scholarly journals Numerus as the Metaphysical Principle in St. Augustine’s Doctrine of Rhythm

2015 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 331-342
Author(s):  
Andrey Tashchian
Keyword(s):  
Finite Subjectivity ◽  
Conscious Activity ◽  
Metaphysical Principle

In St. Augustine’s doctrine of rhythm numerus manifests the metaphysical ascent from sensuousness to rationality and is the ontological root of finite beauty. Moreover, numerus is differentiated into the objective and subjective spheres, proving to be a totality, the “idea.” Meanwhile, as a formation of antique culture, this concept is not known as a real contradiction, and thereby eternal numeri are not posited as a process in which finite subjectivity, I would be a necessity for the infinite substance. So, in St. Augustine’s doctrine the essence of the science of music has not the value of man’s self-conscious activity.

APROXIMACIÓN A UNA CONCEPCIÓN TEÓRICO-METODOLÓGICA DE LOS PROCESOS DE PROFESIONALIZACIÓN PEDAGÓGICA EN LA EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR.

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Gloria Barbón Pérez ◽  
Julia Añorga Morales
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Educación Superior ◽  
Comprehensive Understanding ◽  
Educacion Superior ◽  
Essential Step ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Theoretical Conception ◽  
Design And Practice ◽  
Conscious Activity

El esclarecimiento de algunas de las concepciones que constituyen la base de los procesos de profesionalización pedagógica es un paso esencial para el éxito de los mismos. El presente artículo tiene como propósito aunar reflexiones que posibiliten un acercamiento hacia una concepción teórico-metodológica de los procesos de profesionalización pedagógica en la Educación Superior.El diseño y la puesta en práctica de los procesos de profesionalización pedagógica en la Educación Superior no pueden ser improvisados. Exigen, como actividad consciente, la consideración de determinados presupuestos teóricos y metodológicos que lo sustenten, y de su consideración como proceso pedagógico especial. Palabras clave: concepción teórica, concepción metodológica, profesionalización pedagógica.   ABSTRACT   Gaining on clarity concerning some of the conceptions that lie under the pedagogical professionalization processes is an essential step towards their own success. The article focuses on gathering insights that help get a more comprehensive understanding of a theoretic-methodological conception of the pedagogical professionalization processes in higher education. Both design and practice of these processes can not be improvised. They demand, as any other conscious activity, to take into account theoretical and methodological grounds and their consideration as a especial pedagogical process.   Key words: theoretical conception, methodological grounds, pedagogical professionalization.   Clarifying some of the concepts that form the basis of the processes of pedagogical professionalization is an essential step for their success.  This paper aims to join some reflections that enable the approaching to a theoretical-methodological conception of the processes of pedagogical professionalization in Higher Education.  Designing and implementing the processes of pedagogical professionalization cannot be improvised.  They demand, as a conscious activity, the consideration of certain supporting assumptions in theory and method, and their consideration as a special pedagogical process.   Keywords: theoretical conception, methodological conception, pedagogical professionalization. Recibido: Julio 2013 Aprobado: Agosto 2013

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 55

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Ancient Philosophy ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Loss Of Control ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Original Essays ◽  
Constant Change ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Metaphysical Principle

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy provides, twice each year, a collection of the best current work in the field of ancient philosophy. Each volume features original essays that contribute to an understanding of a wide range of themes and problems in all periods of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, from the beginnings to the threshold of the Middle Ages. From its first volume in 1983, OSAP has been a highly influential venue for work in the field, and has often featured essays of substantial length as well as critical essays on books of distinctive importance. Volume LV contains: a methodological examination on how the evidence for Presocratic thought is shaped through its reception by later thinkers, using discussions of a world soul as a case study; an article on Plato’s conception of flux and the way in which sensible particulars maintain a kind of continuity while undergoing constant change; a discussion of J. L. Austin’s unpublished lecture notes on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and his treatment of loss of control (akrasia); an article on the Stoics’ theory of time and in particular Chrysippus’ conception of the present and of events; and two articles on Plotinus, one that identifies a distinct argument to show that there is a single, ultimate metaphysical principle; and a review essay discussing E. K. Emilsson’s recent book, Plotinus.

scholarly journals Awareness and integrated information theory identify plant meristems as sites of conscious activity

PROTOPLASMA ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Trewavas
Keyword(s):  
Information Theory ◽  
Nervous System ◽  
Complex Networks ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Biological Function ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
Extrinsic Information ◽  
Integrated Information Theory ◽  
Conscious Activity ◽  
Integrated Information

