Madhyamaka

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Westerhoff
Keyword(s):  
Prima Facie ◽  
Buddhist Philosophy ◽  
The Third ◽  
General Overview ◽  
Philosophical Project

The chapter begins by presenting a general overview of the rise of the Mahāyāna and its relation to the main schools of Buddhist philosophy associated with it, Madhyamaka and Yogācāra. This is followed by an introduction to the Madhyamaka school proper, focusing on the life and works of its founder, Nāgārjuna. The third section of the chapter examines the foundational sūtras of the Madhyamaka school, the Prajñāpāramitā or Perfection of Wisdom texts, focusing on their criticism of the Abhidharma philosophical project, their comprehensive illusionism, and their prima facie acceptance of contradictions. This is followed by an account of how these themes play a key role in the Madhyamaka system as set out by Nāgārjuna. The chapter then turns to examining the philosophical contributions of major Madhyamaka thinkers such as Buddhapālita, Bhāviveka, Candrakīrti, Śāntarakṣita, and Kamalaśīla. The chapter concludes by a discussion of the relation between Madhyamaka and Nyāya.

La questione degli schiavi còrsi al concilio di Pisa (1135)

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-280
Author(s):  
Filippo Forlani
Keyword(s):  
Economic System ◽  
The Third ◽  
General Overview ◽  
The Subject

Abstract This paper analyzes canon 3 of the council of Pisa of 1135, with which the trade in persons is prohibited, pointing out that this prohibition must be considered valid also for the sale of inhabitants of Corsica, be they men or women. After having drawn up a general overview of the council, it will focus on the text of the third canon to understand the reasons that led the council fathers to deal with the subject of slavery, firmly defending the Corsican population, considered as a “minority” victim of a political and economic system. As we will try to show, the text of this canon is a unicum of its kind and is fully inserted within the panorama of the Church’s teaching on the subject of slavery, adding a new piece to the mosaic of what was already known about the work of the ecclesiastical institution on this subject.

The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics

2009 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
The Third ◽  
Extensive Survey ◽  
General Overview ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Arts ◽  
History Of ◽  
Theory Application ◽  
Music Film

The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics looks at a fascinating theme in philosophy and the arts. Leading figures in the field contribute forty-eight articles which detail the theory, application, history, and future of philosophy and all branches of the arts. The first article of the book gives a general overview of the field of philosophical aesthetics in two parts: the first is a quick sketch of the lay of the land, and the second an account of five central problems over the past fifty years. The second article gives an extensive survey of recent work in the history of modern aesthetics, or aesthetic thought from the seventeenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. There are three main parts to the book. The first part comprises sections dealing with problems in aesthetics, such as expression, fiction or aesthetic experience, considered apart from any particular artform. The second part contains articles on problems in aesthetics as they arise in connection with particular artforms, such as music, film, or dance. The third part addresses relations between aesthetics and other fields of enquiry, and explores viewpoints or concerns complimentary to those prominent in mainstream analytical aesthetics.

Trick or Treat: Academic Buy-in to Third Stream Activities

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek Watson ◽  
Lynne Hall ◽  
Sarah Tazzyman
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Prima Facie ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Senior Executives ◽  
Third Stream ◽  
The Third ◽  
North East ◽  
The North

This paper reports in part on a major study, carried out in 2013, in which data were collected from university senior executives and academics in the five university business schools in the North East of England: it focuses on the quantitative findings produced. Whilst prima facie evidence would suggest that universities are strategically embedding and integrating third stream strategies alongside first and second stream activities, a critical analysis of the research data revealed that this was clearly not the case. Empirical evidence from the research indicates that there are strategic failings in universities. This research contributes to the existing literature which highlights the academic pressures in embedding the third stream in higher education institutions.

scholarly journals Constitutional Patriotism and the Spanish Constitutional Debate

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (29) ◽  
pp. 225-248
Author(s):  
Bernardo Sáinz
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Conflict ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Constitutional Patriotism ◽  
The Third ◽  
General Overview ◽  
The Way

The constitutionalist parties in Spain have adopted the concept of constitutional patriotism into their political discourse. This assimilation has important consequences in the way they approach nationalist tensions and ethnic conflict. I present a general overview of the oncept of constitutional patriotism and its use in Spanish politics. The first section reviews the origin and formation of constitutional patriotism as a concept. The second section is an analysis of its fundamental characteristics. The third section is an attempt to show the reception and interpretation of constitutional patriotism by the Spanish constitutionalist parties, the debate and criticism that its use has evoked, and some of its implications in dealing with nationalist tensions in the country.

Assertion and Fiction

2018 ◽  
pp. 435-457
Author(s):  
Manuel García-Carpintero
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Prima Facie ◽  
The Third ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Referential Expressions

This article discusses three issues about the relations between fiction and assertion that have figured prominently in recent debates. In the first section, it addresses questions about assertions in connection with fiction raised by the standard occurrence of prima facie empty referential expressions in fictions. In the second, it considers whether fictions can make assertions, or related assertoric acts. The third and final section explores the possible effects that this would pose for the distinction between fiction and non-fiction.

