Review of Locke: A Biography by Roger Woolhouse

Locke Studies ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 207-211
Author(s):  
Vere Chappell
Keyword(s):  
John Milton ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Intellectual Development ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
Intellectual Activities

This is only the third full-scale biography of Locke to be published in the 300 years since his death in 1704. At least two others, however, are said to be in the works: one by Mark Goldie, the other by John Milton, both eminent Locke scholars. It is true that both of these projects are described on their authors’ web sites as ‘intellectual’ biographies, but the range of writings on Locke that both have already published suggests that their focus will be no more limited than Woolhouse’s is in his ‘Biography’. Woolhouse gives full accounts of Locke’s non-intellectual activities and of the social and historical context within which he worked. But he also pays a lot of attention to his subject’s intellectual development and accomplishment.

Welfare locale e decentramento amministrativo a Napoli: la ricerca come specchio del mutamento sociale

2009 ◽  
pp. 139-156
Author(s):  
Fabio Corbisiero ◽  
Elisabetta Perone
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
School Dropout ◽  
The Other ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Social Policies ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City

- The article summarizes the results of a research conducted on the social policies change in Naples, particularly in Scampěa and in North Area of the city. This change saws the active involvement of the third sector organizations in the process of implementation of policies. The survey pays special attention to the process of welfare networking developed in the Area, although this involved a deep reconsideration, on the part of researchers, about the risks of contamination of the research as subject get closer. The involvement of an Association, among those most active in the area, while allowed more direct understanding of decision making, on the other hand became a strong pressure. Mediation among the scientific aims and those expressed by the Association led to a deviation of the original research design.Key words: social policies, suburbs, poverty, school dropout, voluntary, welfare

scholarly journals Evaluation of design methods for side resistance only rock socketed piles

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Johnston
Keyword(s):  
Design Methods ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
The Other ◽  
Total Resistance ◽  
The Third ◽  
Components Of Resistance ◽  
Side Resistance

The ability of three methods to predict the load-settlement response of rock socketed piles was examined in a recent paper. The piles considered were complete piles in which both the side and base of the piles contribute to the total resistance. For a range of reasons, it is sometimes necessary to consider rock socketed piles for which the resistance is provided only by the side of the socket. This paper extends the earlier paper by comparing predictions for side resistance only piles with the load-settlement response of a suite of full-scale side resistance only pile tests. Only two of the methods of the earlier paper are used for this comparison as the third method could not decouple the two components of resistance. It is demonstrated that one of the methods produces reasonable predictions of performance whereas the other appears to underpredict performance.

scholarly journals Politeness and other types of facework

Pragmatics ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 681-706 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nieves Hernández-Flores
Keyword(s):  
Social Situation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Institutional Characteristics ◽  
Communicative Acts ◽  
The Third ◽  
Political Ideas ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Terms ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

TV-panel discussions constitute a communicative genre with specific features concerning the situational context, the communicative goals, the roles played by the participants and the acts that are carried out in the interaction. In the Spanish TV-debate Cada día, discourse is characterized as semi-institutional because of having both institutional characteristics – due to its mediatic nature – and conversational characteristics. In the communicative exchanges the social situation of the participants is negotiated by communicative acts, that is, facework is realised. Facework concerns the speakers’ wants of face, both the individual face and the group face. In the present article face is described in cultural terms within the general face wants autonomy and affiliation and in accordance with the roles the speakers assume in interaction. In the analysis of an excerpt from the TV-debate Cada día two types of facework are identified: On the one hand politeness, that is, when an attempted balance between the speaker’s and the addressees’ face is aimed at and, on the other hand, self-facework, which appears when only the speaker’s face is focused on. No samples of the third case of facework, impoliteness, are found in this excerpt. The results of the analysis display the relationship between the communicative purposes of this communicative genre (to inform, to entertain and to convince people of political ideas) and the types of facework (politeness, self-facework) that are identified in the analysed data.

scholarly journals Natural Disasters and the Rise of the Modern Prometheus

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-36
Author(s):  
Petru Ştefan Ionescu
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Natural Disaster ◽  
Daniel Defoe ◽  
Traumatic Events ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Social ◽  
Literary Evolution ◽  
Modern Work

