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Samson, Lindsay Grant. "The philosophy of desire in Theocritus' Idylls." Diss., University of Iowa, 2013. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5051.
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Over the course of Theocritean scholarship there has been a tendency to try to fill the narrative gaps that he leaves in his poems, and this tendency has led to various interpretations of each of the Idylls. While some see this as a puzzle to be solved, a sort of literary exercise for Theocritus' fellow poetae docti and the erudite court of Ptolemaic Alexandria, this study will examine these narrative gaps as opportunities for each audience member to explore his or her own beliefs, especially regarding love. Theocritus does not lead his audience to a specific conclusion, but he only raises questions.
This study shows how the Idylls pose questions that correlate with those that Plato and Hellenistic philosophers address in their discussion of love. Is love a divine blessing, madness, or both? What are the symptoms of lovesickness? Can lovesickness be cured? Is passion part of human nature? What are the benefits of love? Once the reader has in mind the questions that are raised in philosophy and the earlier poetic tradition, it becomes clear that Theocritus is posing the same questions. He uses the images of love in the poetic tradition to explore these topics in a way that conjures allusions to philosophical texts.
Once I have examined the poetic and philosophical background, I turn to the Idylls themselves. I organize my discussion of the poems according to the three types of lovers in Plato's Symposium: procreators, poets, and immortals. Procreators are those who seek to give birth in the body, for example Simaetha in Idyll 2. These lovers are portrayed as afflicted with lovesickness without a viable cure, and as treading the line between animal and human. Poets give birth in the mind with their poetry, for example the speaker of Idyll 12. Although suffering from lovesickness, poets have a remedy, poetry. Finally, immortals give birth to true virtue, such as the Ptolemies in Idyll 17. These monarchs are so loved by the gods for their virtue that they are made immortal and are allowed to live on Olympus with the gods.
The layers of meaning revealed in the allusions to the poetic and philosophical traditions do not show Theocritus as promoting a favorite doctrine, rather, he promotes questions about desire, lovesickness, remedies, humanity, persuasion, the power of poetry and immortality. When we look at Theocritus as a heuristic poet, we can better understand the value of his poetry and his mastery in using narrative gaps to raise questions for his audience.
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Wilde, Anthony Edward. "Levinas : subjectivity, affectivity and desire." Thesis, University of Hull, 2013. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:8617.
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The thesis argues that Emmanuel Levinas’s later concept of ethical subjectivity, explicated in his late work Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence, can really only be understood by taking into account the very early work On Escape. The thesis argues that the concept of ethical subjectivity emerges from his work via his attempts to articulate transcendence. Transcendence itself is ultimately identified with ethics. My thesis traces his continued attempts at a satisfactory conception of transcendence through the early works (Existence and Existents and Time and the Other), and via his other major work Totality and Infinity. On Escape articulates a very specific notion of need in terms of a need for escape which forms the conceptual seeds of Levinas’s idea of transcendence, and which will ultimately become his notion of metaphysical Desire. His notion of ethics as the arresting of the spontaneous ego’s conatus by the face of the Other, will turn out to ultimately requires the articulation of ethical subjectivity. The notion of ethical subjectivity is made possible, and thus his work reaches maturity, by the introduction of the notion of the trace. I argue that the idea of subjectivity as openness and vulnerability and the notion of an otherwise than being can be traced to the early work. My thesis takes as its starting point Levinas’s engagement and criticism of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. I argue that Levinas can best be understood as always in some sense in conversation with Heidegger.
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Etlin, David Jeffrey. "Desire, belief, and conditional belief." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/45898.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2008.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 127-132).
This dissertation studies the logics of value and conditionals, and the question of whether they should be given cognitivist analyses. Emotivist theories treat value judgments as expressions of desire, rather than beliefs about goodness. Inference ticket theories of conditionals treat them as expressions of conditional beliefs, rather than propositions. The two issues intersect in decision theory, where judgments of expected goodness are expressible by means of decision-making conditionals. In the first chapter, I argue that decision theory cannot be given a Humean foundation by means of money pump arguments, which purport to show that the transitivity of preference and indifference is a requirement of instrumental reason. Instead, I argue that Humeans should treat the constraints of decision theory as constitutive of the nature of preferences. Additionally, I argue that transitivity of preference is a stricter requirement than transitivity of indifference. In the second chapter, I investigate whether David Lewis has shown that decision theory is incompatible with anti-Humean theories of desire. His triviality proof against "desire as belief' seems to show that desires can be at best conditional beliefs about goodness. I argue that within causal decision theory we can articulate the cognitivist position where desires align with beliefs about goodness, articulated by the decision making conditional. In the third chapter, I turn to conditionals in their own right, and especially iterated conditionals.
