The Ideal Real: A Frustrated Impulse in Samuel Beckett's Writing

2010 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-72
Author(s):  
Chris Ackerley
Keyword(s):  
The Sun ◽  
Negative Theology ◽  
Involuntary Memory ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Ideal

Samuel Beckett's attraction to mysticism is most obvious in his interest in negative theology and the ; but it first presented itself in aesthetic rather than religious terms, through Proust's concept of the “ideal real,” as reflected in involuntary memory. For a time Beckett saw this as a viable aesthetic; that conviction was short-lived, but the “ideal real” left lasting traces on his work, though subject to increasing irony and the sense of the mind “devising.” In Beckett's most deliberate account of the transcendental experience, Arsene's moment in the sun in , the reality of the event is not in doubt but any validation of its meaning is emphatically withheld.

Horses for War

2013 ◽  
pp. 493-511
Author(s):  
Ann Hyland
Keyword(s):  
The Sun ◽  
Severe Injuries ◽  
Endemic Diseases ◽  
The Ideal

This chapter examines the breeding and sustaining of warhorses. Horses refer to power in military and economic fields, and were sacrificed to the Sun before battle. Xenophon described the ideal warhorse. It was important for warhorses to have a good temperament. Some horses went willingly and repeatedly into battle. In war, horses would encounter camels and elephants, which were often employed in the armies of the east. Army animals could have lameness, injury, endemic diseases, and various common ailments. Puncture wounds were the most severe injuries in these animals. Tack gave the rider control over his horse and consisted firstly of bitting, secondly of saddlery. Seat security over horse could be achieved through a hard treed saddle with retentive front and rear horns. It is observed that some cavalry were armored, both men and horses.

Philosophers-Citizens

In Our Name ◽  
2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Beerbohm
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
John Rawls ◽  
Democratic Theory ◽  
Justice As Fairness ◽  
Theory Of Justice ◽  
Life Of The Mind ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Ideal

This chapter challenges an account of citizenship that treats us as political philosophers or perennial deliberators and instead proposes the model of the philosopher-citizen who exhibits a computationally intense life of the mind. It first describes the ideal of the philosopher-citizen before considering how a theory of justice is to be employed by well-intentioned citizens by taking into account the views of John Rawls. It argues that the model of the philosopher-citizens tends to be monistic, collapsing the diversity of moral achievements that citizens can make in a democracy, and that this ideal should be separated from an account of the citizen's decision-making obligations. The chapter also examines the principles for citizens and for representatives in the context of Justice as Fairness and concludes by outlining the essential assumptions of a nonideal democratic theory.

scholarly journals Covenant and the consolidated Christian community: The covenantal roots of theologico-political federalism in Samuel Rutherford’s Respublica Christiana

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andries Raath ◽  
Shaun De Freitas
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
Ideal Form ◽  
Political Theories ◽  
Form Of Government ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Ideal

The celebrated author on the mind of Samuel Rutherford, John Coffey, chose the Calvinist tradition as the appropriate context for interpreting Rutherford’s covenantal perspectives. The authors question this assumption and produce evidence to the effect that the Bullinger– Vermigli approach to theologico-political federalism in Rutherford’s views proves to be a more cogent paradigm for understanding Rutherford’s thoughts. It is concluded that Rutherford utilised the insights of both Bullinger and Vermigli in structuring the ideal form of government in the Christian state as well as the relationships between ecclesiastical and political offices in the state, a theory that gained in importance in later political theories.

