The standard practice is to understand works of literature as products of a national tradition, as examples of French literature or American literature; Casanova's argument is that, on the contrary, the system has always been global.
In addition to Sappho's accomplishments, literary historian Jeannette Howard Foster includes the Book of Ruth, and ancient mythological tradition as examples of lesbianism in classical literature.
According to Nietzsche, the Judeo-Christian tradition, for example, made suffering tolerable by interpreting it as God's intention and as an occasion for atonement.
A ḍāʿīf tradition, for example, might well be salutary for exhortation, even if lawyers were required to exclude or ignore it.
In the Christian tradition, for example, were cast out of the Garden of Eden because they violated God's rules and thus deserved to be punished.
It can be a wonderful Thanksgiving tradition, for example, for a family to decide which local charities should receive money from the fund and why".
To some observers graffiti is a form of public art, continuing the tradition, for example, of the murals commissioned by the U.S. Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project during the Great Depression and the work of Diego Rivera in Mexico.
No, it is because the staying power and mendacity of the entrenched old guards and old ideas in these countries is much deeper than most people realize and the frailty or absence of democratic institutions, traditions and examples much greater.
First, those who held most closely to the Marxian tradition (for example, Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, Georges Friedmann, and Henri Lefebvre) treated alienation as a normative concept, as an instrument for criticizing the established state of affairs in the light of some standard based on human nature, "natural law," or moral principle.
Though experts are not quite sure why two separate collections came into existence, it is probable that the Tosefta was meant to complement the Mishna by preserving certain traditions, proofs, examples, and explanations of oral law that came to light during the years of research.
