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See the issues of philosophy come to life in ROOTS OF WISDOM with InfoTrac®! Focusing on universal, current issues of concern to all people, this philosophy text uses popular culture to illustrate timeless philosophical problems. Historical Interludes, How Philosophy Works, The Making of a Philosopher, For Further Thought, People of the Americas, and Philosophers Speak for Themselves are just a few of the tools found throughout that give you the practice and understanding you need to succeed.
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Excellent Introduction to Philosophy.......2003-04-17
Helen Buss Mitchell does a great job at introducing the reader to philosophical topics and concepts through this book and its accompanying "reader" with excerpts from essays by astute philosophical authors. I am currently enrolled in a philosophy telecourse and these are the required books for the class along with two videotapes. IF you can get the videotapes, they help a great deal as well. Mitchell has poets and authors reading some of their work as she discusses how it relates to the topic at hand. Even if you are not enrolled in school but want a solid grounding in philosophy, I highly recommend these books.
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Written 400 years ago, by a scholar in the Ming Dynasty, The Caigentan or Vegetable Roots has been a fundamental literary guide for hundreds of years, outlining Asian philosophy. This edition, translated by Robert Aitken and Daniel W.Y. Kwok, contains 360 observations of life: its exaggerations, absurdities, grotesqueries, and falsities. Terse, humorous, witty, and timely, these Taoist, Buddhist, and Confucianist epigrams provide fundamental principles of life. Though often strict, puritan, and tough to live by, they provide the foundation for the art of living. Pocket-sized and agreeing seamlessly with the impulses of all ages, this discourse is read as a set of philosophical notions on personal development for all types.
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good reading.......2006-03-17
Just got this book through chance. It's a great read. I think the blurb in the book summed it up well when it said something about uniting the traditional buddhist and taoist values with the more confucian. It reads like confucianized tao te ching - lots of parables of wisdom but made more "real life" - thus a but more accessible to a casual reader as opposed to the tao de ching, which a more light reader may not be able to grasp.
I am very happy with the translation, although I do not speak chinese, i feel as if there was a lot of care put into it. Great book. great job by the translators.
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A wealth of quotations and elegantly phrased profound truths in simple terms, providing much food for thought. An absorbing way of studying China's culture and language. Illustrated, Chinese/English edition.
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There is great Wisdom here.......2007-02-22
A perfect balance of Lao Tzu and Confucious.
However there is a more elegant and poetic English translation under a different title is translated by Thomas Cleary:
"Back To Beginnings" (on Shamabala Publictions) though Cleary did selectively leave out some of the numbered meditations (and their numerical references).
Note:Hong Yingming's Taoist mane is Huanchu Daoren.
Get both books and understand the extent of the translator's art.
If you read Chinese don't get Back to Beginnings get this version because it has English and Chinese side by side.
One can learn from any version, this book is special.
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Straddling the Borders: The Year I Grew Up in Italy
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Two Italian-American women, cousins, go to Italy in search of their roots. Their search brings the cousins to a 435 year-old family dwelling, a town hall--where they uncover grandmother's baptismal font and the great-grandparents' wedding. Upon finding and touching these validations of their history, the two cousins break into tears and welcome, with unequivocal joy, all that their Italian culture is and all that their Italian culture means to them. Finally, they begin to understand who they are, and they savor the chances to uncover all that there is that has brought them to this place.
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Bravo!.......2006-04-20
Martha Cummings doesn't just write, she inspires. Only a few chapters into her latest book, I found myself on the phone with my oldest living relatives feverishly writing down every word they could remember of our family's heritage. Just as the picture on the cover draws you in, this author's writing captivates the reader in such a way that people come in from other rooms of the house and ask you what you are laughing at and why you look so starry eyed upon putting it down. The description of Italia is so vivid that it transports you across the Atlantic (no passport required). Reading the restaurant scenes compelled me to open a bottle of red and fry up some anchovies! One scene she describes in Campo di Giove took me back to my Italian grandmother's table with all the various offerings of an ordinary mid-week lunch. Anyone who has ever been to Italia needs to read this book. After the trip is over and you are thrust back into your American schedule, you forget so much. The smells, the pace of life, the people, and the little nuances which are nothing short of magical. Ms. Cummings took me back and helped me rekindle the magic that I now possess in my soul having been there.
Memoir of a Sentimental Journey .......2006-03-22
This book resonated with me because of my own experience of reconnection with my Italian roots. My angel was my late father, Angelo, born in Northeastern Italy, whom I have adored forever, and who told us stories of the family with whom he lost contact during WWII before my sister and I were born.
