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The secret sauce of the West, what Ben Shapiro referred to as “Athens plus Jerusalem,” faith and reason operating in harmony make the West work. It works not only because it's successful in its own rights as a positive claim, but because it boxes out or gate keeps the Gnostics. Athens plus Jerusalem keeps Alexandria at Bay.
The Gnostic Parasite | Dr. James Lindsay
Sovereign Nations
The goals were power and wealth; the cultural capital that could secure those goals was courtly elegance or refinement (miyabi). The more elegant the person, the more desirable. An expression of that courtly elegance was an enhanced sensitivity called aware, later commonly expressed more fully as mono no aware. Deriving from a common exclamation meaning “ah!,” it signals coming across something striking. Mixed with attentiveness to the ephemeral, aware transformed the traditional Buddhist resignation toward impermanence into an aesthetic of poignancy. The cherry blossoms, for example, are all the more stunning because they bloom for such a short time.
Engaging Japanese Philosophy – A Short History
Thomas P. Kasulis
Insbesondere die Klimakampf begeisterte Jungend will nicht wahrhaben, dass über 95 Prozent des menschengemachten CO2-Anteils aus Riesenländern kommt, die nicht einmal im Ansatz der deutschen Klimapolitik folgen.
Vom Verlust Der Freiheit
Raymond Unger
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