On Imitation, Inspiration, and Authenticity

2020 ◽  
pp. 189-198
Author(s):  
Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei
Keyword(s):  
Group Identification ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
External Point ◽  
Human Capacity

This chapter considers the existentialist conception of authenticity and how it may be possible to achieve despite the natural human capacity for imitation and in light of inspiration for which one might look to others. It argues against taking any existentialist philosopher’s life as a model for authentic living, while also considering the inspiration Kierkegaard found in Socrates and Nietzsche found in Schopenhauer. Apart from the unremarkability, from an external point of view, of some existentialist philosopher’s lives, others may be ethically problematic, as exemplified by Heidegger and his entanglement in nationalist politics. This chapter suggests that the ethical failure on Heidegger’s part contradicts the existentialist conception of authenticity, which demands singularity and responsibility over and above group identification.

scholarly journals Cultural Materialism in Lorca’s Poetry

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 682-691
Author(s):  
Mahnaz Soqandi ◽  
Fatemeh Sadat Basirizadeh
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Studies ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Cultural Materialism ◽  
Social Mechanism ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
External Point ◽  
Language And Politics ◽  
Mechanism Function ◽  
Do So

The aim of the present research is to investigate Lorca’s poem from cultural materialist point of view. To do so, the researcher investigates how culture and social mechanism function in the context in which the poems have been written. Cultural materialism attempts to investigate different aspects of society, art, economy, language, and politics from an external point of view and analyze them to find out how identity and self are shaped accordingly. Cultural materialism is demonstrated in different categories including gender, ethnic studies, postmodernism, postcolonialism, and other fields. Cultural materialism highlights the relation between a work of art and the ideological system in which it has been created. In other words, cultural, social, religious and several other factors must be accounted for while interpreting a work of art. Consequently, how cultural dogma functions within fine arts in order to produce the internal textures is uncovered through cultural materialism. In Lorca’s poems, the contents have symbolic and metaphoric mechanisms which can be interpreted through material analysis.

scholarly journals Revisiting the South African Marketing Index

1995 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christo Boshoff ◽  
Alwyn P. Du Plessis
Keyword(s):  
Price Index ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
External Point ◽  
Consumer Perspective ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Marketing Activities ◽  
Business Function ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Impact

The high level of human involvement in marketing ensures that it is, and always will be, a dynamic business function. When the impact of accelerating technological developments is added, the dynamism often turns to volatility. The rapidly changing business environment necessitates regular consideration of the role of marketing in the business environment, both from an internal and external point of view. This study analyses marketing and marketing activities from a consumer perspective. It measures consumer attitudes towards the four P's and converts these scores to an overall 'attitude towards marketing' index. It also compares the results with a similar study conducted in 1990 (the 1990 study). The 1990 study reported a negative marketing index of -16.262. Older consumers in particular voiced their disapproval of marketing practices. Pricing was singled out as the most important bone of contention. The pricing and the pricing practices used by marketers were seen as often unfair and unreasonable. Advertising was also viewed rather sceptically. Retailing was the only marketing mix element to return a positive index. The results of this study show that the SA Marketing Index has declined from -16.262 in 1990 to -34.125 in 1993. The decline in the marketing index is primarily due to the considerable decline in the price index from -8.470 to -24.368, a slight decrease in the product index (from -2.719 to -9.939) and a marginal deterioration in the retailing index. The decline in the price index in particular was so severe that the improvement in the advertising index (from -6.434 to +0.606) had almost no influence on the marketing index. When the impact of demographic variables on attitudes were considered, Afrikaans-speaking consumers and those who are relatively well qualified academically, turned out to be particularly dissatisfied with marketing.

Becoming Québécois: Édouard and the Duchesse de Langeais between Old Worlds and New in the work of Michel Tremblay

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-208
Author(s):  
Rachel Killick
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Economic Inequality ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
French Canadians ◽  
Michel Tremblay ◽  
Old World ◽  
External Point ◽  
Returning Home ◽  
The Way

Our identity is formed in large part by the way we see others and the way others, in their turn, see us. This is true both of Québec and of Édouard, one of the principal characters of the fictionalised Montréal universe of Michel Tremblay. A representative of the pre-1970s socio-economic inequality of French-Canadians, Édouard is further marginalised by his homosexuality. In his transvestite persona as the Duchesse de Langeais, a revised version of a Balzacian heroine, he undertakes a mocking critique of the injustices of his society from the ‘external’ point of view of this supposed French aristocrat before seizing the opportunity of an actual visit to France, hoping to find there a freer and more equitable society. But the Old World turns out to be unwelcoming and antiquated, making Édouard more aware of the hitherto unperceived advantages of his life in Montréal. Returning home, his only option is to resume his role as a provocative duchess, preparing the ground for the advent in 1976 of a modern Québec, a francophone society of the New World, internationally recognised for its openness of mind and its cultural dynamism.

