<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1024065399338855824</id><updated>2011-07-29T11:34:47.344+02:00</updated><title type='text'>India e Vienna</title><subtitle type='html'>Logica indiana. Indologi a Vienna. Italiani in fuga</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://graheli.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1024065399338855824/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://graheli.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Alessandro</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09816882546283912976</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BSVEGUOxGcM/SwMJqVKHZYI/AAAAAAAAAAs/txpdbAko6-s/S220/DSCN0091.JPG'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>19</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1024065399338855824.post-8212246126212424609</id><published>2010-08-13T11:33:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2010-08-13T11:46:59.185+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Sukthankar’s wisdom</title><content type='html'>The critical edition of the Mahābhārata is founded on deeply thought methodological assumptions. The main architect of the project, V.S. Sukthankar, took into consideration the main options available to him, such as striving for a stemma and using a single best manuscript. He concluded, however, that the MBh was most likely transmitted orally for a long time, before being put into written form independently in different parts of the Subcontinent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To trace a genealogy between such geographically and chronologically distant textual witnesses would have been impervious and perhaps absurd, given the hypothesis that the major variant readings were the product not of scribal innovations, but rather of oral transformations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the Prolegomena of the first volume (LXXXVI), he concludes that the only text that can be reconstructed is &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;the oldest form of the text which is possible to reach, on the basis of the manuscript material available&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Concretely, as I understand it this means that he is trying to represent in his critical edition (to be understood as a dynamic aggregate of text and apparatus) the two recensions of the text, Southern and Northern, as circulating before the oldest mss, and we are talking of 14th and 15th century.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1024065399338855824-8212246126212424609?l=graheli.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://graheli.blogspot.com/feeds/8212246126212424609/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1024065399338855824&amp;postID=8212246126212424609' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1024065399338855824/posts/default/8212246126212424609'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1024065399338855824/posts/default/8212246126212424609'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://graheli.blogspot.com/2010/08/sukthankars-wisdom.html' title='Sukthankar’s wisdom'/><author><name>Alessandro</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09816882546283912976</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BSVEGUOxGcM/SwMJqVKHZYI/AAAAAAAAAAs/txpdbAko6-s/S220/DSCN0091.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1024065399338855824.post-629707387977529775</id><published>2010-08-13T11:22:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2010-08-13T11:32:59.486+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Das Glasperlenspiel</title><content type='html'>L’astrazione delle strutture dagli individui percepiti e la messa in relazione di tali strutture tra di loro è una caratteristica della ricerca scientifica. Senza radici in una qualche realtà storica, l’unico possibile fondamento resta un presupposto teologico. Oppure si tratta di pura attività ludica.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Voi contate le vocali di un verso e le mettete in relazione all’orbita dei pianeti”, diceve padre Jacobus.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1024065399338855824-629707387977529775?l=graheli.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://graheli.blogspot.com/feeds/629707387977529775/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1024065399338855824&amp;postID=629707387977529775' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1024065399338855824/posts/default/629707387977529775'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1024065399338855824/posts/default/629707387977529775'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://graheli.blogspot.com/2010/08/das-glasperlenspiel.html' title='Das Glasperlenspiel'/><author><name>Alessandro</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09816882546283912976</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BSVEGUOxGcM/SwMJqVKHZYI/AAAAAAAAAAs/txpdbAko6-s/S220/DSCN0091.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1024065399338855824.post-4299013851834209921</id><published>2009-11-20T20:33:00.008+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-21T09:27:10.328+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Movable characters</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BSVEGUOxGcM/Swb3CC9tt-I/AAAAAAAAABw/ezzz1-tncQE/s1600/gaskellcaratteri+001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 130px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BSVEGUOxGcM/Swb3CC9tt-I/AAAAAAAAABw/ezzz1-tncQE/s200/gaskellcaratteri+001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406280017232377826" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;As I understand it, Indian editions of Sanskrit works in the late 18th and early 19th c. were typeset using movable lead types. I was wondering how the glyphs involving vowel mātras above and below lines were designed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In fact, 14 (vowel signs) multiplied by 33 (consonants) builds a number of glyphs too high to imagine such a set of punches, especially because a typographer would not be able to handle it conveniently.