Democratic Ideals in a Non-Ideal World

2020 ◽  
pp. 175-194
Author(s):  
Mary F. Scudder
Keyword(s):  
Political Behavior ◽  
Real World ◽  
Critical Value ◽  
Ideal Theory ◽  
The Real ◽  
Ideal World ◽  
Democratic Ideals ◽  
The Ideal

The book concludes with a discussion of the real-world implications of pursuing a politics of listening. Does the expectation to fairly consider the inputs of others apply equally to members of a minority or marginalized group as it does to the relatively powerful and privileged members of society? Chapter 7 explains how to pursue the ideal of uptake and a politics of listening while remaining sensitive to the non-ideal conditions of the present. The chapter draws on political behavior research to show that people are capable of meeting the demands of citizenship laid out in this book. Nonetheless, this chapter also defends the practical value of the ideal of uptake, even when our efforts to attain it fall short. Discussing what to do when listening and uptake are consistently denied or beyond our reach, the chapter concludes by considering the critical value of ideal theory in a non-ideal world.

scholarly journals Biblical Inspirations in Nikifor’s Paintings

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 31-46
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Wałczyk
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
The Self ◽  
Creative Activity ◽  
The Real ◽  
Ideal World ◽  
The World ◽  
Biblical Anthropology ◽  
Divine Order ◽  
The Ideal

Nikifor Krynicki (Epifaniusz Drowniak, 1895-1968) was one of the most popular non-academic Polish painters worldwide. To show the biblical inspiration in his creative output I chose two categories from various thematic aspects: self-portraits and landscapes with a church. There are plenty of Nikifor’s paintings showing him as a teacher, as a celebrating priest, as a bishop, or even as Christ. A pop­ular way to explain this idea of self-portraits is a psychological one: as a form of auto-therapy. This analysis is aims to show a deeper expla­nation for the biblical anthropology. Nikifor’s self-portraits as a priest celebrating the liturgy are a symbol of creative activity understood as a divine re-creation of the world. Such activity needs divine inspira­tion. Here are two paintings to recall: Potrójny autoportret (The triple self-portrait) and Autoportret w trzech postaciach (Self-portrait in three persons). The proper way to understand the self-identification with Christ needs a reference to biblical anthropology. To achieve our re­al-self we need to identify with Christ, whose death and resurrection bring about our whole humanity. The key impression we may have by showing Nikifor’s landscapes with a church is harmony. The painter used plenty of warm colors. Many of the critics are of the opinion that Nikifor created an imaginary, ideal world in his landscapes, the world he wanted to be there and not the real world. The thesis of this article is that Nikifor created not only the ideal world, but he also showed the source of the harmony – the divine order.

scholarly journals Del Toboso al Barrio de las Letras: recreaciones de Dulcinea en María Velasco y Carolina África

2020 ◽  
pp. 17-42
Author(s):  
Isabel Castells Molina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
The Real ◽  
Ideal World ◽  
Modern Novel ◽  
The Ideal

This paper aims to explore how two contemporary playwrights, Carolina África and María Velasco, address Dulcinea’s character in a collective project called A siete pasos del Quijote. For this purpose, we will analyze their respective contributions, paying special attention to the modern way in which Africa and Velasco deal with one of the most important subjects in the Cervantes’s novel: the real world and the ideal world opposition through the duality between Aldonza and Dulcinea. From an interdisciplinary approach, which includes other artistic languages such as cinema and music, we also intend to establish a creative dialogue between the two playwrights and the inventor of the modern novel as well as other authors. At the same time, we will try to show some connections between the pieces studied in this paper and the rest of both playwrights’ works

A PHILOSOPHER OF SCIENCE LOOKS AT IDEALIZATION IN POLITICAL THEORY

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 11-31
Author(s):  
Jenann Ismael
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Real World ◽  
Ideal Theory ◽  
Nonideal Theory ◽  
The Real ◽  
Theory Of Justice ◽  
Ideal Part ◽  
Real World Problems ◽  
The Ideal

