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I colori nel Giappone antico
Get PDFFor a long time, a tenacious prejudice has cultivated the idea that the West has produced the best ways of both knowing the world and organising existence. An integral part of this prejudice is the views on colour theories. Whether referring to the ancient Greeks, Goethe or Newton, for too long it has been thought (and sometimes still is thought) that it is the various Western colour theories that best describe the sensory experience that brings human beings into contact with colour. In a certain sense, that is, as theories, this is true. But it is not true that only colour theories allow us to have the best possible experience of colours. This observation is well illustrated by the case of ancient Japan, which lacked specific colour theories, but was very rich in colour sensitivity
L'Oriente e l'Europa
Get PDFWhat the East is and what Europe is are not acquired concepts of which one can give certain and unequivocal definitions. This applies both to the past and to the present. It applies both to culture in general and to philosophy in particular. As far as philosophy is concerned, it must be made clear once and for all that in both India and China there have been ways and types of thought which, although different from European ones, are equivalent to these
La foresta nelle Culture d'Oriente
No full textLa foresta nella tradizione Hindu; la foresta nella tradizione buddhista; la foresta nella Tradizione Theravada in Thailandia; la foresta nella tradizione taoista; la foresta nella tradizione shintĹŤ. Lo shugend
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