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STEINER, RUDOLF (1861–1925), who wrote more than 350 volumes on philosophy, science, and the arts, was the originator of an esot ...

BIBLIOGRAPHY More than two hundred volumes by Steiner and an equal number concerning anthroposophy by other authors, including C ...

(gra ̄hakagra ̄hyadvaya) is of imagined nature (parikal- pitasvabha ̄va) and is ultimately nonexistent. However, this dualistic ...

soul, following a rather Platonic psychological view (Fgm. 150 to 169, Edelstein-Kidd). Unlike Panaetius, Posidonius also had a ...

denied it. As Chrysippus explained (see Cicero, On Fate 18– 19), fate does not have to be identified with a necessity that compe ...

It is even less likely that a “Semitic” background can be understood as a source of “Jewish” influence. The Stoic “spirit” has n ...

Drozdek, Adam. “Theology of the Early Stoa.” Emerita 52 (2003): 73–93. Frede, Dorothea, and André Laks, eds. Traditions of Theol ...

It is uncertain whether the ancient Greek baituloi (“animated stones,” i.e., meteorites) can be compared to the Aramaic-Hebrew b ...

tananarivo (formerly Tananarive). During his coronation, the king placed himself on each stone in turn to signify that his sover ...

AMERICAN INDIANS. Sacred rocks and stones together with their spirits are highly venerated by the Indians of both North and Sout ...

concluding section of the book, Strauss explored the implica- tions of his historical-critical work for Christian theology. He a ...

totality, analogous to a biological organism, in which indi- viduals are linked together in a network of person-to-person relati ...

Matrix of Distinctive Features of Speech Consonantal Coronal Anterior Voiced Nasal Strident Continuant /p/+–+–––– /b/+–++––– /s/ ...

insights which are thoroughly convincing. The analogy with psychoanalytic procedures is very close. But this immediately raises ...

cism than on anthropology. Here, however, the formal struc- tures discussed in the work of Lévi-Strauss and Greimas have been tr ...

It is important to notice that there is nothing in this context-restricted, functionalist definition implying that myth is fanci ...

This goes right back to the grounding of structuralism in phonological distinctive-feature theory: it is finely dis- criminated ...

be persuaded that the demonstration of such a fine-grain hi- erarchy of relations could possibly be worthwhile. I would not myse ...

article. Those who wish to pursue the fundamentals further could hardly do better than to consult the richly annotated twenty-si ...

Rumney, Jay. Herbert Spencer’s Sociology. London, 1934. Saussure, Ferdinand de. Cours de linguistique générale. Lausanne, Trans ...