- November 20, 2023
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Strong G142 – αἴρω – airo. Griechisch – wegnehmen; aufheben; aufnehmen; [+17]. Vorkommen im Neuen Testament.
- November 18, 2023
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Kompilation (lateinisch compilatio, „Plünderung“) [...]
- November 13, 2023
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nomothete and onomaturge / lawgiver and name-crafter in Plato's Cratylus
Οὐκ ἄρα παντὸς ἀνδρός, ὦ Ἑρμόγενες, ὄνομα θέσθαι [389a] [ἐστὶν] ἀλλά τινος ὀνοματουργοῦ· οὗτος δ᾽ ἐστίν, ὡς ἔοικεν, ὁ νομοθέτης, ὃς δὴ τῶν δημιουργῶν σπανιώτατος ἐν ἀνθρώποις γίγνεται.
Then it is not for every man, Hermogenes, [389a] to give names, but for him who may be called the name-worker; and he, it appears, is the lawgiver, who is of all the artisans among men the rarest.
(demiurge from demos and ergon, commoner and labor. nomothete is a legislator, a member of the assembly that legislates, and definitely not a commoner.)
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suspendit organa scriptionis
Walz, Saint Thomas Aquinas, a biographical study > post ipsam missam nunquam scripsit neque dictavit aliquid, immo suspendit organa scriptionis
"Chaff: Thomas Aquinas's Repudiation of His Opera omnia" by Boyle and Boyle
"The metaphor of Aquinas hanging up his pens alluded to the exiled psalmist hanging up his lyre (Ps. 137:l-6),51 as if Aquinas were also estranged in a foreign land, his hand withered and his tongue stuck to the roof of his mouth (w. 5-6).
Same > "I cannot": Thomas Aquinas replied to an anxious inquiry about I why he had abruptly ceased writing and dictating his Summa JL theologiae. His companion and confessor, Reginald of Piperno, afraid that overzealous study had induced insanity, insisted that he continue. "I cannot," repeated Aquinas, "because everything that I have written seems to me chaffy." /// sicut palea: comme un ballot de paille; comme du fumier; like straw; Lacan gives "comme du fumier," which isn't literal
- November 9, 2023
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Mummerehlen
Wenn ich dabei mich und das Wort entstellte, tat ich nur, was ich tun mußte, um im Leben Fuß zu fassen. Beizeiten lernte ich es, in die Worte, die eigentlich Wolken waren, mich zu mummen.
- November 7, 2023
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Genealogy of Morals III.24
Als die christlichen Kreuzfahrer im Orient auf jenen unbesiegbaren Assassinen-Orden stiessen, jenen Freigeister-Orden par excellence, dessen unterste Grade in einem Gehorsame lebten, wie einen gleichen kein Mönchsorden erreicht hat, da bekamen sie auf irgend welchem Wege auch einen Wink über jenes Symbol und Kerbholz-Wort, das nur den obersten Graden, als deren Secretum, vorbehalten war: „Nichts ist wahr, Alles ist erlaubt“… Wohlan, das war Freiheit des Geistes, damit war der Wahrheit selbst der Glaube gekündigt…
- November 2, 2023
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burden (n. 2)
burden (plural burdens): 1. (music) A phrase or theme that recurs at the end of each verse in a folk song or ballad. 2. The drone of a bagpipe. 3. Theme, core idea, e.g. "the burden of the argument."
burden (n.2) "leading idea, main topic," 1640s, a figurative use (on the notion of "subject often repeated") of the earlier sense "refrain or chorus of a song," 1590s, originally "bass accompaniment to music" (late 14c.), from Old French bordon (Modern French bourdon) "bumble-bee, drone," or directly from Medieval Latin burdonom "drone, drone bass" (source also of Spanish bordon, Portuguese bordão, Italian bordone), of echoic origin.
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Italy in the Age of Dante and Petrarch, by John Larner
" 'undiluted, pure and free and general determination and will, as shall best and most usefully seem agreeable to him, with council or without council ... paying no attention to any solemnity of law, custom, reformation, decree or statute ... undiluted and pure power and jurisdiction, decision, power, lordship, and free determination...' [...]
In the law of the city [Mantua] the head of the Bonacolsi family now [in 1299] possessed almost absolute power. [...] On his deathbed [in 1308] Guido explained to the anziani that he was worried by the thought that he had taken money from the commune and used it for the construction of his palace. In reply they declared that he was perfectly justified in what he had done and that in future he should use all his communal finances as he thought fit. Six days later their decision was put to the General Council which prudently concurred. Councillor after councillor rose to his feet to compose some rhetorical exercise on the theme: 'by the custom and vigour of the statutes of the commune of Mantua, he is and has been able to dispense and dispose and expend and donate the money and property of the commune of Mantua and to convert it to his own use'. [...]
[After he died the council confirmed that his successors, two brothers,] were to have authority 'to conserve, guard, rule, govern, dispose, spend, give, and also receive to themselves, have, and retain the property, money, revenues, and goods of the commune of Mantua, and the possessions and goods of exiles, and whatever pertains to the commune of Mantua; and to do, in whatever manner they shall please, and as shall best and most conveniently seem and appear convenient, each and every thing, at their pure, undiluted, and free will and decision.' Finally the vicars were freed from any obligation to render accounts, or to stand to sindication (i.e. enquiry into the performance of their office). "
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Vandana Shiva, Reductionist Science as Epistemological Violence
This reductionist method has its uses in the fields of abstraction such as logic and mathematics, and in the fields of manmade artefacts such as mechanics But it fails singularly to lead to a perception of reality (truth) in the case of living organisms such as nature, including man, in which the whole is not merely the sum of the parts, if only because the parts are so cohesively interrelated that isolating any part distorts perception of the whole
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The Palestinian Left Will Not Be Hijacked – A Critique of Palestine: A Socialist Introduction Samar Al-Saleh and L.K.
It is then critical that we partake in acts of remembrance of those who came before us and were convinced of the enduring necessity and possibility of liberating Palestine. This is not an exercise in nostalgia or a romanticized vision of militancy. Nor is it a suggestion that the conditions of the Palestinian Revolution can be mapped onto our present. To remember, uplift, and learn from the political theory and strategy of the Palestinian Left is to struggle against Zionism’s ongoing, century-long counterinsurgency against Palestinian resistance.
During the Palestinian Revolution, the Zionist entity assassinated leaders of the Palestinian Left throughout Palestine, the Arab world, and Europe...There has never been closure to this repression. Our historical moment is constituted by an ideological struggle in which Zionism attempts to suppress and eradicate the memory of Palestinian and Arab revolutionaries it has transformed into martyrs.
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