The director of a monastery tries to defend ancient privileges of the Order, in collision with modern constitutional principles, becoming a victim of his own success. A social outcast finds a novel way of becoming an indispensable member of society. A disgruntled employee fights the perverse practices of a corporation and meets a tragic but redeeming fate. "IRONIES" is a collection of three stories, which although placed in different contexts, nevertheless address the same basic theme: The struggle of humanity for asserting its place in society according with ethical principles of conduct....
The director of a monastery tries to defend ancient privileges of the Order, in collision with modern constitutional principles, becoming a victim of ...
Life on Earth appears to be integrated by hierarchical levels from the most humble molecule of DNA, which is a collection of atoms, to multicellular organisms, including Man, who are made up of collections of cells. Each one of these levels appears animated by a conscience of its own. Is there any evidence of a still higher level of conscience belonging to human communities and therefore supra-human in kind?
The author believes that this is so and that cultural manifesta-tions, mostly language and scripture, exert in these communities the same role that genes in biological organisms, in...
Life on Earth appears to be integrated by hierarchical levels from the most humble molecule of DNA, which is a collection of atoms, to multicellula...
It is a generally accepted notion that science is a cool dispassionate human endeavor which explicit purpose is to unravel the secrets of Creation, so events could be predicted, manipulated and harness for the betterment of Man and society. To this effect it is necessary to resort to our 'Reason', that is, the use of the intellect to discern the hidden components that need to be sorted out to achieve our purpose.
It is common in our culture the belief that the process of 'ratiocination' need to avail itself of notions like 'causality', which we assumed to be deeply enmeshed in the...
It is a generally accepted notion that science is a cool dispassionate human endeavor which explicit purpose is to unravel the secrets of Creation,...