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is thus realistic to imagine a set of vowel-sign punches to be combined with the 33 consonant punches as the occasion arises. As further evidence, I noticed an instance in the editio princeps of the Nyāyamañjarī of an e-sign above the line (के), repeated again and again in combination with different consonants, that is peculiarly missing a portion, revealing an imperfection in the original punch, in the matrix or in the cast lead type.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shanti Graheli, University of Udine, Italy, kindly suggests that the system used for Greek spirits may have been used, as in this images taken from P. Gaskell, A New Introduction to Bibliog&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BSVEGUOxGcM/Swei7Kt9sDI/AAAAAAAAAB4/PN1Vvz3zc-Q/s1600/gaskellcaratteri+002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 168px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BSVEGUOxGcM/Swei7Kt9sDI/AAAAAAAAAB4/PN1Vvz3zc-Q/s200/gaskellcaratteri+002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406469015054692402" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;raphy (1995&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;2&lt;/span&gt;), and I believe she might be right.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1024065399338855824-4299013851834209921?l=graheli.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://graheli.blogspot.com/feeds/4299013851834209921/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1024065399338855824&amp;postID=4299013851834209921' title='3 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1024065399338855824/posts/default/4299013851834209921'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1024065399338855824/posts/default/4299013851834209921'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://graheli.blogspot.com/2009/11/movable-characters.html' title='Movable characters'/><author><name>Alessandro</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09816882546283912976</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BSVEGUOxGcM/SwMJqVKHZYI/AAAAAAAAAAs/txpdbAko6-s/S220/DSCN0091.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BSVEGUOxGcM/Swb3CC9tt-I/AAAAAAAAABw/ezzz1-tncQE/s72-c/gaskellcaratteri+001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1024065399338855824.post-1764360230013884659</id><published>2009-11-19T17:37:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-19T18:03:56.356+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Cladistics and Stemmatics</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_BSVEGUOxGcM/SwV6c-oKb0I/AAAAAAAAABY/V2Z49xYYTkY/s1600/NM_sphota.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 283px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_BSVEGUOxGcM/SwV6c-oKb0I/AAAAAAAAABY/V2Z49xYYTkY/s400/NM_sphota.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405861565994528578" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am presently fully engaged in the collation work of the Nyāyamañjarī (sixth āhnika). So far I collated a portion of NM6 (about one-tenth of the āhnika) using all the available sources, and traced a preliminary stemma For this purpose I used Cladistics software (Paups and McClade), and found it is a useful tool, especially to save time in statistic examination of the data and in checking possible combinations with a good graphic interface.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The tree produced by the software, however, needs to be elaborated into a real genealogic stemma; the software basically is focused on showing similarities and dissimalarities between the “taxa” (i.e. the mss) so it shows them all at the bottom of the tree, reconstructing possible branchings and nodes (i.e. archetypes) that have lead to their evolution. Each textual variant is read by the software as a “character”, and different readings of the same variants in different mss are read as “states” of the same “character” (for example the dimension (state) of the tail (character) in different stages of evolution from ape to human being). In the example here, the tree shows the positions of the taxa (mss) in relation to the character (variant) “bhotsyase” and its various states (bhotsyase, votsusa etc.).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A major problem of the cladistic software is that it reasons in bipartitic terms, that is: from a node it always generates two branches, although in the real world of textual transmission from a single archetype any number of copies may have been produced. This is a serious issue in stemmatics that needs to be sorted out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In my present stemma, the Allahabad (Ad) and Mysore (Md) mss are likely to be one the transcript of the other (I am not yet sure which one of the two is the apograph). Although it is early to give other verdicts, I am under the impression that the Calicut (Cm in my sigla) and the Pune Bühler (PBs) mss preserve important readings not found elsewhere. Also, I did not find evidence of contamination between sources, except for the Sanskrit College ms (VCd) which has marginalia clearly coming from horizontal tradition. The position of the Deccan College (PDd), Srinagar (Ss) and Kolkata (Kd) mss in the tree is still particularly problematic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It seems overall a good situation towards a feasible stemma.