Qianlong’s Flawed System of Oversight

2018 ◽  
pp. 173-198
Author(s):  
Norman A. Kutcher
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Fundamental Level

This chapter examines the system of imperial oversight that Qianlong developed to watch over his eunuchs. Its four components: the Careful Punishments Office (Shenxing Si), system of eunuch hierarchy and responsibility, Inner Police Bureau (Fanyi Chu), and punishment mechanisms had in common that each was flawed and unable to discover or discourage the activities of his eunuchs. At a fundamental level, the Imperial Household Department was unable or unwilling to keep track of its eunuchs, with personnel files rarely consulted, and eunuchs themselves largely indistinguishable one from the other.

Alloy Theory Through the Ages

1991 ◽  
Vol 253 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Gonis
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Greece ◽  
The Other ◽  
Predictive Capability ◽  
Fundamental Level ◽  
Composite Systems ◽  
Material Things ◽  
Alloy Theory

SUMMARYMan has always been fascinated with the quest to understand the inner workings of nature at a fundamental level. According to Embedocles[1], a philosopher in ancient Greece, all material things consist of four basic elements (he called them “roots”), namely earth, water, air, and fire. Modern mail's interpretation of that statement is that earth, water and air refer to the three states of matter, i.e., solids, liquids and gasses, with fire designating a process for transforming one of those states into the other. Be that as it may, Embedocles' statement could be conceived as the first attempt to construct an alloy theory, i.e., a predictive capability of the behavior of composite systems.

Conscience: The Most Intimate Alterity

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Françoise Dastur ◽  
Robert Vallier
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ethical Dimension ◽  
Fundamental Level

This chapter argues that what makes the character of moral conscience paradigmatic as the experience of alterity and passivity is that the dimension of affirmation originally constitutes it and is inscribed directly on it. It first examines Paul Ricoeur's claim that conscience is “the most deeply hidden passivity” in contrast to other passivities that belong to the experience of the proper body and the relation to the Other. It then considers Emmanuel Levinas's argument that the Other is neither “Being” nor a “being” easily grasped by a concept, along with Martin Heidegger's statement that “ontology” is always “practical,” always “engaged,” and therefore always includes an intrinsically ethical dimension. It also asks whether it is possible to think Being and the Other without opposing them before concluding with an analysis of the dialectic of alterity and ipseity that constitutes the most fundamental level of Ricoeur's hermeneutics of the self.

Developing Multicultural Counselling in an Australian University

2019 ◽  
pp. 168-182
Author(s):  
Carl Vadivella Belle
Keyword(s):  
South Australia ◽  
The Other ◽  
Team Approach ◽  
Fundamental Level ◽  
Problem Resolution ◽  
Community Interest ◽  
Diverse Background ◽  
Multicultural Counselling

Lifetime experiences have equipped the author with a broad and diverse background in approaching counselling and problem resolution. This has ranged from grief counselling to management of rural financial counselling and spiritual counselling. In 2004, the author was appointed Inaugural Hindu Chaplain at the Flinders University of South Australia, a position held until late 2007 (although his counselling role has continued until this day). The chaplaincy to which he was appointed was one of several that collectively comprised a multi-faith chaplaincy involving a team approach. The concept was one in which chaplains of different faiths would respect each other's traditions, would eschew proselytization, and would work cooperatively to mount joint educational and community interest projects. However, at the more fundamental level, his role consisted of providing chaplaincy services to Hindu students and staff studying or employed at Flinders University. (Increasingly this role extended to members of the other two universities based in Adelaide, neither of which possessed a Hindu chaplain.)

Epilogue

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omnia El Shakry
Keyword(s):  
Julia Kristeva ◽  
The Other ◽  
Central Question ◽  
Civilizing Mission ◽  
Ethical Imperative ◽  
Fundamental Level

This concluding chapter returns to the central question of this book—what does it mean, now, to think through psychoanalysis and Islam together as a creative encounter of ethical engagement? It argues that, if we take psychoanalysis, at its most fundamental level, to be a practice that allows itself to be transformed by the discourse of the other, we can begin to see the ethical imperative involved in the coupling of these two terms. Addressing recent scholarly interventions, such as those of Julia Kristeva, that operate within larger civilizing mission narratives that couple psychoanalysis with the secularization of Judeo-Christian legacies, this chapter questions the notion of psychoanalysis as the purview of any singular civilization. It asks what it might might mean to rethink the secular ends of analysis and open ourselves up to an ethical encounter with the Other.

Systems Thinking and the Internet

2011 ◽  
pp. 150-163
Author(s):  
Kambiz E. Maani
Keyword(s):  
Systems Thinking ◽  
Community Integration ◽  
Mass Movement ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Business And Society ◽  
Fundamental Level ◽  
The Past ◽  
Scientific Principles ◽  
The Individual

In the past decade two movements have had a profound influence on the way we think and communicate–Systems Thinking and the Internet. Both are grounded in sciences and technology and complement each other in principle and practice. But the similarities almost end here. While one has become a household name, the other still remains a mystery. The Internet was born in the elite military and academic quarters, but has rapidly moved to public neighborhoods and has already become a mass movement. Systems Thinking also originated from scientific circles and is only now beginning to make a public appearance. Despite their benign appearances, both Systems Thinking and the Internet challenge mankind’s age-old ways to think and disseminate information. At a fundamental level, they challenge the hierarchy and authority, and power and leadership. Through technology, the Internet has, in essence, brought down the boundaries that define business, trade and even nationhood. Through equally powerful scientific principles, Systems Thinking has broken the superficial dichotomies of the whole vs. the part, the individual vs. the community, integration and autonomy, and business and society.

scholarly journals How the definition of security risk can be made compatible with safety definitions

