VALUE/S UNDERGROUND, COLLECTIVE ETHOS, AND THE CLASSIFICATORY LOGIC OF VENEZUELA’S CAVE SURVEY

2019 ◽  
Vol 110 (4) ◽  
pp. 575-594 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Alejandra Pérez ◽  
Francisco F. Herrera
Keyword(s):  
Collective Ethos

scholarly journals Ethos in Early Chinese Rhetoric: The Case of “Heaven”

Humanities ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Yong-Kang Wei
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Cultural Tradition ◽  
The West ◽  
Chinese Tradition ◽  
Rhetorical Tradition ◽  
Chinese Rhetoric ◽  
Human Desire ◽  
Collective Ethos ◽  
The Universe

Though applicable in many Western historical-cultural settings, the Aristotelian model of ethos is not universal. As early Chinese rhetoric shows in the example of cheng-yan or “ethos of sincereness,” inspiring trust does not necessarily involve a process of character-based self-projection. In the Aristotelian model, the rhetor stands as a signifier of ethos, with an ideology of individualism privileged, whereas Chinese rhetoric assumes a collectivist model in which ethos belongs, not to an individual or a text, but rather to culture and cultural tradition. This essay will be concentrating on the concept of Heaven, central to the cultural and institutional systems of early Chinese society, in an attempt to explore collective ethos as a function of cultural heritage. Heaven, it shall be argued, plays a key role in the creation of Chinese ethos. This essay will also contrast the logocentrism of Western rhetorical tradition with the ethnocentrism of Chinese tradition. The significance of Heaven in its role as a defining attribute of Chinese ethos is reflective of a unique cultural heritage shaped by a collective human desire in seeking a consciousness of unity with the universe. Just as there are historical, cultural, and philosophical reasons behind logocentrism in the West, so the ethnocentric turn of Chinese rhetoric should be appreciated in light of a cultural tradition that carries its own historical complexities and philosophical intricacies.

Reflexive Qualitative Research

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy Luttrell
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Social Differences ◽  
The Past ◽  
Reflexive Practice ◽  
Research Relationships ◽  
Collective Ethos

Reflexivity can be regarded as part of a continuous research practice. Qualitative researchers work within and across social differences (e.g., cultural, class, race, gender, generation) and this requires them to navigate different layers of self-awareness—from unconscious to semiconscious to fully conscious. Because researchers can be aware on one level but not on others, reflexivity is facilitated by using an eclectic and expansive toolkit for examining the role of the researcher, researcher-researched relationships, power, privilege, emotions, positionalities, and different ways of seeing. Over the past fifty years, there has been a progression of reflexive practice as well as disciplinary debates about how much self-awareness and transparency are enough and how much is too much. The shift can be traced from the early practitioners of ethnography who did not reflect on their positions, power or feelings (or at least make these reflections public), to those who acknowledged that their emotions could be both revealing and distorting, to those who interrogated their multiple positionalities (mostly in terms of the blinders of Western/race/class/gender/generation), to those calling for the mixing and blurring of different genres of representation as important tools of reflexivity. Reflexivity is not a solitary process limited to critical self-awareness, but derives from a collective ethos and humanizes rather than objectifies research relationships and the knowledge that is created.

scholarly journals La conciencia del médico y el respeto a la vida humana Juan Pablo II y el Juramento de Hipócrates

2007 ◽  
Vol 56 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gonzalo Herranz
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Hippocratic Oath ◽  
John Paul Ii ◽  
Collective Ethos ◽  
Main Message

Para analizar el pensamiento de Juan Pablo II sobre la conciencia del médico y el respeto ético a la vida humana, el autor ha elegido como punto de referencia las alusiones que el Papa hizo al Juramento de Hipócrates, en sus discursos, cartas y encíclicas; y las ha agrupado, de acuerdo con su contenido, en torno a las dos versiones clásicas del Juramento: la original pagana y la versión cristiana. Juan Pablo II concedió al Juramento un apoyo entusiasta y lo citó con frecuencia en su Magisterio. Veía en él una conjunción armónica de los principios de la ética natural con los ideales de la vocación médica, que había servido de referente ético a los médicos durante siglos. La fidelidad al Juramento consolidó en la conciencia colectiva y profesional de los médicos el respeto a la vida humana. Fue preocupación del Papa señalar que el Juramento no deriva de una ética de prohibiciones. Decir no a la destrucción de la vida humana impone el deber de decir sí a las rectas virtualidades que encierran la atención sanitaria y la investigación biomédica. Ese es un importante mensaje del Juramento para el médico de hoy, especialmente para el médico cristiano. El Juramento no induce en sus seguidores actitudes negativistas o timoratas. Obliga, por el contrario, ayudar al enfermo “según mi capacidad y mi juicio”, esto es, a actuar con todo el empeño de la responsabilidad profesional. Juan Pablo II insistía en de la necesidad que los médicos tienen de una conciencia generosa y desinteresada. En cierto modo, el Juramento protege contra el riesgo de limitar el esfuerzo ético. ---------- To analyze John Paul II’s teachings on doctor’s conscience and ethical respect for human life, the Author has excerpted and commented on the texts alluding to the Hippocratic Oath present in the Pope’s discourses, letters and encyclicals. The chosen texts have been grouped, according to their contents, around the two classic versions of the Oath: the pagan original and the Christian version. John Paul II awarded the Oath an enthusiastic support, and frequently quoted it in his speeches and writings. He perceived in the Oath a harmonic amalgamation of the principles of sound natural ethics with the human ideals of the medical calling. Along many centuries the Oath served to physicians as a ethical compass, and helped to consolidate in the collective ethos of the profession a deep conscience of respecting human life. The Pope insisted in the notion that the Oath is not the expression of a forbidding or negativist ethos. On the contrary, the Oath’s prohibitions lead, as do the negative moral precepts of the Decalogue, to an affirmative promotion of life. In medicine, to oppose an absolute “no” to kill engenders the duty to tell “yes” to the immense possibilities of health care and research. This is the main message the Oath sends today to doctors. The injunction of helping the sick according doctor’s ability and judgment must awake in doctors an enhancing of personal and collective responsibilities and a search of new ways to serve life. In some way, the Oath protects doctors against the risk of unduly limiting their ethical efforts.

