On the Alleged Truth About Lies in Plato’s Republic

2004 ◽  
Vol 21 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 93-106
Author(s):  
Daniel A. Dombrowski
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
The Subject

The purpose of the present article is to explicate and criticize the most detailed philosophical appreciation of the ‘noble’ and other lies in Plato on a Straussian basis: Carl Page’s instructive 1991 article titled ‘The Truth about Lies in Plato’s Republic’. I carefully summarize and criticize Page’s sober, scholarly approach to the subject matter in question. Ultimately I reject his attempt to justify the ‘noble’ and other lies told by both Plato and contemporary government leaders.

scholarly journals Sobre o protagonismo laical do catolicismo popular: pistas para reflexão

2019 ◽  
Vol 78 (311) ◽  
pp. 679
Author(s):  
José Reinaldo Felipe Martins Filho
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Great Amplitude ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Popular Catholicism ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Heaven And Earth

Este artigo tenta suscitar algumas pistas de reflexão sobre o protagonismo laical presente no catolicismo popular brasileiro, tendo como mote superar uma leitura meramente dicotômica e de oposição entre as esferas do oficial e do popular. Vale-se, para isso, de conceitos já consolidados pelas pesquisas em Teologia e Ciências da Religião, bem como de suas interfaces com a Antropologia, a Filosofia e a Sociologia. Entre as principais características do catolicismo popular que apontam para o protagonismo dos leigos estão a dimensão comunitária, a capacidade de ressignificação espaçotemporal e identitária e a ausência de intermediadores na relação entre céu e terra, como é o caso dos santos. Trata-se de um vasto e rico horizonte a ser explorado, cuja contribuição também alcança nossas atuais discussões sobre a identidade dos cristãos leigos. Abstract: The present article is an attempt to rise some reflecting clues on the lay protagonism presents in the Brazilian popular Catholicism, aiming at overcoming a merely dichotomous reading and opposition between official and popular spheres.  In this way, it is worth to recur to concepts already established by researches in Theology, Religion Science, as well as their interfaces with Antropology, Philosophy and Sociology. Among the main characteristics of popular Catholicism that point out in the direction of the lay Christian  are communitarian dimention, capacity of  identity espacio-temporal resignification and the absence of mediators such as saints, in the relationship between  Heaven and Earth. The subject matter, whose contribution meets our current discussions  about identity and lay Christians, is of great amplitude and still needs to be explored in depth.Keywords: Lay protagonism; Popular Catholicism; Identity.

scholarly journals Ironia i nihilizm. Figura bibliotekarza w Posłuchaniu u Lucypera Józefa Sękowskiego

2019 ◽  
pp. 83-94
Author(s):  
Jarosław Ławski
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Absolute Power ◽  
Polish Literature ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject

The subject matter of the present article is the image of library and librarian in a forgotten short story by a Polish-Russian writer Józef Julian Sękowski (1800−1858). Sękowski is known in Polish literature as a multi-talented orientalist and polyglot, who changed his national identity in 1832 and began to write only in Russian. In the history of Russian literature he is famous for Library for Reading and Fantastic Voyages of Baron Brambeus, an ironic-grotesque work, which was precursory in Russian prose. Until 1832 Sękowski was, however, a Polish writer. His last significant work was An Audience with Lucypher published in a Polish magazine Bałamut Petersburski (Petersburgian Philanderer) in 1832 and immediately translated into Russian by Sękowski himself under the title Bolszoj wychod u Satany (1833). The library and librarian presented by the author in this piece are a caricature illustration proving his nihilistic worldview. Sękowski is a master of irony and grotesquery, yet the world he creates is deprived of freedom and justice and a book in this world is merely a threat to absolute power.

scholarly journals Kwestia Rzezi Wołyńskiej w kontekście kryzysu ukraińskiego — między rosyjską propagandą, ukraińskim poszukiwaniem tożsamości narodowej a polską racją stanu

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 83-100
Author(s):  
Jakub Bornio
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Specific Activities ◽  
Raison D’État ◽  
Ukrainian Crisis

Niniejszy artykuł traktuje o Rzezi Wołyńskiej analizowanej w kontekście kryzysu ukraińskiego. Badanie skupia się na interpretacji instrumentalnego wykorzystywania przez Rosję, Ukrainę i Polskę zagadnień związanych z eksterminacją polskiej ludności cywilnej przez ukraińskich nacjonalistów. Opracowanie podzielone zostało na trzy części. Pierwsza odnosi się do polityki propagandowej Federacji Rosyjskiej. Ta część pokazuje w jaki sposób Kreml używa kwestii związanych z Rzezią Wołyńską do tworzenia korzystnej dla siebie narracji. Druga część poświęcona jest próbom budowy ukraińskiej tożsamości narodowej na dziedzictwie ukraińskiego nacjonalizmu. Autor analizuje w niej także konkretne działania elit ukraińskich, związane z tematem artykułu. Trzeci fragment natomiast analizuje sprawę Rzezi Wołyńskiej w oparciu o polską raison d’État. W tej części autor przedstawia nie tylko polskie spojrzenie na Rzeź Wołyńską w kontekście kryzysu ukraińskiego, lecz także odnosi ją do geopolitycznego znaczenia Ukrainy dla Polski. Poszczególne wątki są ze sobą połączone i stanowią spójną całość.The issue of the Volhynian Slaughter in the context of Ukrainian crisis — between Russian propaganda, Ukrainian seeking for the national identity and Polish raison d’ÉtatThe present article is devoted to the Volhynian Slaughter in the context of Ukrainian crisis. Research focuses on interpretation of intentional using by Russia, Ukraine, Poland of issues related to the extermination of Polish civilians carried out by Ukrainian nationalists. The article is divided into three parts. The first part refers to the propaganda policy of the Russian Federation. In this part author presents how the Kremlin uses issues related to the Volhynian Slaughter to create narrative favorable for itself. The second part is devoted to the process of building of Ukrainian national identity on the legacy of Ukrainian nationalism. In this part the author analyses also specific activities of Ukrainian authorities, which are linked to the subject matter of the article. The third part includes analysis of the Volhynian Slaughter in the context of Ukrainian crisis through the prism of Polish raison d’État. This part depicts not only the Polish perception of the Volhynian Slaughter but also explains links between subject matter and the geopolitical significance of Ukraine for Poland. All three parts of research are interconnected and belong together.

