21st-century humanities: Art, complexity, and interdisciplinarity.PaulYoungman -2012 -Human Affairs 22 (2):111-121.detailsThis article contends that the evolution toward interdisciplinary collaboration that we are witnessing in the sciences must also occur in the humanities to ensure their very survival. That is, humanists must be open to working with scientists and social scientists interested in similar research questions and vice versa. Digital humanities is a positive first step. Complexity science should be the next step. Even though much of the ground-breaking work in complexity science has been done in the natural sciences and mathematics, (...) it can, if critically adapted, provide the needed metaphor for a broad integration of disciplines, humanistic and otherwise. Given its almost a-disciplinary nature, a complexity approach to the research problems in the humanities necessarily breaks down silos. Moreover, it can restore and reframe the seamless intellectual fabric sought by researchers before the atomization of the various disciplines in the nineteenthcentury academy. (shrink)
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Assyrien und Urarṭu I: Der Achte Feldzug Sargons II. im Jahre 714 v. Chr; and Assyrien und Urarṭu II: Die assyrisch-urartäischen Bilinguen, by Walter Mayer.Paul Zimansky -2021 -Journal of the American Oriental Society 137 (1).detailsAssyrien und Urarṭu I: Der Achte Feldzug Sargons II. im Jahre 714 v. Chr. By Walter Mayer. Alter Orient und Altes Testament, vol. 395/1. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2013. Pp. xv + 189. €64. Assyrien und Urarṭu II: Die assyrisch-urartäischen Bilinguen. By Walter Mayer. Alter Orient und Altes Testament, vol. 395/2. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2013. Pp. xv + 156. €58.
The Kantian Sublime, the Postmodern, and the Avant‐Garde.Paul Crowther -1993 - InCritical aesthetics and postmodernism. New York: Oxford University Press.detailsConsiders Lyotard's influential theory of the sublime. Explores the important links that he makes between the Kantian sublime, modernism, the postmodern, and the avant‐garde. Highlights problems in relation to these connections.
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Outline of the Vedanta System of Philosophy: According to Shankara.Paul Deussen -1927 - Harvard University Press.detailsExcerpt from Outline of the Vedanta System of Philosophy According to Shankara HE fundamental idea Of the Vedanta system, as most tersely expressed in the words. Of the Veda, That art thou (tat tvam asil), and I am Brahman. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format (...) whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. (shrink)
The Principle of Objectified Circumstances : Clarifying the Proximate End.Paul Dixon -2015 -Heythrop Journal 56 (4):570-583.detailsThis paper seeks to clarify the proximate end. A distinction is made between the definition of an act and the identification of an act. The principle of objectified circumstances is postulated which, without expanding beyond the proximate end, gives due weight to both the perspective of the acting person and the context within which an act occurs. POC is used to help discern the object contained within the proximate end. It is applied to the issues of euthanasia, lying, mutilation, and (...) the controversy between Martin Rhonheimer and Janet Smith concerning the use of condoms for HIV protection. The challenge of angelism is addressed. The paper argues that the object, located exclusively in the proximate end, can be understood in a way that is sensitive to both traditionalist and proportionalist schools of thought. POC opens up an avenue of thought for fresh dialogue concerning the identification of the moral object. (shrink)
Girard et Tresmontant, balayeurs et constructeurs: pour le monothéisme.Paul Dubouchet -2019 - Paris: L'Harmattan.detailsRené Girard (1923-2015) et Claude Tresmontant (1925-1997) ont chacun de leur côté, à travers le judéo-christianisme, réhabilité le monothéisme à partir d'une seule idée directrice : la négation d'un Dieu persécuteur pour Girard, l'affirmation d'un Dieu créateur du monde pour Tresmontant. A partir de là, les deux "balayeurs" font le ménage dans l'histoire de la pensée, au bénéfice d'une nouvelle psychanalyse ("chrétienne"! ) ; en tant que "constructeurs", ils montrent la profonde continuité entre le christianisme et le judaïsme et confirment (...) la légitimité d'un "évolutionnisme chrétien" pour qui l'Evolution, c'est "la Création en acte". (shrink)
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The Secret of Consciousness: How the Brain Tells 'the Story of Me'.Paul Ableman -1999 - Marion Boyars.detailsThis book is about you. How does your brain work and where do your thoughts and dreams come from? How can you harness their creative power? Ableman posits a crucial relationship between language and memory and thus between language and self-awareness. Most startlingly he maintains that the human 'person' is essentially the language component of a large-brained animal. Ableman has researched his theory using existing data derived from the malfunctioning mind as manifested in schizophrenia, sleepwalking, autism, 'out of body' experiences (...) and nightmares. His revolutionary claims constitute an exciting and persuasive theory of mind which orthodox science could - and should - test. (shrink)
Examining Three Narratives of U.S. History in the Historical Perspectives of Middle School (Emergent) Bilingual Students.Paul J. Yoder -2021 -Journal of Social Studies Research 45 (3):167-180.detailsThis study examined the historical perspectives of eleven emergent bilingual and bilingual students at two middle schools. Data analysis revealed that the participants’ perspectives on U.S. history reflected three schematic narrative templates focused on nation-building, equality, and discrimination. The participants primarily employed the (in)equality narratives when discussing aspects of U.S. history directly linked to their identities. The findings add to the extant research on student historical perspectives and use of schematic narrative templates. The findings further suggest that engaging (emergent) bilingual (...) students in examining multiple perspectives and conducting critical history inquiry can contribute to notions of culturally and linguistically responsive social studies instruction. (shrink)
The Doctrine of Double Effect: Philosophers Debate a Controversial Moral Principle.Paul A. Woodward (ed.) -2001 - University of Notre Dame Press.detailsPhilosophers and ethicists debate this controversial moral principle illustrating its application to current moral dilemmas such as war, suicide, nuclear power, affirmative action, and morphine use for terminal cancer patients.
