The Age of Economics

Worldview ◽  
1958 ◽  
Vol 1 (7) ◽  
pp. 3-6
Author(s):  
Harlan Cleveland
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Scientific Method ◽  
The Self ◽  
Western Philosophy ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
The World ◽  
Underdeveloped Areas ◽  
Economic Expectations ◽  
Of Greece ◽  
The Revolution

The triple revolution in the “underdeveloped areas” -the revolution of rising economic expectations, of rising resentment at inequality, and of rising determination to be free and independent—is plain to see in the words and actions of leaders all through Asia, Africa, and Latin America. These deep desires are all, of course, the product of Western example and Western philosophy. The rationalism of Greece, the Christian idea of the dignity of man, the self-confidence of Europe after the Renaissance, the American demonstration that equality and independence can succeed, and the objective success of the scientific method in producing power and prosperity in industrial nations—these elements in our tradition have converted the world. After uncounted centuries of ignorance and apathy, the ancient societies of Asia and Africa want to participate in the good things that seem to result, from these alien ideas.

An Athenian Interlude

Prima Donna ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 89-118
Author(s):  
Paul Wink
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
York City ◽  
The Self ◽  
Significant Gain ◽  
World War ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
The World ◽  
National Opera ◽  
Major Turning Point

This chapter, “An Athenian Interlude,” analyzes a major turning point in Callas’s life associated with her move, at age thirteen, from New York City to Athens. In Athens, she experienced poverty, personal humiliation, and, during the World War II years, threats to her life. But her singing benefited from the strong mentorship she received from Elvira de Hidalgo, which helped launch her operatic career. Callas’s success as a singer with the Greek National Opera fueled resentment among her older and more established colleagues who envied her talent and resented being dethroned by a mere teenager who spoke Greek with an American accent. Poverty and conflicted relations at home with her mother and sister failed to compensate Callas for hostility at work. A significant gain in weight further undermined her self-confidence. Her experiences during the seven years spent in Athens exacerbated the split between Callas, the self-assured artist, and Maria, the vulnerable young woman.

War, with Interludes (1991–1995)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leta E. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Gulf War ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The World

This chapter examines Kernis's music in the years 1991–1995, a period marked by a proliferation of dark, brooding works responding to world conflicts. These works include the Second Symphony (1991), a reaction to the first Gulf War; Still Movement with Hymn (1993), provoked by the war in Bosnia; Colored Field (1994), inspired by his 1989 visit to Auschwitz and Birkenau; and Lament and Prayer (1995), a memorial to the Holocaust. Was it the self-confidence brought on by increasing fame that in some sense empowered Kernis to take on these greater-than-life themes or to imagine that in some way he could, by his art, effect a change in the world around him? Such a viewpoint in no way indicates a misplaced self-importance. Rather, it is essential to the very art of composition, to the communicative goal that most composers pursue: the reaching out, through personal self-expression, to move and commune with listeners, and ultimately inspire a transformation in them.

Improving the Chinese Medicine Culture Self-Confidence of Students in Chinese Medicine Universities

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 156
Author(s):  
Yu Wang ◽  
Xue Yu ◽  
Afei Tang ◽  
Jin Zhu ◽  
Ce Cao
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Chinese Medicine ◽  
The Self ◽  
Quality Development ◽  
New Era ◽  
Chinese Nation ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
The World ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
High Degree

As one of the most important creations of Chinese civilization, Chinese medicine culture is a treasure of our country and even the world, and it is also a precious treasure passed down from generation to generation of the Chinese nation. "Pharmaceutical business" reflects the importance of Chinese medicine culture in the new era. The self-confidence of Chinese medicine culture is the cornerstone of the revitalization of Chinese medicine culture. Facing the challenges and opportunities of the development of Chinese medicine culture in the future, college students of TCM schools can only advance the Chinese medicine industry to a higher level if they have a high degree of self-confidence in Chinese medicine culture. Higher quality development.

scholarly journals José Artigas

1947 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard F. Bobb
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Simon Bolivar ◽  
The World ◽  
Spanish Colonies ◽  
The Face ◽  
San Martín ◽  
The Revolution

