The Timaeus as Vehicle for Platonic Doctrine

2019 ◽  
pp. 45-72
Author(s):  
David Sedley
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Global System

The Timaeus, I argue, encodes in its cryptic opening lines Plato’s confirmation that the dialogue represents his own views. This corresponds to the fact that a series of metaphysical, psychological, and ethical theses defended by the main speakers of other dialogues are displayed in Timaeus’ speech as components of a global system. Which in turn provides neglected support for the too often dismissed ‘mouthpiece theory’. Although these doctrines can look a little unfamiliar when they reappear in the Timaeus, that need not represent a change of mind on Plato’s part, just the fact that they are being viewed from the point of view of physics—the physics of tripartition, the physics of Form-participation, etc. Once we see how Timaeus’ presentation draws on Platonic doctrine, I argue, we can use this lesson to see how yet another Platonic doctrine, that of Recollection, puts in a hitherto unnoticed appearance in the dialogue.

Incompletely Parabolic Systems from Friedrichs Theory Point of View

1997 ◽  
Vol 07 (08) ◽  
pp. 1141-1152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ph. Caussignac
Keyword(s):  
Differential Equations ◽  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Stokes Equations ◽  
Parabolic Systems ◽  
Initial Boundary ◽  
Initial Boundary Value Problem ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Global System ◽  
Theory Point ◽  
Well Posed

An incompletely parabolic system of partial differential equations consist of one parabolic subsystem coupled to a hyperbolic subsystem. For the initial-boundary value problem, it has been shown, by requiring that a solution remains bounded at any time by the data, that boundary conditions which make both subsystems well-posed render the global system well-posed too. In this paper, we establish the same type of result with the help of the notion of semi-admissible boundary conditions in the theory of Friedrichs positive systems of differential equations. Our aim is not to obtain the same results of existence and uniqueness as those for the Cauchy problem, but rather to find a way to establish boundary conditions on the subsystems which can be used for the global system too. The theory is illustrated by the two examples of the compressible Navier–Stokes equations and of the hydrodynamic model for semiconductor devices, both in two space dimensions.

Emigration and the Irish abroad: recent writings

2001 ◽  
Vol 32 (127) ◽  
pp. 433-442
Author(s):  
John A. Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Public Awareness ◽  
The United States ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Global System ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Changing Patterns ◽  
Plural Society

There has been a remarkable revival of interest in the Irish abroad within the past ten years. In part this is attributable to the new confidence experienced by the Irish at home with the economic success of the ‘tiger economy’ and the decline of ‘migration by necessity’. Equally the Irish abroad, especially in the United States, have risen to the top of the immigrant pile and have achieved prosperity and assurance of their position in their adopted homelands. This itself has led to a reduction in some of the inhibitions that have held back serious attention to the history of the immigrants and to a recognition of their place in the sun. Public awareness has been further stimulated by changing patterns of immigration and by the development of new attitudes towards immigrants in the host societies, now including Ireland itself. Such changes have created a need to give meaning to the term ‘plural society’ and to challenge the racism that has characteristically followed in the wake of increased numbers of immigrants.These seven books are representative of a large number that have begun to address the topic in the last few years from an historical point of view. For the most part they relate to the Irish in Britain but use the focus on the immigrants to open up issues about the history of Ireland and Britain and the role of each in an emerging global system. For example, one of them is a comparative account of the Irish in Liverpool and Philadelphia which allows consideration of some of the broader questions regarding the treatment of the Irish immigrant in the literature both by historians and other interested scholars.

