Heraclitus and Sonic Thinking

Resonance ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-333
Author(s):  
Trinidad Silva ◽  
Gregorio Fontaine
Keyword(s):  
General Outline ◽  
Intellectual Activity ◽  
Sonic Art ◽  
Material Flux ◽  
The Way

“The material Flux”; “the hidden mobility beneath”; “Sonic Logos.” Any classicist familiar with the fragments of Heraclitus would be surprised to find these concepts developed in today’s theories about sonic art from authors from different traditions such as Salomé Voegelin, Julian Henriques, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Christoph Cox. The present paper intends to open a dialogue between these authors and Heraclitus, claiming that there is an underlying connection beyond mere coincidence. Sonic thinking proposes listening as the way to access or produce a particular knowledge—one that would otherwise be too difficult or impossible to grasp. This knowledge is produced by practices such as listening and musical meditation instead of intellectual activity alone. To make the case, the authors will present a general outline of what sonic thinking entails to compare it with the relevant points in Heraclitus’s philosophy. The purpose of this paper is twofold: to provide a new sonic framework to read Heraclitus and to provide an old framework to read sonic thinking.

scholarly journals To Act or not to Act: How Coleridge Changed the Way We See Hamlet

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (31) ◽  
pp. 133-143
Author(s):  
Svetozar Poštić
Keyword(s):  
Samuel Taylor Coleridge ◽  
Samuel Johnson ◽  
Intellectual Activity ◽  
Insightful Analysis ◽  
The One ◽  
Main Protagonist ◽  
General Opinion ◽  
Lasting Influence ◽  
Real Action ◽  
The Way

Exactly 200 years ago, from 1811 to 1819, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of the most famous English Romantic poets, held a series of influential lectures about William Shakespeareand his plays. His presentation of “Hamlet”, a play hitherto not only negatively appraised, but even viewed quite negatively by the leading critics, most notably Samuel Johnson, was especially significant. His insightful analysis helped to change the general opinion about the play, and pointed to the qualities of “Hamlet” that made it into perhaps the best known and most frequently played drama in the next 200 years. In this paper, I examine the way Coleridge was able to recognise the neglected features of Shakespeare’s profound tragedy up to that point. First of all, he identified with the main protagonist of the play, the Prince of Denmark, and described the unbridgeable gap between ambitions and power of imagination on the one hand, and inability to act on the other. Like Hamlet, Coleridge had "great, enormous, intellectual activity, and a consequent proportionate aversion to real action" (Coleridge 2014: 345). Aware of this shortcoming, but unable to correct it, the extremely talented and educated Coleridge presented it in fascinating detail. Secondly, he used his knowledge of the most influential contemporary philosophers, especially Kant, Locke and Hobbes, and the increasingly popular psychological approach to character analysis in order to paint an internal portrait of leading characters of the play. Due to the increasingly popular trend in recent literary theory and analysis focusing on the political and material context of an art work, the universal qualities of Coleridge's intepretation of “Hamlet” that contributed to the lasting influence of his critique have been largely neglected. This article intends, therefore, to re-establish the significance of Coleridge's “Hamlet” lectures

Constructing a Theory of Punishment, Desert, and the Distribution of Punishments

1997 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 441-506 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don E. Scheid
Keyword(s):  
Sentencing Guidelines ◽  
Major Focus ◽  
General Outline ◽  
Moral View ◽  
Adequate Theory ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Way

Punishment, by definition, involves the intentional imposition of some deprivation or suffering on individuals against their wills. On any moral view, there is a very strong presumption against doing this to people; so, if a society has an institution of punishment, some justification is needed. On the face of things, such an institution would seem to be an evil. What, then, is the justification for punishment? And once this question has been raised, related questions arise. Who should be punished and how severely? And what principle or principles should we use when setting up sentencing guidelines? Any adequate theory of punishment must provide some guidance, some useful headings, even if not a detailed chart, for answering these questions, among others.In this paper, I outline a theory of punishment that I believe best answers these sorts of questions. Inevitably, some parts are far sketchier than others; but within the general outline, the major focus is on the concept of desert and on the application of desert principles in determining the just allotment of punishments. This leads to a framework for constructing a crimes/punishments schedule for sentencing. Along the way, a number of lesser issues are discussed as well.

scholarly journals Uma Casa Portuguesa: as crianças austríacas em Portugal no pós-guerra (1947-1958)

CEM ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 261-283
Author(s):  
Ana R. da Silva Pinho
Keyword(s):  
Government Agencies ◽  
General Outline ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Way

Between 1947 and 1958, thousands of Austrian children were hosted by Portuguese families and institutions as part of an action promoted by Caritas. Thus escaping, for some time, the misery of a country devastated by war, these “Caritas children” found in Portugal, under Antonio de Oliveira Salazar’s Estado Novo, shelter and, in most cases, affection: an experience that, besides having repercussions in their memories and journeys, also left marks that, although less visible, continue to make themselves felt in Portugal. In this article we present a general outline of the research «The “Caritas Children”, between Austria and Portugal (1947-1958)», which was aimed to understand the way the Action took place, its repercussions on those involved, the way it was dealt with by government agencies and displayed by the press at its service and perceived by the population.

scholarly journals Redefining Religious Truth as a Challenge for Philosophy of Religion

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 139-159
Author(s):  
Peter Jonkers
Keyword(s):  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Philosophy Of Religion ◽  
Intellectual Activity ◽  
Religious Truth ◽  
Truth Claims ◽  
Ways Of Life ◽  
The Way