(cont.) I defend the position that indicative conditionals obey the import-export equivalence rather than modus ponens (except for simple conditionals), while counterfactual subjunctive conditionals do obey modus ponens. The logic of indicative conditionals is often thought to be determined by conditional beliefs via the Ramsey Test. I argue that iterated conditionals show that the conditional beliefs involved in indicative supposition diverge from the conditional beliefs involved in learning, and that half of the Ramsey Test is untenable for iterated conditionals.
by David Jeffrey Etlin.
Ph.D.
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Taoka, Yasuko. "Philosophy and erotics in Seneca's Epistulae morales." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1179944055.
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Fossey, Peter. "Desire and value in practical reasoning." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2014. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/70116/.
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Intentional actions are those which are performed because the subject sees something tobe said for performing them; the subject sees performing the action “in a positive light”. Intentional actions are therefore susceptible to a distinctive kind of explanation, which explains them as intentional; that is, which accounts for them in terms oftheir unique property, of being performed because the subject sees that there is something to be said for doing so. Practical reasoning is the process of figuring out what there is reason to do; that is, what actions are best supported by the considerations available to the subject. To put it another way, practical reasoning is the process of figuring out which actions there is the most to be said for; so practical reasoning explains intentional action “properly”, i.e., in terms of its special properties. Many philosophers, loosely following the lead of David Hume, have argued for a close connection between desire and intentional action. If desires explain intentional actions properly, then they must do so through practical reasoning; that being the case, how do they do it? Another sizeable group of philosophers, the anti-Humeans, have argued that desires cannot explain intentional actions properly; they claim that desires are not the right sorts of things to appear in the premises of arguments, do not count in favour of any action, do not constitute evaluations of any action, and are in any case too fickle and lawless to take part in distinctively normative forms of explanation. The central question in this thesis is, what is the role of desire in practical reasoning? I put forward a characterisation of desire which explains how some desires can explain intentional actions properly, and leaves the question open whether all intentional actions are properly explained by desires.
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Johnston, Jennene Louise Hooper. "Angels of desire subtle subjects, aesthetics and ethics /." View thesis, 2004. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20050527.155421/index.html.
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Anderson, Blake M. "The logic-desire-belief structure of intentionality." Virtual Press, 2007. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1365171.
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Intentionality is the concept of how mental states and their content relate to each other. Although intentionality was re-introduced to philosophy by the psychologist Franz Brentano, psychology has not empirically researched the concept. The present study reviews the history of intentionality, as it relates to psychology, and argues that people recognize their own and other people's intentionality through a logic-desire-belief structure. The logic-desire-belief structure was tested by having participants in an experiment read situations containing the structure and an intentional state. The results demonstrate that people are sensitive to the logic-desire-belief structure, and the structure may allow people to recognize intentionality.Department of Psychological Science
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Wentzel, Rocki Tong. "Reception, gifts, and desire in Augustine's Confessions and Vergil's Aeneid." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1198858389.
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Storey, Damien. "Mere appearances : appearance, belief, & desire in Plato's Protagoras, Gorgias, & Republic." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b13abb0f-978d-4b70-ab01-7c5a4ef448a4.
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This thesis examines the role appearances play, with notable continuity, in the psychology and ethics of Plato's Protagoras, Gorgias, and Republic. Common to these dialogues is the claim that evaluative appearances are almost invariably false: what appears to be good or bad is typically not in fact so and what is good or bad typically does not appear so. I argue that this disparity between apparent and real value forms the basis of Plato's diagnoses of a wide range of practical errors: psychological phenomena like akrasia, mistaken conceptions of the good like hedonism, and the influence of cultural sources of corruption like oratory, sophistry, and poetry. It also, relatedly, forms the basis of his account of lower passions like appetite, anger, or fear. Such passions are especially prone to lead us astray because their objects -- appetitive pleasures like food, drink, or sex, for example -- present especially deceptive appearances. One of the principal aims of this thesis is to show that this presents a significant point of agreement between the psychologies of the Protagoras, Gorgias, and Republic. In all three dialogues, I argue, motivational errors result from a specific kind of cognitive error: the uncritical acceptance of appearances. Plato's early and middle psychologies differ in their account of the subject of this error -- in the Protagoras and Gorgias, the whole person; in the Republic, the appetitive or spirited part of a person's soul -- but not in their basic theory of how our passions arise or, crucially, why they are liable to motivate us towards harmful ends.
