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Happy-Go-Lucky Revisited: A Response to Basileios Kroustallis
No full textp/article/view/244/825 In a provocative recent essay Basileios Kroustallis argues that the film Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh, 2008) provides us with a valuable philosophical thought experiment concerning the nature of happiness (Kroustallis 2012). In particular, he takes the film to offer a defense of ‘whole life satisfaction ’ conceptions of happiness, but to also enrich our understanding of such happiness by showing us that it seems to come at the ‘price of eccentricity’. While I agree with his conviction that some films can supply philosophical thought experiments, and I also share the judgment that Poppy, the main character in Happy-Go-Lucky, is to some extent ‘eccentric’, I disagree with his philosophical arguments and his interpretation of the film. As will come out shortly, by my lights Poppy’s eccentricity is mild compared to the eccentricity we find in Kroustallis’s essay. While I’m not sympathetic to Kroustallis’s claims, this isn’t to say that I think the film is devoid of important philosophical lessons. Th
Happy-Go-Lucky Revisited: A Response to Basileios Kroustallis
No full textThis is a response to: Kroustallis, B. (2012). ‘Film as Thought Experiment: A Happy-Go-Lucky Case?’ Film-Philosophy. 16:1, 72- 84. Available at: http://www.film-philosophy.com/index.php/f- p/article/view/244/82
Film as Thought Experiment: A Happy-Go-Lucky Case?
Full text linkCan some films be genuine thought experiments that challenge our commonsense intuitions? Certain filmic narratives and their mise-en-scène details reveal rigorous reasoning and counterintuitive outcomes on philosophical issues, such as skepticism or personal identity. But this philosophical façade may hide a mundane concern for entertainment. Unfamiliar narratives drive spectator entertainment, and every novel cinematic situation could be easily explained as part of a process that lacks motives of philosophical elucidation.
The paper inverses the above objection, and proposes that when the main cinematic character resists spectator engagement (a crucial source of cinematic entertainment), emotionally challenged spectators also question their commonsensical beliefs about his/her actions, and detect a conceptually novel situation as such.
A case study is Mike Leigh’s film Happy-Go-Lucky (2008), in which the main female character presents an unrelenting but eccentric version of 'feel good' happiness. Spectators gradually detect that the previously unexamined, commonsensical version of subjective happiness comes at the price of individual eccentricity, and that the choice of a subjective theory of happiness leads to consequences hitherto unacknowledged
Seals of Basileios Apokapes, protoproedros and doux of Edessa
No full textThe biography of Basileios Apokapes is much better known that background of his contemporaries. The chronics of Ioannis Scylitzes, Matt’eos Urhayec’i, Aristakes Lastivertc’i and his seals consist of main information about cursus honorum. The author published two seals in this article (Κύριε βοήθει Βασιλείῳ πρωτοπροέδρῳ καὶ δουκὶ ᾿Εδέσσης τῷ ᾿Αποκάπῃ). Present signets are dated c.1078–1083
Seals of Basileios Apokapes, protoproedros and doux of Edessa
No full textБиография Василия Апокапа известна гораздо лучше, чем биографии его современников. Он упоминается в хрониках Иоанна Скилицы, Матфея Эдесского, Аристакеса Ластивертци. Однако основную информацию об его карьере предоставляют печати. В статье публикуются две печати Василия Апокапа, которые датируются 1078–1083 гг.The biography of Basileios Apokapes is much better known that background of his contemporaries. The chronics of Ioannis Scylitzes, Matt’eos Urhayec’i, Aristakes Lastivertc’i and his seals consist of main information about cursus honorum. The author published two seals in this article (Κύριε βοήθει Βασιλείῳ πρωτοπροέδρῳ καὶ δουκὶ ᾿Εδέσσης τῷ ᾿Αποκάπῃ). Present signets are dated c.1078–1083
Film as Thought Experiment: A Happy-Go-Lucky Case?
