Chapter 4. The Earlier Humanistic Tradition

1984 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Humanistic Tradition

Der Tod als ästhetisches Experiment

2012 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-161
Author(s):  
Leander Scholz
Keyword(s):  
Self Determination ◽  
Modern Concept ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
The Social ◽  
Art Performance ◽  
Humanistic Tradition

Als der Künstler Gregor Schneider im Frühjahr 2008 ein Kunstprojekt ankündigte, bei dem ein Mensch, der im Sterben liegt, im Rahmen einer künstlerischen Performance ausgestellt werden sollte, waren die Reaktionen überwiegend äußerst kritisch. Während Gregor Schneider sein Projekt explizit als einen humanistischen Beitrag verstand, der sich gegen die Tabuisierung des Sterbens richten sollte, sahen die meisten Kommentatoren darin eine pietätslose Preisgabe des Sterbenden an die voyeuristischen Blicke des Publikums. Vor dem Hintergrund dieser Diskussion geht der Aufsatz der Frage nach, was es bedeutet, den Tod eines Menschen wie ein künstlerisches Werk zu inszenieren, und ordnet den Anspruch einer nicht nur ethischen, sondern auch ästhetischen Selbstbestimmung angesichts des Todes in die humanistische Tradition des modernen Werkgedankens ein.<br><br>In the spring of 2008, the artist Georg Schneider announced an art performance with a mortally ill person. Most of the responses to this art project were very critical. While the artist argued that the exhibition of a dying person should be understood as a humanistic intervention against the social taboo of death, commentators often criticized the exhibition as voyeuristic. Based on this discussion, the article explores what it means to stage a dying person as a piece of art and investigates the historical conditions of this project by locating the longing for ethic and aesthetic self-determination within the humanistic tradition of the modern concept of the work of art.

Humanism vs. Humanitarianism

2020 ◽  
pp. 163-204
Author(s):  
Eric Adler
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Research University ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Unique Role ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
American Higher Education ◽  
Radical Critique ◽  
American Research ◽  
Humanistic Tradition

This chapter surveys Irving Babbitt’s writings in defense of the classical and modern humanities. It demonstrates that Babbitt’s critique of the American research university and its philosophical underpinnings provides a more satisfying intellectual foundation for the humanities than do typical contemporary defenses. The chapter demonstrates that Babbitt offered a radical critique of professionalized American higher education and the attractively romantic—but ultimately problematic—conception of human nature that informs it. It shows that Babbitt fundamentally recast the humanistic tradition to fit the needs of the contemporary world. Importantly, the chapter argues that Babbitt avoided the skills-based rationales for Latin and ancient Greek that had proved so underwhelming during the Battle of the Classics. In their place, Babbitt underscored the unique role that specific humanities content must play in American higher learning in order for the nation to flourish.

The Engineer: Savior of the Humanistic Tradition

1972 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-131
Author(s):  
Manny Meyers
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Impact ◽  
Technical Vocabulary ◽  
Technological Civilization ◽  
Humanistic Tradition

Some wry, but discerning observations of the psychological impact on linguistics in a technological civilization. It is noted that a perverse nuance in a milieu obsessed with and possessed of inanimate objects is that the technical vocabulary becomes more imbued with human traits and emotional hues.

Girolamo Cardano

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marialuisa Baldi
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Human Knowledge ◽  
Philosophy Of Nature ◽  
New Science ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Complex Image ◽  
Counter Reformation ◽  
Cardan Joint ◽  
Humanistic Tradition

Cardano (Girolamo, Gerolamo, b. 1501–d. 1576) is an Italian polymath, one of the most prominent authors of the Renaissance. He was not only a physician, mathematician, and astrologer but also a philosopher and a curious researcher of nature, interested in all areas of human knowledge and experience. At the end of his life, he was brought to trial by the Catholic Inquisition, and all his works, except the medical ones, were condemned. Yet his writings in the philosophy of nature, especially the encyclopedic De subtilitate and De rerum varietate, were frequently read until the Enlightenment. For the general public, his name is renowned for some inventions and discoveries as the solution of cubic equations. What we call Cardan joint is named after him. His fascinating autobiography has been translated in many languages. Scholars read him as a radical thinker, crypto-Reformer critic of religions, and a forerunner of the new science still immersed in magic. A more complex image of Cardano has now been emerging, thanks to recent editions and translations of his works. Cardano sensed the crisis of the humanistic tradition in the age of the Counter-Reformation. As then, he still offers tools for understanding what is continuously transforming, and getting closer to the truth.

FORMULATIONS OF THE MAIN GOAL IN LIFE: A QUALITATIVE CONTENT ANALYSIS

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 104-114
Author(s):  
Aleksandrs Koļesovs ◽  
Irina Salima ◽  
Andris Maskovs
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Purpose In Life ◽  
Rater Agreement ◽  
Additional Step ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Work Family ◽  
Open Question ◽  
Humanistic Tradition

Humanistic tradition emphasizes the main goal in life as something towards which people determine themselves. The main goal (or a group of goals with the highest priority) provides the basis for the sense of purpose in life and for development of its meaning. This study aimed at revealing categories in formulations of the main goal in life. Participants were 226 adults aged from 18 to 69 (M = 25.34, SD = 8.51, 65% females). They answered an open question: “Kā Jūs raksturotu galveno dzīves mērķi? Lūdzu, padalieties ar savām pārdomām. [How could You describe the main goal in life? Please, share your opinion.]” The qualitative content analysis resulted in 29 categories. Inter-rater agreement among three raters was acceptable and varied from .72 to 1.00 (the mean Krippendorff’s alpha was .88). Work, Family, and Satisfaction were the most frequently selected categories for a formulation of the main goal, while Love, Leisure, and Transcendent Issues were the less selected ones. An additional step of thematic analysis demonstrated that categories can be joined in four overarching themes: Vague Formulations, Self, Others, and Desired States.

Renaissance Influences in English Colonization

1976 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 73-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.B. Quinn
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Natural History ◽  
New World ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
New Material ◽  
Late Fifteenth ◽  
First Time ◽  
Humanistic Tradition

THE New World of the sixteenth century grew directly out of the Old not merely in a physical but in an intellectual sense. The men of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, who found the new lands overseas, were educated in a humanistic tradition which made the classical past, especially the Roman past, alive and relevant to them. Consequently, there is an element of continuity in the thinking about the discoveries and the problems they presented on the basis of older intellectual concepts, which continues to influence much of the thought of the sixteenth century about cosmography, natural history and about the planting of colonies in lands unknown to the ancients. It is astonishing how Ptolemy remained the standard bearer of the new discoveries: maps of the New World and other novel areas, added to his Geography for the first time in 1513, continued to proliferate in edition after edition until by the later sixteenth century the original maps and text had been so overlaid with new matter that they bore even less relationship to the original than the first issue of Gray's Anatomy has to the current edition. It was much the same with Pliny: the Natural History remained the starting point for New World and Asiatic botany and zoology throughout the sixteenth century. Oviedo in 1526 paid his respects to the master before suggesting that genuine novelties could now be added to his text: well before the end of the century Pliny too had been swamped in new material, though his text was also retained intact.

Science and Criticism. The Humanistic Tradition in Contemporary Thought.

1944 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 584
Author(s):  
Bertram Morris ◽  
Herbert J. Muller
Keyword(s):  
Humanistic Tradition
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