The Origin of the Olive: On the Dynamics of Plato’s Menexenus

2010 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-57
Author(s):  
Paul O Mahoney
Keyword(s):  
Internal Dynamic ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Athenian Democracy ◽  
Apparent Lack ◽  
Radical Nature ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Philosophical Matter

Plato’s Menexenus is a persistent puzzle for interpreters, in the main because of its obscurity of purpose and apparent lack of philosophical matter. This article argues that, while no doubt an elusive piece, it can be counted quite definitely a sdialogue of philosophical import, as well as one of its author’s most subtly accomplished works. The article focuses on two portions of Aspasia’s oration—the account of the earliest Athenians and the exhortation to the living in the voice of the dead—to demonstrate the radical nature of the speech. Close attention to its subtle internal dynamic reveals not only the range of philosophical themes touched upon, but also its outrageous aspects and the strength of its indictment of the Athenian democracy. The article also affirms the consistency of this critique with Plato’s reservations regarding that regime as expressed with most force and clarity in Republic and Gorgias.

The Voice from the Void

1998 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Sconce
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Popular Fiction ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Electronic Communities

This piece examines the proliferation of paranormal discourses around wireless and radio in the early decades of the century. Engaging popular fiction and parapsychological literature of the era, the article gives particular emphasis to the period's reigning image of ‘the etheric ocean’, discussing the symbolic importance of this metaphor in stories casting radio as a medium of the dead and of telepathy. Linking these often sinister stories to the vast social transformations of modernity, the article argues that the generally enthusiastic reception of the new medium was tempered by these occult stories of death, despair, and separation. Even as popular culture celebrated radio as a means of creating new electronic communities, there remained a subtext of atomization and alienation in the new technology. The article argues, in closing, that this paradox has continued to inform speculative, paranormal accounts of telecommunications across the century.

scholarly journals Perception of Program Administrators and Student Representatives on the Implementation of Return Service Agreement in Selected Institutions in the Philippines

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan P. Guevarra ◽  
Paolo Victor N. Medina ◽  
Michelle D. Avelino ◽  
Ma. Rhenea Anne M. Cengca ◽  
Mikko Anthony L. Ting ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Apparent Lack ◽  
Program Administrators ◽  
Evaluation Scheme ◽  
Open Coding ◽  
Service Agreement ◽  
The Voice

Objectives. The study aimed to determine the perception of program administrators and students on the implementation of return service agreement (RSA) in the Philippines. It examined the different components of, and opportunities, and challenges in the implementation of RSA of selected institutions. Methods. Key informant interviews using a topic guide were conducted with ten program administrators and student representatives from selected institutions implementing a return service policy. Interviews were transcribed and responses in Filipino were translated to English. Open coding and focused coding were performed to identify categories and themes from the interview transcripts. Results. Addressing human resource for health (HRH) needs of the country is a common rationale behind RSA implementation among the institutions sampled for the study. A notable difference in implementation arrangements is the manner of rendering service. Majority of RSA programs require promisors to be employed in any part of the Philippines in need of health workers, while other RSA programs recruit students from rural areas in order to deploy them later on in their hometowns. There is also an apparent lack of institutionalized mechanisms for job placement for students to fulfill their return service obligations. One challenge in most institutions is the need for a formal monitoring and evaluation scheme for the policy. Conclusion. Integration of the voice of stakeholders is critical in the conceptualization, development, and implementation of RSA policies. This will ensure that issues attendant to operationalization are mitigated if not outrightly avoided.

scholarly journals GATHERING THE VOICE OF THE STUDENTS FOR ACCREDITATION PURPOSES THROUGH THEIR DEFINITION OF “ENGINEER”

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvie Doré ◽  
Patrick Terriault ◽  
Christian Belleau
Keyword(s):  
Internal Validity ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
Program Improvement ◽  
First Year ◽  
Apparent Lack ◽  
Graduate Attributes ◽  
Program Accreditation ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Insight Into

This paper proposes a novel indirect assessment method to capture the voice of the students for program accreditation purposes. It consists of asking students, individually and then in teams, to draw up a list of keywords they associate with being an engineer and to write a formal definition of engineer. The raw data (list of keywords and definitions) is closed coded for the twelve graduate attributes (GAs) defined by Engineers Canada. First-year, mid-program and last-year students participated in the study in order to verify change of perception as students advance through the program. Results are compared for individual and teams, as well as for the different student populations. Sufficient insight into the program’s contribution to the development of graduate attributes in its student population (or apparent lack thereof), information that can be used for continual program improvement, was gained to warrant internal validity of the method.

