Centuries of Aristotle, Plato, and Descartes have bulldozed the way open to the decay of the body. The majority of our planetary culture has been indoctrinated to perceive both Nature and the body through the lenses of a mechanistic vision of reality; Descartes’ "cogito ergo sum" ("I think therefore I am") identifies our selves only as a function of thinking, thereby turning the physical world into a barren wasteland. We have chosen to follow Kant along the road of "progress" and science rather than sitting around the campfire with Gary Snyder and riding with Black Elk in the Prairies.
-Daniele Bolelli, On the Warrior's Path, Second Edition: Philosophy, Fighting, and Martial Arts Mythology
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