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An insightful journey into the power of a positive attitude, Amos asserts that it’s not one’s circumstances that determine happiness, but rather how those circumstances are viewed. This book emphasizes the impact of everyday choices, while stressing the importance of making a conscious decision to live a joy-filled life....

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As if it wanted to be in accordance with the paradoxism and even to confirm it, the way the mathematician writer Florentin Smarandache is received is ... paradoxical. Tens of books, studies and articles have already been written about both, scientist and smarandachism - the name given to the movement by Ion Rotaru and Titu Popescu. However the paradoxist number 1 in the world is less known in his native country. At the same time some researchers ( Jacques Sarthou, Dan Tarchila, Doru Motoc and even... Ion Rotaru) declared him a man of genius (or close by!), while others ignored him or they haven’t yet heard about him. Without being disturbed by any of the two contradictory tendencies, the Oltenian- Romanian settled in New Mexico creates further on important works in the two large fieldsliteratures and mathematics (but also in other art and scientific fields)....

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BILD OCH TANKE (Image and Thought)is moving in the border area between philosophy and art; follows their tracks through history from archaic Greece to the 20th century and Marcel Duchamp's art. It is this interaction between visual and intellectual reproduction as the image and understanding of our time and of history has been created....

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Konsten är, som jag ser det, den spegel människan ställt upp framför sig för att bekräfta sanningen i den förståelse hon har av sin tillvaro. Konsten berättar hur det är eller hur det har varit att vara människa. I bekräftelsen ser hon inte bara att uppfattningen hon har om sig själv är sann (sådan är jag, sådan är min omgivning; sådan ser min mänsklighet ut), utan bekräftelsen styrker också den uppfattning hon har av riktigheten i sin aktuella livsform. Och det är det, för att föregripa framställningen en smula, det sist och slutligen handlar om i konsten: att i visuellt avläsbar form skapa symboliska gestalter som manifesterar livsvillkorens skön¬het och sanning. Det är det som är den solida undermeningen i de föränderliga uppfattningarna om vad som är skönt’ eller sant’. Men omvänt kan konsten också i vissa situationer fungera som narrspegel. Det kan den göra genom att visa upp skevheterna och bristerna i människans sätt att leva i akt och mening att vilja göra det bättre. Också det har konsten gemensamt med tänkandet och teorin. Konsten kan såväl understödja som underminera de värderingar som livskvaliteten just då är uppbyggd ...

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BILD OCH TANKE, innehåll 1. Inledning Seende och vetande Makt och metafysik Teknisk instrumentalism Subjektivitet och objektivitet Bild - idé Religion och vetande Historien 2 Det allseende ögat Dekonstruktionen av den politiska rationaliteten Bilden av enväldet Kristus Allhärskaren Arvsynden Blicken Sartre om blicken Det postdespotiska samhället Om att möta Guds blick Madonnan Dioptiken Giotto Komedi och tragedi Antikens lämningar 3. Nominalism, individualism och kärlek Karakteristik av en stor och genomgripande förändring Nominalism och individualism Subjektivitet och kärlek Franciscus av Assisi och kärleken till naturen 4. Ett nytt naturförhållande Abbot Suger och gotiken Petrarca Lauramotivet Laura — madonnan Laura — människan Laura — naturen Idéperspektivet, centralperspektivet och horisonten Bilden av naturen Bilden av människan Guldgrunden Centralperspektivet och den oändligt avlägsna horisonten Nicolaus Cusanus 5. Det instrumentella perspektivet Alkemin Det förenhetligade rummet Giotto och det naturliga Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo och ...

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« Takers Economy » proposes an alternative look at illegal file sharing in light of the role of art in society, and in the context of the oneness of all beings and things. ...

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1. Introduction 2. The State of Play 3. Ars Divina 4. Oneness 5. An I for an I Makes the World Go Bound 6. Alternatives Rock 7. Verses 8. Links 9. Credits 10. Disclaimer 11. About the Author 12. License...