Construction of correspondences between the sky we see and the heliocentric model: problem-based learning in 7th grade of elementary school

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (S367) ◽  
pp. 444-445
Author(s):  
Fernando Ariel Karaseur ◽  
Alejandro Gangui
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Solar System ◽  
Model Problem ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
School Students ◽  
Moon Phases ◽  
The Earth ◽  
External Point ◽  
Local Point ◽  
Specific Material

AbstractWe present the results of the implementation of a didactic sequence based on the formulation and resolution of astronomical problems by seventh grade elementary school students from the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Its objective is to generate a meaningful understanding of the heliocentric model of the Solar System from the systematization of topocentric observations of the sky, either direct or mediated by resources such as diagrams, Stellarium software and tables, which we correlate with the parallel globe, other models with specific material and the Solar System Scope software. Throughout the sequence we address topics such as the diurnal and annual movement of the Sun, the night sky, astronomical ephemeris, Moon phases and eclipses. These are developed in parallel to the sphericity of the Earth and the concept of motion in science. For each of these topics we start from its recognition. We then implement strategies to guide students towards a possible description from the local point of view, and then extend it to other locations on the surface of the Earth. We encourage them to explain their ideas about the possible links between these topocentric observations and the corresponding relative positions of the celestial objects as seen from an external point of view to the Earth. These ideas are then contrasted with geocentric and heliocentric models. Here we highlight the integrative instances in which the students formulated problems in small groups and shared them for their resolution. Thus, motivated and challenged by the collaboration between peers, they became the protagonists of their learning.

Metaphors, Judicial Frames, and Fundamental Rights in Cyberspace

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Morelli ◽  
Oreste Pollicino
Keyword(s):  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Court Case ◽  
Supreme Courts ◽  
Degree Of Protection ◽  
Digital World ◽  
European Court ◽  
External Point

Abstract How do legal imagination, metaphors, and the “judicial frame” impact the degree of protection for free expression when the relevant (technological) playground is the world of bits? This Article analyzes the so-called judicial frame, focusing on legal disputes relating to freedom of expression on the Internet. The authors compare the European Court of Human Rights and the U.S. Supreme Court case law from a methodological perspective. The Article shows how the adoption by supreme courts of an internal or external point of view in relation to the Internet affects not only the use of different metaphors to describe the digital world, but also the balance struck between the fundamental rights at stake.

scholarly journals Epos und Periplous: Dichtung und Dokumentation in Camões’ Lusíadas

2016 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-270
Author(s):  
Helga Thalhofer
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
New Science ◽  
Book Printing ◽  
External Point ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media

AbstractIn Luís de Camões’s epic The Lusiads, diverse semantic levels of writing overlap. The intertwining of poetry and documentation results here in perspectives on writing that judge it in different ways, since a tension springs up in The Lusiads between poetry and the new fields of knowledge concerning experimental ‘New Science’ and nautical experience. With respect to the poetics of The Lusiads, this tension becomes evident when a line is drawn from the Renaissance to classical antiquity. A further level of writing can be seen in the field of the shipping of writings – primarily of the founding work of The Lusiads – which was, from a textually external point of view and from that of the history of the media – facilitated by book printing; conversely, the process of writing down ships, that is, their routes registered on maps and in the periplus, manifests itself in Camões’s epic in the form of a documentary mode of writing.

scholarly journals El lenguaje y los lugares construidos / The Language and the Built Places

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Javier Fuentes Farias
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Genetic Basis ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Language And Cognition ◽  
Human Capacity ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Self Organizing