I recently connected with the children of his brother whom Papa had last seen as he hugged him good-bye before leaving his village forever. Papa was 17; his brother was 16. We found each other via the Internet. The emotions I felt at the first e-mail from the second cousin who found our name on the Internet website on which I had posted it, and realized when he gave the names of his grandparents and said that my father's bithplace and surname were also the birthplace and surname of his mother, that he was the grandson of my father's brother, parallel those of Martha and Laurie in 'The Wisdom of Angels." At least one reviewer has called this book a novel. I think this is more of a non-fiction memoir of a sentimental journey taken by two cousins to the ancestral homeland. Martha and Laurie experience kindness and generosity in their search for their family places from the angels they meet along the way, such as the clerks in the town halls in the villages in the Abruzzi and in Sicily, who go out of their way to help in the search for family records, and the couple who lead them in their car to the best route to Florence. They experience warm and bounteous welcomes from their cousins and distant relations, and shed tears of remembrance as they find vestiges of the lives of their grandparents,Laurie's father, and Martha's mother. Unlike Martha, I have been to Italy only once, but like her, have loved it, its cuisine, its language, and its culture my whole life.
I was especially touched by the scene in which Martha, caressing the weathered door of her grandfather's house, the texture of which she likens to his gentle wrinkled face, discovers that someone had inscribed on it in pencil the date of his death in America an ocean and a lifetime away.
I remember thinking, as I sealed the envelope for my Italian cousins in which I had placed pictures of Papa, locks of his hair, and his funeral cards, that I was glad that there was was someone related still living in his natal village, who remembered Papa from stories told to them by their father, to send the mementos to. The cousin who contacted me had been sent to the library as a child to try to find Papa's name in an American phone book.
I have been to Italy, but not to the village of Papa's birth. One of my Italian cousins sent me a picture of the village, Orcenico Superiore, in Northeastern Italy above Venice marked with an arrow showing the street where he was born. Another cousin, now in Canada sent me some ceramic ware from the Friuli-Venezia-Giulia region in which his village is located.
I remember thinking on the boat crossing the Adriatic to Italy, that I was taking Papa's journey in reverse. Being there was like going home.
I am unlikely ever to return, and will probably never see my cousins face to face, but I have spoken to one of them on the phone and, exchanged letters and pictures with the all of them. Vicariously participating in Martha's and Laurie's journey has permitted me to experience in my imagination a similar journey to the tiny hilltop village in which my personal and lifetime hero was born.
Thank you Martha T. Cummings for another great novel........2002-08-24
A beautiful and very personal second novel. Ms. Cummings has done it again! The Wisdom of Angels takes us back again to Italia where culture, history and most of all family are the main themes. As in her first novel, Straddling the Borders, Ms. Cummings takes us on a journey to uncover her familial roots, only this time she travels to the birthplace of her Grandmother. The enduring admiration and love Martha and Laurie share for their Nonna comes through in the rich prose and easy dialogue conjuring feelings of longing for those childhood days where the best place around was on a grandmother's lap. Ms. Cummings also very poetically reminds us that a mother's love is best of all with her tender dedication at the opening of the book and the bittersweet final chapter. And the food! Move over Ruth Reichl! Ms. Cummings knows how to capture the essence of the dining experience and she keeps us laughing through all of her gastrointestinal endeavors. A splendid mixture of family, friendship, laughter and travel The Wisdom of Angels is a must read.
Journey into the Past.......2002-07-27
Genealogists will delight in this journey into the past. We all dream of the day when we will be able to go "over the pond" to visit the homesteads and haunts of our ancestors. Ms. Cummings does that in a compelling way. She shares with us the frustrations and triumphs of finding those elusive pieces to the puzzle. Well done, Ms. Cummings, and thank you for giving me the incentive to get back into the notes to make one more step toward my own journey to the past. Ireland is not too far away and I hope my journey will be equally successful.
For those who aren't doing their genealogy, I believe her story is a great read for you also. You'll meet some great people and "see" some great scenery in her book along the way. Who knows, maybe she'll tempt you into the great avocation of genealogy.
Thank you for taking me along, Ms. Cummings
Unearthing my Italian roots.......2002-06-09
Anyone wondering about their ancestral past (no matter which country holds the key) has got to read this book. Start with her first "Straddling the Borders; The year I grew up in Italy". Then read this one, "Wisdon of Angels: Unearthing my Italian Roots" You will laugh, cry and be inspired to follow her lead and go back to your parents',grandparents, or great grandparents's homeland and search for your roots. Even if you aren't of Italian descent you will appreciate her love of this beautiful country and want to board the next plane to Italy.
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This anthology brings together interesting and reader-friendly selections from a wide range of philosophical and cultural perspectives-making it the perfect supplement to Mitchell's ROOTS OF WISDOM or any other introductory philosophy text!
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This book investigates the problem of esoteric traditions in early Christianity, their origin and their transformation in Patristic hermeneutics, in the West as well as in the East. It argues that these traditions eventually formed the basis of nascent Christian mysticism in Late Antiquity. These esoteric traditions do not reflect the influence of Greek Mystery religions, as has often been claimed, but rather seem to stem from the Jewish background of Christianity. They were adopted by various Gnostic teachings, a fact which helps explaining their eventual disappearance from Patristic literature. The eleven chapters study each a different aspect of the problem, including the questions of Gnostic and Manichaean esotericism. This book will be of interest to all students of religious history in Late Antiquity.