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It was known to me his setting up in 1980’s of a new literary and artistic avant-garde movement that he called “paradoxism”, because I received some books and papers dealing with it in order to review them for the German journal “Zentralblatt fár Mathematik”. It was an inspired connection he made between literature/arts and science, philosophy....

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Paradoxism is an avant-garde movement in literature, art, philosophy, science, based on excessive used of antitheses, antinomies, contradictions, parables, odds, paradoxes in creations....

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The Theory Of Interpretive Relativity: A Unified Map Of Literary Theory is a comprehensive study organizing and mapping all literary interpretive theory, from classical philosophy to postmodern theory, into one formulaic model. Interpretive Relativity uses, for its method of organizational strategy, the philosophy of relativism to explain how all theoretical interpretation compliment one another rather than contradict one another. This thesis uses extensive graphs and illustrations to aid in the visualization of how mapping theoretical interpretations is possible. The piece of literature, work of art, that is used through out the study is Shakespeare’s Hamlet. In other words, this thesis show how the philosophy of Einstein’s general theory of relativity could be applied to Hamlet....

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“The long concatenations of simple and easy reasoning which geometricians use in achieving their most difficult demonstrations gave me occasion to imagine that all matters which may enter the human mind were interrelated in the same fashion.” -- René Descartes ...

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I. INTRODUCTION: MATHEMATICAL CONSTRUCT STRATEGIES FOR GRAPHING LITERARY INTERPRETATION THEORIES INTO A VISUAL FIGURE, DEFINING TERMS 1 II. MAPPING LITERARY THEORY: DEFINING THE BODY OF LITERATURE, Ln, AND MESSAGE, EMBODIED IN ART, Ln 10 III. FORMING THE X AXIS: SETTING VALUES FOR X AS SIGN, SIGNIFICATION, AND SIGNAL (X1, X2, X3) 18 X1: Sign, Encoding Meaning 21 X2: Signification: The Three Aspects to the Value X2, Concept in a Medium, X21, X22, X23 23 X3: Signal, Decoding Meaning Plotting the 2s OF B’s X31, X32, X33 30 IV. FORMING THE Y AXIS: THE AUDIENCE’S INFINITE MULTIFARIOUS “REALIZATION” 36 The Search for 1: The Messenger and the Author 38 Y 1: The Author’s text 45 Y 2: The Text 50 Y 3: The World 54 Y 4: The Reader 57 V. FORMING THE Z AXIS: VALUES FOR Z, APPLIED RHETORICAL IDEOLOGY 65 Z 1: Marxist Literary Criticism 67 Z 2: Deconstruction Criticism 71 Z 3: Multicultural Literary Criticism 77 Z 4: Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism 80 Z 5: Liberation Literary Criticism 84 VI. CONCLUSION 87...

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Paradoxism is an avant-garde movement in literature, art, philosophy, science, based on excessive use of antitheses, antinomies, contradictions, parables, odds, paradoxes in creations. It was set up by the editor since 1980’s and promulgates a counter-time/ counter-sense creation. Paradoxism started as an anti-totalitarian protest against a closed society, Romania of 1980’s. Why was the movement based on contradictions? Because we lived in that society a double life: an official one – propagated by the political system, and another one real. In mass-media it was promulgated that “our life is wonderful”, but in reality “our life was miserable”. The paradox flourishing! And then we took the creation in derision, in opposite sense, in a syncretic way. Thus the paradoxism was born....

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Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....

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Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....

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volunteers bring you 17 recordings of You Bid Me Try by Austin Dobson . This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 24, 2011. Henry Austin Dobson , commonly Austin Dobson, was an English poet and essayist. His official career was uneventful, but as a poet and biographer he was distinguished. Those who study his work are struck by its maturity. It was about 1864 that he turned his attention to writing original prose and verse, and some of his earliest work was his best. It was not until 1868 that the appearance of St Paul's, a magazine edited by Anthony Trollope, gave Harry Dobson an opportunity and an audience; and during the next six years he contributed some of his favourite poems, including Tu Quoque, A Gentleman of the Old School, A Dialogue from Plato, and Une Marquise. Many of his poems in their original form were illustrated—some, indeed, were written to support illustrations. (summary from Wikipedia)...

