5. Free and sociable solitude

2020 ◽  
pp. 53-62
Author(s):  
William M. Hamlin
Keyword(s):  
Political Life ◽  
Self Reliance ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
Early Essay

How does Montaigne’s early essay “On Solitude” fit with his sociable nature and public profile? “Free and sociable solitude” describes the qualities of Montaigne’s ideal solitude. He argued that some withdrawal is a service that not only restores us to ourselves but improves us for our return to our colleagues and loved ones. Returning to the theme of an essential or ruling pattern, Montaigne proposed that being fully ourselves was a duty and that improving our self-knowledge and self-reliance could be an effective defense against loss or even death, as well as a welcome relief from the bureaucracy of political life and the war raging outside.

Max Scheler and Adam Smith on Sympathy

2017 ◽  
Vol 79 (3) ◽  
pp. 365-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriana Alfaro Altamirano
Keyword(s):  
Adam Smith ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Moral Value ◽  
Max Scheler ◽  
Urgent Task ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Principle ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
Human Association

AbstractRecent efforts to theorize the role of emotions in political life have stressed the importance of sympathy, and have often recurred to Adam Smith to articulate their claims. In the early twentieth-century, Max Scheler disputed the salutary character of sympathy, dismissing it as an ultimately perverse foundation for human association. Unlike later critics of sympathy as a political principle, Scheler rejected it for being ill equipped to salvage what, in his opinion, should be the proper basis of morality, namely, moral value. Even if Scheler's objections against Smith's project prove to be ultimately mistaken, he had important reasons to call into question its moral purchase in his own time. Where the most dangerous idol is not self-love but illusory self-knowledge, the virtue of self-command will not suffice. Where identification with others threatens the social bond more deeply than faction, “standing alone” in moral matters proves a more urgent task.

scholarly journals Praca osób z głębszą niepełnosprawnością intelektualną jako źródło emancypacji w kontekście samorealizacji

2018 ◽  
pp. 251-268
Author(s):  
Irena Ramik-Mażewska
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Close Correlation ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Autonomous Action ◽  
Self Reliance ◽  
Personal Nature ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
People With Intellectual Disabilities

The problem of normalization, autonomy and self-determination of people with intellectual disabilities in special education has already taken its place. The consequence of this continuing discourse is the personal nature of disability, international, timeless declarations and modifications of already established rights. Recently, the emancipatory trend is gaining in importance in this discourse. It remains in close correlation with the primary objective of educating people with intellectual disabilities which is comprehensive preparation for life. It is a form of conscious self-reliance, self-knowledge and capacity to take autonomous action. One of the areas of development of self-reliance is work. The resulting interpersonal and intrapersonal experiences can become the path to emancipation. Sometimes, one that goes beyond the standards of rehabilitation.

A Southern Charter for a Global Youth Studies to Benefit the World

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharlene Swartz
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Global South ◽  
The South ◽  
Youth Studies ◽  
The North ◽  
Self Reliance ◽  
The World ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
The Many

This essay reflects on the process of developing a handbook that foregrounds Southern perspectives on youth life-worlds, and does so by realigning theory, praxis, and justice. It applies the principles of self-reliance, solidarity, self-knowledge and a move from subordination to interdependence as described in the 1990 report of The South Commission, led by Julius Nyerere, to youth studies scholars from the Global South. Taking seriously the South Commission’s injunction that responsibility for change rests with those from the South who need to recreate their relationship with the North in order to make a global rather than parochial contribution, it describes the aims of the handbook and the many challenges experienced in producing it. Among these challenges are the difficulty Southern scholars have in producing theory, the precarity of their lives, the invisibility of much existing Southern scholarship, and the importance of communities of practice within the South and between the South and North. It concludes by offering a charter for remaking youth studies from one that universalizes Northern perspectives into a truly global youth studies, one that is enriched by, and welcomes the contribution of Global South scholars on their own terms.

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