3. Descartes’ Proof that He Is Essentially a Non-Material Thing

2020 ◽  
pp. 58-84
Keyword(s):  
Material Thing

The Non-Identity of a Material Thing and Its Matter

Mind ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 112 (446) ◽  
pp. 195-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Fine
Keyword(s):  
Material Thing

The Logical Bases and Presentation of the Statement of a Characteristic

1982 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-159
Author(s):  
Maxwell E. Pleffer
Keyword(s):  
Material Thing ◽  
Method Of Evaluation

A specification for a material thing is an accumulation of statements of characteristics of that thing. Each statement must contain information about the method of evaluation of the characteristic. The nature of the characteristic governs the form of its statement, but this form may be modified by the nature of the parent document or by house rules.

Embodiment and Bodily Becoming

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Heinämaa
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Sexual Difference ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
The Body ◽  
Husserlian Phenomenology ◽  
Material Thing ◽  
Human Practices ◽  
The Many ◽  
Stylistic Unity ◽  
Human Embodiment

The chapter clarifies Husserl’s phenomenological approach to embodiment by explicating his analytical concepts and his transcendental arguments concerning the constitution of living bodiliness (Leiblichkeit). The chapter argues that Husserlian phenomenology does not establish any simple opposition between naturalistic and phenomenological inquiries but instead offers a comprehensive account of the many senses of the body operative in human practices, including the practices of the sciences. The human body is given, not just as a material thing, but also as an instrument, as an agent, and an expressive stylistic whole. The second part of the chapter discusses recent applications of Husserlian philosophy of embodiment in the investigation of human plurality. By analyzing the exemplary phenomena of sexuality and sexual difference, the chapter demonstrates that the phenomenological concepts of style and stylistic unity can serve investigations into the diversity of human embodiment in its many forms.

scholarly journals The Identity of a Material Thing and its Matter*

2014 ◽  
Vol 64 (256) ◽  
pp. 387-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahrad Almotahari
Keyword(s):  
Material Thing

scholarly journals People of the croft: visualising land, heritage and identity

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 311-318
Author(s):  
Iain James Robertson ◽  
David Webster
Keyword(s):  
Strong Sense ◽  
Work Practices ◽  
Material Thing ◽  
Scottish Highlands ◽  
The Past ◽  
Photographic Essay ◽  
Written Word

This short photographic essay emerges from the recognition that identity, landscapes and heritage landscapes in particular are rarely configured and conceptualised wholly linguistically. An affective and emotional charge can involve visual and tactile metaphors and mnemonics. This essay therefore attempts to capture aspects of this visuality and material mnemonics while recognising the constraints imposed by the written word and the need to ask our interviewees to articulate the ‘material thing’ which most spoke to them of their ‘croft’. The heritage landscape that is the focus of this article is that of crofting agriculture in the Scottish Highlands. What emerges between the word and the image is a strong sense of inheritance from the past validated by and made meaningful by work practices and deriving from a very particular land, task and seascape. Together, this constitutes a heritage from below and a sense of localised identity.

scholarly journals A book as an attribute of everyday life culture (based on the German classics)

Bibliosphere ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 27-35
Author(s):  
N. N. Misyurov
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Material Thing ◽  
Literary Reading ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Inner World

The functional role of books (scientific, artistic, philosophical, religious and moralistic) in the public prac­tice of the German Enlightenment is comparable to the significance of such major national concepts as the Lutheran faith and a special German character. The idea of aesthetic education in contemporary historical circumstances and socio-political circumstances actually became the ideology of national self-determina­tion. The book, its semantic «images» as literary reading images enshrined in famous works of German clas­sics, helps better revealing the spiritual content of the era and the human inner world (in typical «hero of time»). Educational book (serious and entertaining) defines the vector of social development in Germany.  German book in its «materiality» belongs to the everyday life culture, reflects the level of development of the book business in Germany and the specificity of the «culture of consumption». Everyday life culture is a holistic «life world» shared «values» and «meanings» perceived as a world attitudes and behavioral habits and regarded as a natural space of human activity. Such an approach makes it possible to study the typical, recurring forms of «cultural practices», before remaining on the periphery of classical humanities. «Reading» could be attributed to this range of socio-cultural practices. Philosophical basis of the study is the following: everything that a thing opens our perception is simply «a scheme of sensation» changing in accordance with «angles», in which we perceive them; what the thing is in its materiality can be revealed only through our final experiences. A material thing and its «causality» base in sensory perception of a subject. This series of «material things» should include «the book in general» and specifically German book as an attribute of everyday life culture of the Enlightenment. The author investigates representations of meanings of «books» (ash an abstracted subject of study) realized in the «chronotope» of a literary work. The structure of «reading image» and «book image» identified during the texts analysis of famous masterpieces of German classics have a moral connotation.  