Noticing in neurology

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 427-430 ◽  
Author(s):  
A J Lees
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Clinical Reasoning ◽  
Medical Technology ◽  
Da Vinci ◽  
Leonardo Da Vinci ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Diagnostic Signs ◽  
Specialist Knowledge ◽  
The Brain ◽  
The Ideal

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not seeLeonardo da VinciThe three cardinal qualities necessary for the ideal neurologist are observation, the ability to reason backwards inferentially and specialist knowledge. Modern medical technology has greatly increased the ability to diagnose and treat disease but it has also encouraged a benign variant of abulia, which is killing off the art and science of clinical reasoning. Intent gazing at the unfamiliar with old eyes or a long look at the familiar with new eyes offers the neurologist an opportunity to discover hitherto unnoticed diagnostic signs far beyond the resolution of the brain scanner and even the light microscope. While there may be nothing new under the sun, there are plenty of old things that no one has observed, which have the potential to greatly improve clinical practice.

Anamnesis: Platonic Doctrine or Sophistic Absurdity?

Dialogue ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 604-628 ◽  
Author(s):  
William S. Cobb
Keyword(s):  
The Sun ◽  
Basic Point ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Mind

There are two basic ways in which the phenomenon of learning is explicated in the Platonic dialogues: First, by means of an analogy with vision, and second, by arguing that the acquisition of knowledge is really anamnesis (recollection). The analogy with vision is the more common of the two and occurs throughout the dialogues. The passage in the Republic comparing the sun and the good (508c-509b) is the best known instance of this approach to the clarification of learning. The basic point of this explication is that the mind, like the eye, in order to discover truth must be turned in the right direction and be trained to apprehend and distinguish the characters of the objects it beholds. In this context, the acquisition of knowledge is clearly a discovery of that which was not previously known, just as the man who escapes from the cave sees what he had not previously seen (Republic, 514a-516c), and at the end of the ascent of the heavenly ladder one “begins to see” what he has not seen before (Symposium, 211b 8).

Proust Confirmed by Neurosurgery

PMLA ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 295-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin O'Brien
Keyword(s):  
Marcel Proust ◽  
Total Recall ◽  
Montreal Neurological Institute ◽  
Involuntary Memory ◽  
The Mind

Marcel Proust stated clearly and repeatedly in his vast A la recherche du temps perdu his determining theory of involuntary memory. Proust's entire work was based upon experiences of total recall from a store of memories unconsciously preserved in the mind. In a paper delivered in 1957 by Dr. Wilder Penfield of the Montreal Neurological Institute are to be found physiological bases for Proust's esthetic experiences. Wilder reported that forgotten experiences were revealed to patients in great detail when electrodes were applied to various parts of their brains. Penfield thus supports Proust's view of a stream of memories (or, as Penfield calls it, a continuous filmstrip) preserving an individual's total experiential responses from childhood onward. The juxtaposition of Proust's statements with those of the neurosurgeon about the nature of this stream of unconscious memories, their relation to conscious memory, and the conditions under which they are recalled throws light upon the validity of Proust's technique.

̒Open̓ and ̒Closed̓ Models of the Human Body in Indian Medical and Yogic Traditions

2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Gordon White
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Third Century ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Open Model ◽  
Significant Volume ◽  
Yoga Sutras ◽  
Indian Medical ◽  
Body Complex ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Solar Rays

Most Indian and western commentators and scholars, following the Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali (c. third century CE), have assumed the Hindu yogic body to be a closed, self-contained system. However, a significant volume of data from a variety of sources—ranging from the classical Upaniṣads down through the Tantras (and including passages from the Yoga Sūtras themselves)—indicate that an 'open' model of the yogic body has also been operative in Hindu philosophical, medical, and mythological traditions. In these open models, the mind-body complex is linked, often via 'solar rays', to the sun and moon of the macrocosm, as well as to other mind-body complexes, which yogins are capable of entering through their practice.

scholarly journals A library of the mind

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dami Lee
Keyword(s):  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Research Library ◽  
Umberto Eco ◽  
Specific Topic ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Physical Manifestation ◽  
Reductionist Approach ◽  
The Ideal

