Giving Up Our Cultural Addiction

This article will begin with an overview of the sources of our cultural addiction to patriarchal culture and its values in Western cultures. Of particular importance to this was the development of the daughter languages of Sanskrit with their dualistic structure. A further major source lies in the Biblical Genesis creation text and subsequent Western philosophy and theology. These things together supported the delusional consciousness which led to individual suffering and the exploitation of others and the earth. The article will then look briefly at some of this addiction’s manifestations and their effects and then explain how Buddhist practice can help with the withdrawal process and foster a ‘new’ way of life although it must be acknowledged that there are real questions as to whether Buddhist practice will be used extensively enough to do so in time to save us from ourselves.

Dualism of the mechanism of proof in criminal proceedings

This article argues that in the mechanism of evidence in criminal cases it is legitimate to distinguish two aspects: procedural — evidence-based law and law enforcement — the criminalistic investigation methodology. On the whole, a dualistic structure is formed in which the components have a common goal - the formation of a system of evidence for making legal, reasonable and fair procedural decisions.

Some observations on the dualistic nature of discourse processing

A range of studies on language use suggests that there is a general contrast between two kinds of discourse processing. Based on a review of these studies, which rest on a number of different methodological approaches and perspectives, the present paper argues that there is in fact converging evidence in support of the hypothesis that linguistic discourse has a dualistic structure. Central to this structure is a distinction between what tends to be referred to, respectively, as the microstructure and the macrostructure of discourse. Furthermore, it is argued that the distinction shows significant neurolinguistic correlations, and that these correlations concern the lateralization of the cerebral brain.

Canonical Divergence for Flat α-Connections: Classical and Quantum

A recent canonical divergence, which is introduced on a smooth manifold M endowed with a general dualistic structure ( g , ∇ , ∇ * ) , is considered for flat α -connections. In the classical setting, we compute such a canonical divergence on the manifold of positive measures and prove that it coincides with the classical α -divergence. In the quantum framework, the recent canonical divergence is evaluated for the quantum α -connections on the manifold of all positive definite Hermitian operators. In this case as well, we obtain that the recent canonical divergence is the quantum α -divergence.

Prehistoric evolution of the dualistic structure mixed rice and millet farming in China

Compared with the monistic structure of crop agriculture in Southwest Asia and Mesoamerica, agriculture in ancient China reflects the characteristics of a dualistic structure with millet in the north and rice in the south. It is argued that the rice and millet farming modes were mutually exchanged during their development and formed a vast region of mixed farming. However, the time and place of its origin, the routes of dissemination, and the development patterns and possible influence factors of mixed farming remain unclear. This study systematically collected information from 804 sites with millet and rice records and detailed floatation results from 78 mixed farming sites in prehistoric China. Three north–south communication corridors are identified between the upper, middle and lower Yellow and Yangtze River Valleys that began around 5500 BP, 8400 BP and 4600 BP, respectively. Cultural communication accompanied by human migration and the unique natural environment of loess and East Asia monsoons facilitated the interaction between millet and rice farming through these corridors. As a comprehensive reflection of the interaction between millet and rice farming, the crop structure of the four core mixed farming regions is in a continual process of adjustment, with the selection of foxtail millet in the southward spread of millet agriculture and temperate Oryza japonica in the northern spread of rice agriculture.

The Constitutional Justification of Religion

This article addresses religion from a legal perspective. It argues that religious matters should be settled outside the secular legal system; otherwise, the secular legal system would not be truly secular. However, religion demands special protection as a public good and social value, as it constitutes an extrinsic constitutional limit of the legal. For a secular legal system, protecting religion ultimately means protecting human beings' pursuit of the suprarational. Protecting suprarationality has three important legal consequences: (a) suprarational acts in the strictest sense should never be validated as legal acts; (b) democratic communities should not use suprarational arguments in legal discourse; and (c) the secular legal system cannot regulate suprarationality or the essentials of the religious community. The protection of religion demands both a dualistic structure that distinguishes the political community from the religious community and the treatment of religion as a right: the right to religion.

The Indian Economy in the Post-Reform Period: Growth without Structural Transformation

This paper provides an overview of the key analytical issues relating to India’s domestic economy. It first describes the pattern of growth and structural change in the Indian economy since Independence, highlighting the atypical nature of India’s structural transformation in the Asian context, with slow movement of the work-force from agriculture to manufacturing, and the rapid increase in the service sector. It then examines in turn the pattern of economic change in agriculture, manufacturing and services since the beginning of economic reforms in the 1990s, noting in particular the prevailing stagnation in agricultural growth, and an increase in the dualistic structure of manufacturing, along with the emergence of an export-oriented highly skilled segment of the services sector. It discusses the nature of urbanisation, and highlights the puzzle of slowing urbanisation in India. Finally, it revisits the debate around the causes of India’s growth acceleration, arguing that India’s growth acceleration suggest a more complex causal story than has been commonly portrayed in scholarly writings.

Recent demographic trends in the northern borderland between Italy and Slovenia: Stabilization or further redistribution of population?

The contribution presents findings from the research on a constitution of new ethnic identities in Alps-Adriatic region. The key question dealt here with was to which extent the recent demographical processes impact the peripheral, mountainous, and ethnically specific cross-border region between Slovenia and Italy. In lay and professional discourse there is still omnipresent mentality of extinguishing Slovene minority in Italy. Applying various demographical methods the article resolves the demographical processes and quantifies the extent of the local Slovene speakers. The author argues that the recent demographical processes of heavy depopulation tend to stabilize towards stagnation. Depopulation is stronger in the Slovenian part of the region, though the traditional Slovene-speaking areas in Italy aren’t as threatened as the adjacent Friulian areas. New migration trends along with the generally low fertility contribute to changes in traditional dualistic structure and bring refreshment to remote parts of the border region as well.