scholarly journals Tongues of Fire and Fraud in Bolgia Eight

2012 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-26
Author(s):  
Gabriella Ildiko Baika
Keyword(s):  
Salient Feature ◽  
History Of ◽  
Significant Stage ◽  
Moral Notion ◽  
Ethics And Politics

The article revisits Inferno 26-27 from the perspective of the medieval pastoral debate on peccata linguae and focuses on the controversial phrase consiglio frodolente (Inf. 27.116). I begin my analysis by examining the notion of pravum consilium ‘evil counsel’ in two tracts on verbal sins: William Peraldus’ “De peccato linguae” (c. 1236) and Domenico Cavalca’s Il Pungilingua (1330-1342). In the second part of my essay, I analyze the figure of Ulysses in relationship to that of Guido da Montefeltro and argue that consiglio frodolente is not a misnomer for the sin of bolgia eight, as some commentators have contended. In the above-mentioned ethical tracts, the most salient feature of pravum consilium is its connection with fraud. In coining the phrase consiglio frodolente, Dante highlights this connection and renders this verbal sin perfectly consonant with the system of Malebolge. Cantos 26 and 27 of the Inferno mark a significant stage in the history of pravum consilium as a moral notion that situates itself at the intersection of speech, ethics, and politics.  

scholarly journals What Is Charity? William Langland’s Answers with Some Diachronic Questions

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 458
Author(s):  
David Aers
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Piers Plowman ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Medieval Christianity ◽  
Ethics And Politics

Charity turns out to be the virtue which is both the root and the fruit of salvation in Langland’s Piers Plowman, a late fourteenth-century poem, the greatest theological poem in English. It takes time, suffering and error upon error for Wille, the central protagonist in Piers Plowman, to grasp Charity. Wille is both a figure of the poet and a power of the soul, voluntas, the subject of charity. Langland’s poem offers a profound and beautiful exploration of Charity and the impediments to Charity, one in which individual and collective life is inextricably bound together. This exploration is characteristic of late medieval Christianity. As such it is also an illuminating work in helping one identify and understand what happened to this virtue in the Reformation. Only through diachronic studies which engage seriously with medieval writing and culture can we hope to develop an adequate grasp of the outcomes of the Reformation in theology, ethics and politics, and, I should add, the remakings of what we understand by “person” in these outcomes. Although this essay concentrates on one long and extremely complex medieval work, it actually belongs to a diachronic inquiry. This will only be explicit in some observations on Calvin when I consider Langland’s treatment of Christ’s crucifixion and in some concluding suggestions about the history of this virtue.

The Origins of the Global City: Ethics and Morality in Contemporary Cosmopolitanism

2003 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deiniol Jones
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Global City ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
Policy Area ◽  
World Citizenship ◽  
Policy Application ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ethical Component ◽  
Moral Notion ◽  
Potential Area

This article makes the case for a strong delineation of ethical and moral categories in contemporary international relations theory—specifically, within the theory of cosmopolitanism. The argument draws on the history of ideas, particularly observations about the nature of Stoicism in classical political thought, and a range of contemporary ‘ethical’ texts to make the case that there is a missing ethical category in contemporary approaches. Contemporary reflections on world citizenship and the global city, such as those contained in Linklater and Held, adopt a specifically moral notion of normativity and neglect an ethical component which is both distinct and theoretically practicable. The article offers a specific policy area—the area of international drug control—as a potential area of policy application.

scholarly journals Politics and Ethic of Care of the Self in Albert Camus’s The Plague

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 240-255
Author(s):  
Mukesh Kumar Bairva
Keyword(s):  
Ethic Of Care ◽  
Albert Camus ◽  
The Self ◽  
Care Of The Self ◽  
Spiritual Discipline ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ethical Project ◽  
Speaking Truth To Power ◽  
Ethics And Politics

Albert Camus’ The Plague articulates a new aesthetic of existence that resists biopolitical normalization. It means cultivating one’s self and not attempting to discover an authentic and hidden self because it entails a continual process of becoming.  The sudden eruption of plague in Oran, signifies a rupture in history of its people as the “bored populace is consumed by commercial habits aimed at making money”. In The Plague, if some people become more self-centred and insensitive, characters such as Rieux, Rambert, Peneloux and Joseph Grand show concern for the suffering people and stand in solidarity with them. Their characterization as ordinary individuals who assume responsibility for others’ existence in times of disaster reflects Camus’ hermeneutic of care of the self as an ethical project.  Camus aptly asserts that “ordinary acts of courage and kindness are more helpful than the illusion of superheroes”. Deriving a cue from Foucault, Heidegger and Levinas, the paper attempts to explore how care of the self is intertwined with ethics and politics. It is argued that without spiritual discipline and caring for others, the ethical transformation of self cannot take place. It indicates fashioning of the self more freely and self-reflexively and thus speaking truth to power and sacrificing for others. The paper examines this poetics of self which shares an ethical relationship with truth, freedom and kindness.

