Lust, Spirit, and the Vice List in Shakespeare's Sonnet 129 and Galatians 5

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-246
Author(s):  
Marlin E. Blaine
Keyword(s):  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Sexual Pleasure ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Divine Grace ◽  
Loss Of Self ◽  
New Man ◽  
Moral Freedom ◽  
Rhetorical Features ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

Sonnet 129 ironically reinscribes Galatians 5:16–26, reconfiguring the relationship between spirit, lust, and will articulated in Paul's epistle. Paul counsels his audience not to “fulfil the lustes of the flesh,” which he enumerates in a format known to biblical scholars as a vice-list. If the lusts of the flesh dictate behaviors, the sinner, says Paul, lacks self-control: “ye can not do the same things that ye wolde.” Paul counters those lusts with “the spirit,” which signifies a moral freedom resulting from the regenerating effects of divine grace and produces in the “new man” a set of behaviors which Paul particularizes in the counterpart of the vice-list, a virtue list. The lusts of the flesh, says Paul, bar one from kingdom of God, while the actions of the spirit lead to salvation. In Sonnet 129, rhetorical features such as the opposition between lust and spirit, an extensive “vice list,” and a disquisition on the loss of self-control brought on by passion link the sonnet to Paul's epistle. Shakespeare handles the Pauline material with brutal irony, reducing spirit from a sign of God's regenerating influence to a synonym for semen and proceeding to a radically pessimistic conclusion on the inability of the individual “shun the heaven” of sexual pleasure “that leads men to [the] hell” of lust.

Loss of self-control over drinking and the relationship of alexithymia to quality of life in alcohol-dependent patients

2015 ◽  
Vol 146 ◽  
pp. e4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred A. Thorberg ◽  
Ross M. Young ◽  
Michael Lyvers ◽  
Jason P. Connor ◽  
Reidar Tyssen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Loss Of Self ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Alcohol Dependent

scholarly journals Relationship between Volitional Regulation and Ethnic Identity

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 83-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
V.N. Shlyapnikov
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Positive Correlations ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Purpose In Life Test

The paper analyses the ethnocultural factors of volitional regulation from the cultural-historical perspective. A hypothesis is put forward about the relationship between the specifics of volitional regulation and national self-consciousness of the individual. The aim of the work is to study the relationship between ethnic identity and features of volitional regulation among representatives of various ethnic groups (Russians, Komis, Tuvans, Kabardians, Mari, Koreans). A total of 600 people aged 18 to 30 years took part in the study (the samples were gender balanced). To evaluate the individual characteristics of volitional regulation in the respondents, the following techniques were used: the Action Control Scale by J. Kuhl; the "Questionnaire for revealing the expression of self-control in the emotional sphere, activity and behavior"; the technique for self-assessment of volitional qualities; the Purpose in Life Test. The features of ethnic identity were evaluated using the “Types of Ethnic Identity” technique (by S.V. Ryzhova, G.U. Soldatova). The study revealed significant positive correlations between the intensity of volitional self-control and the overall score of volitional self-esteem and positive ethnicity in groups where nationality occupies an important place in the structure of the subject's self-consciousness (Tuvans, Koreans, Kabardians).

scholarly journals Delay Discounting and Health Risk Behaviors: A Review and Suggestions for School Based Intervention in Vietnam

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ho Thu Ha ◽  
Dang Hoang Minh
Keyword(s):  
Health Risk ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Delay Discounting ◽  
Health Risk Behaviors ◽  
Self Control ◽  
School Based Intervention ◽  
School Based ◽  
Unhealthy Diet ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

Delay discounting is the cognitive process that allows the individual to compare values between an immediate smaller reward and a larger but delayed reward (for instance, individual is asked to choose between 10.000 dong now or 20.000 dong in a week). Recently, delay discounting assumes an important role in the field of self-control and decision making related to health, explain why people engaged in various health risk behaviors (including unhealthy diet, inactivity, smoking, drinking). These behaviors account for serious consequences as mortality, mental disorders, cardiac diseases, cancer… This article firstly presents the concept of delay discounting and the discount functions. Secondly, it summarizes the evidences for the relationship between delay discounting and health risk behaviors and describes how the discount functions explains for these behaviors’ patterns. Lastly, it introduces some strategies to reduce delay discounting in order to improve health behaviors and makes suggestions to school-based intervention programs targeting health risk behaviors in Vietnam.  