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1024065399338855824-1764360230013884659?l=graheli.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://graheli.blogspot.com/feeds/1764360230013884659/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1024065399338855824&amp;postID=1764360230013884659' title='4 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1024065399338855824/posts/default/1764360230013884659'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1024065399338855824/posts/default/1764360230013884659'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://graheli.blogspot.com/2009/11/cladistics-and-stemmatics.html' title='Cladistics and Stemmatics'/><author><name>Alessandro</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09816882546283912976</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BSVEGUOxGcM/SwMJqVKHZYI/AAAAAAAAAAs/txpdbAko6-s/S220/DSCN0091.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_BSVEGUOxGcM/SwV6c-oKb0I/AAAAAAAAABY/V2Z49xYYTkY/s72-c/NM_sphota.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1024065399338855824.post-7125926808910030971</id><published>2009-09-01T00:16:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2009-11-17T21:44:49.839+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Stemmatics, copy-text or eclecticism?</title><content type='html'>To sum up, in 1913 Joseph Bediér noticed how the stemmata codicum of medieval texts were in the overwhelming majority bipartitic, which means that all the conjectured archetypes were copied twice into apographs, or that only the discendents of two apographs are extant. Bediér also added (inspired by M. Roques) that there is a psychological twist in this predicament: the philologist is driven to seek more and more connections between groups of codices and build up more and more comprehensive groups, until the fundamental groups are two and two only. There is a restlessness in the philologist, an anxiety that the investigation is not complete, until the bifurcation (and as such the impossibility to proceed further) puts this anxiety at rest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bediér went to extent to propose that every attempt of "recensio" should be abandonment, and that using “a good manuscript” is instead a lesser evil. But what is the “best manuscript”? The oldest? The most correct? Writes Bediér:  “Scholars of lore, scholiasts, humanists in Renaissance or modern age chose as they could, with more or less ability, out of intuition”. And he adds that the stemma cannot be used to reconstruct a composite text, which amounts to eclecticism, but is legitimate only if a single manuscript is reproduced faithfully. The Lachman method is legitimate to help the individuation of the best manuscript.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sebastiano Timpanaro (La genesi del metodo del Lachman, 1981, second edition) thinks this to be an absurd proposal and that the recensio is fully useful and justified even if the critism to stemmatology stands valid:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“... non è affatto vero che, là dove non si può ricostruire alcuno stemma il minor male è di seguire un codice solo. Il minor male, in questi casi, è di scegliere le varianti secondo criteri interni, senza rinunciare a dare una valutazione complessiva di ciascun codice... Respingere tale procedimento come eclettico è insensato. Ogni volta che più copisti trascrivono un modello, si crea oggettivamente un eclettismo, in quanto, tranne rari casi, essi commettono errori diversi in punti diversi del testo. A questo eclettismo casuale e irrazionale dobbiamo contrapporre la nostra scelta, che, proprio perché ragionata, non è eclettica in senso deteriore.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So Timpanaro advocates internal criteria, using the evidences of more codices, to reconstruct the text, instead of relying on a single codex.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1024065399338855824-7125926808910030971?l=graheli.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://graheli.blogspot.com/feeds/7125926808910030971/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1024065399338855824&amp;postID=7125926808910030971' title='8 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1024065399338855824/posts/default/7125926808910030971'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1024065399338855824/posts/default/7125926808910030971'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://graheli.blogspot.com/2009/09/stemmatics-copy-text-or-eclecticism.html' title='Stemmatics, copy-text or eclecticism?'/><author><name>Alessandro</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09816882546283912976</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BSVEGUOxGcM/SwMJqVKHZYI/AAAAAAAAAAs/txpdbAko6-s/S220/DSCN0091.JPG'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1024065399338855824.post-2070706672656872345</id><published>2009-08-29T21:19:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2009-08-29T21:40:42.724+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Indian scribes</title><content type='html'>How did Indian scribes write? I mean, what were their tools, method, sitting position? I read today a wonderful essay by Dain on the technique of (Western) medieval scribes. Very stimulating, to undertake similar research in the Indological field.