Evolution of the gelsolin family of actin-binding proteins as novel transcriptional coactivators.Stuart K. Archer,CharlesClaudianos &Hugh D. Campbell -2005 -Bioessays 27 (4):388-396.detailsThe gelsolin gene family encodes a number of higher eukaryotic actin-binding proteins that are thought to function in the cytoplasm by severing, capping, nucleating or bundling actin filaments. Recent evidence, however, suggests that several members of the gelsolin family may have adopted unexpected nuclear functions including a role in regulating transcription. In particular, flightless I, supervillin and gelsolin itself have roles as coactivators for nuclear receptors, despite the fact that their divergence appears to predate the evolutionary appearance of nuclear receptors. (...) Flightless I has been shown to bind both actin and the actin-related BAF53a protein, which are subunits of SWI/SNF-like chromatin remodelling complexes. The primary sequences of some actin-related proteins such as BAF53a exhibit conservation of residues that, in actin itself, are known to interact with gelsolin-related proteins. In summary, there is a growing body of evidence supporting a biological role in the nucleus for actin, Arps and actin-binding proteins and, in particular, the gelsolin family of actin-binding proteins. (c) 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. (shrink)
The Buddhist Self: On Tathāgatagarbha and Ātman.C. V. Jones -2020 - University of Hawaii Press.detailsWinner of the 2021 Toshihide Numata Book Award in Buddhism The assertion that there is nothing in the constitution of any person that deserves to be considered the self (ātman)—a permanent, unchanging kernel of personal identity in this life and those to come—has been a cornerstone of Buddhist teaching from its inception. Whereas other Indian religious systems celebrated the search for and potential discovery of one’s “true self,” Buddhism taught about the futility of searching for anything in our experience that (...) is not transient and ephemeral. But a small yet influential set of Mahāyāna Buddhist texts, composed in India in the early centuries CE, taught that all sentient beings possess at all times, and across their successive lives, the enduring and superlatively precious nature of a Buddha. This was taught with reference to the enigmatic expression tathāgatagarbha—the “womb” or “chamber” for a Buddha—which some texts refer to as a person’s true self. The Buddhist Self is a methodical examination of Indian teaching about the tathāgatagarbha (otherwise the presence of one’s “Buddha-nature”) and the extent to which different Buddhist texts and authors articulated this in terms of the self. C. V. Jones attends to each of the Indian Buddhist works responsible for explaining what is meant by the expression tathāgatagarbha, and how far this should be understood or promoted using the language of selfhood. With close attention to these sources, Jones argues that the trajectory of Buddha-nature thought in India is also the history and legacy of a Buddhist account of what deserves to be called the self: an innovative attempt to equip Mahāyāna Buddhism with an affirmative response to wider Indian interest in the discovery of something precious or even divine in one’s own constitution. This argument is supplemented by critical consideration of other themes that run through this distinctive body of Mahāyānist literature: the relationship between Buddhist and non-Buddhist teachings about the self, the overlap between the tathāgatagarbha and the nature of the mind, and the originally radical position that the only means of becoming liberated from rebirth is to achieve the same exalted status as the Buddha. (shrink)
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Narcissism: Socrates, the Frankfurt School, and Psychoanalytic Theory.C. Fred Alford -1988detailsThe term narcissism is normally used to describe an infatuation with the self so extreme that the interests of others are ignored. However, argues C. Fred Alford, psychoanalytic theory also implies that narcissism can be construed in a positive way, as a striving for perfection wholeness, and control over self and world. In this book, Alford applies the psychoanalytic theory of narcissism to the philosophies of Socrates and Frankfurt School members Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, and Jurgen Habermas, contending (...) that it can illuminate basic philosophical issues such as the nature of the ideal society, the integrity of the self, and the role of reason in human affairs. (shrink)
VI*—Is Identity a Relation?C. J. F. Williams -1980 -Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 80 (1):81-100.detailsC. J. F. Williams; VI*—Is Identity a Relation?, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 80, Issue 1, 1 June 1980, Pages 81–100, https://doi.org/10.1093/.
ʻĀrittōtœ̄n nai sangkhom Thai: rūam botkhwām khatsan čhāk kānprachum wichākān ʻĀrittōtœ̄n nai sangkhom Thai".Soraj Hongladarom,Čhœ̄t Bandāsak &Pakō̜n Singsuriyā (eds.) -2019 - Krung Thēp: Samnakphim Čhulālongkō̜n Mahāwitthayālai.detailsCollection of articles from a conference on the philosophy of Aristotle in Thai society.