Self-Control and Deliberate Ignorance

2020 ◽  
pp. 293-314
Author(s):  
Sammy Basu ◽  
James Friedrich
Keyword(s):  
Blind Spot ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Ethical Responsibility ◽  
Personal Bias ◽  
Bias Blind Spot ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Individual Self ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter considers the relationship of individual “self-control” to epistemic behavior and ethical responsibility. The authors distinguish deliberate ignorance into two forms: partiality-preserving and impartiality-enhancing, associating the former with “epistemic diligence/negligence” and the latter with “epistemic restraint/recklessness.” As such, they argue that ethical responsibility entails three prescriptive orders of self-control. First, in the moment, the individual should reactively self-control epistemic relevance. However, research on cognitive irregularities such as the introspection illusion highlights difficulties in doing so. Second, the individual should proactively regulate information available to self and others. Here, the authors’ own studies test whether individuals will consistently guard against information contamination. They find that a personal “bias blind-spot” compromises such epistemic discretion. Given epistemic responsibility but unreliable introspection, then, the individual needs a third order of self-control. That is, in certain decision-making situations the individual is obliged to utilize institutions of epistemic justice that mandate to decision-makers information availability/restraint.

scholarly journals At begribe kroppen

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (120) ◽  
pp. 37-62
Author(s):  
Ivan Lind Christensen
Keyword(s):  
Focal Point ◽  
The Body ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
Body Culture ◽  
Health And Illness ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Individual Self ◽  
The Relationship

In the intersection between neoliberal entrepreneurship and epidemiological models of causation in late modernity the body has become one of the most prominent symbols of individual self-conduct, self-control and moral. Through the symbolic reading of the body, experts as well as laymen believe they can reach true statements about the individuals’ lifestyle, self-conduct, risk management, moral and not least self-discipline. But how did we come to a point in time where the body, health and illness became primarily the manifestation of lifestyle and individual self-conduct? In this article a few pieces of the Danish historical development towards this place in time will be outlined. The relationship between the body, culture and class has been the focal point of epidemiological research for well over 150 years. Characteristic of this production of knowledge is the formulation of shifting and often contradictory theories about the ontology of the individual and society, and the relation between these two entities. This article focuses on the development within epidemiological production of knowledge and its relations to contemporary intellectual, political and social changes, which seem to have been crucial for the way in which we now understand the body.

scholarly journals The relationship of individual psychological and individual-typological characteristics in individuals with personality disorders, committed socially dangerous acts

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 105-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.A. Dubinsky ◽  
G.M. Tokareva ◽  
A.S. Vasilchenko ◽  
N.E. Lysenko
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorders ◽  
Defense Mechanisms ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Self Control ◽  
System Activation ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Social Dangerousness ◽  
High Degree ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between individual psychological and individually-typological characteristics of patients with personality disorders who committed socially dangerous acts were studied, taking into account the severity of the organic factor and the degree of their social dangerousness. 121 males were surveyed, 70 of them were diagnosed with "organic personality disorder" and 33 - personality disorder. The types of personality disorders were diagnosed. The individual variables, the ratio of processes of system activation of behavior and its inhibition, protective styles, especially coping behaviours that constitute aggression, styles of self-regulation were analyzed. It was revealed that low settings of the system activation behavior found in the group of persons with a high degree of social dangerousness, determines the formation of individual psychological treats related to the rigidity behavior, the instability of the motives, impulsivity, negative emotionality, disinhibition. During comparison of samples of individuals with medium and high degree of social dangerousness it has been discovered that self-centeredness, as a component of self-control, high levels of affective components of aggression – anger and immature defense mechanisms significantly distinguish individuals with a high degree of public danger.

