Ichi-go, Ichi-e (一期一会) is a Japanese expression that roughly translates as "once, a meeting" or "once, a meeting". This expression has deep cultural and philosophical roots in Japan and conveys the idea that each encounter is unique and can never be relived exactly the same way again. Therefore, one should value and…
Category: Ethic
Ethics in a brutal time
A newsletter from SubRosa discusses brutalization in our brutal age, I want to highlight that in my opinion that supports Karl Marx in this dilemma. Matter before morality Marx emphasizes matter before morality, while Hegel says that history develops out of a struggle between ideas (often of a moral nature) that ends in the modern state with…
Flowers are intelligent - so what can we eat?
In nature's forests and gardens, conversations are going on that we humans have not yet learned to perceive. Despite this, we actually communicate with plants all the time, but in ways that are not always obvious. Research in recent years has highlighted that plants have an ability to "scream" when they are cut, they learn to...