Four Archetypes: (From Vol. 9, Part 1 of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung) [New in Paper].R. F. C. Hull (ed.) -2010 - Princeton University Press.detailsOne of Jung's most influential ideas has been his view, presented here, that primordial images, or archetypes, dwell deep within the unconscious of every human being. The essays in this volume gather together Jung's most important statements on the archetypes, beginning with the introduction of the concept in "Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious." In separate essays, he elaborates and explores the archetypes of the Mother and the Trickster, considers the psychological meaning of the myths of Rebirth, and contrasts the idea (...) of Spirits seen in dreams to those recounted in fairy tales.This paperback edition of Jung's classic work includes a new foreword by Sonu Shamdasani, Philemon Professor of Jung History at University College London. (shrink)
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Plautianus' zebras: A Roman expedition to east Africa in the early third century.C. T. Mallan -2019 -Classical Quarterly 69 (1):461-465.detailsThe kleptocratic supremacy of the praetorian prefect C. Fulvius Plautianus was felt throughout the city of Rome, the Empire and even beyond the imperial frontiers. Indeed, for the senatorial historian Dio Cassius, there was no more picturesque demonstration of Plautianus' acquisitiveness than his seizure of strange striped horse-like creatures from ‘islands in the Erythraean Sea’. The passage, as preserved in the text of Xiphilinus' Epitome, reads as follows : καὶ τέλος ἵππους Ἡλίῳ τιγροειδεῖς ἐκ τῶν ἐν τῇ Ἐρυθρᾷ θαλάσσῃ νήσων, (...) πέμψας ἑκατοντάρχους, ἐξέκλεψεν·In the end he even stole tiger-like horses to Helios from the islands in the Erythraean Sea, having sent some centurions to carry out the task. (shrink)
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I—The Presidential Address*: Confirmation.C. H. Whiteley -1974 -Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 74 (1):1-14.detailsC. H. Whiteley; I—The Presidential Address*: Confirmation, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 74, Issue 1, 1 June 1974, Pages 1–14, https://doi.org.
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Introduction to Jungian Psychology: Notes of the Seminar on Analytical Psychology Given in 1925.C. G. Jung &Sonu Shamdasani -2011 - Princeton University Press.detailsRev. ed. of: Analytical psychology: notes of the seminar given in 1925 / by C.G. Jung; edited by William McGuire. c1989.
Jung Contra Freud: The 1912 New York Lectures on the Theory of Psychoanalysis.C. G. Jung &Sonu Shamdasani -2011 - Princeton University Press.details"Extracted from Freud and psychoanalysis, volume 4 of the Collected works of C.G. Jung, pages 83-226"--T.p. verso.
The role of Nikolai Berdyaev in the early writings of Hans Urs von Balthasar: A contribution to the question of Balthasar’s appropriation of sources.C. Michael Shea &Jonathan S. King -2013 -Journal for the History of Modern Theology/Zeitschrift für Neuere Theologiegeschichte 20 (2):226-257.detailsThis contribution examines the relatively unresearched doctoral thesis of Hans Urs von Balthasar as a Germanist, particularly in relation to the role that the reading of the Russian religious philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev played in the development of Balthasar's earliest theological thought. The authors argue that Berdyaev provided the young Germanist with a markedly eschatological point of departure for his nascent theological reflections. Although Balthasar had to renounce certain aspects of Berdyaev's thought, this eschatological orientation received from Berdyaev nevertheless remained recognizable (...) through Balthasar's mature theological works. This study is dedicated to Fr. James K. Voiss, S.J., teacher, mentor, and friend. (shrink)
La Psicología Platónica de la Acción a la luz de la relación República-Filebo.Gabriela Silva C. -2009 -Apuntes Filosóficos 19 (34).detailsLa posibilidad de sentar las bases para una psicología platónica de la acción puede ser abordada desde la perspectiva de la conexión entre la doctrina del alma tripartita de República y la psicología del placer del Filebo. A la luz de dicha conexión, la noción del alma como fuente del deseo se constituye en factor determinante de nuestro carácter personal y nuestra forma de actuar, lo que hace posible construir una tipología de hombre basada en la primacía de una parte (...) de su alma y en su preferencia por cierta clase de placer. Palabras clave: Platón; Psicología; Placer; Alma; Deseo; AcciónThe possibility of laying the foundations of a Platonic psychology of action can be tackled from the connection between Republic’s tripartite soul doctrine and Philebus’ psychology of pleasure. In the light of this connection, the notion of soul as the source of desire is a determining factor of our personal character and the way we act. This makes it possible to construct a typology of man based upon the primacy of one part of his soul and his preference for a certain kind of pleasure. Keywords: Plato; Psychology; Pleasure; Soul; Desire; Action. (shrink)
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