Since the early 1990s we have observed a wide media coverage of voguingas an underground cultural expression American LGBT community. When overflowing Hallem’s borders, voguingbecame act resistance that impresses on body subjectivities held back by modern rationalism. Today, occupying different spaces, voguersteach us new performative textualities can be reconfigured in gestural memory, allowin...

98 © 2009 by the American Counseling Association. All rights reserved. It has been said that “life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans” (Lennon, 1980). This familiar statement by John Lennon reminds individuals that, despite their best efforts at planning, their lives unfold in sometimes unexpected and unpredictable ways. Yet the prevailing worldview underlying the Weste...

Karl Popper discussed admirably the choice between faith and reason [Popper, 1945, Ch. 24]. He admitted that the basis of rationalism is a faith of sorts, a faith in reason. Later on his disciple William W. Bartley dissented from him [Bartley, 1962] and even called him a fideist [Radnitzky and Bartley, 1987, 205, 208, 210-11], much to his annoyance. All this caused bad blood between the two [La...

descartes' absolutist rationalism makes a gap between human perception and the physical word. as a result, there will be a separation between his rational approach to the word and that of sensory-emotional. now, the problem is that whether there is any place for beauty and aestheticism in the cartesian rationalism. in this paper, we will deal with sense and sensory perception in descartes ...

In this paper we refine consideration of the topic of ‘sustainability’ through an analysis of its ontological and epistemological assumptions. The concepts of ‘Strong’ and ‘Weak’ sustainability are defined, compared and contrasted in terms of their respective emphases on Complexity and Humanism, and on Reductionism and Rationalism. A model for assessment of these emphases is presented. It is su...