Three Human Rights Agendas

2006 ◽  
Vol 19 (02) ◽  
pp. 237-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Reidy
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Law ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Prima Facie ◽  
International Order ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Political Obligations ◽  
The Third ◽  
Voluntary Initiative ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient

In this paper I distinguish between three conceptions of human rights and thus three human rights agendas. Each is compatible with the others, but distinguishing each from the others has important theoretical and practical advantages. The first conception concerns those human rights tied to natural duties binding all persons to one another independent of and prior to any institutional context and the violation of which would “shock the conscience” of any morally competent person. The second concerns the institutional conditions necessary and sufficient for particularist legal and political obligations to take on prima facie moral force so that the members of different polities face one another in an asymmetric moral relationship, with each side having a rightful claim to political self-determination. The third concerns those human rights arising exclusively as a matter of positive international law out of the voluntary undertakings of legitimate polities within the international order. Each of these different conceptions is tied to a different human rights agenda. The second is tied to the struggle to realize recognitional norms of legitimacy within the international order. The third is tied to the ongoing effort to incorporate into positive international law through voluntary initiative an ever expanding moral consensus between legitimate polities. The first is tied to the emerging practice of humanitarian intervention and system of international criminal liability. Thus, while all human rights share certain features - they’re universal, and so on - human rights differ in important ways. Attending to these differences would likely improve both the theory and practice of human rights.

scholarly journals From desire to encounter: the human quest for the infinite

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 375-388
Author(s):  
JOHN COTTINGHAM
Keyword(s):  
Human Mind ◽  
Prima Facie ◽  
The Third ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Epistemic Role

AbstractThe article begins with the journey towards knowledge of the infinite that is traced out in Descartes's Meditations. Drawing on Levinas's construal of the argument in the Third Meditation, I argue that Descartes's reflections on God as infinite can be a starting point for deepening our understanding of the religious quest – the paradoxical human search for that which, by its very nature, is incomprehensible to the human mind. The second half of the article argues that this search is from first to last structured by desire and longing, and that something prima facie non-cognitive and non-epistemic, namely the desire for God, has a cognitive and epistemic role to play. Perhaps desire can be our human way, or a human way, whereby we can (in Descartes's words) ‘in a certain manner attain to’ the infinite perfection that is God.

Georgia and Iran: Three Millennia of Cultural Relations An Overview

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-43
Author(s):  
Fatema Soudavar Farmanfarmaian
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
Cultural Relations ◽  
The Third ◽  
General Overview ◽  
Third Millennium Bce ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Western Scholarship ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Russian Empire

AbstractWhen Georgia was incorporated into the Russian Empire, the rich background of interaction with Persian culture, the result of centuries of contact, was lost to the scholar whose interest in Georgian history came to depend on Russian historiography with its focus on the period under Russian rule and its misreading of anything prior to that. Western scholarship, often oblivious of the far reach of Persian culture, devoted too little attention to the subject or gave it short shrift. Owing largely to the recent work of Georgian scholars, a century of neglect is now being reversed, but an overall picture of the breadth and depth of Georgian-Iranian interaction is still lacking. This paper proposes to offer a general overview from the third millennium BCE to the Russian conquest of Georgia, when Persian influence began its decline.

Embodied emotions between constructivism and ontologism: A reflection from the sociology of Alberto Melucci

2018 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 644-661
Author(s):  
Paola Rebughini ◽  
Adrian Scribano
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Constructivist Approach ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Fourth Section ◽  
The Third ◽  
General Overview

This article investigates the issue of embodied emotions in social sciences, in a context characterized by increasing theoretical attention to overcoming the nature/culture dualism, but also by a growing dualism between constructivist and ontological approaches to emotions. We take as pivot of the analysis the way in which this topic has been debated by the Italian sociologist Alberto Melucci. The first section of the article locates the work of Melucci in the current debate on the ‘affective’ and ‘ontological’ turns with their impacts on the conceptualization of body and emotions. The second section focuses on the specificity of Melucci’s constructivist approach in comparison with current combinations of radical constructivism and ontological references at the basis of the ‘affective turn’, and highlights the role that Melucci gives to social movements as collective emotional experiences; the third section historicizes his fieldwork and theoretical approach, while the fourth section analyses how the issue of embodied emotions relates to Melucci’s conceptualization of action and subjectivation. Overall, the aim of this article is not to conduct a thorough cartography of sociological debate on emotions, nor to be a general overview of the sociology of Melucci; rather, it intends to highlight how Melucci’s approach to investigating emotions from collective action can furnish a different perspective on the current affective turn in social sciences.

scholarly journals Back to Mahal Teglinos: New Pharaonic Evidence from Eastern Sudan

2020 ◽  
Vol 106 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 89-104
Author(s):  
Andrea Manzo
Keyword(s):  
Red Sea ◽  
Eastern Desert ◽  
The Third ◽  
General Overview ◽  
Cultural Exchanges ◽  
Red Sea Coast ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Sea Coast ◽  
Eastern Sudan ◽  
The Way

This article provides a general overview of the archaeological finds which suggest that Eastern Sudan was in contact with Egypt in the second half of the third and into the second millennium BC. The finds and their contexts are discussed, along with their chronology, typology and distribution in order to understand if they arrived in Eastern Sudan via Upper Nubia, the Red Sea coast, or even through the Eastern Desert. Moreover, the discussion highlights how these finds are providing support to the hypothesis that Eastern Sudan may have been a part of Punt. Finally, the contribution of these finds to our understanding of the economic and cultural exchanges between Egypt and inner Africa is discussed. This review also addresses the definition of the Egyptian commodities exchanged for those of inner Africa and the reconstruction of the way contacts between the involved groups took place.

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