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THE COLLECTION OF YUKIO MISHIMA\u27S SHORT ESSAYS AND REVIEWS ON SPORTS (BOOK REVIEW)
No full textHideaki Satō (ed.). The Collection of Yukio Mishima’s Short Essays and Reviews on Sports. Mishima Yukio Supōtsu Ron shū ). Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2019. 330 pp. ISBN: 978400312193
On the Monotonicity of the Number of Positive Entries in Nonnegative Four Element Matrix Powers
Get PDFLet A be a nonnegative square matrix of order m and let F(A) denote the number of positive entries in A. We consider conditions on A to make the sequence {F(An)}n≥1 monotone. This is known for F(A) ≤ 3 and F(A) ≥ m2-2m+2; we extend this to F(A)=4
You Do Belong! Transformative Black Women Faculty Recommendations for Broadening Participation in US P-20 Computing Education
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This study aimed to amplify Black women faculty’s recommendations for broadening participation of the next generation of Black girls and women as they matriculate from primary school into advanced graduate degrees (P-20) in computing education (CE). As tenure-track faculty, these transformative women have attained the highest degree (i.e., Ph.D.) in postsecondary CE in the United States (US). To govern the knowledge validation process, I utilized Afrocentric feminist epistemology undergirded by critical race theory and Black feminist thought. Upon conducting thematic analysis, I identified four emergent themes to broaden participation of Black girls and women in computing: 1) improve access, quality, and early exposure to CE, 2) create equitable and equal spaces for Black girls and women, 3) confront unconscious biases of teachers and faculty, and 4) provide mentoring opportunities. As an emerging Black woman scholar, with a bachelor’s degree in computer science and 15 years of industry experience, I had a “unique angle of vision” to interpret and inform this study’s findings. This study builds upon limited knowledge about interventions needed to support Black girls and women in US P-20 computing education. 
Poetics and Understanding Suggestion
Get PDFIn the history of Indian literary criticism (alaṃkāraśāstra) two texts have made significant contributions to the Indian Aesthetics; Dhvanyāloka by Ānandavardhana and Locana, a commentary on the first text by Abhinavgupta. Both the texts have influenced all the Indian critics of Sanskrit directly or indirectly. One of the major contributions of Ānandavardhana is that he includes emotive and other associative meanings under linguistic meaning. (Kane, 2015: 154-90) As a result the theories of primary and secondary meaning which were developed by Mīmāṃsakas and Naiyāyikas were further developed by the poetics. It is noteworthy that Ānandavardhana was influenced by Bhartṛhari, the promulgator of the sphoṭa theory, Ānandavardhana therefore emphasized the importance of taking the whole utterance as a significant unitary linguistic symbol. He had also shown that the meaning of an utterance depends on contextual factors, and that the logical interpretation of the sentence-meaning on the basis of the individual word-meanings is defective in many cases. He also advanced that at times the meaning of the whole utterance is different from what the individual words indicate. Influenced by Bhartṛhari, Ānandavardhana developed his theory of language, however, his attempt was limited to poetic meaning
GUEST EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION
Get PDFIndian Philosophical thinking is centered to freedom from problems and the basic problem is identified as ignorance. Ignorance gives birth to all limitations, conflicts, sorrow and suffering. The purpose of philosophical thinking is therapeutic that is, to show ways for getting rid of ignorance to move to the knowledge, mortality to move to the immortality, darkness to the light, mundane to the spiritual, limitations to the infinite. This highest goal for some is freedom from the chains of life, realization of the true nature of one own spirit, discriminating knowledge and for some other a transcendental state beyond description. Different schools and thinkers approach to the highest goal by means of positive (pravṛtti mārga) and negative ways (nivṛtti mārga). The two ways are not conflicting because they approach the same pure knowledge in their own way based on their attitude towards ignorance. Two persons claiming highest knowledge of two disciplines may conflict about their superiority but the aspirants of ‘pure knowledge’ do not because the pure knowledge has no opposition, no conflict, and no contradiction with any. Pure knowledge does not differ with the different approaches to it. Some may take pure knowledge as substance, some as quality of consciousness, some as creativity of soul (kṛtya or karma) and still some other as extinction (śūnya). But they all agree that the state of purity is freedom from worldliness, that is, from ignorance with all its forms and modifications. This issue of the Journal of East-West Thought includes nine articles that representing five trends of Indian Philosophical Studies, can grossly be categorized into – Dharma-centric (article 1, 2, 3), value-centric (article 4, 5, 6), spirit-centric (article 7 & 9), meaning-centric (article 8) and cognition-centric (article 9) approaching ‘pure knowledge’ as its goal. Each of the articles in this volume is a complete statement analyzed well and discussed conclusively. A brief evaluation of the merits of the article as per the trend they represent is given below to draw the attention of the readers