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Taylor, Daniel. "Freedom, power and collective desire in Spinoza." Thesis, University of Roehampton, 2017. https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/freedom-power-and-collective-desire-in-spinoza(16afce5e-7f02-40f4-a960-0a11a6ea279e).html.
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Romanik, Merrill Ann. "Vita voluptuaria : the bridging of desire and reason." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/21735.
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Gracieuse, Marjorie. "Deleuze and the problem of hierarchy : the crowned anarchy of desire." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2011. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/51415/.
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This thesis consists in emphasizing an all too often overlooked Deleuzian redefinition of the concept of ‘hierarchy’. Deleuze re-creates the sense of this old concept in order to break with the traditional representations of verticality, which have predominantly led philosophy back to the transcendence of established powers and the abstractions of opinion. To the order of representation and transcendence, always implicating the ideal of a unity as criterion of judgment and perception, Deleuze opposes a complex order in becoming. From this perspective, hierarchy no longer concerns the ontological separation between being and beings, or between thought and what it thinks. Rather, hierarchy, inasmuch as it is now integrated within the differential order of pure immanence, refers to the unequal perspectives that make up the extreme singularity of individuals as various modes of life. In addition to being an ontological feature of life as self-differing power, hierarchy constitutes a vital problem for thought, for it posits the question of exploring to what extent and by which means beings can actively possess their vitality and fully accomplish their power. It is through the problem of hierarchy, conceived as ethical differentiation of modes of existence and values, that the problem of freedom and of its relative degrees acquires, in Deleuze, a very concrete sense. It becomes one with an art of individual and collective experimentation, by which thought learns how to free itself from enslaving fictions in favour of a more intense existence.
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Mason, Lindsey Teague. "Emotions as Reasons: Against the Standard Belief/Desire Account of Action." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1376485454.
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Overy, Stephen. "The genealogy of Nick Land's anti-anthropocentric philosophy : a psychoanalytic conception of machinic desire." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/3350.
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In recent years the philosophical texts of Nick Land have begun to attract increasing attention, yet no systematic treatment of his work exists. This thesis considers one significant and distinctive aspect of Land's work: his use of a psychoanalytic vocabulary, which is deployed to try and avoid several problems associated with metaphysical discourse. Land's larger project of responding to the Kantian settlement in philosophy is sketched in the introduction, as is his avowed distaste for thought which is conditioned by anthropocentricism. This thesis then goes on to provide a genealogical reading of the concepts which Land will borrow from psychoanalytic discourse, tracing the history of drive and desire in the major psychoanalytic thinkers of the twentieth century. Chapter one considers Freud, his model of the unconscious, and the extent to which it is anthropocentric. Chapter two contrasts Freud's materialism to Lacan's idealism. Chapter three returns to materialism, as depicted by Deleuze and Guattari in Anti-Oedipus. This chapter also goes on to consider the implications of their 'schizoanalysis', and contrasts 'left' and 'right' interpretations of Deleuze, showing how they have appropriated his work. Chapter four considers Lyotard's works from his 'libidinal period' of the late sixties to early seventies. These four readings, and the various theories of drive and desire they contain, are then contextualised in relation to Land's work in chapter five. This final chapter considers Land's theory of 'machinic-desire', and evaluates if his construction of the concept, via psychoanalysis, offers a superior approach to anti-anthropocentric positions constructed in metaphysics. The role of psychoanalytic thought in constructing Land's cosmological theory of thermodynamic entropy and extropy is also considered.
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Andraud, Christelle. "Pour un usage psychanalytique du concept de volonté : de la volonté chez Schopenhauer au désir freudien : étude conceptuelle interdisciplinaire." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017AIXM0107.