ABSTRACTIf we don't explain the role of language in the construction of places to live, their study will be incomplete; therefore the built space poses the challenge of defining a method of analysis that takes into account the emergence of cognitive processes in human being, of which perception and categorization of objects in space seems to be the most difficult to explain. And here is where the focus on language, from the point of view of the studies of complexity, admits to interpret and explain the evolution of the human capacity of build. In this sense, it is necessary to review the problem of in witch sense it can be said that language is innate or learned, and if the mind is a blank paper at birth, or has a genetic basis and how would be like. We observed the acquisition of language and cognition, and the construction of places to live, as the product of a cultural-genetic legacy. It is necessary to offer a point of view about the relationship between culture-nature, taking built places as a superior order and self-organizing subsystem: the built spaceRESUMENMientras no se exponga el papel del lenguaje en la construcción de lugares para vivir, su estudio estará incompleto; por ello, el espacio construido plantea el reto de definir un método de análisis que tome en cuenta el surgimiento de procesos cognitivos en la especie humana, de los cuales la percepción y categorización de los objetos en el espacio parece ser el más difícil de explicar. Y es aquí donde el enfoque en el lenguaje, desde el punto de vista de los estudios de la complejidad, permite interpretar y explicar la evolución de la capacidad constructiva del ser humano. En tal sentido, es necesario revisar el problema de en qué medida puede afirmarse que el lenguaje es innato o aprendido, y si la mente es un papel en blanco al nacer, o tiene una base genética y cómo sería ello. Se examina la adquisición del lenguaje y la cognición, y la construcción de lugares para vivir, como producto de una herencia genético-cultual. Se ofrece un punto de vista necesario acerca de la relación cultura-naturaleza, considerando los lugares construidos como subsistemas de un orden superior y auto-organizado: el espacio construido.

scholarly journals The Need for an Alternative Narrative to the History of Ideas or To Pay a Debt to Women: A Feminist Approach to Ricœur's Thought

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-20
Author(s):  
Fernanda Henriques
Keyword(s):  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
The Other ◽  
Men I ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
History Of ◽  
Human Capacity ◽  
The One

This paper explores the thought of Paul Ricœur from a feminist point of view. My goal is to show that it is necessary to narrate differently the history of our culture – in particular, the history of philosophy – in order for wommen to attain a self-representation that is equal to that of men. I seek to show that Ricoeur’s philosophy – especially his approach to the topics of memory and history, on the one hand, and the human capacity for initiative, on the other hand– can support the idea that it is possible and legitimate to tell our history otherwise by envisioning a more accurate truth about ourselves. 

scholarly journals Adoption of Integrated Reporting: Reasons and Benefits—A Case Study Analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filippo Vitolla ◽  
Nicola Raimo
Keyword(s):  
Positive Impact ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Integrated Reporting ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Corporate Reporting ◽  
External Point ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Reporting Tool ◽  
Limited Diffusion

Integrated reporting is the new corporate reporting tool that includes financial and non-financial information in a single document. Although some studies describe the potential benefits of integrated reporting, this practice is still not widespread. One of the reasons for the limited diffusion is linked to the absence of empirical evidence that demonstrates the actual concreteness of these benefits for organizations that decide to adopt integrated reporting. This study analyses the process of adopting integrated reporting and the benefits associated with it through a case study. In particular, the case of Generali Group is analysed in the aim of highlighting the adoption path and the effects deriving from the implementation of integrated reporting in a context like the Italian one, still not very attentive to these issues. The findings show how the implementation of integrated reporting has been the result of a clear desire of top management and that the adoption of this practice has had a decidedly positive impact both from an internal and external point of view.

Risk Assessment and Real Time Vulnerability Identification in IT Environments

2013 ◽  
pp. 229-253
Author(s):  
Laerte Peotta de Melo ◽  
Paulo Roberto de Lira Gondim
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Security Policy ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Location Information ◽  
Software Update ◽  
Physical Location ◽  
Central Repository ◽  
External Point ◽  
Digital Asset

Contrary to static models of risk analysis, the authors propose a pro-active framework for identifying vulnerabilities and assessing risk in real-time. Instead of searching for vulnerabilities from an external point of view, where the information is obtained by simply exploring a digital asset (computational system composed of hardware and software), the authors propose that software agents (sensors) capable of providing application, configuration and location information be incorporated into assets. Any observed changes, such as physical location, software update or installation, hardware modifications, changes in security policy and others, will be immediately reported by the agent, in a pro-active manner, to a central repository. It is possible to assess risk in a certain environment comparing databases of rules and known vulnerabilities with information about each asset, collected by the sensors and stored in the central repository.

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