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For instance, did Jayanta compose the whole Nyayamanjari from the first folio to the last, without looking back? Or did he take notes, wrote a first draft, corrected it and the wrote (or had someone writing it) anew? Did he write his notes and drafts on birch bark? Was there any other  support, such as wax boards, in use for quick notes?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What about copists? How were they sitting, what was their modus operandi?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Among many other interesting things, Dain writes that a straining position (desks came to use much later) while writing meant frequent stops. Stopping and resuming writing meant in many cases some slight change in the graphy, which is misenterpreted by some philologists as a change of scribe. In scriptoria, the director of the scriptorium used to correct and emend the resulting manuscripts. So  marginalia and interlinear emendation with a different hand may have been done right after completion, although in some cases cross checked with other sources (still contamination, thus). Paper was at one point disdained, in favour of pergamen, because of its scarce durability.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Besides the curiosity factor, the answer to some of these questions may prove of invaluable use in textual criticism and codicology.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1024065399338855824-2070706672656872345?l=graheli.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://graheli.blogspot.com/feeds/2070706672656872345/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1024065399338855824&amp;postID=2070706672656872345' title='8 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1024065399338855824/posts/default/2070706672656872345'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1024065399338855824/posts/default/2070706672656872345'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://graheli.blogspot.com/2009/08/indian-scribes.html' title='Indian scribes'/><author><name>Alessandro</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09816882546283912976</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BSVEGUOxGcM/SwMJqVKHZYI/AAAAAAAAAAs/txpdbAko6-s/S220/DSCN0091.JPG'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1024065399338855824.post-8035539810501722889</id><published>2009-08-11T18:30:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2009-08-11T18:38:30.553+02:00</updated><title type='text'>More on typography and philology</title><content type='html'>A typographical difficulty of devanagari in movable type kind of press is the high number of ligatures. To have single glyphs for every consonant-consontant and consonant-vowel combination seems unlikely. Upon close observation, it seems that vowel signs were independent types. But, when these were descendents and ascendents, these must have required room above and below the main lines, perhaps to be filled by blanks wherever ascendent and descendents were not there. In the NM editio princeps the leading (space between lines) is  quite large, and a possible explanation (I doubt that at that time, given the costs of paper, there were aesthetic or readability reasons to keep wide leading) is the presence of these extra lines of ascendent and descendent vowel signs.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1024065399338855824-8035539810501722889?l=graheli.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://graheli.blogspot.com/feeds/8035539810501722889/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1024065399338855824&amp;postID=8035539810501722889' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1024065399338855824/posts/default/8035539810501722889'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1024065399338855824/posts/default/8035539810501722889'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://graheli.blogspot.com/2009/08/more-on-typography-and-philology.html' title='More on typography and philology'/><author><name>Alessandro</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09816882546283912976</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BSVEGUOxGcM/SwMJqVKHZYI/AAAAAAAAAAs/txpdbAko6-s/S220/DSCN0091.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1024065399338855824.post-1053115427728030633</id><published>2009-08-11T18:19:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2009-08-11T18:29:18.528+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Early typography in India</title><content type='html'>While dealing with the editio princeps of the Nyāyamañjarī, I keep wondering about the relation of pandits of that time (1895) with the printing technology available to them. This edition must have been done with movable characters, which means that every page is dismantled once printed in the given number of copies. Was it possible for Gangadhara Sastri to proofread the page?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It would be nice to gather more information about the printing technology available to these typographers, the fonts used by them, the existing fondries, the smiths (don't know if black- or gold-) who manifactured the punches, the provenience of the paper used for these book, the costs of the various aspects of production.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1024065399338855824-1053115427728030633?l=graheli.