Adapting Böhme’s Bipolar Model

2020 ◽  
pp. 125-161
Author(s):  
Peter Cheyne
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Crucial Importance ◽  
Mental Powers ◽  
Important Form

Chapter 5 argues for the crucial importance for Coleridge’s philosophy of Böhme, whose works he annotated more than any other writer. Section 5.1 discusses Coleridge’s views of various mystics and of the poles of mysticism: one side valued for its sensuous connection, yet found prone to mistake inner idiosyncrasies for noetic insight; the other side, the transcendence-directed contemplation of mystics such as the Christian neo-Platonic Victorines. Section 5.2 argues that the chiasmic crux of Böhme’s thinking inspired three Coleridgean mainstays: the interpenetration of opposites, the intercirculation of energies, and the chiasmus between higher and lower levels. Section 5.3 further argues that an important form of Coleridge’s pentadic logical schemata, which includes his pentad of the ‘Powers of Nature’ and his ‘Order of the Mental Powers’, derives from his fusing Böhme’s transmutational, chiasmic schema of ‘The Seven Forms of Spirits’ with the Christian neo-Platonic, linear, hierarchical ascent from sensus to contemplatio.

scholarly journals Genetic diversity and structure of the binturong Arctictis binturong (Carnivora: Viverridae) – status of the elusive Palawan binturong and implications for conservation

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Géraldine Veron ◽  
Agathe Debruille ◽  
Pauline Kayser ◽  
Desamarie Antonette P Fernandez ◽  
Aude Bourgeois
Keyword(s):  
Taxonomic Status ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
The Other ◽  
Restricted Range ◽  
Crucial Importance ◽  
Separate Species ◽  
Mitochondrial Markers ◽  
Molecular Approaches ◽  
Captive Populations ◽  
Genetic Diversity And Structure

Abstract The binturong or bearcat is a forest mesocarnivore ranging from Nepal to Indonesia and the Philippines. Several subspecies of binturongs are recognized but a revision is needed. The binturong from Palawan was described as a species and is now considered a subspecies, but its status has never been checked using molecular approaches. Owing to its restricted range and the pressure on its habitat, the Palawan binturong may be endangered. It is, therefore, of crucial importance to clarify its taxonomic status, particularly for the management of captive populations. We sequenced one nuclear and two mitochondrial markers for binturongs from locations across the species range and from zoos. Our results provide an assessment of the genetic polymorphism and structure within the binturong, resulting in two groups, corresponding to the Indochinese and the Sundaic regions. Within the latter were found the Palawan binturongs on one side, and an individual from Sulu archipelago (a locality not reported before) on the other side. The Palawan binturongs form a monophyletic group, genetically close to Bornean binturongs, which suggests that they may have dispersed from Borneo, and represents a lineage worth preserving, but which is not a separate species nor a separate subspecies.

General relativity tests with space clocks in highly elliptic orbits

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (05) ◽  
pp. 1741014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippe Jetzer
Keyword(s):  
Equivalence Principle ◽  
Atomic Clock ◽  
Space Mission ◽  
The Other ◽  
Crucial Importance ◽  
Hydrogen Maser ◽  
Elliptic Orbits ◽  
Satellite Experiment ◽  
Fundamental Forces ◽  
Microwave Link

The test of the Einstein Equivalence Principle (EEP) is of crucial importance as a deviation from it could hint to quantum effects in gravity or to unification with the other fundamental forces. One aspect of EEP is the local position invariance (LPI), which can be tested by measuring the gravitational red-shift. As an example of a possible space mission which could test the EEP, we will discuss a recently proposed satellite experiment, Einstein Gravitational RedShift Probe (E-GRIP), with the aim to test LPI using an hydrogen maser atomic clock on a highly elliptic orbit around Earth and compare the on-board clock to clocks located on Earth via a microwave link.

The Economy of West African Dance in Italy

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 27-31
Author(s):  
Claudia Brazzale
Keyword(s):  
West African ◽  
The Other ◽  
African Dance ◽  
The Past ◽  
African Migrants ◽  
Black Bodies ◽  
West African Dance ◽  
Important Form ◽  
Diasporic Communities

Over the past decade, so-called African dance has become increasingly popular in Italy, growing in tandem with local West African diasporic communities and the national concern over immigration. Although the circulation of African dance provides West African migrants with an important form of self-identification and subsistence, it often revolves around problematic discourses rooted on the myth and romance with the primitive. Constructing and capitalizing on the fetishization of black bodies, African dance mobilizes complex economies of desire that rest on an orientalist fascination with the Other. While these economies reify racist stereotypes, they also enable significant communities of knowledge and interracial encounters.

