scholarly journals Sublimity & the Image: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Exploration

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-110
Author(s):  
Erika Goble
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Visual Object ◽  
Fundamental Change ◽  
Hermeneutic Phenomenological ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
Art And Literature ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Phenomenological Exploration

For over 2000 years, the sublime has been a source of fascination for philosophers, artists, and even the general public at times. We have written hundreds of treatises on the subject, put forth innumerable definitions and explanations, and even tried to reproduce it in art and literature. But, despite our efforts, our understanding of the sublime remains elusive. In this paper, the sublime is explored as a potential human experience that can be evoked by an image. Drawing upon concrete experiences, the phenomenon of sublimity suggests a compelling, embodied response to the visual object that can evoke a fundamental change of being.

scholarly journals Ucieleśnienie, neuronauki i literatura

2019 ◽  
pp. 19-39
Author(s):  
Andrzej Kapusta
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
The State ◽  
Illness Experience ◽  
State Of Health ◽  
Art And Literature ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Health And Well Being

In the text, I address the subject of neurocognitive science, art and literature in various perspectives, whose connecting point is the perspective of the experiencing subject and her embodiment. The embodied and involved subject reveals through her ailments and suffering dimensions of experience not always visible in the state of health and well-being. The starting point of my deliberations are issues in the field of neurocognitive science and neuroesthetics as the areas that attempt to explain the neurobiological mechanisms of perception of art and literature. Next, I refer to research in the field of neuroanthropology, through which the positive and creative dimensions of the illness experience are noticed. I also refer to psychopathology as an area that shows the dimensions of human experience in a much more fundamental way than it is able to show the experience of everyday life.

Prescriptive Power: Biologism, Biopsychiatry and Drug-centred Psychopharmacology

Somatechnics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 291-309
Author(s):  
Francis Russell
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
False Consciousness ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Biological Ontology ◽  
Health Discourse

This paper looks to make a contribution to the critical project of psychiatrist Joanna Moncrieff, by elucidating her account of ‘drug-centred’ psychiatry, and its relation to critical and cultural theory. Moncrieff's ‘drug-centred’ approach to psychiatry challenges the dominant view of mental illness, and psychopharmacology, as necessitating a strictly biological ontology. Against the mainstream view that mental illnesses have biological causes, and that medications like ‘anti-depressants’ target specific biological abnormalities, Moncrieff looks to connect pharmacotherapy for mental illness to human experience, and to issues of social justice and emancipation. However, Moncrieff's project is complicated by her framing of psychopharmacological politics in classical Marxist notions of ideology and false consciousness. Accordingly, she articulates a political project that would open up psychiatry to the subjugated knowledge of mental health sufferers, whilst also characterising those sufferers as beholden to ideology, and as being effectively without knowledge. Accordingly, in order to contribute to Moncrieff's project, and to help introduce her work to a broader humanities readership, this paper elucidates her account of ‘drug-centred psychiatry’, whilst also connecting her critique of biopsychiatry to notions of biologism, biopolitics, and bio-citizenship. This is done in order to re-describe the subject of mental health discourse, so as to better reveal their capacities and agency. As a result, this paper contends that, once reframed, Moncrieff's work helps us to see value in attending to human experience when considering pharmacotherapy for mental illness.

Case Analysis: The Gabčíkovo-Nagymaros Case: The Law of Treaties

1998 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 321-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malgosia Fitzmaurice
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Case Analysis ◽  
Vienna Convention ◽  
Fundamental Change ◽  
Unilateral Termination ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Law ◽  
International Law Commission ◽  
Law Commission

The subject-matter of this article are the issues of treaty law as expounded in the Judgment in the Gabčíkovo-Nagymaros case. The following problems are discussed: unilateral suspension and abandonment of obligations deriving from the binding treaty; the principle of fundamental change of circumstances; unilateral termination of a treaty; applicability of the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties in this case; legal status of so-called ‘provisional solution’; impossibility of performance and material breach of treaty; the application of the principle of ‘approximate application’; and the principle pacta sunt servanda. The issues arc discussed at the background of the Drafts of the International Law Commission.

scholarly journals Allies in Transparency? Parliamentary, Judicial and Administrative Interplays in the EU’s International Negotiations