Abstract The aim of this paper is to present a specific literary evolution in the context of catastrophes brought by war, revolutions, pandemics, and natural disaster. Discussing works by Daniel Defoe and the Byron–Shelley circle, we will observe how traumatic events influenced literary and artistic expression, reflecting the social, political, and historical context of the authors’ lives. People tend to relate to heroes and myths more easily in times of crisis, hoping to find force and motivation in their fight for survival and improvement. The myth of Prometheus as a benefactor of mankind was one of the most influential for romantics, with Byron and Shelley casting him as a revolutionary hero that helps man combat the tyranny of his oppressors. Mythopoeic romantic poets such as Blake, Byron, and Shelley hoped to animate their fellows with their revolutionary creation into fighting against autocracy and for their liberties. Mary Shelley, on the other hand, turned Prometheus from the mythical ancient hero of humanity into the modern romantic anti-hero, creating in the process the first modern work of science-fiction.

scholarly journals Education as factor of social modernization.

Osvitolohiya ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 52-58
Author(s):  
Oleg Rafalsky ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Conceptual Models ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The Other ◽  
Effective Characteristics ◽  
National Education ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Modernization ◽  
Educational Paradigm

The effectiveness of education is determined by the level of preparation of an individual to make the productive effects in order to provide personal and social development. In a great scheme of things, each educational system is designed to create the conditions for successful adaptation of an individual to the social and cultural realities of the society of a specific historical context. The worldview basis of the development of education turn out to be convincing, thus, the educational paradigm will acquire the effective characteristics, if it makes allowances for and uses professionally mutually potential action of the shaping factors of the development of education in particular and society in general. Each national educational system has to make allowances for the realistic resource limits of a country. If different conceptual models of education are based on different priorities for functioning and development of education, it proves either one thing or the other: either the lack of knowledge about the specific historical realities and perspectives of its society, or the intentions to make a tool for the satisfaction of other needs of the national education.

scholarly journals The Impact of Socio-Historical Context on Identity: An Analysis of Ngāi Tamarāwaho Identity in the Colonisation Era

Te Kaharoa ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Derby
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Major Focus ◽  
Common Trends ◽  
The Third ◽  
Indigenous Groups ◽  
The Social ◽  
Waitangi Tribunal ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of this article is to illustrate the influence that socio-historical context has on the identity of a group. The identity of the hapū (tribe) Ngāi Tamarāwaho is examined to demonstrate the impact that specific phenomena associated with colonisation had on hapū identity, and the major focus of this chapter is the interplay between Ngāi Tamarāwaho and the phenomenon of colonisation. This article concentrates specifically on hapū identity during the colonisation era, which, in the context of this article, commenced with the arrival of Pākehā (British) settlers in New Zealand in 1814, and concluded with the establishment of the Waitangi Tribunal in 1975. For comparative purposes, parallels are drawn with other indigenous groups globally to highlight similarities between the colonisation experiences of these groups and those of Ngāi Tamarāwaho, and to illustrate common trends that occur as a result of colonisation and its associated phenomena. The first section in this article discusses the need to consider socio-historical context in research pertaining to identity, and provides examples of research that has been conducted to this effect. The second section establishes the social context of Ngāi Tamarāwaho, and the third section outlines the historical context. Following this is an analyis of the effects of aspects of colonisation on Ngāi Tamarāwaho identity, and this article concludes by discussing ways in which the hapū revived and reasserted their identity

scholarly journals “Cultural-historical meanings of the Third Rome”

2021 ◽  
pp. 111-127
Author(s):  
Tamara Totazovna Tedeeva
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cultural Artifacts ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Imperial Ideology ◽  
The One ◽  
Semantic Aspect

In theoretical and sociopolitical discourses, the semantic construct “The Third Rome" is often used in denotative meaning of imperial ideology. At the same time, it has multivariate connotation, the disclosure of which in the cultural-historical context on the one hand allows deeper understanding of the semantic aspect of the construct, while on the other – more precisely characterizing the culture of different epochs. The object of this research is the historical process of saturation of the semantic construct “The Third Rome" with meaningful content. The subject of this research is the basic cultural- historical connotations the concept “The Third Rome”. The goal of this work is to establish correlation between the basic connotations of the concept under review and the historical cultures by means of culturological attribution. Alongside the general theoretical philosophical-analytical toolset, the author tests the method of culturological attribution in relation to cultural-historical meanings of the concept “The Third Rome" as intangible cultural artifacts. The novelty of this article consists in elucidation of the historical subjectivity of cultural meanings of the concept “The Third Rome”. Attribution of this concept to several historical cultures allows determining its multiple connotation, which at times are antipodal. The most common interpretation (“The Third Rome” as an empire) is applicable only to certain historical cultures.

