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Rights, Richard Dagger

Political Science Faculty Publications

In English, 'right' is used in a number of ways to mean a number of things. We may turn to the right, for instance, even when that is not the right way to turn; the Pythagorean theorem deals with right angled triangles; governments sometimes shift to the right; straightforward people come right to the point when they seek to right matters; and we occasionally find that what someone is doing is not right, morally speaking, even though she has the right to do it. 'Right' in this last sense - 'right' as a kind of property we …

Foucault's Move Beyond The Theoretical, Ladelle Mcwhorter

Philosophy Faculty Publications

Theory plays an important role in virtually every academic discipline currently vital. The specific functions of theory may differ from discipline to discipline, but it is difficult to think of any serious discipline that is able to dispense with it entirely; for theory, we usually assume, is quite simply the name of all instances of systematic speculation, all attempts at rational explication. Ordered mentation, most of us unwaveringly believe, is and must be theoretical. All that is not theoretical is either confused thinking – or, more positively, perhaps it is poetic – or it is not thinking at all, but …

High Art, Folk Art, And Other Social Distinctions, Gary Shapiro

Philosophy Faculty Publications

Most discussions of the arts by critics and philosophers could be characterized in terms of a rather studied neglect of folk and popular art. This neglect is hardly absolute, however, for it is important in order to articulate a specific conception of aesthetic taste, beauty, or style to contrast the standard being used or praised with some other, less desirable, even degraded way of producing or appreciating something similar. It is perhaps more than a historical coincidence that the formation of the modern concept of taste and aesthetic judgment, in the eighteenth century, coincides roughly with the discovery and valorization …

(1989) Philosophy For Children And The Redefinition Of Philosophy: Total Immersion At Mendham, David K. Kennedy

Collected Papers of David Kennedy

What philosophy for children promises to do, and that among children and adults (how, after all, can adults bring it about among children unless they have experienced it themselves?) is not only to reclaim philosophy, or to bring philosophy back to life (pun intended); not only to deliver it from the strangleholds of the various traditions, and from the violent, agonistic use to which it is put in so many departments. That, certainly, would be enough. But beyond that, it is to demonstrate the words of those prophets of dialogue of our century like Gadamer or Royce, who have understood …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 30 No. 2, Robert Wexelblatt, Kenneth L. Golden, Christopher S. Durer, William Casement, Wheeler Winston Dixon, James I. Weingartner, Mark Christhilf, Tom Saya, Kathleen Johnson, Richard Tucker, Duncan Moran, Phil Stephens, Michael J. O'Brien, Elmer Suderman, Marion Schoeberlein, Sidney R. Thompson, Hugh C. Abernethy Jr., Al Ortolani, Jo Mcdougall, James D. Miley, Pamela Yenser, Twyla Hansen, Amil Quayle, Christopher Cokinos, Michael A. Carey, Angela Cooper, V. J. Emmett Jr., Charles Cagle, Gene Degruson, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue. . .

Out of nothing, something. ROBERT WEXELBLATT examines the meaning of the creative act and scrutinizes the first sentences of major works to illustrate the writer's power to fashion time and place and character in the choice, juxtaposition, and concatenation of words. Now Chairperson of the Division of Humanities at Boston University, Wexelblatt writes scholarly articles on literary subjects (recently on Fitzgerald, Lawrence, Camus, and Nietzsche), stories, and poetry, as well as essays, several of which have graced The Midwest Quarterly.

Literary critics too frequently mistake the leaves for the forest, and by failing to explore …

To Philosophize Is To Learn To Die, Gary Shapiro

Philosophy Faculty Publications

As the quintessential man of letters, Roland Barthes had the genial gift of being able to sympathize with an endless variety of discourses, texts, myths, and semiotic systems. The profusion of apparent subjects-Japan, Brecht, Balzac, photography, "mythologies," classical writing, the theater-is perhaps calculated to provoke the purist who insists on the values of thoroughness and well-grounded inquiry. At the same time, one would have to be obtuse to fail to recognize the critical projects that animate the many books, essays, and studies; these are explorations that put into question the often closed and crabbed commitment of the scholar or critic …

Review Essay: Leonard Tennenhouse, Power On Display: The Politics Of Shakespeare's Genres, Peggy Muñoz Simonds

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Leonaard Tennenhouse, Power on Display: The Politics of Shakespeare's Genres, Methuen, 1986.

Review Essay: Derek Cohen, Shakespearean Motives, Peggy Muñoz Simonds

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Derek Cohen, Shakespearean Motives, St. Martin's Press, 1988.

Review Essay: Edward Grant And John E. Murdock, Eds., Mathematics And Its Applications To Science And Natural Philosophy In The Middle Ages: Essays In Honor Of Marshall Clagett, Harvey W. Becher

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Edward Grant and John E. Murdock, eds., Mathematics and Its Applications to Science and Natural Philosophy in the Middle Ages: Essays in Honor of Marshall Clagett, Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Review Essay: Jeorg O. Fichte, Ed., Chaucer's Frame Tales: The Physical And The Metaphysical, Sigmund Eisner

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Joerg O. Fichte, ed., Chaucer's Frame Tales: The Physical and Metaphysical, Tübinger Beiträge zur Anglistik 9, D. S. Brewer, 1987.

Review Essay: Martin Ingram, Church Courts, Sex And Marriage In England, 1570-1640, Wm. Kent Hackmann

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Martin Ingram, Church Courts, Sex and Marriage in England, 1570-1640, Cambridge University Press, 1987.

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No abstract provided.

Review Essay: Uta-Renate Blumenthal, The Investiture Controversy: Church And Monarchy From The Ninth And Twelfth Century, Glenn W. Olsen

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Uta-Renate Blumenthal, The Investiture Controversy: Church and Monarchy from the Ninth to the Twelfth Century, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988.

