scholarly journals Philosophy as a Vocation and Personal Commitment: the Young Heidegger and the Question of Philosophy

Problemos ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 99 ◽  
pp. 161-173
Author(s):  
Juan José Garrido Periñán
Keyword(s):  
Personal Transformation ◽  
The Self ◽  
Complex Task ◽  
Personal Commitment ◽  
Personal Nature

Determining what philosophy is for the young Heidegger is a complex task. It is also an ambiguous task in that it is considered unresolved and intricate due to its subsidiary link to factical life. This paper will try to show that from the approach of worried concern and from a critique of the theoretical attitude and worldviews, Heidegger conceives that philosophizing is committing oneself to the possibility of carrying out a personal transformation lived as a commitment of a personal nature. From this situation, which will be critically scrutinized in the development of the present paper, I will determine philosophy to be the setting in motion of the self-enlightenment of the life of each existent.

scholarly journals The enchantment of archaeological sites and the quest for personal transformation

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. e021012
Author(s):  
Yael Dansac
Keyword(s):  
Personal Transformation ◽  
The Self ◽  
Spiritual Practices ◽  
Archaeological Sites

Ethnographical studies increasingly testify the conversion of archaeological sites into places used for a myriad of spiritual purposes associated to the culture of personal transformation. Analyzing data gathered at contemporary spiritual practices held in Carnac, a megalithic site located in northwest France, this article argues that the resignification of ancient places as ‘sacred’ and ‘energetic’ is a strategy to develop and enact inner search and work on the self. Collected data provides understanding on the actor’s conceptualizations and uses given to this place, while also suggesting further inquiries to assess the relations between spirituality, personal transformation and the enchantment of archaeological sites.

scholarly journals Worn Shoes: Identity, Memory and Footwear

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Hockey ◽  
Rachel Dilley ◽  
Victoria Robinson ◽  
Alexandra Sherlock
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Personal Transformation ◽  
The Self ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The North ◽  
The Way

This article raises questions about the role of footwear within contemporary processes of identity formation and presents ongoing research into perceptions, experiences and memories of shoes among men and women in the North of England. In a series of linked theoretical discussions it argues that a focus on women, fashion and shoe consumption as a feature of a modern, western ‘project of the self’ obscures a more revealing line of inquiry where footwear can be used to explore the way men and women live out their identities as fluid, embodied processes. In a bid to deepen theoretical understanding of such processes, it takes account of historical and contemporary representations of shoes as a symbolically efficacious vehicle for personal transformation, asking how the idea and experience of transformation informs everyday and life course experiences of transition, as individuals put on and take off particular pairs of shoes. In so doing, the article addresses the methodological and analytic challenges of accessing experience that is both fluid and embodied.

Judging Jonson: Ben Jonson's Satirical Self-Defense in Poetaster

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric D. Vivier
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
The Self ◽  
John Marston ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Self Defense ◽  
Personal Nature ◽  
Intrinsic Feature

This essay argues that Ben Jonson's antagonism with his audience in the comical satires was at least in part related to his translation of the satirist to the theater. Whereas printed satires anticipated and even encouraged the displeasure of their readers, Jonson's comical satires attempt to forestall the potential displeasure of the audience by replacing their judgment of his plays with his own judgment of his plays. When he was accused of arrogance by his fellow playwright John Marston, Jonson put Marston's judgment of Jonson's judgment on trial. This is the central “arraignment” of Poetaster, a play that repudiates Marston's accusation and upholds Jonson's confident self-assessment by demonstrating Jonson's merit. Jonson's satirical self-defense, finally, has implications for our broader theoretical understanding of Early Modern satire. The self-defensiveness of Jonson's satire may be unusually explicit, but it may well be an intrinsic feature of Early Modern satire; so too is the personal nature of Jonson's attack upon Marston much more representative of Early Modern satire than most critics have realized.

Disability Identity of Leaders in the Self-Advocacy Movement

2011 ◽  
Vol 49 (5) ◽  
pp. 315-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joe Caldwell
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Personal Transformation ◽  
The Self ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
Self Advocacy ◽  
Disability Rights Movement ◽  
Disability Identity

Abstract Life stories and perspectives of leaders in the self-advocacy movement were explored to enhance knowledge about disability identity formation. In-depth qualitative interviews were conducted with 13 leaders in the self-advocacy movement. Five major themes emerged: (a) resistance—claiming personhood and voice; (b) connection with disability community; (c) reclaiming disability and personal transformation; (d) interconnection with broader disability rights movement; and (e) bond with social justice and interdependency.

scholarly journals Levels of subject communication in fiction literature

2014 ◽  
pp. 277-284
Author(s):  
A. S. Komarov
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Written Text ◽  
Personal Involvement ◽  
One Stage ◽  
Personal Nature ◽  
Belles Lettres ◽  
Individual Ability