Translation and Study of the “Tendon Transformation Classic” (Yi Jin Jing)

2021 ◽  
pp. 150
Author(s):  
Vladimir Malyavin
Keyword(s):  
Salient Feature ◽  
Somatic Psychology ◽  
Organic Unity ◽  
Martial Art ◽  
Yi Jin Jing ◽  
History Of ◽  
Spiritual Self ◽  
Complete Translation ◽  
Annotated Translation ◽  
Original Concept

The article includes the first complete and annotated translation of the “Tendon Transformation Classic”, the fundamental treatise in the tradition of spiritual-somatic practice specific for China. Both by its language and contents, the Yi Jin Jing which connects medicine, spiritual self-cultivation and martial art occupies a unique place in the history of Chinese civilization, hence its interpretation encounters some special difficulties. Until now complete translation and systematic study of this scripture has not appeared in Western literature. The author analyzes the historical and cultural background of this unusual text and various legends related to it. Translation is accompanied by textual notes. The most salient feature of the “Tendon Transformation Classic” is the idea of the natural and hence innate unity of spiritual and physical dimensions of human individual. Interestingly, the proofs for this thesis were ascribed to the legendary founder of the Chan school in Chinese Buddhism Bodhidharma (in Chinese Damo). The main link between psychic and biological plans of human existence according to the authors of the Yi Jin Jing is fascia (mo). A special attention is paid to the meaning of this original concept in Chinese medicine and somatic psychology as well as its relation to the idea of nurturing “life energy” (qi) and organic unity of “inner” and “outer” strength etc. The article reveals this scripture’s importance for the evolution of the bio-spiritual practice in China and contradictions inherent in it.

Afterword: An exhibition about hospitality. A more sensitive perception of vulnerability

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 379-385
Author(s):  
Fabienne Brugère
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
The Political ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Art Exhibition ◽  
Aesthetics And Politics ◽  
Art Forms ◽  
History Of ◽  
Political Right ◽  
Ethics And Politics

This afterword reflects on the tension between art, politics and philosophy at the thematic core of this Special Issue, ‘Migrants and Refugees Between Aesthetics and Politics’. Brugère calls attention to a recent art exhibition – one that came out of her book with Guillaume Le Blanc, The End of Hospitality – at the Museum of the History of Immigration, in Paris, as a way to frame a conflict between two ideas of hospitality, or the broad ethical gesture to welcome others and the political right that more and more governments are unable to uphold as borders tighten around the globe. The afterword elaborates on the aims of the exhibition, namely, to show ‘a correspondence between art and philosophy on the question of hospitality’. Rather than a mere representation of discourse around migration, the artwork displays a praxis of the imagination, one in which cultural production by and about refugees brings spectators to recognize a shared sense of vulnerability and to question received ideas on migration. In this manner, contemporary art forms become an essential link in the ongoing struggle between ethics and politics.

Quentin Tarantino

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Roche
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Salient Feature ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
New Hollywood ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
A Charge

An in-depth study of all Tarantino’s feature films to date (from Reservoir Dogs to The Hateful Eight), Quentin Tarantino: A Poetics and Politics of Cinematic Metafiction argues that, far from wallowing in narcissism and solipsism, a charge directed not only at Tarantino but at metafiction in general, these self-conscious fictions do more than just reflexively foreground their status as artefacts; they offer metacommentaries that engage with the history of cultural representations and exalt the aesthetic, ethical and political potential of creation as re-recreation and resignification. By combining cultural studies and neo-formalist approaches, this book seeks to highlight how intimately the films’ poetics and politics are intertwined. Each chapter explores a specific salient feature, some of which have drawn much academic attention (history, race, gender, violence), others less so (narrative structure, style, music, theatricality). Ultimately, Quentin Tarantino: Poetics and Politics of Cinematic Metafiction places Tarantino’s films firmly in the legacy of Hawks, Godard, Leone and the New Hollywood, and revises the image of cool purveyor of pop culture the American director cultivated at the beginning of his career by foregrounding the breadth and layeredness of the films’ engagement with cultural history, high and low, screen and print, American, East Asian and European. The films produced by the Tarantino team are formal invitations for viewers to similarly engage with, and reflect on, the material, and delight in doing so.

