scholarly journals Metaphorical truth and neopragmatic realism of Richard Rorty

2021 ◽  
pp. 46-58
Author(s):  
Petr Aleksandrovich Ilin
Keyword(s):  
Richard Rorty ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Structural Description ◽  
The Core ◽  
Backward Reasoning ◽  
Philosophical System ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
Language Characteristic ◽  
Ontological Problem

The subject of this research is the examination of neopragmatic realism of Richard Rorty through the prism of the concept of metaphorical truth of Paul Ricoeur. The key goal lies in the attempt to fill the “black box of reality” in the philosophy of R. Rorty with the methodological instruments derived from the concept of metaphorical truth of P. Ricoeur. Having dedicated certain time to describing the core ideas of R. Rorty, the author analyzed the methodology of P. Ricoeur regarding the problem of reality and the cognitive opacity of language characteristic to the system of the American philosopher. The author seeks to determine the common and contradictory aspects in methodology of both philosophers for the purpose of conducting the substitution of the elements of Rorty’s philosophy that is organic for the entire logical construct, concluding on the cognitive opacity of language and elements of Ricoeur’s thoughts that lead to backward reasoning. The crucial element is the idea of “physis” borrowed by Ricoeur from Aristotle for ontological substantiation of the concept of metaphorical reality. Namely this idea that becomes the key to recoding of the philosophical system of R. Rorty to what can be called full realism in the philosophical sense. As a result of application of the idea of “physis” to Rorty's philosophy, the author finds the way to saturate the concept of reality with certain ontological content; however, this content is not susceptible to structural description, and thus does not allow solving the problem of cognitive opacity of language characteristic to Rorty's philosophy. Nevertheless, the application of P. Ricoeur’s concept of metaphorical truth to the philosophical system of R. Rorty in the context of ontological problem of accessing reality is the original tactic of reasoning that has not been previously implemented within the scientific and philosophical circles. Although one of the advanced hypothesis that suggests the possibility of substantiation of the cognitive opacity of language was being refuted, the concept of P. Ricoeur allowed saturating the concept of reality of the American philosopher with the ontological content.

1. The historical origins of the trust

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
JE Penner
Keyword(s):  
Common Law ◽  
The Core ◽  
Administrative Power ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Historical Origins

Titles in the Core Text series take the reader straight to the heart of the subject, providing focused, concise, and reliable guides for students at all levels. This chapter traces the historical roots of the trust. The law of trusts is the offspring of a certain English legal creature known as ‘equity’. Equity arose out of the administrative power of the medieval Chancellor, who was at the time the King’s most powerful minister. The nature of equity’s jurisdiction and its ability to provide remedies unavailable at common law, the relationship between equity and the common law and the ‘fusion’ of law and equity, and equity’s creation of the use, and then the trust, are discussed.

4. Promoters and pre-incorporation contracts

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Dignam ◽  
John Lowry
Keyword(s):  
Common Law ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Freedom Of Establishment ◽  
Fiduciary Duties ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
A Company ◽  
Corporate Mobility

Titles in the Core Text series take the reader straight to the heart of the subject, providing focused, concise, and reliable guides for students at all levels. This chapter focuses on one area where the motives of ‘promoters’ (that is, those who form a company) are relevant to the legal aspects of certain activities carried out in the company’s name, especially when they enter into contracts for the company prior to its formal registration. After defining the term ‘promoter’, the chapter discusses the fiduciary duties of promoters and the range of remedies available to the company against a promoter who breaches his fiduciary duties. It then considers problems involving contracts entered into prior to incorporation and the common law position on such contracts. It also explains pre-incorporation contracts, deeds, and obligations under Section 51 of Companies Act 2006 before concluding with an analysis of the issue of corporate mobility in relation to the freedom of establishment.

4. Promoters and pre-incorporation contracts

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Dignam ◽  
John Lowry
Keyword(s):  
Common Law ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Freedom Of Establishment ◽  
Fiduciary Duties ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
A Company ◽  
Corporate Mobility

Titles in the Core Text series take the reader straight to the heart of the subject, providing focused, concise, and reliable guides for students at all levels. This chapter focuses on one area where the motives of ‘promoters’ (that is, those who form a company) are relevant to the legal aspects of certain activities carried out in the company’s name, especially when they enter into contracts for the company prior to its formal registration. After defining the term ‘promoter’, the chapter discusses the fiduciary duties of promoters and the range of remedies available to the company against a promoter who breaches his fiduciary duties. It then considers problems involving contracts entered into prior to incorporation and the common law position on such contracts. It also explains pre-incorporation contracts, deeds, and obligations under Section 51 of Companies Act 2006 before concluding with an analysis of the issue of corporate mobility in relation to the freedom of establishment.

4. Promoters and pre-incorporation contracts

Company Law ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 51-62
Author(s):  
Alan Dignam ◽  
John Lowry
Keyword(s):  
Common Law ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Freedom Of Establishment ◽  
Fiduciary Duties ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
A Company ◽  
Corporate Mobility

Titles in the Core Text series take the reader straight to the heart of the subject, providing focused, concise, and reliable guides for students at all levels. This chapter focuses on one area where the motives of ‘promoters’ (that is, those who form a company) are relevant to the legal aspects of certain activities carried out in the company’s name, especially when they enter into contracts for the company prior to its formal registration. After defining the term ‘promoter’, the chapter discusses the fiduciary duties of promoters and the range of remedies available to the company against a promoter who breaches his fiduciary duties. It then considers problems involving contracts entered into prior to incorporation and the common law position on such contracts. It also explains pre-incorporation contracts, deeds, and obligations under section 51 of Companies Act 2006 before concluding with an analysis of the issue of corporate mobility in relation to the freedom of establishment.

