636 research outputs found
The European dimension in primary schools
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Artful living and the eradication of worry in Søren Kierkegaard's interpretation of Matthew 6:24-34
No full textDanish thinker Søren Kierkegaard published fourteen discourses, across four collections, on Matthew 6:24-34. The repeated readings of the biblical text, whose themes include the choice between God and mammon, worry, what it means to consider the birds and lilies, and how to seek first the kingdom of God, converge with Kierkegaard’s interest in anxiety, despair, worry, subjectivity, indirect communication, choice, the moment, and life before God. Accordingly, the discourses make connections with his larger works, elucidate frequently explored Kierkegaardian themes in recent scholarship, and contribute to his critique of nineteenth-century Copenhagen. Additionally, the collections present an interpretation of each verse and phrase of Matthew’s text and, held up against modern Matthew scholarship, they correlate with and contribute to Sermon on the Mount and New Testament studies. Kierkegaard’s reading of Matthew also holds implications for the practice of biblical interpretation as it promotes the importance of awareness of sin, interestedness, and appropriation as central to proper reading. His emphasis on Christ as the primary exemplar of Matthew’s text adds an additional Christological element to his hermeneutic. Furthermore, the discourses serve as spiritual treatises which provide the reader with theological terminology to help confront the problem of worry and suffering. In light of a human being’s distinctiveness as imago Dei, Kierkegaard elucidates ways an individual may respond artfully to the ongoing possibility of worry, a possibility which the discourses connect with Christian anthropology and external labels associated with possessions and status. The Matthew 6 discourses intimate Kierkegaard’s sympathy with classic Christian spirituality and, in combination with the cultural-ecclesiastical critique, the creative exegesis, and the in-depth analysis of the cause of and cure for worry, his work emerges as an excellent example of spiritual theology
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
The emergence of sustainability culture and the sustainability practitioner
No full textIn this thesis, I propose that sustainability is a new emergent cultural phenomenon – a new “dreaming” - arising from our conscious and unconscious actions, our relationships and our connection to place. Such a culture of sustainability is essential to support the vision of a sustainable global society. I further propose that the way sustainability is practised, both personally and professionally, has significant potential for fostering the emergence of sustainability culture, and that a mature sustainability culture, in turn, will support our myriad actions towards sustainability. The above propositions have a significant caveat: emergence, as understood in complexity theory, is not predictable. The current unsustainable paradigm of global development is also an emergent phenomenon. Real sustainability is therefore not inevitable, simply because a vision has been articulated, and strategies and actions implemented.
I also contend that as sustainability is holistic in conception, it requires a holistic approach to practice, in addition to the mechanistic prescriptions common to much contemporary sustainability practice. To move towards a holistic approach to practice requires a different type of practitioner from the conventional practitioner: more generalist than specialist, drawing on their “inner sustainability culture” when faced with complex sustainability problems, capable of working across scales, open to discovery of new patterns, and mindful of the degree of complexity in any practice setting.
In recognition of the need for a new cultural paradigm of sustainability, and drawing on the concept of emergence as described by complexity theory, I have designed this research project to investigate the following four themes:
