The Intelligence of Complexity: Do the Ethical Aims of Research and Intervention in Education Not Lead Us to a New Discourse "On the Study Methods of our Time"

To better appreciate the contribution of the ‘paradigm of complexity’ in Educational sciences, this paper proposes a framework discussing its cultural and historical roots. First, it focuses on Giambattista Vico’s (1668-1744) critique of René Descartes’ method (1637), contrasting Cartesian’s principles (evidence, disjunction, linear causality and enumeration), with the open rationality of the ‘ingenium’ (capacity to establish relationships and contextualize). Acknowledging the teleological character of scientific inquiry (Bachelard) and the inseparability between ‘subject’ and ‘object’, the second part of the text explores the relevance of ‘designo’ (intentional design) implemented by Leonardo da Vinci (1453-1519) in order to identify and formulate problems encountered by researchers. Referring to contemporary epistemologists (Bachelard, Valéry, Simon, Morin), this contribution finally questions the relationships between the ‘ingenio’ (pragmatic intelligence), the ‘designo’ (modeling method) and ethics. It proposes one to conceive the paradigm of complexity through the relationships it establishes between (pragmatic) action, (epistemic) reflection and meditation (ethics).

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FROM THE METAPHYSICS OF EUCLIDES - TO GEOMETRIC IDEAS IN PHYSICS THROUGH THE AGE (GEOMETRIC IDEAS IN PHYSICS EXPAND THE HORIZONS OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE WORLD)

Metaphysics ◽

10.22363/2224-7580-2020-3-26-38 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 26-38

Author(s):

A. V Khodunov

Keyword(s):

Research Methods ◽

Da Vinci ◽

Rene Descartes ◽

Historical Analysis ◽

Leonardo Da Vinci ◽

Galileo Galilei ◽

Isaac Newton ◽

The World ◽

René Descartes ◽

Geometric Nature

This work consists of two parts. In the first part, a historical analysis is made with modern comments on the importance of a deep study of stable knowledge, experience and traditions of a geometric nature about the structure of the world accumulated by our civilization, which have passed thousands of years of testing. In addition to mathematics, in physics, the tradition of geometric research methods comes from Archimedes, through the work of Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo Galilei, René Descartes, Isaac Newton and other scientists. This trend is now stronger than ever. The second part briefly and summarizes the stages of how and what we have come to on this path.

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The Concept of Woman. Volume 3, The Search for Communion of Persons, 1500–2015.

Horizons ◽

10.1017/hor.2018.53 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 45 (1) ◽

pp. 160-164

Author(s):

Susan A. Ross

Keyword(s):

Immanuel Kant ◽

Da Vinci ◽

Rene Descartes ◽

Roman Catholic ◽

Leonardo Da Vinci ◽

Men And Women ◽

The Third ◽

Detailed Survey ◽

Doctrinal Development ◽

René Descartes

Sr. Prudence Allen's extensive work on the concept of woman finds its culmination in this massive book, the third in a trilogy that began with a first volume on the Aristotelian revolution (up to 1250) and a second that traced developments from 1250 to 1500. In this exhaustively and meticulously researched book, Allen argues for an “integral complementarity” between man and woman that she argues is “proven” through its ability to cohere with John Henry Newman's criteria for doctrinal development, set out in his Essay on the Development of Doctrine (10–11). Through a detailed survey of both men and women thinkers since 1500, including some of the most prominent—Leonardo da Vinci, René Descartes, Immanuel Kant—as well as some lesser known—Elena Tarabotti and Moderata Fonte—Allen argues that only a conception of complementarity based in a revised Aristotelian hylomorphism can adequately account for what it means to be a woman as well as be in accord with Roman Catholic teaching.

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Replication of Internal Biological Surfaces

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100094802 ◽

1972 ◽

Vol 30 ◽

pp. 308-309

Author(s):

J. A. Nowell ◽

J. Pangborn ◽

W. S. Tyler

Keyword(s):

Da Vinci ◽

Leonardo Da Vinci ◽

Rat Lung ◽

Tubular Structures ◽

Cerebral Ventricles ◽

Internal Surfaces ◽

Biological Surfaces ◽

Dog Kidney ◽

Lung And Kidney ◽

Scanning Electron

Leonardo da Vinci in the 16th century, used injection replica techniques to study internal surfaces of the cerebral ventricles. Developments in replicating media have made it possible for modern morphologists to examine injection replicas of lung and kidney with the scanning electron microscope (SEM). Deeply concave surfaces and interrelationships to tubular structures are difficult to examine with the SEM. Injection replicas convert concavities to convexities and tubes to rods, overcoming these difficulties.Batson's plastic was injected into the renal artery of a horse kidney. Latex was injected into the pulmonary artery and cementex in the trachea of a cat. Following polymerization the tissues were removed by digestion in concentrated HCl. Slices of dog kidney were aldehyde fixed by immersion. Rat lung was aldehyde fixed by perfusion via the trachea at 30 cm H2O. Pieces of tissue 10 x 10 x 2 mm were critical point dried using CO2. Selected areas of replicas and tissues were coated with silver and gold and examined with the SEM.

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