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Humor, Romance, Poetry

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Excerpt: Jerusalem Delivered (Gerusalemme Liberata) by Torquato Tasso (first pub. Parma, Italy 1581), translated by Edward Fairfax (London 1600).

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volunteers bring you 20 recordings of Simplex Munditiis by Ben Jonson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 26, 2012. Ben Jonson was an English poet and playwright. He had a huge influence on both the theatre of his day and that which came after. Much of his poetry was inspired by the classical world of Ancient Greece and Rome. He also wrote a lot of satirical poetry on everyday topics, of which this poem is one such example. (Summary by Lucy Perry)...

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volunteers bring you 18 recordings of A Ballade of Suicide by G. K. Chesterton. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 20, 2012. Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer. He published works on philosophy, ontology, poetry, plays, journalism, public lectures and debates, literary and art criticism, biography, Christian apologetics, and fiction, including fantasy and detective fiction. Chesterton has been called the prince of paradox. Time magazine, in a review of a biography of Chesterton, observed of his writing style: Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out. For example, Chesterton wrote Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. (Summary by Wikipedia )...

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Poetry, Humor, Philosophy

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Background: By the mid 1980s the Macintosh, and to some extent the PC, had made desktop publishing a mainstay in the world of publishing professional quality documents. At this point a significant shift occurred in the production of published materials. A key element in this production moved from the hands of the printer to the editor. Simply put, editors no longer needed to rely on printers to create their documents. Production began to move from the printing houses to the editor's desktop. Layout, typesetting, and image control are now fully available to the editor. As a result, it is important that those who traditionally were involved in the creation of print (and now digital) information be introduced to the tools that make this possible....

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Excerpt: War and Peace: Book Ten by Leo Tolstoy.

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A new, complete, downloadable, English translation, with hyper-linked in-depth name index, and comprehensive notes.

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Inferno: Cantos I-VII (Virgil, Circles I-IV, Paolo & Francesca, Ciacco) Cantos VIII-XIV (Circles V-VII, Farinata, Pier delle Vigne, Capaneus) Cantos XV-XXI (Brunetto Latini, Geryon, Circle VIII, Manto) Cantos XXII-XXVIII (Vanni Fucci, Ulysses, G. da Montefeltro, B. de Born) Cantos XXIX-XXXIV (Griffolino, The Giants, Circle IX, Ugolino, Satan) Purgatorio: Cantos I-VII (Casella, Manfred, La Pia, Buonconte, Sordello ) Cantos VIII-XIV (The Gate, Nino, Oderisi, Salvani, Sapia, G.del Duca) Cantos XV-XXI (Free Will, Nature of Love, Adrian, Hugh Capet,Statius) Cantos XXII-XXVIII (Forese, Bonagiunta, Souls, Guinicelli, Arnaut, Matilda) Cantos XXIX-XXXIII (The Divine Pageant, Beatrice, Lethe, Eunoë) Paradiso: Cantos I-VII (The Moon, Piccarda, Mercury, Justinian, Romeo) Cantos VIII-XIV (Venus, Cunizza, Folco, The Sun, Thomas Aquinas, Bonaventura, Dominic, Francis, Solomon, Mars) Cantos XV-XXI (Cacciaguida, Florence, Jupiter, The Eagle, Saturn, Peter Damian ) Cantos XXII-XXVIII (Benedict, Gabriel, Peter, Paul, James, John, Angels) Cantos XXIX-XXXIII (The Empyrean, The River, The Rose, Bernard, The Virgin, The Final Vision)...

