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The Future of Post-Human Martial Arts - A Preface to a New Theory of the Body and Spirit of Warriors (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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The Future of Post-Human Martial Arts - A Preface to a New Theory of the Body and Spirit of Warriors (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Is it really true that martial arts, in spite of their popularity
in this day and age of ours, have, at their deepest level, the
promised land of "self-knowledge," "the expression of beauty," or
something highly spiritual to be pursued for the human soul? Or, to
put it in a different way, what exactly makes martial arts so
amazing that, somehow, they will eventually lead the practitioners
to the spiritual realm of self-cultivation in its highest depth?
Contrary to the conventional wisdom about martial arts as held by
many over the ages, this popular view about martial arts has become
so legendary that their dark sides have yet to be systematically
explored and that the lofty aims of martial arts are neither
possible nor desirable to the extent that their proponents would
like us to believe.Of course, this is not to say that the very
tradition of martial arts is absolutely useless, or that the
literature on martial arts hitherto existing in history is
spiritually unworthy to be appreciated. Instead, this book
constructively offers an alternative (better) way to understand the
nature of martial arts, in special relation to the body and spirit
of warriors-while learning from different views in the literature,
without favoring any one of them (nor integrating them, as they are
not necessarily compatible with each other), and, in the end,
transcending them towards a new horizon not conceived before. This
seminal view, if proven valid, will fundamentally change the
legendary way that people have thought about martial arts-from the
combined perspectives of the mind, nature, society, and culture,
with enormous implications for the human future and what I
originally called its "post-human" fate._____________________
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