scholarly journals Harold and Maude, towards an Aesthetic Hedonism

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Christopher Ketcham
Keyword(s):  
Death Of God ◽  
Free Spirit ◽  
The World ◽  
Rule Out

Friedrich Nietzsche’s vision for humanity after he declares the death of God is both atheistic and aesthetic, the freedom to live life as it comes (amor fati). Therefore, we can call his existential vision aesthetic atheism. Maude, in the movie Harold and Maude, has a different take on living without God. Rather than take down Christianity, she tries to reform it. She lives freely but is not the intellectual free spirit that Nietzsche hoped would emerge after his proclamation. Rather, her way of existence we can call aesthetic hedonism. She understands that life is contingent, but she loves life for what it is and tries to free others, including animals, saints, and Harold, to experience the same. She does not urge the atheistic turn. I turn to Quentin Meillassoux’s notion of cosmological necessary contingency that, while he agrees with Nietzsche that God is at present inexistent, a necessary contingent cosmology cannot rule out the emergence of a divinity. He wonders just what kind of divinity might emerge. I argue that the divinity that might emerge, using Meillassoux’s term ‘divinology’, would depend upon the prevailing attitude, and consider this through both aesthetic atheism and aesthetic hedonism attitudes towards the world.

Modernism, Empiricism, and Rationalism

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-47
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Squires
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Modern Poetry ◽  
Philosophical Perspective ◽  
Irish Poetry ◽  
Dimensional Spectrum ◽  
Culture History ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Rule Out

Modernism is usually defined historically as the composite movement at the beginning of the twentieth century which led to a radical break with what had gone before in literature and the other arts. Given the problems of the continuing use of the concept to cover subsequent writing, this essay proposes an alternative, philosophical perspective which explores the impact of rationalism (what we bring to the world) on the prevailing empiricism (what we take from the world) of modern poetry, which leads to a concern with consciousness rather than experience. This in turn involves a re-conceptualisation of the lyric or narrative I, of language itself as a phenomenon, and of other poetic themes such as nature, culture, history, and art. Against the background of the dominant empiricism of modern Irish poetry as presented in Crotty's anthology, the essay explores these ideas in terms of a small number of poets who may be considered modernist in various ways. This does not rule out modernist elements in some other poets and the initial distinction between a poetics of experience and one of consciousness is better seen as a multi-dimensional spectrum that requires further, more detailed analysis than is possible here.

scholarly journals Pre-Procedural COVID-19 Nasopharyngeal Swab Has Good Concordance with Bronchoalveolar Lavage in Patients at Low Risk for Viral Infection

Respiration ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Catherine L. Oberg ◽  
Reza Ronaghi ◽  
Erik E. Folch ◽  
Colleen L. Channick ◽  
Tao He ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bronchoalveolar Lavage ◽  
Low Risk ◽  
Lower Airway ◽  
Nasopharyngeal Swab ◽  
Symptom Screening ◽  
The World ◽  
Good Concordance ◽  
Sensitivity Specificity ◽  
Overall Reliability ◽  
Rule Out

<b><i>Background:</i></b> The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has drastically affected hospital and operating room (OR) workflow around the world as well as trainee education. Many institutions have instituted mandatory preoperative SARS-CoV-2 PCR nasopharyngeal swab (NS) testing in patients who are low risk for COVID-19 prior to elective cases. This method, however, is challenging as the sensitivity, specificity, and overall reliability of testing remains unclear. <b><i>Objectives:</i></b> The objective of this study was to assess the concordance of a negative NS in low risk preoperative patients with lower airway bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) specimens obtained from the same patients. <b><i>Methods:</i></b> We prospectively sent intraoperative lower airway BAL samples collected within 48 h of a negative mandatory preoperative NS for SARS-CoV-2 PCR testing. All adult patients undergoing a scheduled bronchoscopic procedure for any reason were enrolled, including elective and nonelective cases. <b><i>Results:</i></b> One-hundred eighty-nine patients were included. All BAL specimens were negative for SARS-CoV-2 indicative of 100% concordance between testing modalities. <b><i>Conclusions:</i></b> These results are promising and suggest that preoperative nasopharyngeal SARS-CoV-2 testing provides adequate screening to rule out active COVID-19 infection prior to OR cases in a population characterized as low risk by negative symptom screening. This information can be used for both pre-procedural screening and when reintroducing trainees into the workforce.

The Divided Self in the Fiction of Henry James

PMLA ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. 447-460
Author(s):  
Daniel J. Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Henry James ◽  
Free Spirit ◽  
Divided Self ◽  
Structural Consequence ◽  
The World ◽  
To Come

AbstractThe divided self in James’s fiction may be regarded as an inevitable structural consequence of James’s desire to dramatize the problem of the free spirit in an enslaving world. But the divided self required by art is not essentially different from the divided self known to psychology, and an understanding of the anxieties of that self, particularly of the “obsessive imagery” James uses to depict those anxieties, enriches our understanding of James’s work. The fear of a world that threatens one’s being issues in an elaborate development of an escape motif; of imagery of seizure by the eye and by the world of appearances; and of imagery of petrification, reflecting a dread of being turned into a mere tool or machine. James’s vision of “the great trap of life” permits him to come to terms with his own limitations and culminates in a searching philosophic examination of the problem of free will and determinism.

