scholarly journals Hamlet: A Psychological Study

1858 ◽  
Vol 5 (27) ◽  
pp. 1-55
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Strong Sense ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
Psychological Study ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Infinite Variety ◽  
Human Intellect

All critical study of Hamlet must be psychological, and as there are few subjects which have been more closely studied, and more copiously written upon, than this magnificent drama, criticism upon it may seem to be exhausted. But human nature itself is still more trite; yet, study it profoundly as we can, criticise and speculise upon it as we may, much will ever be left outside the largest grasp of those minds who undertake to elucidate so much of it as they can comprehend. Hamlet is human nature, or at least a wide range of it, and no amount of criticism can exhaust the wealth of this magnificent store-house. It invites and evades criticism. Its mysterious profundity fascinates the attention; its infinite variety and its hidden meanings deny exhaustive analysis. Some leavings of treasure will always be discoverable to those who seek for it in an earnest and reverent spirit. Probably no two minds can ever contemplate Hamlet from exactly the same point of view, as no two men can ever regard human life under exactly the same aspect. Hence all truthful criticism of this great drama is not only various as mind itself, but is apt to become reflective of the critic. The strong sense of Johnson, the subtle insight of Coleridge, the fervid eloquence of Hazlitt, the discriminating tact of Schlegel, are nowhere more evident than in their treatment of this mighty monument of human intellect. Every man who has learned to think, and has dared to question the inward monitor, has seen some part of the character of Hamlet reflected in his own bosom.

Hamlet: A Psychological Study.

1858 ◽  
Vol 5 (27) ◽  
pp. 1-55
Author(s):  
J. C. B.
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Strong Sense ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
Psychological Study ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Infinite Variety ◽  
Human Intellect

All critical study of Hamlet must be psychological, and as there are few subjects which have been more closely studied, and more copiously written upon, than this magnificent drama, criticism upon it may seem to be exhausted. But human nature itself is still more trite; yet, study it profoundly as we can, criticise and speculise upon it as we may, much will ever be left outside the largest grasp of those minds who undertake to elucidate so much of it as they can comprehend. Hamlet is human nature, or at least a wide range of it, and no amount of criticism can exhaust the wealth of this magnificent store-house. It invites and evades criticism. Its mysterious profundity fascinates the attention; its infinite variety and its hidden meanings deny exhaustive analysis. Some leavings of treasure will always be discoverable to those who seek for it in an earnest and reverent spirit. Probably no two minds can ever contemplate Hamlet from exactly the same point of view, as no two men can ever regard human life under exactly the same aspect. Hence all truthful criticism of this great drama is not only various as mind itself, but is apt to become reflective of the critic. The strong sense of Johnson, the subtle insight of Coleridge, the fervid eloquence of Hazlitt, the discriminating tact of Schlegel, are nowhere more evident than in their treatment of this mighty monument of human intellect. Every man who has learned to think, and has dared to question the inward monitor, has seen some part of the character of Hamlet reflected in his own bosom.

Users’ Attitudes towards Institutional Repository in Jadavpur University: A Critical Study

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-52
Author(s):  
Sambhu Nath Halder ◽  
Suvra Chandra
Keyword(s):  
Potential Role ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Academic Institution ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
Institutional Repository ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
User Friendly

This paper examines the user-aware of institutional repositories in Jadavpur University. The main objective of this study is to investigate the awareness of Institutional Repository (IR) in an academic institution and different aspects associated with it, such as, software, sources for user’s awareness, motivators for developing a repository, demand of the users in changing paradigms from traditional to digital environment, etc. In the present days, libraries are also adopting the latest technologies to provide best possible services in user friendly form. This paper also describes the potential role of institutional repositories and its easiness and simplicity of use are attracting more patrons in the use of institutional repositories. Only a wide range of user awareness is needed for proper usage of its beauty. Entirely this paper is based on a critical study, which measures the utility of institutional repositories in users’ point of view.

