WOLF SOLENT Powys, John Cowper
The Powys journal,
01/2021, Volume:
31
Journal Article
There came, at last, a certain Sunday towards the end of November when the weather-signs were once more so propitious, the atmosphere so warm and relaxed, that he succeeded in achieving an ...adventurous excursion the idea of which, for several agitating weeks, had been germinating at the back of his mind. Among the troubled human shapes that fluttered across the threshold of his consciousness ... advancing and receding, taking form and fading ... the shape that remained most persistent was not, today, that face of the Waterloo steps; but on the contrary, the face of Gerda ... the face of Gerda patched and plastered with abominable strips of lintbandage ... the face of Gerda despoiled and disfigured perhaps for life! "How can I tell her?" he had kept thinking as he helped Christie over muddy ditches; as he led her through damp hazel copses and along redberried hedges; across ancient orchards, where embrowned cider-apples lay buried in deep wet grass, through narrow ferny lanes where the gates were covered thick with lichen. The wings of the birds that they disturbed as they advanced down these lanes brushed off from the tangled perishing foliage drops of rain that might have been undisturbed in those hidden places for weeks and weeks; drops of old rain, protected from wind and from sun and from the movements of man or beast; drops of rain that must have reflected in their tremulous suspense through the long slow dawns nothing but the redness and yellowness of dying vegetation and through the long clear nights nothing but the far-off flicker of the white stars. If I could reach you by just thinking! ... but to say certain things ... even to you.He clutched her hand; gave it a fierce grip; relinquished it; and then, seizing the handle of his stick, which lay at his side, as if the mere touch of that familiar object would give him renewed vitality, he spoke, rapidly.
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The Stoics commit to a view of the universe as a unified living being endowed with a mind. But what is the explanatory value of this cosmological model? Generally speaking, most scholars believe ...Stoic cosmic psychology to work either as a metaphor for the unification produced by natural processes, or to be a consequence of the fact that mind is a primitive component of the Stoic system, given that one of the Stoic first principles is usually considered to be endowed with intelligence. In this thesis, I will argue against both views by claiming that the Stoics developed a highly sophisticated cosmic psychology in order to articulate an original theory of the unity of the cosmos. In doing so, I will first show how the Stoics introduce a new use of the notion of sympathy or co-affection (συμπάθεια) in order to produce an emergentist account of cosmic mental faculties. Then, I will then examine the unifying functions performed by the two main faculties of the cosmic mind: perception (αἴσθησις), which unifies the cosmos by endowing it with the ability of representing itself as a subject, and therefore, as an agent; and will (βούλησις), which unifies the cosmos by granting its activity a unified teleological orientation. I will thus make a strong claim regarding the relation between mental faculties and corporealism in the Stoics, showing how they are neither a metaphor for natural processes, but instead develop naturally from the principles on which Stoic philosophy is based, with the aim of articulating and unifying the complexity of the cosmos into a coherent whole.
Education is the basis for a child's development and life in the future so that every child has various abilities and skills that are useful for the future. At the base of education there are several ...activities, one of which is reading. The most important ability for children is reading. The problem in this research is the reading delays experienced by high class students. The role of the teacher must be able to plan reading learning well so that students are able to make it a habit as something very interesting, and can be created through language games in teaching reading to students. By collecting library data from various trusted sources using the literature study method, it can be seen that there are several factors that cause students' reading delays. This research analyzes the forms of internal and external factors that cause sixth grade students to experience reading delays. The data collection technique used is data collected from various sources and the results of this research only apply to the cases investigated. This shows that reading delays are caused by a lack of interest in reading in sixth grade elementary school students in the low sense. From the level of student access to libraries, very few do. Students cannot read because they do not have reading knowledge. Factors that influence students' reading delays are internal and external factors, although not all students experience difficulties in beginning reading. It is hoped that with this research teachers can train students in reading
Tendo as fake news como contexto das discussões atuais sobre política, direito e sociedade, o artigo desenvolve a reflexão sobre a necessidade de recuperar o humanismo estoico e tê-lo como arma de ...combate à irracionalidade e à desumanização. Por meio da abordagem zetética e com base na metodologia de pesquisa bibliográfica, destaca-se que a filosofia estoica é capaz de combater o discurso irracional comum nos debates de redes sociais, colocando o homem na relação de pertinência com o cosmo, do qual é parte integrante. Assim, o comportamento humano deve corresponder a um comportamento ético que possibilite estabelecer relações entre ciência e virtude.