Frederick Barbarossa And The Lombard League: Imperial Regalia, Prescriptive Rights, And The Northern Italian Cities, David R. Carr

Quidditas

The struggle between Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and the Lombard League illustrates conflicts between not only imperial and municipal ambitions but also regalian and customary rights. The ability of the emperor to assert and to profit from regalian rights reflected the efficacy of imperial power. Conversely, the power of the Lombard city-states lay in the recognition of the validity of customary rights. While this conflict centers on the differing principles of Roman and "Germanic" law, the present study argues that the purported devotion of Barbarossa to Roman law and of the Italian communes to customary law misrepresents their positions. The Lombards' …

Review Essay: Warren Treadgold, The Byzantine Revival: 780-842, W. L. T. Adams

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Warren Treadgold, The Byzantine Revival: 780-842, Stanford University Press, 1988.

Review Essay: Peter W. Edbury And John Gordon Rowe, William Of Tyre: Historian Of The Latin East, Harry Rosenberg

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Peter W. Edbury and John Gordon Rowe, William of Tyre: Historian of the Latin East, Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Review Essay: Charles M. Radding, The Origins Of Medieval Jurisprudence: Pavia And Bologna, 850-1150, J. B. Owens

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Charles M. Radding, The Origins of Medieval Jurisprudence: Pavia and Bologna, 850-1150, Yale University Press, 1988.

Review Essay: Madison U. Sowell, Italian Renaissance Books, 1478-1587: 100 Examples From The Harold B. Lee Library Collections, Ilona Klein

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Madison U. Sowell, Italian Renaissance Books, 1478-1587: 100 Examples from the Harold B. Lee Library Collections, Friends of the Brigham Young University Library, 1988.

Montaigne's "De L'Amitié" And The Problem Of Communication, Camilla J. Nilles

Quidditas

In the world of change and becoming revealed by Montaigne's Essais, his friendship with La Boétie stands out as an island of firmness and stability. Montaigne never questions the perfection of their relationship, nor have his readers doubted Montaigne's sincerity. They have taken Montaigne at his word in part because so little is actually known about the two friends' relations, but primarily because La Boétie's friendship is not nearly as important to Montaigne studies as La Boétie's death.

Discourse And Perspective In Daoism: A Linguistic Interpretation Of Ziran, William A. Callahan

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

In Chinese philosophical literature, the term zirana is generally rendered as "spontaneity," "natural," or "self-so" by both Chinese and Western trans- lators. I think that these translations not only miss the point being made in the texts, but actually serve to obscure it

Mimesis And Intellectual Conversion Towards And Eschatological Imagination, Peter Bisson

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Sumptuary Guidelines In Clement Of Alexandria's Paedagogus And Seneca's Epistulae Morales, Stephen Crump

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

This thesis, Sumptuary Guidelines in Clement of Alexandria's Paedagogus and Seneca's Epistulae Morales, explores the similarities between the ethical outlooks of Clement of Alexandria and Seneca, as well as peculiar emphases of each writer. The thesis is introduced with a discussion of the Christian search for identity within the Roman world, and the influence of Stoicism in formulating this identity. The next two chapters provide the social and intellectual context within which Clement and Seneca respectively wrote. In establishing Clement's backdrop, the cultural, intellectual, and economic settings of Alexandria are examined. The argument is put forth that these various settings …

Welfare, Contract, And The Language Of Charity, Chandran Kukathas

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

No abstract provided.

Paradox, Poetry, And Eternity: Socrates, Parmenides, And Nietzsche, Scott Austin

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Abstractly, some metalanguages and their allied languages are such that the metalinguistic truths cannot be put into the language itself without a (fruitful or devastating) paradox which breaks the very rules which the metalanguage itself enunciates for the language. Others are such that the transposition of metalanguage into language occurs without difficulty. The status of philosophy as a purported "science of all sciences" from classical times to the present hangs on this difference; for, unless there can be speech about speech in one’s own (however elaborated) natural language, the metaphysical enterprise sooner or later topples, to be replaced by faith, …

Ontological Structures In Aristotle, Donald Morrison

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

According to the traditional view of the Categories, the ten "categories" are the highest genera of beings. Each of them stands at the head of a tree-like division of the the items falling under it; this division is also sometimes called a "category". The metaphysical structure made up of these ten divisions is the "system of the categories". According to the traditional view, the system of the categories is very rigidly laid out. Not only is every being included in the structure, but every being has exactly one location. Each being is predicated essentially of those below it along the …

Of Pendulums, Eclectics, And Identity: An Essay On Method And Worldview, John H. Kok

Pro Rege

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Risd Voice December 1, 1988, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, approximately dated December 1, 1988, includes articles on storage at the RISD Museum, the Faculty Symposium "And/Or," a student-run shuttle service, a blood drive, the art world, the RISD shuttle servie, Latvian Independence Day, Museums in Washington D.C., and the death of the political left, along with book reviews, editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.

Chromatic Partitions, Paresh J. Malde

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Risd Voice November 16, 1988, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, approximately dated November 16, 1988, includes articles on the art world, a new mandatory recycling program at RISD, the Faculty Symposium "And/Or," a RISD Theater Group production of "Fool for Love," education in America, pro-choice abortion support at RISD, the New York Marathon, and first aid, along with book reviews, editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.

Risd Voice November 2, 1988, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated November 2, 1988, includes articles on campus security, the Women's Center in Providence, radon in homes, the mission of the newspaper, safety concerns in Providence, the US presidential election, RISD Community Outreach, visiting lecturers associated with the Painting Club, the Ottawa International Film Festival, the President's Ball, and renovations to the RISD Library, along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.