Learning from the Confessional in the Later Thirteenth Century: Contributions to Human Sexuality, Daily Life, and a Science of Nature

2019 ◽  
Vol 88 (2) ◽  
pp. 293-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irven M. Resnick
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Human Sexuality ◽  
Sexual Practices ◽  
Moral Reform ◽  
Private Lives ◽  
General Terms ◽  
Seal Of Confession

Implementation of the canons of the Fourth Lateran Council dramatically expanded the practice of auricular confession among laypeople. Although the Council's canons also insist upon the seal of confession in order to keep the content of confessions secret, thirteenth-century authorities differ over the boundaries of the seal. As a result, the “secrets” of confession are often revealed in at least general terms in order to provide preachers with entertaining exempla for moral or doctrinal instruction. What is revealed from confession not only provides a window onto medieval private lives, but it also provided confessors with information about human activities—especially sexual practices—that might otherwise be unavailable to them. With such information, learned confessors not only encouraged moral reform but also defended claims of Aristotelian biology on human nature and sexuality.

Who's Zoomin’ Who? A Feminist, Queer Content Analysis of “Interdisciplinary” Human Sexuality Textbooks

Hypatia ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilyn Myerson ◽  
Sara L. Crawley ◽  
Erica Hesch Anstey ◽  
Justine Kessler ◽  
Cara Okopny
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Sexual Dimorphism ◽  
Scientific Discovery ◽  
Human Sexuality ◽  
Sexual Practices

Hundreds of thousands of students in introductory human sexuality classes read textbooks whose covert ideology reinforces dominant heteronormative narratives of sexual dimorphism, male hegemony, and heteronormativity. As such, the process of scientific discovery that proposes to provide description of existing sexual practices, identities, and physiohgies instead succeeds in cultural prescription. This essay provides a feminist, queer content analysis of such textbooks to illuminate their implicit narratives and provide suggestions for writing more feminist, queer-friendly texts.

scholarly journals Review of The Natural and the Human: Science and the Shaping of Modernity 1739-1841 [by Stephen Gaukroger]

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Abou-Nemeh
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Human Science ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Scientific Culture ◽  
The West ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
The Third ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Oxford University Press

This compelling and erudite book examines the emergence of the human sciences in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and explores the rise of sensibility in studies of human nature and behavior. The Natural and the Human is the third installment of Stephen Gaukroger’s massive project that investigates the ways in which scientific values were consolidated into a dominant program of inquiry and shaped notions of modernity in the West from the thirteenth century onward. (The first two volumes, The Emergence of a Scientific Culture and The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility, were published by Oxford University Press in 2006 and 2010, respectively.) <br>

scholarly journals The Lightness of the Sexual Being: A Short Reflection on Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid”

Societies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 116
Author(s):  
Seungyeon Lee
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Human Sexuality ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
Children And Parents ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Short Narrative

Hans Christian Andersen’s tale, “The Little Mermaid,” has been adored by both children and parents for decades. The tale shows an astonishingly different quality to Andersen’s early genre of fairy tales, which allows the reader to sense his keenness on the meaning of human sexuality. The author used the short narrative form, becoming more conservative, cautious, and concise in his ideological compromise between religiosity and human nature. “The Little Mermaid” is a tale that draws the reader in about “universal preoccupations” of femininity, self-concept, and self-actualization. Andersen’s intentions and the authenticity of this tale should not be overlooked.

ELOQUENT ACTION: THE BODY AND MEANING IN EARLY COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE

2009 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Buckley
Keyword(s):  
Facial Expression ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
External Action ◽  
The Body ◽  
Whole Body ◽  
Commedia Dell'arte ◽  
General Terms ◽  
The World ◽  
The Many ◽  
Common Character

One of the things that strikes one most forcibly in surviving images of early commedia dell'arte is its enigmatic physicality, the manner in which its actors everywhere adopt postures and make gestures that seem not merely emphatic and exaggerated but almost hieroglyphic, full of some additional implication, laden with a figural and emblematic resonance that we sense but no longer see. In general terms, this quality is easily understood, as the body clearly served in commedia as a complex and polyvalent instrument of expression. Its gestures and movements were, as in all theatre, indexically linked to dramatic action, and they also served, as in much masked drama, as surrogates for the facial expression of affect, in that the movements and aspects of the whole body were enlisted to articulate the motions and mien of a veiled face and to overcome or play upon the sensation of estranged speech produced by the half-mask's bifurcation of the visage. Moreover, in a manner less familiar but illustrated well in Fig. 1, these movements and aspects also functioned as expressions in their own right, not articulating the affect or expression attendant upon immediate speech or situation or delineating the lines of external action but signaling the many impulses and various appetites of the world, the varied aspects of all persons and of the body itself, and invoking at times as their implicatory context human nature, common character, and identity rather than situation, attitude, or emotion.

