scholarly journals The Shadow Side of Second-Person Engagement: Sin in Paul's Letter to the Romans

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 125-144
Author(s):  
Susan Grove Eastman
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Personal Agency ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Divine Action ◽  
Holding Environment ◽  
Second Person ◽  
Self In Relation ◽  
Personal Qualities ◽  
Shadow Side

This paper explores the characteristics of debilitating versus beneficial intersubjective engagements, by discussing the role of sin in the relational constitution of the self in Paul’s letter to the romans. Paul narrates ‘sin’ as both a destructive holding environment and an interpersonal agent in a lethal embrace with human beings. The system of self-in-relation-to-sin is transactional, competitive, unidirectional, and domineering, operating implicitly within an economy of lack. Conversely, Paul’s account in romans of the divine action that moves persons into a new identity of self-in-relationship demonstrates genuinely second-personal qualities: it is loving, non-transactional, non- competitive, mutual, and constitutive of personal agency.

Discourse Analysis as a Qualitative Methodology

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-21
Author(s):  
Joseph Zajda
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
The Self ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Moral Behaviour

The article analyses the term discourse and discourse analysis with reference to Foucault and other critics. Foucault used the role of discourses in wider social processes of legitimating power, and emphasizing the construction of current truths. The article argues that discourse analysis, as employed by Foucault, concentrated on analysing power relationships in society, as expressed through language and social practices. The article examines the use of genealogy, where Foucault attempted to trace the beginnings of internalised moral behaviour, or a reflexive relation to the self in human beings. Examples are presented of various approaches to discourse analysis, including deconstruction and preferred reading and interpretation of the text. The article concludes with the evaluation of discourse analysis as a qualitative methodology.

scholarly journals Cosmic Purpose and the Question of a Personal God

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-124
Author(s):  
Andrew Pinsent
Keyword(s):  
Natural Theology ◽  
Usual Sense ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Divine Action ◽  
Second Person

Purported evidence for purposeful divine action in the cosmos may appear to warrant describing God as personal, as Swinburne proposes. In this paper, however, I argue that the primary understanding of what is meant by a person is formed by the experience of ‘I’ – ‘you’ or second-person relatedness, a mode of relation with God that is not part of natural theology. moreover, even among human beings, the recognition of purposeful agency does not invariably lead to the attribution of personhood in the usual sense. ‘Person’ is therefore a misleading term to use of God on the evidence of cosmic purpose alone in the absence of suitable revelation.

Self within World

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John L. Culliney ◽  
David Jones
Keyword(s):  
Personal Development ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Dynamic Flow ◽  
The West ◽  
Self In Relation ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
Constructive Interaction

We describe the foundations of the fractal self in relation to the Chinese notion of personal development and enhancement of adeptness in the world and mutualism with the other. This seeking, described in the codified system of Daoism, is a pathway that may progress to the highest level of achievement of such a self: that which defines a sage. The chapter introduces the view that a sage is a fractal self that achieves a peak of intimacy and constructive interaction with the world. We detail the development of human beings on this pathway, emerging beyond the core embodiments of empathy, sympathy, and rudimentary morality observed in apes. The self for the early Chinese was always a being that was embedded in the world and dynamic flow of forces. This self was defined in intimate terms as adaptable and adept, seeking to be a microcosmic contributor to some holistic macrocosm. In this chapter, Daoism leads our thinking on how the fractal self engages with the world. In turn, this way of understanding selfness and its potential to enrich its system from within resonates with discussions of the interactive self of Buddhism and was also in the minds of Pre-Socratic thinkers in the West.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
George Pattison
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
Helen Keller ◽  
Rhetorical Performance

The Introduction shows how the attraction to the devout life explored in Part 1 of A Philosophy of Christian Life can be further qualified as vocation. Doing so brings the issue out of the realms of ineffable experience into the domain of language. The foundational role of language in the constitution of the self is explored with reference to Helen Keller, who found that language itself set her free by giving her the possibility of a coherent and meaningful relation to herself and to her world. Its place in human beings’ God-relationship flags up the necessity of listening and hearing, as well as attention to the rhetorical performance of language.

scholarly journals Digital literacies and children’s personalized books: Locating the ‘self’

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Kucirkova ◽  
Margaret Mackey
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
The Self ◽  
Personal Agency ◽  
Digital Literacies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Objective Space ◽  
Subjective Space

