scholarly journals Uma introdução à ciência indígena e suas leis naturais de interdependência

Em Tese ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 217
Author(s):  
Charles Bicalho
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Tradução do prefácio do livro Native Science: Natural Laws Of Interdependence (Ciência indígena: leis naturais de interdependência), de autoria do educador indígena Gregory Cajete, do pueblo de Santa Clara, no estado do Novo México, nos Estados Unidos. Em seu prefácio, Cajete introduz o leitor numa tradição milenar de entendimento, experimentação e sentimento do mundo natural. Ele explora e registra a visão indígena da realidade, atravessando a arte, o mito, os rituais e os símbolos, bem como as práticas da ciência indígena. Cajete examina os múltiplos níveis de significado que informam a astronomia, a cosmologia, a psicologia, a agricultura e a cura indígenas. Diferentemente do método científico ocidental, o pensamento indígena não isola o objeto ou fenômeno para entendê-lo e interagir com ele, mas o percebe em termos de relações que o ligam às forças naturais e a todas as formas de vida. Tal método tem sido fundamental para os povos indígenas viverem harmonia espiritual e física com a terra por milênios.

1882 ◽  
Vol 14 (351supp) ◽  
pp. 5602-5603
Author(s):  
B. T. Giraud
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2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-89
Author(s):  
Rahim Dehghan Simakani ◽  
Maryam Khoshdel Rohani
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2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-103
Author(s):  
Vered Noam

This paper examines the rabbinic concept of impurity in terms of the essence of the reality that this term implies. Did the Rabbis consider impurity to be a force of nature, or rather an abstract formalistic structure devoid of any actual existence? A review of rabbinic sources regarding corpse impurity reveals that the essential structures of tannaitic halakhah are grounded in a natural, immanent perception of impurity, which gave rise to an entire system, intricate and coherent, of “natural laws of impurity.” Layered onto this system, as a secondary stratum of sorts comprising exceptions and “addenda,” is a more subtle halakhic tapestry woven from a diametrically opposed perception. This view subjects the concept of impurity to human awareness and intention, severing it from reality and, in so doing, also stripping it of its “natural” substance.


Author(s):  
Marc Lange

Some philosophers regard no reducible physical properties as perfectly natural. However, in scientific practice, some but not other reducible physical properties (such as the property of having a given center of mass) denote genuine, explanatorily potent respects in which various systems are alike. What distinguishes these natural reducible physical properties from arbitrary algebraic combinations of more fundamental properties? Some philosophers treat naturalness as a metaphysical primitive. However, this chapter I suggests that it is not—at least, not as far as the naturalness of reducible physical properties is concerned. Roughly speaking, it is argued here that a reducible physical property’s naturalness is grounded in its role in the explanation of laws.


1933 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 614
Author(s):  
Henry E. Bourne ◽  
Sidney A. Reeve
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