scholarly journals FAIDRAS: „GIMDYMO GROŽYJE“ FENOMENOLOGIJA

Problemos ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Skirmantas Jankauskas

Straipsnyje mėginama rekonstruoti platoniškosios meilės sampratos fenomenologinį aspektą. Šios sampratos kontūrus Platonas nužymi dar „Puotoje“, tačiau daugiausia dėmesio jai skiria bene poetiškiausiame ir mįslingiausiame savo dialoge „Faidras“. Įvadinėje dalyje teigiama, kad graikiškasis filosofavimas klostosi natūraliai, t. y. tematizuoja filosofavimui rūpimus turinius, tik susiklostant filosofavimui palankioms aplinkybėms. Brandą pasiekusi filosofija jau mėgina perprasti save, taigi ir įsisąmoninti tas natūralias prielaidas. Platonas dar „Puotoje“ nustato, kad palankiausia filosofavimui natūrali žmogaus būsena yra meilė. „Puotoje“ jam pavyksta išryškinti vertybinį meilės profilį, o filosofavimas čia aprašomas kaip grožio vertybės užangažuotas „teisingasis kelias“, kreipiantis mąstymą grynojo teorinio žinojimo link. Pati meilė čia traktuojama dar gana neapibrėžtai, t. y. kaip „gimdymas grožyje“. Sutelkdamas dėmesį į žmogiškąjį santykį, „Faidre“ Platonas kaip tik imasi detalizuoti „gimdymo grožyje“ fenomenologiją. Platonas struktūruoja sielą, t. y. pavaizduoja ją kaip vadeliotojo važnyčiojamą sparnuotą dvikinkę. Grožio veikiama ši dvikinkė pasikelia į uždangės sritį, ir vadeliotojui palankiausiu atveju pavyksta išvysti „tiesos lygumą“. Metaforiškai aprašytos sielos dalys straipsnyje susiejamos su atitinkamomis kasdienio ir etinio mąstymo temomis bei teoriniu mąstymu apskritai, o sparnuotumas – su vertybiškumu. Sekant Platono aprašyta sielos dalių dinamika pavyksta parodyti, kaip veikiant grožiui teorinis mąstymas gali tematizuoti etiškumo temą ir veikiai pelnyti būties įžvalgą. Pagrindiniai žodžiai: meilė, šėlas, tiesa, būtis, grožis, gėris, natūralus filosofavimas, fenomenologijaPhaidros: Phenomenology of “Giving Forth upon the Beautiful”Skirmantas Jankauskas   SummaryThe author makes an attempt to reconstruct the phenomenological aspect of Plato’s concept of love. The contours of this concept are only outlined by Plato in his Symposium to be later developed in his probably the most poetic and enigmatic dialogue Phaedrus. A hypothesis is put forward here that love as ‘madness’ – as described in Phaedrus – could be treated as a further elaboration of the concept of ‘giving forth upon the beautiful’ as portrayed in Symposium. The article starts with a thesis that Greek philosophizing  proceeds in a natural way, i.e. it thematises the preferred contents only within favorable external circumstances. As philosophy reaches its maturity, it tries to learn itself, i.e. to realize these favorable natural circumstances. It is already in Symposium that Plato establishes that love is the most favorable condition for philosophizing. In this dialogue Plato manages to elucidate the axiological profile of love. Philosophizing is presented as the ‘right way’ to be engaged by the beautiful and to lead towards pure theoretical thinking. Love itself is treated in an inde terminate way as ‘giving forth upon the beautiful’. By putting the human relation in the focus of attention, Plato reveals in his Phaedrus the phenomenology of ‘giving forth upon the beautiful’. He describes the soul as ‘a team of winged steeds and their winged charioteer’. Affected by the beautiful, this ‘team’ climbs the boundaries of the heavens and the ‘charioteer’, in the utmost case, manages to contemplate the ‘plain of truth’. In the article, those metaphorically described parts of the soul are associated correspondingly with themes of everyday thinking and ethical thinking as well as theoretical thinking in general, while wingness is related to valuesness. Tracing the dynamics of the parts of the soul, as portrayed in Phaedrus, the author manages to describe the way in which theoretical thinking thematises the theme of ethical thinking and attains the insight into being under the impact of the beautiful. Keywords: love, madness, truth, being, the beautiful, the good, natural philosophising, phenomenology.p;

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristen Renwick Monroe

What is the impact of the recent Data Access and Research Transparency (DA-RT) initiative and the Journal Editors Transparency Statement (JETS) on scholars working with qualitative data? Analysis finds DA-RT insufficiently sensitive to the needs of qualitative data and focuses on four inter-related reasons why DA-RT needs to be revised before being widely adopted by political science journals: (1) space constraints that hinder full journal presentation of the analysis of qualitative data; (2) ethical concerns about protecting human subjects, and the time needed to prepare such data before publicly sharing them; (3) costs of data collection and the right of first usage; and (4) a potentially chilling effect of DA-RT on certain types of research topics. Analysis of the author’s own journey from econometric and survey analysis to narrative interviews with people in vulnerable situations, facing moral dilemmas, illustrates why DA-RT needs additional safeguards for qualitative data and methods. Given the increasing importance of qualitative data, and its ability to lend insight into critical political topics, the author argues that implementing the current version of the DA-RT initiative could hinder political science’s ability to address important political questions. Thus DA-RT must be modified to address the special needs of qualitative data.


