Buddhist Epigraphy and Traditions of Writing in the Northern Dynasties

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 287-312
Author(s):  
Jordan Davis
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Social Background ◽  
The Political ◽  
Historical Source ◽  
Common Trends ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Function ◽  
Medieval China ◽  
The Common

Abstract Over the past several decades, hundreds of donor inscriptions (zaoxiangji 造像記) and works of Buddhist epigraphy have been discovered, making them an abundant historical source on medieval China. To date, research related to these artifacts has mainly concentrated on the religious and political function of these inscriptions. This article, considering the literary and cultural aspects of these pieces, investigates how Buddhist epigraphy can be used to trace the development of traditions of writing during the Northern Dynasties period. It starts by analyzing a seldom-researched inscription, “Dangchanggong Huifusi bei” 宕昌公暉福寺碑 (The Duke of Dangchang's Huifu Temple Stele), and then examines its historical and cultural context. The article continues with an investigation into the common trends found in Northern Dynasties epigraphy by comparing “Dangchanggong Huifusi bei” with other pieces of extant Buddhist inscriptions. The analysis explores the literary characteristics of these works, the political and social background of their creation, and the culture associated with such inscriptions.

Searching for Political Parties in the Past

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piero Ignazi
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Political Party ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Political Community ◽  
Democratic Politics ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Common

Chapter 1 introduces the long and difficult process of the theoretical legitimation of the political party as such. The analysis of the meaning and acceptance of ‘parties’ as tools of expressing contrasting visions moves forward from ancient Greece and Rome where (democratic) politics had first become a matter of speculation and practice, and ends up with the first cautious acceptance of parties by eighteenth-century British thinkers. The chapter explores how parties or factions have been constantly considered tools of division of the ‘common wealth’ and the ‘good society’. The holist and monist vision of a harmonious and compounded society, stigmatized parties and factions as an ultimate danger for the political community. Only when a new way of thinking, that is liberalism, emerged, was room for the acceptance of parties set.

Radicalism in the Argentine Catholic Church

1975 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
John T. Deiner
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Third World ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Visible Effect ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The Church

ON 11 MAY 1974 FATHER MUGICA, A LEADING SPOKESMAN OF THE Movement of Priests for the Third World (MPTW) and a pro- Peronist, was machine-gunned to death as he left his church in a working-class neighbourhood after celebrating mass. Once again the Catholic Church in Argentina called for peace and understanding as the proper path for Argentines, and the MPTW issued a long statement condemning the use of violence. Nevertheless, the common pleas by the two factions of the Church in Argentina have had little visible effect in stopping the violence through which Argentina is now suffering. In order to understand how the political and doctrinal differences from within the Church in Argentina have influenced in the past and will continue to influence the political developments in Argentina it is first necessary to look at the background of the problem.

scholarly journals Arendt, Koselleck, and Begreifen: Rethinking Politics and Concepts in Times of Crisis

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vlasta Jalušič
Keyword(s):  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Thinking ◽  
Political Tradition ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Common ◽  
Multiple Breaks ◽  
The One ◽  
Historical Periods

Reinhard Koselleck has long been regarded as a particularly eminent theorist of socio-political concepts, while Hannah Arendt had not been in focus as a conceptual author until recent times. This article explores the common thinking space between Arendt and Koselleck through their thesis about the gap, rupture, crisis, or break in the tradition of political thinking and historical periods and how this is linked to their notion of conceptuality, i.e. Begreifen (understanding). Despite the impression that each of them focused on the one main break between the past and the future, Arendt and Koselleck both studied multiple breaks and crises in the Western political tradition. The article attempts to show how their distinctive thinking and rethinking of political concepts (Begreifen) are related to these breaks through several direct and indirect encounters and how these are both close and apart at the same time. While they have different concepts of politics and the political, their understanding of the breaks in time and crises can be read as complementary, especially considering their concern with returning the responsibility for actions and concepts to the human sphere.