The Plain Inquirer’s Plain Evidence against the Global Skeptical Scenarios

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 208-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Leite
Keyword(s):  
Good Reason ◽  
Good Evidence ◽  
Epistemic Circularity ◽  
Evil Demon ◽  
The World ◽  
Treatment Considerations ◽  
Limited Demand ◽  
Epistemic Asymmetry ◽  
Background Context ◽  
Rule Out

Penelope Maddy claims that we can have no evidence that we are not being globally deceived by an evil demon. However, Maddy’s Plain Inquirer holds that she has good evidence for a wide variety of claims about the world and her relation to it. She rejects the broadly Cartesian idea that she can’t be entitled to these claims, or have good evidence for them, or know them, unless she can provide a defense of them that starts from nowhere. She likewise rejects the more limited demand for a defense that makes use only of considerations that do not concern the world outside of her mind. She allows that some considerations about the world can be appealed to perfectly appropriately as fully adequate evidence in favor of other considerations about the world. So why can’t the Plain Inquirer rule out global skeptical hypotheses by producing evidence against them that depends upon other considerations about the world? Is there good reason for singling out global skeptical hypotheses such as I am not being deceived by an evil demon as requiring a different kind of treatment? Considerations about epistemic asymmetry and epistemic circularity, as well as Wittgensteinian considerations about the relation between evidence and the real-world and human background context, all lead to the conclusion that there is not.

scholarly journals KECERDASAN GURU DALAM PERSPEKTIF BARAT DAN ISLAM

2015 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Irwandy Irwandy
Keyword(s):  
Human Beings ◽  
The West ◽  
Library Research ◽  
The World ◽  
Rule Out

<p>Abstrak: Untuk mencapai pembelajaran yang optimal, peran guru masih sangat penting sehingga seorang guru dituntut untuk memiliki berbagai kecerdasan untuk menopang profesionalismenya. Dalam konteks kekinian, kajian-kajian tentang kecerdasan masih tetap didominasi oleh penemuan-penemuan Barat, padahal dalam Islam tidaklah menutup kemungkinan persoalan ini terekam dalam sumber ajaran Islam secara rapi. Untuk mengetahui itu, dalam tulisan ini akan diulas dengan metode library research untuk mengungkap bagaimana kecerdasan guru perspektif Barat dan Islam. Kecerdasan merupakan daya dalam diri manusia yang mempengaruhi kemampuan seseorang di berbagai bidang. Dalam perspektif Barat, teori tentang kecerdasan banyak sekali bentuknya, namun tetap dalam lingkup pengembangan kualitas diri manusia. Dalam perspektif Islam, kecerdasan (al-dzaka) memiliki beberapa aspek, dan setiap aspek yang ada tetap sejalan dalam mewujudkan orientasi kehidupan dunia dan akhirat yang lebih baik.</p><p><br />Abstract: Teachers’ Intelligence in the Perspectives of the West and Islam. To achieveoptimal learning, the teacher’s roleis still very important that a teacheris required to have a variety of intelligence to sustain professionalism. In thepresent context, studies on intelligenceis still dominated by the discoveries of the West, but Islam does not rule out the possibility of this issueis recorded in the source of Islamic teachings neatly. To know that, in this paper we review the methods of library research to reveal how intelligence perspective teachers the West and Islam. Intelligence is a power in man which affectone’s ability invarious fields. In the perspective of the West, theories about intelligence in numerable forms, but still with in the scope of the development of quality human beings. In the perspective of Islam, intellect (al-dzaka) has several aspects, and each aspect that is still consistent in realizing the orientation of the life of the world and the here after better.</p><p><br />Kata Kunci: kecerdasan majemuk, pendidikan, guru, Islam</p>

The Death of God

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Michalski
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Gospel Of Matthew ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Death Of God ◽  
New Beginning ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Cross

This chapter turns to Plato's Phaedo as well as the Gospel of Matthew: two narratives about death, and two visions of human nature. Christ's cry on the cross, as told by Matthew, gives voice to an understanding of human life that is radically different from that of Socrates. For Phaedo's Socrates, the truly important things in life are ideas: the eternal order of the world, the understanding of which leads to unperturbed peace and serenity in the face of death. The Gospel is the complete opposite: it testifies to the incurable presence of the Unknown in every moment of life, a presence that rips apart every human certainty built on what is known, that disturbs all peace, all serenity—that severs the continuity of time, opening every moment of our lives to nothingness, thereby inscribing within them the possibility of an abrupt end and the chance at a new beginning.

scholarly journals Did you rule out neurosyphilis?