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://graheli.blogspot.com/feeds/1053115427728030633/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1024065399338855824&amp;postID=1053115427728030633' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1024065399338855824/posts/default/1053115427728030633'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1024065399338855824/posts/default/1053115427728030633'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://graheli.blogspot.com/2009/08/early-typography-in-india.html' title='Early typography in India'/><author><name>Alessandro</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09816882546283912976</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BSVEGUOxGcM/SwMJqVKHZYI/AAAAAAAAAAs/txpdbAko6-s/S220/DSCN0091.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1024065399338855824.post-6924621071030351545</id><published>2009-07-07T17:29:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2009-08-11T18:19:45.315+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Nature and Convention</title><content type='html'>Are there natural truths? Or are there only conventional truths?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To elaborate: Indian linguists either support the theory of natural (originary) meaning, as Mimamsakas do, or maintain that meanings are conventional, as Naiyayikas do. A similar debate is present in Greek philosophy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the nature/convention option concerns at least two other philosophical areas: morality (are there naturally true moral values?) and mathematic (do mathematical truths reflect an external reality, or are just conventionally true in a close system?)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1024065399338855824-6924621071030351545?l=graheli.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://graheli.blogspot.com/feeds/6924621071030351545/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1024065399338855824&amp;postID=6924621071030351545' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1024065399338855824/posts/default/6924621071030351545'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1024065399338855824/posts/default/6924621071030351545'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://graheli.blogspot.com/2009/07/nature-and-convention.html' title='Nature and Convention'/><author><name>Alessandro</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09816882546283912976</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BSVEGUOxGcM/SwMJqVKHZYI/AAAAAAAAAAs/txpdbAko6-s/S220/DSCN0091.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1024065399338855824.post-7996464354349359865</id><published>2009-07-01T18:28:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2009-07-01T18:35:04.219+02:00</updated><title type='text'>L'argomentazione logica</title><content type='html'>Qual è il ruolo dell'argomentazione retorica nella moderna filosofia e logica occidentali? Fino a che punto la logica matematica ha messo da parte l'utilità della logica medievale e antica, fatta di sillogismi, paralogismi e fallacie? Quanto la ricerca programmatica del linguaggio logico perfetto, per es. con Russell e Carnap, ha influito sul destino della logica contemporanea?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Domande le cui risposte, di cui ora non dispongo, ci aiuterebbero a capire meglio i nessi tra logica e nyāya.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1024065399338855824-7996464354349359865?l=graheli.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://graheli.blogspot.com/feeds/7996464354349359865/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1024065399338855824&amp;postID=7996464354349359865' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1024065399338855824/posts/default/7996464354349359865'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1024065399338855824/posts/default/7996464354349359865'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://graheli.blogspot.com/2009/07/largomentazione-logica.html' title='L&apos;argomentazione logica'/><author><name>Alessandro</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09816882546283912976</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BSVEGUOxGcM/SwMJqVKHZYI/AAAAAAAAAAs/txpdbAko6-s/S220/DSCN0091.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1024065399338855824.post-3753189986895800132</id><published>2009-06-29T11:29:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2009-11-21T09:35:27.164+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Nyāyamañjarī</title><content type='html'>Da luglio inizia il mio nuovo progetto di ricerca. Si tratta di produrre un'edizione critica del sesto libro della Nyāyamañjarī, testo del X sec. d.C. di Jayanta Bhaṭṭa, brillante filosofo del Kashmir. Dura due anni ed è finanziato dall'FWF (fondi di ricerca del governo austriaco). L'opportunità è fantastica. L'università di Vienna, infatti, è rimasta una delle poche isole felici per gli studi sanscriti e più in generale per le scienze umane.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Come bonus aggiunto, Vienna è una città accogliente per famiglie e bambini, quindi l'auspicio è che sarà un'esperienza positiva non solo per me, ma anche per Francesco Benedetto e Patrizia. Per Elisa, poi, questa è una seconda patria ed è grazie soprattutto a lei se anche qui ci sentiamo a casa.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1024065399338855824-3753189986895800132?l=graheli.