MYSTIC RIVER: AUSONIUS'MOSELLAAS AN EPISTEMOLOGICAL REVELATION

Ramus ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-266
Author(s):  
Jesús Hernández Lobato
Keyword(s):  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Mystical Experience ◽  
Human Knowledge ◽  
The World ◽  
Literary Device ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Insight Into

Ausonius'Mosellais probably the most remarkable, studied and beloved poem of late antiquity. This essay aims to examine it from a new perspective, by reinterpreting it as a complex and many-layered depiction of asui generisepiphanic experience, ultimately triggered by an unmediated encounter with nature. This sudden ‘revelation’, be it real or merely an artful literary device, did not only provide Ausonius with a deeper insight into the world around him, but also raised many epistemological issues on the limits of human knowledge and the (in)ability of language to convey reality. Both aspects—the poetical rendering of a non-discursive quasi-mystical experience and the epistemological and philosophical reflections it brings about—pervade the whole of the poem and are absolutely central to an in-depth understanding of its veryraison d’être.

scholarly journals PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS WITH ZOONYM COMPONENT IN DIALECT WORLD VIEW OF KUBAN REGION INHABITANTS: COGNITION MECHANISMS

2021 ◽  
pp. 35-51
Author(s):  
OLGA G. BORISOVA ◽  
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LYUDMILA YU. KOSTINA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
World View ◽  
Cognitive Structure ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Human Knowledge ◽  
Cognitive Mechanisms ◽  
The World ◽  
Unique Nature ◽  
Well Data ◽  
Insight Into

The article examines cognitive mechanisms of Kuban region set expressions origin, which include animalistic vocabulary and which represent a significant part of dialect picture of the world. The material for the research was taken from regional printed and handwritten lexicographical sources on a subject of Kuban sub-dialects, as well data was collected during long-term dialect expeditions. The results demonstrate the variety of these mechanisms, which are based on actual observations by the sub-dialect speakers on behavior, peculiar appearance, voice, smell of animals and human actions in regard thereto. The amount and variety of selected tokens prove the significance of zoomorphic code in the Kuban region inhabitants’ world view. Ethnocultural conjoinings of set expressions were found, which provide insight into the unique nature of the villager’s world view. The analysis of discursive sources of origin of phraseological units with a zoonym component enabled to trace the birth of a new cognitive structure as a result of conceptualisation of human knowledge. It was demonstrated, that meanings of Kuban phraseological units, being the product of cognitive and discursive activity of sub-dialect speakers, unite the results of sensuous impressions and pragmatist perception of the world around us.

Late Roman Philosopher Portraits from Aphrodisias

1990 ◽  
Vol 80 ◽  
pp. 127-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. R. R. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Philosophical School ◽  
The World ◽  
The Rich ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Late Roman

The rich finds of statues and inscriptions from Aphrodisias in Caria have done much in recent years to illuminate the world of the late Roman politician, the world of governors and local magnates. Aphrodisias has also recently provided important new evidence for the philosophical image of late antiquity. In 1981–2, the excavations under Professor K. T. Erim recovered a remarkable group of marble shield portraits and busts that represent both contemporary late antique philosophers and ‘classic’ figures of the hellenic past. These portraits add a new dimension to our knowledge of Aphrodisias as an intellectual centre and provide a vivid insight into the pagan culture and education of late antiquity. We are in the world of Eunapius’ Lives of the Sophists. We are probably in the context of a philosophical school, perhaps the philosophical school of late Roman Aphrodisias.

Zhuangzi

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger T. Ames
Keyword(s):  
Fourth Century ◽  
Political Order ◽  
Philosophical Text ◽  
The World ◽  
Classical Chinese ◽  
Literary Device ◽  
Object Lesson ◽  
Insight Into

The Zhuangzi is a Daoist text usually associated with ‘Master Zhuang’ (fourth century bc), also known as Zhuang Zhou. Scholarly consensus regards the thirty-three chapters of this text to be composite, containing passages that offer different and sometimes even contradictory interpretations of basic Daoist tenets. The opening seven ‘inner chapters’ are traditionally thought to be from the hand of Master Zhuang himself, while the remaining ‘outer’ and ‘miscellaneous’ chapters are taken to be later elaborations and commentary by members of what retrospectively can be called a Master Zhuang school, or better, lineage. As a philosophical text, the Zhuangzi is for the most part addressed to the project of personal realization, and only derivatively concerned about social and political order. As one of the finest pieces of literature in the classical Chinese corpus, the Zhuangzi is itself an object lesson in marshalling every trope and literary device available to provide rhetorically charged flashes of insight into the most creative way to live one’s life in the world.

Some Difficult Problems

1930 ◽  
Vol 23 (8) ◽  
pp. 474-476
Author(s):  
Karl A. Zeller
Keyword(s):  
Number System ◽  
General Idea ◽  
Human Knowledge ◽  
Know How ◽  
Good Citizen ◽  
Guiding Principle ◽  
The World ◽  
Teaching Of Mathematics ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Insight Into

If, As The writers of our year book would have us believe, it is certain that the schools of our day do not know how to teach arithmetic successfully; if our present day civilization is one which depends on the universal recognition of the importance of the idea of precision, since precision is the soul of science and commerce; if number is an ever guiding principle of life; if the number system has changed the life of men and is a mode of thinking that cultivates a general idea of regularity, arrangement and order in all thinking; if the number system, formulas of Algebra and Geometry have helped the race to organize and arrange the world in which we live; if mathematics is linked up with a large number of the branches of human knowledge; if every educated man or woman should know what mathematics means, what its greatest uses are, and something of its soul; if it enters into the making of a good citizen because of its value as a mental discipline; if the contact with absolute truth, the style of reasoning, the habit of rigorous thinking, the love for beauty develops transferable power for independent investigation and gives a keener insight into life; if these should emerge in the mind of the student, the conception of an ordered, lawful universe, a universe in which the reign of law is absolute; then these facts make the teaching of mathematics a problem that challenges our skill and study, and makes our work top the pinnacle of life service.

