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Buddhism from Late Song to Early Qing Dynasties
No full textAlongside the giants of Chinese philosophy, such as Confucius, Zhu Xi, and Li Zehou, the selection includes philosophers often neglected from traditional surveys, figures such as Huan Tan, Cheng Xuanying, Ye Shi, Jiao Xun, Zhang Shenfu, and Li Xiaojiang. A focus on the rhetoric form and cultural background of Chinese philosophical thought runs through each volume, together with a discussion of seismic political, social, and economic events: the fall of dynasties, the rise of the imperial examination system, the modernization of Chinese academia, up to post-1978 politics. Thinkers and traditions are connected to broader, topical themes – Zhuangzi and the idea of perspectivism; Tiantai and the problem of evil; Zhang Junmai and models of democracy – and interconnections between theories and meditative, moral, and medical practices are explored. This is a history of Chinese philosophy that handles recently excavated bamboo texts, women philosophers in ancient China, Buddhist logic, medieval aesthetics, Sino-Muslim thought, and modern ethnic minority philosophy. Close attention is paid to the mutual exchange of ideas between China, East Asia, and Europe, providing a much-needed perspective that captures the monumental contribution of Chinese thinkers and builds a truly global history of philosophy
L’immanence de la catastrophe lente à travers Soumission de Michel Houellebecq
No full textIn Apocalypses sans Royaume, Jean-Paul Engélibert draws attention to the stories which convey the belief in an imminent end of the world in its immanence (179). While the spectacular dimension of catastrophe as an event establishes a clear dividing line between a before and an after, the slow and pervasive catastrophe, characteristic of the contemporary world, confronts us with a present in which the actual end [is] already effective (Engélibert, 179). Catastrophe as the destruction of a symbolic anteriority is thus considered not as a single event, but as a barely perceptible succession of deadly disturbances. Michel Houellebecq\u27s Submission (2015) crystallizes this kind of catastrophist perception. Beyond a media hubbub which ignored the finesse of its treatment, the declinist thesis of this political dystopia unfolds in what Michel Maffesoli calls the irrefutable signs in the sky of society (17). In this article I attempt to demonstrate that the emergence of Islamism, as a societal and political project, is not considered as an apocalyptic upheaval. Rather, it is a judicious implementation of an aesthetics of disappearance (Virilio, 123). Be they daily, elementary, or dietary, the characters\u27 habits keep evolving, creating a new symbolic order. The insidious and irreversible nature of those changes is barely felt in a world that already sees itself as ruins of the future (Jeudy, 111)
Using AI for Qualitative Labeling: Consistency and Comparisons
Get PDFThis paper details a research study evaluating AI\u27s ability to perform qualitative deductive coding. Multiple AI models were utilized and compared against three human coders and one expert coder. A series of 107 statements were sourced from a group discussion for a qualitative impact assessment of an organization. The AI models were provided these statements and directed to code them using the Community Capitals Framework. Two generations of AI models were evaluated. Overall, the AI achieved a fair level of agreement with the human annotators, but the alignment was far from perfect. Newer AI models did not increase agreement with humans but instead increased agreement with other AI models. There were certain areas of struggle for the AI, such as differing interpretations of specific community capitals, one-word statements lacking context, and statements that did not fit into any of the categories. Further studies incorporating a greater variety of AI models with a more robust data set and experienced human coders would provide a more accurate representation of AI’s ability to align with humans on interpretive tasks