We know that for Hegel the notion of spirit takes so many shapes that their unity is difficult to find. For instance, what does the soul in the subjective spirit, the property in the objective spirit and the cult of the Greek gods in the absolute spirit have in common? Furthermore, when we consider property, for example, the problem is knowing if the spirit is here constituted by the owner, by ...

HISTORICALLY Ht:DDHIS\1 CAN Cl.\1\1 TO !:IE THE FIHST missionary religion in the world. In fact, its messianic purpose was expressly declared nearly fi,·e centuries before Christ ,,·hen, soon after his enlightenment, the 13ucldha himself his disciples to "preach the truth" and spread the gospel "out of for the ,,·orld, for the good ... for the welfare of gods and men."' Ho,,·cver, it W<lS durin...

In our daily lives we assist to an exponential growth of mobile and fixed devices that surround us, though many of them having limited resources, and not even providing an interface screen. In this paper, we present remoteU¡, a middleware that allows the interaction of those devices with users, resorting to simple but expressive programming mechanisms, and providing efficient implementation and...

of ours, there immediately springs up a mushroom crop of theorists, who would account, each after his own fashion, for the phenomenon. First come the supernaturalists, who assign the event to the wrath of some offended God or Gods, on account of sins, real or imagined. The " sins of outrulers" is the most favorite formula in India. Next come the transcendentalist s, who attribute the circumstan...

In the Lysistrata of Aristophanes, the women of all Greece, deprived of sexual pleasure because their husbands are fighting each other in the Peloponnesian War, determine to end the war. To secure their own sensuous good, they agree on a sex-strike against their husbands and the seizing of the Athenian acropolis. The seizing of the Acropolis, however, leads to a deepening of heir goals. Opposed...

Evolutionary theories of religion frequently assume that the presence moralizing gods is positively associated with social complexity. An influential source evidence for this assumption comes from researchers using Standard Cross-Cultural Sample’s high variable as a proxy measure their outcome interest (the gods). In paper, we critically assess common are complex societies. We first discuss god...

In this chapter we examine variation in the contents of supernatural minds across cultures and the social correlates of this variation. We first provide a sketch of how humans are capable of representing supernatural minds and emphasize the significance of the types of knowledge attributed to supernatural agents. We then argue that the contents of supernatural minds as represented cross-cultura...