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While researchers have offered remonstration-oriented, reciprocal, voluntary, and gratitude-based accounts of political obligation in classical Confucianism, I argue that these interpretations are ... justify Socrates’s obedience to Athens (Plato 1997) . But far from being a problem for ancient philosophy, the question of political obligation is still a topic of debate in the West. Different answers
Cavendish (1623-1673) is one of the most singular figures of her time, in that she did not receive a formal education in philosophy, and yet, by means of a prolific and extravagant outpour, she experimented ... side by side seems crucial to understand the role that fancy and poetic imagination plays in the development of her natural philosophy. This paper examines fragments from Poems and Fancies (1653) to
the proper instruments of philosophy in its dialectical dimension, through which the significant cast of philosophical problems that Revueltas summons with the construction of a great existential and ... , life, the absolute, political or moral commitment and, finally, the human condition guide the complexity of an author in his being both a communist writer and a communist who writes. Keywords: José
The philosophy of Confucius has often been accused of lacking classical definitions of its core concepts. However, as I shall argue, Confucius systematically used nonclassical definitions—to be ... necessarily partial. All these points are valid also when it comes to operational definitions of the core concepts of ethics and political philosophy, as will be clear after discussing the example of
for her wisdom and friendship “based as it is upon that perennial philosophy by which we both live.”21 It is the throw-away phrase “by which we both live” that opens up the problem at hand. Back in 1958 ... , the phrase “perennial philosophy” would have pointed most readers to Aldous Huxley’s 1946 book, The Perennial Philosoph.yHuxley’s book (which is largely an anthology of spiritual writings, with his own
the proper instruments of philosophy in its dialectical dimension, through which the significant cast of philosophical problems that Revueltas summons with the construction of a great existential and ... , life, the absolute, political or moral commitment and, finally, the human condition guide the complexity of an author in his being both a communist writer and a communist who writes. Keywords: José
Dublin” Yeats’s first three entries, or “thoughts,” are numbered, the first one reflecting his political life in Dublin on this date, or literally the day before the entry, when he had been told by the ... Rapallo and his renunciation of political office: “I have ceased to be a Senator” (L 749, WBY to TB dated “Dec 20 [1928]” from Via Americhe 12-8, Rapallo). Thought “(2)” on leaf 1r (see above) and this
This work addresses the way geographical space is represented in Mapa dibujado por un espía (2013) by Guillermo Cabrera Infante. Taking into account the notions of Wayne C. Booth and Walter Benjamin regarding the narrator and the role of literature in society, we analyze this formal aspect of the text, the focalization of which proposes a “true” plot. The cartography of La Havana...
traditions of this notion in the European culture of the 16th and 17th centuries: wit as mental subtlety, related to Theology and Philosophy; wit as verbal acuity, related to Rhetoric and Poetry; and wit as a
this general trend toward making A Vision legible to a new generation of readers. Four years later, Gibson and Mann compiled another collection, Yeats, Philosophy, and the Occult, which aims to place
It has often been said that the Zhuangzi 莊子 advocates political abstention, and that its putative skepticism prevents it from contributing in any meaningful way to political thinking: at best the ... .” In Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Early Chinese Ethics and Political Philosophy, edited by Alexus McLeod, Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, and Tan Sor Hoon. London: Bloomsbury.Google Scholar Chakrabarti
the bibliographic codes of type, ink, paper, page layout, book design and production, and all the political and social implications of their encounters with readerships are worth the scrutiny of book ... , once let loose on philosophy after the publication of A Vision(1925), both Bergson and Plotinus were read and reread by Yeats while preparing many of the poems that made up The Tower,The Winding Stai
symbolic language in a way that is neither a materialist critique of metaphysics per se, nor, at the other extreme, an evangelical call to endorse something like the ‘perennial philosophy.’” Morash’s ... attendant political and cultural valences. George understood the collaborative nature of textual production, one that was clear to him as a scholar as well. He was also a firm believer in the value of close
, from a political and philosophical point of view.Keywords : Didi-Huberman; photography; Shoah; unimaginable; Judaism.
political limits, challenging the sovereignty of the nation. By examining “Song of Myself” in the six different editions of Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, this paper will further analyze Whitman’s style and his ... his nation. By “politics,” I refer to the religious, political, and social doctrines that shape the nation. By “literary,” I mean the traditional literary style of writing, such as the poem’s form
based on the nature of causation in Daoist or, even more generally, a large part of Chinese philosophy. Chung-ying Cghen describes it with three principles: holistic unity, internal life-movements, and ... Chinese philosophy. The oneness cannot be separated from undifferentiation. It is well described in a fragment from Chapter 28, where dao is compared to a piece of uncarved wooden block (pu 樸). This
This article relies on a broader research on the kirchnerista discourse operations. Nowadays, Argentinean political language is full of terms that designate emotions and full of thrill seeking ... thrill seeking resources. This indicates the intensity of the emotional dimension of political discourse. Therefore, it seems important to analyze what are the emotions that kirchnerista discourse really
per se, nor, at the other extreme, an evangelical call to endorse something like the ‘perennial philosophy.’” Morash’s emphasis on both the visual and aural elements of The Herne’s Egg makes an apposite