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://graheli.blogspot.com/feeds/3753189986895800132/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1024065399338855824&amp;postID=3753189986895800132' title='5 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1024065399338855824/posts/default/3753189986895800132'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1024065399338855824/posts/default/3753189986895800132'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://graheli.blogspot.com/2009/06/nyayamanjari.html' title='Nyāyamañjarī'/><author><name>Alessandro</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09816882546283912976</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BSVEGUOxGcM/SwMJqVKHZYI/AAAAAAAAAAs/txpdbAko6-s/S220/DSCN0091.JPG'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1024065399338855824.post-6723396561287701138</id><published>2008-12-19T15:52:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-19T16:38:49.040+01:00</updated><title type='text'>La morale della medicina</title><content type='html'>Sul caso Englaro, sono andati in scena in ruoli più o meno seri ministri di repubblica e di culto, medici e avvocati. Si tratta di un emblematico caso di dilemma morale: è giusto o sbagliato che il padre voglia far sospendere l'alimentazione alla figlia? La Chiesa insiste che è sbagliato. La Chiesa parla da un punto di vista di realismo morale. Il valore morale è assoluto, a priori. Quindi le ragioni e il punto di vista del padre, che pure si possono capire, non vanno presi in considerazione.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C'è invece chi sostiene che il realismo morale sia infondato e irrazionale. Se ci fosse un valore reale che determina i giudizi morali, infatti, questo valore sarebbe in qualche modo percepibile o inferibile, ma così non è. Il valore morale è infatti inafferrabile dai cinque sensi. Non è nemmeno inferibile, perché il piano descrittivo e il prescrittivo sono incommensurabili. I valori "vero" e "falso" non sono commensurabili ai valori "giusto" e "sbagliato". Per chi non crede nel realismo morale, il valore morale è relativo, determinato dalla persona o comunità che giudica.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Come finirà? Riuscirà la Chiesa, che almeno in questo caso sembra rappresentare l'opinione di una minoranza in Italia, a imporre il suo realismo morale e impedire l'interruzione dell'alimentazione? Oppure prevarrà lo Stato laico con il suo relativismo?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le posizioni teoriche di Chiesa e magistratura appaiono nitide in questo caso. Quale sistema morale adottano i medici? Esiste una morale della medicina che possa guidarli in simili frangenti? Se sì, è giusto che un medico anteponga la sua fede religiosa alla sua deontologia?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1024065399338855824-6723396561287701138?l=graheli.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://graheli.blogspot.com/feeds/6723396561287701138/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1024065399338855824&amp;postID=6723396561287701138' title='2 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1024065399338855824/posts/default/6723396561287701138'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1024065399338855824/posts/default/6723396561287701138'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://graheli.blogspot.com/2008/12/la-morale-della-medicina.html' title='La morale della medicina'/><author><name>Alessandro</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09816882546283912976</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BSVEGUOxGcM/SwMJqVKHZYI/AAAAAAAAAAs/txpdbAko6-s/S220/DSCN0091.JPG'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1024065399338855824.post-594474366596199937</id><published>2008-12-18T16:43:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-19T16:49:12.412+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Don Piemonte</title><content type='html'>Don Piemonte (o forse don Piero Monte, o don Piero Piemonte) era pelato, energico e brillante. Lo trovai prima a catechismo in parrocchia, poi a lezione di religione alle medie. La sua lezione consisteva nel raccontare le sue avventure in India. Il Bengala, il Sikkim, i braccianti indiani a faticare nell'acqua tra cobra e tigri, il treno sull'Himalaya con binario e scambio a uscire e rientrare dal tornante. Più avventure che miracoli, che a quell'età cominciano a essere indigesti.  Catalizzava l'attenzione, un indubbio merito per un  insegnante di religione. Un prete che ha lasciato un buon  ricordo. L'India misteriosa di Salgari con lui acquisì tratti più reali.  Poi vennero yoga, Ginsberg, Kerouac, Hippies e Yippies, a rendere mitici quei tratti.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1024065399338855824-594474366596199937?l=graheli.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://graheli.blogspot.com/feeds/594474366596199937/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1024065399338855824&amp;postID=594474366596199937' title='2 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1024065399338855824/posts/default/594474366596199937'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1024065399338855824/posts/default/594474366596199937'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://graheli.blogspot.com/2008/12/don-piemonte.html' title='Don Piemonte'/><author><name>Alessandro</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09816882546283912976</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BSVEGUOxGcM/SwMJqVKHZYI/AAAAAAAAAAs/txpdbAko6-s/S220/DSCN0091.JPG'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1024065399338855824.post-2906267059925567050</id><published>2008-12-08T16:29:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-11T16:29:03.549+01:00</updated><title type='text'>PIzza effect</title><content type='html'>Il fenomeno di un proprio prodotto esportato, rielaborato altrove, reimportato nella forma rielaborata e infine rivendicato come proprio nella forma rielaborata è detto volgarmente "pizza effect". Secondo questa etichetta, pare coniata da (Swami) (Dr.) Agehananda Bharati, late Professor of Anthropology, Syracuse University, la pizza nasce in Italia come cibo dei poveri (focaccia con olio, sale ed erbe), arriva in America, viene arricchita di pomodoro e mozzarella, ritorna in Italia e diventa la pizza che oggi conosciamo. L'applicazione metaforica a situazioni postcolonialiste è simpatica ed efficace, ma mi viene il dubbio se per quanto riguarda la pizza sia andata proprio così.