15,520 research outputs found
Person-centred advocacy: Some ethical issues
No full textIn the second of two articles on advocacy for people with dementia Mike Fox with Lesley Wilson considers some of the ethical issues arising from advocacy work within a residential home that was due to close
From the Roman Republic to the American Revolution: readings of Cicero in the political thought of James Wilson
No full textAs a classical scholar and prominent founding father, James Wilson was at once statesman, judge, and political thinker, who read Cicero as an example worthy of emulation and as a philosopher whose theory could be applied to his own age. Classical reception studies have focused on questions of liberty, civic virtue, and constitutionalism in the American founding, and historians have also noted Wilson’s importance in American history and thought. Wilson’s direct engagement with Cicero’s works, however, and their significance in the formulation of his own philosophy has been long overlooked. My thesis argues that Wilson’s viewpoint was largely based on his readings of Cicero and can only be properly understood within this context. In the first two chapters of my thesis I demonstrate that Wilson not only possessed a wide-ranging knowledge of the classics in general, but also that he borrowed from Cicero’s writings and directly engaged with the texts themselves. Building upon this foundation, chapters three and four examine Cicero’s perspective on popular sovereignty and civic virtue, situate Wilson’s interpretations within contemporary discussions of Roman politics, and analyse the main ways in which he adapts Cicero’s arguments to his own era. Wilson retains a broader faith in the common people than seen in Cicero’s opinions, and he abstracts from Cicero a doctrine of sovereignty as an indivisible principle that is absent in the text; nevertheless, Cicero’s conception of a legitimate state and his insistence on the role of the people provided the foundation for Wilson’s thought and ultimately for his legitimization of the American Revolution. At the same time, like Cicero, Wilson views the stability of the state as resting in the personal virtue of the individual. While his enlightenment philosophy imparts optimism to his conception of the good citizen, his definition of virtue closely follows that of Cicero. As the final chapter of my thesis concludes, their individual interpretations of these theories of popular consent and virtue were instrumental in forming Cicero’s and Wilson’s justifications of civil disobedience
Recollections of a visit to Port-Phillip, Australia, in 1852-55 / by William Wilson Dobie.
No full textFerguson, J.A. Australia, 9180; Electronic reproduction. Canberra, A.C.T. : National Library of Australia, 2010.; Library's copy NK3882 has photograph of the author fixed below dedication.; Rex Nan Kivell Collection NK3882
NEDtalks 2017 - Dr. Brandy Wilson
No full textBrandy T. Wilson, PhD, is the author of The Palace Blues: A Novel , a 2015 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in Lesbian Fiction and winner of the Alice B. Readers’ Lavender Award. She specializes in fiction and creative nonfiction writing, LGBTQ+ literature and Women’s and Gender Studies. Wilson was an Astraea Emerging Lesbian Writers Fund Finalist, a Lambda Literary Retreat Emerging LGBTQ+ Voices Fellow in fiction, and a recipient of three Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference scholarships. Her work has appeared in Robert Olen Butler’s From Where You Dream, Ninth Letter, G.R.I.T.S. Girls Raised in the South, Pank Magazine, Wee Folk and Wise, and Lumina among others. She teaches in the English Department at the University of Memphis and lives in Memphis with her wife and son
Review: Mischief Making: Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Art, and the Seriousness of Play
No full textBook review of Mischief Making: Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Art, and the Seriousness of Play by Nicola Levell. University of British Columbia Press distributed by the University of Chicago Press, December 2021. ISBN 978-0-7748-6736-8 (pbk.), $32.95.
