. 5 Chapter Two: Education as a Social Function .............................................................................. 14 Chapter Th...