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 338-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo Nitrini ◽  
Anderson Rodrigues Brandão de Paiva ◽  
Leonel Tadao Takada ◽  
Sonia Maria Dozzi Brucki
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Lumbar Puncture ◽  
Median Time ◽  
Neuropsychiatric Symptoms ◽  
Rare Condition ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Behavioral Neurology ◽  
The World ◽  
The University ◽  
Rule Out

Abstract Neurosyphilis, formerly a frequent cause of dementia, is now a rare condition in developed countries. However, syphilis remains common in many developing countries, where adequate diagnosis and treatment of early syphilis may be lacking, increasing the chances of neurosyphilis and prevalence of syphilitic dementia. Objectives: To present cases of syphilitic dementia seen in a cognitive and behavioral neurology unit in Brazil, emphasizing their first symptoms and the challenges they posed in diagnosis. Methods: At our unit of the Hospital das Clínicas of the University of São Paulo, all patients are submitted to blood treponemal tests. When the test is positive, a lumbar puncture is performed. We retrospectivelly reviewed all cases of neurosyphilis seen in our unit from January 1991 to November 2009. Results: Nine cases of neurosyphilis (0.77% of the 1160 cases in our files) were identified over the period. Patients with neurosyphilis were all men, had a mean age of 47.8 (±13.0) years (median of 43 years), and presented with various neuropsychiatric syndromes and elusive diagnoses. The median time from onset of symptoms to diagnosis was 24 months and only one patient made a full recovery after treatment. Conclusions: Neurosyphilis is not frequent but remains present, causing several types of neuropsychiatric syndromes. As it is very simple to rule out neurosyphilis by performing a blood treponemal test, this test should be performed in all patients with neuropsychiatric symptoms, particularly in regions of the world where syphilis is still a commonly occurring disease.

Righting Epistemology

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bredo Johnsen
Keyword(s):  
David Hume ◽  
Epistemic Justification ◽  
Reflective Equilibrium ◽  
Equilibrium Theory ◽  
Karl Popper ◽  
Nelson Goodman ◽  
The Core ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
The World ◽  
Rule Out

David Hume launched a historic revolution in epistemology, but allies appeared only in the twentieth century, in the persons of Sir Karl Popper, Nelson Goodman, and W. V. Quine. Hume’s second great contribution to the field was to propose reflective equilibrium theory as the framework within which to understand epistemic justification. The core of this book comprises an account of these developments from Hume to Quine, and an extension of reflective equilibrium theory that renders it a general theory of epistemic justification concerning our beliefs about the world. In chapters on Sextus, Descartes, Wittgenstein, and various aspects of Hume’s epistemology, the author defends new readings of those philosophers’ writings on skepticism and notes significant relationships among their views. Finally, in appendices on Hilary Putnam’s “Brains in a Vat” and Fred Dretske’s contextualism, the author shows that both fail to rule out the possible truth of radical skeptical hypotheses. This is not surprising, since those hypotheses are in fact possible. They do not, however, have any epistemological significance, since epistemic justification is a function of the extent to which our bodies of beliefs are in reflective equilibrium, and no extant conception of knowledge is of any epistemological interest.

scholarly journals Kultura i mit — iluzje demitologizacji

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-46
Author(s):  
Leszek Kleszcz ◽  
Krzysztof Sztalt
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Protective Atmosphere ◽  
Story Telling ◽  
Eternal Return ◽  
Death Of God ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World

One of the most fundamental existential experiences is the “indifference of the world”. Faced with the awareness of the insignificance of human fate, the lack of meaning, the indifference of the world, man creates various strategies of depotentialising reality. One of them is “story-telling”, working on a myth. Nietzsche also believed that “life needs a protective atmosphere woven from illusions, dreams, delusions”, so he tried to create a myth to fill the void left by the “death of God”. He began with Wagner’s “aesthetic myth” and went on to create a “myth of the aestheticisation of existence”. His next attempts to give meaning to human life were the story of the Übermensch and the revitalization of the myth of eternal return. Another myth which can be found at the core of Nietzsche’s philosophy is “the myth of the myth-maker”.

scholarly journals Configuración de Subjetividades en la Contemporaneidad. Performance Escritural en Conversación con la Producción de la Artista Hispano-Mexicana Remedios Varo

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 76
Author(s):  
Edilberto De Jesus Hernández González
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Dynamic Networks ◽  
Craft Production ◽  
Free Spirit ◽  
The World ◽  
Aesthetic Cognition ◽  
The Way

This reflective work is a scriptural performance around the production of the Hispano-Mexican artist Remedios Varo; approach which is based on a perspective of an aesthetic cognition. Mode relationship with knowledge that favors sensible possibilities of encounter with the world around us and who understands life as a constant movement of energy that is breath of beings and cosmic density. The meeting with Remedios Varo, as an artist who embodies a free spirit, was built in conversation with two experiences, one in Nobsa (Boyaca, Colombia) that has historically had a vocation craft production of textiles; and another made up of a stay in Mexico City. These experiences became key creative perception is subjective universe that Remedios Varo and his art. A work consisting of dynamic networks that interconnect with each other worlds. On the way of contemporary subjectivities, as the artworks of Remedios Varo are configured, spaces and bodies comprise complex, dramatic and emotional universes.

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