Reviewed March 2022 by Freyja T. Catton, Independent artist, author, and librarian, [email protected]
Collaboration in Iranian Scientific Publications
No full textThis study looks at international collaboration in Iranian scientific publications through the ISI Science Citation Index® (SCI) for the years 1995-1999, inclusive. These results are compared to and contrasted with the earlier findings for the periods covering 1985-1994 (Osareh & Wilson 2000). The results of Iran's increasing productivity over a 15-year period are presented. Iran doubled its output in the first two five-year periods and increased 2.8-fold from the second to the third five-year period. The rise in Iran's scientific publication output is due mainly to factors such as the ending of the war, better economic conditions, recent changes in the Iranian government's policy, basic changes in the political environment brought about by the Reformers, expansion of the Iranian presses for national publications, and the recent return of a large number of students trained overseas through government scholarships. External changes also account for the increased productivity, e.g., the acceptance of three Iranian source journals by the SCI, increased access to international databases through the Internet and better electronic communication facilities for international collaboration. One of the most important and significant factors that caused this dramatic rise seems to be the government's research policies in the last few years. Since 1999, the Iran Science, Research and Technology Ministry, has encouraged researchers to publish their non-Farsi language articles in highly ranked international scientific journals, for example, by giving prizes to researchers who publish their articles in ISI-ranked journals
Hidden mutualities : Faustian themes in the postcolonial
No full textHidden mutualities link the work of major postcolonial writers with Marlowe's drama of
the Faustian pact - the manipulation of the material world in exchange for the soul -
written as the 'scientific' world view was emerging which accompanied the imperial
expansion of Europe and has determined the economic and social structures of the
colonial and post-colonial world.
This comparative study brings together researches in widely different fields to show
how Doctor Faustus reflects a Gnostic / Hermetic tradition marginalized within the
dominant European power structures. It shows initially how these ideas were crystallized
by Ficino and Pico from the available texts of the Corpus Hermeticum, and how they
relate to what has become known about Gnosticism and Simon Magus. Combined with
the alchemical and cabalistic traditions they form a basis for the study of Renaissance
'Magus' figures such as Trithemius, Reuchlin, Agrippa, Paracelsus or Dee, who are
reflected in Faust and in Shakespeare's Prospero in The Tempest.
The second part investigates the dual legacy of the Magus. A counterpoint between a
law-governed objective material world and an occult visionary pursuit of the divine
potential of the human imagination, in which the Gnostic / Hermetic tradition ironically
became marginalized by the technological science it had inspired, is traced through the
examples of Kepler, Fludd, Newton, Blake, Kipling, Crowley, Yeats, Pauli and Jung.
In the third part, textual analysis reveals how attention to these Faustian themes
opens new critical perspectives in appreciating the works of postcolonial writers, in
particular Dimetos by Athol Fugard, Disappearance by David Dabydeen, Omeros by
Derek Walcott, and the novels of Wilson Harris, all of which stress the importance of the
creative imagination over mimesis
Theodore Roosevelt in the eyes of the Allies
No full textAs Woodrow Wilson traveled across the Atlantic to negotiate the peace after World War I, Theodore Roosevelt died in Long Island. His passing launched a wave of commemoration in the United States that did not go unrivaled in Europe. Favorable tributes inundated the European press and coursed through the rhetoric of political speeches. This article examines the sentiment of Allied nations toward Roosevelt and argues that his posthumous image came to symbolize American intervention in the war and, subsequently, the reservations with the Treaty of Versailles, both endearing positions to the Allies that fueled tributes. Historians have long depicted Woodrow Wilson's arrival in Europe as the most celebrated reception of an American visitor, but Roosevelt's death and memory shared equal pomp in 1919 and endured long after Wilson departed. Observing this epochal moment in world history from the unique perspective of Roosevelt's passing extends the already intricate view of transnational relations
Supplementary_material – Supplemental material for Altered neural dynamics in occipital cortices serving visual-spatial processing in heavy alcohol users
No full textSupplemental material, Supplementary_material for Altered neural dynamics in occipital cortices serving visual-spatial processing in heavy alcohol users by Brandon J Lew, Alex I Wiesman, Michael T Rezich and Tony W Wilson in Journal of Psychopharmacology</p
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