Good, theories of the

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine M. Korsgaard
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
Moral Virtue ◽  
General Term ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Moral Sense ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Term Functions ◽  
Virtuous Life ◽  
Definition Of

‘Good’ is the most general term of positive evaluation, used to recommend or express approval in a wide range of contexts. It indicates that a thing is desirable or worthy of choice, so that normally, if you have reason to want a certain kind of thing, you also have reason to prefer a good thing of that kind. A theory of the good may consist in a general account of the good, which is meant to apply to all good things; or in a definition of ‘good’, an account of how the term functions in the language. Theories of the good have metaphysical implications about the relations of fact and value. Many ancient and medieval philosophers believed in the ultimate identity of the real and the good. Modern philosophers reject this identification, and have held a range of positions: realists, for example, hold that the good is part of reality, while certain moral sense theorists hold that when we call something good we are projecting human interests onto reality; and emotivists hold that we use the term ‘good’ only to signify subjective approval. Theorists of the good also categorize different kinds of goodness and explain how they are related. Good things are standardly classified as ends, which are valued for their own sakes, or means, valued for the sake of the ends they promote. Some philosophers also divide them into intrinsic goods, which have their value in themselves, and extrinsic goods, which get their value from their relation to something else. Various theories have been held about the relation between these two distinctions – about whether an end must be something with intrinsic value. Philosophers also distinguish subjective goods – things which are good for someone in particular – from objective goods, which are good from everyone’s point of view. Views about how these kinds of goodness are related have important implications for moral philosophy. Usually, a theory of the good is constructed in the hope of shedding light on more substantive questions, such as what makes a person, an action, or a human life good. These questions raise issues about the relation between ethical and other values. For example, we may ask whether moral virtue is a special sort of goodness, or just the ordinary sort applied to persons. Or, since actions are valued as ‘right’ or ‘wrong’, we may ask how these values are related to the action’s goodness or badness. We may also pose the question of whether a life that is good in the sense of being happy must also be a morally good or virtuous life. This last question has occupied the attention of philosophers ever since Plato.

Notes for a Third Millennial Manifesto: Renewal and Redefinition in Business Ethics

2000 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
William C. Frederick
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Technological Change ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Human Evolution ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Moral Issues ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Silicon Based

Abstract:Business ethics in the new millennium will confront both new and old questions that are being transformed by the changed pace and direction of human evolution. These questions embrace human nature, values, inquiring methods, technological change, geopolitics, natural disasters, and the moral role of business in all of these. The emergence and acceptance of technosymbolic phenomena may signal a slow transition of carbon-based human life toward greater dependence upon silicon-based virtualities across a wide range of human possibilities. The resultant moral issues call for a renewal and redefinition of business ethics theories and methods.

scholarly journals A Critical Study of the Pre-Modern and Modern Theories Regarding the Creation, Evolution and Existence of Earth in the Light of Qur’an

2018 ◽  
pp. 58-72
Author(s):  
Dr. Rizwan Ullah
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Modern Literature ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
Religion And Science ◽  
Origin And Evolution ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Legal Domain ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Human Intellect

The human intellect has been examined in terms of relationship and association between physical and metaphysical world from the very beginning. Perceptions, Ideas, beliefs and philosophies are exist about these natural inquiries in almost all faculties of knowledge. Earth is the most obvious reality in human life, an axiom in the field of religion and science that’s why the comprehension of its origin and evolution is a prerequisite . It is not only the nucleus of social and legal domain of studies but it has a pivotal status in astronomy, religion and science too. This article will throw light upon all valuable thoughts and theories about the creation, evaluation and existence of the earth in pre-modern and modern literature and will correlate its essence of elaboration to the updated exegesis of the Qura'nic verses.