No full textCan some films be genuine thought experiments that challenge our commonsense intuitions? Certain filmic narratives and their mise-en-scène details reveal rigorous reasoning and counterintuitive outcomes on philosophical issues, such as skepticism or personal identity. But this philosophical façade may hide a mundane concern for entertainment. Unfamiliar narratives drive spectator entertainment, and every novel cinematic situation could be easily explained as part of a process that lacks motives of philosophical elucidation.The paper inverses the above objection, and proposes that when the main cinematic character resists spectator engagement (a crucial source of cinematic entertainment), emotionally challenged spectators also question their commonsensical beliefs about his/her actions, and detect a conceptually novel situation as such.A case study is Mike Leigh's film Happy-Go-Lucky (2008), in which the main female character presents an unrelenting but eccentric version of 'feel good' happiness. Spectators gradually detect that the previously unexamined, commonsensical version of subjective happiness comes at the price of individual eccentricity, and that the choice of a subjective theory of happiness leads to consequences hitherto unacknowledged
About the temple of st. Sozon, "The house of st. Leontius" and the martyrium of Basileios in early middle ages cherson
No full textIn the article the attempt is made to give an analysis of known written sources in connection with public monuments, temples, monasteries in the
western part of Byzantine Cherson. In early Middle Ages here, near the defensive walls of the city, the temple of St. Sozon was placed, known from IXth century sources. Near to it, in the north-east corner of the city, in the end
of the IXth century the Western Basilica was built which can be identified with the church of St. Leontius of Cilicia. It was the main church of a female monastery with baptisterion, ossuarium, cemetery and nosokomeion. The
main subject of worship was the martyrium (place of martyrdom) of St. Basileios, the first bishop of Cherson. It is identified with the crypt and the eukterion in the northern corner of the fencing of the monastery near the antique
western defensive wall. The author explores the history of creation and the chronology of these monuments and gives an evaluation of their liturgical role and significance
Un nuovo canone mariano di Basilio Pegane? Riflessioni su una possibile identità di autore
No full textThe present paper provides a new critical edition of a recently edited canon in honour of the Theotokos. Transmitted by two manuscript witnesses – the Horologion MS Sinai, Greek 864 (IX-X, or maybe IX cent.) and a Theotokarion in Moscow, State Historical Museum, Syn. Greek 438 (299 Vlad.: 1021/1022 AD) –, the hymn has already been published in Livre d’heures du Sinaï (Sinaiticus graecus 864), [éd.] par Sœur M.(L.) AJJOUB (...), avec la collaboration de J. PARAMELLE (...), Paris 2004 (Sources chrétiennes, 486), but the editio princeps is based only on the codex Sinaiticus, where the canon’s text is obscured by numerous misspellings and is transmitted anonymously. By contrast, the codex Mosquensis, in a marginal note today hard to read, offers the name of the author, although incomplete (Βασίλειος Π[.]γ[...]). Besides the new edition – accompanied by an Italian translation and a commentary on the text –, this paper deals with some structural, stylistic, and lexical elements of the hymn, in order to investigate the possible identification of Basileios P[.]g[...], author of the canon edited here for the second time, and Basileios Peganes (Βασίλειος Πηγάνης), the hymnographer of another canon in honour of the Virgin, which has been edited elsewhere by the author of the present paper
Un antico inno per la traslazione a Bari delle reliquie di S. Nicola
No full textThis paper provides the first critical edition of a Byzantine hymn that concerns the translation of the relics of St. Nicholas from Myra to Bari that occurred on AD 1087. The hymn, an acephalous canon, survives on a single, fragmentary manuscript witness, now preserved in Grottaferrata (ms. Cryptensis Β.β.IV [= gr. 276]: first half of the 12th cent.). In addition to the critical edition, which is accompanied by an Italian translation and a commentary on the text, the paper deals with some structural, stylistic, and lexical elements of the hymn, in order to: investigate the possible identification and geographical localization of the author, an hymnographer most probably called Basileios; shed some new light on the origin of the annual liturgical commemoration (on May 9th) concerning the translation of St. Nicholas to Bari; and investigate the circumstances of the composition of the hymn. Furthermore, the paper gathers all the «minor» hymns that – as far as we know – are dedicated to the same, not very widespread, liturgical commemoration: in two appendices, the author provides the critical edition and an Italian translation of these texts
