Book 18. (1 results) Blood Brothers of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 28 | 273 | If it is not View more quotes about understood">understood in its own terms, as he understands it, it is likely to seem irrational, eccentric or foolish. |
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Book 18. (7 results) Blood Brothers of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 28 | 270 | The life world, and consciousness, of the red savage, it must be clearly understood, is quite different from that of, say, a secular rationalist or a scientifically oriented objectivist. |
| 28 | 271 | One of the most common, and serious, mistakes that can be made in crosscultural encounters is to assume that everyone one meets is, in effect, very much like oneself. |
| 28 | 272 | Their personal world, the world of their experience, their experiential world, may be quite different from yours. |
| 28 | 273 | If it is not understood in its own terms, as he understands it, it is likely to seem irrational, eccentric or foolish. |
| 28 | 274 | Properly understood, on the other hand, his world is plausible, in its terms, as is yours. |
| 28 | 275 | This is not to say that there is nothing to choose from amongst life worlds; it is only to say that we do not all share the same life world. |
| 28 | 276 | "Why are they not going away?" asked a man. |
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The life world, and consciousness, of the red savage, it must be clearly understood, is quite different from that of, say, a secular rationalist or a scientifically oriented objectivist.
One of the most common, and serious, mistakes that can be made in crosscultural encounters is to assume that everyone one meets is, in effect, very much like oneself.
Their personal world, the world of their experience, their experiential world, may be quite different from yours.
If it is not understood in its own terms, as he understands it, it is likely to seem irrational, eccentric or foolish.
Properly understood, on the other hand, his world is plausible, in its terms, as is yours.
This is not to say that there is nothing to choose from amongst life worlds; it is only to say that we do not all share the same life world.
"Why are they not going away?" asked a man.
- (Blood Brothers of Gor)