GSM-Based SMS Time Reservation System for Dental Care

2011 ◽  
pp. 285-299
Author(s):  
Reima Suomi ◽  
Ari Serkkola ◽  
Markku Mikkonen
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Communication ◽  
Dental Care ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Dental Service ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Short Message ◽  
Global System ◽  
Short Message System ◽  
Reservation System ◽  
Message System

In this chapter we focus on the application of a mobile time reservation system for dental care. The specific application allocates cancelled dentist times to new customers and new customers are searched from a waiting list with Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) Short Message System (SMS) messages. This chapter shows how standard, widely used technology—when used innovatively—can bring many benefits to many stakeholders with reasonable costs and changes in business processes. We present and analyze the function of an SMS message-based dental service appointment reservation system that has been implemented in Lahti, Finland. The analysis contains a description of the system’s function, as well as some assessment of the success from the service provider and customer point of view.

scholarly journals Bioethics, semiotics of life, and global communication

2001 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 263-275
Author(s):  
Augusto Ponzio ◽  
Susan Petrilli
Keyword(s):  
Pharmaceutical Research ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Global Communication ◽  
Ethical Problems ◽  
Global System ◽  
Philosophical Orientation ◽  
Economic Context ◽  
Specific Discipline ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Entire Planet

Ethical problems connected with biological and medical discoveries in genetic engineering, neurobiology and pharmaceutical research, reach a unified and critical point of view in bioethics as a specific discipline. But even before reaching this stage, ethical problems already belong to two totalities: the semiobiosphere. and the current social form of global communication. Coherently with its philosophical orientation, bioethics must necessarily keep accountof this double contextualisation. The semiobiosphere is the object of study of global semiotics or the semiotics of life. Global semiotics is of particular interest to bioethics not only because of the broad context it provides for the problems treated by bioethics, but also because it provides bioethics with an adequate contextualisation both in terms of extension, of quantity, as well as of quality. From this point of view, "contextualisation" also means critical reformulation. We are now alluding to the need of viewing bioethical problems in the light of today's socio-economic context, that is, in the context of globalcommunication-production. These contextualisations are closely related from the viewpoint of ethics. Semiotics as global semiotics or semiotics of life must accept the responsibility of denouncing incongruencies in the global system, any threats to life over the entire planet inherent in this system.

scholarly journals Digital order and political disorder: thoughts about opposite effects of digital media on emerging societies

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo Villanueva-Mansilla
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Global System ◽  
Actual Usage ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Democratic Control ◽  
Political Disorder

As the debates on how to govern the Internet continue, the actual outcomes of digital access have to be considered when discussing how to represent and govern such a global system. This point of view discusses the reasons for considering the Multistakeholder model currently being proposed as a step backwards as the issues that actual usage of the Internet by individuals and communities cannot be dealt with by it, and instead is just entrenching the interests of both powerful nation-states and corporate actors in a way that furthers non-democratic control of a global resource.

scholarly journals COVID-19 PANDEMIC: DIRECTED OR NATURAL FLUCTUATION THAT CHANGES THE WORLD

Skhid ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-35
Author(s):  
Olena Naumkina
Keyword(s):  
Social Systems ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Critical Fluctuation ◽  
Conspiracy Theories ◽  
Global System ◽  
The World ◽  
Bifurcation Transition ◽  
Further Development

The article presents a synergetic interpretation of the nature, mechanism, and role of the Covid-19 pandemic as a fluctuation that has undergone nucleation in the global system. The choice of methodological bases of our research is due to the fact that synergetics is considered today one of the new promising ways to understand the processes taking place in society, in social systems at the turning points of their development. We assume that this Covid-19 pandemic became the critical fluctuation that quickly spread throughout the world. Today, the global system is in a state of imbalance, in which old connections and structures have been destroyed or are being destroyed, and new ones have not yet been formed. As a result, it fell into the bifurcation zone, where further development becomes unpredictable. The modern world is facing another challenge of history. Therefore, today it is extremely important to determine the range of possible attractors of further evolution of the global system and, at the same time, those that are achievable and favorable to humanity. From a philosophical point of view, we can talk about being that appears before our eyes, about the birth of a new reality in which we have to live. It was found that the synergetic methodology involves the creation (consciously) of the necessary conditions for the introduction into the system of the desired fluctuation with signs of a new desired quality, and promote its nucleation. This will lead to the formation of new organizational integrity and the transition to a new evolutionary channel of development. That is why today, various conspiracy theories about the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic are actively spreading. The attitude to them is ambiguous. However, several facts force us to analyze them and draw appropriate conclusions carefully. It is noted that the lack of reliable information does not yet allow us to give an unambiguous answer about the nature of this fluctuation. However, there is no doubt that it has become a powerful factor in forming a new reality, a bifurcation transition to a new – and, so far, not clearly defined – attractor of the evolution of the global system.

