By using the terms "myth" and "mythology" instead of "oral tradition" or even "memory", he adopts a position of judge of the veracity of memory and oral tradition, underlined by his closing claim that such memories were "impervious to evidence".
William Schlusser,Kuala Lumpur 'Citizens in uniform' The news article "Germany grows closer to ending military conscription" (June 3) does not mention one fundamental reason for its original adoption — the preclusion of a military elite and the establishment instead of a tradition of "citizens in uniform".
Instead of following tradition and staying aloof from local politics, he had campaigned for PAN candidates.In this section The awkward couple Landry bites back Defeat, sort of A lack of clarity on terror Wary partners ReprintsBut the PAN is not panicking.
Why? Because, as a recent article explained, "The notion that rest is therapeutic and will relieve pain dates back to Hippocrates". But now that E.B.M. studies have used science instead of oral tradition to test this notion, they have found that bed rest "may delay return to functional status". What works better?
Interventions aimed at stimulating deliberate decision-making, instead of following tradition, should therefore focus on the parents of firstborns.
Local officials "hope schools can pay more attention to Chinese traditional festivals instead of western traditions", the Global Times reported.
This can work in both directions: academics can be required to construct frameworks for regulation; and medical and legal professionals can be expected to anchor their practices in knowledge and understanding of general ethics instead of the traditions of their trade.
Brian's family on his mother's side had, instead of a military tradition, a tradition of opposing wars.
"Brian, like every other male in the family, had done a hitch in the military right out of high school … [but] Brian's family on his mother's side had, instead of a military tradition, a tradition of opposing wars".
The post-religious ethical quest then must be outside the religious commitment to institution, but must also be post-secular with a commitment to communities of practice which resist the urge to make meaning-making an historical-tradition instead of a process-tradition.