2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 236-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joe Crawford ◽  
Kim McKee ◽  
Sharon Leahy

This article is based on original data from a qualitative study on the impact of the Right to Rent part of the Immigration Act 2016 in Scotland. Our findings show that in addition to being an integral part of the government’s project of creating a ‘hostile environment for immigrants’, the process of extending the state’s ‘law and order’ functions to organisations responsible for providing welfare services and distributing public goods is of wider political importance. Here, we argue that this process, what Bourdieu calls the rightward tilting of the bureaucratic field, results in widespread discrimination as it entails a shift in focus of its criminalising gaze from ‘conduct’ to ‘status’. The effects of this rightward shift altered the categories through which welfare services were both conceived and delivered more widely. We found that the almost universal opposition of the housing sector to the unwanted imposition of duties previously confined to border control agencies shows the extent to which the state is not a unitary monolith but is, rather, a site of perpetual struggle and contestation. By locating the perspective of housing professionals in relation to the government’s attempts to redraw the boundaries of the state’s own responsibility, we can gain a valuable insight into the processes of state crafting, which have wider implications beyond merely the creation of a hostile environment for immigrants.


Author(s):  
Brittany Morison

Over the past few decades technology has become ubiquitous, with technology companies gaining increasing insight into the lives of individuals. This paper explores how technology companies use these insights to influence the ability to exercise free and independent decision-making. Through a critical analysis of social nudging, I establish the subtle but significant ways in which individuals can be susceptible to manipulation. Through this lens, I highlight some notable examples of how big tech companies have manipulated individual decision-making and the impact this may have on our democracy. 


10.28945/4269 ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 001-025
Author(s):  
Valerie A Mockus

Through the 2016-2017 academic year, student aid applicants completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid used the immediately previous year’s tax information. Beginning in 2017-2018, students were required to use two-year-old tax return information creating a lag in the timeliness of financial health data used to calculate financial aid eligibility. This older data is called Prior-Prior Year (PPY) by the aid community. Community members in support of the change expected college applicants to have more time to apply for aid and make decisions. Others articulated concerns that use of the older data would increase the likelihood of families requesting professional judgements (manually intensive calculations with more recent tax data), therefore significantly increasing the workload. Early detractors worried the older tax data would erode the accuracy of targeting aid to the right students. This pilot phenomenological study investigates how financial aid administrators perceive the impact of the switch to PPY on students and financial aid offices. The findings were: the volume of professional judgements did not appear to increase; the Department of Education’s choice to re-ask for 2016 tax information and penalize students with discrepancies by withholding aid disbursements was objectionable; the administrative burden is worrisome; college affordability is of great concern; administrators, never coming to a career financial aid intentionally, find their work deeply meaningful. This study finds the expected issue of an increased volume of PJs did not materialize but an unexpected issue of complying with comment code 399 requirements arose likely due to the Department of Education’s choice to not consult financial aid administrators during the design and implementation of PPY. As the first phenomenological study on PPY, this article provides administrators and researchers alike insight into opportunities for improvement in future FAFSA changes.


2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 135-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miroslaw Wyczesany ◽  
Szczepan J. Grzybowski ◽  
Jan Kaiser

Abstract. In the study, the neural basis of emotional reactivity was investigated. Reactivity was operationalized as the impact of emotional pictures on the self-reported ongoing affective state. It was used to divide the subjects into high- and low-responders groups. Independent sources of brain activity were identified, localized with the DIPFIT method, and clustered across subjects to analyse the visual evoked potentials to affective pictures. Four of the identified clusters revealed effects of reactivity. The earliest two started about 120 ms from the stimulus onset and were located in the occipital lobe and the right temporoparietal junction. Another two with a latency of 200 ms were found in the orbitofrontal and the right dorsolateral cortices. Additionally, differences in pre-stimulus alpha level over the visual cortex were observed between the groups. The attentional modulation of perceptual processes is proposed as an early source of emotional reactivity, which forms an automatic mechanism of affective control. The role of top-down processes in affective appraisal and, finally, the experience of ongoing emotional states is also discussed.


