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Redemption in the work of Francis Stuart
No full textThe idea of redemption is central to an understanding of the work
of Francis Stuart. Through an examination of its development and
expression, it is possible to demonstrate the integrity of his work and
its distinctive qualities. Such a demonstration is necessary because
Stuart's writing has been subjected to comparatively little scholarly
inquiry, although reviews of his work, especially that produced since
1949, suggest that it is impressive and important.
First, a general background to Stuart's work, a discussion of the
special problems associated with reading it, and a summary of his corpus
is provided. This indicates that the idea of redemption is important to
his earliest writing. The state of redemption is shown to be a
necessary apotheosis for Stuart's outcast heroes; it involves spiritual
suffering through which may be found a sense of reintegration and a
higher reality. This is expressed through interrelated themes such as
those of gambler, artist and ordinary man; mystic and criminal; sacred
and profane love; and spirituality and the mundane. The nature of the
redemptive experience is further elaborated by distinctive, complex
motifs, especially the hare, the ark and the woman-Christ. Their
recurrence provides an important element in the unity of Stuart's work.
Because Stuart's idea of the outcast raises important biographical
questions, an examination of the relationship between Stuart's life and
his work is made. Finally, the way in which the idea of redemption
exists in the language structures of Stuart's novels is examined, with
especial reference to his most recent work, The High Consistory. The
thesis shows that the development of the these of redemption
demonstrates the integrity of Stuart's work
John Stuart Mill’s projected science of society: 1827-1848
No full textThe purpose of the thesis is to examine John Stuart Mill’s political thought from
about 1827 to 1848 as an exercise in intellectual history. It focuses, first, on Mill’s view,
formulated by the late 1830s, that contemporary society was ‘civilized’, and second, on
his project of a science of society, which he aspired to develop in the late 1830s and
early 1840s.
By the late 1830s, Mill came to the view that his contemporary society was a
‘commercial society or civilization’, dominated by the middle, commercial class. The
first part of my thesis, constituted by Chapters 2-4, discusses the way in which Mill
formed his notion of civilization, and what he meant by the term ‘civilization’. Mill paid
attention to the implications of the rise of the middle class, and regarded such
phenomena of contemporary society as the corruption of the commercial spirit and
excessive social conformity as an inevitable consequence of the rise of the middle class.
The second part of the thesis, constituted by Chapters 5-9, examines Mill’s
projected science of society. In the late 1830s and early 1840s, Mill attempted to
develop a new science of society whose subject-matter was the nature and prospects of
commercial, civilized society. This aspiration culminated in A System of Logic,
published in 1843. In examining Mill’s projected science, I pay particular attention to
the fact that he conceived new sciences of history and of the formation of character,
both of which were indispensable in his project, although he failed to give a complete
account of these sciences. My thesis shows that the implications of his interest both in
history and in the formation of character are more significant than Mill scholars have
assumed
La red de la racionalidad: emoción y lenguaje. Cuicuilco Revista de la Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia: Análisis del discurso y semiótica de la cultura: perspectivas analíticas para el tercer milenio Tomo I. Num. 24 (2002) Vol. 9 enero-abril