8. Terms of the contract II: common law and statutory controls on unfair terms

2020 ◽  
pp. 198-227
Author(s):  
Janet O’Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Common Law ◽  
The Core ◽  
Consumer Rights ◽  
Consumer Contracts ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
Unfair Terms ◽  
Standard Terms

Titles in the Core Text series take the reader straight to the heart of the subject, providing focused, concise, and reliable guides for students at all levels. This chapter examines potentially unfair terms, including exemption clauses, in a contract. It considers the common law’s response to exemption clauses and other potentially unfair terms, and discusses statutory schemes to regulate them. It covers the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 (UCTA) which governs exemption clauses in non-consumer contracts, subjecting them to a requirement of reasonableness where the contract was made on standard terms. It also discusses in detail the Consumer Rights Act 2015 (CRA), which imposes a test of fairness on terms in consumer contracts, apart from the core terms.

5. Consideration and estoppel

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet O’Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Common Law ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
English Law ◽  
Contractual Obligations

Titles in the Core Text series take the reader straight to the heart of the subject, providing focused, concise, and reliable guides for students at all levels. This chapter explores and defends the consideration requirement in the enforceability of contractual obligations, both when the contract is formed and if it is varied, refuting some of the criticisms calling for the requirement of consideration to be reformed or abolished in English law. It defines consideration as the ‘price of the promise’ and clarifies that an act or promise must have been requested by the promisor to count as consideration. It explores issues such as past consideration, performance of an existing contractual duty, part payment of a debt, for which latter issue the common law rule is ameliorated by the equitable doctrine of promissory estoppel.

Subject States and Tribute Provinces: The Aztec Empire in the Northern Valley of Mexico

1992 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederic Hicks
Keyword(s):  
Core Area ◽  
Political Integration ◽  
Common People ◽  
Spanish Conquest ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
Aztec Empire

AbstractThe Aztec empire was composed of at least two kinds of entities, subject states and tribute provinces, and these were administered through at least two separate hierarchies. Imperial tribute, which was extracted from the common people, was not delivered through the same channels as those through which subject rulers interacted with their imperial overlords. This arrangement enabled the latter to deal with the subject rulers not as tribute-givers, but as allies and colleagues, while extracting a heavy tribute from their commoner subjects. In the core area of the Aztec empire, which included the northern Valley of Mexico, the boundaries of the subject states and tribute provinces did not coincide, and this contributed to the economic and political integration of the core area. The tribute provinces consisted only of those communities within a region that gave tribute to the empire, and the elimination of such obligations after the Spanish conquest effectively liquidated the tribute provinces.

5. Consideration and estoppel

2020 ◽  
pp. 89-127
Author(s):  
Janet O’Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Common Law ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
English Law ◽  
Contractual Obligations

Titles in the Core Text series take the reader straight to the heart of the subject, providing focused, concise, and reliable guides for students at all levels. This chapter explores and defends the consideration requirement in the enforceability of contractual obligations, both when the contract is formed and if it is varied, refuting some of the criticisms calling for the requirement of consideration to be reformed or abolished in English law. It defines consideration as the ‘price of the promise’ and clarifies that an act or promise must have been requested by the promisor to count as consideration. It explores issues such as past consideration, performance of an existing contractual duty, part payment of a debt, for which latter issue the common law rule is ameliorated by the equitable doctrine of promissory estoppel.

8. Terms of the contract II: common law and statutory controls on unfair terms

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet O’Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Common Law ◽  
The Core ◽  
Consumer Rights ◽  
Consumer Contracts ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
Unfair Terms ◽  
Standard Terms

Titles in the Core Text series take the reader straight to the heart of the subject, providing focused, concise, and reliable guides for students at all levels. This chapter examines unfair terms and exemption clauses in a contract. It considers the common law’s response to unfair terms and exemption clauses and discusses statutory schemes to regulate them. It covers the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 (UCTA) which governs exemption clauses in non-consumer contracts, subjecting them to a requirement of reasonableness where the contract was made on standard terms. It also discusses in detail the Consumer Rights Act 2015 (CRA), which imposes a test of fairness on terms in consumer contracts, apart from the core terms.

Social innovation for modified consumption by means of the school subject Art and craft

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita NEUBERG
Keyword(s):  
General Education ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
School Subject ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
The Core ◽  
Causal Mechanisms ◽  
The Subject

In this paper I will take a look at how one can facilitate the change in consumption through social innovation, based on the subject of art and design in Norwegian general education. This paper will give a presentation of books, featured relevant articles and formal documents put into context to identify different causal mechanisms around our consumption. The discussion will be anchored around the resources and condition that must be provided to achieve and identify opportunities for action under the subject of Art and craft, a subject in Norwegian general education with designing at the core of the subject, ages 6–16. The question that this paper points toward is: "How can we, based on the subject of Art and craft in primary schools, facilitate the change in consumption through social innovation?”

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