Three Models of Coexistence

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Vasilev
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Starting Point

Chapter 2 examines some prominent models of multicultural coexistence, and defends deliberative models as most consistent with the demands of solidarity. Through their emphasis on reason-giving and empathetic imagining, deliberative models offer a basis for the practical and democratic realisation of solidarity’s core tenet of responsibility across difference. Nevertheless, it is also conceded that a deliberative approach brings with it its own set of problems that impede the expansion of solidarity. Specifically, where deliberation ensues from a starting point of marginalisation and disrespect, we can expect it to replicate, rather than overcome, these non-ideal conditions. The final section brings this problem to light in preparation for the subsequent chapters, which focus on how it can be overcome.

The Moral Basis of State Independence

2021 ◽  
pp. 52-63
Author(s):  
Anna Stilz
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
The State ◽  
National Defense ◽  
Moral Foundation ◽  
Political Independence ◽  
Moral Basis ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Kantian View ◽  
Alternative Reading ◽  
Central Claim

The chapter takes as its starting point the central claim in Arthur Ripstein’s defense of a Kantian approach to war, namely that each state has a right to be independent from the determining choice of other states. The state’s right to independence is the basis for its permission to use force in national defense, and also for in bello restrictions that limit the permissible means of waging war to those necessary to stop aggression. But what morally justifies the state’s right to independence? And can this right be accounted for on Kantian grounds? Specifically, Stilz focuses on whether the Kantian view, as Ripstein reconstructs it, provides a philosophically satisfying basis for attributing a right to political independence to the state. In the final section, she outlines an alternative reading of Kant that may provide a more compelling moral foundation for this right.

scholarly journals Religious experience and desire

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 355-373
Author(s):  
FIONA ELLIS
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Epistemic Value ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Starting Point

AbstractI offer a new approach to the old question of the epistemic value of religious experience. According to this approach, religious experience is a species of desire, desire in this context involving a kind of experience which is cognitive and unmediated. The account is inspired by Levinas and Heidegger, and it involves a conception of experience which is shared by a disjunctivist account of perception. Perceptual disjunctivism is my starting point, and it provides the ground for the ensuing discussion of desire. In the final section of the article I argue that the parallel between perceptual disjunctivism and a Levinasian conception of desire points to a further strength in the account of desire here presented, namely, by suggesting the possibility of a disjunctive style response to scepticism about religious experience.

Space-form and the acousmatic image

2007 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denis Smalley
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Space Form ◽  
Music Performance ◽  
Spectral Space ◽  
Production Of Space ◽  
Spatial Concepts ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Acousmatic Music ◽  
Basic Ideas

AbstractThe analytical discussion of acousmatic music can benefit from being based on spatial concepts, and this article aims to provide a framework for investigation. A personal experience of soundscape listening is the starting point, and uncovers basic ideas relating to the disposition and behaviour of sounding content, and listening strategy. This enables the opening out of the discussion to include source-bonded sounds in general, giving particular consideration to how experience of sense modes other than the aural are implicated in our understanding of space, and in acousmatic listening. Attention then shifts to a source-bonded spatial model based on the production of space by the gestural activity of music performance, prior to focusing in more detail on acousmatic music, initially by delving into spectral space, where ideas about gravitation and diagonal forces are germane. This leads to concepts central to the structuring of perspectival space in relation to the vantage point of the listener. The final section considers a methodology for space-form investigation.

