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Horizons ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-159
Author(s):  
Norbert J. Rigali
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
The Individual

scholarly journals Two Ideas of Human Nature: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and Thomas à Kempis

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Edward MacGrath
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Garden Of Eden ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Imitation Of Christ ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Mind

One of the questions that many people contemplate in their lifetime is the idea of human nature. In this essay I will seek to examine and compare the idea of human nature in the minds of Christian humanists during the Renaissance to that of late Medieval Christian mystics. The Oration on the Dignity of Man, written by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (Pico) provides an insight into the mind of a Renaissance humanist, while The Imitation of Christ, written by Thomas à Kempis illustrates the thought process that was characteristic of a late Medieval Christian mystic. Pico believed that humans are a great miracle and it is within their nature and capabilities to become something great in the world, something just below the level of God.[1] à Kempis held the belief that human nature, like the idea found in Genesis, was corrupted by the fall of man in the Garden of Eden. It can be found in his writings that he believed that human nature is something that is detrimental to the individual and should be controlled by calling on the grace of God.[2] The different points of view found in the writing of Pico and à Kempis can be traced to the sources of their inspiration. In writing The Imitation of Christ, à Kempis drew his inspiration only from the Bible. Pico, like many other Renaissance humanists, looked for truth about human nature not only in the Bible but also by studying other classical works such as the ancient Greeks and Arabs. [1] Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Oration on the Dignity of Man (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012). [2] Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ (Chicago: Moody Press, 1958).

On the Decolonial Beginnings of Edward Said

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Maurice Jr M. Labelle
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Racial Difference ◽  
Frantz Fanon ◽  
Edward Said ◽  
Imperial Culture ◽  
National Movement ◽  
Palestinian National Movement ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Ways Of Being

This essay historicizes the formation of Edward Said's critique of imperial culture before the publication of Orientalism (1978) and examines how it framed the decolonial approach that made him world-renowned. Deeply influenced by the writings of Martinique-born psychiatrist and Algerian revolutionary Frantz Fanon, an Arab tradition of anti-orientalism, existentialist thought, and the Palestinian national movement, the New York-based intellectual reconceptualized the idea of decolonization in the late 1960s in a way that shifted contemporary thinking on social relationships between racial difference and empire from the individual and interpersonal to the collective and intercultural. Through his deep historical, epistemological, and phenomenological digs into orientalism's imperial culture and its myriad ways of being, Said made it his antiracist mandate to liberate consciousnesses from Eurocentrism and empower the universalization of decolonization.

scholarly journals Turning back to experience in Cognitive Linguistics via phenomenology

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 559-572 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordan Zlatev
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Third Person ◽  
The Individual

AbstractCognitive Linguistics began as an apotheosis of lived experience, but has over the years diversified into many different stands, interpreting the notion of “experience” and along with it the notion of “cognition” in conflicting ways: individual or social, prelinguistic or linguistic, unconscious or conscious? These issues are not only philosophical as they hold crucial implications for methodology. Here, I propose that most of them can be resolved with the help of phenomenology, “the study of human experience and of the ways things present themselves to us in and through such experience” (Sokolowski 2000. Introduction to phenomenology. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2). Cogent syntheses are proposed to the individual/social and prelinguistic/linguistic debates, showing that scholars like Langacker, Talmy and Itkonen have focused on complementary aspects of implicitly phenomenological investigations. Third-person, “objective” methods are necessary for extending the scope of such investigations, but epistemologically secondary. Thus, the focus of Cognitive Linguistics can be brought back to experience, albeit in a more mature manner than 30 years ago.

Book Reviews

2018 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 801-833
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
International Law ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Regional Cooperation ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
International Criminal Tribunals ◽  
Investment Treaty ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Oxford University Press

Onuma Yasuaki: International Law in a Transcivilizational World. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2017 Andrzej Jakubowski/Karolina Wierczyńska (eds.): Fragmentation vs the Constitutionalisation of International Law: A Practical Inquiry. Routledge, London and New York 2016 Rosalyn Higgins/Philippa Webb/Dapo Akande/Sandesh Sivakumaran/James Sloan: Oppenheim’s International Law: United Nations. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2017 Nobuo Hayashi/Cecilia M. Bailliet (eds.): The Legitimacy of International Criminal Tribunals. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2017 Christine Chinkin/Mary Kaldor: International Law and New Wars. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2017 Marina Lostal: International Cultural Heritage Law in Armed Conflict: Case-Studies of Syria, Libya, Mali, the Invasion of Iraq, and the Buddhas of Bamiyan. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2017 Brian D. Lepard (ed.): Reexamining Customary International Law. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2017 Anne Peters: Beyond Human Rights. The Legal Status of the Individual in International Law. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2016 C. J. Jenner/Tran Truong Thuy (eds.): The South China Sea: A Crucible of Regional Cooperation or Conflict-making Sovereignty Claims? Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2016 Daniel Bodansky/Jutta Brunnée/Lavanya Rajamani: International Climate Change Law. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2017 Andreas Kulick (ed.): Reassertion of Control over the Investment Treaty Regime. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2017

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