The article is devoted to personality intercourse between writer and reader in Belles-Lettres. The intercourse between the self of the writer and the self of the reader realizes itself in the processes of writing and reading belles-lettres texts that serve as specific mediators between the two selfs. The article shows the free and personal nature of the intercourse. In the article, the author singles out and gives descriptions of stages/levels of involvement into belles-lettres personality intercourse. The author distinguishes five conventional stages: superficial or shallow stage, contradiction or conflict stage, identity or emotional stage, transcendental stage and supersensitive stage. Degree of openness of selfs to each other and degree of willingness on the part of the participants to express their own selfs serve as criteria of separating one stage from another. Degree of openness of selfs to each other is represented as a degree of the reader's openness to the writer's influence. While degree of willingness to express one's own self is perceived as a degree of the writer's or reader's readiness to reveal their self. The author argues that at each stage of intercourse its participants demonstrate a different degree of their involvement into it, which leads to misinterpretations of texts on the part of the reader and on the whole to misunderstanding between the reader and writer. The reader's transition from one stage to another can have a gradual character. However, the reader's transition to the writer's stage of intercourse can also be instantaneous, which depends on the reader's individual ability of perception as well as the writer's skill. The author of the article comes to the conclusion that understanding or misunderstanding between writer and reader as well as different interpretations of the writer's belles-lettres work by the reader lie at different stages in a degree of the reader's involvement into the intercourse suggested to him/her by the writer. In cases when both parties find themselves at one and the same stage of personal involvement the intercourse between them results in agreement of the written text and its interpretation by the reader. Thus, the writer acquires their readership while the reader discovers the writer who responds to his/her individuality.

scholarly journals Consciousness and Conscience: Feminism, Pragmatism, and the Potential for Radical Change

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clara Fischer
Keyword(s):  
John Dewey ◽  
Political Change ◽  
Personal Transformation ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
The Self ◽  
Responsible Agent ◽  
Feminist Consciousness

Pragmatist philosopher John Dewey famously stated that man is a creature of habit, and not of reason or instinct. In this paper, I will assess Dewey's explication of the habituated self and the potential it holds for radical transformative processes. In particular, I will examine the process of coming to feminist consciousness and will show that a feminist-pragmatist reading of change can accommodate a view of the self as responsible agent. Following the elucidation of the changing self, I will appraise key pragmatist concepts of inquiry, such as doubt and self-reflexivity, with regard to their treatment of deep-seated internalizations of oppressive norms and the initiation of change. Ultimately, I will argue that a feminist-pragmatist understanding of transformation is conducive not only to the project of personal transformation, but also to social and political change more generally.  

scholarly journals PEMBAURAN CAKRAWALA YANG MENTRANSFORMASI HIDUP DALAM PEMBUKAAN SURAT PAULUS KEPADA JEMAAT GALATIA (GAL 1:11-24)

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-51
Author(s):  
R.F. Bhanu Viktorahadi
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Personal Transformation ◽  
Religious Conflict ◽  
Personal Nature ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Of Greece

Paul wanted to affirm that his life transformations were not only caused by humane influence, but by his personal encounters with Jesus. His personal experience has became an authoritative power that no one could deny because of its authentic and personal nature. His personal experience with Christ became the basis of Paul’s personal transformation, from a persecutor of Christ’s into a defender of Christ’s banners. His expression of his life and faith experience which he shared with his readers and audience were fruitful. Because of his shared life experience, the horizon diffusion became common incidents. The diffusion was possible and would resulted in personal-existential life transformations if there were some courage to dialogue. Growing courage to dialogue was the form of repentance for Church, just like Paul who had to exit from his well-mastered understanding of Jews tradition and enter the mind of Greece to preach Christ. Eventually, in this context, repentance was not only demanded from local societies, but also from Church, because even in a true climate of openness and freedom, many religion followers did not have the courage to find and meet their fellow believers, moreover among societies that were having racial or religious conflict.   Paulus ingin menegaskan bahwa transformasi hidupnya tidak hanya disebabkan oleh pengaruh manusiawi, tetapi juga oleh perjumpaan pribadinya dengan Yesus. Pengalaman pribadinya telah menjadi kekuatan otoritatif yang tidak dapat disangkal oleh siapa pun karena sifatnya yang otentik dan pribadi. Pengalaman pribadinya dengan Kristus menjadi dasar transformasi pribadi Paulus, dari seorang penganiaya Kristus menjadi pembela Kristus. Ekspresi hidup dan keyakinannya yang ia bagikan dengan para pembaca dan pendengarnya telah menghasilkan buah. Karena pengalaman hidup yang dibagikannya tersebut, pembauran cakrawala menjadi pengalaman semua. Pembauran cakrawala itu telah menjadi mungkin dan menghasilkan transformasi personal-eksistensial karena ada keberanian untuk berdialog. Tumbuhnya keberanian untuk berdialog telah membentuk pertobatan bagi Gereja, sama seperti Paulus yang harus keluar dari pemahamannya yang sangat menguasai tradisi Yahudi dan memasuki pikiran Yunani untuk mewartakan Kristus. Akhirnya, dalam konteks ini, pertobatan tidak hanya dituntut dari masyarakat setempat, tetapi juga dari Gereja, karena bahkan dalam iklim keterbukaan dan kebebasan yang, banyak pengikut agama tidak memiliki keberanian untuk menemukan dan berjumpa dengan rekan seiman mereka, terlebih di tengah masyarakat yang mengalami konflik ras atau agama