2017 ◽  
Vol 231 (3) ◽  
pp. 286-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Øystein Amundrud ◽  
Terje Aven ◽  
Roger Flage
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
The Other ◽  
Security Risk ◽  
Fundamental Level ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Asset Value ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Future Consequences ◽  
Security Risk Management ◽  
Intentional Acts

In safety settings, understood as situations involving the potential occurrence of unintentional events, it is common to define risk as a combination of consequences and associated probabilities or associated uncertainties. On the other hand, in security settings, understood as situations involving the potential occurrence of intentional malicious events, risk is commonly defined as the triplet asset/value, threat and vulnerability. One motivation often mentioned for the latter is that probability is considered inappropriate for intentional acts. In this article, we argue that it is unsuitable and unnecessary to define risk differently in these two settings. We show that risk, defined as the combination of future consequences and associated uncertainties, can be seen as compatible with the triplet definition of security risk. It also excludes probability from the definition of risk but explicitly includes uncertainty, which is more fundamental and present regardless of the type of events involved. The value dimension is integrated with the consequences as these are with respect to something that humans value. The purpose of the article is to contribute to a consolidation of the safety and security risk management fields at the fundamental level.

scholarly journals Edwards: Ethics for Both the Vulgar and the Learned

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 149
Author(s):  
PAUL HELM
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
John Locke ◽  
The Other ◽  
Jonathan Edwards ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Fundamental Level

Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) In Effect Lived Two Lives: One As The Pastor Of Churches In New England, Teaching His People The Faith And Including In That The Ethical Side Or Outworking Of The Faith, The Other As A Theorist Of God’s Relation To His Universe. These Two Roles Need To Be Borne In Mind In What Follows. The First Is Closely Connected With Doctrinal And Practical Themes Of The Christian Faith, The Second With The Meaning And Truth Of Ethical Matters At Their Most Fundamental Level. To Have A Rounded View Of Edwards’s Ethics, We Need Both. KEYWORDS: Jonathan Edwards, Ethics, True Religion, Doctrine And Life, John Locke, Religious Affections, Nature Of True Virtue, Charity And Its Fruits

Stromatoporoids from the Famennian (Devonian) Wabamun Formation, Normandville oilfield, north–central Alberta, Canada

1988 ◽  
Vol 62 (03) ◽  
pp. 411-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin W. Stearn
Keyword(s):  
Patch Reef ◽  
Abundant Species ◽  
The Other ◽  
North Central ◽  
Biotic Crisis

Stromatoporoids are the principal framebuilding organisms in the patch reef that is part of the reservoir of the Normandville field. The reef is 10 m thick and 1.5 km2in area and demonstrates that stromatoporoids retained their ability to build reefal edifices into Famennian time despite the biotic crisis at the close of Frasnian time. The fauna is dominated by labechiids but includes three non-labechiid species. The most abundant species isStylostroma sinense(Dong) butLabechia palliseriStearn is also common. Both these species are highly variable and are described in terms of multiple phases that occur in a single skeleton. The other species described areClathrostromacf.C. jukkenseYavorsky,Gerronostromasp. (a columnar species), andStromatoporasp. The fauna belongs in Famennian/Strunian assemblage 2 as defined by Stearn et al. (1988).

D. The Line Spectrum of Pulsating Variable Stars

1967 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 207-244
Author(s):  
R. P. Kraft
Keyword(s):  
Variable Stars ◽  
The Other ◽  
Line Spectrum ◽  
Afternoon Session ◽  
Empirical Information ◽  
Pulsating Variable Stars ◽  
Almost Continuous ◽  
Informal Approach

(Ed. note:Encouraged by the success of the more informal approach in Christy's presentation, we tried an even more extreme experiment in this session, I-D. In essence, Kraft held the floor continuously all morning, and for the hour and a half afternoon session, serving as a combined Summary-Introductory speaker and a marathon-moderator of a running discussion on the line spectrum of cepheids. There was almost continuous interruption of his presentation; and most points raised from the floor were followed through in detail, no matter how digressive to the main presentation. This approach turned out to be much too extreme. It is wearing on the speaker, and the other members of the symposium feel more like an audience and less like participants in a dissective discussion. Because Kraft presented a compendious collection of empirical information, and, based on it, an exceedingly novel series of suggestions on the cepheid problem, these defects were probably aggravated by the first and alleviated by the second. I am much indebted to Kraft for working with me on a preliminary editing, to try to delete the side-excursions and to retain coherence about the main points. As usual, however, all responsibility for defects in final editing is wholly my own.)

C. The Continuous Spectrum of Pulsating Variable Stars

1967 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 177-206
Author(s):  
J. B. Oke ◽  
C. A. Whitney
Keyword(s):  
Continuous Spectrum ◽  
Variable Stars ◽  
Velocity Fields ◽  
The Other ◽  
Line Spectrum ◽  
Direct Information ◽  
Thermodynamic Structure ◽  
Diagnostic Interpretation ◽  
Pulsating Variable Stars ◽  
The Continuum

Pecker:The topic to be considered today is the continuous spectrum of certain stars, whose variability we attribute to a pulsation of some part of their structure. Obviously, this continuous spectrum provides a test of the pulsation theory to the extent that the continuum is completely and accurately observed and that we can analyse it to infer the structure of the star producing it. The continuum is one of the two possible spectral observations; the other is the line spectrum. It is obvious that from studies of the continuum alone, we obtain no direct information on the velocity fields in the star. We obtain information only on the thermodynamic structure of the photospheric layers of these stars–the photospheric layers being defined as those from which the observed continuum directly arises. So the problems arising in a study of the continuum are of two general kinds: completeness of observation, and adequacy of diagnostic interpretation. I will make a few comments on these, then turn the meeting over to Oke and Whitney.

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