No full textEl presente artículo cuestiona la visión mecánica del lenguaje y la comunicación para adoptar un enfoque dinámico y complejo. A la vez, este enfoque descarta la idea de la existencia de un módulo aislado del lenguaje, demostrando las ligas profundas que en todos los niveles, vinculan el lenguaje con la emoción, en la conformación de nuestra "red de racionalidad". Sin la emoción no puede entenderse la ontogénesis ni la filogénesis del lenguaje, como tampoco muchas de sus patologías y de las características esenciales de las lenguas, la comunicación y las culturas.This article challenges mechanical vision of language and communication, to adopt a dinamic and complex approach. At the same time, this approach challenges the idea of the existence of an isolated module of language, demonstrating the profound links that in every level relate language to emotion in the configuration of our "web of rationality". Without emotion we cannot understand the ontogenetical and philogenetical aspects of language. Without emotion we cannot define many of the language pathologies and essential characteristics of languages, communication and cultures.Cohen, N. 2001. Language Impairment and Psychopathology in Infants, Children and Adolescents, Nueva York, Sage.Damasio, Antonio. 1994. Descartes´ Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain, Nueva York, Avon Books.Descartes, Ren. 1989. The Passions of the Soul, Hackett Publishing Company, Indianapolis, Cambridge.Foucault, Michel. 1980. El orden del discurso, Barcelona, Tusquets.Goleman, David. 1995 La inteligencia emocional, México, Vergara.Gopnik, M. et al. 1997. “Familial Language Impairment”, en Gopnik, M. (ed.), The Inheritance and Innateness of Grammars, Nueva York, Oxford University Press, pp. 111-140.Gottlieb, G. 1997. Synthesizing Nature-Nurture: Prenatal Roots of Instinctive Behavior, Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ.Greenspan, Stanley I. 1997. The Growth of the Mind and the Endangered Origins of Intelligence, Addison Wesley Longman, Ma.Greenspan, Stanley I. 2001. The Role of Emotions in the Growth of Mind, trabajo en proceso.Hacker, P. 2001 The Conceptual Framework III: Emotion and Volition, trabajo en proceso.Héller, Agnes. 1987. Teoría de los sentimientos, Barcelona, Fontamara.Ludwig. 1967. Zettel, Oxford, G. E. M. Anscombe y G. H. von Wright, Basil Blackwell.Ludwig. 1999. Investigaciones filosóficas, Madrid, Altaya.Marchant, L. y Nishida, T. (eds.). 1994. Great Ape Societies, Cambridge, Mass., Cambridge University Press.Messinger, D., A. Fogel y L. Dickson. 1997 “A Dynamic Systems Approach to Infant Facial Action”, en Russell, J. y J. Fernández-Dols (eds.), The Psychology of Facial Expression, Cambridge, Mass., Cambridge University Press.Oyama, Susan. 2000. The Ontogeny of Information: Developmental Systems and Evolution, NC, Duke University Press, Durham.Pinker, Steven. s/f. The Language Instinct, Nueva York, William Morrow.Savage Rumbaugh, E. S. et al. 1996. Language Perceived; Paniscus Branches out, W. McGrew.Savage Rumbaugh, E. S., Shanker, S. G. y Taylor Talbot. 1998. Apes, Language, and the Human Mind, Oxford, Nueva York, Oxford University Press.Shanker, Stuart G. 1997. “Descartes´ Legacy: The Mechanist/Vitalist Debates”, en The philosophy of Science, Logic and Mathematics in the Twentieth Century, vol. 9, The Routledge History of Philosophy, Routledge, Londres, G. H. R. Parkinson y S. G. Shanker.Solomon, Robert. 1983. The Passions: The Myth and Nature of Human Emotion, Garden City, Nueva York, University of Notre Dame Press.Spinoza, Baruch. 1992. Ethics, Treatise on the Emendation of Intellect and Selected Letters, traducción de Samuel Shirley, Indianapolis, Indiana, Hackett Publishing Company.Talbot, Taylor. 1992. Mutual Misunderstanding: Scepticism and the Theorizing of Language and Interpretation, Londres, Routledge.Vigotsky, Lev S. 1999. “The Teaching about Emotions - Historical Philosophical Studies-, en Rieber, Robert W., The Collected Works of L.S. Vigotsky, vol. 6, Kluwer Academic, Wittgenstein.Wilson, E. O. 1998. Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, Nueva York, Random Hous
Beauty for the Present: Mill, Arnold, Ruskin and Aesthetic Education
No full textThe present thesis examines the idea of aesthetic education of three eminent Victorians: John Stuart Mill, Matthew Arnold and John Ruskin. By focusing on the essence of what they meant with ‘the cultivation of the beautiful’ and, more importantly, the way their ideas of beauty informed their criticism of society, my study aims to contribute to our understanding of the idea of aesthetic education in the Victorian context and, further, to participate in a recent debate about the nature of beauty and aesthetic education.
