"Also known as ‘Mencius’ (the Latinisation of his name given by early Jesuit missionaries), Mengzi is attracting renewed interest among Western philosophers. Not only does Mengzi provide an intriguing alternative to Aristotelian accounts of the virtues and their cultivation, but his claims about human nature are supported by recent empirical research. Beyond the intrinsic philosophical interest of Mengzi’s thought, it behooves us to learn more about it because Chinese culture is increasingly abandoning the radical Marxism of the Mao era and returning to a reverence for traditional systems of thought such as Confucianism."
segunda-feira, 31 de outubro de 2016
domingo, 30 de outubro de 2016
Os vikings
Theodore Dalrymple
O oeste selvagem não era selvagem
Mormons
10 Common Misconceptions About Mormonism
Listverse
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, better known as the Mormon Church, is a poorly understood religion of approximately 15 million members. It is also one of the fastest-growing Christian churches in the world, due to its 74,079 active missionaries spread all over the world. Mormons make up the fourth-largest church in the United States, but many of their practices are vastly misunderstood. Here are ten of the most common misconceptions people have about the Mormon Church and its members. 10 Mormons Are Polygamists It is true that the church once accepted the practice of polygamy and encouraged it among its members, but the practice was removed in 1890. This was accomplished after ...
Grandes batalhas da história
Some battles echo throughout history. But while most people have heard of Waterloo or Stalingrad, plenty of other decisive confrontations have been all but forgotten. Here are 10 such battles that changed the course of history. 10Battle Of The Delta From 1276 to 1178 BC, the ancient Mediterranean world was terrorized by the mysterious Sea People. Although they are often referred to as pirates or raiders, many historians now believe that the Sea People represented a major population movement fleeing from the famine and turmoil that contributed to the Late Bronze Age collapse. The Sea People overran the mighty Hittite Empire and other regions of the ancient world. After defeating the Hittites,
Catolicismo
Calling Catholicism A 'Middle Ages Dictatorship' Is Laughably Ignorant
The Federalist 2 hours 3 minutes ago
It is clear that prominent left-wingers and Democratic operatives think about the Catholic Church quite a lot—and they have some potent opinions on the subject. Last year we learned that George Soros dropped $600,000 on leftist Catholic front groups, trying to spin Pope Francis’ visit as a campaign tour for Hillary. Last week it emerged that Clinton’s communications director, Jennifer Palmieri, agrees that Catholic terms of art such as “Thomistic thought” and “subsidiarity” are merely sophistical smoke screens for rich conservatives such as Rupert Murdoch, who are in search of a faith with “severely backward gender relations,” but too snobbish to join an evangelical church. Not to be outdone, in a friendly email exchange with Hillary’s campaign chairman John Podesta, left-wing activist Sandy Newman described the Catholic Church as a “middle ages dictatorship” that needed a “Catholic spring.” (Would that be akin to the Arab Spring, and result in chaos, hangings, and the rise of a Catholic ISIS—perhaps named al-Chiesa?) To help with that, Podesta promised help to pro-choice sock puppet groups that call themselves “Catholic,” but push the Democrats’ agenda—you know, like those tribal “homelands” the apartheid South Africans set up in the 1980s and pretended were independent. ...
sábado, 29 de outubro de 2016
Ortodoxia radical
"Milbank, together with Graham Ward and Catherine Pickstock, has helped forge a new trajectory in constructive theology known as "Radical Orthodoxy"—a predominantly Anglo-Catholic approach which is highly critical of modernity."
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A lecture given by John Milbank, the head of the Centre of Theology and Philosophy at the University of Nottingham (England) and the founder and leader of…
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Bitcoin
Bitcoin conquered its temporary price barrier to reach over $700 USD for the first time since the first day of Summer.
cointelegraph.com
sexta-feira, 28 de outubro de 2016
Boicote
Política contra judiciário
A justiça brasileira e o pobre brasileiro
Uma justiça obesa, mórbida, sendo carregada por um povo miserável, magro, de olhos fundos.
Ficaria muito bem na Praça dos Três Poderes, em Brasília
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Economia contra ecologia
“Economics is not a science – it doesn’t even include the earth in its equations. Economics is not based in anything like the real world.”
David Suzuki says 'economics' is not a science and doesn't make sense in the real world.
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Produção, consumo e abientalismo
http://www.capitalism.net/.../Production_v_Consumption.html
Consumerismo é keynesianismo
"One of the most pernicious and widespread economic fallacies is the belief that consumption is the key to a healthy economy. We hear this idea all the time in the popular press and casual conversation, particularly during economic downturns. People say things like, “Well, if folks would just start buying things again, the economy would pick up” or “If we could only get more money in the hands of consumers, we’d get out of this recession.” This belief in the power of consu...mption is also what has guided much of economic policy in the last couple of years, with its endless stream of stimulus packages.