Highlighting the Wars of Independence in Latin America are the personalities and exploits of the great patriot leaders who took up arms in the cause of freedom. Simón Bolívar and José de San Martín are known throughout the world, for they were outstanding liberators whose efforts were crowned with success. But there were other leaders in the Spanish colonies who are almost equally deserving of fame for their contributions to the revolution, and among such men was José Gervasio Artigas, leader of the rebels in the Banda Oriental. His biography is a story of adherence to ideals and tenacity of purpose in the face of dismaying opposition. Chroniclers of his life, however, are not in agreement as to his possible faults and virtues. As one observer has aptly said, “Perhaps never did the memory of a man meet with more honor in his own country and with less favor without it.”

scholarly journals José Artigas

1947 ◽  
Vol 4 (02) ◽  
pp. 195-222
Author(s):  
Bernard F. Bobb
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Simon Bolivar ◽  
The World ◽  
Spanish Colonies ◽  
The Face ◽  
San Martín ◽  
The Revolution

Highlighting the Wars of Independence in Latin America are the personalities and exploits of the great patriot leaders who took up arms in the cause of freedom. Simón Bolívar and José de San Martín are known throughout the world, for they were outstanding liberators whose efforts were crowned with success. But there were other leaders in the Spanish colonies who are almost equally deserving of fame for their contributions to the revolution, and among such men was José Gervasio Artigas, leader of the rebels in the Banda Oriental. His biography is a story of adherence to ideals and tenacity of purpose in the face of dismaying opposition. Chroniclers of his life, however, are not in agreement as to his possible faults and virtues. As one observer has aptly said, “Perhaps never did the memory of a man meet with more honor in his own country and with less favor without it.”

Combating an Alien Tyranny: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Evolution as a Feminist Poet

1987 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 23-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Byrd
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Emily Dickinson ◽  
The Self ◽  
Simone De Beauvoir ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
The World ◽  
Aurora Leigh ◽  
Sense Of Power

The drama of woman lies in this conflict between the fundamental aspirations of every subject (ego) – who always regards the self as the essential – and the compulsions of a situation in which she is the inessential. (Simone de Beauvoir xxxiv)The name [of poet]Is royal, and to sign it like a queenIs what I dare not, – though some royal bloodWould seem to tingle in me now and then,With sense of power and ache.Aurora Leigh I. (934–38)'Tis Antidote to turn –To Tomes of solid Witchraft –(Emily Dickinson, #593)“Speed and energy, forthrightness and complete self-confidence – these are the qualities that hold us enthralled” as we read Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh, wrote Virginia Woolf in 1932 (1.212). As Woolf points out, these qualities emanate not so much from Aurora as from her creator, whose strong and lively presence so pervades the poem that “Again and again … Aurora the fictitious seems to be throwing light upon Elizabeth the actual. … [making it] impossible for the most austere of critics not sometimes to touch the flesh when his [sic] eyes should be fixed upon the page” (212). And as Woolf observes, the “flesh” the critic touches is that of a woman who knows that the royal blood of poets flows through her veins. “Elizabeth the actual” is a subject, speaking boldly of the world as she perceives and experiences it.

Is the Conceptual Eurocentrism So Much Frightening?

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (6) ◽  
pp. 70-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nataliya A. Kanaeva
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Method ◽  
Round Table ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Western Philosophy ◽  
Philosophical Discourse ◽  
Conceptual Space ◽  
Main Thesis ◽  
The World ◽  
Positive Knowledge ◽  
Philosophical Community