EMERSON’S “GOD-WITHIN” AND THE BUDDHIST “BUDDHA-WOMB”
Get PDFEmerson wrote with excitement of his discovery of “God-within” in his poem “Gnothi Seauton”: “There doth sit the Infinite embosomed in a man.” He furthermore preached in his sermon “The Genuine Man” that “the essential man” dwells in the innermost soul, and that this indwelling essential self is a higher self, God’s image, and “Reason.” The doctrine of “Buddha-womb,” tathāgatagarbha meaning “essence of self” or “Buddha-nature,” buddhadātu meaning “true self,” is an important teaching in Mahāyāna Buddhism, which affirms that each sentient being contains the indwelling potency for attaining Buddhahood and enlightenment. This notion is explained when referring to the boundless, nurturing, sustaining, and deathless Self of the Buddha. The affinities between Emersonian Transcendentalism and Mahāyāna Buddhism, especially Zen, have often been pointed out. In this article the comparison between Emerson’s “God-within” and Mahāyāna Buddhism’s “Buddha-womb” or “Buddha-nature” will be examined
A MOOR’S “UN-TWAINIAN” INSIGHTS ON COOPER’S “UN-READABLE” ART
Get PDFIn this article, I argue that James F. Cooper should be treasured outside the stifling artistic horizons of Mark Twain’s Cooper’s Literary Offences. Even if Cooper’s texts are allegedly delirium tremens, global readers of world literature should join me—a post-colonial and global student of world texts and contexts—in disregarding Twain’s claims that “Cooper has scored 114 offenses against literary art out of a possible 115” (4). My present defense of Cooper should therefore be seen as an international homage to James Fennimore Cooper from a North African “Moor” whose Ibn Battutian global academic journey from the South of the Mediterranean to the American Midwest was triggered by the ‘unreadable’ Cooper some twenty years ago.And if I can go down to the grave with the reflection that I have done a little towards it (America), I shall have the consolation of knowing that I have not been useless in my generation (Letters of James Fenimore Cooper, xviii)
Beyond the Public-Private Nexus: A Framework for Examining School Partnership Governance in a Blended Capital Reality
Get PDFIncreasingly, school-based partnerships have been tied to education reform and the entrance of private capital into the PK-12 space, most prominently from a philanthropy sector that contributes nearly $60 billion annually to education causes. As a result, what may have been an at-will school-business partnership in the 1980s may today resemble an embedded multi-partner arrangement around professional development, teacher evaluation, or turnaround support. In this paper, a new framework is introduced to situate school-based collaborations in a contemporary context, notably acknowledging that schools today live in a new “blended capital” reality involving diverse sector influences, multiple sources of private and public funding, and therefore multiple measures of efficacy and accountability
M.K. GANDHI’S CONCERN WITH ENVIRONMENT
Get PDFThe article is based mainly upon the lectures delivered by Gandhi at various occasions and later published in journals like Harijan, Young India, Harijan Sevak, etc. ‘The story of my Experiments with Truth,’ that is, the autobiography of Gandhi and others works of Gandhi are available in print and the whole of his works have been published under the title \u27Complete Works of M.K. Gandhi\u27. His works are widely distributed and available even in local libraries. The method of data analysis is descriptive and evaluative, in which the textual analysis would be focused on the social and environmental utility. Gandhi was always against a violent consumption of the natural resources and loving to the sustainable use of the things the nature gives us as a gift. For example: Gandhi will say eat the fruit and not the tree, and even in eating the fruit his sense is to avoid its misuse that may lead to the waste of it. The gist of the research highlights the logic of non-violence and Gandhi’s perspective to meet out Ethical problems of environment. It as such, includes his way of solving the environmental crisis
HUMAN NATURE AND THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF EMOTIONAL CORRESPONDENCE
Get PDFThis paper considers how a careful, reflective phenomenological awareness of particular emotional events can help us to understand the nature of emotions and how they correspond or fail to correspond to things in the world. First, I will approach this from the negative side of things, by considering clear cases in which emotional responses do not seem to fit that which gives rise to them. I claim that it is possible to see that our emotions sometimes correspond and sometimes do not correspond to the things which they are about. Second, the nature of the relata in the relation will be analyzed. I consider the "object" of emotions and consider what properties such an object might require such that an emotion could correspond to it. Finally, I will argue that the relation of emotional correspondence is plausible if the objects in the emotional correspondence relation have real natures