AbstractLacking an anatomical brain/nervous system, it is assumed plants are not conscious. The biological function of consciousness is an input to behaviour; it is adaptive (subject to selection) and based on information. Complex language makes human consciousness unique. Consciousness is equated to awareness. All organisms are aware of their surroundings, modifying their behaviour to improve survival. Awareness requires assessment too. The mechanisms of animal assessment are neural while molecular and electrical in plants. Awareness of plants being also consciousness may resolve controversy. The integrated information theory (IIT), a leading theory of consciousness, is also blind to brains, nerves and synapses. The integrated information theory indicates plant awareness involves information of two kinds: (1) communicative, extrinsic information as a result of the perception of environmental changes and (2) integrated intrinsic information located in the shoot and root meristems and possibly cambium. The combination of information constructs an information nexus in the meristems leading to assessment and behaviour. The interpretation of integrated information in meristems probably involves the complex networks built around [Ca2+]i that also enable plant learning, memory and intelligent activities. A mature plant contains a large number of conjoined, conscious or aware, meristems possibly unique in the living kingdom.

scholarly journals Spinoza on Melancholy and Cheerfulness

Dialogue ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Christopher Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Metaphysical Principle

Abstract Spinoza's philosophy is often celebrated for its strong anti-normative current. Spinoza argues, for instance, that good and bad do not indicate anything positive in things, and that affects are always particular to the situation in which they arise. And yet Spinoza argues that melancholy is “always evil,” and cheerfulness “always good,” thus problematizing a key metaphysical principle of his system. Turning to select sections in the Ethics and Theological-Political Treatise, this article offers a reading of these two problematic affects before connecting Spinoza to recent work on early modern melancholy that conceptualizes it as an ‘assemblage.’

THE BISHOP OF MANCHESTER ON “SYMBOLISM AS A METAPHYSICAL PRINCIPLE”

Mind ◽  
1923 ◽  
Vol XXXII (125) ◽  
pp. 139-a-139
Author(s):  
E. W. EDWARDS
Keyword(s):  
Metaphysical Principle

scholarly journals POZITYVIOJI IR NEGATYVIOJI TIKROVĖS TEMATIZACIJA. ŠLIOGERIS IR BAUDRILLARD’AS

Problemos ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 78 ◽  
pp. 74-82
Author(s):  
Mantautas Ruzas ◽  
Marius P. Šaulauskas
Keyword(s):  
Ontological Argument ◽  
The Self ◽  
Direct Access ◽  
Conceptual System ◽  
Ontological Status ◽  
The Real ◽  
Real Functions ◽  
Metaphysical Principle

Straipsnis skirtas Arvydo Šliogerio filosofijos ontologinių nuostatų tyrimui, jame analizuojamos ir lyginamos Šliogerio ir Baudrillard’o tikrovės ontologinio statuso traktuotės. Šliogerio filosofijoje tikrovės ontologinis statusas tematizuojamas parodant ir tai, kas yra, ir tai, kas nėra tikrovė. Baudrillard’as tikrovės ontologinį statusą įvardija negatyviai tematizuodamas tik tai, kas nėra tikrovė. Šliogerio filosofija yra grindžiama paradoksalia ontologine prielaida, jog metadiskursyvinė tikrovė funkcionuoja kaip galutinis neredukuojamas referentas, kuris savo ruožtu traktuojamas kaip juslinė substancija (Esmas). Tačiau pati juslinė substancija, nors ir būdama pamatiniu principu, įgalinančiu prasmingumą, pati negali būti adekvačiai įvardyta ex definitio, nes ji iš principo esti neredukuojama į jokį prasminį darinį ir juo labiau į prasminę sistemą. Baudrillard’o filosofija grindžiama semiologiniu reduktyvizmu, t. y. prielaida, kad prasminės nuorodos į metadiskursyvinę tikrovę yra autoreferentiški simboliniai konstruktai (simuliakrai), todėl bet koks bandymas ir apčiuopti tikrovę, ir apibrėžti ją pozityviai tesukuria negatyvų efektą, t. y. spontanišką ir neišvengiamą kitų autoreferentiškų simbolinių konstruktų gamybą.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: Tikrovė, simuliakras, Baudrillard’as, Šliogeris, ontologija.Positive and Negative Thematization of Reality: Šliogeris and BaudrillardMantautas Ruzas, Marius P. Šaulauskas SummaryThe article aims to elucidate the dialectical nature of the most fundamental ontological tenets of Šliogerian philosophy while contrasting them to Baudrillard’s interpretation of the ontological status of the Real. In contrast to Šliogeris who thematizes the Real both in terms of what it is an what it is not, Baudrillard proceeds in a negative way only by showing what the Real is not. Šliogeris’ philosophy is based on a paradoxical ontological argument that the metadiscursive Real functions as the final non-reductive referent conceptualised as the ultimate perceptual substance (Isness). As an ultimate metaphysical principle, it serves as a core of experience, although it cannot be adequately described ex definitio or else somehow reduced to any meaningful counterpart of the conceptual system. Baudrillard’s philosophy, on the contrary, is based on the principle of semiological reductionism, i.e. on the premise that all meaningful links to metadiscursive reality follow the self-referential logic and therefore are merely interrelated symbolic constructions (simulacra) precluding any direct access to the Real and not only to its positive (cataphatic) articulation.Keywords: the Real, simulacrum, Baudrillard, Šliogeris, ontology.