Chapter One focuses on John Stuart Mill’s concept of ‘feeling’ in a series of essays. I will demonstrate how Mill’s idea of ‘aesthetic education’ was an ‘education of feelings,’ and moreover, how this idea was integrated into his literary criticism, his later critique of democratisation, his description of an ideal liberal society and even his own style of writing. Chapter Two contains a comparative study of Matthew Arnold and Friedrich Schiller. Through a rereading of Arnold, I will argue that his idea of aesthetic education is essentially Schillerian and that their resemblance consists primarily in their stress on the importance of aesthetic unity for modern life, which was becoming increasingly fragmentary and multitudinous. Chapter Three examines John Ruskin’s idea of aesthetic education and concentrates particularly on the cultivation of perception. Perception, as I shall show, was pivotal in Ruskin’s idea of aesthetic education. Just as what happened in Mill and Arnold, the emphasis on the education of seeing continued from his early writings well into his art and social criticisms. It not only differentiated him from his fellow art critics; the conviction that people should perceive with a pure heart also enabled him to link observation of artistic details with moral criticism of contemporary society and, thereby, to turn the cultivation of the beautiful into a moral-aesthetic experience
Deuterium NMR and x-ray crystallographic studies of guest and host motions in the thiourea/1, 4-di-tert-butylbenzene inclusion compound
No full textDeuterium nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra and spin-lattice relaxation times are used to investigate the guest and host molecular dynamics of solid 1,4-di-tert-butylbenzene-d4 (DTBB-d4), 1,4-di-tert-butylbenzene-d18 (DTBB-d18), the thiourea/ 1,4-di-tert-butylbenzene-d4 inclusion compound (TU/DTBB-d4), the thiourea/ 1,4-di-tert-butylbenzene-d22 inclusion compound (TU/DTBB-d22), the thiourea-d4/1,4-di-tert-butylbenzene inclusion compound (TU-d4/DTBB), and thiourea-d4 (TU-d4). X-ray crystallographic studies of TU/DTBB-d4 have been carried out at 291 K. In solid DTBB the phenyl ring is essentially static whereas the tert-butyl groups are undergoing rapid reorientation of both methyl and tert-butyl groups. Attempts to analyze the H-2 spectra and T1 data for DTBB-d18 suggest that the dynamics of the methyl and tert-butyl groups are nearly equivalent, and as a result, a satisfactory analysis, yielding methyl and tert-butyl rotational activation energies, was not possible. X-ray diffraction results for TU/DTBB-d4 suggest that, at 291 K, the phenyl ring is occupying three nearly equivalent sites. The H-2 NMR line shapes between 186 and 392 K were interpreted using a model in which the phenyl ring is rapidly flipping between three positions, with one position less favored, At 296 and 186 K the populations are 0.81:1.00:1.00 and 0.20:1.00.1.00, respectively. Relaxation times obtained between 111 and 322 K show no minimum, supporting the assumption of very rapid phenyl ring reorientation. For TU/DTBB-d22 a high-temperature T1 minimum is well-defined, and a second minimum, corresponding to tert-butyl group rotation, is reached at the lowest attainable temperatures. Line-shape simulations of the spectrum at 77 K yield methyl and tert-butyl group rotational rates of 1.0 x 10(3) and 2.0 x 10(6) s-1, respectively. Analysis of the higher