The article is a response to the criticism of “conceptual Eurocentrism” expressed in the paper by A.A. Krushinsky at the Round Table on the Geography of Rationality on April 25, 2019. It deals with the main thesis of A.A. Krushinsky that in cross-cultural philosophical studies the Western conceptual matrix currently defines a single conceptual space for all participants, the language of Western philosophy acts as a trans-civilizational language in the world philosophy. The author of the article agrees with the main thesis, however she does not agree with its arguments and two consequences: (a) it is necessary to consider Western rationality as “rationality as such,” and (b) there is no multi-polarity in the current philosophy though there are a lot of traditions of philosophical discourse, which identify and articulate themselves by means of Western conceptuality (that is why we may speak on so-called “philosophical geography” only). The arguments do not stand comparison with the search of future philosophy, conducted now by the world philosophical community. The search is aiming to equality of all philosophical traditions. The article proves that conceptual Eurocentrism is not so much a danger as an objective necessity. Its spread is a manifestation of tendency to creative mutual borrowing of cultural inventions. The tendency always had place, but it was not so obvious in the conditions of preglobal history. The consequences of Krushinskiy’s thesis are refuted by the evidence that the Western philosophers denied to use the concept universal rationality and began studies of the various types of rationality. The author also provides an example of the creative borrowing and use of European concepts “rationality,” “positive knowledge,” “truth,” “scientific method,” “hypothesis” by the Indian philosopher of science B. Seal, who applied these concepts to the Indian material.

Russell and McTaggart

Philosophy ◽  
1936 ◽  
Vol 11 (43) ◽  
pp. 322-335
Author(s):  
Margaret Macdonald
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Method ◽  
The Self ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Ethical Problems ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Deductive Systems ◽  
Special Sciences ◽  
The World ◽  
Deductive Method ◽  
Good And Evil

In his Introduction to McTaggart's Philosophical Studies, Dr. S. V. Keeling complains that in the interests of a prejudice in favour of science and scientific methods, Russell and his followers have denied the possibility of solving metaphysical problems without giving any philosophical reason for this proscription. And by “metaphysical problems,” Dr. Keeling seems to mean (as against Russell and in agreement with McTaggart) ethical problems about the amount of good and evil in the world, the nature of human beings and their destiny, the hopes of men about immortality, and hence the “ultimate analysis of Time,” etc. Science is not concerned with such problems, and moreover it is the business of philosophy to “justify” induction and cannot itself employ a scientific method. Dr. Keeling therefore urges a return to the rationalism of McTaggart and the attempt to solve such problems by the deductive method. I want to say why this seems to me impossible and why such problems are insoluble unless they can be interpreted empirically and left to the investigation of the special sciences. I shall refer first to the most important feature of present empirical philosophy, then discuss metaphysical and other deductive systems, and finally dispute McTaggart's claim that the Self must be known by acquaintance and not by description, which Dr. Keeling regards, mistakenly, as it seems to me, the final refutation of this part of “positivistic phenomenalism.“ By this procedure I do not intend to justify or defend analytic philosophy but merely to re-compare its method with that of McTaggart.

scholarly journals Transcending Science: Can Artists Help Scientists Save the World?

Eos ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mika Tosca
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Scientific Method ◽  
Address Climate Change ◽  
Artistic Process ◽  
The World ◽  
The Revolution

The artistic process begins with human engagement. Perhaps the revolution we need to address climate change begins by making it an integral part of the scientific method.

Becoming Politicized

2017 ◽  
Vol 225 (4) ◽  
pp. 324-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitrios Barkas ◽  
Xenia Chryssochoou
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Political Socialization ◽  
Greek Society ◽  
Economic Vulnerability ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Identity Model ◽  
Beliefs About The Future ◽  
Of Greece ◽  
The Way

Abstract. This research took place just after the end of the protests following the killing of a 16-year-old boy by a policeman in Greece in December 2008. Participants (N = 224) were 16-year-olds in different schools in Attiki. Informed by the Politicized Collective Identity Model ( Simon & Klandermans, 2001 ), a questionnaire measuring grievances, adversarial attributions, emotions, vulnerability, identifications with students and activists, and questions about justice and Greek society in the future, as well as about youngsters’ participation in different actions, was completed. Four profiles of the participants emerged from a cluster analysis using representations of the conflict, emotions, and identifications with activists and students. These profiles differed on beliefs about the future of Greece, participants’ economic vulnerability, and forms of participation. Importantly, the clusters corresponded to students from schools of different socioeconomic areas. The results indicate that the way young people interpret the events and the context, their levels of identification, and the way they represent society are important factors of their political socialization that impacts on their forms of participation. Political socialization seems to be related to youngsters’ position in society which probably constitutes an important anchoring point of their interpretation of the world.

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