scholarly journals O desdobramento da alma em direção ao belo: preleções no Livro sexto do diálogo Sobre a Música de Agostinho de Hipona

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 43-59
Author(s):  
Nilo Silva
Keyword(s):  
Augustine Of Hippo ◽  
The Senses ◽  
The One ◽  
Hellenistic Philosophy ◽  
Reading Book

Our investigation aims to propose a brief reflection on Book VI of De musica(387-391) by Agostinho de Hipona. In the light of philosophy, it is intendedto submit the main lines of arguments on the unfolding of the soul in its itinerary to God, in analogy to the rhythms and harmonies of musical art. Evidently, the meeting betweenHellenistic philosophy and Christianity in the early days of Patristics took place through many resources, but with some acquiescence on the part of Latin Patrology. In this context, the thought of Augustine of Hippo mustbe considered a reference for thesynthesis of Hellenistic philosophy in the Latin tradition. There is no doubt that the Neoplatonic reference was singularly present in Augustine's philosophy, not only as an ingredient of his intellectual and spiritual evolution, culminating in his conversion, but it was also the instrument by which, and exclusively through it, his thought has formed. In fact, it is clear that Augustine's thought is a synthesis of Hellenistic culture incorporated in Latin times, although this characteristic is not duly explicit in some of his works and in the course of his history, requiring a closer and more accurate examination of our interpretations. In the course of reading book VI of De musicawe can identify three important aspects: i) At first, Augustine proposes theunfolding of the soul based on the sensations. The path of reflection runs through the education of the senses in order to achieve the perceptual-sensorial transcendentalization,so that, Augustine intends to demonstrate that the movements and rhythms of music are in analogy to the rhythms of the soul driven by a natural desire to contemplate God; ii) In order to carry out this path of soul ascension, Augustine identifies in Neoplatonism the notion of spiritualization as an essential activity of the soul'sintimate life, in such a way that the dialogue is impregnated with the Plotinian speculation about the concept of unity, order and being, always related to the notion of God as ineffable; iii) The Augustinian assumption in discovering bodily harmonies in the soul through sensations, sounds and words in analogy to eternal harmony, supports, in a way, his notion of invisible perfection of God as the one who reveals himself to us in created things.

scholarly journals Onnipotenza divina e ordine naturale nel Medioevo

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Possamai
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Theological Reflection ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
The Other ◽  
Augustine Of Hippo ◽  
The Past ◽  
Present Essay ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Pliny The Elder ◽  
The One

The present essay aims, on the one hand, to recall the reasons of anti-naturalism, intended in a metaphysical perspective, of a large part of medieval philosophical and theological reflection and, on the other hand, to show how the same type of problems, specifically those concerning the possible mutability or immutability of the past, can be employed in favour of various conflicting positions on the matter. To demonstrate this, reference was made to some thinkers who could represent emblematic positions on the theme, in particular: Pliny the Elder for the ancient world, Augustine of Hippo, Peter Damian, Bonaventure and Thomas Aquinas for the medieval era.

The Great Complement Shift and the role of understood subjects: The case of fearful

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Gentens ◽  
Juhani Rudanko
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Explanatory Factors ◽  
Diachronic Change ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Senses ◽  
Control Patterns ◽  
The One

Abstract This article reports on a corpus-based study of diachronic change and constructional competition in the system of English complementation, with a focus on variation in non-finite complements of the adjective fearful. Fearful occurs with prepositional (of -ing) subject-controlled gerunds and with to-infinitives, which can further be distinguished into subject extraposition, subject control, and tough-constructions. Recent decades show a drastic decline of the to-infinitival patterns, concomitant to the loss of one of the senses of fearful. We examine the diachronic distribution and competition of the two construction pairs that show functional overlap, i.e. tough-constructions and extraposition constructions on the one hand, and infinitival and gerundial subject-control patterns on the other. This allows us to show the import of the ‘Great Complement Shift’ in the face of constructional attrition and to investigate new principles motivating the choice for either the to-infinitival or the gerundial subject-control construction. More specifically, the study provides further evidence for the ‘Choice Principle’, which involves the (lack of) agentivity of the understood subject in the event described by the lower clause. In this way, the study adds new explanatory factors and descriptive insights to our knowledge of the broader diachronic change known as the Great Complement Shift.