scholarly journals The Affinity Between Ownership Forms and Coordination Mechanisms: The Common Experience of Reform in Socialist Countries

1990 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 131-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
János Kornai
Keyword(s):  
Dominant Role ◽  
Mao Zedong ◽  
The Political ◽  
Chronological Order ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
The Past ◽  
Systemic Transformation ◽  
The Common ◽  
Correct Understanding ◽  
Rigid Instruments

The world is witnessing a great upheaval in socialist countries, where dramatic events have been happening since 1988. The present paper concentrates on evaluating past experience in the hope that a correct understanding of the past will help in devising sound policies for the future. In the following, I distinguish two prototypes of socialism. The first one is classical socialism: the form of socialism that prevailed under Stalin, Mao Zedong, and their disciples in other countries. The second one is reform socialism: the new form of socialism that evolved (in chronological order) under Tito in Yugoslavia, Kádár in Hungary, Deng Xiaoping in China, and Gorbachev in the USSR; some further countries could be named as well. The reform socialist countries made some steps toward liberalization in the political sphere, somewhat decentralized the control of their state-owned sector, and allowed a somewhat larger scope for the private sector. At the same time, these countries still maintained the fundamental attributes of a socialist system: the Communist party did not share power with any other political force, the state-owned sector still played a dominant role in the economy, and the main coordinator of economic activities was the centralized bureaucracy, even though coordination was effected with the aid of less rigid instruments. In this paper, I am concerned with reform socialism, and do not discuss the problems of “post-socialist” revolutionary systemic transformation.

Mortality in the Past Hundred Years

1956 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 40-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. LL. Gwilt
Keyword(s):  
Cause Of Death ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Mortality Rates ◽  
The Political ◽  
List Type ◽  
Mortality Statistics ◽  
The Past ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
The Relationship

SynopsisThe paper, which was written at the invitation of the Council of the Faculty for submission on the occasion of the Centenary celebrations, deals with the broad trend of mortality rates in the hundred years 1850-1950.The paper is in five main parts :—1. The political and social background of the period, in so far as it might affect mortality rates, is briefly discussed.2. The trend of mortality rates during the hundred years is discussed principally with reference to the following six countries which, besides being relatively stable politically during the period, have recorded mortality rates throughout— England & WalesDenmarkFranceNetherlandsNorwaySweden.The experience in more recent years of a number of other countries is also discussed.3. The relationship between the mortality rates of males and females is examined at various ages for the six countries above mentioned.4. The more recent mortality statistics are analysed according to cause of death in broad groups.5. The paper concludes with a statement on the points which seem to be of special interest, setting out in the form of questions some of the thoughts which spring from them.In the pages which follow (Appendices 1-18) the statistics referred to in Parts 2 and 3 are illustrated by a series of graphs.

scholarly journals Contested Sites of Memory on Tarara in New Zealand

2019 ◽  
pp. 61-75
Author(s):  
Senka Božić-Vrbančić
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
The Political ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
Dominant Culture ◽  
Far North ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Transformations ◽  
Colonial Time ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Common

During the colonial time in New Zealand Maori and Croatians worked together on the gumfileds of the Far North. On the gumfields both Maori and Croats were stigmatized, each in their own way and for different reasons. This stigmatisation excluded them from the dominant culture and constituted the common terrain for their relationship. The intermarriages were common. This paper explores the ways the stories about Maori and Croatians in New Zealand have been narrated or represented in five different sites of memory, built in different historical time, from colonial New Zealand to the bicultural New Zealand of the present. It argues that a parallel reading of these sites shows that in between these sites, there seems to be a space where all of these gumfield stories are entangled, with motives that are embedded in social reality. Hence these stories reflect processes of differentiation and power relations in the social. Their meanings are constructed retroactively, the past they strive to embody is always presented in the form of tradition, but the meaning of tradition restructures and changes constantly with the political transformations of the social.