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 75-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vigjilenca Abazi ◽  
Johan Adriaensen
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
International Negotiations ◽  
Joint Analysis ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Public Oversight ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Eu

International negotiations are an essential part of the European Union’s (EU) external affairs. A key aspect to negotiations is access to and sharing of information among the EU institutions involved as well as to the general public. Oversight of negotiations requires insight into the topics of negotiation, the positions taken and the strategies employed. Concurrently, however, some space for confidentiality is necessary for conducting the negotiations and defending EU interests without fully revealing the limit negotiating positions of the EU to the negotiating partner. Hence, attaining a balance between the necessities of oversight and confidentiality in negotiations is the subject of a dynamic debate between the EU institutions. This paper provides a joint analysis on EU oversight institutions’ position on transparency in international negotiations. We set out to answer whether parliamentary, judicial and administrative branches of oversight are allies in pursuing the objectives of transparency but also examine when their positions diverge.

scholarly journals Hakikat Ilmu Pengetahuan dalam Perspektif Modern dan Islam

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-217
Author(s):  
Siti Makhmudah
Keyword(s):  
Human Experience ◽  
Coherence Theory ◽  
Theory Theory ◽  
Human Thought ◽  
Sources Of Knowledge ◽  
Human Effort ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Understanding Of Science ◽  
Structure Of Knowledge ◽  
Human Source

Science in a unity appeared in dimensional. Philosophy is an activity though human thought guided their efforts on finding cause for over everything and how human effort after learning of the matter. This research aims to understand: (1) knowledge and understanding of science in etymology and terminology; (2) perbedan of science, knowledge and religion in epistimologi; (3) the extent to which science in Islam; (4) the principal traits of science; (5) the theory of truth; (6) the sources of knowledge; (7) the boundaries of science; (8) the structure of knowledge. Results of the study can be described in several options, which are: first, science is the summary of a set of knowledge or the result of knowledge and facts. While religion is a belief or faith tata tata over something that is absolutely beyond human, appropriate and in line with the faith and worship. Second, with regard to the characteristics of the subject matter of science is as follows: 1) Systematically; 2) Generality; 3) Rationality; 4) Objectivity; 5) Verifiabilitas, 6) and Communality. Third, in Theory a theory of truth is no 3: the theory of correspondence, coherence Theory, theory of pragmatism. Fourth, human source of knowledge using two ways to obtain the correct knowledge, first through ratio and secondly through experience. Fifth, limiting his explorations in the science of human experience, thus embarking upon science exploration on human experience and stop on the human experience, and that is the limits of science. Sixth, the science is essentially a collection of knowledge that is explaining the various symptoms of nature which allows a human doing a series of actions to control these symptoms based on the explanation there is.

What is Time–Energy Uncertainty?

2020 ◽  
pp. 92-104
Author(s):  
Gershon Kurizki ◽  
Goren Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Schrodinger Equation ◽  
Uncertainty Relation ◽  
Energy State ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Quantum Systems ◽  
General Question ◽  
Energy Measurement ◽  
Quantum Observable ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Short Time

Henry scores a surprise win over Eve thanks to his quantum rocket that is powered by a quantum-chargeable battery. This gadget is subject to the time–energy uncertainty relation that may result in the battery having more energy than expected. This occurs if an energy measurement within a short time “collapses” the battery randomly to the highest energy state. Intriguingly, time is not a quantum observable. This raises the question that was hotly debated by Bohr and Einstein: how can time be uncertain and affect the energy uncertainty? The more general question is: what is the meaning of time, energy and their uncertainty in physics and in human experience? Attempts to define time have been the subject of philosophical controversy throughout millennia. The appendix to this chapter introduces the Schrödinger equation that governs the dynamics of quantum systems and their time–energy uncertainty.