Cyclotomic and double angle polynomials

2004 ◽  
Vol 88 (512) ◽  
pp. 208-214
Author(s):  
K. Robin McLean
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Cyclotomic Polynomials ◽  
Angle Condition ◽  
Mathematical Exploration ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Computer Aided ◽  
Definition Of

One admires and applauds the enterprise of anyone who uses Gauss’s 1801 Disquisitiones arithmeticae as the starting point for mathematical exploration. I enjoyed McKeon and Sherry’s description of their journey [1] and the challenge of their conjectures. They drew attention to a class of polynomials that satisfy what they called the double angle condition ((1) below). Unfortunately, their failure to work with an appropriate definition of cyclotomic polynomials seriously handicapped their computer-aided attempt to classify double angle polynomials. Once this is remedied, a pleasant classification emerges, at least for polynomials with rational coefficients, without recourse to a computer. The main aim of this article is to present this classification. A brief final section considers McKeon and Sherry’s conjectures about irreducible double angle polynomials.

Beowulf off the map

2009 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 11-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfred Hiatt
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Analysis ◽  
Spatial Representation ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Spatial Reference ◽  
Starting Point

AbstractThis essay uses maps that have illustrated Beowulf since Klaeber's edition as a starting point for an exploration of spatial representation in the poem. It is argued that modern maps do not offer particularly useful tools for understanding the poem, and that ‘chorography’, that is, the description of regional space, may be a more accurate term for analysis of Beowulf than ‘geography’. The poem presents a topography intimately connected to the interrelations of different peoples, and the frequent movement between past, present and future times. The final section of the article considers the postmedieval reception of spatial reference in Beowulf, disputes the presence of an Anglo-Saxon ‘migration myth’ in the poem, and raises some implications for genre that result from spatial analysis.

scholarly journals Habermas

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hauke Brunkhorst
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
Intellectual Biography ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Secular State

Developing a social theory that pivoted on communication, Habermas became one of the most influential thinkers of the second half of the twentieth century. Taking this as a starting point, Hauke Brunkhorst offers us a supple but exhaustive intellectual biography of Habermas, from his famous 1953 criticism of Heidegger, through the Frankfurt of the 60s and 70s up to the positing of his theories in the most recent debates on eugenic practices, on the conflict between the secular state and religion, on the issue of global politics and the relations between law and constitution. According to Brunkhorst, Habermas's communicative revolution, if taken seriously, implies an ideal of radical democratic inclusion that proves indispensable not only to guarantee the legitimacy of the institutions but also to ensure their stability. In the final section of the book this theory is discussed in the light of the issue of the globalisation of politics and the internationalisation of law.

Dewey, Whitehead, and Process Metaphysics

2017 ◽  
pp. 52-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
William T. Myers
Keyword(s):  
Body Problem ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Speculative Philosophy ◽  
Process Metaphysics ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Mind Body Problem ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Mind

This chapter is divided into three main sections: Dewey’s metaphysics, Whitehead’s metaphysics, and the connections between them. The Dewey section begins with a discussion of current perceptions among scholars of Dewey’s metaphysics, which runs the gamut from those who claim that he did not do metaphysics to those who think he did it well. Next there is a discussion of Dewey’s starting point, with an emphasis on “The Postulate of Immediate Empiricism.” This seminal essay is crucial to understanding Dewey’s approach to philosophy in general. There is then a brief defense of Deweyan metaphysics, followed by a shortlisting of his generic traits of existence. The Whitehead section covers speculative philosophy, Whitehead’s categories, and his theory of prehensions. The final section discusses two of the many items that connect Dewey and Whitehead: their starting points and their take on the mind/body problem.

scholarly journals Acquisition of new communication media and social (dis)connectivity

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 579-593
Author(s):  
Jesper Tække
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Oral Language ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Electronic Media ◽  
Media Theory ◽  
Communication Media ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
In The Beginning

The article discusses the relation between communication media and social (dis)connectivity. The question is how communication media provide society with different possibilities for (dis)connectivity in different historical media societies. The article draws on Luhmann’s sociocybernetics theories of social systems and communication media in combination with media theory (especially Meyrowitz). As a starting point, the acquisition of oral language made communicative connections and thereby society possible. Later the written media, print media and analogue electronic media opened up new possibilities for social systems to develop structures with new forms of communicative connections. Even though society is only possible because of communication media, which offer new ways of forming new structures that provide new connection possibilities, a new communication medium, especially in the beginning, causes problems and disconnectivity. After the introduction of the printing press in Europe, a great interpretation disagreement broke out and wars raged across the continent for the next centuries. Later with the invention of radio and film, dictators, especially Hitler, benefited from the new media situation. In the final section, the article analyses if we also in the present-day society with the acquisition of digital media see signs of new disconnectivity, and it discusses if we in the new medium society, like in the former, will experience permanent societal disconnectivity going hand in hand with new forms of connectivity.