Machiavelli's Intention: The Prince

1957 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leo Strauss
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Historical Knowledge ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Times

Many writers have attempted to describe the intention of The Prince by using the term “scientific.” This description is defensible, and even helpful, provided it is properly understood. The present article is meant to prepare such an understanding.I. The Prince combines the characteristics of a treatise and a tract for the times.Let us begin at the beginning. In the Epistle Dedicatory Machiavelli gives three indications of the subject-matter of the book: he has incorporated into it his knowledge of the actions of great men both modern and ancient; he dares to discuss princely government and to give rules for it; he possesses knowledge of the nature of princes. As appears from the Epistle Dedicatory, from the book itself, and from what the author says elsewhere, knowledge of the actions of great men, i.e., historical knowledge, supplies only materials for knowledge of what princely government is, of the characteristics of the various kinds of principalities, of the rules with which one has to comply in order to acquire and preserve princely power, and of the nature of princes.

scholarly journals THE MILCH-COWS OF THE ANTS

1873 ◽  
Vol 5 (11) ◽  
pp. 207-208
Author(s):  
Thomas G. Gentry
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
The Subject

The above title, which forms the subject-matter of the present article, is one that has claimed the attention of the most eminent naturalists of all time. Although much has been said and written upon the subject, still there is room for more. As science advances in its onward march new facts are developed ; some of these have a tendency to subvert long established principles, others to conErm pre-existent notions.

scholarly journals Diskurs-begrebet i religionshistorisk kontekst

1994 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Albinus
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Paradigmatic Shift ◽  
Transcendent Reality ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Creation

The aim of the present article is to show how discourses can be seen as the subject matter for the historian of religions, drawing on structuralist and hermeneutic approaches. Despite different positions both approaches point to the topic of discourse as the field of investigation. In this article a discourse is understood as a ramework defining the conditions and possibilities of the creation of meaning within the confines of a communicative group. these religious groups, and their concomitant religious discourses, demarcate themselves vis-a-vis one another by referring to a transcendent reality, each through a specific representative. In ancient Greece, for example, Homer and  Orpheus, the inspired poets, count as authorities of two different discourses, the source material of which is available in the text groups presented in the names of these poets. The task is to account for the process of transformation as the outcome of different interacting discourses and the continuous reinterpretation within each. Hence, the paradigmatic shift from mythos to logos is to be seen from this angle and not in the perspective if different mentalities. The analysis of discourse is directed toward the historic situation and the texts themselves, not towards types of imagination defined a priori.

Words

PMLA ◽  
1935 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 1320-1327
Author(s):  
Colbert Searles
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
The Subject

THE germ of that which follows came into being many years ago in the days of my youth as a university instructor and assistant professor. It was generated by the then quite outspoken attitude of colleagues in the “exact sciences”; the sciences of which the subject-matter can be exactly weighed and measured and the force of its movements mathematically demonstrated. They assured us that the study of languages and literature had little or nothing scientific about it because: “It had no domain of concrete fact in which to work.” Ergo, the scientific spirit was theirs by a stroke of “efficacious grace” as it were. Ours was at best only a kind of “sufficient grace,” pleasant and even necessary to have, but which could, by no means ensure a reception among the elected.

The Taxonomic Structuring of Medical Information and its Usefulness in this Form

1965 ◽  
Vol 04 (03) ◽  
pp. 112-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Zinsser
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Central Core ◽  
Diagnostic Strategy ◽  
Programmed Instruction ◽  
Orderly Fashion ◽  
The Subject

An outline has been presented in historical fashion of the steps devised to organize the central core of medical information allowing the subject matter, the patient, to define the nature and the progression of the diseases from which he suffers, with and without therapy; and approaches have been made to organize this information in such fashion as to align the definitions in orderly fashion to teach both diagnostic strategy and the content of the diseases by programmed instruction.

العربية المقاربة المقاصديّة في ردّ ابن فودي على القادح في جلستهم الدعويّة

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alawiye Abdulmumin Abdurrazzaq ◽  
Ahmad Wifaq Mokhtar ◽  
Abdul Manan Ismail
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Analytical Methods ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Subject

This article is aimed to examine the extent of the application of Islamic legal objectives by Sheikh Abdullah bn Fudi in his rejoinder against one of their contemporary scholars who accused them of being over-liberal about the religion. He claimed that there has been a careless intermingling of men and women in the preaching and counselling gathering they used to hold, under the leadership of Sheikh Uthman bn Fudi (the Islamic reformer of the nineteenth century in Nigeria and West Africa). Thus, in this study, the researchers seek to answer the following interrogations: who was Abdullah bn Fudi? who was their critic? what was the subject matter of the criticism? How did the rebutter get equipped with some guidelines of higher objectives of Sharĩʻah in his rejoinder to the critic? To this end, this study had tackled the questions afore-stated by using inductive, descriptive and analytical methods to identify the personalities involved, define and analyze some concepts and matters considered as the hub of the study.

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