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La Psychologie admet que la volonté puisse être posée comme un point de vue particulier de la vie consciente. Certes, elle est intimement liée à toute la nature de la vie consciente dans des actions synthétiques du vouloir. Mais, si la volonté consciente est l’expression la plus nette de la synthèse, et si d’autre part, la synthèse est une activité, une fonction, nous sommes en droit de penser qu’elle contient dans son essence une part inconsciente. La Volonté est un concept tragique, dans le sens où elle confronte le Sujet avec l’impossible. Elle désigne la part la plus intime du sujet, ce qu’il y a de plus subjectif. En effet, elle n’est pas intégralement délibérative, dans le cas où elle s’articule au symptôme, elle est liée non à la sélection des possibles, mais à l’instauration d’un impossible. Elle est liée à des points de lacune de la structure du sujet, à des points d’interruptions de la répétition dont le Sujet n’a pas conscience. La volonté est le vecteur du désir, il peut y avoir une articulation du désir à la volonté sans pour autant que la volonté soit le Désir. Partant de ces hypothèses nous défendrons l’idée qu’il y a donc des règles et des mécanismes, des processus psychiques qui régissent ce fonctionnement permettant de fait de lui octroyer une assise inconscienteThe Psychology admits that the will can be raised as a particular point of view of conscious life. It is, of course, intimately connected with the whole nature of conscious life in some synthetic actions of the will. Thus, if the conscious will is the clearest expression of synthesis, and if, on the other hand, synthesis is an activity, a function, we are entitled to deliberate that it deeply encloses an unconscious part. The Will is a tragic concept, in the sense that the Subject faces the impossible. The Will designates the most intimate part of the subject, so the most subjective one. It is not fully deliberative indeed, in the sense that it is anchored to the symptom, it is not related to the selection of the possible, but to the establishment of an impossible. It is connected with some lacunae in the subject’s structure, with some break points of reiteration whose Subject is unaware. The will is the vector of the desire. There may be an articulation of the desire to the will, without implying the will being the Desire. Starting from these hypotheses, we will defend the idea that there are rules and mechanisms, psychic processes that govern this functioning allowing us to grant it an unconscious basis
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Teffahi, Abdellah. "Pour une anthropologie philosophique contemporaine." Thesis, Reims, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011REIML002/document.
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La situation de l'homme dans le monde pose l'interrogation fondamentale de l'émotion en rapport à la rationalité, Cette position dichotomique opère une transformation, positive ou négative, de l'action humaine dans l'histoire. Cependant, les sentiments sont un océan de tonalités affective variées, propres à la condition humaine de la sensibilité, ce qui place l'affectivité au coeur de l'existant. Ainsi, I'affectivité se traduit par un senti du corps, un processus psychosomatique,plongeant l'individu dans un désir d'être, pour une recherche du bonheur, dans un souci de paix de l'âme et corps. Or, aujourd'hui, ce désir d'être n'est plus un désir, un enthousiasme pour l'effort spirituel, vers la sagesse et la paix entre les hommes comme projet de réalisation ; la fin de l'homme devient le bonheur comme recherche du plaisir et contentement de soiThe situation of man in the world raises the fundamental issue of the rapport between feeling and rationality, a dichotomy which transforms human action in history in positive or negative ways. However, the fact that feelings encompass a wide spectrum of emotional hues inherent to the human condition places affectivity at the core of reality. As affectivity manifets itself in the body as a psychosomatic experience, so it immerses the individual in a wish for being, in a search for hapiness and a desire for peace of mind and body. Yet in modern times, this desire to be no longer becomes a desire or enthusiasm for spiritual effort nor a striving toward wisdom and peace between men as a project for historical realisation; instead, the aim of mankind has become hapiness as the pursuit of pleasure and self-satisfaction
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Bloomer, Jennifer Allyn. "Towards an architecture of desire : the (s) crypt of Joyce and Piranesi." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23414.
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Cengiz, Ovunc. "Ending The Exile Of Desire In Spinoza And Hegel." Master's thesis, METU, 2007. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12609074/index.pdf.
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The main objective of this master&rsquos thesis is to analyze the place assigned to the phenomenon of desire by Hegel and Spinoza, and to show that the main difference between two philosophers in terms of their understanding of desire and human phenomenon consists in their understanding of the relation between the substance and particulars. In order to fulfill the requirements of this objective, what is focused on is, as different from a certain philosophical thought excluding desire from a true account of human phenomenon due to two aspects of desire, namely being an immediate drive and being purely self-referential, which are not regarded as being capable of explaining the specific distinctness of human being, how Spinoza and Hegel give an account of desire, and how they conceive mentioned aspects of desire. Throughout the thesis, first Spinoza&rsquo
s ontology, as it is elaborated in the Ethics, and the place of the phenomenon of desire in this ontology are explained. Then through an analysis of the fourth chapter of the Phenomenology of Spirit, it is argued that Hegel&rsquo
s conception of desire enables one to conceive the distinctive human institutions such as sociality, morality, and etc., as derivatives of desire. Finally it is argued that, since Hegel conceives the relation between the substance and particulars as a total detachment, he is able to give the spiritual dimension of human phenomenon in terms of desire. In this way moreover the specific distinctness of the human phenomenon is preserved in the philosophy of Hegel.
