The Abused Mind: Feminist Theory, Psychiatric Disability, and Trauma

Hypatia ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 80-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Nicki
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Physical Disability ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Psychiatric Disability ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Moral Consciousness ◽  
The Mind

I show how much psychiatric disability is informed by trauma, marginalization, sexist norms, social inequalities, concepts of irrationality and normalcy, oppositional mind-body dualism, and mainstream moral values. Drawing on feminist discussion of physical disability, I present a feminist theory of psychiatric disability that serves to liberate not only those who are psychiatrically disabled but also the mind and moral consciousness restricted in their ranges of rational possibilities.

Women with Disability, Paralympics, and Reasoned Action Contact Theory

1993 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudine Sherrill
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Physical Disability ◽  
Reasoned Action ◽  
Contact Theory ◽  
Equal Access ◽  
Women In Sport ◽  
The World ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Underrepresentation Of Women ◽  
Women With Disability

The underrepresentation of women in the Paralympics movement warrants attention as the world prepares for Atlanta 1996, when Paralympics (conducted after the Summer Olympics) will attract approximately 3,500 athletes with physical disability or visual impairment from 102 countries. Barriers that confront women with disability, the Paralympic movement, and adapted physical activity as a profession and scholarly discipline that stresses advocacy and attitude theories are presented. Two theories (reasoned action and contact) that have been tested in various contexts are woven together as an approach particularly applicable to women in sport and feminists who care about equal access to opportunity for all women. Women with disability are a social minority that is both ignored and oppressed. Sport and feminist theory and action should include disability along with gender, race/ethnicity, class, and age as concerns and issues.

Slovakia and the European ethos

Human Affairs ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Viera Bilasová
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Ethical Reflection ◽  
Moral Issues ◽  
Moral Consciousness ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe paper explores how the ethos in Slovakia has been shaped and “matured” in the context of the values, principles and norms inherent in the European ethos. The presence of this ethos, including its sources and forms, can be considered in the Slovak historical context to be a moral phenomenon and an integral part of human being, encoded in the moral values held by individuals and society. By seeking out its ties and analysing the way it is intertwined with the evolution of the European ethos, it provides us with the space to understand and resolve many of today’s issues and conflicts in an ethical manner. The author considers moral consciousness to be an important part of the culture of civilization today, which faces the challenge of finding new forms of human coexistence and a life in peace. It attests to the importance of ethics and morality in the life of individual and society, and the utility of ethical reflection in solving moral issues in life and in searching for one’s own way through it.

scholarly journals Intelektualista w łagrze. Perspektywa Julija Margolina

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Lenart
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
Original Work ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Human Behaviour ◽  
Human Individual ◽  
Current Events ◽  
Free Thought ◽  
The Mind

The aim of this article is to attempt to discuss the report of Yuliy Margolin from the Soviet Gulag. A Journey to the Land of Ze-Ka is an original work, written from the perspective of a prisoner, who is mostly an intellectual, a philosopher, an excellent observer and interpreter of European reality. The author of the article tries to prove that for Margolin the superior value in the Gulag is the mind, which wins over emotions and thanks to that allows to preserve dignity and humanity. The analysis of identity, carried out by Margolin, allows us to read his testimony in the context of contemporary identity research in extreme situations, where instead of building up our own self, we are fighting for our moral values. As it turns out, the basic foundation of identity is freedom. The article also undertakes a preliminary analysis of Margolin’s concept of hate as the most destructive force for the human individual and the intellect. The mind, according to Margolin, effectively defends freedom, and hate kills free thought, destroys goodness, and consequently leads to dehumanization. The research allows us to call Margolin a rationally thinking humanist, an intellectual who is against historical fatalism, who constantly analyses current events and human behaviour, without losing faith in the mind and the human individual.

scholarly journals CHARACTER BUILDING DALAM KONSEP PENDIDIKAN IMAM ZARKASYI DITINJAU DARI FILSAFAT MORAL IBNU MISKAWAIH

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 100
Author(s):  
Najwa Mu'minah
Keyword(s):  
Character Education ◽  
Moral Education ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
National Character ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Education Curriculum ◽  
Moral Consciousness ◽  
Government Bureaucracy ◽  
Character Building