scholarly journals Kyai and Power in Banten, Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 86 ◽  
pp. 01051
Author(s):  
M. Dian Hikmawan ◽  
M. Rizky Godjali ◽  
Ika Arinia Indriyany
Keyword(s):  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
The Political ◽  
Important Indicator ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Religious Rituals ◽  
Political Function ◽  
Political Roles ◽  
The Right

In Indonesian socio-cultural society, Kyai is an important indicator to perceive the diversity of the socio-cultural. Kyai is not only a leader in religious rituals but also kyai also be used as symbols in political roles. This research tries to elaborate on the role of Kyai in political structuration in Banten,. This research tries to analyze cultural aspects to elaborate on the socio-political function and role of the Kyai, it becomes a very interesting matter for further review. Therefore, these studies involve the role of Kyai in political Power in Banten. by using a phenomenological approach in understanding the realities that occur in Socio-cultural. This research was conducted to understand, first, understanding and interpretation this by using the structure of society in Banten to understand the role of Kyai in socio-cultural, how the agent perceives the political agenda. Secondly, morality or the right direction, it is means how the influences of morality to the political decisions on the socio-cultural agenda. Third, power relation, how to perceive regulation on the socio-cultural and its influence on government policies in Banten

Questioning the Basic Values—Austria and Jörg Haider

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konrad Lachmayer
Keyword(s):  
Member State ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Common ◽  
Year 2000 ◽  
Core Part ◽  
The Eu

This chapter argues against the common consensus regarding the EU 14’s measures against Austria in 2000 by not only retracing the core part of the story but also extending the perspectives on the year 2000 to the past and the future. First, the chapter analyses the historical dimension of Haider’s Freedom Party and the political relevance of the developments in the year 2000 from an Austrian perspective. The chapter contends that the EU did not learn effectively from the measures and failed to develop proper institutional and procedural mechanisms to deal with the questioning of basic values by a Member State. Hereafter, the chapter looks critically back on the participation of the Freedom Party in the Austrian government and the effects of Jörg Haider to Rule of Law and democracy in Austria. Emphasis is placed in acknowledging the different layers of the narrative on the EU 14’s measures.

Remarks at the Opening of the Symposium Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the German Law Journal – U.S. Embassy in Berlin

2009 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 1301-1302
Author(s):  
Robert A. Pollard
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
German Law ◽  
Law Students ◽  
The Political ◽  
10Th Anniversary ◽  
Legal Decisions ◽  
Legal Professionals ◽  
The Past ◽  
American Law

It is a privilege to address such a distinguished audience of judicial and legal professionals, including Minister Zypries and Professors Miller and Zumbansen, and to celebrate with you the 10th anniversary of the German Law Journal. In the past decade the German Law Journal has played an important role in improving our understanding of German, European, and international law and jurisprudence, especially by illuminating the political, historical and cultural context in which legal decisions are made at each of those levels. I would especially like to commend the joint projects that the German Law Journal has initiated with American law students. This is a wonderful way to build links within the transatlantic legal community. And, of course, what many of my American colleagues and I find particularly helpful is that the German Law Journal is published in English!

scholarly journals Multi-factor Consideration in Selection of a Capital for a Country

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 150
Author(s):  
Dachang Liu
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Ethnic Relations ◽  
The Political ◽  
Critical Importance ◽  
Environmental Pressure ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Function ◽  
Selection Of

Selection of a capital is of critical importance to security and stability of a country and consolidation of its regime. In selection of the capital in all Chinese dynasties over the past, what the governors usually take into account contained a variety of factors, such as, the strategic military position of a city, its economic development, its traffic convenience condition, its ethnic relations, etc. The same is true with other countries. Consideration of multi-factors is an inevitable route in selection of a capital. With development of the time and swift increase of population, capitals of some countries might be encountered with contradictions between population resources and environmental pressure and political functions. To resolve these contradictions, these countries, one after another, take different measures by moving their capitals elsewhere and decomposing functions. To the end of give play to the political function of a capital and maintain the integration capacity of a country, it is a must to pay attention to and deal with the issue of capital.

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