Geopolitical Project and Transhumanism Elements in the Worldview of the Russian Youth

2021 ◽  
Vol 35.5 ◽  
pp. 223-241
Author(s):  
Svetlana V. Lourie
Keyword(s):  
Opinion Poll ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Interethnic Marriages

The article is devoted to the analysis of the worldview of the Russian youth on the basis of the results of the opinion poll carried out by the author’s methods in St. Petersburg and Krasnoyarsk in 2019 – 2020. The subject of the study was to discover the understanding of such notions as family, people, patriotism by the young Russians, to reveal the values of the young, to examine their attitude towards ethnic issues , among them – interethnic marriages and ethnic self-identification of the children in such families. The author reveals in what degree each of the studied categories transforms in the conscience of the young in view of the ideology of transhumanism, as well as how these transformations occur. The sources of the transformations are viewed as the consequence of the imposition of political and technological project, which is transhumanism per se. The mechanisms of such project influence are analyzed, in particular, the influence on the conscience of the youth, and the author explains which elements of the said mechanisms and why are prone to corrosion first of all. The author comes out with the suggestions how to resist the transhumanistic project and how to induce the young to this resistance.

Virgil's Birthplace Revisited

1932 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
E. K. Rand
Keyword(s):  
Great Confidence ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Per Se

This second visit to the place of Virgil's birth was made partly in actuality—for my wife and I, before taking part in the Virgilian Cruise of last summer, spent two delightful days at Pietole with our hosts, the Signori Prati, and our guest and friend Bruno Nardi—and partly in a renewed pondering of the arguments presented by my friend Professor Conway both in his earlier article and in his recent review of the question, to which, as he says, I had urged him to return. I promised him at the time that if he should not speak the last word on the subject, I would still further defend the view commonly accepted until he bestowed an extraordinary publicity on Calvisano and Carpenedolo. He declares that I maintain the traditional site at Pietole, ‘though not perhaps with very great confidence.’ He further implies that I ‘do not want to accept the evidence of Probus because “I prefer” to believe a mediaeval tradition.’ Let me assure him and the reader that I do not regard a mediaeval tradition per se as better proof than the certain statement of an ancient authority. I have been led, by studies in various fields, to respect tradition in general until it is disproved, and to lay the burden of the argument on those who would disprove it. But the mere sight of something hoary and mediaeval does not prompt me to exclaim, ‘Media Aetas locuta est; causa finita est’ I relish the attempts of an iconoclast to destroy rigid error, and accept his destruction if it is accomplished. In the present case, however, I have ‘very great confidence’ that Conway's assault on the tradition has come to naught. Possibly some new and unexpected evidence may yet be discovered, showing that Virgil was born at Calvisano, or Carpenedolo, or at some other site than Pietole—but nobody has presented it yet.

Tipos de Predicação em Aristóteles

2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (26) ◽  
pp. 7-34
Author(s):  
António Pedro Mesquita ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Specific Difference ◽  
Complex Entity ◽  
Posterior Analytics ◽  
Present Essay ◽  
Syntactic Position ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Per Se

Predication is a complex entity in Aristotelian thought. The aim of the present essay is to account for this complexity, making explicit the diverse forms it assumes. To this end, we tum to a crucial chapter of the Posterior Analytics (1 22), where, in the most complete and developed manner within the corpus, Aristotle proceeds to systematize this topic. From the analysis, it will become apparent that predication can assume, generically, five forms: 1) the predication of essence (τὸ αύτᾢ εἶναι κατηγορεἲσθαι), that is of the genus and the specific difference; 2) essential predication (τὸ αύτᾢ εἶναι κατηγορεἲσθαι), that is either of the genus or of the differences (or their genera); 3) the predication of accidents per se 4) and of simple accidents (ώς συμβεβηκότα κατηγορεἲσθαι); and 5) accidental predication (κατἁ συμβεβηκός κατηγορεἲσθαι). However, only types 2-4 are forms of strict predication (άπλὢς). In effect, the “predication” of essence is not a genuine predication, but a formula for identity, constituting, technically, the statement of the essence of the subject (or its definition). On the other hand, accidental “predication” can only be conceived of as such equivocally, since it results from a linguistic accident through which the ontological subject of the attribution suffers a displacement to the syntactic position of the predicate, which is not, by nature, its own. In neither case does the phrase bring about any legitimate predication. The study concludes with a discussion of Aristotle’s thesis according to which no substance can be a predicate, which is implied by its notion of accidental predication, a thesis which has been - and in our opinion wrongly so - challenged in modem times.