Degradation of moral consciousness, especially in the politic and Indonesian government bureaucracy, in recent times that was pictured by various anomalies and immorality, such as a corruption, has become a negative “cultural norm”, which seem very difficult to be controlled. The condition of national spirit and morality suggested the need of redevelopment of model of character education (character building) as a national healing. Imam Zarkasyi implemented several principles of character building in the Pesantren of Darussalam Gontor. He taught his pupils on the basis of the virtues of the excellences with refer to the Panca Jiwa and the Four Mottos of Modernity of the Pesantren as their living values. His reformative efforts in the context of contemporary Islamic education are actually intended to the development of character, in other words, “character building”, by implementing the principle of the Golden Mean of Ibn Miskawaih. Some aspects of Zarkasyi's principles of education that might be supportive for developing the national character education program, and still relevant for today are: firstly, moral education should have the leadership insights; secondly, moral education should have the objective moral values as the teleological purposes; thirdly, moral education should be built through the best environment, in order to be optimized and efficient; and fourthly, moral education curriculum should be integrated and comprehensive. So, the Zarkasyi's concept of character building, and the education movement became the concept of character education that quite mature and should be extracted by our nation.

scholarly journals Your Face Mirrors Your Deepest Beliefs—Predicting Personality and Morals through Facial Emotion Recognition

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Peter A. Gloor ◽  
Andrea Fronzetti Colladon ◽  
Erkin Altuntas ◽  
Cengiz Cetinkaya ◽  
Maximilian F. Kaiser ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Emotional Response ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Personality Characteristics ◽  
Facial Emotion Recognition ◽  
Facial Emotion ◽  
Moral Foundations ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
The Mind

Can we really “read the mind in the eyes”? Moreover, can AI assist us in this task? This paper answers these two questions by introducing a machine learning system that predicts personality characteristics of individuals on the basis of their face. It does so by tracking the emotional response of the individual’s face through facial emotion recognition (FER) while watching a series of 15 short videos of different genres. To calibrate the system, we invited 85 people to watch the videos, while their emotional responses were analyzed through their facial expression. At the same time, these individuals also took four well-validated surveys of personality characteristics and moral values: the revised NEO FFI personality inventory, the Haidt moral foundations test, the Schwartz personal value system, and the domain-specific risk-taking scale (DOSPERT). We found that personality characteristics and moral values of an individual can be predicted through their emotional response to the videos as shown in their face, with an accuracy of up to 86% using gradient-boosted trees. We also found that different personality characteristics are better predicted by different videos, in other words, there is no single video that will provide accurate predictions for all personality characteristics, but it is the response to the mix of different videos that allows for accurate prediction.

scholarly journals 林譯《巴黎茶花女遺事》筆下的基督宗教：兼論林紓的畏天與鬼神論

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (35) ◽  
pp. 165-188
Author(s):  
馮志弘 馮志弘
Keyword(s):  
Filial Piety ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Image Of God ◽  
Religious Discourse ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Chinese Translation ◽  
Western Religion ◽  
Good Nature ◽  
The Mind

