The Buddha's Path of Salvation

.Social salvation

“ Students here are basically apat­ hetic," Dean o f Students James Roemer commented to a less than capacity crowd at last n igh t’s security seminar in LaFortune Stu­ dent Center. Eight students were in attendance. The seminar was jo in tly con­ ducted by Roemer, Assistant D irec­ to r o f Security Rex Rakow, and investigator Ann Schelllnger. It focused on the security needs o f women at the U...

Salvation by registration.

Salvation for Bricoleurs

In a previous presentation at this workshop (Ben-Ari, 1999), the second author described an experiment in which (even) science educators studying for advanced degrees displayed abysmal performance on non-routine tasks using a word processor. The performance was described as bricolage, a term first used by anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss to describe the primitive science of a ‘savage’, and ap...

Salvation in Mark

It is interesting that the terms σωτρ and σωτηρíα (except in Mark 16:21) are not used in Mark. Although the terms "salvation" and "saviour" are absent from Mark, the role of "saviour" is not. The verb σζω occurs in 3:4; 5:23,28,34; 6:56; 8:35; 10:26,52; 13:13,20; 15:30-31 (and 16:16). It is also generally accepted that the passion of Jesus plays a very important role in this Gospel, and Kähle...

The Case for Modularity: Sin or Salvation?

The central thesis of P ANKSEPP and P ANKSEPP (2001, henceforth, P&P) is that there are no specially evolved, higher-order domain-specific cognitive mechanisms to speak of. Apart from the basic D ARWINIAN emotions (fear, surprise, anger, sadness, joy, disgust), so-called cognitive ‘modules’ are more likely “the product of dubious human ambition rather than sound scientific reasoning”. What evol...