"This belief is an inheritance of misguided Keynesian thinking. Production, not consumption, is the source of wealth. If we want a healthy economy, we need to create the conditions under which producers can get on with the process of creating wealth for others to consume, and under which households and firms can engage in the saving necessary to finance that production.
"It’s tempting to say that this is really a “chicken and egg” problem; after all, what good is it to produce things if there’s no one there to consume them? The way out of this circle is to recognize that we only have the power to consume if we have produced and sold something in order to acquire the means to engage in consumption. Starting the analysis with consumption assumes one has already acquired means. Contrary to that analysis, wealth is created through acts of production that rearrange resources in ways people value more than alternative arrangements. These acts are financed with savings that come from households refraining from consumption.
"Putting more resources in the hands of consumers through a government stimulus package fails precisely because the wealth so transferred ultimately has to come from producers. This is obvious when the spending is financed by taxation, but it’s equally true for deficit spending and inflation. With deficit spending the wealth comes from producers’ purchases of government bonds. With inflation it comes proportionately from holders of dollars (obtained through acts of production) whose purchasing power is weakened by the excess supply of money. In neither case does government create wealth. Nor does consumption. The new ability to consume still originates in prior acts of production. If we want real stimulus, we need to free up producers by creating a more hospitable environment for production and not penalize the saving that finances them."
Ver mais"It’s tempting to say that this is really a “chicken and egg” problem; after all, what good is it to produce things if there’s no one there to consume them? The way out of this circle is to recognize that we only have the power to consume if we have produced and sold something in order to acquire the means to engage in consumption. Starting the analysis with consumption assumes one has already acquired means. Contrary to that analysis, wealth is created through acts of production that rearrange resources in ways people value more than alternative arrangements. These acts are financed with savings that come from households refraining from consumption.
"Putting more resources in the hands of consumers through a government stimulus package fails precisely because the wealth so transferred ultimately has to come from producers. This is obvious when the spending is financed by taxation, but it’s equally true for deficit spending and inflation. With deficit spending the wealth comes from producers’ purchases of government bonds. With inflation it comes proportionately from holders of dollars (obtained through acts of production) whose purchasing power is weakened by the excess supply of money. In neither case does government create wealth. Nor does consumption. The new ability to consume still originates in prior acts of production. If we want real stimulus, we need to free up producers by creating a more hospitable environment for production and not penalize the saving that finances them."O perigoso judiciário do Brasil
Debate em Paris discute o protagonismo "perigoso" do Judiciário no Brasil
O juiz Sérgio Moro, autor de "incriminações seletivas" durante a operação Lava-Jato, segundo especialistas em debate na SciencesPo, em Paris.AFP PHOTO/EVARISTO SA
O Observatório Político da América Latina e Caribe (OPALC), do Instituto de Ciências Políticas de Paris (SciencesPo), reuniu três especialistas nesta quinta-feira (27) para discutir a crise política no Brasil, além dos "superpoderes" da magistratura brasileira, entre outros efeitos colaterais do esgotamento do "presidencialismo de coalizão".
No menu do encontro, temas como a tradição política da destituição de presidentes na América Latina, as causas e consequências da ultrapolarização política da sociedade civil brasileira, as fricções entre as narrativas que tentam relatar o episódio do impeachment de Dilma Rousseff e o surgimento de uma nova “entidade” reguladora de poder: o Judiciário brasileiro, cada vez mais politizado, que toma para si de maneira perigosa as decisões primordiais da Nova República do século 21, segundo afirmaram os especialistas reunidos no seminário “A crise no Brasil”.
Para o cientista político Aníbal Pérez-Liñan, é de fundamental importância entender “a destituição de Dilma Rousseff no contexto latino-americano”. O professor da Universidade de Pittsburgh lembrou que, entre o impeachment de Fernando Collor de Mello, em 1992, e o de Rousseff, em 2016, nada menos do que oito presidentes da República foram depostos pelo poder Legislativo no continente: Carlos Pérez, na Venezuela, em 1993; Abdalá Bucaram, no Equador, em 1997; Raúl Cubas, no Paraguai, em 1999; Lúcio Gutiérrez, no Equador, em 2005; Fernando Lugo, no Paraguai, em 2012, e Otto Pérez Molina, na Guatemala, em 2015, além dos dois chefes de Estado brasileiros.