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Trimble, Lisa M. "Toward an education of joy, desire and possibilities : sexualities education as liberatory pedagogy." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=81516.
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As sexualities educators, we rarely examine the broader social context our sexualities are shaped within, nor do we often give meaningful instruction to students on how to come to terms with emotions and desire or choosing and being good partners. Some of the ways we 'do' masculinity, femininity and gender in this culture can compromise our ability to fully engage in loving relationships with our selves and others. Teaching sexualities as transformational learning, critical theory challenges us to do better, both as individuals and as a society aware of and resisting oppression. Instead of teaching as though the body and spirit can thrive independently of one another, an authentic sexualities education would address the many dimensions of human experience, including morality, physicality and emotionality.
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Atesoslu, Guclu. "Intersubjectivity And The Problem Of Freedom In The Philosophy Of Hegel." Master's thesis, METU, 2003. http://etd.lib.metu.edu/upload/1011857/index.pdf.
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Hegel's system, with a purpose of being the newest philosophy, represents a turning point in the history of thought. In contrast to the philosophical thoguht of Enlightenment which seperates branches of knowledge, or that of philosophy, Hegel tries to recombine them. In this study, I intend to reveal the close connection of the concepts appeared in the two works of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, namely, The Phenomenology of Spirit (Phä
nomenologie des Geistes) and Elements of the Philosophy of Right (Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts). These concepts are consciousness, self-consciousness, desire, recognition, freedom and intersubjectivity that are very important for considering self-actualization of the individual and for understanding also the process of human socialization. In this sense, Hegel&rsquo
s philosophy, in general, is an attempt to analyze modern society through the light of these conceptions which are still central to our aspirations as reflective social beings.
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Pettersson, Olof. "A Multiform Desire : A Study of Appetite in Plato’s Timaeus, Republic and Phaedrus." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Avdelningen för teoretisk filosofi, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-186130.
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This dissertation is a study of appetite in Plato’s Timaeus, Republic and Phaedrus. In recent research is it often suggested that Plato considers appetite (i) to pertain to the essential needs of the body, (ii) to relate to a distinct set of objects, e.g. food or drink, and (iii) to cause behaviour aiming at sensory pleasure. Exploring how the notion of appetite, directly and indirectly, connects with Plato’s other purposes in these dialogues, this dissertation sets out to evaluate these ideas. By asking, and answering, three philosophically and interpretatively crucial questions, individually linked to the arguments of the dialogues, this thesis aims to show (i) that the relationship between appetite and the body is not a matter of survival, and that appetite is better understood in terms of excess; (ii) that appetite is multiform and cannot be defined in terms of a distinct set of objects; and (iii) that appetite, in Plato, can also pertain to non-sensory objects, such as articulated discourse. Chapter one asks what the universe can teach us about embodied life. It argues that Plato, in the Timaeus, works with an important link between the universe and the soul, and that the account of disorder, irrationality and multiformity identifying a pre-cosmic condition of the universe provides a key to understanding the excessive behaviour and condition of a soul dominated by appetite. Chapter two asks why the philosophers of the Republic’s Kallipolis return to the cave, and suggests that Plato’s notion of the noble lie provides a reasonable account of this. By exploring the Republic’s ideas of education, poetry and tradition, it argues that appetite – a multiform and appearance oriented source of motivation – is an essential part of this account. Chapter three asks why Socrates characterizes the speeches of the Phaedrus as deceptive games. It proposes that this question should be understood in the light of two distinctions: one between playful and serious discourse and one between simple and multiform. It argues that the speeches of the Phaedrus are multiform games, and suggests that appetite is the primary source of motivation of the soul addressed, personified by Phaedrus.
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Scarbrough, David. "Desire, dialogue, and the highest good : a comparative study of the Bhagavad Gītā and Plato's Euthyphro and Symposium." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683193.
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Brunning, Luke. "Integration, ambivalence, and mental conflict." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:4a0288d4-7c6d-4dc3-9ee7-8508b205e9e7.
