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O contrato social de Thomas Hobbes: alcances e limites
No full textTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas. Programa de Pós-Graduação em FilosofiaO problema em questão diz respeito ao contrato que funda e legitima o Estado em Thomas Hobbes. Tendo como escopo questionar a possibilidade e/ou impossibilidade de nulidade do contrato social e assim verificar as implicações disto para o conceito de soberania hobbesiana. A leitura que impera na tradição de estudiosos da obra política de Hobbes, em especial do Leviathan, é a de um Estado no qual a soberania é absoluta e irrevogável. A interpretação do contrato firmado entre e, somente, entre os homens, deixando, portanto, o soberano de fora, ofereceria legitimidade a este para agir de forma absoluta e obrigaria ao súdito a obedecer de forma irrestrita. A hipótese que se busca sustentar remete à possibilidade de rompimento, desobediência e mais centralmente da nulidade contratual a partir do vício e/ou desrespeito de determinadas cláusulas fundamentais do contrato, visto se oporem às condições de validade do contrato social. Se isso puder ser sustentado desse modo, isto é, se Hobbes compartilhar mesmo de uma teoria forte da nulidade contratual e pela razão, como declinado acima, que achamos ser a correta, então, tal formulação implicaria em sua teoria uma reconsideração do conceito de soberania e obediência, haja vista o estabelecimento de certos vínculos fortes que condicionam as possibilidades de exigência, autoridade e poder da soberania. Portanto, concentra-se em encontrar uma explicação e/ou teorização da nulidade do contrato social e da sua consequência para a teoria da soberania e obediência hobbesiana
The Supreme Nonet. Book review of: "The Supremes": Essays on the current justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. By Barbara A. Perry
No full textThe Supreme Nonet. Book review of: "The Supremes": Essays on the current justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. By Barbara A. Perry. Peter Lang Publishing. 1999. Pp. 159. Reviewed by: Thomas E. BakerBaker, Thomas E.. (2001). The Supreme Nonet. Book review of: "The Supremes": Essays on the current justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. By Barbara A. Perry. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/168095
An open reply to "What is going on at the Library of Congress?" by Thomas Mann
No full textThis is an open response to a report by Thomas Mann at the Library of Congress concerning changes in cataloging. The author contends that, although the current changes at the Library of Congress are suspect, changes are imminent and experienced catalogers must offer positive suggestions for change, otherwise they will be ignored by management
Landsat MSS classification of fire fuel types in Wood Buffalo National Park, northern Canada
No full textJ1: Global Ecology & Biogeography Letters; M3: Article; Milne, David Franklin, Steven E. Wilson, Bradley A. Ghitter, Geoff Heathcott, Mark McCaffrey, Thomas M. Ow, Charlotte F. Y.; Source Information: Mar1994, Vol. 4 Issue 2, p33; Subject Term: FOREST fires; Author-Supplied Keyword: Canada (Wood Buffalo National Park); Author-Supplied Keyword: Forest fire; Author-Supplied Keyword: Fuel type classification; Author-Supplied Keyword: Landsat data; Number of Pages: 0p; Document Type: Articl
Thomas Mann’s “Mario und der Zauberer“: The magic of art and the magic of the charlatan.
No full textopenLa seguente tesi di laurea analizza il racconto di Thomas Mann “Mario und der Zauberer” pubblicato nel 1930 in Germania. Il racconto è costituito da due parti ed è ambientato in una località marittima italiana, dove, sulla base di quanto ci viene detto dal narratore che parla di caldo africano e clima sciovinista, si sta vivendo una sorta di regressione ad uno stadio precedente dell’umanità caratterizzato dal dominio dell’irrazionalità e della barbarie. Gli italiani costituiscono un gruppo coeso e unito da ideali di patria e di nazione che non risparmiano nemmeno i bambini. Il narratore straniero e la famiglia con cui è in vacanza sono vittime di una serie di fatti strani e, nonostante tali eventi procurino loro disagio, decidono comunque di rimanere e di non andarsene. La seconda parte della novella è caratterizzata dallo spettacolo del mago Cipolla che durante la sua performance fa una serie di trucchi di magia basati sull’ipnosi e sull’annientamento dell’Io di ogni singolo individuo. Dopo che Cipolla ha ipnotizzato il cameriere Mario e gli ha fatto credere di essere Silvestra, la donna amata, Mario bacia il mago. Una volta risvegliatosi dallo stato di ipnosi, Mario si rende conto di quanto è successo e spara a Cipolla. Nel pubblico esplode il panico e il narratore parla di una fine fatale, ma liberatoria.