The Principle of Credulity and Religious Experience

1986 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Martin
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
The Other ◽  
Philosophical Theology ◽  
Religious Experiences ◽  
Crucial Importance ◽  
Existence Of God ◽  
Richard Swinburne

In The Existence of God Richard Swinburne argues that certain religious experiences support the hypothesis that God exists. Indeed, the argument from religious experience is of crucial importance in Swinburne's philosophical theology. For, according to Swinburne, without the argument from religious experience the combined weight of the other arguments he considers, e.g. the teleological, the cosmological, or the argument from miracles, does not render the theistic hypothesis very probable. However, the argument from religious experience combined with these other arguments makes theism more probable than its rivals.

Development of System Based Code: Case Study of Life-Cycle Margin Evaluation

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tai Asayama ◽  
Masaki Morishita ◽  
Masanori Tashimo
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Structural Design ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
The Other ◽  
Professor Emeritus ◽  
Crucial Importance ◽  
Late Professor ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Plant Components

For a leap of progress in structural deign of nuclear plant components, The late Professor Emeritus Yasuhide Asada proposed the System Based Code. The key concepts of the System Based Code are; (1) life-cycle margin optimization, (2) expansion of technical options as well as combinations of technical options beyond the current codes and standards, and (3) designing to clearly defined target reliabilities. Those concepts are very new to most of the nuclear power plant designers who are naturally obliged to design to current codes and standards; the application of the concepts of the System Based Code to design will lead to entire change of practices that designers have long been accustomed to. On the other hand, experienced designers are supposed to have expertise that can support and accelerate the development of the System Based Code. Therefore, interfacing with experienced designers is of crucial importance for the development of the System Based Code. The authors conducted a survey on the acceptability of the System Based Code concept. The results were analyzed from the possibility of improving structural design both in terms of reliability and cost effectiveness by the introduction of the System Based Code concept. It was concluded that the System Based Code is beneficial for those purposes. Also described is the expertise elicited from the results of the survey that can be reflected to the development of the System Based Code.

Se kép, se hang?

2013 ◽  
Vol 52 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Miklós Takács
Keyword(s):  
Personal Identity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cultural Trauma ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Crucial Importance ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
German Sociologist ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Title Character ◽  
Do So

Sebald’s novel Austerlitz can be considered a „trauma novel” not only for a narratological reason (that is, because it reflects upon the non-representability of trauma on the level of words), but also because it reveals the impossibility of depicting a past memory with pictures – despite of the fact that both the narrator and the title character are feel impelled to do so. The attitude of the narrator illustrates a phenomenon that the German sociologist Bernhard Giesen describes as the perpetrator’s trauma. According to this theory the individual trauma becomes a collective one in case of the perpetrators. Austerlitz, on the other hand, turns into a medium of the victimes as well. Cultural trauma can also become a part of the personal identity due to certain individuals and media, such as the photography, which is of crucial importance for remembering in the novel. One can describe the sound and picture of the trauma with the term of catachresis. This figure involves the constraint of signifying the non-representability.

III.—Some new Rock-building Organisms from the Lower Carboniferous Beds of Westmorland

1914 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
pp. 265-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. J. Garwood
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Address ◽  
The Other ◽  
Lower Carboniferous ◽  
North West ◽  
Western Province ◽  
The North ◽  
Calcareous Alga ◽  
The Village ◽  
Important Form ◽  
North Western

In my account of the Lower Carboniferous rocks of the North-West of England, published in 1912, I figured an organism, probably the thallus of a calcareous alga, which plays an important part as a rock-builder at the base of the Seminula gregaria sub-zone in Westmorland and Lancashire. More recently, at the meeting of the British Association in Birmingham, I pointed out the need of some distinctive name for this important form, and suggested for it the generic name of ‘Ortonella’, from the village of Orton, near Tebay, in the neighbourhood of which this fossil is specially abundant. Two other structures were mentioned at the same time which occur constantly in microscopic sections of the Lower Carboniferous rocks of the North-West of England and elsewhere. The first of these was alluded to under the general descriptive term ‘festoon structure’, and the other was referred to Gurich's somewhat obscure genus Spongiottroma. In view of the zonal value of these organisms in the North-Western Province and the probability that they will be found to be widely distributed in the Lower Carboniferous rocks elsewhere, I propose here to give a somewhat fuller description of these forms than could be attempted in the limits of a presidential address.