Proof of Moral Obligation in Twentieth-century Philosophy.Paul Allen -1988 - Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers.detailsSince Plato's time, philosophers have concentrated on developing moral theories to guide our actions. They have said we ought to act to maximize happiness; we ought to act to fulfill human potential; etc. But all of them have largely ignored a key question: Regardless of which acts are morally obligatory, can moral obligation as such be proven? Early in his book, Allen clarifies what sort of demonstration or justification can suffice as a proof that we are subject to moral obligation. (...) He analyzes some twentieth-century ethical theories which initially appear to serve as such a demonstration. Next, he examines at length the theory of contemporary English philosopher R.M. Hare. And finally, he reworks Hare's ideas into a complete proof that we are bound by moral obligation. Philosophers should value this book because it brings to light and defines a neglected but critical problem, and develops an innovative, thought-provoking solution. Serious students, too, will find it helpful because it provides a clearly written historical study of a central theme in twentieth-century ethics. (shrink)
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Gladly to Learn and Gladly to Teach: Essays on Religion and Political Philosophy in Honor of Ernest L. Fortin, A.A.Paul J. Archambault,J. Brian Benestad,Christopher Bruell,Timothy Burns,Frederick J. Crosson,Robert Faulkner,Marc D. Guerra,Thomas S. Hibbs,Alfred L. Ivry,Fr Mathew L. Lamb,Marc A. LePain,David Lowenthal,Harvey C. Mansfield,Paul W. McNellis &Susan Meld Shell (eds.) -2002 - Lexington Books.detailsFor half a century, Ernest Fortin's scholarship has charmed and educated theologians and philosophers with its intellectual search for the best way to live. Written by friends, colleagues, and students of Fortin, this book pays tribute to a remarkable thinker in a series of essays that bear eloquent testimony to Fortin's influence and his legacy. A formidable commentator on Catholic philosophical and political thought, Ernest Fortin inspired others with his restless inquiries beyond the boundaries of conventional scholarship. With essays on (...) subjects ranging across philosophy, political science, literature, and theology Gladly to Learn and Gladly to Teach reflects the astonishing depth and breadth of Fortin's contribution to contemporary thought. (shrink)
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Tratamento e cuidado dos pacientes em estado vegetativo persistente: um debate de vida e de morte.Paul Okoth Auma -2016 -Revista de Teologia 10 (17):267-276.detailsThis article presents the ethical situation that evolves the discussion of limitation of treatment offered to patients in a persistent vegetative state. Health professionals find themselves in difficult situations when dealing with these recurrent problems in their daily professional activities. This is presented, then, as an ethical issue of difficult solution, the decision of suspension of life support tasks. The debate is sustained, however, on how to distinguish the concepts of terminality of life, orthothanasia, euthanasia, dysthanasia, palliative care and, in (...) an specific case, a persistent neurovegetative state, with its implications in the use of disproportional treatment that prolongs life, in a painful and a futile way, of the process of agony to the death. There are questions or dilemmas involved in this debate, such as in which moment the suspension of treatment can be considered adequate or the use of all possible measures to maintain life, even in advanced, irreversible and terminal illness are ethically acceptable. And finally, who is responsible for the suspension of therapeutic procedures in the irreversible and terminal clinical situations. (shrink)
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Embodiment and Civility in Early Modernity: Aspects of Relations between Dance, the Body and Sociocultural Change.Paul Filmer -1999 -Body and Society 5 (1):1-16.detailsDance is addressed as making significance for what Elias terms the civilizing process of early modernity through its contribution to the ennoblement of warriors and the pacification of merchants. The grounds for this are drawn from McNeill's contention that expenditure of muscular energy rhythmically in dance, as in military drill, but with different sociocultural consequences, is a fundamental human device for consolidating community feeling by facilitating cooperation by arousing a warm sense of togetherness. The significance of dance as a sociocultural (...) practice in early modernity is discussed critically through contemporary writings from the 16th and 17th centuries, with particular consideration given to the description of dance as an allegory for moral order in Elyot's manual on the education of the ruler. (shrink)
Towards a typology of disharmony.Paul Kiparsky -manuscriptdetailsWe propose an OT-theoretic typology of vowel harmony systems based on a comparative study of front/back harmony. Harmony processes are governed by a general constraint that imposes feature agreement on neighboring segments. Disharmonic (“neutral”) segments arise when this constraint is dominated by markedness constraints and/or by faithfulness constraints that govern segment inventories. These constraint interactions determine whether disharmonic segments are opaque or transparent, and fix the cross-linguistically diverse behavior of the latter. We make crucial use of two modes of local (...) constraint conjunction, which are already implicit in the current theory. Our proposal restricts this theory by eliminating the possibility of freely stipulating the domain of local conjunction. (shrink)