Beautiful Uselessness

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lloyd Whitesell
Keyword(s):  
Small Scale ◽  
Central Values ◽  
Overall Design ◽  
Special Cases ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Musical Arrangement

This chapter explores special cases where glamour conventions demonstrate aestheticist values, that is, the exaltation of style for its own sake. At such times, the aesthetic intensity of glamour seems to offer an escape to a world of pure artifice, beauty, and style. The discussion identifies the central values of aestheticism as expressed in the high-art milieu and illustrates the same values at work in glamorous numbers. To analyze ultrastylishness in musical arrangement, it considers finesse on a small scale (e.g., contrapuntal ornamentation, textural and harmonic ingenuity) before turning to ingenuity of overall design in numbers such as “Dancing in the Dark,” from the film The Band Wagon, and “This Heart of Mine,” from Ziegfeld Follies.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Freeman
Keyword(s):  
Distributive Justice ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Classical Liberalism ◽  
Market Socialism ◽  
Central Values ◽  
Moral Conception ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Principles Of Justice

This introductory chapter begins with a discussion of liberalism, which is best understood as an expansive, philosophical notion. Liberalism is a collection of political, social, and economic doctrines and institutions that encompasses classical liberalism, left liberalism, liberal market socialism, and certain central values. This chapter then introduces subsequent chapters, which are divided into three parts. Part I, “Liberalism, Libertarianism, and Economic Justice,” clarifies the distinction between classical liberalism and the high liberal tradition and their relation to capitalism, and then argues that libertarianism is not a liberal view. Part II, “Distributive Justice and the Difference Principle,” analyzes and applies John Rawls’s principles of justice to economic systems and private law. Part III, “Liberal Institutions and Distributive Justice,” focuses on the crucial role of liberal institutions and procedures in determinations of distributive justice and addresses why the first principles of a moral conception of justice should presuppose general facts in their justification.

Addressing Military Sexual Violence by Proposing a Social Media Influencer Model

2021 ◽  
pp. 0306624X2199406
Author(s):  
Roberto Cancio
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Military Leaders ◽  
Group Solidarity ◽  
Central Values ◽  
Reference Sections ◽  
Media Intervention ◽  
Present Systematic Review

Military sexual violence (MSV) is a prevalent issue that uniquely affects mission readiness. Although research on MSV and social media is growing, examinations of possible interventions like those employing social media in this population are scant. Given the growing interest in targeting MSV, the present systematic review was conducted. The PRISMA framework was used to conduct a systematic review of MSV and social media ( N = 71). Queries were limited to articles published between 2010 and 2020. SAGE Journals, PubMed, and JSTOR were utilized. Terms and potential combinations were entered into the databases in varying Boolean combinations. Additional recorders were identified for inclusion via the reference sections of relevant records. After removing duplicates from the query results, we selected records of suspected relevance by title and screened abstracts. Finally, articles with relevant abstracts were reviewed thoroughly to determine whether they met inclusion criteria for the review. The employments of military leaders in a social media intervention puts into practice the military’s central values and development of its leadership core. This intervention promotes group solidarity while maximizing conversations around meaningful messages. Findings in this review suggest military leaders could feasibly employ a cost-effective global intervention using social media, as a tool to help actively address MSV.

scholarly journals EXTREME VALUES OF GEODESIC PERIODS ON ARITHMETIC HYPERBOLIC SURFACES

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-36
Author(s):  
Bart Michels
Keyword(s):  
Lower Bound ◽  
Closed Geodesic ◽  
Extreme Values ◽  
Theta Series ◽  
Hyperbolic Surface ◽  
Quadratic Fields ◽  
Maass Forms ◽  
Real Quadratic Fields ◽  
Central Values ◽  
Real Quadratic

Abstract Given a closed geodesic on a compact arithmetic hyperbolic surface, we show the existence of a sequence of Laplacian eigenfunctions whose integrals along the geodesic exhibit nontrivial growth. Via Waldspurger’s formula we deduce a lower bound for central values of Rankin-Selberg L-functions of Maass forms times theta series associated to real quadratic fields.

Central values of degree six L-functions

2019 ◽  
Vol 203 ◽  
pp. 350-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hang Xue
Keyword(s):  
Central Values

On effective determination of symmetric-square lifts

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Qingfeng Sun
Keyword(s):  
Cusp Forms ◽  
Maass Forms ◽  
Central Values ◽  
Laplace Eigenvalue ◽  
Symmetric Square ◽  
Ramanujan Conjecture

AbstractLet F be the symmetric-square lift with Laplace eigenvalue λ F (Δ) = 1+4µ2. Suppose that |µ| ≤ Λ. We show that F is uniquely determined by the central values of Rankin-Selberg L-functions L(s, F ⋇ h), where h runs over the set of holomorphic Hecke eigen cusp forms of weight κ ≡ 0 (mod 4) with κ≍ϱ+ɛ, t9 = max {4(1+4θ)/(1−18θ), 8(2−9θ)/3(1−18θ)} for any 0 ≤ θ < 1/18 and any ∈ > 0. Here θ is the exponent towards the Ramanujan conjecture for GL2 Maass forms.

Confucianism and Intergenerational Ethics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marion Hourdequin ◽  
David B. Wong
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Social Web ◽  
Moral Exemplars ◽  
Central Values ◽  
Relational Perspective ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
The World ◽  
Intergenerational Ethics ◽  
Ethical Relations

This chapter explains how early Confucianism can ground a distinctly relational perspective on intergenerational ethics. The Analects of Confucius foregrounds intergenerational relations by rooting ethics in relationships between parents and children and presenting as moral exemplars sage-kings from generations ago. From a Confucian point of view, persons are understood as persons-in-relation, embedded in networks of connection across space and time. Self-cultivation thus involves taking one’s place in a community where one’s own identity and welfare are deeply bound to those of others. In this view, gratitude and reciprocity emerge as central values. A Confucian understanding of gratitude and reciprocity involves not only dyadic relations but broader connections within a temporally extended social web. Thus, Confucian reciprocity might involve honoring one’s parents by nurturing one’s own children in turn or expressing gratitude for what past generations have provided by ensuring that future generations can flourish. Genuine ethical relations between current and future generations reflect care and concern for ongoing human communities; for the triad of heaven, earth, and humanity; and for realization of the Dao in the world.

Poststructuralism and Its Discontents

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Ardoin
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Real World ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
English Studies ◽  
Central Values ◽  
Potential Value ◽  
Queer People ◽  
Fiction Writers

Deconstruction and poststructuralism have profoundly shaped popular and academic thought, while also drawing both popular and academic resistance, and doing so (strangely) consistently over decades. In particular, deconstruction and poststructuralism (and their synecdoche—the capital-T “Theory”) are viewed as sources of existential peril to English studies, where their impact has been indelibly tied to a canon expansion that takes seriously—and particularly—the contributions of women, people of color, queer people, and others. Detractors often reduce poststructuralism to its -ism—making of it a stagnant force of destabilizing chaos or a hopelessly unproductive and apolitical form of theoretical play. Dogmatic enthusiasts often become similarly reductive. Thinkers like Barbara Johnson and fiction writers like Percival Everett exemplify and advocate for a brand of deconstructive self-critique in which we: avoid allowing our enthusiasm or opinions to harden into any -ism (even when the enthusiasm is for, say, undecidability); embrace (in fact, seek) opportunities of confrontation with ignorance in our own thought; and recognize the potential value of upheaval in our real-world practices. Such self-critique is far from an existential peril to central values of English studies; it is, in fact, something not unlike the “critical thinking” valued and marketed by the Humanities.

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