scholarly journals The Influence of Applying Non-mainstream Social Resources on the Development of College Art Professional Courses

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 154
Author(s):  
Xiaoxi Song
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Social Resources ◽  
Network System ◽  
Integrated Network ◽  
Objective World ◽  
Art Activities

As an important art in human activities, art can not only reflect the objective world, but also enrich the power of human nature. This is a kind of free character. People can fully integrate their emotions and imaginations in art activities, and learn from the inside. To achieve harmony and pleasure outside. Aesthetics is the dominant in fine arts, and at the same time it forms an integrated network system with various non-aesthetic functions. This system can reflect human development and the construction of human aesthetic psychology. At present, more and more people recognize the non-mainstream Social resources have a certain influence on the quality of people. Therefore, in the development of college art majors, the application of non-mainstream social resources also has a certain impact.

scholarly journals SYSTEM OF DEVELOPING SELF-LEARNING SKILLS

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-82
Author(s):  
ANI MANUKYAN
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Career Path ◽  
Learning To Learn ◽  
Learning Skills ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
General Terms ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Self Learning ◽  
At Home

Learning to learn, one of the eight competences that EU has defined, comprises the disposition and ability to organize and regulate one’s own learning, both individually and in groups. Learning to learn includes the ability to manage one’s time effectively, to solve problems, to acquire, process, evaluate and assimilate new knowledge, and to apply new knowledge and skills in a variety of contexts — at home, at work, in education and in training. In more general terms, learning-to- learn contributes strongly to managing one’s own career path. Although ‘learning to learn’ should be an important part of daily life in secondary schools and classrooms, it turns out to be a very difficult goal to achieve. For most schools and for most teachers it is not even clear how ‘learning to learn’ should be operationalized and implemented.

A medieval patchwork song: poetry, prayer and music in a thirteenth-century conductus

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARY CHANNEN CALDWELL
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Creative Processes ◽  
Textual Construction ◽  
First Time

ABSTRACTEight times a day, the prayerDeus in adiutorium meum intendesounded from the lips of the faithful as the standard introduction to the Office Hours. Infiltrating daily life through the liturgy and popular interjections, the psalm verseDeus in adiutoriumserved a devotional function marked by versatility and popularity. Yet, despite its omnipresence, as well as its inherently vocalic identity, the verse was only rarely troped musically or poetically. A collection of thirteenth-century monophonic and polyphonic tropes of the verse circulating in France in motet collections and festive offices represents one of the few moments of heightened musical interest in the prayer. This article draws attention, for the first time, to the musical and textual connection between these tropes andPater creator omnium, a thirteenth-century refrain song. This monophonic song from France also belongs firmly to the medieval cento genre, with both its musical and textual construction based on the piecing together of borrowed text and music – includingDeus in adiutorium. This article argues thatPater creator omniumstands at the intersection of two important yet understudied histories: the musical and textual troping ofDeus in adiutoriumand the medieval cento. Analysis of this song ultimately illustrates the creative processes behind the making of a pre-modern song.

Self-Deception, Dissimulation, and the Universality of Evil in Human Nature

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Papish
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Human Life ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Moral Reform ◽  
Human Species ◽  
The Social

This chapter considers whether self-deception informs Kant’s notoriously controversial claim that there is an evil rooted universally throughout the human species. It is ultimately argued that while self-deception as described in Chapters 3 and 4 cannot be implicated in his argument, a nearby kind of practical-epistemic failing, namely dissemblance or dissimulation (Verstellen), can be. To help secure this conclusion, the chapter also addresses several important interpretive challenges including: whether Kant intends his claims about a universal evil to be a priori or empirically grounded; whether the social (or unsocial) aspects of human life are relevant to Kant’s proof; if Kant can justifiably describe the evil that runs throughout human nature as both a propensity or willingness and a chosen disposition; how the universality of evil can exist alongside the possibility of individual moral reform; and what to make of the claim that evil attaches to the human race’s “species” character.

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