One of the most important features of contemporary Western societies is the rise of (religious) pluralism. Whereas (philosophical) theism used to serve as a common ground to discuss the truth-claims of religion, this approach seems to have lost much of its plausibility. What I want to argue in this article is that philosophy of religion as a critical intellectual activity still cannot do without the notion of religious truth, but also that it needs to redefine this truth in an existential way, i.e. by interpreting religions as concrete ways of life. In this paper I develop this idea of religious truth by interpreting religions as traditions of wisdom, being a kind of truth that is able to orientate humans’ lives without being swayed by the issues of the day. In order to substantiate my interpretation I discuss three fundamental aspects of wisdom, viz. the fact that it rests on a broadened idea of reason, the way in which it discovers the universal in the particular, and the insight that all life-orientations are based on a principle that is subjectively adequate, but objectively inadequate (Kant).

scholarly journals Off the Map?

2010 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 33-40
Author(s):  
Joseph Hyde
Keyword(s):  
Hip Hop ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Culture Media ◽  
Media Convergence ◽  
Sonic Art ◽  
Convergence And Divergence ◽  
Low Culture ◽  
Cultural Homogenisation ◽  
The Way

This article examines the place of Sonic Art in the current cultural landscape. It deconstructs some of the preconceptions often associated with this field, and postulates that because work of this nature does not necessarily fit commonly recognised categories and hierarchies, it becomes effectively invisible (and therefore inaudible). While not attempting to propose a solution, the article looks at various pointers towards an alternative cultural 'placing' of sonic art; along the way looking at other genres such as hip-hop, techno and electronica, and the dichotomies of so-called 'high' and low' culture, media convergence and divergence and cultural homogenisation and fragmentation.

scholarly journals Archaeology and politics in China: Historical paradigm and identity construction in museum exhibitions

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gideon Shelach-Lavi
Keyword(s):  
National Identities ◽  
Political Regime ◽  
Chinese History ◽  
General Outline ◽  
Current Time ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Museum Exhibitions ◽  
Historical Trajectory ◽  
The Way

In China, as in many other modern and contemporary states, the past is often used to inform public opinions and legitimate the political regime. This article examines two examples of archaeological exhibitions in China: at the National Museum of China (中国国家博物馆) in Beijing and the Liaoning Provincial Museum (辽宁省博物馆) in Shenyang. It discusses the development and change over time in the content of these archaeological exhibitions, the way they were organized and presented to the public, and the explanations that accompanied the prehistoric artefacts. I argue that the way the past, and in particular the distant, prehistoric and proto-historic past, is presented in Chinese museums reveals a process of entrenchment of the standardized narrative of Chinese history, with a powerful sense of connection and continuity between the past, no matter how distant, and the present. I also argue that although the general outline of the historical trajectory of the ‘Chinese civilization’ is universally accepted, small variations in the way it is presented and the different emphases of the two exhibitions can inform us about various ways of constructing local and national identities in China during the 20th century and up to the current time.

Philosophy as a Distinct Cultural Practice

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin E. H. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Inquiry ◽  
Indian Philosophy ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
Cultural Activity ◽  
Intellectual Activity ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Of Greece ◽  
Cultural Features ◽  
The Way

This chapter analyzes the cultural features in the ancient world that led to the emergence of philosophy as a distinct cultural activity and examines the way in which Indian philosophy, in contrast to the cases of Greece and China, may be understood in relation to these cultural features. It examines the influence of the technology of writing, as well as of natural-scientific inquiry, especially in the domain of health and medicine, and the transregional importance of literacy and science for the project of philosophy, while also showing that Indian philosophy functions throughout the classical and into the modern period as a relatively discrete intellectual activity. Finally it shows, by comparing the French materialist philosopher Pierre Gassendi with Indian philosophers in the mid-1660s, how differences in the two philosophical traditions’ relationships to literacy and science continued to play a role in the perception of a philosophical divide between these two traditions.

scholarly journals Duits als autochtone taal in België

1970 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. 93-109
Author(s):  
Jeroen Darquennes
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Study ◽  
General Outline ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
The Way

Preceded by a general outline of relevant geographical, historical, languagepolitical and linguistic issues this article addresses the way in which theGerman-speaking minorities of Belgium have been treated in scientific linguisticliterature over the last 50 years. It lists a number of contact linguistic researchdesiderata and pleads for a collaborative multidisciplinary and multidimensionalapproach towards the scientific study of German-speaking Belgium.

Self-sacrifice for in-group's history: A diachronic perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Babińska ◽  
Michal Bilewicz
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Psychology ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Emotional Events ◽  
Reciprocal Process ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe problem of extended fusion and identification can be approached from a diachronic perspective. Based on our own research, as well as findings from the fields of social, political, and clinical psychology, we argue that the way contemporary emotional events shape local fusion is similar to the way in which historical experiences shape extended fusion. We propose a reciprocal process in which historical events shape contemporary identities, whereas contemporary identities shape interpretations of past traumas.

What is the purpose of cognition?

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aba Szollosi ◽  
Ben R. Newell
Keyword(s):  
Infinite Number ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
The Way

Abstract The purpose of human cognition depends on the problem people try to solve. Defining the purpose is difficult, because people seem capable of representing problems in an infinite number of ways. The way in which the function of cognition develops needs to be central to our theories.

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