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Para o cientista político Aníbal Pérez-Liñan, é de fundamental importância entender “a destituição de Dilma Rousseff no contexto latino-americano”. O professor da Universidade de Pittsburgh lembrou que, entre o impeachment de Fernando Collor de Mello, em 1992, e o de Rousseff, em 2016, nada menos do que oito presidentes da República foram depostos pelo poder Legislativo no continente: Carlos Pérez, na Venezuela, em 1993; Abdalá Bucaram, no Equador, em 1997; Raúl Cubas, no Paraguai, em 1999; Lúcio Gutiérrez, no Equador, em 2005; Fernando Lugo, no Paraguai, em 2012, e Otto Pérez Molina, na Guatemala, em 2015, além dos dois chefes de Estado brasileiros.
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quinta-feira, 27 de outubro de 2016
Publicações acadêmicas
Half of academic papers are never read by anyone other than their authors, peer reviewers, and journal editors.
fee.org|Por Daniel Lattier
- Half of academic papers are never read by anyone other than their authors, peer reviewers, and journal editors.
So what’s the reason for this madness? Why does the world continue to be subjected to just under 2 million academic journal articles each year?
Mito matemática
The Harvard PhD and data scientist talks about her new book and ponders how people’s fear and trust of math is akin to worshipping God
theguardian.com|Por Mona Chalabi
Vida no Egipto antigo
10 Truly Disgusting Facts About Life In Ancient Egypt
Egypt is the land of pyramids and pharaohs, tombs filled with glittering treasures, and powerful men who ruled a country like gods. When we think of ancient Egypt, we think of the wealth and glamour of kings. But we usually leave out the dirty—and disgusting—details. 10 Lice Was So Bad That People Just Gave Up On Hair Most people shaved their heads in ancient Egypt. We know this from pictures and from records written by people in other countries who looked at Egypt’s fashion choices and puzzled over why Egyptians thought going bald was such a good look. Today, though, historians are pretty sure they know why. Lice were everywhere in ancient Egypt. The tombs of Egyptian rulers are infested with ...
quarta-feira, 26 de outubro de 2016
Mencken
"Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956) was a German-American journalist, satirist, cultural critic and scholar of American English. About the book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/006...
"Known as the "Sage of Baltimore", he is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the twentieth century. As a scholar Mencken is known for The American Language, a multi-volume study of how the English lan...
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"Known as the "Sage of Baltimore", he is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the twentieth century. As a scholar Mencken is known for The American Language, a multi-volume study of how the English lan...
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Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956) was a German-American…
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Como enriquecer o mundo
Just 10% of people aged 20-24 are out of work or not in school in Germany. As befits Germany’s reputation for efficiency and industrial success, this is one of the lowest levels in the world. If all 35 OECD countries reduced youth unemployment to German levels, the economic gain would be $1.1 trillion, according to a study by PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Economia americana perde dinâmica
Karl Marx
Mikhail Bakunin sobre Karl Marx:
He is extremely ambitious and vain, quarrelsome, intolerant, and absolute, like Jehovah, the Lord God of his ancestors, and like him, vengeful to the point of madness. There is no lie or calumny that he would not invent or disseminate against anyone who had the misfortune to arouse his jealousy or his hatred, which amounts to the same thing.
Novo ensino
Roger Schank: “El álgebra es como una religión y no enseña a pensar”
Experto en Inteligencia Artifical y exprofesor en Yale, aboga por un cambio radical en la educación con programas abiertos
R. El álgebra es como una religión, todo el mundo cree que tiene beneficios pero no existe evidencia científica. No te podría decir la cantidad de personas que me han dicho que el álgebra enseña a pensar mejor, cuando no existe ninguna investigación que lo demuestre. Por eso digo que es como una religión; te dicen que Jesús visitó una montaña y, aunque no hay evidencias, la gente lo cree. Una vez terminado el instituto, nadie recuerda esos temas porque son inútiles y el 99% de los adultos nunca los han utilizado. Muchos estudiantes se sienten idiotas por no entender ese tipo de contenidos, genera frustración, hace a la gente llorar e incluso abandonar la escuela.
Como o banco central comprou os economistas
Reserve Board itself, plus the usual groupthink in academia.
terça-feira, 25 de outubro de 2016
Fora do PIB
Google and Facebook contribute zero economic value. That’s a big problem for trade.
Washington Post Mon, Oct 24
How much value do free online services contribute to the U.S. economy? Ask any user of Google, Facebook, YouTube or Twitter, and the answer would most likely be, “A lot.” But according to every statistic created by the U.S. government, the answer is actually zero. That’s because key benchmarks including gross domestic product (GDP) historically ignore everything without a price. Because consumers do not pay for many information services, these “building blocks of the digital economy,” as Harvard Business School economist Shane Greenstein wrote in a 2013 paper, simply aren’t measured by standard economic tools. Greenstein refers to the vast difference between actual and measured value as our ...
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