Dopo aver inquadrato l’opera, aver delineato le fonti della stessa e le varie letture a cui essa è stata sottoposta dai critici nel primo capitolo, si è cercato nel secondo capitolo di analizzare la dialettica arte e spirito che costituisce un Leitmotiv dell’intera opera manniana. Thomas Mann si è confrontato per tutta la vita con questi due aspetti che ha cercato di conciliare nel tentativo di fare un’arte morale. A quest’arte che prende in considerazione la morale si contrappone l’arte dell’artista demagogo Richard Wagner da cui Thomas Mann, soprattutto a seguito della ricezione della critica a Wagner da parte di Nietzsche, ha cercato di allontanarsi. Nel secondo capitolo si analizzano dunque le opere nietzschiane dove emerge la critica a Wagner, così come una serie di saggi manniani, tra cui primo fra tutti “Geist und Kunst”, in cui Thomas Mann ha cercato di opporre all’artista ciarlatano un letterato che facesse letteratura tenendo conto dello spirito. L’arte della modernità è tuttavia un’arte decadente che rischia di creare un rapporto tra artista e pubblico che è comparabile a quello tra leader e massa nei regimi dittatoriali, dove l’artista seduce il pubblico e lo ammalia. Con l’estetizzazione della politica, che si viene ad accentuare negli anni Venti del Novecento, il politico diventa demagogo e utilizza le stesse arti ciarlatanesche dell’artista decadente per eccellenza, ovvero Wagner. Nel terzo capitolo si è cercato quindi di far emergere come Cipolla non rappresenti soltanto un artista malato, bensì anche l’immagine di un leader fascista che impone la propria volontà di potenza. In questa parte si è voluto dunque far notare come la novella possa essere interpretata dal punto di vista politico come un avvertimento da parte dell’autore di Lubecca nei confronti della realtà fascista. Nella spiaggia di Torre di Venere è possibile ravvisare una massa fascista, così come alla performance del ciarlatano e mago Cipolla possiamo vedere un leader che usa la psicologia di massa, di cui si parla in riferimento alle opere di Freud e di Le Bon, per imporre la propria volontà su un pubblico di individui a loro volta trasformatisi in massa. Secondo questa lettura la morte di Cipolla rappresenterebbe dunque la caduta del Fascismo e potremmo vedere l'opera come espressione della volontà dell'autore di mettere in guardia contro quella realtà fascista nel rinnovato tentativo di riconciliare arte e spirito.The following thesis analyses Thomas Mann's short story “Mario und der Zauberer”, which was published in Germany in 1930. The story consists of two parts and is set in an Italian seaside resort, where, based on what we are told by the narrator who speaks of African heat and chauvinistic atmosphere, there is a sort of regression to an earlier stage of the humanity characterised by the dominance of irrationality and barbarism. Italians form a cohesive group united by ideals of fatherland and nation that do not spare even children. The foreign narrator and his family are here in holiday and are victims of a series of unusual events. These events annoy them, but they decide however to stay and not to leave. The second part of the story presents the magician Cipolla performing a series of magic tricks based on hypnosis and the annihilation of the personality of each individual. After Cipolla hypnotises the waiter Mario and makes him believe he is Silvestra, the woman he loves, Mario kisses the magician. Once he awakens from his state of hypnosis, Mario realises what has happened and shoots at the magician. Panic explodes in the audience and the narrator speaks of a fatal but liberating end.
