The ideal of holiness of both the Buddhist and the Christian saint culminates in poverty and chastity; i.e., celibacy. Fasting and other disciplinary methods are resorted to to curb the flesh. Under a strict construction of the meaning of Asceticism, it is an error to assume that its ...
Texts, according to these theoretical points of view, are not mere vessels that interpreters unseal in order to retrieve the contents inside (meaning, for example). Rather, interpreters are themselves producers of meaning, interacting with texts and even manipulating them in the... 展开 ...