1. Culture as an emergent quality of complex adaptive socio-technical systems;
2. The connections between human action and emergent system qualities;
3. The prospects for the emergence of a culture of sustainability; and
4. The implications of emergent sustainability culture for the sustainability practitioner.
In this thesis, I argue that we need a model of sustainability culture that accommodates the emergence phenomenon and new ways of emergence-based sustainability practice. I therefore propose an Emergence Model of Sustainability Culture to illustrate the relationship between sustainability, culture and the emergence phenomenon, and I articulate four Emergence Patterns for Sustainability Practice as a working framework for emergence-oriented sustainability practice across different generic practice settings in simple, complicated, complex and chaotic space. I hope that sustainability practitioners will find my Emergence Model and Emergence Patterns to be helpful in progressing to a more considered and deeper approach to sustainability practice than contemporary approaches, especially where sustainability problems are complex and difficult. In this way we may continue to develop a culture of sustainability as a new “dreaming” and the practice of sustainability will progress further to service humanity’s compelling need
Feminidad y sexualidad: la mujer como símbolo de corrupción en El Monje de Matthew G. Lewis
No full textLa literatura gótica por excelencia se ha caracterizado por sus personajes complejos, por una ambientación lúgubre y móviles transgresores de las normas sociales rayando en el tabú. En el caso particular de la obra El Monje (2018) de Matthew G. Lewis, el autor rompe las cadenas de una sociedad hundida en el dogma católico y sus implicaciones, al crear protagonistas que representan el pecado original y la corrupción moral, llevándolos al límite de sus deseos; estrechamente relacionados con el poder, la identidad y la sexualidad retorcida.Gothic literature par excellence has been characterized by its complex characters, gloomy settings, and transgressive motives that border on taboo. In the particular case of Matthew G. Lewis's The Monk (2018), the author breaks the chains of a society steeped in Catholic dogma and its implications by creating protagonists who represent original sin and moral corruption, pushing them to the limits of their desires, which are closely related to power, identity, and twisted sexuality.Introducción 6
Capítulo I
El lugar de lo femenino y lo sexual en la tradición medieval católica
Eva María y la bruja 11
1.1 El arquetipo de Eva y el imaginario de María 12
1.2 Lilith y la sexualidad 16
1.3 La figura de la bruja demonización del saber femenino en la Baja Edad Media 19
1.4 La sexualización del mal en el cuerpo femenino 24
Capítulo II
Simbología gótica El Monje 27
2.1 Contextualización histórica y literaria del gótico 28
2.1.1 El espacio gótico Una guía sensorial de lo terrorífico 32
2.1.2 La duplicidad del sujeto un espejo roto de la identidad 34
2.1.3 El ocultamiento El núcleo de la novela gótica 35
2.2 Arquetipos femeninos en el gótico entre la heroína maniquea la víctima cotidiana y la villana subversiva 36
2.3 La sexualidad gótica 40
Capítulo III
La tríada femenina Matilde Inés y Antonia 45
3.1 La bruja andrógina Matilde como agente de transgresión 46
3.1.1 Desplazamiento del eje fálico reconfiguración de la autoridad simbólica 48
3.1.2 Matilde como figura lilítica 50
3.2 De Eva a Inés la herencia del pecado y la expiación de la carne 53
3.2.1 El claustro y la negación del cuerpo 54
3.2.2 La iteración del mito y la condena del deseo 56
3.3 Antonia Objetificación mariana 58
3.3.1 Antonia Víctima predestinada 60
3.3.2 La absolución del pecado masculino y el cuerpo como altar 62
Capítulo IV
El dominio y su fractura masculinidad cuerpo y pecado 65
4.1 La masculinidad ejemplar 66
4.2 El deseo masculino pulsiones de lujuria 70
4.3 La transgresión masculina 74
4.3.1 El confinamiento de Eva El castigo del deseo 75
4.3.2 Ambrosio el monstruo creado por el hombre 78
Conclusiones 83
Referencias 90PregradoLicenciado(a) en Literatura y Lengua Castellan
Accounting for disaster : small business recovery in North Carolina after Hurricanes Matthew and Florence
No full textThis electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Thesis: M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 2019Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-153).In an era of climate change, the rural, coastal plains of North Carolina might foretell the increased economic precariousness of coastal communities beset by stronger hurricanes and more frequent flooding. In 2016, Hurricane Matthew flooded much of North Carolina's southeastern region, inundating thousands of homes and businesses. Two years later, Hurricane Florence interrupted the state's recovery, precipitating even greater damage. Little academic work focuses on the state's recovery from the two storms, and none to date tracks the recovery of its small businesses. These businesses are important sources of employment and wages in the state's communities, yet compared to households and public facilities, they qualify for fewer sources of economic relief, and almost all of that relief consists of debt.These businesses also already bear the brunt of ongoing negative trends: increasing economic stratification between small and large firms nationwide as well as sustained rates of rural depopulation and divestment. I focus on the supply and use of small business recovery capital in order to diagnose unmet need after the hurricanes and make recommendations to foster business recovery in North Carolina after these and future disasters. On the capital "supply side," I describe slow, sometimes arbitrary and occasionally risky federal disaster recovery programs geared toward small businesses. These contrast with the relatively sophisticated, efficient system