After the presentation of the story, its summary, its sources and the different interpretations of the story in the first chapter, the second chapter attempts to analyse the dialectic of art and spirit that constitutes a leitmotif of Mann’s entire oeuvre. Thomas Mann was confronted throughout his entire life with these two aspects, which he tried to reconcile in order to make a moral art. This art that takes morality into account is the opposite of the art of the demagogic artist Richard Wagner, from whom Thomas Mann, especially after the reception of Nietzsche's critique of Wagner, tried to distance himself. The second chapter analyses Nietzsche's works in which we can see the Nietzschean critique of Wagner, as well as a series of essays of Thomas Mann, first and foremost "Geist und Kunst", in which the author of Lübeck tries to substitute the charlatan artist with a writer who makes an art that takes into account the spirit.
The art of modernity is, however, a decadent art that risks creating a relationship between artist and public that is comparable to that between leader and mass in dictatorial regimes where the artist seduces the public and bewitches it. With the aestheticization of politics, which becomes more pronounced in the 1920s, the politician becomes a demagogue and uses the same charlatan arts as the decadent artist par excellence, Richard Wagner. The purpose of the third chapter is to show how Cipolla not only represents a sick artist, but also the image of a fascist leader who imposes his will to power. In this section, it is therefore pointed out that the story can be interpreted politically as a warning by the author of Lübeck against the Fascism. At the seaside of Torre di Venere we can see a fascist mass and during the performance of the charlatan and magician Cipolla we can see a leader who uses mass psychology, that is explained in the presentation of the works of Freud and Le Bon, to impose his will on an audience of individuals who have themselves become a mass. According to this reading Cipolla's death would represent the fall of the Fascism. We could see the short story as an expression of the author's aim to warn against sick art and Fascism in a renewed attempt to reconcile art and spirit
Ballroom, Commodore Perry Hotel, pencil drawing
No full textA black and white pencil drawing done by Thomas E. King of the interior design of the ballroom for the Commodore Perry Hotel in downtown Toledo, Ohio. Designed in February of 1928 by architectural firm Mills, Rhines, Bellman and Nordhoff, the ballroom was mostly constructed as seen in the drawing. Opened in 1926, the hotel closed it's doors in 1980. In 2000 the hotel was renovated into an apartment building. Notation on back of drawing: Comm # 2781; archivist notation on front of drawing: Comm. # 2781
Assessing the performance of common landscape connectivity metrics using a virtual ecologist approach
No full textDue to increasing habitat fragmentation and concern about its ecological effects, there has been an upsurge in the use of landscape connectivity estimates in conservation planning. Measuring connectivity is challenging, resulting in a limited understanding of the efficacy of connectivity estimation techniques and the conditions under which they perform best. We evaluated the performance of four commonly used connectivity metrics – Euclidean distance; least-cost paths (LCP) length and cost; and circuit theory's resistance distance – over a variety of simulated landscapes. We developed an agent-based model simulating the dispersal of individuals with different behavioural traits across landscapes varying in their spatial structure. The outcomes of multiple dispersal attempts were used to obtain ‘true' connectivity. These ‘true' connectivity measures were then compared to estimates generated using the connectivity metrics, employing the simulated landscapes as cost-surfaces. The four metrics differed in the strength of their correlation with true connectivity; resistance distance showed the strongest correlation, closely followed by LCP cost, with Euclidean distance having the weakest. Landscape structure and species behavioural attributes only weakly predicted the performance of resistance distance, LCP cost and length estimates, with none predicting Euclidean distance's efficacy. Our results indicate that resistance distance and LCP cost produce the most accurate connectivity estimates, although their absolute performance under different conditions is difficult to predict. We emphasise the importance of testing connectivity estimates against patterns derived from independent data, such as those acquired from tracking studies. Our findings should help to inform a more refined implementation of connectivity metrics in conservation management
Shanghai, Dubai, Mumbai or goodbye?