Abstract:Rawls ignited a debate in political theory when he introduced a division between the ideal and nonideal parts of a theory of justice. In the ideal part of the theory, one presents a positive conception of justice in a setting that assumes perfect compliance with the rules of justice. In the nonideal part, one addresses the question of what happens under departures from compliance. Critics of Rawls have attacked his focus on ideal theory as a form of utopianism, and have argued that political theory should be focused instead on providing solutions to the manifest injustices of the real world. In this essay, I offer a defense of the ideal/nonideal theory distinction according to which it amounts to nothing more than a division of labor, and explore some scientific analogies. Rawls’s own focus on the ideal part of the theory, I argue, stems from a felt need to clarify the foundations of justice, rather than a utopian neglect of real world problems.

Political behavior inside and outside the lab: Bringing political research to the real world.

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucian Gideon Conway ◽  
Ryan L. Boyd ◽  
Tara C. Dennehy ◽  
Devin J. Mills ◽  
Meredith A. Repke
Keyword(s):  
Political Behavior ◽  
Real World ◽  
The Real ◽  
Political Research

Between Real and Ideal: Documenting Media Art

Leonardo ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 418-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caitlin Jones ◽  
Lizzie Muller
Keyword(s):  
Data Structure ◽  
Real World ◽  
Media Art ◽  
New Approach ◽  
The Real ◽  
Key Features ◽  
The Ideal

This paper describes a new approach to documenting media art which seeks to place in dialogue the artist's intentions and the audience's experience. It explicitly highlights the productive tension between the ideal, conceptual existence of the work, and its actual manifestation through different iterations and exhibitions in the real world. The paper describes how the approach was developed collaboratively during the production of a documentary collection for the artwork Giver of Names, by David Rokeby. It outlines the key features of the approach including artist's interview, audience interviews and data structure.

scholarly journals The Ethics of Regulation

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
David Antoni ◽  
Freddy Leal
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Regulatory Environment ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
The Real ◽  
Ideal World ◽  
Effi Ciency ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Regulatory Intervention

Regulations are often imposed in order to correct any failures in the market, whether the failure is a result of the functioning of a market or the behaviour of a government. However, every regulatory intervention br ings up a question: How ethical is the regulation? Even if a regulatory intervention could achieve more effici ency or more equity, it may not mean that it is ethi cal. The concept of ethics is ne cessarily subjective, it is based on the morals and standards of a society. Yet even though a society may be concerned about ethics, the issues of equity and altrui sm matter as does the way in which firms produce and seek to rationally an d efficiently maximize profit. Defining ethics is a difficul t issue, and defining ethical regu lation is even more difficult. Any form of regulation is a tool for interv ention used to balanc e the trade-off between efficiency and equity to create harmony between a market or economy and the society it functions within. In an ideal world, any go vernment intervention implemented would be for the greater benefit of all. However, this does not always happen in the vicissitudes of the real world when governments regulate an d intervene in markets, which are, in turn, based on the principle of rational self-interest and efficiency. In this paper we discuss the role of society in market regu lation. The discussion will focus on the importance of society on ethics and therefore on what constitutes ethical regulations. In fact we argue that equity, effi ciency or even failures are not the main factors to consider when regulating. It is society that defines ethics and how society understands ethics influences the regulatory environment

The Modern Tradition

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Anne-Marie Curley
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Church And State ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Pure Land ◽  
Complementary Relationship ◽  
The Real ◽  
Pastoral Letter ◽  
Private Matter ◽  
Modern Nation State ◽  
The Ideal

