So, Patañjali and his commentators argue that emotions lead to desire and therefore have to be given up as one of the root causes of ignorance that causes attachment to the world.
Metaphysics of this sort is "not rational and abstract like that of learned men now," Vico emphasizes, "but felt and imagined [by men] without power of ratiocination...This metaphysics was their poetry, a faculty born with them...born of their ignorance of causes, for ignorance, the mother of wonder, made everything wonderful to men who were ignorant of everything" ("Poetic Wisdom," §375, p.116).
4. At the population level, there is additional uncertainty in quantifying interaction and assigning etiologic fractions to different necessary causes because of ignorance about the components of the sufficient cause.
As long as this nation will not seriously address the root causes of racism: ignorance, fear, and economic insecurity, the problems of the "learning gap" will persist.
This imaginary self, usually conceived in substantial terms as an unchanging reality behind the changing phenomenal world, is in effect the root cause of the pervasive ignorance which afflicts the human condition.
VIDEO: Watch now "The main cause of malnutrition is ignorance," said Linata Gbadamassi, a nurse working in the Gomparou Health Clinic in Benin's northern Alibori Department".There is not a shortage of food but, rather, mothers don't use the right ingredients," she added.
With China taking its first real steps toward a full-scale public awareness campaign about AIDS this week, the degree of ignorance caused by past government denial is evident in the dazed expression of Zhao Pingyuan.
The probable causes could be; the underestimation of the extent and common nature of the problem, lack of awareness on cause-effect relationship and hence non-attribution of symptoms to an occupational cause, ignorance of occupational history and the lack of appreciation of the effect of work place modification on symptoms.
It has some of the highest rates of malnutrition in the world, partly because of ignorance caused by a lack of basic education in the region.
A huge amount of the world's problems are caused by ignorance and apathy of individuals, who become passive witnesses of injustice and fail to realize the empowering truth: that small changes in their habits can result in great positive change.
Learn rowing etiquette so that you don't cause injury as a result of ignorance.
