Love As If

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Shand ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Love ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
As If

The primary focus here is romantic love, but it may be applied to other cases of love such as those within a family. The first issue is whether love is a non-rational occurrence leading to a state of affairs to which the normative constrains of reason do not apply. If one assumes that reasons are relevant to determining love, then the second issue is the manner in which love is and should be reasonable and governed by the indications of reason. It is contended that our conception of love is inherently contradictory. Depending on circumstances, we want love to be both a non-rational occurrence beyond reason and something normative such that the indications of reasons are relevant to determining and assessing it. We alternate between the two treatments of love and in so doing love can function in our lives. The incoherence is accommodated by each treatment or view of love being one of as if. This allows us to live with love in a manner whereby we do not have to definitively commit to either alternative, so we have a dipolar as if concept of love. Sometimes we view love as if reasons were beside the point and at others we view love as if it were rightly subject to the indications of reason.

The employment miracle

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcel Fratzscher
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
German Society ◽  
First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
New Jobs

After reaching a low point of economic dynamism and employment in 2005, a state of affairs in which it came to be regarded as the “sick man of Europe,” Germany achieved impressive, indeed apparently miraculous growth in employment. In the process German society cut unemployment in half and created almost 5 million new jobs. In this chapter’s discussion, the primary focus is on the different elements and causes that have gone into the employment miracle in Germany since the start of the twenty-first century. In addition, the chapter highlights the underlying weaknesses and problems in Germany’s labor market as the century’s second decade nears its close.

Innocents Abroad? Elizabeth Bishop and James Merrill Overseas

2019 ◽  
pp. 294-306
Author(s):  
Ben Leubner
Keyword(s):  
Strong Sense ◽  
Elizabeth Bishop ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
James Merrill ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
As If

This chapter investigates the ways in which both Elizabeth Bishop and James Merrill acknowledged their complicity in cultural erosions that they wished to see forestalled in Brazil and Greece, respectively. As Robert von Hallberg has noted, what often renders the genre of the ‘protest poem’ so two-dimensional is the lack of any sense of complicity in what is being protested, as if the poet was unwilling or unable to see his/her own role in the events and processes that the poem decries. Neither Bishop nor Merrill suffered from this kind of shortcoming of vision. At the heart of many of their poems which lament a given state of affairs is a strong sense that they are in part responsible for that state of affairs, and this makes these poems not weaker, as a result of an embedded hypocrisy, but stronger, as a result of an unwillingness to succumb to the delusion that oneself could possibly be free of blame.

Saint Louis' Involvement with the Friars

1964 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lester K. Little
Keyword(s):  
Saint Louis ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Mendicant Orders ◽  
As If ◽  
Louis Ix

The literature popular among students at Paris in the 1260's included a series of poems lamenting the ascendant role in society of the new mendicant orders. The Dominicans are so shrewd, said one of these poems, that they control both Paris and Rome, they are both king and apostle. The blame for this state of affairs was being placed squarely on Louis IX. The king favors the mendicants, read a second poem, yet ill-treatrs his knights, as if the friars could do anything useful for the defense of his kingdom.

Stevie Smith's serious comedy

2009 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Halliday
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Love ◽  
Poetic Voice ◽  
Romantic Passion ◽  
Stevie Smith ◽  
The Voice ◽  
As If

AbstractStevie Smith was a deeply original and serious poet who masqueraded as a poet of eccentric light verse, as if tempting her less perceptive readers to expose their own conventionality by dismissing her as an entertainer. Her poetic voice often imitates the voice of an impatient bright child, or the voice of an impetuous or irritable person amateurishly imitating classic poetry; but these imitations turn out to be strategies employed by Stevie Smith to achieve startling effects as what seems at first to be naïve then comes to seem strangely ironic and penetrating. As in all great comic writers, Smith's humor can be felt as an unsettling possibility always vibrating in her voice. Some of her most comic poems arise from her drastic skepticism about romantic love and marriage. She finds many ways to expose and satirize the arrogance of men, while also pointing out ways in which women cooperate with that arrogance. She implies that romantic passion is an illusion from which people need to escape so as to find another, less melodramatic center of value.

