The ideal Benedictine Monastery: From the Saint Gall map to ontologies

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-160
Author(s):  
Claudia Cantale ◽  
Domenico Cantone ◽  
Manuela Lupica Rinato ◽  
Marianna Nicolosi-Asmundo ◽  
Daniele Francesco Santamaria ◽  
...  

We present an OWL 2 ontology, called SaintGall, representing the Saint Gall plan, one of the most ancient documents arrived intact to us. The Saint Gall plan describes the ideal model of a Benedictine monastic complex that inspired the design of many European monasteries. The structural, functional, and architectural specification of an ideal Benedectine monastery is modeled by the SaintGall ontology, which allows one to analyse and model the Monastery architectural type. This work started with the purpose of relating Catania’s San Nicolò l’Arena Benedectine Monastery with the abstract notion of Benedectine monastery, in the ambit of an ontological model based on the renovation works carried out by the architect Giancarlo De Carlo and developed by the same authors. The SaintGall ontology opens a research path aiming at comparing different monastic architectures that can be useful in any intervention of refurbishment or design for a monastery.

Author(s):  
T. M. Rudavsky

Chapter 9 is concerned with social and political behavior. Even in the context of moral philosophy, Jewish philosophers discuss issues within the wider context of a rational scientific perspective. This chapter begins with specific moral codes developed by Jewish thinkers, focusing in particular upon the works of Ibn Gabirol, Baḥya ibn Paquda, Maimonides, and Crescas. Can there be ethical dictates independent of the commandments? The rabbis already worried whether there existed a domain of “right behavior” that pre-dates, or exists independently of, divine commandment. Does Aristotle’s doctrine of the mean apply to divine law? Furthermore, can all humans achieve intellectual perfection? Is the road the same, and open, to all? And is there only one road to ultimate felicity, or are there many routes? The chapter ends with a discussion of whether human felicity can be achieved in this life, and whether the prophet best represents the ideal model for such achievement.


2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia A. Zanini ◽  
Sara Rubinelli

This paper aims to identify the challenges in the implementation of shared decision-making (SDM) when the doctor and the patient have a difference of opinion. It analyses the preconditions of the resolution of this difference of opinion by using an analytical and normative framework known in the field of argumentation theory as the ideal model of critical discussion. This analysis highlights the communication skills and attitudes that both doctors and patients must apply in a dispute resolution-oriented communication. Questions arise over the methods of empowerment of doctors and patients in these skills and attitudes as the preconditions of SDM. Overall, the paper highlights aspects in which research is needed to design appropriate programmes of training, education and support in order to equip doctors and patients with the means to successfully engage in shared decision-making.


2006 ◽  
Vol 78 (22) ◽  
pp. 7828-7840 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weiqiang Hao ◽  
Xiangmin Zhang ◽  
Keyong Hou

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-122
Author(s):  
Ludmila Sukina ◽  

The author examines the “In Thee rejoiceth” icons as visual sources that make it possible to reconstruct the ideal model of medieval society in the Moscow culture of the late 15th and early 16th centuries. This icon type, which includes the scenes of “Human race” collective praying to the Mother of God, is of Russian origin. Unlike other works of that time typologically close to it (“The Intercession”, “The Congregation of Our Lady”, “The Congregation of All Saints”, etc.), the “In Thee rejoiceth” icons demonstrate a historical connection to religious and socio-cultural facts of the Muscovy state. They clearly express the idea of Muscovy enjoying special patronage of the Mother of God, whose cult was actively developed in Moscow, the city that, as was believed at the Grand Dukes’ court, inherited the traditions and the spiritual authority of Constantinople. The depiction of the “Human race” in the “In Thee rejoiceth” icons can be viewed as a metaphorical image of the capital city community consisting of different groups of clergy and laity. This image corresponded to the ideas of the authorities and the population of the Russian state that existed under Ivan III and Vasili III.


2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-34
Author(s):  
Robert Stănciulescu

Abstract Specialized studies show how a fighter should physically be, not just any fighter, but the one who possesses the qualities and features of the ideal model, i.e. those elements that define the near-perfect fighter. The demands of the modern battlefield impose a high quality human potential that provides a good basis for the selection and training of fighters. Resistance to physical, climate, season and weather condition demands, to the prolonged efforts fighting requires is one of the important conditions of success. The paper presents information with particular impact in optimizing exercise capacity for future officers of the land forces, emphasizing once again the idea that a high level of motric ability is an essential objective.