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PARADOXISM is an avant-garde movement in literature, art, philosophy, science, based on excessive used of antitheses, parables, odds, paradoxes in creations. It was set up and led by the writer Florentin Smarandache since 1980’s who said: “The goal is to enlargement of theartisti shere through non-artistic elements. But expecially the countertime, counter-sense creation. Also, to experiment.”...

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The Desert by John Charles Van Dyke, published in 1901, is a lush, poetic description of the natural beauty of the American Southwest. What land can equal the desert with its wide plains, its grim mountains, and its expanding canopy of sky! Van Dyke, a cultivated art historian, saw sublimity in the desert's lonely desolation, which previous generations had perceived only as a wasteland, and his book has a conservationist flavor which seems distinctly modern. The deserts should never be reclaimed, he writes. They are the breathing spaces of the west and should be preserved for ever. The changing colors of the sky, hills, and sand impress Van Dyke, as do the mirages. He celebrates the long overlooked commonplace things of nature-- cactus and grease wood, desert animals, and winged life, the birds and insects. His writing has a philosophical undertone. Not in vain these wastes of sand ... simply because they are beautiful in themselves and good to look upon whether they be life or death. Anyone who views with equal awe fiery sunrises and weeds growing out of pavement cracks will enjoy this reading of Van Dyke's The Desert. (Summary by ...

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pARadOXisMul - ultima avangardă a mileniului doi 1. Definiţie Paradoxismul este o mişcare internaţională de avangardă în literatură, artă, filozofie, chiar şi ştiinţă, bazată pe folosirea excesivă de antiteze, antinomii, contradicţii, oximorone, parabole, paradoxuri în creaţie. A fost înfiinţat de către scriitorul, artistul, şi omul de ştiinţă Florentin Smarandache în anii 1980 în România, care dorea “lărgirea sferei artistice prin elemente neartistice şi prin experimente contradictorii; în special creaţie în contratimp, contra-sens.” pArAdOxIsM - the last frontier the second millennium January. definition Paradoxism is an international avant-garde movement in literature, art, philosophy, even science, based on excessive use of antitheses, antinomies, contradictions, oxymoron, parable, paradox in creation. It was founded by the writer, artist, and scientist Florentin Smarandache in 1980 in Romania, who wanted "artistic broadening the artistic elements and contradictory experiments, particularly in the creation of step, contrary sense."...

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L) Limitele filozofiei Întreaga filozofie este un tautologism: adevărat în virtutea de formă, pentru că orice idee lansată pentru prima oară este dovedită ca adevărată de către iniţiatorul(ii) său(i). Prin urmare, filozofia este goală sau dezinformativă, şi reprezintă a priori cunoaşterea. Se poate afirma: Totul este adevărat, chiar si falsul! Şi totuşi, întreaga filozofie este un nihilism: pentru ca orice idee, odată dovedită adevărată, este mai tîrziu dovedită ca falsă de către urmaşi. Este o contradicţie: fals în virtute de formă. Prin urmare, filozofia este supra-informativă şi o cunoaştere a posteriori. Astfel, se poate afirma: Totul este fals, chiar şi adevărul!...

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Introducere ............................................................. 5 pARadOXisMul - ultima avangardă a mileniului doi ...................................................... 12 1. Definiţie ............................................................ 12 2. Etimologie ........................................................ 12 3. Istoric ................................................................. 13 4. Caracteristici ale Paradoxismului ................. 16 5. Direcţii pentru Paradoxism ........................... 17 „Dicţionar de informatică“, de Denis Howe .. 18 1. Neutrosofie ....................................................... 18 2. Logica neutrosofică ......................................... 19 3. Mulţime Neutrosofică .................................... 20 4. Probabilitate Neutrosofică ............................. 21 5. Statistici neutrosofice ...................................... 22 Neutrosofia, o Nouă Ramură a Filosofiei ....... 24 1. Abstract ............................................................ 24 1.1. Cuvînt înainte .......................................... 25 1.2. Neutrosofie, o no...

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Insights on How to Live an Inspiring and Joy-Filled Life