Living in a state of insecurity

2019 ◽  
pp. 45-70
Author(s):  
Kelly Bogue
Keyword(s):  
Tax Policy ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Housing Situation ◽  
Health It ◽  
Household Level ◽  
Generational Transmission ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Income Insecurity ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Precarious Housing

This chapter begins by highlighting the circumstances and conditions of participants’ lives preceding the introduction of the Bedroom Tax policy. This serves as a starting point for the chapter, illustrating that the policy was introduced into lives that were already characterised by income insecurity, employment precarity, and ill-health. It charts the ways in which participants responded to the implementation of the policy and the impact it had in informing decisions about moving or absorbing the extra rental expenditure. This chapter is concerned with the impact at the household level documenting how life became more difficult as the extra financial outlay placed a strain on participants financially, socially, and psychologically. In the final section, the focus turns to how the policy worked to transmit insecurity into the lives of participants’ children, furthering the inter-generational transmission of inequality through the introduction of a precarious housing situation which had not been there previously.

scholarly journals Trosbegrebet hos Slavoj Žižek

2017 ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Mads Peter Karlsen
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Philosophy Of Religion ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
The Real ◽  
Slavoj Žižek ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Secular Society

The aim of this article is to provide a systematic presentation of Slavoj Žižek's reflections on belief and hereby to indicate his relevance for a philosophy of religion. The article begins with a brief introduction to Žižek's basic philosophical concern and a theological contextualization of his thinking from the perspective of this concern. This is followed by an exposition of his concept of belief. The starting point of this exposition is Freud's reflections on fetishism and disavowal that form the background for Žižek’s analysis of belief in modern secular society and as structural conditions of the human consciousness. Subsequently, the article presents Žižek's reflections on belief as reflective in terms ‘displaced belief’ in ‘the other who is supposed to believe’. It is demonstrated here how Žižek operates with a distinction between an ‘imaginary’ belief that is structured like the fetishistic disavowal and a ‘symbolic’ unconscious belief in belief as such. The final section of the article sheds light on Žižek's view of atheism and his introduction of a third form of ‘atheistic belief’, while considering whether this kind of belief belongs to the register of the ‘real’. Hensigten med denne artikel er at give en systematisk fremstilling af Slavoj Žižeks overvejelser over tro for herved at tematisere hans religionsfilosofiske relevans. Der indledes med en kort introduktion til Žižeks grundlæggende filosofiske anliggende og en teologisk kontekstualisering af hans tænkning ud fra dette anliggende. Derefter udfoldes fremstillingen af trosbegrebet. Udgangspunktet tages i Freuds betragtninger over fetichisme og fornægtelse, der danner baggrunden for Žižeks analyser af tro i det moderne sekulære samfund og som strukturelt vilkår ved den menneskelige bevidsthed. Derefter præsenteres Žižeks overvejelser over refleksiv tro som ’forskudt tro’ på ’den anden, der formodes at tro’. Det demonstreres her, hvordan Žižek opererer med et skel mellem en ’imaginær’ tro, der er struktureret som den fetichistiske fornægtelse og en ’symbolsk’ forudgående, ubevidst tro på selve det at tro. Til sidst i artiklen belyses Žižeks opfattelse af ateistisme og hans introduktion af en tredje form for ’ateistisk tro’, og det overvejes om denne form for tro kan siges at høre til i det reelles register.

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