Freedom and Well-Being

2021 ◽  
pp. 351-439
Author(s):  
John Skorupski
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Intellectual Development ◽  
Well Being ◽  
John Stuart Mill ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
The One ◽  
Spiritual Freedom

John Stuart Mill is, on the one hand, a man of the Enlightenment, and on the other, the greatest liberal idealist of the nineteenth century. This chapter surveys his philosophy, interpreting it as a synthesis of epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics for the modern age comparable to that of Hegel. The two syntheses are opposed in fundamental respects, notably on the question of individualism and holism, yet in both of them freedom is the governing idea. The first two sections examine Mill’s intellectual development and his naturalism. In the third section his fundamental rethinking of utilitarianism is considered. The final section considers his philosophy of freedom, which takes a Schillerian inner or spiritual freedom to be the leading essential of well-being. The implications are traced through his social and political theory, notably in On Liberty and The Subjection of Women.

scholarly journals On the Date of the Trial of Anaxagoras

1917 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. E. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Development ◽  
The Third ◽  
Equivalent Statement ◽  
The Social

It is a point of some interest to the historian of the social and intellectual development of Athens to determine, if possible, the exact dates between which the philosopher Anaxagoras made that city his home. As everyone knows, the tradition of the third and later centuries was not uniform. The dates from which the Alexandrian chronologists had to arrive at their results may be conveniently summed up under three headings, (a) date of Anaxagoras' arrival at Athens, (b) date of his prosecution and escape to Lampsacus, (c) length of his residence at Athens, (a) The received account (Diogenes Laertius ii. 7), was that Anaxagoras was twenty years old at the date of the invasion of Xerxes and lived to be seventy-two. This was apparently why Apollodorus (ib.) placed his birth in Olympiad 70 and his death in Ol. 88. I, thus giving the years 500–428 B.C. of our reckoning, (ib.) The further statement of Apollodorus that Anaxagoras ἤρξατο ϕιλοσοϕεῖν ⋯π⋯ Καλλίον has given rise to discussion; but when we remember that Demetrius of Phalerum had made what ‘Diogenes’ regards as an equivalent statement in his register of archons, and had said that Anaxagoras was twenty years old at the time, I think there can be no doubt of the meaning. Demetrius had clearly mentioned something about Anaxagoras which was looked on as giving the date at which he ‘began to philosophize,’ and had given his age at the time. The natural interpretation is that Demetrius mentioned the year of Anaxagoras’ arrival at Athens, and that this was taken as the time at which he ρξαtο φιλοσοφεlσ And it is further reasonable to suppose that this date was the source of the further statement of Demetrius, that Anaxagoras was born in or about 500 B.C. We may, I think, infer that Demetrius recorded the arrival of Anaxagoras in Athens under the year 480, giving his approximate age at that time.

scholarly journals Philosophical Roots of the Dialogical Concept of Law

2016 ◽  
pp. 51-58
Author(s):  
Anna Rossmanith
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
New Horizons ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ancient Greek Philosophy ◽  
Philosophy Of Dialogue ◽  
The Concept Of Law ◽  
Concept Of Law

The main task which I pose for myself is to indicate the philosophical roots of the dialogical concept of law. First and foremost, I would like to present dialogue in the context of ancient Greek philosophy and in the context of the classicists of the philosophy of dialogue. Furthermore, I seek phenomenological bases for constructing the dialogical concept of law. The phenomenological method, starting with its classical Husserlian form, has undergone many changes. Thanks to the indication of new horizons of phenomenology by Emmanuel Levinas, discovering dialogical consciousness and the subject constituted in being with the Other are possible. The reference point of reflections on the concept of law is the relationship with the Other as an ethical relationship. Philosophy of dialogue is a certain possible prism of thinking about the social, public, and institutional space. It is thinking through the prism of dialogue (speaking), but also through the third who contributes discourse relevant to what is said. Law as the third, as the mediating element, is a co-constituting element of the entire legal world.

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