Approaching Media through the Senses: Between Experience and Representation

2015 ◽  
Vol 154 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Pink
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The Senses ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

Over recent years, there has been a growing interest in media and the senses. Yet there has to date been no sustained focus on the implications of existing approaches to the senses in terms of how we understand this relationship. In this article, I demonstrate how contemporary debates rooted in, but by no means exclusive to, anthropology that pivot around concepts of culture, representation and experience can inform the ways we might conceptualise the relationship between media and the senses. This article explores the tensions between and analytical consequences of, on the one hand, culturalist approaches to both the senses and to media and, on the other, phenomenological approaches. Such debates reveal the need to explore further how the relationality between representational and non-representational elements of media and content might be articulated.

scholarly journals The Sound of Technique: Gesture, rhythm and form in bobbin lacing in the Brazilian Northeast

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Júlia Dias Escobar Brussi
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Hand Gesture ◽  
Technical Function ◽  
The Senses ◽  
The One ◽  
Brazilian Northeast ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Different Levels

Abstract Knocking the bobbins is how lace-makers refer to “lacing”. It is an act that, at first sight, does not present any specific technical function, but which, on closer inspection, reveals itself as a fundamental elementary act for elaborating a good lace, since it ensures the firmness of the weave. Through an analysis of the different meanings of this category, the article discusses the relationship between, on the one hand, gesture and rhythm, and, on the other, effects and resulting forms. Each of the senses of knocking the bobbins analysed here are, in turn, tied to different levels of action, since all involve gestures, rhythms, effects and specific forms.

scholarly journals Zmysły i edukacja. O roli doświadczenia, wiedzy oraz selekcji (refleksja filozoficzna w edukacji)

1970 ◽  
pp. 67-75
Author(s):  
Sławomir Futyma
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Process ◽  
Da Vinci ◽  
Leonardo Da Vinci ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Race ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
The World ◽  
The Senses ◽  
The One

Sensory experience leads to the initiation of a complex process of thinking about the world. The result of this process are the images of what surrounds us. We definethis action as education. Because looking at the world from the perspective of sensual experience is the potential ability of every human being (Hannah Arendt), education becomes a tool enabling the simulation of the existing world and the one that may appear in the future. About who we are and where we are, who we will decide, the quality of the senses. The quality of the senses translates into the value of the cognitive process. The consequence of the quality of the cognitive process is the collection of information and knowledge. This sensual logic inscribes the action that classifiesus people according to predisposition or ava-ilable information that results from the quality of sensual functioning. As Leonardo da Vinci saw it: “Experience, the intermediary between creative nature and the human race, teaches what nature uses among mortals, that before the necessity of necessity one cannot act differently than reason, his teaching works.”

Reading, Listening, and Performing in Wilhelm Heinse’s Hildegard von Hohenthal (1796)

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 502-529
Author(s):  
Thomas Irvine
Keyword(s):  
Immanuel Kant ◽  
Aesthetic Judgment ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Musical Meaning ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
The Senses ◽  
To Come ◽  
The One ◽  
Musical Listening

Early in Wilhelm Heinse’s eccentric novel Hildegard von Hohenthal (1796) his characters confront the problem of how music works on the senses. The novel’s hero, Kapellmeister Lockmann, tunes a piano—to an idiosyncratic temperament of his own invention—as he proposes an intensely physical model for musical listening. He uses this demonstration, while simultaneously trying to start a love affair with the novel’s heroine, Hildegard von Hohenthal, to reclaim older ideas about natural temperaments and key characteristics in an era of heightened interest in the anatomy of cognition. But Heinse’s own opinions are not always the same as those of his characters. Drawing on his notebooks, I trace how Heinse struggled to come to terms with opposing views of his friend and colleague, the anatomist Samuel Thomas Soemmering, and of the philosopher Immanuel Kant of how sound affects the body. Soemmering’s Über das Organ der Seele (1796) and Kant’s Critique of Aesthetic Judgment (1790) both act as intertexts and paratexts to the novel, and Heinse more than once splits his own opinions about both books between his characters. The tuning scene addresses important questions about the hierarchy of the senses, the creation of musical meaning, and the freedom of performers and listeners to form their own interpretations of music. Heinse’s naturalist ideas about musical agency rub against the grain of a narrative—still current today—dominated by a transaction between heroic composers on the one side and awe-struck listeners on the other. To re-assess these ideas is to re-imagine a crucial hinge in music history.

