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Political Rhetoric: The Modern Parrhesia

The concept of parrhesia, or free speech, was explored by the philosopher Michel Foucault to describe the discourse between a person of high political power and a subordinate, wherein the subordinate ... philosophical ideas have been reexamined inside a political context. One of his major theories, the idea of free speech known as parrhesia, has made its way to the foreground of scrutiny by political theorists as

Andy's Inner Society: Warhol's Philosophy and Sense of Self

Andy Warhol’s The Philosophy of Andy Warhol is an intimate look at the internal world of the painter and graphic artist. The general public often assumes that Warhol’s life was little more than a

Philosophy of voltage-gated proton channels

In this review, voltage-gated proton channels are considered from a mainly teleological perspective. Why do proton channels exist? What good are they? Why did they go to such lengths to develop several unique hallmark properties such as extreme selectivity and ΔpH-dependent gating? Why is their current so minuscule? How do they manage to be so selective? What is the basis for our...

A Stellar View of the Sun

duration) and I (science lead and then PI for the last four years) shared the same philosophy: there is so much to discover in what has been publicly funded, that we wanted to present events of interest to

CMEs in the Heliosphere: I. A Statistical Analysis of the Observational Properties of CMEs Detected in the Heliosphere from 2007 to 2017 by STEREO/HI-1

, heliospheric CME rates correlate with sunspot number, and are not inconsistent with coronal rates once instrumental factors/differences in cataloguing philosophy are considered. As well as being more abundant ... also wide, of course under the assumption that the COR-2 cataloguing philosophy focuses on events that would be deemed good by the CDAW cataloguers. Again, the daily rate of good, wide CDAW CMEs is

Ulterior Motives: Understanding Castro's Intervention in Angola, 1975-1989

were spotted worldwide in the second half of twentieth century, spreading political dissention in Latin America and overseas. The movements supported by the regime generally took the form of grassroots ... on New Years Day leaders managed to regroup and 1959. Cuban specialists were spotted worldwide in the second half form a second government at of twentieth century, spreading political dissention in

The Impoverished Island: Development Intervention in Madagascar

geography and climate, its population and quality of life, its economy and political structure, as well as its history. It is only through this understanding that workable solutions to the challenges facing ... political turmoil. Economic which interact with and shape growth has been mostly incon­ one another; these are the geog­ sistent with occasional dramatic raphy trap, the conflict trap, and fluctuations. Since

The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) Education and Outreach (E/PO) Program: Changing Perceptions One Program at a Time

We outline the context and overall philosophy for the combined Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) Education and Public Outreach (E/PO) program, present a brief overview of all SDO E/PO programs along ... Framework, the strategic communications objectives, and the system-wide approach outlined in the heliophysics roadmap, the SDO E/PO team (Table 1) has developed an overall approach and philosophy by which it

Virtus vs. Virtue: The Role of Honor in Shakespeare’s Coriolanus

degraded his rank and offended against his honor, something which all Romans would have understood was not only a personal offence but a political one as well (Holland, 247). Several hundred years before ... philosophy which constituted Roman honor, a conception of honor which was quite at odds with the central tenets of the Christian faith in sixteenth century England (and with our understanding of honor as a

Complete Issue (Volume 4, Issue 1)

at The University of Southern Mississippi Contents 3 4 18 25 37 41 Editor’s Note Emotions Involved in Shopping at the Airport Andy’s Inner Society: Warhol’s Philosophy and Sense of Self Virtus ... vs. Virtue: The Role of Honor in Shakespeare’s Coriolanus Political Rhetoric: The Modern Parrhesia Mind Over Magic: Repetition-Compulsion, Power Instinct, and Apprehension in Ursula K. Le Guin’s A

Examining Moral Necessity in the Kantian Categorical Imperative

substantially amended if the Kantian perspective is suspect. Furthermore, a failure or contradiction present in Kantian philosophy would mean that a new, sound deontological morality would be needed. ... and from the divine will. 16 Rather, the right to self-determination the law comes from philosophy, that comes with it. or reason .17 Kant's ethical law rests, then, on reason, impartiality, and dig­

Death by Injustice: Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Laws, Christian Fundamentalism, and the Politics of Global Power

paper will examine the political and religious context in which Uganda’s anti-homosexuality laws were created and discuss some of the present and potential implications of the bill. ... -political Ugandan atmosphere in regards to homosexuality. The international community revered Kato as an outspoken and influential leader of human rights. Upon hearing of his death, President Barrack Obama

Response to “Limitations in the Hilbert Transform Approach to Locating Solar Cycle Terminators” by R. Booth

Booth (Solar Phys. 296, 108, 2021; hereafter B21) is essentially a critique of the Hilbert transform techniques used in our paper (Leamon et al., Solar Phys. 295, 36, 2020; hereafter L20) to predict the termination of solar cycles. Here we respond to his arguments; our methodology and parameter choices do extract a mathematically robust signature of terminators from the...

Analyses of Early Sunspot Records by Jean Tarde (1615 – 1617) and Jan Smogulecki (1621 – 1625)

philosophy and law in Italy. When he returned to Poland around 1630, he was elected as mayor of Nakło and a local parliament member. In 1636, he joined the Jesuit order, studied theology in Kraków, and was

Critical transition between cohesive and population-dividing responses to change

important phenomena, from political polarization to the evolution of distinct ecological traits, may be cast in terms of division of populations, we expect our findings and method to be useful and applicable ... Arab Spring and the European debt crisis in 2011 have paved the way for major restructuring of the political, economic and social systems around the world. Such rapid social changes, punctuated by

The University of Southern Mississippi Honors College: A Tradition of Excellence

semesters of World Thought and Culture, an inter­ disciplinary course commonly called "Colloquium." It is a nontraditional integration of history, literature, and philosophy. Colloquium forces students to ... to read Wagner and Philosophy, the Bhagavad-Gita, or whatever Colloquium book happens to be due. The close working bond formed between student and faculty mentor can be a unique and rewarding one. Dr

Extreme Space-Weather Events and the Solar Cycle

comparison to probability models (Section 4). The general approach takes a similar philosophy to extreme-value statistics, in that it is assumed that trends established at lower event intensities (but still

Five Solar Cycles of Solar Corona Investigations

, philosophy, and mathematics. However, there were aspects of physics that were quite intriguing, such as the analogy of the planetary system around the Sun – the only one known at that time – and that of the

How Good Is the Bipolar Approximation of Active Regions for Surface Flux Transport?

available on the Harvard Dataverse (Yeates, 2020) . We stress that the philosophy in developing this new BMR database has been to minimise subjectivity through development of a fullyautomated BMR fitting

Time to Face Reality: The Unreality of Time Could Very Well Be Real

Without doubt, time has been one of the most discussed topics in the history of philosophy and science. From Greece 's Chronos to modern atomic clocks, what could be more fundamental for human