Problem behavior in autism spectrum disorders: A paradigmatic self-organized perspective of network structures

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucio Tonello ◽  
Luca Giacobbi ◽  
Alberto Pettenon ◽  
Alessandro Scuotto ◽  
Massimo Cocchi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Problem Behaviors ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
The Self ◽  
Network Structures ◽  
Self Organized ◽  
Critical Equilibrium ◽  
Self Organized Criticality ◽  
Acute Agitation ◽  
Spectrum Disorders

AbstractAutism spectrum disorder (ASD) subjects can present temporary behaviors of acute agitation and aggressiveness, named problem behaviors. They have been shown to be consistent with the self-organized criticality (SOC), a model wherein occasionally occurring “catastrophic events” are necessary in order to maintain a self-organized “critical equilibrium.” The SOC can represent the psychopathology network structures and additionally suggests that they can be considered as self-organized systems.

The Nature of Rapidly Extracted Phycocyanin from the Blue-Green Alga Plectonema Boryanum

1971 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 366-367
Author(s):  
M. Kessel ◽  
R. MacColl
Keyword(s):  
Self Assembly ◽  
Analytical Ultracentrifugation ◽  
Uranyl Acetate ◽  
The Self ◽  
Major Protein ◽  
Subunit Structure ◽  
Blue Green Alga ◽  
Thin Sections ◽  
Blue Green Algae ◽  
Cacodylate Buffer

The major protein of the blue-green algae is the biliprotein, C-phycocyanin (Amax = 620 nm), which is presumed to exist in the cell in the form of distinct aggregates called phycobilisomes. The self-assembly of C-phycocyanin from monomer to hexamer has been extensively studied, but the proposed next step in the assembly of a phycobilisome, the formation of 19s subunits, is completely unknown. We have used electron microscopy and analytical ultracentrifugation in combination with a method for rapid and gentle extraction of phycocyanin to study its subunit structure and assembly.To establish the existence of phycobilisomes, cells of P. boryanum in the log phase of growth, growing at a light intensity of 200 foot candles, were fixed in 2% glutaraldehyde in 0.1M cacodylate buffer, pH 7.0, for 3 hours at 4°C. The cells were post-fixed in 1% OsO4 in the same buffer overnight. Material was stained for 1 hour in uranyl acetate (1%), dehydrated and embedded in araldite and examined in thin sections.

Interrelationship of the cellular distribution and secretion of regular structure (RS) protein in Bacillus licheniformis nm 105

1992 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 712-713
Author(s):  
Xiaorong Zhu ◽  
Richard McVeigh ◽  
Bijan K. Ghosh
Keyword(s):  
Alkaline Phosphatase ◽  
Bacillus Licheniformis ◽  
Self Assembly ◽  
Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Culture Supernatant ◽  
Regular Structure ◽  
The Self ◽  
Cellular Distribution ◽  
Structural Protein ◽  
Laboratory Cultures

A mutant of Bacillus licheniformis 749/C, NM 105 exhibits some notable properties, e.g., arrest of alkaline phosphatase secretion and overexpression and hypersecretion of RS protein. Although RS is known to be widely distributed in many microbes, it is rarely found, with a few exceptions, in laboratory cultures of microorganisms. RS protein is a structural protein and has the unusual properties to form aggregate. This characteristic may have been responsible for the self assembly of RS into regular tetragonal structures. Another uncommon characteristic of RS is that enhanced synthesis and secretion which occurs when the cells cease to grow. Assembled RS protein with a tetragonal structure is not seen inside cells at any stage of cell growth including cells in the stationary phase of growth. Gel electrophoresis of the culture supernatant shows a very large amount of RS protein in the stationary culture of the B. licheniformis. It seems, Therefore, that the RS protein is cotranslationally secreted and self assembled on the envelope surface.

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