Planning and Economic Progress in France

1957 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 351-382
Author(s):  
Wallace C. Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Normal State ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Economic Progress ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
As If

FRANCE, it is said these days, is the “sick man of Europe,” a dubious honor once bestowed on the crumbling Ottoman Empire. To the outside observer it seems as if crisis following crisis is the “normal” state of affairs in France. Within France, the illusion that the post-Liberation social order would somehow be fundamentally different from that of the prewar regime is no more; politically, economically, and socially France today seems distressingly similar to the France of yesterday.Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

scholarly journals “ONE SIZE DOESN'T FIT ALL”: CONNECTING VIEWS OF ACTIVISM WITH YOUTH ACTIVIST IDENTIFICATION*

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-44
Author(s):  
Thomas V. Maher ◽  
Morgan Johnstonbaugh ◽  
Jennifer Earl
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
High School ◽  
Young People ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Broad Category ◽  
Level Of Activity ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
Movement Participation ◽  
As If

Identity is crucial to social movement participation. Existing research examines why active people “avoid” activist identities but has less to say about how active people adopt such identities as if they automatically follow participation. We draw on interviews with high school and college students from a midsize southwestern city to examine how young people make sense of what it means to be an activist, who identifies as such, and why youth are willing—or unwilling—to adopt this label. We find that respondents' conceptualizations of “activists” are critical to (non)identification. Those who see activism as a broad category are more likely to identify, holding constant their level of activity. Those who see activism as a greedy institution, requiring significant substantive fluency, making the issue their primary focus, and willingness to sacrifice, do not, despite their level of engagement. Our findings have implications for identity formation and movement participation more broadly.

scholarly journals The Parallels between Kantian Aesthetics and the Presence of Tibetan Art in the Yuan-Ming Era (1279–1644)

Philosophia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrei-Valentin Bacrău
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
The Political ◽  
Conceptual Distinction ◽  
Central Argument ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThis paper will look at Kant’s views of the aesthetic experience, in relationship to Buddhist philosophical and political discussions of art and social organization. The primary focus in Kantian literature explores the relationship between free and dependent beauty, as well as Kant’s paradox of taste. The central argument of the Kantian portion is going to navigate the paradox of taste via Graham Priest’s epistemic and conceptual distinction pertaining to the limits of thought. Secondly, I shall contextualize the debate with similar argumentation found in medieval Tibetan literature, by thinkers such as Tsongkhapa and Drakpa Gyaltsen. Lastly, I shall look at the political and artistic state of affairs in Yuan and Ming Dynasties and assert the applicability of both Kantian and Tibetan discussions of effibility in the context of Tibetan poetry and Thangkas.

scholarly journals What's love got to do with it?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rakhee Sapra
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Love ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
The Subject ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Philosophical Questions ◽  
Emotional Condition

"Romantic love has been, and continues to be, the subject of diverse discussions in a variety of realms, including but not limited to, philosophy, psychology and anthropology. Despite the depth and range of such discussions, as a concept, romantic love remains an enigmatic phenomenon. Love may be knowable and comprehensible to others, as understood in the phrases, "I am in love", "I love you", but it is often felt, most notably by the humanities academic community, that what "love" means in these sentences cannot be analyzed further. This is because the concept of "love" is perceived to be irreducible; an axiomatic, or self-evident, state of affairs that warrants no further intellectual intrusion. In attempting to define love therefore, we stumble across the philosophical questions of how we may know love, how we may understand it and whether it is possible or plausible to make statements about being in love if love is purely an emotional condition. In light of these concerns it is necessary to assert that there is a difference between the claim that love cannot be examined and the claim that it should not be subject to examination out of a sense of reverence for its mysteriousness, its awesome, divine, or romantic nature.

PROBLEMATIKA JATUH CINTA : Sebuah Tinjuan Filosofis

LOGOS ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Leo Agung Srie Gunawan
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Love ◽  
Eternal Life ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
History Of ◽  
Divine Life ◽  
As If ◽  
Falling In Love

Falling in love is the most phenomenal event in the history of human being.Discussion of falling in love is never finished talking about it. When lovers arefalling in love, they long for a perfect happiness in their heart. The onlypossibility to achieve this happiness is that the lovers live together as amanifestation of the unity of love. This union that is lived by them is expectedto take place in eternity. In the experience of falling in love, a couple of humanbeing, as if, live “across this world” in which they are tasting the divine life intotal happiness, perfect unity, and eternal life. Actually, the total happiness isexperienced as a partial happiness. This has the effect that the perfect unity isonly a dream because the unity is experienced in its imperfection. Furthermore,the eternity of love is only a romantic love in changing continuously. It is theexperience bringing falling in love with its serious problems. However, thosewho fall in love are really human beings who are still in their limitations.

What is Stuttering?

1990 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 370-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
William H. Perkins
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Speech Production ◽  
Avoidance Behavior ◽  
Diagnostic Method ◽  
Half Century ◽  
Definitive Evidence ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
As If

The most definitive evidence about any aspect of stuttering is that listeners are unable to judge unit-by-unit occurrences of it acceptably. This result has been replicated repeatedly in every decade for a half century. Nonetheless, for virtually all research and most clinical practice, stuttering has been defined perceptually as if listeners could identify it accurately. Reasons for this state of affairs and its implications for therapy, theory, and research are analyzed. An alternative speech production definition with its implications is proposed. Further, a diagnostic method of validating authentic stuttering is described, as is an objective for fluency-skill therapy that reduces rather than reinforces avoidance behavior.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document