Rather than “selfishness,” a more accurate and revealing interpretation of Wang’s use of siyu is “self-centeredness.” One of the main goals in Wang’s model of moral cultivation was to attain a state devoid of self-centered desires. Wang relied a great deal on the exercise and cultivation of an emotional identification and feeling of oneness with others. In this paper, I first provide a brief su...

In medieval society one of the main functions of a saint was healing people. Similarly to Christ, whose contemporaries were awed by his ability to cure the sick, the medieval saint was expected to have an ability to perform miraculous healings. Hagiographic literature clearly indicates that health was the most called for miracle: people turned to saints not as much for the blessing of soul but ...

Address for Correspondence: Felix Leroy 27 Centre de Neurophysique, Physiologie et Pathologie, UMR 8119 28 Université Paris Descartes, 45 rue des Saints-Pères, 75006 Paris, France 29 *present address: Dr Steve Siegelbaum lab,Columbia University Medical Center, 30 New York State Psychiatric Institute,1051 Riverside Drive New York, NY 10032 31 e-mail: [email protected] 32 33 34 35 Articles in PresS...

Among naturalist philosophers, both defenders and opponents of moral relativism argue that prescriptive moral theories (or normative theories) should be constrained by empirical findings about human psychology. Empiricists have asked if people are or can be moral relativists, and what effect being a moral relativist can have on an individual’s moral functioning. This research is underutilized i...

The standard of scholarly accuracy is high, although it is a pity that the biographical entries do not attempt substantial listings of authors' publications, and that the amount of reference to modem scholarship in the little bibliographies appended to the articles is rather slight. Thus (to take one example) the entry on the York Retreat-a perfectly sensible summary-refers us to Samuel Tuke's ...

Quantitative estimation of calcium dynamics from ratiometric 1 measurements: a direct, non-ratioing, method 2 3 4 5 Sébastien Joucla , Andreas Pippow 2 , 6 Peter Kloppenburg 2 and Christophe Pouzat 7 8 9 10 1 Cerebral Physiology Laboratory, Université Paris-Descartes, CNRS, UMR 8118, 11 45 rue des Saints-Pères, 75006 Paris, France 12 13 14 2 Institute of Zoology and Physiology, Center for Molec...

This article surveys the beliefs concerning the supernatural characteristics and powers of sacred trees in Israel; it is based on a field study as well as a survey of the literature and includes 118 interviews with Muslims and Druze. Both the Muslims and Druze in this study attribute supernatural dimensions to sacred trees which are directly related to ancient, deep-rooted pagan traditions. The...

In this article, the great historian Peter Brown's conception of origins and development cult saints in Late Antiquity is presented. contribution to defining concept "Late Antiquity" also highlighted.

This paper shows that in a private value setting in which one bidder may at any time reÞne her assessment of her valuation at some positive cost, the ascending price auction induces higher expected welfare than the sealed-bid second price auction does. When the number of bidders is above a threshold, it generates higher revenue as well. In the ascending price auction, a key feature of equilibri...

Background Asceticism is deeply related to spirituality and fasting practices that have been observed in Anorexia Nervosa (AN) throughout history. Objective To make a psychosocial analysis of spirituality and asceticism within the historical context of Anorexia Nervosa (AN), from the Middle Ages to the 21st century, comparing ‘holy anorexia’ and contemporary AN. Ad hoc illustrative cases are de...