The Social Life of the Senses: Experiencing the Self, Others, and Environments

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Woolgar
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Senses

scholarly journals Connaissance de soi et reconnaissance. Bases éthico-anthropologiques de la justice dans la pensée ricœurienne

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatriz Contreras Tasso
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sense Of Justice ◽  
Connaissance De Soi ◽  
Interpersonal Level

This article seeks to examine the ethico-anthropological dimension at the root of the ricœurian idea of justice, which is developed quite explicitly in Oneself as Another and then picked up in his last work The Course of Recognition. Our hypothesis is that the ricœurian analysis of justice implies an essential relationship between knowledge of oneself and recognition, which is marked by an inherent tension that both links and opposes these two moments in an irreducible dialectic. However, this dialectic runs the risk of disguising a founding sense of justice in the social life of man, both on an interpersonal level and on the political level, which reinforces the institution of justice at the juridical level. So, to begin with, we will try to show how that ethical sense of the just shows itself on the basis of the anthropological analysis of the capacities of the capable man, which reinforces the original correlation between knowledge of oneself and recognition; then we will attempt to relate the fundamental contributions of the hermeneutics of the self to Ricœur’s notion of justice.

The Passions

2019 ◽  
pp. 49-70
Author(s):  
Jay L. Garfield
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Senses

This chapter begins the exploration of Book II of the Treatise. It explores and explains the distinctions between calm and violent passions and between direct and indirect passions, as they are drawn in Book II, and connects Hume’s accounts to those of Hutcheson and Shaftesbury, demonstrating both the senses in which he follows their respective accounts, and those in which he differs. It also discusses the nature of the self as the object of the passions, and explains how Hume takes the passions to be involved in the social construction of the person, showing that Hume does believe that persons are real, and are constructed socially.

The Eight-Hour Day and the Legitimacy of Wage Labor

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John B. Jentz ◽  
Richard Schneirov
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Social Life ◽  
The Self ◽  
Economic Order ◽  
Wage Labor ◽  
Free Labor ◽  
National Debate ◽  
The Social ◽  
Public Recognition

This chapter discusses the eight-hour movement. National in scope, the movement for an eight-hour workday prompted the first public recognition of how capitalism—commonly called the “wages system” after its most obvious aspect—was affecting American social life. This public recognition came amid a generation-long national debate about slavery, free labor, and the roles of both in defining the social and economic order desired by Americans. The chapter then addresses the question of “whether time was a property that could be alienated from the self.” Those who answered “Yes” accepted the legitimacy of the labor market, at least to the point of trying to organize institutions and social life within it. People who answered “No” rejected the legitimacy of the labor market, even if they struggled to survive within it until they established an alternative to it.

The Psychology of Alcohol (Amer. Journ. Psych., vol. xi, No. 3, April, 1900.) Partridge, G. E.

1901 ◽  
Vol 47 (196) ◽  
pp. 164-165
Author(s):  
Havelock Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Consciousness ◽  
The Self ◽  
Natural Phenomena ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
The Social ◽  
Intimate Relation ◽  
Logical Result ◽  
Increased Activity

This is a study not merely of the effects of alcohol, whether as manifested in inebriety or when taken for experimental purposes, but of the intoxication impulse generally. The author believes there is a danger of regarding natural phenomena too readily as abnormal. He considers that the methods used by many who have been inspired by Lombroso illustrate this, and remarks that the conclusion of Nordau that all society is pathological is the logical result of an indiscriminate search for abnormalities. Thus we must beware of too hastily regarding the intoxication impulse as abnormal. It has played a part of the first importance both among uncivilised and civilised peoples. “Indeed, it is hard to imagine what the religious or social consciousness of primitive man would have been without them [intoxicants].” The first part of the paper is devoted to an account of the part played by this impulse in the religious and social life of early civilisations. This is followed by an analysis of the state of intoxication, accounts of experiments with intoxicating doses of alcohol, and observations on a series of inebriates. The authors experiments show that in intoxication, unless well advanced, the rapidity of simple mental processes is not decreased. The rapidity of tapping was most affected. Ability to control a reflex wink was greatly increased. There is increased activity of the associations, emotions, and sensations which make up the self. The increase of self-confidence and the diminution of suspicion are important points in their social bearing. “The intimate relation of intoxication to the social impulse undoubtedly accounts—in part at least—for the widespread and persistent use of intoxicants. Doubtless it made possible wider social relations than could otherwise have been maintained.”