Abbot Kōnyo’s pastoral letter of 1871 codifies an understanding of the Pure Land as a transcendent realm, attainable only after death, and of faith as a private matter of the heart. This understanding is valuable as a way of negotiating a place for Shinshū in the regime of the modern nation-state. Early Meiji thinkers like Shimaji Mokurai rely on this understanding of religion as internal in arguing for the separation of church and state. Shinshū reformer Kiyozawa Manshi pushes this focus on interiority to its limit, destabilizing the complementary relationship between the Buddhist law and the imperial law that his predecessors sought to secure. During the Taishō, Kiyozawa’s disciple Kaneko Daiei attempts to rearticulate the connection between the ideal Pure Land and the real world, while the Honganji-ha thinker Nonomura Naotarō argues that it is time for the Pure Land tradition to set aside the myth of the Western Paradise.

scholarly journals Hermeneutika sebagai Metode Tafsir: Mengurai Konstruksi Pengetahuan Generasi Z Kota Malang

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-66
Author(s):  
M. Miski ◽  
Lulu Fauziah Priyandini ◽  
M. Rozik Sudawam ◽  
Megawati Ayu Rahmawati Wardah ◽  
Alvian Chandra Alim
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Field Study ◽  
Real World ◽  
The Real ◽  
Generation Z ◽  
Analysis Models ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
Muslim Scholars

This study is intended to answer three main questions. First, how does the Z generation in Malang City responds to the use of hermeneutics as a method of interpreting the Qur'an by Muslim scholars? Second, how is the process of transmitting their knowledge about it? And third, how is the construction of their knowledge about the ideal interpretation of the Qur'an and can respond to socio-religious dynamics and phenomena? This study is a field study, while the primary respondents are Z generation in Malang City. The use of descriptive, hermeneutic, and intertext analysis models on data, the results of this study showed that there are differences conveyed by the Z generation of Malang City related to the use of hermeneutics as a method of interpretation of the Qur'an: some of them accept it, while others reject it. The transmission of their knowledge about hermeneutics also varies; most of them are correlated with social media, some are still conventional, which relies on information from teachers, and so on. This showed that generation Z of Malang city is not entirely averse to issues that tend to be controversial. Moreover, the authority for interpreting the Qur'an has not entirely shifted from the real world to cyberspace, no matter how dependent they are on the new media.

Irreversibility

2019 ◽  
pp. 271-282
Author(s):  
Robert H. Swendsen
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Ideal Gas ◽  
Position Distribution ◽  
The Real ◽  
History Of ◽  
H Theorem ◽  
Liouville’S Theorem ◽  
The Ideal

The phenomenon of irreversibility is explained on the basis of an analysis by H. L. Frisch. The history of the debate over irreversibility is briefly discussed, including Boltzmann’s H-theorem, Zermelo's Wiederkehreinwand, Poincaré recurrences, Loschmidt's Umkehreinwand and Liouville’s theorem. The derivation of irreversible behavior for the ideal gas position distribution is carried out explicitly. Using this derivation, the Wiederkehreinwand and the Umkehreinwand are revisited and explained. The first thing we must establish is the meaning of the term ‘irreversibility’. This is not quite as trivial as it might seem. The irreversible behavior I will try to explain is that which is observed. Every day we see that time runs in only one direction in the real world,.

The Limits of Human Rights in a Moving World—Elements of a Dynamic Approach

2019 ◽  
pp. 331-344
Author(s):  
Mireille Delmas-Marty
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Real World ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Dynamic Approach ◽  
The Real ◽  
Reason Of State ◽  
Variable Content ◽  
Transformative Process ◽  
Static Concept ◽  
The Ideal

This contribution discusses the limits to the ideal of human rights in the context of a triple dynamic: the reason of State and its limits; the ecological reason and its call to protect the planet and the ecosystem; and the techno-scientific reason as a supreme reason which ultimately could lead to the refusal of any limit. It suggests that if we consider human rights as a dynamic and transformative process and not as a static concept, these rights remain the counterpoint to the derailments of globalization. They seem more than ever necessary for the emergence of a truly common law. If the interplays of limits are well defined, human rights would make this truly common law more flexible by giving it a variable content within limits which allows it to adapt better to the diversity of the real world.

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