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In my DPhil thesis I critique a philosophical ideal of mental organization: that one’s mind ought to be integrated, that is, lack conflicts or ambivalence between mental states, because disintegration is argued to impair one’s agency and undermine one’s well-being. My argument has three parts. In part one, I describe Plato’s maximalist version of the ideal where, if ideally organized, one’s psyche lacks conflicts because one’s rational faculty, aware of what is valuable, harmonises one’s motivational and affective states. I also argue that any dispute about integration is orthogonal to the dispute between value monists and value pluralists. In part two, I contest the integration ideal by criticizing three manifestations of it in contemporary philosophy. I focus on the organization of desire, and on deliberative and affective ambivalence. My arguments have a similar structure. First, I challenge the link between the integrated mind and the purported benefits of unimpaired agency and well-being. On investigation, this apparent connection is largely contingent. Not all conflicts or ambivalence are harmful, and other social or psychological factors are relevant in case where they really are damaging. Secondly, I argue that there are contexts where integration is a form of mental rigidity or harmful impoverishment. Thirdly, I argue that being disintegrated seems morally good in some situations where one manifests fitting states of mind, particularly emotions. In part three, I ask whether integration can be reinterpreted to salvage an alternative ideal. After rejecting a promising candidate found in Kleinian psychoanalytic theory, I offer my own account of integration as a two-part capacity to tolerate difficult mental states (not necessarily bad mental states - excitement can be hard to tolerate), and to avoid being reflectively passive as one’s mental organization changes. This capacity has rational and non-rational elements. Finally, I consider how this reinterpreted capacity relates to the practice of virtue. I conclude that integration is not a virtue, and may be compatible with some viciousness, but it enables one to be virtuous in situations where there are pressures towards being insensitively singleminded.
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Floridi, Luciano. "The search for knowledge : from desire to defence : hypothesis for the introduction of a Peirceisch interpretation of the genetic principle of the process of knowing as a fundamental orientation for a future gnoseology." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1990. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/57160/.
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The aim of the thesis is to defend the hypothesis that an anti- Aristotelian interpretation of the genesis of the process of knowing provides an interesting and fruitful means to understand the human never-ending search for knowledge and to answer doubts concerning the reliability of human knowledge of external reality. Such statement requires an explanation.
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Garcia, Luiz Fernando Botto. "Despertar do real: a invenção do objeto a." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8133/tde-22082016-111115/.
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Trata-se de pensar o conceito de objeto a como o resultado necessário do impasse colocado dentro da metapsicologia lacaniana pela relação tensa entre a apropriação da dialética hegeliana do desejo e a determinação sociolinguística provinda do estruturalismo levistraussiano. Formalizado primeiramente em 1958, o objeto a é o resultado da maneira pela qual o psicanalista pensou a resistência necessária do sujeito à pura negatividade do desejo, quando este se dá com a possibilidade de ver-se suprimido pela estrutura, via determinação do significante. A partir daí, pensa-se o desenvolvimento do conceito, de modo a caracterizá-lo como tema chave na virada lacaniana, realizada entre as décadas de 50 e 60, rumo à ascensão do Real enquanto registro fundamental para o pensamento clínico.It\'s about thinking the concept of object a as the necessary result of the impasse placed within lacanian metapsychology by the strained relation between an apropriation of hegelian dialectic of desire and sociolinguistic determination coming from Lévi-Strauss\' structuralism. First formalized in 1958, object a results from the manner in which Lacan conceived the subject\'s necessary resistance to desire\'s pure negativity, when desire has the possibility of being supressed by structure via signifier determination. Therefore, the development of concept is thought as to characterize it as the key factor in a lacanian twist, which happened between the 1950\'s and 60\'s, towards the rise of the Real as a fundamental record for the clinical theory.
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Blomberg, Stathopoulos Alexander C. "Acting and understanding." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/8417.
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This thesis concerns the question of what it is for a subject to act. It answers this question in three steps. The first step is taken by arguing that any satisfactory answer must build on the idea that an action is something predicable of the acting subject. The second step is taken by arguing in support of an answer which does build on this idea, and does so by introducing the idea that acting is doing something which is an exercise of a particular kind of disposition on the part of the acting subject. The third step is taken by arguing that the disposition in question must be of a kind which is exercised in conditions in which the acting subject thinks they are acting. From this vantage point the thesis develops many further commitments: That action is constitutively subject to a mode of explanation that mentions the kind of disposition just mentioned; that any case of acting requires a veridical representation of a means by which the action is performed; and that a problem about the underspecified nature of desire ascriptions can be solved by appeal to the conceptual materials made available by these investigations. The thesis finally develops several objections to the account it gives, both substantive and methodological, and explains why these objections ought to be rejected.
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Reitsma, Regan Lance. "Personal ideals and rationally impotent desires." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1190123916.
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Pelletier, Louise 1963. "Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières's architecture of expression, and the theatre of desire at the end of the Ancien Régime, or, the analogy of fiction with architectural innovation." Thesis, McGill University, 2000. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=36674.
