The Noble Experiment? Faulkner’s Two Prohibitions

2017 ◽  
pp. 135-147
Author(s):  
Conor Picken
Keyword(s):  
Alcoholics Anonymous ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Will

This chapter argues that Sanctuary (1931) dramatizes the failure of the Prohibition movement “to 'cure' the American alcoholic republic and restore domestic order” in a society where liquor “was demonized as morally wrong by some” but “recklessly consumed by many.” Requiem (1951), on the other hand, unfolds against the midcentury Sobriety movement (led by Alcoholics Anonymous), which “retooled the temperance paradigm” by approaching alcoholism “as a physiological disease rather than a disease of the will.” These paradigms reflected gendered assumptions about drinking.

Problems of Western Europe

1949 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-169
Author(s):  
Bernard Wall
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The Other ◽  
Common People ◽  
Western Nation ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Will ◽  
East And West

The following pages are based on the last six months of 1948 which the writer spent in England, France and Italy. During this period Marshall aid had begun to bear certain fruit. On the other hand the international situation, already bad at the opening of the period, had deteriorated cumulatively as time passed. The Berlin deadlock, a symbol of the will of East and West, continued as before; and not even the beginning of a solution was reached at the United Nations assembly in Paris in die autumn. All over Europe people were preoccupied widi the economic crisis; but also by the direat of a new war. A military committee composed of Great Britain, France and Benelux was formed in the autumn under the chairmanship of Marshal Montgomery. There remained problems about this committee's effectiveness as well as about the extent to which other proposals for Western union were practicable at present. While in each country in Western Europe common people and politicians are talking more about union than ever before, in practice separatist tendencies in each shrunken western nation are still at work and travel to, or independent contact with, neighboring countries is a far more difficult business today than it was in 1939.

Freedom as a Skill

1983 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 197-215
Author(s):  
K. R. Minogue
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Positive Liberty ◽  
The Will

The word ‘freedom’ leads a double life. As a rallying cry in the mouths of politicians and publicists, it features in speech acts which inspire men to brave endeavours. Freedom or death are the proffered alternatives, and they are generally linked with fatiguing dispositions such as vigilance. As a philosophical concept, on the other hand, freedom is a territory in which battles are fought about such issues as positivity and negativity, virtue, determinism and the character of the will. There is remarkably little connection between these two lives. Philosophers do not seem to take much interest in courage, and politicians do not tarry to specify whether it is negative or positive liberty they are talking about.

Droits de l’homme, droits de Dieu : Une inévitable tension ?

2018 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvio Ferrari
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Will ◽  
The One ◽  
International Conventions ◽  
Religious Obligation ◽  
Will Of God

The conflicts between rights of God and human rights are on the rise. On the one hand, there are some rights that are qualified as human rights in the most important international conventions and in many national constitutions. As such, they are to be respected always and everywhere. On the other hand, there are rights that are directly or indirectly attributed to the will of God. Their respect is regarded as a religious obligation to be upheld even when it implies the violation of human rights. These are the terms of the conflict and the fact that they sink their roots in non-negotiable beliefs – rights related to the very nature of man vs. rights dependent on the will of God–makes this conflict particularly serious and complex. This article discusses the structural and historical causes of this conflict and proposes a few strategies to reduce the tensions between these two sets of rights.

Kunnen wij onze eigen dood onder ogen zien?

2019 ◽  
Vol 111 (4) ◽  
pp. 643-668
Author(s):  
Govert den Hartogh
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Personal Value ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Will

Abstract Can we face our own death?We all know, of course, that we will once die. But do we, can we, really face up to the fact, can we live in a way that really takes it into account? Many philosophers have doubted that we can. Some of them appeal to conceptual arguments, for example the Epicurean argument that we cannot attribute any personal value to the state of our non-existence, because it is not a state of us. Others appeal to phenomenological arguments. At all other times when a possibility that we treasure is not actualized, we are left to deplore the fact, but this particular loss is more encompassing than any other loss. I argue that the conceptual arguments are interesting but in the end unconvincing. The phenomenological arguments, on the other hand, fail to show that it is impossible to live in full consciousness of our mortality, but they explain why it is so difficult for us. Finally, I consider what this tells us about the will to die.

Freedom as a Skill

1983 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 197-215
Author(s):  
K. R. Minogue
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Positive Liberty ◽  
The Will

The word ‘freedom’ leads a double life. As a rallying cry in the mouths of politicians and publicists, it features in speech acts which inspire men to brave endeavours. Freedom or death are the proffered alternatives, and they are generally linked with fatiguing dispositions such as vigilance. As a philosophical concept, on the other hand, freedom is a territory in which battles are fought about such issues as positivity and negativity, virtue, determinism and the character of the will. There is remarkably little connection between these two lives. Philosophers do not seem to take much interest in courage, and politicians do not tarry to specify whether it is negative or positive liberty they are talking about.