Professional Lobbying in Eighteenth-century Brussels: The Role of Agents in Petitioning the Central Government Institutions in the Habsburg Netherlands

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Griet Vermeesch
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Central Government ◽  
The Other ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Crucial Importance ◽  
Government Institutions

Abstract Historians have underscored the crucial importance of petitions both in early modern political practice and for relations between rulers and ruled. However, little is known about how formal requests were actually presented to rulers or the role of professional lobbyists. This article describes these individuals, using materials from a well-documented case, namely the court agents who were active in recommending petitions to the central government councils in eighteenth-century Brussels. Via these officially appointed lobbyists, citizens could obtain access to central figures in the decision-making process and express their personal grievances, desires and needs. This article argues that the efforts which court agents had to exert in order to present and recommend such petitions hint at the time- and money-consuming nature of petitioning. Court agents were supposed to offer their services free of charge to poor people, but opportunities for petitioning were in all probability less open to households of modest means. On the other hand, the court agents surely broadened the opportunities for petitioning in general, as—in exchange for a fee—anyone could draw on their expertise and contacts in government circles so as to be heard. Although patronage remained highly important throughout the eighteenth century, government accessibility increased in a more egalitarian manner, due to the work of these agents.

IV. Liberal versus Liberal: The General Election of 1874 in Bradford and Sheffield

1972 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 669-713 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Hurst
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Conservative Party ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Crucial Importance ◽  
Liberal Party ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Positive Action

Throughout its history the United Kingdom Liberal party has been a conglomerate. On the other hand, it was very rarely just an anti-Conservative Front, feeding off the grasslands of negation. Whatever the manifold stresses and strains of a given moment, the liberty-loving and reforming mentality almost invariably held together the disparate elements for purposes of positive action. And with the Conservative party essentially standstill and inherently strong at most times, this was scarcely surprising in the context of the battle for political power. That context was shaped by the break-up of the vast Liverpool-style coalition and the emergence under Lord Grey of a left-centre administration. The bundle of ideologies and interests behind Grey stuck together until the last quarter of the nineteenth century, although economic and social changes, along with alterations in the constitutional structure both springing from and causing them, did much to shift the influence they exercised. While it is true that the first and second Reform Acts were of crucial importance, the forces behind their passing should not be ignored. The hens did come before the eggs, even though the eventual arrivals were uncommonly large chickens, and hatching out was far from automatic

scholarly journals Lithium abundances in dwarfs of intermediate age open clusters

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (S268) ◽  
pp. 345-346
Author(s):  
Giancarlo Pace ◽  
Jorge Mélendez
Keyword(s):  
Effective Temperature ◽  
Open Cluster ◽  
Open Clusters ◽  
The Other ◽  
Crucial Importance ◽  
Lithium Abundance ◽  
Dwarf Stars ◽  
Accurate Temperature ◽  
Steep Decline ◽  
Effective Temperatures

AbstractLithium abundance measurements in dwarf stars in open clusters are of crucial importance for our understanding of the mixing mechanism and have allowed us to achieve important conclusions on the matter. However, in order to further our understanding of what drives lithium depletion, lithium abundance measurements have to be coupled with accurate temperature determinations, which are best achieved when the analysis of iron lines is employed. Effective temperature estimations from photometry, on the contrary, can be affected by errors as large as several hundred kelvins due to uncertain open cluster reddening, especially when studying old open clusters, which tend to be more distant. We present lithium abundance in 12 dwarfs belonging to 4 open clusters at about 1 or 2 Gyr. The stellar effective temperatures, along with the other parameters, were estimated from the analysis of about 60 Fe I lines and 10 Fe II. Even though the few datapoints call for caution, we notice that stars in the open cluster IC 4651 seem to present a steep decline with temperature below 6000 K.

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