Concluding Remarks

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cigdem Issever ◽  
Ken Peach
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Cultural Background ◽  
Individual Scientist ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Communication Of Science ◽  
The Individual

‘Giving a talk’, to colleagues, to peers or to the general public, is an important part of our professional duties as scientists. Whatever the context, we have a duty to make sure that the science is communicated clearly, and that the audience is able to understand the science at an appropriate level. Communication of science and about science is becoming more important, for many reasons. Science is becoming more expensive—the simple (that is, cheap) experiments have been done. Science, and the technology that results from it, has brought great benefits to society, but science has also given society cause for concern. Science should be dispassionate, the results independent of cultural background and beliefs of the individual scientist; but science can also be controversial, especially when it challenges generally accepted beliefs or attitudes. We believe that there are no absolute rules governing what makes a good slide, or how to assemble a series of good slides into a good talk. Even if there were such a recipe, how a talk is received depends upon many other things—the subject, the speaker, the venue, the size (and the mood) of the audience. There is never enough time to discuss all the details, and so we always have to make choices about what to include and what to omit. How we make these choices depends upon many things— what might be highly appropriate in one context could be completely inappropriate in another. Nevertheless, we can think of a few principles that should help you, which have underpinned the approach taken in this book. • Understand the scope of your talk—where do you start, what is the key point, how will you conclude, what is the message? • Understand your hosts—why did they invite you to give the talk or, if you invited yourself, why did they agree? • Understand your audience—why have they come to hear you, what do they know already, what do they expect to learn and what do they need to learn? • Be professional—understand and be master of the technology of the presentation.

Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine under Nazi Rule

2006 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 160-163
Author(s):  
Valdis O. Lumans
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
General Public ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Nazi Occupation ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Research Level ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Historical Issues

Reading Karel C. Berkhoff's Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine under Nazi Rule reaps reward but also some disappointment. For the general public unfamiliar with the historical issues and intricacies of the Nazi occupation of the Soviet Union, this book contains far more reward as a montage of vivid depictions of everyday life under German domination in the occupied East. But conversely, for those with a more advanced, research-level familiarity with the subject, the results are reversed.

Mill's Two Views on Belief

Philosophy ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 59 (227) ◽  
pp. 79-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.J. Mandt
Keyword(s):  
Human Subject ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Newtonian Mechanics ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Philosophical Doctrine

Philosophical traditions often bear the seeds of their own destruction.Their seminal insights are achieved in part by ignoring or distorting certain aspects of human experience. Insights and mistakes grow from the same roots. In transitional periods, this dialectic leads to strange reversals in allegiance and to unexpected and even unnoticed shifts in philosophical doctrine. Classical empiricism presents an example of this when one shifts attention from its treatment of epistemological questions to problems of humanaction, or to the relation of knowledge and action. The empiricist analysisof knowledge in terms of the succession and conjoining of ideas and impressions in the mind leaves the mind itself a passive spectator that undergoes its contents. On this view, the human subject lacks any distinctive spontaneity or power of initiative. The mind's internal processes are conceived ofon analogy with Newtonian mechanics and are distinguished by their law-likeregularity. The subject is not, and cannot conceive itself as being, a kindof agency. Historically, the consequences of this are evident in Berkeley's difficulties regarding ‘active spirit’, of which we have ‘notions’ but not perceptions, and in the often remarked upon disparities between Parts I and III of Hume's Treatise.

scholarly journals Shifting frontiers of transcendence in theology, philosophy and science

2011 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cornelius W. Du Toit
Keyword(s):  
World View ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
A Posteriori ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Epistemological Structure

This article dealt cursorily with developments in theology, philosophy and the sciences that have contributed to what one might call horizontal transcendence. The premise is that humans have evolved into beings that are wired for transcendence. Transcendence is described in terms of the metaphor of frontiers and frontier posts. Although the frontiers of transcendence shift according to the insights, understanding and needs of every epoch and world view, it remains transcendent, even in its immanent mode. Diverse perceptions of that frontier normally coexist in every era and we can only discern a posteriori which was the dominant one. Frontiers are fixed with reference to the epistemologies, notions of the subject and power structures of a given era. From a theological point of view, encounter with the transcendent affords insight, not into the essence of transcendence, but into human self-understanding and understanding of our world. Transcendence enters into the picture when an ordinary human experience acquires a depth and an immediacy that are attributed to an act of God. In philosophy, transcendence evolved from a noumenal metaphysics focused on the object (Plato), via emphasis on the epistemological structure and limits of the knowing subject (Kant) and an endeavour to establish a dynamic subject-object dialectics (Hegel), to the assimilation of transcendence into human existence (Heidegger). In the sciences certain developments opened up possibilities for God to act in non-interventionist ways. The limitations of such an approach are considered, as well as promising new departures – and their limitations – in the neurosciences. From all of this I conclude that an immanent-transcendent approach is plausible for our day and age.

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