scholarly journals THE PROBLEM OF ANDROGYNOUS IDEAL OF A HUMAN BEING IN V.V. ROZANOV’S PHILOSOPHY OF SEX

2021 ◽  
pp. 55-62
Author(s):  
Tatyana A. Ivanova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Married Couple ◽  
Russian Philosophy ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Unsuccessful Attempt ◽  
Concept Of God ◽  
Metaphysical Principle ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
Love Dynamics

The purpose of this article is a philosophical and anthropological analysis of the ideal of androgyne in V.V. Rozanov’s metaphysics of sex. The main focus is on the comparison of the destructive and constructive forms of the androgyne in his philosophy. According to the philosopher, destructive forms include people of «moonlight» or «third sex», who are considered the founders of New Testament Christianity, denying the life of the flesh. Constructive forms are the natural androgyny of a child and the androgyny of a married couple, which reveals itself in love, dynamics, mutual complementarity of a man and a woman. The paper draws parallels between N.A. Berdyaev’s and V.V. Rozanov’s concepts of androgyne, which are antipodal in terms of direction of thought but have common meanings. It is concluded that thesimilarity between the concepts lies in the understanding of gender as a dynamic and metaphysical principle that penetrates through not only the bodily but also the spiritual life of a person, and therefore cannot be rejected. The concepts are also similar in that they draw a boundary between the androgyne and the hermaphrodite, of which the former is the ideal of the human wholeness, while the latter is an unsuccessful attempt to achieve it. The differences between these philosophers consist in the priority of spiritual love in Berdyaev’s system and worldly, bodily love in Rozanov’s, as well as in a different understanding of the process of an androgyne being generated in a person, which, in Berdyaev’s conception, is individual and arises in each of the persons who are in love with each other, while, according to Rozanov, it is exclusively achievable in couples. The paper also pays attention to Rozanov’s own theology, which renews the Old Testament family ideals, offering the concept of God as a «sexual» being and proposing to consider the act of love within marriage as a sacred mystery that unites a person with God in co-creation. The study allows us to rethink the modern problems of gender self-determination of a person, returning to the metaphysical foundations of the Russian philosophy of gender, the main task of which was the synthesis of the spiritual and bodily principles in a person.

The Nightmare of Reason and Regression into the Night of the World

2018 ◽  
pp. 119-139
Author(s):  
Wes Furlotte
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Significant Problem ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Radical Freedom ◽  
Finite Subjectivity

This chapter critically reads finite subjectivity in terms of its natural, instinctual dimension. The chapter’s objective is to further substantiate the significant problem Hegel’s conception of nature poses to his project of radical freedom. Developing a sense of subjectivity’s potential for “regression”, the chapter seeks to outline how, as in the case of acute psychopathology, subjectivity’s ordering of its instinctual dimension might be undermined. Hegelian regression, therefore, is a haywire inversion where the logical superiority of spirit’s freedom is subordinated to the ontologically prior register of instinct. Extrapolating from this analysis, the chapter contends that the unconscious-instinctual depth of the subject is never entirely abandoned; this abyss (Schacht) of indeterminacy lingers within the matrices of finite spirit and has the perpetual possibility of breaking-loose to the detriment of subjectivity’s free self-actualizing activity. Consequently, a reconstruction of Hegel’s account of mental illness forcefully demonstrates how nature remains a perpetual source of trauma for finite subjectivity and, therefore, the life of spirit.

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