Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is the concept of Third World: thus, we already have three worlds. Undoubtedly, however, the number is even greater; we are just too far away to see. Any ancient deeply rooted autonomous culture, especially if it is spread on a wide part of the earth's surface, constitutes an autonomous world, full of riddles and surprises to Western thinking. As a minimum, we must include in this category China, India, the Muslim world and Africa, if indeed we accept the approximation of viewing the latter two as compact units. For one thousand years Russia belonged to such a category...
Sucha tilt of freedom in the direction of evil has come about gradually but it was evidently born primarily out of a humanistic and benevolent concept according to which there is no evil inherent to human nature; the world belongs to mankind and all the defects of use are caused by wrong social systems which must be corrected. Strangely enough, though the best social conditions have been achieved in the West, there still is criminality and there even is considerably more of it than in the pauper and lawless Soviet society. (There is a huge number of prisoners...
...form anything like a neutron star, to say nothing of a black hole, could not be duplicated on earth. Besides, the outbreak of the war forced scientists to turn to more pressing matters. Oppenheimer soon went off to direct the building of the first atomic bomb, and the concept of total gravitational collapse was largely forgotten until after...
...holes, as opposed to those formed later by the collapse of stars, are minuscule; their event horizons are no larger than the circumference of a proton or other atomic particle. Subsequently, he found that they seemed to be radiating energy. That was such a startling break with the accepted concept of black holes that Hawking at first doubted his results. But no one has yet uncovered flaws in his elaborate mathematics. Indeed, many theorists believe that with this work Hawking may well have qualified for the Nobel Prize by taking the first step toward a goal that has long been...
...more in common with his literary heroes-Kafka, Forster, Beckett-than with the philosophers who frame his argument. One luminous interlude is given over to a meditation on a typical morning, afternoon and night in the author's life, glimpsed through the lens of Heidegger's concept of "Being." Our daily lives, Barrett insists, can disclose our deepest experiences of the world. Boarding the train, reading the newspaper contemplating the objects in his study he dwells on the mystery that the world exists at all. Late at night, he gazes at the stars, infused with a sensation that...