11. The regulatory framework for bank culture and conduct

2019 ◽  
pp. 505-540
Author(s):  
Iris H-Y Chiu ◽  
Joanna Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Code Of Conduct ◽  
Financial Sector ◽  
Regulatory Framework ◽  
Soft Law ◽  
Individual Decision ◽  
Senior Managers ◽  
Individual Decision Making ◽  
Collective Ethos

This chapter focuses on the regulatory framework for bank culture and conduct. Bank culture profoundly affects the outcomes that regulators are concerned with: the prudential safety of banks and banksʼ conduct in the marketplace. Such culture is forged by individual decision-making and behaviour at banks, as well as the collective ethos and environment at the organisation. The regulation of individuals comprises of two regimes, a more stringent one for ‘senior managers’ as compared to ‘certified persons’. Senior managers and certified persons are approved according to fitness and propriety criteria, and their approval can be revoked for failing to meet these criteria on a continuing basis. They are also subject to an individual code of conduct and can be personally liable, subject to fines and/or full or partial prohibition from working in the financial sector. The chapter then looks at the development of soft law in banking culture and ethics.

scholarly journals Collective ethos. Phenomenology, early avant-garde and new anthropology

2017 ◽  
pp. 459-469
Author(s):  
Dragan Prole
Keyword(s):  
The Real ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The Past ◽  
Collective Ethos

In the first part of the article, the author discusses the basic outlines of romantic and avant-garde anthropology. The crucial concept is related to the motives that drove the romantics in their journey toward individuation, whereas the members of avant-garde movement brought new visions of community into being. Unlike the romantics, early avant-garde movements advocated for ideals of general, globalized man mediated by technology and media. In the second part of the paper, the author analyses Husserl?s concept of all-community (Allgemeinschaft) bearing in mind the attempts of his phenomenology to extend our idea of community as much as it is possible by means of including everything that discloses the very foundations of our lifeworld into the concept of community. By doing so, Husserl encompassed not only the real and the past, but the possible intersubjectivity as well.

Skilling the nation, empowering the citizen

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl Jon Way Ng
Keyword(s):  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
The State ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Design Parameters ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Video Clips ◽  
Political Speeches ◽  
Collective Ethos ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Ideal

Abstract This paper focuses on what is referred to as the SkillsFuture initiative as the most current crystallization of the Singapore government’s lifelong learning policy, and the state-sponsored discourse associated with it. Adopting a critical discourse-analytic approach, the study examines a data set that cuts across various genres and media (i.e. political speeches, Internet website, video clips), covering both linguistic and (moving) visual instantiations, involving semiotic features like pronouns, modality, image design parameters, and importantly, metaphor. The paper seeks to provide insight into the ideological foundations of Singapore’s education-labour policies as an indication of the ideal(ized) Singaporean citizen-subject promulgated by the state, and how these are semiotically instantiated in state-sponsored discourse. In so doing, the analysis also considers the contextual specificity of the neoliberal-oriented values purveyed, as the individualizing tropes of neoliberalism discursively interact with what might be considered a post-Confucian Singaporean communitarian/collective ethos.

scholarly journals Satire, humour and parody in 21st Century Nigerian women’s poetry

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 133
Author(s):  
Bartholomew Chizoba Akpah
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Women Poets ◽  
Women's Poetry ◽  
Nigerian Women ◽  
Long Poems ◽  
Collective Ethos ◽  
Literary Devices

21st century Nigerian women poets have continued to utilise the aesthetics of literary devices as linguistic and literary strategies to project feminist privations and values in their creative oeuvres. There has been marginal interest towards 21st century Nigerian women’s poetry and their deployment of artistic devices such as satire, humour and parody. Unequivocally, such linguistic and literary devices in imaginative works are deployed as centripetal force to criticise amidst laughter, the ills of female devaluation in the society. The major thrust of the study, therefore, is to examine how satire, humour and parody are deployed in selected Nigerian women’s poetry to reproach and etch the collective ethos of women’s experience in contemporary Nigerian society. The study utilises qualitative analytical approach in the close reading and textual analysis of the selected texts focusing mainly on the aesthetics of humour, satire and parody in challenging male chauvinism in contemporary Nigerian women’s poetry. Three long poems: “Nuptial Counsel”, “Sadiku’s Song” and “The Sweet, Sweet Mistress’ Tale” by Mabel Evweirhoma and Maria Ajima respectively were purposively selected. The choice of the selected poems hinges on the artistic vigour, especially the evoking of laughter, mockery and condemnation of hegemonic strictures through the use of satire, humour and parody. The paper employs Molara Ogundipe’s Stiwanism, an aspect of Feminist theory in the analysis of the selected poems. The poets have shown the interventions of humour, satire and parody as linguistic devices in condemning and highlighting peculiarities of women peonage in Nigeria.

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