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Cette dissertation explore le role de l'architecture en tant que langage expressif, a travers la theorie de caractere en France a la fin du dix-huitieme siecle. Depuis l'Antiquite, Vitruve avait etabli le role expressif de l'architecture dans sa definition du terme "decorum". Pour Vitruve, toutefois, l'architecture exprimait un ordre qui transcendait sa materialite, l'ordre de l'univers.Vers la fin du dix-septieme siecle, des changements culturels importants transformerent la nature meme de l'architecture. Le questionnement des fondations naturelles de l'architecture plongea la discipline dans une crise potentielle de la signification architecturale. Les architectes du dix-huitieme siecle commencerent a explorer le pouvoir expressif de l'architecture en tant que produit d'une imagination personnelle et specifique au contexte culturel, et essayerent de preserver sa signification de facon a ce que l'architecture demeure un langage commun.
L'architecte francais et theoricien Nicolas Le Camus de Mezieres (1721--ca.1793) developpa une theorie de l'architecture suivant laquelle le caractere d'un batiment se devait d'exprimer sa destination ou le statu social du client pour lequel il etait construit. Contrairement aux theories de caractere precedentes en architecture, celle de Le Camus etait basee de facon explicite sur une analogie entre l'architecture et le theatre: le mode d'expression en architecture suivait une progression temporelle typique du deroulement dramatique dans une piece de theatre; l'augmentation graduelle de l'ornementation des portes et des seuils successifs rappelait la succession des decors dans une performance de theatre. Cette etude examine les theories d'expression au theatre qui influencerent de facon explicite les theorie architecturales de Le Camus, telles que la mise en scene et le jeu des acteurs. Une etude plus poussee du role social et politique du theatre dans sa forme construite met en evidence l'innovation architecturale de l'oeuvre batie de Le Camus.
Alors que les etudes precedentes sur Le Camus de Mezieres mettent l'emphase sur son plus important traite architectural, Le genie de l'architecture, ou l'analogie de cet art avec nos sensations, cette dissertation analyse egalement le vaste repertoire des oeuvres ecrites de Le Camus, incluant ses pieces de theatre, son roman, et une description d'un jardin pittoresque. Ces ouvrages revelent l'objectif reel qui sous-tend la theorie architecturale de Le Camus: la volonte d'exprimer la tension erotique d'une architecture des sens.
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Amorim, Simone Cristina de. "Uma ideia de cartografia." [s.n.], 2010. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/278835.
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Orientador: Luiz Benedicto Lacerda OrlandiDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
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Resumo: As obras de Deleuze e Guattari trazem estratégias para o enfrentamento de maneiras endurecidas de sentir, pensar e conceber. Os universais vagos são abandonados em nome de uma filosofia prática. Com base nesta filosofia a presente dissertação visa disponibilizar uma ideia de cartografia que, em contraponto à colocação de questões da ideia sob a forma "Que é?", remaneja as questões da idéia para dinamismos espaço-temporais. Este remanejamento dispara uma maneira processual e intensiva de conceber os problemas, com um propósito suportivo para a efetivação das cartografias de casos aqui não dados. Trabalharemos com alguns agenciamentos teóricos que visam sustentar a efetivação de uma cartografia. Para isso elencamos a noção de processo esquizo compreendida a partir do inconsciente maquínico que traz, de um lado uma processualidade compreendida entre esquizofrenia e paranóia e em paralelo, entre metafísica do demoníaco e máquinas desejantes. Também trabalhamos de maneira sucinta com as noções de virtual e atual, individuação, devir, latitudes e longitudes, entretempos, linhas, estratos, meios, juízos, caos, agenciamentos, mapas, plano de consistência. Essas noções procuram tratar da movência de um caso que se transversalise por "n" campos de conhecimento, ao passo que, como disciplina distinta de uma cartografia, colocamos a intersecção entre Artes, Filosofias e Ciências, pois cada uma destas três disciplinas trata a seu modo e sem hierarquia, as questões vitais que uma cartografia trabalha