The polysemy network of Chinese ‘one’-phrases in a diachronic constructional perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
I-Hsuan Chen
Keyword(s):  
Hierarchical Structure ◽  
Corpus Analysis ◽  
The Hierarchical Structure ◽  
The Senses ◽  
The One

Abstract This study investigates the development of a polysemy network within a constructional framework. The synchronic variation of Chinese ‘one’-phrases is explained by diachronic developments. The results of a quantitative corpus analysis show that each of the senses of the ‘one’ phrase tends to occur in specific syntactic constructions due to inheritance from extant constructions. The results contribute to explaining the formation of a diachronic polysemy network by investigating the hierarchical structure of its constructions, thus allowing a deeper understanding of how semantic extensions have been formed through gradual constructional association.

scholarly journals F. et Cs. avagy A’ Reményhez és A’ Pillangóhoz Fazekas-módra

2020 ◽  
Vol 59 (3–4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mária Hovánszki
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Military Recruiting ◽  
Woman Character ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Multiple Levels ◽  
The Senses ◽  
The One

In the article I demonstrate the connection between Fazekas and Csokonai through two poems. Fazekas’s Az érzékenységek énekben (The Senses in Song) was written in imitation of Csokonai’s A’ Reményhez, and A serdűlő bajuszhoz (To the Pubescent Moustache) was written similarly after Csokonai’s A’ Pillangóhoz, in these two poems by Fazekas Csokonai’s influence can be observed from formal characteristics through themes to intertextuality. However, this influence is not merely a copy of form, but it is an expression of Fazekas’s poetic irony and his polemic mentality with Csokonai. Both poems target the Lilla-affection and the love cult of sensitive poetry, as opposed to which, as poetic banter, Fazekas depicts on the one hand, an ordinary woman character who requites love, and on the other hand, a woman of easy virtue. The subtle irony is present on multiple levels in both poems due to the verbunkos (a Hungarian dance originated in military recruiting) and sensibility-classical melody.

scholarly journals Filsafat Dinamis Integralistik Epistemologi Dalam Pemikiran Muhammad Iqbal

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 142-156
Author(s):  
Ach. Maimun
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Continuous Improvement ◽  
The West ◽  
The Senses ◽  
The One ◽  
Islamic Civilization ◽  
Object Of Knowledge

Abstract: This study focuses on the dynamic and integral aspects of Iqbal. The spirit of dynamism and integrality is a discussion of Iqbal which has received less attention in various studies. With this spirit, Iqbal concocted successfully to build an Islamic civilization that was built in chaos. For that purpose, Iqbal integrates the fundamental aspects, namely the source of knowledge consists of afak, anfus and history. There are three potentials, namely the senses, reason and intuition. All these devices are a unity towards continuous improvement until they reach their peak. To continue to move dynamically, the power of y ‘isyq in the gathering mind is important so that all sources are maximized simultaneously to explore the object of knowledge which is the connection between the One Absolute Being. With this Iqbal succeeded in encouraging object integration (physical and metaphysical) which began with the integration of Sufism, philosophy and science. Iqbal also integrates classical and modern and challenges Islam and the West while remaining critical thinking. Knowledge gained from actions in the form of ‘charity as a form of knowledge and action.   Keywords: source of knowledge, ‘isyq, intuition, integration.

scholarly journals The Four Anchors of Brand Appeal: A Study into the Gaps in the Literature

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Brand Loyalty ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
The Other ◽  
Brand Identity ◽  
Relevant Research ◽  
The Senses ◽  
The One

Brand loyalty has traditionally been taken to be highly emotional, a product of bonding, on the one hand, subject to a rational appeal, on the other, and as the end result of effective branding. Only in recent decades, have sensory considerations been brought into the model of brand identity, and also only in isolated research, have intuitive criteria come to be analyzed by a few authors. However no relevant research has considered these four elements combined, that is, rationality, emotions, the senses and intuition, as the basis for a more humane view of brand appeal and brand identity. This paper threads a stream of thought in the field, and identifies a significant gap in the literature concerning the holistic approach.

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