Good global governance: custom, the cosmopolitan and international law

2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
John R. Morss
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Natural Law ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Global System ◽  
General Law ◽  
Conventional Instruments ◽  
Dead End ◽  
International Laws ◽  
Legal Forms

International law has both less and more to offer to the cosmopolitan project than one might think. As currently understood, international law presages a global system of obligations comprising the convergent systems of universal customary international laws and near-universal conventional instruments (treaties), both of which legal forms are characterised by natural law tendencies. From the point of view of a pluralistic cosmopolitanism, this is a dead end. Thinking beyond these formulae requires that international law be treated as a species of general law rather than state-centred law.

The Geosciences Applied to Lunar Exploration

1962 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 169-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Green
Keyword(s):  
Lunar Surface ◽  
Probable Mechanism ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Lunar Exploration ◽  
Geological Model ◽  
Apply Geophysics ◽  
Surface Features ◽  
The Impact

The term geo-sciences has been used here to include the disciplines geology, geophysics and geochemistry. However, in order to apply geophysics and geochemistry effectively one must begin with a geological model. Therefore, the science of geology should be used as the basis for lunar exploration. From an astronomical point of view, a lunar terrain heavily impacted with meteors appears the more reasonable; although from a geological standpoint, volcanism seems the more probable mechanism. A surface liberally marked with volcanic features has been advocated by such geologists as Bülow, Dana, Suess, von Wolff, Shaler, Spurr, and Kuno. In this paper, both the impact and volcanic hypotheses are considered in the application of the geo-sciences to manned lunar exploration. However, more emphasis is placed on the volcanic, or more correctly the defluidization, hypothesis to account for lunar surface features.

How a sheperd guides a sheep herd?

1984 ◽  
Vol 75 ◽  
pp. 331-337
Author(s):  
Richard Greenberg
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Single Ring ◽  
Damping Effects ◽  
Ring Particle

ABSTRACTThe mechanism by which a shepherd satellite exerts a confining torque on a ring is considered from the point of view of a single ring particle. It is still not clear how one might most meaningfully include damping effects and other collisional processes into this type of approach to the problem.

The growth of mica polytypes as studied by conventional and high-resolution TEM

1983 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 174-177
Author(s):  
A. Baronnet ◽  
M. Amouric
Keyword(s):  
Water Pressure ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Temperature Fields ◽  
Natural Occurrence ◽  
Growth Mechanisms ◽  
Long Period ◽  
High Resolution Tem ◽  
Layer Stacking ◽  
Experimental Works ◽  
Potential Use

The origin of mica polytypes has long been a challenging problem for crystal- lographers, mineralogists and petrologists. From the petrological point of view, interest in this field arose from the potential use of layer stacking data to furnish further informations about equilibrium and/or kinetic conditions prevailing during the crystallization of the widespread mica-bearing rocks. From the compilation of previous experimental works dealing with the occurrence domains of the various mica "polymorphs" (1Mr, 1M, 2M1, 2M2 and 3T) within water-pressure vs temperature fields, it became clear that most of these modifications should be considered as metastable for a fixed mica species. Furthermore, the natural occurrence of long-period (or complex) polytypes could not be accounted for by phase considerations. This highlighted the need of a more detailed kinetic approach of the problem and, in particular, of the role growth mechanisms of basal faces could play in this crystallographic phenomenon.

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