<p>One of the seven sacraments, Eucharist, is an activity of taking in consecrated bread and wine, which literally become the flesh and blood of Jesus Christ. This miraculous event is explained in the doctrine of transubstantiation. According to this theory, the accidental properties of the bread and wine (colour, smell, taste, and shape, etc…) remain [&hellip;]</p>

<p>ここ数年で一気に人気を矛した女性シンガーグループ、AKB48、は今や日本を征しアジアならず欧米進出まではかろうとしています。しかし今一度AKB48というグループの社会的役割・影響について考える必要があると思います。ファンの方やAKB48のメンバーを攻撃するつもりはありません、が日本での道徳観が懸念される中、AKB48がもたらす社会現象は９０年代の“オタク現象”につづき、異常なものがあると思われます。ここでは、そんな日本の若者・一般市民の間でのポップカルチャーに対する社会現象を探索していきたいと思います。 ここで扱っていく、いくつかの問題点としては、１）AKB48＝ポップチャルチャーの名の下で、利用される若い女性たち；２）大人たちの説得により、自分たちが歌手として、また日本のアートを率いる代表グループとして思い込まされている現状；３）日本社会での若い女性のあり方、また男性の勝手な理想像等を、“アート”を盾に市民の頭に植え付けている事実；４）これらの行動全てが今後の日本のアート（芸術）の形を下品化させ、社会の女性だけでなく、参加者たちの美観を濁

<p>It has come to my attention that I may need to define what I mean by &#8220;Otaku&#8221; when I use it to criticize those who are Otaku minded. I distinguish three types of people I might call Otaku. The first type refers to Otaku used in Western culture, the second refers to, though less commonly, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>As many of you know, I have been engaged with somewhat amateur debates about the recent Japanese girls only singer groups AKB48 and its cognates. You can read about what they are and how precisely I think they need to be closely monitored at my previous blog entries. Today, I am here to discuss about [&hellip;]</p>

<p>I have written an article about the basic structure of AKB48 and its exploitative method for objectifying young women for public entertainment. Since then, I have created a Facebook group (<a href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/222928411085497" rel="nofollow">http://www.facebook.com/groups/222928411085497</a>) and also a Facebook page (<a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Anti-AKB48-Group-or-Against-the-Commoditization-of-Women-in-Japan/144645835614669" rel="nofollow">h

<p>&#8220;The privileged place held by men in economic life, their social usefulness, the prestige of marriage, the value of masculine backing, all this makes women wish ardently to please men. Women are still, for the most part, in a state of subjection. It follows that woman sees herself and makes her choices not in accordance [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Can zombies run? This is one of the many questions that one may come across when watching any zombie films. For, on the one hand, if their flesh is rotten, rapid motion would be impossible, but on the other hand, if their flesh is not rotten, most of the depictions about zombies in films would [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Recipe 1. Take good English Vitriol [sulfuric acid], dissolve it in warm water, using no more water than will dissolve it, leaving some of the imperfect part at the bottom undissolved. 2. Pour it off and filter it, which you may do so by a Coffin of fine gray paper put into a Funnel, or [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Issei Takehara (27) has once again shaken the media by winning the award for the best auditing student of the year, an award founded by the Academic Society of London in 1661, honouring those students who have not registered for a class yet have shown an extreme dedication by attending each class, oftentimes exceeding the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>“Style itself makes its claims, expresses its own sense of what matters. Literary form is not separable from philosophical content, but is, itself, a part of content – an integral part, then, of the search for and the statement of truth.”[1] – Martha C. Nussbaum Probably, the most celebrated work among all the children’s stories [&hellip;]</p>

<p>(What follows is an excerpt from my paper for PHIL481: Aristotle&#8217;s Invention of Biology, lectured by Professor Falcon) Having briefly spoken of the ways in which plant life differs from animal life in both nutrition and reproduction, let us now proceed to the discussions of so called ‘borderline cases’ for Aristotle. For these illustrate interesting [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Probably, the most celebrated work among all the children’s stories Arnold Lobel wrote is The Letter at the end of Frog and Toad Are Friends. Its focus is on friendship, but with the use of friendship as the central figure involves the moral stories about discernment of emotions and experiences of the others, ultimately leading [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Best Study Partner of the Year Awards 2009 has been once again seized by Issei Takehara (27), a philosophy student at Concordia University, Montreal. This is his second-time award winning following 2007. His unique posture while studying and stylish, though sporadical, performance of &#8216;taking off the glasses&#8217; has famously been reputed as the single [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Can zombies run? For if their flesh is rotten, rapid motion would be impossible. This essay will focus on the nature of zombies and how they operate and for what purpose. The rumour tells us that there is a particular plant in Africa that zombifies people. The way in which this happens is that when [&hellip;]</p>

<p>&nbsp; Prospectus &nbsp; There are two types of studies on life: the life of animals and that of plants. Aristotle makes a distinction that the plants have only one soul, that of nutritive, and that the life of plants is a simple one. The life of animals, on the other hand, is more complex and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Here, I will post some ideas for my paper for the above mentioned class. Feedbacks are welcome. 1. It seems stomachs are important in many ways in Aristotle&#8217;s theory. For one, he declares that having a different size of stomach determines how long animals live, and for another the more teeth means less number of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Menu for Symposium Appetizers; side dishes &#8211;       Edamame beans vegetarian/vegan &#8211;       Fish eggs in hanpen fish &#8211;       Cheese and sausages in gyoza wrappers &#8211;       Renkon de italian vegetarian/vegan &#8211;       Pork meat shimmered in garlic sake sauce &#8211;       Chillied potatoes vegetarian/vegan &#8211;       Stir fried spicy yam flour vegetarian/vegan &#8211;       Fried eggplant marinated in garlic vegetarian/vegan &#8211;       [&helli

<p>2010- 2011 Session Offering Online Sessions: (descriptions found below) *Introduction to Philosophy [PHIL01] *Introduction to Critical Thinking (Inductive Logic) [PHIL02] Partaking in Online Discussions: *Contemporary Political Philosophy [with Tristan, Daria, and Tara] *Introductory to Latin Literature on Philosophy [with Tristan] Online Sessions PHIL01: Intro to Philosophy Studies primary texts from Plato onward (probably up to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>What do people mean when they use &#8216;LOL&#8217; in their dialogue? Do they mean what it means, like when they use &#8216;:)&#8217; in their dialogue on a chat? Or do they mean something completely different? I have been bothered by the excessive use of &#8216;LOL&#8217; in the dialogues I have personally exchanged with people, not [&hellip;]</p>

<p>本読みました。ありがとう！“われわれはどこへ行くのか？”では簡潔に生物歴史学的にみた人類という存在を科学的根拠を基に語っていたように思います。その中で一つ気になったのは、“地球学的人類学”というコンセプト、又は作者の地球を“システム”として考える論じ方です。確かに地球はシステムだと言うのは間違ってはいないかもしれません、ただここで注目してもらいたいのは“システム”の含む意味です。地球のシステム化ということは、地球は法則や定理などによって束縛されている、ということです。これには、予測可能性や規則正しい観測結果ができる、という利点もありますが、逆に言うと例外は存在しない、という事にもなります。例外が多ければ多いほど、地球がシステムだと言う見方には問題が出てきます。また、地球の場合は不完全なシステムだ、と反論することで“地球システム化”を論破できるかもしれませんが、やはりまだ問題が残ります。どこからどこまでの例外をシステムとして許される範囲なのか、という問題です。その定義付けをしっかりとしない限りは地球システム化の議論はなかなか難しいと思います。