scholarly journals Interpreting a Tatanua Mask

Museum Worlds ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-164
Author(s):  
Bruno Haas ◽  
Philipp Schorch ◽  
Michael Mel
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
The Other ◽  
Detailed Knowledge ◽  
Real Word ◽  
Material Thing ◽  
Thick Description ◽  
Complex Response ◽  
Historical Method ◽  
The One

This article introduces the art historical method of functional deixis into the study of material culture in anthropology. Functional deixis begins with a thorough empirical description of communicative effects—visual and embodied—produced by a material thing on the beholder. It then proceeds by tending to a kind of formalisation that enables us, on the one hand, to sharpen our intuitive reaction to the thing and, on the other, to obtain detailed knowledge about the ways material things produce significance. Here, the method is applied to a tatanua mask originating from present-day Papua New Guinea and currently housed at the Grassi Museum für Völkerkunde in Leipzig, Germany. Based on a thick description, we propose an in-depth interpretation of the mask as a complex response to a fundamental injury, articulating a symbolic expression of grief (left side) with an iconic expression overcoming grief (right side) after a passage through a real word expressed through the front of the mask. In doing so, the article offers a tool to study with rather than a text to read off.

Coming

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Luc Nancy ◽  
Adèle Van Reeth
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Saint Augustine ◽  
Marguerite Duras ◽  
The Body ◽  
Marquis De Sade ◽  
Prose Poem ◽  
Material Thing ◽  
Henry Miller ◽  
Property Wealth ◽  
The Senses

Coming is a lyrical, erudite examination of the French notion of jouissance. How did jouissance evolve from referring to the pleasure of possessing a material thing (property, wealth) to the pleasure of orgasm, from appropriation to dis-appropriation, from consumption to consummation? The philosophers Adèle van Reeth and Jean-Luc Nancy engage in a lively dialogue touching on authors as varied as Spinoza, Hegel, Saint Augustine, the Marquis de Sade, Marguerite Duras, and Henry Miller, and on subjects ranging from consumerism to video games to mysticism. Four additional essays were added to the American edition: “The Body of Pleasure,” a philosophical examination of the body and the senses; “Rühren, Berühren, Aufruhr (Moving, Touching, Uprising),” on the nature of touch; “Neither Seeing Nor Having,” an essay on the philosopher Gérard Granel’s meditations on the obsessive love of Paolo and Francesca in Canto V of Dante’s Inferno; and finally a lyrical and evocative prose-poem called “Nude Enumerated.”

On the Non-Necessity of Origin

1982 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.S. Price
Keyword(s):  
Actual World ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Saul Kripke ◽  
Material Thing ◽  
Living Thing ◽  
Body Tissues ◽  
Naming And Necessity ◽  
Necessity Of Origin

In ‘Naming and Necessity,’ Saul Kripke defends a number of essentialist claims. One of them is that having a certain origin is a necessary property of a material thing. Used in connection with a human being or, presumably, a living thing of another kind whose members sexually reproduce, ‘necessity of origin’ means that the organism must have been born of those individuals who are its parents, i.e., whose body tissues are sources of the sperm and egg from which it issued, in the actual world. To say that the origin of an inanimate material thing is necessary is to say that having its origin in the hunk of matter from which it came is essential to it.

scholarly journals The Dualist Project and the Remote-Control Objection

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-101
Author(s):  
Eric T. Olson
Keyword(s):  
Remote Control ◽  
Material Thing ◽  
Substance Dualism ◽  
Intact Brain ◽  
Bodily Activity

Substance dualism says that all thinking beings are immaterial. This sits awkwardly with the fact that thinking requires an intact brain. Many dualists say that bodily activity is causally necessary for thinking. But if a material thing can cause thinking, why can’t it think? No argument for dualism, however convincing, answers this question, leaving dualists with more to explain than their opponents.

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