PUENTES ENTRE LOS HECHOS Y EL DERECHO APLICABLE EN LA VERIFICACIÓN PROBATORIA: ESTANDAR Y VALORACIÓN DE LA PRUEBA

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (116) ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Álvaro Pérez Ragone
Keyword(s):  
Decision Makers ◽  
Legal Argumentation ◽  
Criminal Process ◽  
Standard Of Proof ◽  
Legal Standards ◽  
Standards Of Proof ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Basic Minimum ◽  
Evidentiary Standard

The legal argumentation on controversial facts deals with the evidence that allows reaching a precise verdict on the facts. The evidence is necessary to support the factual assertions made by the parties and the conclusions of fact made by the decision makers. But the test per se does not yield verdicts. The evidence must be evaluated and whoever decides must consider whether or not it satisfies a basic minimum to consider a fact proven, if it meets a standard of proof. Much work has been done on the subject of legal standards of proof. Legal argumentation theorists, evidence scholars, civil and criminal process scholars, among others, have extensively addressed this issue. Some of them have made an analytical effort to clarify the idea of an evidentiary standard; others have done descriptive work to understand how the standards actually work; Others have done a kind of normative work in the hope of suggesting better or at least better defined standards; and the best contributions to the debate do more than one of these things at the same time.

Unicums, Fragments, and Other Hebrew Book Rarities

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 130-153
Author(s):  
Marvin Heller
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Rare Books ◽  
The Individual

The subject matter of this article is unique or rare editions of early Hebrew books. Due to varying external circumstances, these rare books are extant only in fragments, unique single exemplars, or in a limited number of copies. Although Hebrew texts were subject to the same ravages of time and, perhaps, occasional indifference as were other early books, they also suffered to a much greater extent than their non-Hebrew counterparts from the indignities and deeds, or more accurately misdeeds, of anti-Semites who expended their wrath not only on Jews but also directed their venom towards Jewish books. The article is not about the causes of book rarity per se, but rather describes a variety of Hebrew works, either of the individual title, or, in some instances, of a particular edition of a reprinted work that is extant today in a single or a limited number of copies.

scholarly journals Wilful Girliness

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 73-94
Author(s):  
Sara Litzén
Keyword(s):  
Reference Point ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
The Body ◽  
Active Process ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Personal Quality ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Per Se

Through qualitative interviews with eleven people who have investments in girliness, feminism, and fashion, the article centres around the concept of “wilful girliness,” understood as a constructed phenomenon, which focuses on ideas about girliness in relation to consciousness, and in relation to empowerment. This approach to the subject is proposed as a way of moving away from rooting (dis)empowerment within a person’s body, and towards seeing and acknowledging the embodiment of a (feministic) conscious girliness as a historical construction rather than a personal quality. It argues that a wilful girliness is temporarily stabilised through a set of contingent exclusions and should be understood as a consistent site of contest, an active process without origin and end, that takes shape within a specific context, deeply entangled and inseparable from existing power structures. The article highlights the importance of acknowledging the body and its abilities as a crucial starting point in the conditional activity of the negotiation of wilful girliness. It goes on and untangles the responsibility of embodying this fluctuating construction from the girly individual. The article concludes by suggesting the importance of interrogating the mere fact that a wilful girliness is sought after and used as a dominant reference point and criteria in regard to girliness per se and calls for a more varied understanding of girliness.

scholarly journals Where there is a will, there is a way: some remarks on institutional distance in the Polish-German borderland

