Sparks of reason. Vernacular rationalism in the Low Countries, 1550–1670. By Ruben Buys . Pp. 304 incl. 16 colour and black-and-white ills. Hilversum: Verloeren, 2015. €35 (paper). 978 90 8704 515 9 - Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert, Ethics or the art of living well. By means of knowledge of the truth about man, sin and virtue. Described for the first time in Dutch. Edited and translated by Gerrit Voogt . Pp. 506 incl. frontispiece and 9 black-and-white and colour ills. Hilversum: Verloren, 2015. €49 (paper). 978 90 8704 516 6

2018 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 174-176
Author(s):  
Alec Ryrie
Keyword(s):  
Low Countries ◽  
Art Of Living ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Living Well ◽  
First Time

scholarly journals Illustrated checklist of Nolinae (Lepidoptera, Nolidae) of Hong Kong, China, with description of two new species

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 35-58
Author(s):  
Gyula M. László ◽  
Mark Sterling
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Check List ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
First Time

This paper provides a comprehensive check list of Nolinae species recorded in Hong Kong, China based on the collections of the second author, Dr. Roger Kendrick and the Natural History Museum, London. The checklist comprises 30 species.  Two of them are new to science and described here as new species (Spininola kendricki sp. n., and Hampsonola ceciliae sp. n.). Misidentification of the female paratype of Spininola nepali László, Ronkay & Ronkay, 2014 is revealed and the true female of S. nepali is illustrated with its genitalia described here for the first time. The hitherto unknown female of S. armata László, Ronkay & Witt, 2010 is also illustrated here for the first time. All species recorded from Hong Kong are illustrated together with their genitalia on 54 colour and 46 black and white diagnostic figures.

From personal to global – the art of living well

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-185
Author(s):  
Laurence Hegan
Keyword(s):  
Art Of Living ◽  
Living Well

Forging New Identities in a World Gone Mad

2019 ◽  
pp. 17-47
Author(s):  
Susan T. Falck
Keyword(s):  
Black Churches ◽  
American Missionary Association ◽  
Racial Hierarchy ◽  
African American Population ◽  
Confederate Army ◽  
Black And White ◽  
White Males ◽  
Historical Memories ◽  
First Time ◽  
Planter Class

This chapter recounts the turmoil endured by black and white Natchez women and men during the Civil War and Union occupation, and how these experiences shaped historical memories of the war. Mississippi’s economy lay in ruins with nearly a quarter of the white males who served in the Confederate Army killed in action or perishing from wounds or disease at war’s end, while white civilians faced poverty, military loss, and a racial hierarchy turned upside down. Natchez’s large African-American population majority faced their own challenges but found sustenance in black churches and schools organized by the American Missionary Association during Reconstruction. Natchez had all the makings for a complex set of historical memories: great wealth, followed by profound loss, a paternalistic planter class, a sizable free black community that did not always sympathize with former slaves, and a massive formerly enslaved labor force discovering freedom for the first time.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Jessica R. Valdez
Keyword(s):  
Isle Of Wight ◽  
Black And White ◽  
First Time

After returning from Australia for the first time in three years, George Talboys joins his friend Robert Audley at a Westminster coffee house. There he picks up a ‘greasy Times newspaper of the day before from a heap of journals on the table’, only to confront the printed evidence of his wife’s death: ‘On the 24th inst., at Ventnor, Isle of Wight, Helen Talboys, aged 22.’ Audley tries to comfort Talboys and assures him that ‘there may be some other Helen Talboys’ or it ‘may be a misprint for Talbot’. Talboys, however, believes that his wife is dead: ‘Yes, there it was in black and white – “Helen Talboys, aged 22.”’...

Qualia, Robots and Complementarity of Subject and Object

1998 ◽  
pp. 54-62
Author(s):  
Piotr Boltuc
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Mind ◽  
First Person ◽  
German Philosophy ◽  
Secondary Qualities ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Complementary Approach ◽  
Subject And Object ◽  
First Time ◽  
Person Experience ◽  
First Person Experience

Jackson claims that a person who sees colors for the first time by this very fact acquires a certain knowledge which she or he could not have learned in a black and white world. This argument can be generalized to other secondary qualities. I argue that this claim is indefensible without implicit recourse to the first-person experience; also Nagel’s "what it is like" argument is polemically weak. Hence, we have no argument able to dismiss physicalism by consideration of first-person qualia (contra Jackson); however, it does not force us to endorse qualia-reductionism. In the second part of my paper I defend non-reductionism in a different way. Following Nagel and Harman, I try to avoid criticisms usually presented against Nagel, seeing subjectivity and objectivity as two complementary structures of the subjective and objective element of our language. I refer to classical German philosophy, phenomenology and Marxist dialectics which have developed a complementary approach crucial in the reductionist/anti-reductionist controversy in the philosophy of mind.

From Sufism to Universal Vision: Murat Yagan and the Teaching of Kebzeh

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-92
Author(s):  
Chen Bram ◽  
Meir Hatina
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
The United States ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The West ◽  
Art Of Living ◽  
The Caucasus ◽  
Caucasus Mountains ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
First Time

This article examines aspects of cultural exchange between the Middle East and the West in which Sufism, Christianity, the traditions of the Circassians and New Age concepts played a central role. It focuses on the teaching of Murat Yagan, of Abkhaz-Circassian origin who grew up in Turkey and immigrated to Canada in the 1960s, where he developed his philosophy, Ahmsta Kebzeh (“the knowledge of the art of living”). The Kebzeh way of life emphasizes modesty, mutual responsibility and compassion. Yagan linked these values to the ancient ethos of the Caucasus Mountains which he sought to revive as the basis of a universal vision. The nature of Kebzeh was influenced by the cosmopolitan environment in which Yagan was educated in Turkey; by his enrollment with Sufi circles in North America; and by the multicultural Canadian atmosphere. These diverse influences enabled him to devise an ecumenical model of dialogue between cultures. The article provides a first-time survey and analysis of Kebzeh ideological and communal features. It sheds new light on the role of ethnicity and cultural heritage in immigrant societies in the context of the evolution of spirituality in Canada, a relatively unexplored milieu in comparison to the United States and Europe.

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