scholarly journals Motory Emila Zegadłowicza czytane po latach

2014 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-82
Author(s):  
Stanisław Stabro
Keyword(s):  
Political Activism ◽  
Dead Sea ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Utopian Thinking ◽  
The Dead

Abstract Emil Zegadłowicz’s Motors, which was published in 1937, has to read in the context of the writer’s artistic and ideological evolution, marked by his novel cycle, The Life of his Mikołaj Srebrempisany (1927-1935), in particular Mares (1935), as well as the later The Dead Sea (1939). Close attention should also be paid to the autobiographical aspects of all his fictions. The same is true of Motors, the origin of which is deeply rooted in the writer’s biography. How should we read and interpret the novel today? Should we treat it as erotic fiction? Or focus primarily on the main character’s three types of utopian thinking, the utopia of sex, art and left-wing political activism? It seems that the latter approach may well restore to us and reveal a fresh relevance of a book often regarded as a product of a long gone epoch

ERIC NATHAN (b. 1983)Forever Is Composed of Nows (2011)

2021 ◽  
pp. 165-167
Author(s):  
Jane Manning
Keyword(s):  
Musical Style ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Less Is More ◽  
French Music ◽  
American Composer ◽  
The Voice

This chapter discusses American composer Eric Nathan’s Forever Is Composed of Nows (2011). This hauntingly lovely setting is simple enough to be tackled by beginners, but all singers will find it a rewarding vehicle. Nathan demonstrates conclusively that ‘less is more’. With admirable economy of language and structure, he captures and matches the pith and essence of the succinct texts with unerring musicality, so that every phrase tells. The voice is given every chance to hone each fragment to perfection, monitoring every morsel of sound, paying close attention to colour, nuance, and subtly graded dynamics. The musical style, a fluent and intuitive fusion of past and present, is reminiscent of late romanticism, evoking in particular the rarefied atmosphere of French music.

A Child Disappears

2020 ◽  
pp. 216-245
Author(s):  
Veena Das
Keyword(s):  
Police Officers ◽  
Child Witness ◽  
Grammatical Structure ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday Experiences ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Voice

Focusing on a case in which an eight-year-old girl is abducted, forcibly confined, and raped, this chapter analyzes the judgment of the court sessions. Paying close attention to the grammatical structure of both written and oral statements, the chapter shows the different kinds of splits that happen within these statements. The judge’s pronouncements show a doubling of voice—one voice through which she converts the narrated events into objects recognizable to the law, and a second voice in which the law speaks through the voice of the judge. Similarly, the child witness is shown to be split into the witness, one who saw the various acts of horrifying violence done to her, and second, the victim who experienced these events on her body. Finally, the chapter reads the minor contradictions that were papered over in the court to take the reader to the life of the law outside the court into the neighborhood where the everyday harassment by police officers, the bribes and the scandals, are the stuff of everyday experiences. The notion of ordinary realism helps in the analysis to anchor the contradictory affects in which the law embodies both threat and promise.

scholarly journals Characterization in Stand-up Comedy: from Ted Ray to Billy Connolly, via Bertolt Brecht

2000 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 315-323
Author(s):  
Oliver Double
Keyword(s):  
Bertolt Brecht ◽  
The Self ◽  
Apparent Lack ◽  
Stand Up Comedy ◽  
The University ◽  
The Voice

Stand-up comedy is often distinguished from straight acting by its apparent lack of characterization – the comedian appearing onstage apparently as him or herself. But within gags and routines, comics often briefly take on the voice and posture of the characters they describe. Here Oliver Double contrasts the approach of two comedians of different generations – Ted Ray and Billy Connolly – to this technique of ‘momentary characterization’. He notes the links between Connolly's conversational approach and Brecht's notions of acting, and goes on to examine the broader questions of comic personae, representation of the self, and the changing performance conventions within British stand-up comedy. Oliver Double is an ex-comedian who now lectures at the University of Kent at Canterbury.

Talking to the Dead – the Voice of the Victim in Crime Fiction

New Writing ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne Reardon Lloyd
Keyword(s):  
Crime Fiction ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The Voice
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