Continentia in the Confessions 8, 26-27

Augustinianum ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-104
Author(s):  
Bernard Bruning ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The Past ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Will ◽  
The One

This paper aims to show, on the one hand, that the humility mentioned in book 7 of the Confessions would become the prelude for Augustine to the humility that constitutes the true conversion, and, on the other hand, that the context in which this humility presented itself is continentia. In a passage of linguistic beauty (conf. 8, 27), Augustine describes the struggle that occurred between allegorical persons: those who pulled him back with the chain of the past, and those who urged him forward towards the decision to embrace continentia. The enjoyment of love not only requires the truth that remains forever, but also the steadfastness of all the emotions that come together in the lasting unity of the will. According to the author, Augustine in his Confessions has Christianised the Roman uirtus of continentia.

The Long Ordeal of Modernization Theory

Prospects ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 407-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dwight Hoover
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Modernization Theory ◽  
American Anthropologist ◽  
Common Values ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Will ◽  
German Sociology ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Mechanical Solidarity

The concept of modernization has its roots deep in nineteenth-century German sociology, reaching back to Toennies' distinction between Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, to Weber's discussion of the process of increasing rationalization in society, and to Durkheim's contrast between organic and mechanical solidarity in different communities. One of the best descriptions of the two kinds of society envisaged by this idea of modernization has been given by the American anthropologist Robert Redfield:One may conceive of a society, the Gemeinschaft, characterized by absolute unity derived from the intimate contacts of communal personal association and participation in common values. Here the will of the individual is spontaneous and affective. On the other hand, one may conceive of a society, the Gesellschaft, in which unity is highly individualizing and differentiating.

Newman and the ‘Ethics of Belief’

1983 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 361-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Jamie Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
John Henry Newman ◽  
Ethics Of Belief ◽  
Insufficient Evidence ◽  
Philosophical Discussion ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Ethics Of Belief

The last thirty years have seen a number of major contributions to the philosophical discussion of the possibility and character of an ‘ethics of belief’. In so far as the concern was focused on the problem of what constitutes ‘sufficient’ or ‘insufficient evidence’, the question of the ‘ethics of belief’ has turned into the current philosophical preoccupation with the question of the character of ‘rationality’ and the possibility of criteria of rationality which are either universal or at least cross-contextual. On the other hand, in so far as the concern was focused on the debated thesis that ‘believing is subject to moral appraisal (including the determination of “duties” to believe)’ the question of the ‘ethics of belief’ is with us today as the double inquiry into the question of the ‘will to believe’ and the relation of belief to action. Though the two concerns are not entirely separable, I will pay more explicit attention in this paper to the latter one in assessing some recent claims concerning the position held by John Henry Newman on these matters. After addressing some of the main points in the modern philosophical discussion of the ‘ethics of belief’, I will attempt to clarify Newman's place in the ‘ethics of belief’ discussion and argue that recent evaluations of Newman misrepresent his position in crucial ways and obscure his contributions to that discussion.

Swift's Explorations of Slavery in Houyhnhnmland and Ireland

PMLA ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 91 (5) ◽  
pp. 846-855 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Cline Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Natural Condition ◽  
The Other ◽  
Gulliver's Travels ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Will ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Swift recognized that “slavery” was an ambivalent term: on one hand, slavery can be seen as a biological imperative—a natural condition of the innately servile; on the other hand, slavery can be seen as a political accident— a circumstance imposed from without by those with the will and power to oppress. Swift consistently characterized the Irish as “slaves” and called the relationship of Ireland to England “slavery.” In the case of the Irish, Swift feared that their slavery, which may have begun as external oppression, would eventually become an intrinsic part of Irish character. If Swift's observations on slavery in Ireland are applied to the slavery of the Yahoos to the Houyhnhnms in Book iv of Gulliver's Travels, the question of whether slavery is a matter of nature or nurture also arises, for there is evidence in Book iv to suggest that the Yahoos were as rational as Gulliver when they arrived in Houyhnhnmland.

scholarly journals The Quest for Success and Power in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Novel The Beautiful and Damned

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 181
Author(s):  
Ala Eddin Sadeq
Keyword(s):  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
American Dream ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Will To Power ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Will

This study aims at investigating the concepts of success and power, as depicted by F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Beautiful and Damned (2009). Cultural change motivates individuals to work harder to achieve success, which in turn makes them influential. The study reveals that the concepts of success and power are controversial, as their means vary from one theorist to another.  Waldo Emerson, for example, believes that success is connected to happiness.  He, therefore, lists down features that characterize successful people. To succeed, one must learn to follow their desires, an argument that is expounded by the ideology of the American Dream.  Friedrich Nietzsche, however, explains that individuals are motivated to lead due to the fact that power brings about the superman. To achieve the status of the superman, Nietzsche believes that individuals develop the will to power and are able to influence others (Nietzsche, 1968). Fitzgerald, on the other hand, makes it clear that power leads to liberty. The novel provides a deep analysis of the quest for power and success. The main characters are Gloria, Joseph, and Anthony who helps to demonstrate the quest for success and power. Richard Caramel is also a character whose role explains the pursuit of true happiness. He is depicted as powerful because he influences the society through his writings. He has a strong determination to be a writer, which motivates him to work hard and to seek further success. 

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