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1024065399338855824-2906267059925567050?l=graheli.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://graheli.blogspot.com/feeds/2906267059925567050/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1024065399338855824&amp;postID=2906267059925567050' title='3 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1024065399338855824/posts/default/2906267059925567050'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1024065399338855824/posts/default/2906267059925567050'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://graheli.blogspot.com/2008/12/pizza-effect.html' title='PIzza effect'/><author><name>Alessandro</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09816882546283912976</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BSVEGUOxGcM/SwMJqVKHZYI/AAAAAAAAAAs/txpdbAko6-s/S220/DSCN0091.JPG'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1024065399338855824.post-8736974439582310683</id><published>2008-12-05T16:48:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-11T16:21:52.929+01:00</updated><title type='text'>अनुवादः</title><content type='html'>अत्र लिखितुं इच्छामि अपि तु व्यवस्था उचिता नास्ति &lt;span&gt;।&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;अन्यसंशोदनयन्त्रेण अपि सम्यग्दर्फ़्शनं भवतु वा न वा इति न जनामि |&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1024065399338855824-8736974439582310683?l=graheli.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://graheli.blogspot.com/feeds/8736974439582310683/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1024065399338855824&amp;postID=8736974439582310683' title='3 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1024065399338855824/posts/default/8736974439582310683'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1024065399338855824/posts/default/8736974439582310683'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://graheli.blogspot.com/2008/12/blog-post.html' title='अनुवादः'/><author><name>Alessandro</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09816882546283912976</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BSVEGUOxGcM/SwMJqVKHZYI/AAAAAAAAAAs/txpdbAko6-s/S220/DSCN0091.JPG'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1024065399338855824.post-2254943118827684531</id><published>2008-12-05T16:35:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-21T09:33:00.043+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Diasistemi</title><content type='html'>Parlavo con Cristina di diasistemi e Cesare Segre. Dopo qualche ricerca, ho capito quanto segue. Ogni testo è un sistema a se, perché il copista, e anche l'editore dell'edizione critica, impone il sistema in cui è immerso sul testo. Il diasistema è il sistema che è l'insieme dei singoli sistemi. Ogni sistema ha una sua legittimità e diventa improprio parlare di errori di trasmissione.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In relazione a questo, pensavo a come sarebbe interessante avere un'edizione critica digitale (in rete o su supporto digitale) in cui sia possibile dare la possibilità all'utente/lettore di scegliere la visualizzazione del teste secondo ogni sistema, facendo in modo che l'apparato critico e il testo restituito si adattino automaticamente. Non so che software e che tipo di mole di lavoro ci voglia, ma trovo l'idea affascinante. Certo sarebbe un modo di andare oltre i limiti della carta, in cui bisogna scegliere che testo restituire.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1024065399338855824-2254943118827684531?l=graheli.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://graheli.blogspot.com/feeds/2254943118827684531/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1024065399338855824&amp;postID=2254943118827684531' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1024065399338855824/posts/default/2254943118827684531'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1024065399338855824/posts/default/2254943118827684531'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://graheli.blogspot.com/2008/12/diasistemi.html' title='Diasistemi'/><author><name>Alessandro</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09816882546283912976</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BSVEGUOxGcM/SwMJqVKHZYI/AAAAAAAAAAs/txpdbAko6-s/S220/DSCN0091.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1024065399338855824.post-9126544767527611944</id><published>2008-12-04T10:05:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-04T10:10:14.533+01:00</updated><title type='text'>śloka</title><content type='html'>janāmi dharmaṃ na ca me pravṛttiḥ&lt;br /&gt;janāmy adharmaṃ na ca me nivṛttiḥ |&lt;br /&gt;kenāpi devena hṛdi sthitena &lt;br /&gt;yathā niyukto'smi tathā karomi ||&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In altre parole, la carne è debole. Qualcuno lo ha identificato come una frase di Duryodhana nel Mahābhārata. Però io non sono mai riuscito a trovarlo se non in raccolte di Subhāṣita.