Good, theories of the

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine M. Korsgaard
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
Moral Virtue ◽  
General Term ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Moral Sense ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Term Functions ◽  
Virtuous Life ◽  
Definition Of

‘Good’ is the most general term of positive evaluation, used to recommend or express approval in a wide range of contexts. It indicates that a thing is desirable or worthy of choice, so that normally, if you have reason to want a certain kind of thing, you also have reason to prefer a good thing of that kind. A theory of the good may consist in a general account of the good, which is meant to apply to all good things; or in a definition of ‘good’, that is, an account of how the term functions in the language. Theories of the good have metaphysical implications about the relations between fact and value. Many ancient and medieval philosophers believed in the ultimate identity of the real and the good. Modern philosophers generally reject this identification, and have held a range of positions: realists, for example, hold that the good is part of reality, while certain moral-sense theorists hold that when we call something ‘good’ we are projecting human interests onto reality; and emotivists hold that we use the term ‘good’ only to signify subjective approval. Theorists of the good also categorize different kinds of goodness and explain how they are related. Good things are standardly classified as ends, which are valued for their own sakes, or as means, valued for the sake of the ends they promote. Some philosophers also divide them into intrinsic goods, which have their value in themselves, and extrinsic goods, which get their value from their relation to something else. Various theories have been held about the relation between these two distinctions – about whether an end must be something with intrinsic value. Philosophers also distinguish subjective or agent-relative goods – things which are good for someone in particular – from objective or agent-neutral goods, which are good from everyone’s point of view. Views about how these kinds of goodness are related have important implications for moral philosophy. Usually, a theory of the good is constructed in the hope of shedding light on more substantive questions, such as what makes a person, an action, or a human life good. These questions raise issues about the relation between ethical and other values. For example, we may ask whether moral virtue is a special sort of goodness, or just the ordinary sort applied to persons. Or, since actions are valued as ‘right’ or ‘wrong’, we may ask how these values are related to the action’s goodness or badness. We may also pose the question of whether a life that is good in the sense of being happy must also be a morally good or virtuous life. This last question has occupied the attention of philosophers ever since Plato.

scholarly journals Animating Sympathetic Feelings. An Analysis of the Nature of Sympathy in the Accounts of David Hume’s Treatise

Conatus ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Natalia Borza
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
David Hume ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Reflective Process ◽  
Treatise Of Human Nature ◽  
Operating Process ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Ways Of Thinking

Sympathy is a powerful principle in human nature, which can change our passions, sentiments and ways of thinking. For the 18th century Scottish philosopher David Hume, sympathy is a working mechanism accountable for a wide range of communication: the ways of interacting with the others’ affections, emotions, sentiments, inclinations, ways of thinking and even opinions. The present paper intends to find a systematic reading of Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature (1739) from the point of view of what the mechanism of sympathetic communication implies in terms of strengthening our action of understanding, of being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of others. Hume’s description of the sympathetic mechanism appears to suggest that sympathetic passions come upon us purely by natural means in a passive manner, without the active use of any of our faculties. Consequently, scholarly attention is drawn to the mechanistic character of the sympathetic process; its automatic nature is emphasized to such an extent that some experts even find it to be completely void of any reflective process. The current study investigates to what extent the sympathetic process can actively be modified and in what manner sympathetic feelings can be generated as described in Hume’s system of emotions. The paper identifies at which points the otherwise mechanically and passively operating process of sympathetic feelings is open to be modified by actively altering or strengthening certain skeletal points of the mechanism. I argue that the alterations can be initiated by the person who receives the sympathetic feelings and also by the person whose passions are transmitted, moreover even by a third party. In a seemingly mechanic model, there is room for altering or at least amplifying one’s sympathetic feelings.

PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPT OF HEALTH

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (11) ◽  
pp. 16-19
Author(s):  
Obukhova K.A. ◽  
Ponomareva L.I. ◽  
Gan N.Yu.
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
Spiritual Development ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Personality Development ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Philosophical Concept ◽  
Concept Of Health ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Fundamental Values

The article is devoted to a topic that has not been sufficiently studied in domestic and foreign literature - a philosophical understanding of the phenomenon of health in the historical and modern contexts of the development of knowledge. This understanding takes into account the diversity of forms of physical, mental and social conditions of a person. Also, in this work, a comparative analysis of the justification of health in various evolutionary-historical, cultural and philosophical interpretations is carried out. In the article, the authors have shown the promise of using "the floors of our health" (according to Yu.A. Andreev) for a philosophical presentation of modern concepts of human health. The aim of the research is a philosophical presentation of modern concepts of health. Preservation and maintenance of health is one of the fundamental values of human life. Despite this, a number of issues remain unresolved that are essential for the study of problems related to human health. Therefore, the article presents an attempt to outline and analyze a wide range of different views and ideas about the health problem. The increasing importance of philosophy of health in solving practical problems of physical and spiritual development of a person in the era of industrialism is shown. In addition, the authors highlight the importance and relevance of the problem of a person's awareness, their needs, their attitude to health at any stage of personality development. The authors revealed the connection between the deterioration of health and the occurrence of diseases with the development of mankind, the predominance of the physical over the spiritual, the material over the moral, the progress of the technogenic world. Although from a spiritual point of view, diseases, under certain conditions, can become a source of positive spiritual experience, which is of great importance for the individual.

The Importance of Being Human

1991 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 63-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
David McNaughton
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Moral Concern ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Moral Agents ◽  
Conduct Of Life ◽  
Moral Point ◽  
Moral Point Of View ◽  
Bodily Sensations

I wish from my Heart, I could avoid concluding, that since Morality, according to your Opinion as well as mine, is determin'd merely by Sentiment, it regards only human Nature & human Life. … If Morality were determin'd by Reason, that is the same to all rational Beings: But nothing but Experience can assure us, that the Sentiments are the same. What Experience have we with regard to superior Beings? How can we ascribe to them any Sentiments at all? They have implanted those Sentiments in us for the Conduct of Life like our bodily Sensations, which they possess not themselves. (Letter from Hume to Hutcheson: March 16, 1740)When we ask whether morality ‘regards only human nature and human life’ we might be concerned with one of two kinds of question. We may be asking what kinds of being could share our moral point of view. What is the potential scope of the community of moral agents and assessors? Is the moral point of view essentially a human point of view? Could we, or should we, adopt a wider standpoint (say that of rational agency as such) which would leave room for a significant moral dialogue with non-human moral agents, if there are any? Alternatively, we could be asking whether only human beings should be the objects of moral concern or whether we should widen the circle of concern to include other kinds of being. We may make the same point using a helpful device of Cora Diamond's. We may be concerned with what should replace x or with what should replace y in the formula: We xs assess together conduct and character in so far as it affects ourselves and our fellow ys.

scholarly journals A Review of the Monograph “Home as a Living Environment of a Person: a Psychological Study”

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 138-156
Author(s):  
I.V. Vachkov
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Scientific Field ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Social Resource ◽  
Psychological Study ◽  
Present Book ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Life Success ◽  
Selection Of

The reviewed book is a fundamental work of a group of scientists led by a well-known expert in the field of environment psychology, Professor S.K. Nartova – Bochaver. The monograph presents results of a systematic and multifaceted study of a completely new scientific field – the psychology of the home, as the main human life environment that determines one's individuality, social interaction and life success and which is the most powerful ecological and social resource. Prerequisites for the selection of the new subject of study, stages of developing of the completely new category apparatus and also methodology of home – person relations are outlined. The main content of the book is a description of the research results of the formation of various home concepts, subjective models of a friendly home in adolescence, home resources for positive functioning in adolescence and youth, affection and estrangement to home in one’s life perspective. Present book is addressed to a wide range of readers and will be useful to specialists of different profiles: psychologists, psychotherapists, teachers, architects, designers.

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