scholarly journals Re-inventing Karna of the Mahabharata with a Renewed Perspective- A Review of Literature

2021 ◽  
pp. 75-87
Author(s):  
Bharathi S. Rai ◽  
Manjula K. T.
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Relative Deprivation ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Insight Into

Purpose: A casual look at the phenomena around us gives us a certain image, a certain perspective. When we have an insight into the same through a prism of investigation a new image, a new perspective emerges. The epic Mahabharata is so full of players who mesmerise the casual and serious readers alike. The plot is thick with kings, ministers, commanders, courtesans, mentors, soldiers, etc. Birth, lineage, warfare techniques have a role to play in deciding one's status in that setting. A character in Mahabharata that has been wronged vehemently from the social perspective and of relative deprivation is Karna. Design / Methodology/Approach: The Review of Literature is carried out with the secondary data gathered from educational websites and written publications. The research will be conducted using Research Journals, Doctoral Theses, and websites. This qualitative research is carried out by examining and interpreting existing knowledge on the subject utilising the keywords “Adroitness, Deprivation, Karna, Kunti, Values” found in online articles, peer-reviewed journals, publications, and a range of related portals. Findings/Result: Karna had asked his mother to officially identify him as her son even in his final moments. During his funeral, the Pandavas learned the heinous truth about their kinship. Krishna tells Kunti that Karna was a hero who died as a hero. Despite the fact that the world is full of greed, power, and betrayal, only Karna has chosen the path of righteousness. The only way to kill Karna was to take away all of his righteousness. Karna received legitimacy during his death, something he had desired his entire life. He'd finally earned his rightful place. Originality/Value: This paper makes a sincere study of Karna a major character in The Mahabharata, the of whom is not available anywhere else in the world in any literature as Ramdhari Singh Dinakar opines. He exemplified the finest attributes of courage, honesty, friendship, benefaction, austerity, oblation, and emancipation of the oppressed. When pushed to their limits, all of these characteristics combined and manifested in Karna. Karna cultivated all his attributes by acquiring balanced knowledge in meditation, weaponry, and scriptures. Karna sprouted in secret, like a forest flower. Paper Type: Exploratory research paper.

Ultrastructure of neuromuscular relationships in the canine heartworm (dirofilaria immitis)

1986 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 278-279
Author(s):  
W. L. Steffens ◽  
Nancy B. Roberts ◽  
J. M. Bowen
Keyword(s):  
Dirofilaria Immitis ◽  
Domestic Dogs ◽  
Structural Description ◽  
Pharmacological Effects ◽  
Free Living ◽  
Canine Heartworm ◽  
The World ◽  
Synaptic Region ◽  
Muscle Innervation ◽  
Insight Into

The canine heartworm is a common and serious nematode parasite of domestic dogs in many parts of the world. Although nematode neuroanatomy is fairly well documented, the emphasis has been on sensory anatomy and primarily in free-living soil species and ascarids. Lee and Miller reported on the muscular anatomy in the heartworm, but provided little insight into the peripheral nervous system or myoneural relationships. The classical fine-structural description of nematode muscle innervation is Rosenbluth's earlier work in Ascaris. Since the pharmacological effects of some nematacides currently being developed are neuromuscular in nature, a better understanding of heartworm myoneural anatomy, particularly in reference to the synaptic region is warranted.

"Monotheistic" tendency in the late antiquity paganism

1996 ◽  
pp. 56-61
Author(s):  
I. Mozgovyy
Keyword(s):  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Spiritual Life ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
The World

The unceasing approximation of the remarkable 2000th anniversary of the coming to the world of Christ highlights the need for further analysis of those processes that took place in the spiritual life of the ancient peoples and laid the foundations of modern civilization with its universal human norms and values.

On Metaphysics and the Political: A Polemics of Reading Baudelaire in the 1930s

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-259
Author(s):  
Joseph Acquisto
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
The Political ◽  
Modern Poetry ◽  
Progressive Politics ◽  
The World ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

This essay examines a polemic between two Baudelaire critics of the 1930s, Jean Cassou and Benjamin Fondane, which centered on the relationship of poetry to progressive politics and metaphysics. I argue that a return to Baudelaire's poetry can yield insight into what seems like an impasse in Cassou and Fondane. Baudelaire provides the possibility of realigning metaphysics and politics so that poetry has the potential to become the space in which we can begin to think the two of them together, as opposed to seeing them in unresolvable tension. Or rather, the tension that Baudelaire animates between the two allows us a new way of thinking about the role of esthetics in moments of political crisis. We can in some ways see Baudelaire as responding, avant la lettre, to two of his early twentieth-century readers who correctly perceived his work as the space that breathes a new urgency into the questions of how modern poetry relates to the world from which it springs and in which it intervenes.

Music, Markets and Consumption

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr Daragh O’Reilly ◽  
Dr Gretchen Larsen ◽  
Dr Krzysztof Kubacki
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Music Business ◽  
Consumer Studies ◽  
Arts Marketing ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Insight Into

A fully international and scholarly analysis integrating the unique popular music sector both within arts marketing and current marketing and consumption theories. Music, Markets and Consumption offers an up-to-date business-theoretical reading of the music business which complements viewpoints from other disciplines. It will be a much needed new perspective for students and scholars in music studies, cultural studies, marketing and consumer studies who wish to gain further insight into commercial aspects of music.

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