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1024065399338855824-9126544767527611944?l=graheli.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://graheli.blogspot.com/feeds/9126544767527611944/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1024065399338855824&amp;postID=9126544767527611944' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1024065399338855824/posts/default/9126544767527611944'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1024065399338855824/posts/default/9126544767527611944'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://graheli.blogspot.com/2008/12/loka.html' title='śloka'/><author><name>Alessandro</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09816882546283912976</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BSVEGUOxGcM/SwMJqVKHZYI/AAAAAAAAAAs/txpdbAko6-s/S220/DSCN0091.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1024065399338855824.post-8039320833093395907</id><published>2008-12-01T10:15:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-01T10:37:05.042+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Papa, Pera e Allam</title><content type='html'>M.C. Allam sta fondando il partito di Papa Ratzinger? In un'intervista di ieri sul Corsera sembra la cassa di risonanza del Papa: no al relativismo, Europa fondata su valori cristiani, no interculturalismo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pera afferma l'impossibilità del dialogo interreligioso, facendo eco a principii che Ratzinger enunciò già parecchi anni fa. Il dialogo, scrive Pera, può e deve avvenire a livello politico e culturale, non religioso, perché la fede implica assoluta fiducia nella superiorità del proprio credo. Scrive anche che nei paesi islamici la distinzione tra politica e religione non è chiara e che questo è il problema. In principio, da credenti, gli si può dare ragione. Ma mi sembra che proprio per il principio di distinzione tra stato e istituzione religiosa, invocato da Pera, gli appelli di Allam, Pera e Ratzinger siano inopportuni perché mirano ad influenzare la vita politica anche dei non credenti. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alla fine, non riesco a vedere grande differenza tra i residui teocratici di certi paesi musulmani e quelli del nostro mondo politico. Se non che, essendo la fede cattolica la migliore se non l'unica genuina, solo una teocrazia cattolica è legittima, non certo una musulmana. Ho capito bene?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1024065399338855824-8039320833093395907?l=graheli.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://graheli.blogspot.com/feeds/8039320833093395907/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1024065399338855824&amp;postID=8039320833093395907' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1024065399338855824/posts/default/8039320833093395907'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1024065399338855824/posts/default/8039320833093395907'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://graheli.blogspot.com/2008/12/papa-pera-e-allam.html' title='Papa, Pera e Allam'/><author><name>Alessandro</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09816882546283912976</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BSVEGUOxGcM/SwMJqVKHZYI/AAAAAAAAAAs/txpdbAko6-s/S220/DSCN0091.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1024065399338855824.post-3164348898901292593</id><published>2008-11-30T16:28:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-11-30T16:45:16.265+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Aftermath</title><content type='html'>Il Ministro degli Interni si dimette. Già questa in ottica italiana è una notizia, perché ci si chiede che colpe possa avere il povero Patil. Chidambaran, ministro delle finanze, prende il suo posto. Questi ha da decenni fama di economista. Che ci fa agli Interni?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La risonanza mediatica dell'evento terroristico, purtroppo, sembra da noi causata dal coinvolgimento di occidentali e hotel a 5 stelle più che dalla sfrontatezza e crudeltà dell'atto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Molte sono le domande a cui i "giornalisti" sensazionalisti non danno risposta. Si legge che gli stessi terroristi abbiano colpito prima al cafè, poi alla stazione, poi in un ospedale, lasciando bombe e stragi sul loro percorso. Indisturbati? La descrizione di un'esplosione su un taxi diretto all'aeroporto che avrebbe sbagliato strada, con inclusi scambi di battute tra tassista e terroristi. chi la ha raccontata se gli interessati sono saltati in aria? La questione del "braccialetto indù", in base a quelle tre immagini sgranate, buttata lì e morta lì.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1024065399338855824-3164348898901292593?l=graheli.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://graheli.blogspot.com/feeds/3164348898901292593/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1024065399338855824&amp;postID=3164348898901292593' title='2 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1024065399338855824/posts/default/3164348898901292593'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1024065399338855824/posts/default/3164348898901292593'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://graheli.blogspot.com/2008/11/aftermath.html' title='Aftermath'/><author><name>Alessandro</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09816882546283912976</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BSVEGUOxGcM/SwMJqVKHZYI/AAAAAAAAAAs/txpdbAko6-s/S220/DSCN0091.JPG'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry></feed>