Impurity and Purification

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikael Aktor
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Control Mechanism ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Social Display ◽  
Priestly Class ◽  
Historical Origins

Ritual purity was the self-proclaimed foundation of the authority of the Brahmin authors of Dharmaśāstra and the priestly class in general. Observance of purity rules was at the same time a social display of Brahmin exclusivity, a guarantee of meritorious priestly services for the clients, and an internal social-control mechanism. The chapter discusses the historical origins of this theme in the Dharmaśāstra literature and it gives an overview and examples of the fine-tuned vocabulary and systematic typology of these rules. To observe them demanded all-round control of the mental, verbal, bodily, domestic, and social life of a Brahmin but would also serve as a boundary marker protecting the social status and values of the priestly class. Finally, the chapter discusses some of the rich scholarly literature that emerged from the cross-disciplinary interest in this material during the structuralist turn in the humanities from the 1960s and onward.

scholarly journals Eksistensi Perempuan dalam Novel Mudhakkirāt Ṭabībah Karya El Saadawi dan Layar Terkembang Karya Alisjahbana

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-338
Author(s):  
Deffi Syahfitri Ritonga
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
The Self ◽  
Major Conclusion ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Cultural Objects ◽  
The Social ◽  
Personal Consciousness

Abstrak Penelitian ini menemukan bahwa eksistensi diri bukan merupakan kodrati bawaan sejak lahir, namun dibentuk dari kesadaran pribadi yang dipengaruhi oleh lingkungan sosial. Kesimpulan besar penelitian ini sekaligus juga membuktikan bahwa karya sastra bukanlah sebuah benda budaya otonom yang berdiri sendiri, melainkan sebuah penggambaran dialektika panjang dengan banyak unsur  kehidupan dan keilmuan. Misalnya budaya, agama, dan kehidupan sosial, yang memungkinkan terjadinya kemiripan antara karya sastra suatu negara dengan karya sastra negara lainnya. ---Abstract The study found that the self-existence is not an innate, but it is constructed from the personal consciousness influenced by the social environment. A major conclusion of this research while also proving that a literary work is not an autonomous cultural objects that stand alone, but rather a portrayal of a long dialectic with many elements of life and science. For example, cultures, religions, and social life, which allow the occurrence of similarities between a country's literature with literary works in other countries.DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.556800

scholarly journals Anthropological Crisis in the Social Realities of the 21st Century

2021 ◽  
Vol 64 (5) ◽  
pp. 45-56
Author(s):  
Andrey D. Korol
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Outer Space ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Consumer Society ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Time Space ◽  
The Social ◽  
Loss Of Contact ◽  
Key Features

The article examines the modern anthropological crisis in the context of various social phenomena. The author identifies key features of this crisis and reveals its causes. The article, addressing such philosophical concepts as time, space, happiness, motivation, analyzes the theories on the essence of this crisis. The author discusses the issues of self-alienation in an accelerating and polarizing world, of dialectical antagonism, of contradiction between the Self and the Other. The article critically analyzes the modern forms of consumerism, the consumer society, and the liberal worldview. Written in the essay form, the article poses the questions to the reader: How and why does man lose and acquire his meanings? What role do words and silence play in that? Who wins in the existential race “man versus society”? The author argues that a person does not see his absolute, since his expanding outer space narrows the inner space. The stratification of internal and external space (which is advisable to understand as a consequence of the loss of contact with reality) is the cause of lies, violence, and aggression. Liberal form of worldview is interpreted in a dialectical form: as the opposition of slavery, preserving its original vices. The article demonstrates how progress can lead to chaos in social life. Distinguishing three types of personality (directive, democratic, and liberal-permissive), it is concluded that the latter type of personality forms a border between the external and internal world. This kind of gap is the source of growing social and psycho-logical chaos. The concludes with a discussion of the possibility of happiness in modern social conditions.

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