<p>本文析論林紓譯《巴黎茶花女遺事》筆下的信仰與宗教話語，以之比對《茶花女》原文宗教意涵，再聯繫林紓畏天與鬼神論，說明林紓《遺事》對基督宗教的詮釋和重塑，主要指出：《茶花女》原作與林譯均述及「天」與「上帝」，二者皆言「天意」與「天佑」，但林譯中的「天命」為原文所無，其「天從人願」渴求也與原作「爾旨得成」觀念相悖。《遺事》的「天」賞善罰惡，鑒察人心，但林譯卻刪去了許多原作的基督宗教隱喻，其贖罪思想與原作救贖觀並不相同。另一方面，也正由於林譯的重塑，《遺事》筆下基督宗教上帝（天）的形象和道德觀，與林紓本人「畏天循分」、天佑忠孝的觀念，因而變得相當貼近。林紓認為基督宗教的上帝為「善」，這一認識，是他即使視耶穌教為「迷信」，但在譯作中仍屢作介紹，並始終未曾敵視基督宗教的重要原因。</p> <p>&nbsp;</p><p>The religious discourse in Lin Shu’s Chinese translation of La Dame aux cam&eacute;lias is analysed and compared to the religious meanings conveyed in the original. The results are then connected to Lin’s theory on Heaven veneration and his reflection on ghosts and spirits, in order to explain how he interpreted and recreated Christianity. The major findings are that: Lin’s translation retains two terms from the source text, Heaven (tian) and God (Shangdi), both bearing the meanings of &quot;providence&quot; (tianyi) and &quot;Heaven’s blessings&quot; (tianyou). However, &quot;fate&quot; (tianming) is found to be the translator’s own additions. His translation also projects a wish for &quot;Heaven to have any Earthly wish fulfilled&quot; (tiancongrenyuan), which differs from the concept of &quot;let Thy will be done&quot; expressed in the original French work. The Heaven as depicted in the original and Lin’s translation also rewards the righteous, punishes the evil, searches the heart and examines the mind, but Lin’s translation does not preserve most of the religious metaphors, and presents an idea of redemption which is different from the concept of salvation in the original. Because of Lin’s rewriting, the Christian image of God and moral values reflected in his translation are close to his understanding of Heaven veneration (weitian) and belief that &quot;people embodying loyalty and filial piety will have divine blessings&quot; (tianyouzhongxiao). Even though Lin equates Christian faith with superstition, the Western religion is frequently introduced in his translations as he considered the Christian God to be of good nature. This is why he was never hostile to Christianity.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

scholarly journals Insanity and Murder in Robert Browning’ and Robert Lowell’s Dramatic Monologues

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maha Qahtan Sulaiman
Keyword(s):  
Moral Values ◽  
Robert Browning ◽  
Individual Experience ◽  
Main Character ◽  
True Self ◽  
Dramatic Monologue ◽  
Critical Situation ◽  
Human Psyche ◽  
Dramatic Monologues ◽  
The Mind

The study aims at fathoming Robert Browning’ and Robert Lowell’s intentions of choosing the dramatic monologue as a means of exploring human psyche. Significantly, the themes of insanity and murder are not ideal from an esthetic perspective, but for Browning and Lowell it provides the key to probe into human character and fundamental motives. This study examines Browning’ and Lowell’s dramatic monologues that address crime and the psyche of abnormal men. Browning’ and Lowell’s poetry in this regard unravels complicated human motivations and delineates morbid psychologies. Their monologues probe deep down into the mind-sets of their characters and dissect their souls to the readers. The main character of each of Browning’s dramatic monologues, My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover; discloses his true self, mental health, and moral values through his monologue in a critical situation. Ironically, each monologue invites the reader to detect the disparity between what the character believes the story to be and the reality of the situation detected through the poem. In Lowell’s The Mills of the Kavanaughs, the monologue is delivered by the victim herself. Yet, the fact that the poem reflects Lowell’s individual experience and trauma indicates that the monologue is delivered by the poet-victimizer as well.

Compassionate Reasoning

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Gopin
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Moral Reasoning ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Compassionate Care ◽  
Emotional Skills ◽  
The One ◽  
The Mind

This book presents the case for Compassionate Reasoning as a moral and psychosocial skill for the positive transformation of individuals and societies. It has been developed from a reservoir of moral philosophical, cultural, and religious wisdom traditions over the centuries, combined with compassion neuroscience, contemporary approaches to conflict resolution, public health methodologies, and positive psychological approaches to social change. There is an urgent need for human civilization to invest in the broad-based cultivation of compassionate thoughts, feelings, and especially habits. This skill is then combined with moral reasoning to move the self and others toward less anger and fear, more joy and care in the pursuit of reasonable policies that build peaceful families, communities, and societies. There are many people who work for the sake of others, and tend to be kinder, more reasonable, more self-controlled, and more goal-oriented to peace. They are united by a set of moral values and the emotional skills to put those values into practice. The aim of this book is to articulate the best combination of those values and skills that lead to personal and communal sustainability, not burnout and self-destruction. The book pivots on the observable difference in the mind—and proven in neuroscience imaging experiments—between destructive empathic distress on the one hand, and on the other, joyful, constructive, compassionate care. Facing existential threats to life on the planet, humans can and must make such skills universally sustainable and ingrained.

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