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Hidden Wisdom: Esoteric Traditions and the Roots of Christian Mysticism.......2003-10-17
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This book investigates the problem of esoteric traditions in early Christianity, their origin and their transformation in Patristic hermeneutics, in the West as well as in the East. It argues that these traditions eventually formed the basis of nascent Christian mysticism in Late Antiquity. These esoteric traditions do not reflect the influence of Greek Mystery religions, as has often been claimed, but rather seem to stem from the Jewish background of Christianity. They were adopted by various Gnostic teachings, a fact which helps explaining their eventual disappearance from Patristic literature. The ten chapters study each a different aspect of the problem, including the questions of Gnostic and Manichaean esotericism. This book will be of interest to all students of religious history in Late Antiquity.
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It isn't the way of the Amish to write about themselves. But John A. Hostetler, author of the best- selling Amish Society, has put together a delightful anthology in which they do just that. More than 150 rare and unusual letters and journal entries, poems and stories, riddles, legends, and bits of family lore offer a uniquely authentic view of Amish life from colonial times to the present. Illustrated with 25 pages of full-color illustrations, this is the Amish story as told by the Amish themselves, by their friends and neighbors, and by others who understand Amish ways.
Hans Nussbaum, a nineteenth-century Swiss immigrant, writes to friends of a rough Atlantic crossing and a hard life in the Ohio Valley, suggesting that his "sleepy and lazy" cousins stay home in Europe. Virgil Detweiler tells of an ancestor's arrival at the port of colonial Philadelphia with personal baggage that included 5 copper stills, 30 stoves, 596 scythes, and 8 flutes. (He lost it all to King George's alert customs men.) In 1863 Amish bishop Daniel Beachy faces down a company of Confederate cavalry who try to steal his horse on a muddy Maryland highway. And an Amish teen- ager writes of life in a Pennsylvania prison after refusing military service during World War II.
But Amish Roots is more than an anthology of Amish history. Here Amish men and women speak out. On America. The decline of the family. Health and home remedies. Farming. They offer three centuries' wisdom on issues ranging from raising a barn to raising children, from getting along with neighbors to breaking in a team of mules. They tell what's wrong with public schools and share strategies for coping with government officials, aggressive reporters, and tourists. Converts to the faith tell their story. Those who leave the faith describe life among the "English."
Throughout, the Amish deal with the modern world in ways that often temper outright rejection with quiet compromise. In 1850, newly arrived Amish immigrants are astonished at the sight of the Mississippi sidewheeler that will take them from New Orleans to their new home in Illinois. More than a century later, an Amish tourist in Europe offers a first-hand account of crossing the English Channel by Hovercraft.
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A partial and often boring picture.......2002-06-24
I bought this book because I was interested in learning about the way in which the Amish have managed to build a society free of the anguish and purposelessness so usual in ours. Well, this book only partially succeeded in giving me the information I wanted. I would gladly have exchanged uninteresting extracts, such as the homemade remedies and recipes, or the verses written by teenagers in their albums (in much the same way as many non-Amish teenagers I know), for more substantial information. Often, the author awoke my interest in one subject, but then did not provide enough information to satisfy that interest. The "what happened next" is usually lacking. For instance, I would have liked to know more about the Amish reaction to the movie "Witness", about which only a vague, disjointed letter is offered as a sample. At other times, the stories or extracts seem so irrelevant as to be laughable, as in the story about the man who bought a pair of shoes and left his old ones inside a box in the shop, to play a joke on the salesboy. The choice of illustrations (mostly of decorated front pages of Bibles, or fairly simple and unremarkable drawings)is poor, and could have been better if photographs of Amish people and their farmsteads had been included. Also, the "criticism of the Amish" section seems fairly mild when compared to the sky-high praise lavished on them in other selections. This makes the global picture rather subjective. Criticising their rejection of technology seems pretty lukewarm, when you think of more debatable subjects, such as the role of women in Amish society, or their preventing their children from attaining higher education. My intention here is not to criticize a society I'm only beginning to learn about (and which I find, I must confess, fascinating in its quiet way), but to highlight some aspects of it that are barely dwelt upon in this book, which seems concerned only with showing the Amish in the most favorable light. Maybe the general dullness and scantness of the material is due to what the author of the book mentions throughout - the reluctance of the Amish to write about themselves. If so, it's a pity, for, in "Amish Roots", you only get a dull and colorless picture of what is undoubtedly a complex and mistifying way of life.
An honest portayal of the life if the "Plain People".......2001-02-10
Slow down and savour each page of this gem... "We are not Amish, we are Christians. Amish is just a nickname. We don't need to be ashamed that people call us that but we shouldn't build on the Amish name." William A. Yoder
This quote from the book sticks most in my mind after reading this collection of first-hand accounts of Amish life, gathered from personal and family documents by the Amish people themselves, dating from the 1700's to the present day.
This is their story, told their way. I found that most refreshing.
An honest portrayal of a community of people struggling to maintain the purity of their faith and love for their fellow man in a world that seems set to undermine everything they stand for. Rightly called a "Treasury", and presenting both the joys and the hardships of the Amish way of life, this book was hard to put down, and left me aching for a time when the world and the way we lived in it was much simpler fare.....
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Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.
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