In order to adapt to the explosion of technology and information, our culture has organized knowledge into distinct categories, and has privileged the “known” as the ideal truth. While this reductionist approach allows us to efficiently examine a specific topic, it has also led to a fragmented and oversimplified understanding of an otherwise enigmatic world. Umberto Eco, semiotician and novelist, criticized this rigid categorization and preferred a more complex, labyrinthine system, organizing his personal ad-hoc collection of books into unconventional categories. Venice, the labyrinthine city, is a physical manifestation of the concept of non-linearity and becomes a metaphor and strategy for exploring the idea of mystery and the dérive. The thesis explores the themes of slow reading, serendipity, and mystery, through the design of a Research Library that brings together Eco’s collection.

scholarly journals FILO OF ALEXANDRIA: DISCUSSION TOWARD THE LOGOS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (34) ◽  
Author(s):  
A.K EROKHIN ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Educational Activity ◽  
Greek Philosophy ◽  
Philosophical Work ◽  
Philo Of Alexandria ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Infinite Power ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Creative Teacher ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Ideal

The article considers the influence of Greek philosophy on the ideas of the formation of the Hellenistic philosopher Philo of Alexandria. The object of study was the philosophical work of Philo. This study aimed to discover the ambiguity of the term logos as a central concept that defines in Philo's philosophy the relationship between God (the ideal creative teacher) and the world. In the works of Philo, the Logos appears as the highest, sub-divine, infinite power of the mind, which has no signs, but at the same time is identified with God. The transcendental nature of the Logos, embodied in the image of God's mind, in its paradoxical nature closely corresponds to holiness and higher wisdom. The research methodology is based on an interpretation that allows us to define the allegory and, therefore, the real meaning of Philo's philosophy, the central part of which is the philosophical reflection of the Holy Scriptures as the main source of education and the concept of Scripture, undergoing specific and simultaneously incomparable modifications. To identify these meanings, methods of systematization and hermeneutics are used. The result of the study is expressed in identifying various forms of embodiment and educational activity and the Logos.

scholarly journals PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF COLORS AND COLOR THERAPY

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (3SE) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Sangita Saxena
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Psychological Effects ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Green Plants ◽  
Specific Effects ◽  
Man And Nature ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Relationship

The entire fabric of life is made of colors, whether our clothes are yes, home, or car. Everyone is identified with colors. Colors have specific effects on human life and mind. Color is a valuable gift of nature and also the beauty of human life. The redness of the dawn, the blue sky, the gray mountains, the straw, the green plants and the trees, the turquoise sea - everything unique and wonderful. The relationship between man and nature is also unbreakable. Sometimes Basanti yellow, sometimes greenery sawan, sometimes Sitabh and sometimes Tamavruta night. This is also the journey of man's life. Sometimes golden hope and sometimes disappointment. The cloudy sky blurts the mind as well, the rays of the sun rip it off, making everything clear. If there is no color in life, then it will become very dry and dry. जीवन का समूचा ताना-बाना रंगों से बना है, चाहे हमारे वस्त्र हांे, घर हो, या गाड़ी हो। सबकी पहचान रंगों के साथ है। रंगों का मनुष्य के जीवन और मन पर विशिष्ट प्रभाव होता है। रंग प्रकृति की बहुमूल्य देन है और मानव के जीवन का सौंदर्य भी। उषाकाल की लालिमा, नीलाभ नभ, भूरे पहाड़, तिनकों, पौधों और पेड़ों की हरिताभा, फीरोज़ी समुद्र- सबकुछ विशिष्ट और अद्भुत। मनुष्य और प्रकृति का संबंध भी अटूट है। कभी बसंती पीला तो कभी हरियाला सावन, कभी सिताभ तो कभी तमावृता रात। ऐसे ही मनुष्य की जीवन-यात्रा भी है। कभी सुनहली आशा तो कभी निराशा की कालिमा। मेघाच्छादित आकाश मन को भी धुँधला देता है तो उसे चीरती सूर्य की किरण, सबकुछ स्पष्ट करने वाली। यदि जीवन में रंग न हांे तो बहुत शुष्क और नीरस हो जाए।

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