scholarly journals The Feminine, the Origin of Evil and the Motion of Matter in Plutarch’s De animae procreatione

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 374-393
Author(s):  
Lunette Warren
Keyword(s):  
Positive View ◽  
Metaphysical Problem ◽  
Feminine Principle ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Positive Force

Plutarch’s De animae procreatione is, by the author’s own admission, an unusual account of the cosmogony in the Timaeus, yet what is most original about it is often overlooked. The philosopher and biographer has a relatively positive view of women’s intellectual capabilities, including their ability to attain virtue, and as such the suggestion that the feminine principle of the cosmos is the origin of sublunary evil presents both an ethical and a metaphysical problem. Plutarch attempts to solve this problem by separating Matter from its movement, thus theorising a third kind, disorderly motion that ultimately causes evil. Even so, he maintains a close relationship between Motion and Matter by stressing their acosmic interaction, which allows for a degree of scepticism regarding the feminine and the female while creating space for the virtue of women. He does so by incorporating Matter and Motion into a single acosmic principle of disorder, the Indefinite Dyad. This division of kinds is apparent also in De Iside, where it becomes clear that Plutarch intends to frame the feminine as a potentially positive force in the cosmos.

Self as the feminine principle

1997 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 425-452
Author(s):  
Eli B. Weisstub
Keyword(s):  
Feminine Principle ◽  
The Feminine

Feminist or Feminine? The Feminine Principle in Occupational Therapy

1996 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Therapy ◽  
Complementary Therapies ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Medical Model ◽  
Occupational Therapists ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Feminine Principle ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
The Relationship

Recently, there has been renewed interest in the relationship between feminism and occupational therapy, but does occupational therapy continue to operate on the feminine principle which underlies the philosophical basis of the profession? There is a strong tendency by some occupational therapists to emulate the masculine principle which drives the medical model but this, in fact, places occupational therapy at a disadvantage in the prevailing male culture. Drawing on a wide range of recent literature related to education, professionalism, management, research, clinical reasoning and complementary therapies, this article argues that the feminine principle is very much alive in the theory and practice of occupational therapy today.

scholarly journals INCESSANT WORRY OR HAPPINESS IN UKRAINIAN

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oksana SMORZHEVSKA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Native Land ◽  
Spiritual Culture ◽  
Feminine Principle ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Characteristic Features

«Incessant worry» - this phrase-meme actively «walks» on social networks and has already become part of the language of everyday life. It is usually used in a somewhat ironic sense. But at the same time, in my opinion, this irony really contains a deep understanding of «what is happiness in Ukrainian». Cordocentrism is considered one of the characteristic features of the Ukrainian mentality. And also antheism (kinship with the native land) and execution (dominance in the psyche of the «feminine principle», but is not synonymous with femininity). All these features have found their embodiment, among other things, in art. And it is precisely the «Incessant worry» that reflects the cordocentrism of the Ukrainian character, and hence the understanding of happiness in Ukrainian. In pursuit of the material components of our everyday life, we have forgotten that happiness is harmony, it is order within ourselves and the creation of a positive attitude around us. Happiness in Ukrainian is coziness, cute little things that make our life more pleasant, it is pleasure from the work that you do, it is your health and your loved ones. And then this «Incessant worry» of Cossack Mamai, a warrior-wise man, in combination with a reeled doll (motanka), acquire a modern sound in our present. It has gone through difficult centuries, tempered in the whirlwind of complex life's vicissitudes and remains national archetypes, the cores of Ukrainian spiritual culture. KEY WORDS: «Incessant worry», happiness in Ukrainian, archetype, cordocentrism, reeled doll, Cossack Mamai.

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