This conceptual article discusses the role of digital literacies in personalized books, in relation to children’s developing sense of self, and in terms of assessing the potential impact of artificial intelligence (AI). Personalized books contain children’s data, such as their name, gender or image, and they can be created by readers or automatically by the publisher. Some personalized books are e-books enhanced with artificial intelligence, and some can be ordered as paperbacks. We discuss this use of children’s personal data in terms of the social location of the self with regard to subjective and objective dimensions. We draw on a map metaphor, in which objective space requires readers to locate themselves in an unknown ‘A-to-B’ space and subjective space provides an individually oriented world of ‘me-to-B’. By drawing on examples of personalized books and their use by parents and young children, we discuss how personalization troubles the borders between readers’ me-to-B and A-to-B space experiences, leading to possible confusion in the sense of self. We conclude by noting that AI-enhanced personalized texts can reduce personal agency with respect to formulating a sense of identity as a child.

scholarly journals Deixis Role as an Index of Style: A Comparative Corpus Stylistics Analysis of Self, Pakistani and Other Translators

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
Khadija Kubra ◽  
Ayesha Murtza ◽  
Muhammad Mahmood
Keyword(s):  
Software Tool ◽  
The Self ◽  
Quantitative Approach ◽  
The Other ◽  
Past Tense ◽  
Second Person ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Corpus Stylistics ◽  
Pos Tagger

Deixis are the linguistic expressions which are used for the reference within the context and out of the context to share knowledge. These are functional keys for contextual coherence and for strong involvement of interlocutors. In this dissertation, role of deixis are interpreted with reference of three different categories of novels; Pakistani novels, other translated, and self-translated novels. The aim of this research is to extract the style difference due to the use of deixis as a style indicator in other and self-translated novels in comparison with non-translated novels. Further, we will try to find out how the use of different types of deixis effects on the context of the text. Generally it has witnessed that the other and self-translators are different in their styles. The reason behind such difference is that the self-translator has more freedom while translating their own novels for other audience. For analysis, in total nine novels are selected, three novels of one category and in total three categories are involved. This research adopted the quantitative approach and for analysis corpus software tool, AntConc is used. Whole data is tagged by POS tagger and manually as well, than interpreted through AntConc. The results of this research indicate that the Self translated novels used more deixis and have more simple and direct language then the others translated categories. In these novels the first person and second person communication is more oriented. Similarly other deixis expressions as time, past tense and special deixis are more referred which make language explicit.

The Technologies of the Self: Sport, Feminism, and Foucault

2003 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pirkko Markula
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
The Self ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Technologies Of The Self ◽  
Gender Specific

Following Michel Foucault, feminist sport scholars have demonstrated how women’s physical activity can act as a technology of domination that anchors women into a discoursive web of normalizing practices. There has been less emphasis on Foucault’s later work that focuses on the individual’s role of changing the practices of domination. Foucault argues that human beings turn themselves into subjects through what he labels “the technologies of the self.” While his work is not gender specific, some feminists have seen the technologies of the self as a possibility to reconceptualize the self, agency and resistance in feminist theory and politics. In this paper, I aim to examine what Foucault’s technologies of self can offer feminists in sport studies. I begin by reviewing applications of Foucault’s technology of the self to analyses of women’s physical activity. I will next locate the technologies of the self within Foucault’s theory of power, self and ethics to further reflect how valuable this concept can be for feminist sport studies.

scholarly journals Reclaiming the Body Through Tattoos

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (22) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Sybele Macedo
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Plastic Surgery ◽  
Traumatic Events ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Relationship

Psychoanalysis has always addressed issues concerning the body. More recently, the proliferation of practices of aesthetic body intervention such as plastic surgery, piercings and tattoos have been calling the attention of psychoanalysts to their use and effects on the subject. This paper focuses on the analysis of the role of tattoos in reclaiming one’s body, which will be approached through the psychoanalytical discourse analysis of data retrieved from online magazines and blogs. The practice of tattooing has subjective implications on the relationship between the body and the self, revealing a fundamental trace of human beings: the need to process traumatic events and give them some sort of tolerable expression.

scholarly journals Paths of Speech

Ethnologies ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos David Londoño Sulkin
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Social Life ◽  
The Self ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Social Character ◽  
Indigenous Group ◽  
Other Substances ◽  
Colombian Amazon

Abstract The Muinane, an indigenous group of the Colombian Amazon, narratively present individual subjectivity as stemming from cultivated substances that constitute the bodies of human beings, or else from wild substances that usurp the role of proper stuffs. Moral subjectivity in particular stems from the tobacco, coca and other substances shared by a community. Subjectivity in such an account is both individual and collective, and either divine or animalistic as well. Muinane people’s rhetoric at times seems to present subjectivity as radically determined by extra-individual entities. However, the author argues that consciousness of the self is very much a part of their accounts of action — that is, that they understand their own actions to be self-directed as well as other-directed, and furthermore, that their ways of speaking about their own social interactions and thoughts/emotions performatively shape them. The author stresses the achieved character of social life and the intrinsically social character of selfhood, without making a case for a monolithic culture that monologically determines subjectivity and sociality.

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