2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-69
Author(s):  
Aishath Muneeza ◽  
Zakariya Mustapha

Limitations of action designate extent of time after an event, as set by statutes of limitations, within which legal action can be initiated by a party to a transaction. No event is actionable outside the designated time as same is rendered statute-barred. This study aims to provide an insight into application and significance of Limitations Act 1950 and Limitation Ordinance 1952 to Islamic banking matters in Malaysia as well as Shariah viewpoint on the issue of limitation of action. In conducting the study, a qualitative research methodology is employed where reported Islamic banking cases from 1983 to 2018 in Malaysia were reviewed and analysed to ascertain the application of those statutes of limitations to Islamic banking. Likewise, relevant provisions of the statutes as invoked in the cases were examined to determine possible legislative conflicts between the provisions and the rule of Islamic law in governing the right and limitation of action in Islamic banking cases under the law. The reviewed cases show the extent to which statutes of limitations were invoked in Malaysian courts in determining validity of Islamic banking matters. The limitation provisions so referred to are largely sections 6(1)(a) and 21(1) Limitations Act 1953 and section 19 Limitation Ordinance 1953, which do not conflict with Shariah viewpoint on the matter. This study will prove invaluable to financial institutions and their customers alike in promoting knowledge and creating awareness over actionable event in the course of their transactions.


2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 1183-1199
Author(s):  
Mohammed Alrouili ◽  

This study attempted to identify the impact of internal work environment on the retention of healthcare providers at Turaif General Hospital in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In particular, the study aimed to identify the dimensions of work circumstances, compensation, and relationship with colleagues, professional growth, and the level of healthcare providers’ retention. In order to achieve the study goals, the researcher used the descriptive analytical approach. The researcher used the questionnaire as the study tool. The study population comprised all the healthcare providers at Turaif General Hospital. Questionnaires were distributed to the entire study sample that consisted of 220 individuals. The number of questionnaires valid for study was 183 questionnaires. The research findings were as follows: the participants’ estimate of the work circumstances dimension was high (3.64), the participants’ estimate of the compensation dimension was moderate (3.32), the participants’ estimate of the relationship with colleagues dimension was high (3.62), the participants’ estimate of the professional growth dimension was weak (2.39), and the participants’ estimate of healthcare providers’ retention level was intermediate (2.75). Accordingly, the researcher’s major recommendations are: the need to create the right atmosphere for personnel in hospitals, the interest of the hospital to provide the appropriate conditions for the staff in terms of the physical and moral aspects for building the work adjustment in the staff, and conducting training courses and educational lectures for personnel in hospitals on how to cope with the work pressures.


2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-121
Author(s):  
Shamier Ebrahim

The right to adequate housing is a constitutional imperative which is contained in section 26 of the Constitution. The state is tasked with the progressive realisation of this right. The allocation of housing has been plagued with challenges which impact negatively on the allocation process. This note analyses Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality v Various Occupiers, Eden Park Extension 51 which dealt with a situation where one of the main reasons provided by the Supreme Court of Appeal for refusing the eviction order was because the appellants subjected the unlawful occupiers to defective waiting lists and failed to engage with the community regarding the compilation of the lists and the criteria used to identify beneficiaries. This case brings to the fore the importance of a coherent (reasonable) waiting list in eviction proceedings. This note further analyses the impact of the waiting list system in eviction proceedings and makes recommendations regarding what would constitute a coherent (reasonable) waiting list for the purpose of section 26(2) of the Constitution.


2019 ◽  
pp. 247-284
Author(s):  
م.د.فاتن محمد رزاق

The concept of tolerance is gaining its importance in the midst of an international society suffering from violence, wars and internal and international crises. It is practiced by extremist and extremist forces and movements acting in the name of religion to exclude the different Muslim and non-Muslim people according to the unethical practices and methodologies of Islamic law and reality. , Cultural, civilization .. that distinguish our world today. The society today is suffering from the ideas of the intellectual and aesthetic views of the different ideologically, ethnically, culturally and religiously in the world of the South. This is what the end-of-history thesis of Fukuyama and the clash of civilizations represented to Huntington. Therefore, it is necessary to confront these extremist and extremist ideas and behaviors. Peace, security and freedom in the international community of justice and equality, needs to be addressed intellectual, cultural, moral and political before they are legal, these treatments are based on dialogue and cooperation and trust and respect and mutual recognition and tolerance so we find the importance of tolerance to The international community is concerned about the need for mechanisms that confront terrorism and violence with an ideology based on respect for the right of diversity, diversity and pluralism. Accordingly, tolerance is a political, cultural and moral necessity based on international legal foundations represented by the United Nations. Through its conferences, declarations and international resolutions issued by it and its specialized agencies, culminating in the Universal Declaration of Tolerance and the International Day of International Peace, and the political foundations represented by democracy and global citizenship that respects all identities and seeks to respect the rights of other identities under the umbrella of international identity Nsanhuahdh respects everyone, a society with a humanitarian goal of a global civil and Ahdlaaaraf borders and the identity of certain Qomahdolh, cultural and educational foundations through plans and programs with educational encourage a spirit of tolerance and world peace. The study was divided into three topics: the first dealt with the concept of tolerance and world peace, and the second topic dealt with the impact of international law and citizenship. In the promotion of world peace "as one of the elements of global tolerance. The last topic included" the role of democracy and education education "in the promotion of world peace and concluded the study by conclusion.


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