of capital absorption below the state level, which pivots around a network of distributed, community-based small business development centers and lending intermediaries.On the capital "demand side," I theorize the vulnerability of small businesses and seek to understand their financial and operational decision-making through interviews. Small businesses, which are expected to recover on their own financial merits through insurance, debt financing, and savings, must also rely on factors well beyond their control: the availability of affordable and rapid debt capital, the quick resurgence of local spending after a disaster, and the public resolution of market failures through limited grant funding. Absent significant improvements in the penetration of insurance, disaster credit, and hazard mitigation, these businesses will continue to face rising fixed costs, diminished access to credit, tighter operating margins, and a higher probability of failure.by Alexander Meeks.M.C.P.M.C.P. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Plannin
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ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP AND SUSTAINABILITY GOAL SETTING IN THE COMMUNITY
No full textLoss of biodiversity is a complex global scale problem that manifests in all ecological systems. That said many solutions are found at the individual and local scale and reside in the value that people place on nature. This research targets the local scale by improving coordination and collaboration between those involved in solutions. It also targets the individual scale by seeking to improve people’s relationships with the natural world. This dissertation research has been organized into three chapters.The first chapter is a case study that the first author will describe through the lens of a neutral facilitator and participant observer, will working towards a collaborative effort between local environmental entities to build environmental goals for the Pullman, Washington community. The co-author Dr. Allyson Beall King provided valuable insight for the theoretical and organizational framework of the paper.The second chapter is focused on understanding an individual’s interaction, relationship and perception to nature through survey implementation after a two-week restoration. The population sampled in this chapter were students from an introductory environmental science course, primarily from the Pacific Northwest. The co-authors, Dr. Allyson Beall King and Dr. Alexander Fremier provided valuable insight on organizational structure and revisions to the conceptual framework of the paper. Dr. Kira Carbonneau provided insight and mentorship on the statistical analysis and results of the chapter. The co-authors Dr. Alex Fremier and Dr. Allyson Beall King provided valuable revisions and feedback, as well as organizational restructuring of the chapter. Dr. Kira Carbonneau provided guidance on statistical analysis for the chapter.Chapter three will further investigate the similarities and differences between participants by grouping them based on the impact of the restoration activities. It will explore the practical application of using known preferences as a way for environmental practitioners to tailor their volunteering events. The co-author Dr. Craig Woodruff provided insight, mentorship, and revised the R-code package to complete the text-mining analysis for chapter 3. Dr. Allyson Beall King provided constructive revisions to the conceptual theory of the chapter
The reception of Qoheleth in a selection of rabbinic, patristic and nonconformist texts
No full textThe purpose of this thesis is to examine the reception of the text of Qoheleth in a selection of rabbinic, patristic and nonconformist literature. The differences in the act of reading, reception and response to this text in discrete
Judaic and Christian locations is examined. The source texts that are considered are Qoheleth Rabbah, Targum Qoheleth, Gregory of Nyssa's homilies and Matthew Henry's exposition on Ecclesiastes. The thesis further investigates historical and theological experiential influences on the reception of Qoheleth as portrayed by the source texts. The text of Qoheleth and its history of interpretation, and the value of
examining the reception of the text by specific readers from a variety of contexts are discussed in the first chapter. In the consecutive chapters the reception of Qoheleth by each source text is examined individually. The historical and
theological contexts of each source text are described, including literary traditions and exegetical principles.
In the detailed examination of the source texts, the textual structural challenges that Qoheleth poses and how and why
they are responded to by the author(s) of the source texts are analysed. The final chapter compares and contrasts the main issues raised by the differing readings of Qoheleth, including the identity of Solomon and the view of God, and also, the differing contextual perspectives in which the reception process took place. Finally, a brief examination of a modem reader's (Michael V Fox') reception of Qoheleth is contrasted with that of earlier readers of the text. The manner in which the potential effects of Qoheleth are actualised and the process of meaning production varies between readers, being conditioned by their historical horizon
Muscle-tendon mechanics resolve the trade-off between energy-efficient and robust locomotion
No full textThis study explores the trade-off between energy-efficient and robust locomotion in muscle-actuated locomotion. We found that muscle-tendon intrinsic mechanics resolve the trade-off between energy-efficient and robust locomotion by solely relying on intrinsic mechanics and a feedforward stimulation strategy that optimized for energy efficiency.
Corresponding author: Matthew Araz, [email protected] 
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