temperature spectra (109-172 K) and T1 data (167-300 K) yield methyl rotation activation energies of 12.7 and 12.3 kJ/mol, respectively. Deuterium line-shape studies of the thiourea dynamics in TU-d4 and TU-d4/DTBB yield activation energies for 180-degrees flips about the C=S bond of 47 and 46 kJ/mol, respectively.PT: J; CR: 1974, INT TABLES XRAY CRYS, V4 ARONSON M, 1981, CHEM PHYS, V63, P349 ATWOOD JL, 1984, INCLUSION COMPOUNDS, V1 BECKMANN P, 1979, J MAGN RESON, V36, P199 BECKMANN P, 1981, CHEM PHYS, V63, P359 BECKMANN PA, 1984, J MAGN RESON, V59, P63 BLOEMBERGEN N, 1948, PHYS REV, V73, P679 CANNAROZZI GM, 1991, J PHYS CHEM-US, V95, P1525 CLEMENT R, 1974, J CHEM SOC CHEM COMM, P654 CLEMENT R, 1977, J CHEM PHYS, V67, P5381 COLLINS MJ, 1989, J PHYS CHEM-US, V93, P7495 DAVIS JH, 1976, CHEM PHYS LETT, V42, P390 DAVIS JH, 1991, ISOTOPES PHYSICAL BI, V2, CH2 DRAVERS MA, 1980, CRYST STRUCT COMMUN, V9, P951 ELCOMBE MM, 1968, ACTA CRYSTALLOGR A, V24, P410 FLOVENICIO F, 1976, ACTA CRYSTALLOGR B, V32, P2480 GABE EJ, 1981, ACTA CRYSTALLOGR B, V37, P197 GABE EJ, 1989, J APPL CRYSTALLOGR, V22, P384 GELERINTER E, 1990, J PHYS CHEM-US, V94, P5391 GELERINTER E, 1990, J PHYS CHEM-US, V94, P8845 GOPAL R, 1989, ACTA CRYSTALLOGR C, V45, P257 GREENFIELD MS, 1987, J MAGN RESON, V72, P89 GRIFFIN RG, 1981, METHOD ENZYMOL, V72, P108 GRIFFITH EAH, 1972, CAN J CHEM, V50, P2972 GRUWEL MLH, 1990, Z NATURFORSCH A, V45, P55 HEATON NJ, 1989, J AM CHEM SOC, V111, P3211 HEYES SJ, 1990, MAGN RESON CHEM S, V37 HEYES SJ, 1991, J PHYS CHEM-US, V95, P1547 HOUGH E, 1978, J CHEM SOC DA, P15 HUFFMAN JC, 1990, INORG CHEM, V19, P2749 IKEDA R, 1989, J PHYS CHEM-US, V93, P7315 IWASAKI F, 1979, ACTA CRYSTALLOGR B, V35, P2099 IWASAKI F, 1980, ACTA CRYSTALLOGR B, V36, P1700 JUNGK AE, 1971, CHEM BER, V104, P3289 KENNEDY MA, 1991, J MAGN RESON, V91, P301 KOERFER M, 1989, Z NATURFORSCH A, V44, P1177 KRAVERS MA, 1979, CRYST STRUCT COMMUN, V8, P427 KRAVERS MA, 1980, CRYST STRUCT COMMUN, V9, P955 LIFSHITZ E, 1986, J PHYS CHEM SOLIDS, V47, P1045 LOWERY MD, 1990, J AM CHEM SOC, V112, P4212 MACK JW, 1991, J PHYS CHEM-US, V95, P4207 MAGDOFF BS, 1951, ACTA CRYSTALLOGR, V4, P176 MCDANIEL PL, 1988, J PHYS CHEM-US, V92, P626 MEIROVITCH E, 1987, J PHYS CHEM-US, V91, P5014 NISHIKIORI S, 1990, J PHYS CHEM-US, V94, P8098 OK JH, 1989, J PHYS CHEM-US, V93, P7618 OREILLY DE, 1971, J CHEM PHYS, V54, P1304 POLSON JM, 1991, J CHEM PHYS, V94, P3381 POUPKO R, 1989, J AM CHEM SOC, V111, P6094 POUPKO R, 1991, J PHYS CHEM-US, V95, P407 RATCLIFFE CI, 1990, J PHYS CHEM-US, V94, P152 ROESSLER G, 1989, BER BUNSEN GEN PHYS, V93, P1241 ROY AK, 1990, PROGR NMR SPECTROSCO, V22 SPIESS HW, 1980, J CHEM PHYS, V72, P6755 SPIESS HW, 1985, ADV POLYM SCI, V66, P23 TAKEMOTO K, 1984, INCLUSION COMPOUNDS, V2, CH2 TORCHIA DA, 1981, J MAGN RESON, V42, P381 WASYLISHEN RE, COMMUNICATION WENDOLOSKI JJ, 1990, SCIENCE, V247, P431 WITTEBORT RJ, 1987, J CHEM PHYS, V86, P5411 ZAMIR S, 1991, J CHEM PHYS, V94, P5939; NR: 61; TC: 14; J9: J PHYS CHEM; PG: 9; GA: HY322Source type: Electronic(1
An Open Framework for Integrating Widely Distributed Hypermedia Resources
