This book sets out to answer the question of why Eastern Church writers showed no interest in analytical reasoning - the so-called "intellectual silence" of Rus' culture - while Western Church writers, by the time of the Scholastics, routinely incorporated analytical reasoning into their defences of the faith. Donald Ostrowski suggests that Western, post-Enlightenment- trained, analytical scholars miss the point, not because of an inability to comprehend cultural ideas which seem abstract and in...
Textos para la Tradicion en tiempos del oscurecimiento
by Angel Fernandez Fernandez, Miguel Angel Sanchez Lopez, and Hiperbola Janus
Einfuhrung in Die Methode Branch and Bound (Lecture Notes in Economic and Mathematical Systems, #4)
by Franz Weinberg and Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule
Es gibt eine grosse Menge von betriebswirtschaftlichen Entscheidungsfragen, die sich mit den nunmehr bereits als herkoemmlich geltenden Optimierungs- methoden des Operations Research nicht behandeln la ssen, sei es beispiels- weise, dass die Zielfunktion und au ch einzelne Restriktionen nicht Konvex sind, sei es, dass nur ganzzahlige Loesungen toleriert werden, sei es, dass die von einzelnen Variablen angenommenen Zahlenwerte Einfluss auf die Gultigkeit ganzer Restriktionengruppen nehmen. So wac...
There is a common misconception that to practice Zen is to practice meditation and nothing else. In truth, traditionally, the practice of meditation goes hand-in-hand with moral conduct. In Invoking Reality, John Daido Loori, one of the leading Zen teachers in America today, presents and explains the ethical precepts of Zen as essential aspects of Zen training and development. The Buddhist teachings on morality—the precepts—predate Zen, going all the way back to the Buddha himself. They des...
Peaceful Action, Open Heartshines 60 years of study and practice upon one of the crowning scriptures of the path of the Buddha, and is destined to be known as one of the most significant writings by Thich Nhat Hanh. The Lotus Sutra is one of the most revered of Mahayana sacred texts and is sometimes called "the king of sutras." Despite this fact, there are very few commentaries in English available today. Thich Nhat Hanh explores the Sutra’s main theme-- that everyone has the capacity to become...
A Manual For Wellbeing (A Manual for Wellbeing, #1)
by Bill Dorigan
Is it Possible to Renew the Mind? (One Sees or Understands Only When the Mind is Quiet)