scholarly journals Banal religiosity: Brazilian athletes as new missionaries of the neo-Pentecostal diaspora

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmen Rial
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Football Players ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Material Consumption ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

This article is about the relationship between football and religion. It focuses on the recent proliferation of neo-Pentecostalism among Brazilian football players living abroad and the importance of religion in their daily lives. Serving as a civilizing device that promotes better insertion of individuals in modern institutions, neo-Pentecostalism promotes voluntary obedience, self-control, self-awareness and reflexivity, by encouraging the conscious and constant monitoring of the individual over the body and emotions. This self-discipline has a limit, and the Theology of Prosperity offers conciliation between asceticism and material consumption. Football provides religion a large stage for its preaching, allowing it to reach billions of homes. The athletes become "selfless soldiers of the Word," who demonstrate the faith globally and disseminate banal religion through the mediascape.

Interpersonal Rejection as a Determinant of Anger and Aggression

2006 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark R. Leary ◽  
Jean M. Twenge ◽  
Erin Quinlivan
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Social Influence ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Laboratory Experiments ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Loss Of Self ◽  
Interpersonal Rejection ◽  
The Relationship

This article reviews the literature on the relationship between interpersonal rejection and aggression. Four bodies of research are summarized: laboratory experiments that manipulate rejection, rejection among adults in everyday life, rejection in childhood, and individual differences that may moderate the relationship. The theoretical mechanisms behind the effect are then explored. Possible explanations for why rejection leads to anger and aggression include: rejection as a source of pain, rejection as a source of frustration, rejection as a threat to self-esteem, mood improvementfollowing aggression, aggression as social influence, aggression as a means of reestablishing control, retribution, disinhibition, and loss of self-control.

Attribution of Blame for Criminal Acts and its Relationship with Type of Offence

1988 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 301-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gisli H. Gudjonsson ◽  
Krishna K. Singh
Keyword(s):  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Criminal Activity ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Bodily Harm ◽  
Sexual Offences ◽  
Blame Attribution ◽  
Loss Of Self ◽  
Attribution Of Blame ◽  
The Relationship

ABSTRACT: This paper examines the relationship between type of offence and attribution of blame by offenders for their criminal activity. The Gudjonsson Blame Attribution Inventory (GBAI) was administered to 139 prisoners at Grendon Psychiatric Prison, and 37 psychiatric patients with a forensic history. As predicted, a significant relationship with type of offence was found. Subjects who had committed sexual offences reported the strongest remorse for their offence, and those who had committed violent offences (e.g. homicide, grevious bodily harm) were more likely to attribute their offence to mental factors (e.g. loss of self-control, depression).

Accent Policy and Accent Modification Enterprises as Potential Indicators of Intercultural Power Relations: A Call for an Updated Research Agenda

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brynne D. Ovalle ◽  
Rahul Chakraborty
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This article has two purposes: (a) to examine the relationship between intercultural power relations and the widespread practice of accent discrimination and (b) to underscore the ramifications of accent discrimination both for the individual and for global society as a whole. First, authors review social theory regarding language and group identity construction, and then go on to integrate more current studies linking accent bias to sociocultural variables. Authors discuss three examples of intercultural accent discrimination in order to illustrate how this link manifests itself in the broader context of international relations (i.e., how accent discrimination is generated in situations of unequal power) and, using a review of current research, assess the consequences of accent discrimination for the individual. Finally, the article highlights the impact that linguistic discrimination is having on linguistic diversity globally, partially using data from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and partially by offering a potential context for interpreting the emergence of practices that seek to reduce or modify speaker accents.

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