Friar Laurence’s admonishment to Romeo in act 3, scene 3 of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, when Romeo draws his dagger in an attempt to kill himself over his banishment for killing Tybalt, ...sets up a dichotomy between rationality and passion: “Art thou a man? Thy form cries out thou art. / Thy tears are womanish; thy wild acts denote / The unreasonable fury of a beast, / Unseemly woman in a seeming man, / And ill-beseeming beast in seeming both!” (3.3.119-23).1 For Friar Laurence and Renaissance English society, a man should be controlled by reason. Laurence reasons that while Romeo’s natural form “cries out” that he is a man, his tears and actions demonstrate passions that are unseemly. The OED’s definition of seeming, “of fine or stately proportion,” refers most frequently to appearance and implies balanced looks; however, the OED also relates the word to behavior: “Of conduct, speech, appearance: Conformable to propriety or good taste; becoming, decorous.”2 Friar Laurence’s lines combine these definitions, using seeming, unseemly, and ill-beseeming, to comment on and advocate for Romeo’s need to return to a balanced rationality. The Friar’s speech reflects what was for Shakespeare and his contemporaries a new debate about Stoicism—what was eventually called Neostoicism—and the philosophies of Justus Lipsius, who sought to rectify Stoicism’s secularism with sixteenth-century Christian thought.
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Scholars usually understand Κύρια Δόξα (ΚΔ) 33 as an antiplatonic polemic. This paper denies the communis opinio. First, it argues for an ontological reading of the maxim according to which ...justice (understood as virtue) is not a body but a property. Second, it shows that the Stoics hold the very thesis disputed in ΚΔ 33, namely that virtue is a body. This makes the Stoa the natural target of the maxim. Finally, the paper deals with De rerum natura I.464-482: here Lucretius criticizes nameless opponents with regard to the thesis that events are to be understood as bodies. If these opponents can be identified with the Stoics, as is usually assumed, there is further evidence besides ΚΔ 33 that the Epicureans engaged with the Stoic thesis of corporealism.
Este ensayo explora la relación de la filosofía con la administración. Define la filosofía de acuerdo con varios autores contemporáneos, como actitud crítica, cuestionamiento sistemático, búsqueda de ...la verdad y conceptualización epistemológica. Encuentra que la filosofía sirve para evaluar las posiciones éticas y morales, tomar decisiones racionales, y se usa para el diálogo interdisciplinario. Resalta el aporte de algunos filósofos a la administración y evidencia el ejercicio de la filosofía por los padres de la administración no-filósofos. Muestra que el vínculo entre filosofía y administración no se ha roto, presentando dos casos de autores colombianos que combinan estas disciplinas y resaltando la propuesta de formación en administración desde la filosofía, tanto epistemológica como metodológicamente. Concluye reconociendo la necesidad de formar el carácter de los administradores, proponiendo el estoicismo para el logro de la resiliencia personal, y recomienda la filosofía de la administración para el fortalecimiento interdisciplinar. Palabras clave: Administración; filosofía aplicada; ética; estoicismo. This essay explores the relationship between philosophy and management. It defines philosophy according to several contemporary authors, as a critical attitude, systematic questioning, search for truth and epistemological conceptualization. It finds that philosophy serves to evaluate ethical and moral positions, make rational decisions, and it is used for interdisciplinary dialogue. It highlights the contribution of some philosophers to management and sheds light on the exercise of philosophy by the fathers of management. It shows that the link between philosophy and management has not been broken, presenting two cases of Colombian authors who combine these disciplines and highlighting the proposal of training in administration from philosophy, both epistemologically and methodologically. It concludes by recognizing the need to form the character of managers, and proposing stoicism for the achievement of personal resilience, and recommends the research on the philosophy of management for interdisciplinary strengthening. Keywords: philosophy; management; logic; stoicism.
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Epictet, stoic philosopher of the 1st century C.E., was the slave of Epaphroditus, an imperial secretary of Nero and Domitian. Despite his condition, he was able to attend the classes of Musônio ...Rufo. Later, after his release, he founded a school in Rome, which did not last long, since Domitian expelled the philosophers from the city in 89 C.E. Epictet then went to Nicopolis, where he founded another stoic school, with many students, among them important figures of the Roman Empire. Like Socrates, Epictet wrote nothing. His philosophy came to us through the notes of his disciple Lucio Flavio Arriano Xenophon, who recorded the teachings of Epictet in eight books, four of which were lost, which composed the Diatribes of Epictet. The work is prefaced by a letter from Arriano to a certain Lucius Gelius, in which Arriano affirms that the Diatribes are nothing more than transcriptions of the lessons of Epictet. That is the reason why the work has been attributed since antiquity to Epictet.