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-62
Author(s):  
Łukasz Wróblewski
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Institutional Distance ◽  
Council Of Europe ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Domestic Legislation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Cross Border Cooperation ◽  
The Eu

This study concerns the problem of institutional distance between local government units, and its impact on the cross-border cooperation of regional and local authorities in the Polish-German borderland. Contrary to cross-border cooperation per se, the analyzed notion is not featured regularly in the subject literature. Above all, the existing studies focus on the forms of, barriers to, and conditions for cross-border cooperation, the assessment of cross-border cooperation projects co-financed by the EU, and the broadly conceived social and economic cross-border ties. On the other hand, there is a shortage of studies analyzing the competencies of various local government units with regard to cross-border cooperation. Hence, this article examines the competencies of local government units with respect to cross-border cooperation based on the example of the Polish-German borderland. The adopted research method involves the analysis of the subject literature, domestic legislation in Poland and Germany, and the documents and legal acts of the Council of Europe and the EU.

Aristotle on Kind‐Crossing

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philipp Steinkrüger
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
General Kind ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Per Se

This paper concerns Aristotle's kind‐crossing prohibition. My aim is twofold. I argue that the traditional accounts of the prohibition are subject to serious internal difficulties and should be questioned. According to these accounts, Aristotle's prohibition is based on the individuation of scientific disciplines and the general kind that a discipline is about, and it says that scientific demonstrations must not cross from one discipline, and corresponding kind, to another. I propose a very different account of the prohibition. The prohibition is based on Aristotle's scientific and metaphysical essentialism, according to which a scientific demonstration must take as its starting point a set of per se properties of a subject, if these make up a single, unitary definition. The subject of demonstration here is a kind, although not the general kind associated with a discipline, but rather the particular kind that the particular demonstration is about.

Cold Sun • Hot Planet

2021 ◽  
Vol 120 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-102
Author(s):  
Amanda Boetzkes
Keyword(s):  
Solar Energy ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Energy Exchange ◽  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Gayatri Spivak ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Restricted Economy

This article considers how Georges Bataille’s account of solarity informs a planetary perspective. Bataille is credited with formulating a critical analysis of “solar societies” whose economies are shaped by the exchange of solar energy. However, a sometimes understated facet of Bataille’s reading of solarity is the way he positions living beings at the axis of the sun and the earth, and in the midst of elemental forces such as cold, heat, light, and darkness. Bataille deploys these elemental forces in his writing in order to disfigure the restricted economy of capitalism and its bourgeois subjects. Rather than considering it as a social or subjective predilection, this article emphasizes solarity as a critical form and disorganizing force. This article addresses Bataille’s elemental aesthetics and his positioning of the subject as both a capitalist predator that accumulates solar energy, and a speculative subject, a being who is preyed upon by its own accumulation of energy and that is ultimately disfigured and expended by it. I argue that solarity arises in Bataille’s writing as an aesthetic operation per se. He invokes a mythological language to dismantle the scientific and philosophical tradition of the Enlightenment. Solarity is therefore the antithesis of Enlightenment thinking and values: it entails the invocation of mythic force in order to dramatize earthly elements and their anarchical energy exchange. I connect Bataille’s mythic language to recent theorizations of planetarity and political ecology, from Gayatri Spivak, to Isabel Stengers, Bruno Latour, and Donna Haraway. I emphasize how his aesthetic maneuvers disfigure the restricted economy of concepts that accompanies the resourcing of the earth.

Problems associated with the reading of arithmetic

1972 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-133
Author(s):  
Leroy Barney
Keyword(s):  
Reading Problems ◽  
Standard Text ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Per Se

If a child is not successful in arithmetic, many teachers mistakenly assume the entire problem to be a “natural” dislike for the subject. The child's lack of success may be characterized by incomplete homework, inaccurate work, unwillingness to explore by himself the field of mathematics beyond those assignments made by the teacher in the standard text, inattentiveness, and a verbally pronounced discontent with the subject. Admittedly, each of these symptoms could be associated with a dislike of mathematics, but each of them could also be attributed to reading problems associated with mathematics and not to mathematics per se.

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