Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: A little help

Ciao a tutti, sono una nuova iscritta e volevo chiedervi una mano per
un problema di traduzione dall'inglese all'italiano. Sto traducendo
delle pagine sull'antiquariato indiano ed il mio monolingue decisamente
non basta:)
Al momento mi sto dannando per trovare una traduzione a 'world
affirming', in particolare il periodo è : 'Such a world-affirming
perspective had deep roots in both Buddhism and Hinduism.'
Potete aiutarmi?

Potete aiutarmi?
ahia. Da quello che vedo googlando "world affirming" e' un termine tecnico 
filosofico/religioso.
Ad es. su 
http://hirr.hartsem.edu/ency/Secularization.htm
The emergence of new religious movements (NRMs) is related to the process of 
secularization. The "Christian collective consciousness" of the West was 
disintegrating. Pluralism had undermined its "objectivity," and the slowly 
perceived useless character of Christian religions on the societal level, 
accompanied by a loss of status and power, allowed exotic religions to 
improve their position on the religious market. Some, such as the 
Unification Church, The Family, or ISKCON (Krishna Consciousness) wanted to 
resacralize the world and its institutions by bringing God back in, such as 
in the family, the economy, even the polity. Wallis (1984) designates them 
"world-rejecting new religions." The vast majority, however, are of another 
type; they are "world affirming." They offer members esoteric means of 
attaining immediate and automatic success, recovery, heightened spiritual 
powers, assertiveness, and a clearer mind. Mahikari provides an omitama , or 
amulet; TM, a personal mantra; Scientology, auditing and the E-meter; the 
Human Potential Movements offer therapies, encounter groups, or alternative 
health and spiritual centers; Nichiren Shoshu promotes chanting of an 
invocation before a mandala, while Elan Vital offers the Knowledge revealed 
by Maharaji or one of his appointed instructors.
il che, per me, e' arabo. Altri passi che usano l'espressione sono dello 
stesso tenore o vengono da scientologists...
Forse, visto che stai traducendo qualcosa sull'antiquariato e non un 
trattato di filosofia, una traduzione un po' imprecisa potrebbe andare bene 
uguale; il contesto in cui si colloca la frase che hai citato dovrebbe 
aiutarti.
Just my two cents.
Lorenzo 

Grazie mille, anche per me la cosa è simile all'arabo...e purtroppo
noto che andando avanti la situazione non migliora troppo, quindi temo
che vi annoierò ancora :)
Ciao!

namia ha scritto:
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C'è chi "nega" il mondo fisico e il corpo, con la sua illusoria
materialità considerata solo un ostacolo alle vette del vero mondo
spirituale, e chi viceversa "afferma" la fisicità, il corpo, il sesso,
come strumenti di sublimazione per raggiungere quelle vette.
World-affirmers and world-denyers.
Another division, more important for the way in which life is lived,
concerns how the real physical world and the human body is viewed.
World-affirming pantheists believe that the physical world of nature
and of the human body are essentially good. Generally they have
positive attitudes to nature and sex.
World-denying pantheists devalue the real world and the body. Some of
them believe that these are mere illusions projected onto an underlying
emptiness or fullness. These tend to include many Hindu and Buddhist
pantheists, plus the Greek Eleatics.
Others accept that matter is real enough, but believe that it is
inferior - either a formless and chaotic medium, or the creation of
evil and darkness. This view is common in the Christian tradition
before the Renaissance.
World-denying pantheisms attach little importance to nature, or to
physical health, and very often regard sex as the ultimate distraction
from God. In general they originated in times of mass trauma -
widespread warfare, famine, or epidemic - with massive mortality rates.
In these situations, world negation becomes an adaptive response,
allowing people to survive in an intolerable situation.
In normal times, however, these attitudes are maladaptive. They work
against all types of political, social and environmental action to
improve the situation.
http://members.aol.com/Heraklit1/variety1.htm