No full textStarting in 2007, Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) from Asia and the Middle East have invested billions of dollars in major U.S. financial firms. The primary driving force behind their growth is rising commodity prices, in particular oil. Given that SWFs represent a relatively new, cashrich investment group, we studied the public policy concerns with their investments, SWFs mode of entry, and how does the market react to the investment. SWFs lack of transparency with regards to their investment motives and governance structure is cause for concern. While taking full opportunity of depressed security prices as a result of the 2007-2008 financial crisis, they are also being prudent by investing mostly in preferred stocks and fixed-income convertible securities of large U.S. corporations that are followed by many analysts and are highly liquid. Despite investing handsomely in U.S. targets and adopting a hands-off approach toward management; the liquidity crisis continues to perpetuate the decline in SWFtargets’ stock price post-investment. Using an event study parameter approach, we found the short-run market reaction to be statistically insignificant in 11 out of 12 announcements of SWF investments; but in the months following the investment, SWF-targets underperform both the S&P500 and the Dow Jones Financial Services Index Fund
. 44 Tomo XV (1962) Sexta Época (1939-1966). Anales del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia
No full textPublicación que recopila y difunde cien años de trabajo de la antropología en México (1877-1977), integrada por documentos y manuscritos arqueológicos, antropológicos, históricos, geológicos, botánicos y lingüísticos.- Información general de las actividades del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia durante el año 1962 por Eusebio Dávalos Hurtado. - Correlación de la arqueología y la historia en la porción norte del valle de México por Eduardo Noguera. – Tocititlan por Francisco González Rul. - Exploración arqueológica en Huapalcalco, Hgo., Quinta temporada, 1959 por Florencia Müller. - Informe preliminar sobre Mul-Chic, Yucatán por Román Piña Chan. - Un "cuauhxicalli" de Tlatelolco por Francisco González Rul. - Notas sobre las actividades religiosas en Tlaxiaco por Mercedes Olivera. - Los otomíes. Análisis de un grupo marginal por Margarita Nolasco Armas. - Datos sobre la música y danzas de Jamiltepec, Oaxaca por Thomas Stanford. - Comparación de los métodos para estimar la capacidad craneana por María Teresa Jaén Esquivel. - Nuevos casos de mutilaciones dentarias procedentes de Chiapas, México por Pierre Agrinier. - Breve informe de los hallazgos de San Vicente Chicoloapan, Méx. por Arturo Romano. - Nuevo ensayo de glotocronología yutonahua por Mauricio Swadesh. - Aplicabilidad de procedimientos lingüísticos al desciframiento de grafías por Roberto Escalante H. y Lorraine Beville de Escalante. - Revisión de la fonología del otomí por Frances León
The Gospel of Thomas and the earliest texts of the synoptic gospels
No full textResearch on the Gospel of Thomas in the last quarter of a
century has made it clear that the origins of this apocryphal gospel
cannot
be
satisfactorily explained from a single point of view. The
author thus suggests that Thomas
be
understood as a growing collection
of sayings which originated in various places and languages, with some
logia being added to the collection after its inception. While this
suggestion is by no means new, there have been few extensive attempts
to study Thomas from such a presupposition.
Due to the need for a control group, only the logia which have
rather close parallels to the Synoptic gospels are investigated. Verbal and textual affinities are noted between these logia and the earliest texts of the Gospels (the Coptic versions, the Diatessaron, the
Old Syriac version, and other early versions and Christian writings).
Various degrees of probable contact between each logion and these
texts are assigned.
The results of this study give some idea as to the place of
origin, the original language, and the approximate date at which certain logia were added to the collection. Those sayings which show a
closer affinity to the Diatessaron, the Old Syriac version, or other
Syrian writings may
be
considered as having been added to the sayings
collection as it circulated in its earliest form, possibly in a Semitic language. Other logia which show no signs of awareness of a
Syrian reading, but which are similar to variants found in the Coptic
versions or other Egyptian texts, may well have originated in Egypt
and been added to the collection at a later stage. These results,
however, must await verification by those who might approach Thomas
from related, but different, perspectives
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