The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change - Randal Collins

• The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change - Randal Collins - Google Libros
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The abstraction/reflexivity sequence can grow from any materials on which intellectuals focus attention. Philosophy has diverse starting points: issues of ritual propriety in ancient China, cosmological myths in India and Greece, theological disputes in early Islam. Philosophical abstraction shifts attention from the original questions and transform them into other matters. Higher or "pure" philosophy emerges as a focus on abstraction and reflexivity in their own right. Techniques arising as tools ancillary to disputes become ends  in themselves. Sub-topics become specialized branches of attention.

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Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture: Hildegard of Bingen to Chaucer - Bruce W. Holsinger

• Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture: Hildegard of Bingen to Chaucer - Bruce W. Holsinger - Google Libros
  She mixed the drink with tears in propoer measure [temperat in mesuram], and to the full delight of God she beat a melody from her heart and body [pulsat cordis sui et corporis symphoniam]. She produced the organ tones of her lamentations, played upon the cithar by her long and rhythmical sighs, and fitted groans to the pipe [in fistulam]. While she kept beating her breast in reproach to her conscience she made the cymbals resound which would please God. 

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L'ingénieux hidalgo don Quichotte de la Manche - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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  Il lui vint à la mémoire qu'il n'était pas encore armé chevalier ; qu'ainsi, d'après les lois de la chevalerie, il ne pouvait ni  ne devait entrer en lice avec aucun chevalier...

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