No full textThe success of the WWW has served as an illustration of how hypermedia functionality can enhance access to large amounts of distributed information. However, the WWW and many other distributed hypermedia systems offer very simple forms of hypermedia functionality which are not easily applied to existing applications and data formats, and cannot easily incorporate alternative functions which would aid hypermedia navigation to and from existing documents that have not been developed with hypermedia access in mind. This paper describes the extension to a distributed environment of the open hypermedia functionality of the Microcosm system, which is designed to support the provision of hypermedia access to a wide range of source material and application, and to offer straightforward extension of the system to incorporate new forms of information access
Unifying Distributed Processing and Open Hypertext through a Heterogeneous Communication Model
No full textA successful distributed open hypermedia system can be characterised by a scaleable architecture which is inherently distributed. While the architects of distributed hypermedia systems have addressed the issues of providing and retrieving distributed resources, they have often neglected to design systems with the inherent capability to exploit the distributed processing of this information. The research presented in this paper describes the construction and use of an open hypermedia system concerned equally with both of these facets
To help aging populations, classify organismal senescence
No full textComprehensive disease classification and staging is required to address unmet needs of aging populations</jats:p
Defining an ageing-related pathology, disease or syndrome:International Consensus Statement
No full textAround the world, individuals are living longer, but an increased average lifespan does not always equate to an increased health span. With advancing age, the increased prevalence of ageing-related diseases can have a significant impact on health status, functional capacity and quality of life. It is therefore vital to develop comprehensive classification and staging systems for ageing-related pathologies, diseases and syndromes. This will allow societies to better identify, quantify, understand and meet the healthcare, workforce, well-being and socioeconomic needs of ageing populations, whilst supporting the development and utilisation of interventions to prevent or to slow, halt or reverse the progression of ageing-related pathologies. The foundation for developing such classification and staging systems is to define the scope of what constitutes an ageing-related pathology, disease or syndrome. To this end, a consensus meeting was hosted by the International Consortium to Classify Ageing-Related Pathologies (ICCARP), on February 19, 2024, in Cardiff, UK, and was attended by 150 recognised experts. Discussions and voting were centred on provisional criteria that had been distributed prior to the meeting. The participants debated and voted on these. Each criterion required a consensus agreement of ≥ 70% for approval. The accepted criteria for an ageing-related pathology, disease or syndrome were (1) develops and/or progresses with increasing chronological age; (2) should be associated with, or contribute to, functional decline or an increased susceptibility to functional decline and (3) evidenced by studies in humans. Criteria for an ageing-related pathology, disease or syndrome have been agreed by an international consortium of subject experts. These criteria will now be used by the ICCARP for the classification and ultimately staging of ageing-related pathologies, diseases and syndromes
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