Dans l’Antiquité, affronter la vaste étendue de la mer symbolisait l’inconnu des dangers de la vie mortelle. C’était une tâche ardue pour les hommes, et tout simplement inconcevable pour les femmes. C’est peut-être pour cette raison que les études sur la condition féminine dans les sociétés antiques, notamment en Grèce, qui, depuis les années 1970, éclairent la position sociopolitique, familiale, juridique et religieuse des femmes au sein de la communauté urbaine, négligent leur rapport avec...

The action noun adhimukti derives from the verb adhi-muc, not attested in Classical Sanskrit but in P?li. It is regularly used in the passive, with the original meaning ‘to be fastened to’, and then ‘to adhere’. This meaning is not used in a concrete sense, but in a metaphorical one, referred to mind and mental objects, so that adhimukti can be used to express inclination, faith in a doctrine, and also intentional and stable representation of an image or an idea (...) in meditative practice, sometimes with the effect of transformation of external reality. The common feature appears to be adherence or the fixing of the mind on its object. (shrink)

Context: The constructivist approach to the definition (or analysis) of the fundamental meanings of language in Ernst von Glasersfeld’s work. Problem: Has this approach achieved better results than other approaches? Method: Review of a book chapter by von Glasersfeld that is devoted to the analysis of the concepts of “unity,” “plurality” and “number.” Results: The constructivist approach to the semantics of the fundamental elements of language (some of which are fundamental for sciences too) seems to have produced positive results; moreover (...) these are in a field where other approaches have produced results that do not objectively seem satisfactory. (shrink)