2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-225
Author(s):  
Joan Siswoyo ◽  
Ardian Cahyadi ◽  
Lungit Wicaksono

This study aims to produce: (1) Model of management program implementation in PERBASI (Indonesian Basketball Association) Tanggamus Regency, (2) Model of management system and basketball coaching in PERBASI Tanggamus Regency. This is a qualitative research study looking at different aspects of sport organization in this region. The research subjects are: (1) Branch manager of PERBASI Tanggamus (2) Manager of PERBASI Tanggamus (3) Sports agencies in the Tanggamus Regency, (4) athletes, coaches, communities. Data collection was performed by using observation, interviews and documentation. The data analysis technique used was triangulation. The results showed that: (1) Branch manager of PERBASI in carrying out organizational management does not have a system of implementing the program, (2) The basketball coaching system at Tanggamus has not been designed to be sustainable, (3) The sports coaching system at Tanggamus is not running optimally. The management system of the organization, basketball and sports in Tanggamus Regency is not yet running well. Based on the results, it proposes an ideal model of sports management (1) the ideal model of basketball management in PERBASI Tanggamus, (2) the ideal model of a management system. The conclusion of the research states that the implementation of basketball management and coaching in Tanggamus Regency has not been programmed efficiently. Results of this research suggest that all parties involved in a basketball sports coaching system in Tanggamus Regency should cooperate in implementing management programs.


Humaniora ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 299
Author(s):  
Frederikus Fios

Fair punishment for a condemned has been long debated in the universe of discourse of law and global politics. The debate on the philosophical level was no less lively. Many schools of thought philosophy question, investigate, reflect and assess systematically the ideal model for the subject just punishment in violation of the law. One of the interesting and urgent legal thought Jeremy Bentham, a British philosopher renowned trying to provide a solution in the middle of the debate was the doctrine or theory of utilitarianism. The core idea is that the fair punishment should be a concern for happiness of a condemned itself, and not just for revenge. Bentham thought has relevance in several dimensions such as dimensions of humanism, moral and utility.  


InterConf ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 444-460
Author(s):  
Viacheslav Gorodnov

One of the variants of the basic concepts of methodology and technology for the development of real objects’ and processes’ mathematical models and the assessment of the expected efficiency of these models, as well as the ratio and interconnection of the methodology concepts and the contradictions of modeling, which are one of the reasons for failures in the development of models, are presented. The technological foundations of the obviously useful models development with a simultaneous forecast of their effectiveness indicators values are systematized: reliability, efficiency, completeness of modeling, the usefulness of the developed model relative to the existing one and in comparison with the ideal model. An expression is given for predicting the time expense on developing a model.


Author(s):  
Masataka Yoshimura

Abstract This paper proposes a design optimization method consisting of the multiphase structural modeling of ideal, intermediate, and detailed models for machine structures. In this method, the ideal characteristics are first obtained for a specific ideal model. Then, the detailed designs are determined so that the characteristics in the detailed model are as close to the ideal characteristics as possible. For easily and surely obtaining the final detailed designs, an intermediate model is introduced between the ideal model and the detailed model. This method not only effectively generates optimum detailed designs of machine structures but also brings about an easy realization of the optimum characteristics in practical manufactured machine products. The proposed method is applied to a machine-tool structural model for demonstrating the effectiveness of the method.


Author(s):  
Alexander Mansutti Rodríguez

Mansutti adopts Needham’s scheme of distinguishing three analytical levels; the jural rules; the statistical-behavioural, and the categorical. He includes a computer simulation to gain a time depth in his model of Piaroa kinship and marriage, which demonstrates that the exceptions to the marriage rules are not residual and inexplicable but are necessary to maintain the ideal model anticipated by the formal rules. Although violations of the rules are motivated by personal desires and not a desire to save the formal system, they are in fact necessary to its preservation. Moreover, he employs Bourdieu’s distinction between official and private kinship, and illustrates his approach with apposite case studies. For instance, he describes how personal interests can be transmuted into community interests, and genealogical relationships between two people in small-scale societies can be “read” along different routes with telling results.


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