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Letter From Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson to Samuel T. Ansell, September 18, 1918
No full textA typed copy of a letter from Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson to Samuel T. Ansell, dated September 18, 1918. Within, Wilson inquires about his prior application for a position in the Judge Advocate General\u27s office.https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/fmhw_firstworldwar_documents/1103/thumbnail.jp
FIGURE. Photos showing the broader stamens in Tulipa toktogulica compared to T. talassica. A. Tulipa toktogulica. B. Tulipa talassica. Photos by Brett Wilson and Georgy Lazkov in Tulipa toktogulica (Liliaceae), a cryptic, endangered new species from the western Tien-Shan, Kyrgyzstan
No full textFIGURE. Photos showing the broader stamens in Tulipa toktogulica compared to T. talassica. A. Tulipa toktogulica. B. Tulipa talassica. Photos by Brett Wilson and Georgy LazkovPublished as part of Wilson, Brett, Lazkov, Georgy A., Shalpykov, Kaiyrkul T. & Brockington, Samuel F., 2022, Tulipa toktogulica (Liliaceae), a cryptic, endangered new species from the western Tien-Shan, Kyrgyzstan, pp. 1-12 in Phytotaxa 566 (1) on page 8, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.566.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/710338
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
On leadership, continuity, and the common good
No full textThe public interest. The public good. The common good. All these terms describe ways of thinking about our collective selves and our shared interests that transcend our memberships of such groups as families, teams, and workplaces that typically inform our understanding of who we are and pattern our expectations and experience of the social world. Whereas groups such as these are ‘concrete’ in the sense that we interact with many of the members of these groups, know the group’s defining features, and can recognise exemplary members, the community of individual citizens to whom concepts like the public good apply is more abstract. Indeed, we know such communities not through direct face-to- face interaction with their members but rather indirectly, through our imaginations. It is not for nothing that Benedict Anderson (1983) described such collective, temporally continuous entities as ‘imagined communities’.
In this article, I explore the idea that certain of our current cultural ideals and practices may be inimical to our ability to imagine and experience ourselves as members of these imagined, enduring communities. In particular, I explore the idea that in our prevailing culture of flux, impermanence, and uncertainty, characterised by Bauman (2012) as ‘liquid’ modernity, we have fallen out of the habit of thinking about our ourselves as members of an imagined community of citizens with common interests who act with collective purpose in the service of these interests. Given that the type of imagined community necessary to overcome the kinds of problems that deform the public good is precisely the type of collective identity that is neither valorised nor cultivated in liquid modernity, we find ourselves less capable of acting in concert with one another to enhance the public good than we ideally should be. Notwithstanding this state of affairs, it affords us an opportunity to re-imagine the common good and to enact, entrench and expand the practice of leadership in its service
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
FIGURE. Map of specimens collected for the phylogenetic analysis in this study, excluding Tulipa iliensis and T. altaica, which both lacked GPS information. Populations of the new species T. toktogulica are labelled in order of discovery. in Tulipa toktogulica (Liliaceae), a cryptic, endangered new species from the western Tien-Shan, Kyrgyzstan
No full textFIGURE. Map of specimens collected for the phylogenetic analysis in this study, excluding Tulipa iliensis and T. altaica, which both lacked GPS information. Populations of the new species T. toktogulica are labelled in order of discovery.Published as part of Wilson, Brett, Lazkov, Georgy A., Shalpykov, Kaiyrkul T. & Brockington, Samuel F., 2022, Tulipa toktogulica (Liliaceae), a cryptic, endangered new species from the western Tien-Shan, Kyrgyzstan, pp. 1-12 in Phytotaxa 566 (1) on page 2, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.566.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/710338
Feeling connected to the future: Why you can't be a leader without it!
No full textToo often, our response to complex social, economic and environment problems reflects our tendency to focus on the short-term; on what ails us in the here and now. Rarely do we implement long-term, sustainable solutions. In this talk, Samuel Wilson discusses our tendency to focus on the short-term in the context of psychological connectedness, defined as the sense of continuity or connection we experience, or imagine, between our past, present and future selves. Experiencing psychological connectedness is typical, but not inevitable, and the consequences of experiencing disconnection can be devastating. In particular, Samuel reviews new psychological research into the causes and consequences of psychological connectedness and explores what this research suggests about how to cultivate the leadership we need to address our wicked problems and to create a truly sustainable society.
Recorded on 27 February 2014.
 
Samuel Beckett and the Writers of Port-Royal
No full textIt has been observed that ‘the literary influences on Beckett have been far more important than has been acknowledged, and more important indeed, than the philosophical influences’ (Smith 2002: 3). The truth of this statement is evidenced by the description that scholars have given of Samuel Beckett’s relationship to seventeenth century French classicism. To date, critical interest has been limited for the most part to the figure of the philosopher René Descartes on the (fragile) grounds that Beckett was exclusively concerned with the Cartesian imperative of clarity and order, the fundamental dualism between body and mind, and Nominalism.
Together with the assumption that Beckett’s vision was essentially Cartesian, his literary filiation with Pascal was suggested by critics, but only in terms of Beckett’s formal approach to the theatre. In his short article on En attendant Godot in 1953, the playwright Jean Anouilh was among the first reviewers to suggest that Beckett’s drama synthesizes the encounter between ‘classicism’ and a ‘modern’ form of art. It is well known that Beckett retained a lifelong admiration for Pascal – indeed, Pascal was one of his ‘old chestnuts’ (Knowlson 1997: 653). Little attention has been paid, however, to the originality of Pascal’s thought, the specific nature of his prose, and the impact these might have had upon Beckett’s mature work, especially the trilogy and the subsequent short prose. Yet, in the literary and philosophical context of post-war France, Beckett’s filiation with Pascal, their corresponding preoccupations, were evident to his contemporaries, who identified Pascal as an underlying presence in his works
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
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