Women in Western intellectual culture, 600-1500

2003 ◽  
Vol 41 (01) ◽  
pp. 41-0546-41-0546
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Culture ◽  
Western Intellectual

scholarly journals The beauty of dialog: The disputes between the Greek and Latin theologians in the period of the Komnenoi from the western perspective

2012 ◽  
pp. 187-212
Author(s):  
Relja Seferovic
Keyword(s):  
Primary Sources ◽  
Intellectual Culture ◽  
12Th Century ◽  
Western Intellectual ◽  
The Government ◽  
Western Perspective ◽  
Intellectual Climate

On the basis of the chosen Latin primary sources on religious disputes held by the Greek and Latin theologians in the 12th century we assess the intellectual climate in both camps in the eve of the great crisis and the outbreak of mutual hostilities after the government of the Emperor Manuel I. Komnenos, as well as the concrete contribution of these disputes to the Western intellectual culture.

The Felt Body and Embodied Communication

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hermann Schmitz
Keyword(s):  
Life Experience ◽  
External World ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Paradigm Change ◽  
Intellectual Culture ◽  
Inner Sphere ◽  
Embodied Communication ◽  
Body And Soul ◽  
Inner World ◽  
Western Intellectual

AbstractIn the 4th and 5th centuries B.C. the most significant paradigm change in Western intellectual culture occurred, later affecting Christianity and subsequently science. In the interest of personal empowerment over spontaneous stirrings, a private inner sphere, a so-called soul (psyche) was ascribed to every conscious subject which was taken to contain their whole experience, like a house, conceived of as an inner world in which reason was to be the master of spontaneous impulses; the empirical external world between these inner spheres was cleansed of all gripping forces and, for this purpose, ground down to a few elegantly selected types of features and their carriers (atoms, substances): the remainder of this grindingdown was deposited in the souls or overlooked to nonetheless be found in the souls in changed form. Man was dissected into body and soul. In the transposition into the soul’s huge amounts of life experience were forgotten. Among them can be counted the felt body which disappeared between body and soul as in a crevasse, even though it is the closest thing to human experience.

scholarly journals Economics and Engineering

2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (S1) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
David Blockley
Keyword(s):  
Nature Of Science ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Intellectual Culture ◽  
The Future ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Western Intellectual ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Control Complex

This article contends that knowing and doing have become artificially separated in Western intellectual culture. The emphasis on scientific knowing has led to an overconfidence in our ability to predict the future and a neglect of the need to control complex and often unforeseen, unintended consequences of our practical actions. My purpose here to explore the relationship between economics and engineering not in analogy but in actuality. The strategy is, first, to set the context for this discussion; second, to look at the nature of science and mathematics in relation to engineering; and third, to explore some of what I see as the main similarities and differences between engineering and economics.

The Laws of Hammurabi

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela Barmash
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Roman Law ◽  
Intellectual Culture ◽  
Biblical Law ◽  
Intellectual Tradition ◽  
Legal Principles ◽  
Copernican Revolution ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Law

The Laws of Hammurabi is one of the earliest law codes, dating from the eighteenth century BCE Mesopotamia (ancient Iraq). It is the culmination of a tradition in which scribes would demonstrate their legal flair by composing statutes on a repertoire of traditional cases, articulating what they deemed just and fair. The book describes how the scribe of the Laws of Hammurabi advanced beyond earlier scribes in composing statutes that manifest systematization and implicit legal principles. The scribe inserted the statutes into the structure of a royal inscription, skillfully reshaping the genre. This approach allowed the king to use the law code to demonstrate that Hammurabi had fulfilled the mandate to guarantee justice enjoined upon him by the gods, affirming his authority as king. This tradition of scribal improvisation on a set of traditional cases continued outside of Mesopotamia, influencing biblical law and the law of the Hittite Empire and perhaps shaping Greek and Roman law. The Laws of Hammurabi is also a witness to the start of another stream of intellectual tradition. It became a classic text and the subject of formal commentaries, marking a Copernican revolution in intellectual culture.

Reading and Writing History

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Rutledge
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Culture ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Ab Urbe Condita ◽  
The City ◽  
Classical History

This essay attends to the neglected marginal commentary that John Bellenden composed to accompany his translation of the first five books of Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita (From the Founding of the City). It argues that the approaches of the commentary (Latinate, learned, antiquarian) stand in sharp opposition to the vernacular, courtly project that Bellenden’s translation has generally been understood to be. It suggests that the work may owe rather more than has been realized to Bellenden’s engagement with the intellectual culture of the new university in Aberdeen in the later 1530s and offers an important window onto the variety of ways in which classical history was being read during the reign of James V.

Being Modern: Living in Flats in Interwar Brisbane

2006 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-48
Author(s):  
Helen Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Western World ◽  
Intellectual Culture ◽  
Second World

In the period between the First and Second World Wars, Brisbane — in common with most of the ‘Western’ world — embraced a self-conscious modernity: the by-product of nineteenth century industrialisation, imperialism, liberalism and emergent consumerism. Reflected in material and intellectual culture from high art to daily lifestyle, and from the home to the workplace, modernity became the catch-cry and call-sign of the interwar years.

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