WIELDING THE EPOKOLO: CORPORAL PUNISHMENT AND TRADITIONAL AUTHORITY IN COLONIAL OVAMBOLAND

2015 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 301-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID CRAWFORD JONES
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Corporal Punishment ◽  
Salient Feature ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
Traditional Authority ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
History Of ◽  
Traditional Authorities ◽  
Communal Norms ◽  
Society Today

AbstractBased on both archival research and oral interviews conducted in northern Namibia, this article traces the history of public flogging in Ovamboland throughout the twentieth century. In contrast to recent scholarship that views corporal punishment in modern Africa mainly through the lens of colonial governance, the article argues that because the South African colonial state never withdrew the power to punish from the region's traditional authorities, these indigenous leaders were able to maintain a degree of legitimacy among their subjects, who looked to the kings and headmen to punish wrongdoers and maintain communal norms. Finally, the article explores why nostalgia for corporal punishment remains a salient feature in Namibian society today, 25 years after the end of colonial rule.

scholarly journals Acute peripheral vestibular dysfunction: diagnostics and treatment

2020 ◽  
pp. 114-121
Author(s):  
S. V. Lilenko ◽  
I. A. Anikin ◽  
N. N. Khamgushkeeva
Keyword(s):  
Salient Feature ◽  
Diagnostic Value ◽  
Vestibular Dysfunction ◽  
Spontaneous Nystagmus ◽  
Differential Diagnostics ◽  
Antiemetic Effect ◽  
History Of ◽  
Vestibular Neuronitis ◽  
Sedative Drugs ◽  
Rule Out

The aim of this article is to demonstrate ENT specialists, neurologists and general practitioners how to examine and treat patients with acute vertiginous complaints. Traditional otoneurologic testing that carried out for accurate topic diagnostics of acute vestibular dysfunction is described as available «Vestibular passport». Clinical diagnosis can be achieved after thorough assessment of patient’s complaints as well as history of the present illness. Gaze tests and posture control trials are demonstrated in details. Diagnostic value of each probe is shown from the viewpoint of differential diagnostics of peripheral and central vestibular dysfunction. High diagnostic value of registration and analysis of oculogyric reactions is presented by history cases of acute labyrinthopathy and acute vestibular neuronitis. In these cases absence of saccadic and pursuit gaze disturbances rule out central vestibular system dysfunction. The salient feature of these two variants of peripheral vestibular dysfunction is spontaneous nystagmus that revealed by Frenzel glasses. This significant oculomotor symptom as well as disturbances of static and dynamic postural control confirm patient’s vestibular complaints in objective way. Revelation of decompensation signs of vestibular dysfunction needs urgent medicine vertigo therapy and spare vestibular rehabilitation. Actually, medications of choice are sedative drugs with antiemetic effect, non-loop diuretics and glucocorticoids. 

scholarly journals My Walks With Aristotle

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-68
Author(s):  
Enrico Berti
Keyword(s):  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
History Of ◽  
University Of Padua ◽  
The University ◽  
Ethics And Politics ◽  
Aristotle's Metaphysics

In connection with the ongoing celebration of Aristotle’s Year that has been announced by UNESCO, the Poznan Archaeological Reserve – Genius Loci organized a series of lectures “Walks with Aristotle” that refer to the famous name of the Peripatos school. This invitation has been accepted by one of the greatest scholars of Aristotle, Professor Enrico Berti from the University of Padua, who has been publishing for more than 50 years various studies on the philosophy of the Stagirite as well as on the history of philosophy. Recently, his very instructive book, entitled Aristotle’s Profile, has appeared in Polish translation (Poznań 2016). Professor Berti’s presentation provides an overview of his most important achievements. Included in these are his forthcoming works: his new translation and commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics as well as his monograph Aristotelismo which reconstructs the diverse interpretations of Aristotle’s doctrines through centuries: from logic to epistemology, from physics to psychology and zoology, from metaphysics to ethics and politics and lastly from rhetoric to poetics.

Linzensoep met odeklonje

Lampas ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 126-138
Author(s):  
Niek Janssen
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Salient Feature ◽  
Roman History ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
History Of

Summary This paper offers a new reading of the longest extant fragment of Hegemon of Thasos’ parodies (fragment 1 Brandt) in the context of Greek parodic literature and ancient conceptions of literary propriety (τὸ πρέπον or decorum). After a brief overview of Hegemon’s life and works and an introduction to the ancient term παρῳδία and the history of Greek parodic literature, the paper suggests that the incongruity between elevated style and lowly subject matter is the most salient feature of ancient parody. This contrast between form and content, it argues, is at odds with ancient norms of literary propriety, which prescribed that manner and matter should form a harmonious unity. Throughout Greco-Roman history, parodic texts overtly play with their incongruity by finding various ways of denying accusations of transgression. Hegemon’s fragment 1 is perhaps the earliest instance of a parodist grappling with the issue of literary propriety. The paper shows how in Hegemon’s epic, Homeric language contrasts with the iambic (or iambos-like) content of his poem; how the poet authorizes his parodic transgressions of genre through the divine permission of Athena; and how he invokes his nickname, ‘Lentil Soup’, to argue that παρῳδία is the most suitable genre possible for him.

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