Tìm hiểu y học hien 1 Thỉnh thoảng có những trẻ em nhắc đến kiếp trước của mình từng là một người sống ở một nơi chốn khác. Đa số các bác sĩ sẽ coi chuyện này như sản phẩm của trí tưởng tượng của trẻ con và không làm gì cả. Và thật vậy đa số lúc lớn lên chừng trên dưới 10 tuổi các em sẽ quên những...
‘There is something very Far Eastern about this,’ William Empson says in Some Versions of Pastoral, meaning the manner of Marvell’s poem ‘The Garden’. The remark is mildly intriguing but pretty loose, and even if we think of Empson as having the thought while he lectured to his Japanese students before he wrote it down, the Orient still seems stereotyped and far away. We lose this impression if we keep...
Maria daVenza Tillmanns argues that teaching children to think must involve more than simply teaching them cognitive skills. “Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.” – Richard Rorty “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination encircles the world.” – Albert Einstein It is my contention that the...
Sometime in the coming decades, an external system that collects and analyzes endless streams of biometric data will probably be able to understand what’s going on in my body and in my brain much better than me. Such a system will transform politics and economics by allowing governments and corporations to predict and manipulate human desires. What will it do to art? Will art remain humanity’s last line of defense...
Nostalgia used to be considered a disease; causes, symptoms, and cures were debated by doctors. Now it’s a cultural condition, but no less dangerous… Friedrich Nietzsche was an alienated man and saw alienation all around: “We are no longer at home anywhere”, he wrote of modern life. This high priest of disenchantment nonetheless knew where he would feel at home – ancient Greece. “We want to go back”, he insisted,...