Resumo: As obras de Deleuze e Guattari trazem estratégias para o enfrentamento de maneiras endurecidas de sentir, pensar e conceber. Os universais vagos são abandonados em nome de uma filosofia prática. Com base nesta filosofia a presente dissertação visa disponibilizar uma ideia de cartografia que, em contraponto à colocação de questões da ideia sob a forma "Que é?", remaneja as questões da idéia para dinamismos espaço-temporais. Este remanejamento dispara uma maneira processual e intensiva de conceber os problemas, com um propósito suportivo para a efetivação das cartografias de casos aqui não dados. Trabalharemos com alguns agenciamentos teóricos que visam sustentar a efetivação de uma cartografia. Para isso elencamos a noção de processo esquizo compreendida a partir do inconsciente maquínico que traz, de um lado uma processualidade compreendida entre esquizofrenia e paranóia e em paralelo, entre metafísica do demoníaco e máquinas desejantes. Também trabalhamos de maneira sucinta com as noções de virtual e atual, individuação, devir, latitudes e longitudes, entretempos, linhas, estratos, meios, juízos, caos, agenciamentos, mapas, plano de consistência. Essas noções procuram tratar da movência de um caso que se transversalise por "n" campos de conhecimento, ao passo que, como disciplina distinta de uma cartografia, colocamos a intersecção entre Artes, Filosofias e Ciências, pois cada uma destas três disciplinas trata a seu modo e sem hierarquia, as questões vitais que uma cartografia trabalha
Abstract: The works of Deleuze and Guattari bring strategies for facing hard ways of feeling, thinking and conceiving. Vague universals are abandoned for the sake of a practical phylosophy. From the standpoint of this phylosophy, this dissertation seeks to make available one idea of cartography that, opposed to the posing of questions about the ideia in the form of "What is..?", relocates the questions of the idea to spatio-temporal dynamics. This relocation triggers a procedural and intensive manner of conceiving the problems, with a supportive purpose to the effectuation of cases' cartographies, not given throughout this dissertation. We will work on some theoretical agencies that seek support the effectuation of a cartography. Thereunto, we cast the notion of schizo process undestood from the standpoint of the machinic unconscious that brings, on one hand, a processitivity situated between schizophrenia and paranoia, and, in parallel, between metaphysics do the demoniacal and desiring machines. In a summarized fashion, we also work with the notions of "virtual" and "actual", "individuation", "becoming", "latitudes" and "longitudes", "meantime", "lines", "strata", "means", "judgments", "chaos", "assemblages", "maps", "plan of consistency". Such notions seek to address the move of a case that would transversalize "n" fields of knowledge, whilst, as a different discipline from cartography, we point the intersection between Arts, Phylpsophies and Sciences, once each of the three deals, following its way and with no hierarchy, the vital issues of a cartography
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Silva, Ana Paula Donizete da 1981. "A inclusão social pelo trabalho em Campinas : um debate sobre o direito, o desejo e a necessidade de acesso ao trabalho para as pessoas com transtornos mentais." [s.n.], 2015. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/313049.
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Orientador: Sabrina Helena FerigatoDissertação (mestrado profissional) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas
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Resumo: A presente pesquisa busca explorar a experiência de inclusão social de pessoas com transtornos mentais em Campinas-SP. Importa aqui, relacionar as questões de acesso ao trabalho desses sujeitos com as dimensões de seus direitos, desejos e necessidades em desenvolver uma atividade laborativa. Trata-se uma pesquisa de natureza qualitativa que se desenvolve na perspectiva de um estudo interventivo e participativo, que incluiu pesquisa de campo, revisão bibliográfica de artigos, livros e teses dentro do campo da clínica psicossocial, da saúde coletiva, entre outros aportes teóricos. O campo investigado, circunscreveu os espaços deliberativos e de tomada de decisões, pertencentes ao conjunto de iniciativas de geração de renda desenvolvidas no município de Campinas-SP, tal seleção se deu em razão destes espaços serem elucidativos da temática aqui tratada. Posto isto, a assembleia do Núcleo de Oficinas e Trabalho (NOT) e as rodas de conversas de três oficinas passaram a integrar o campo de pesquisa. Por meio de ferramentas de produção de dados como a observação participante, diário de campo e grupos focais, este estudo apresenta o material produzido a partir da participação de oficineiros e seus monitores. Com isso pudemos nos aprofundar na análise de como as dimensões supracitadas compareceram nesse espaço. Como resultados identificamos que a necessidade pelo trabalho, bem como o direito e o desejo de trabalhar são categorias que expressam não apenas importantes movimentos de constituição do sujeito em suas relações com trabalho, mas que também podem nortear processos emancipatórios, que confluem para a produção de uma sociedade mais justa e solidária
Abstract: The object of this study is to explore the experience of social inclusion of people with mental disorders in Campinas, São Paulo. The main focus was to link these individuals¿ issues regarding access to employment with the dimensions of their rights, desires, and needs when carrying out professional activities. It is qualitative research that develops in the perspective of a participatory and interventional study which included field research, literature review of articles, books and theses within the psychosocial clinical field of public health, among other theoretical contributions. The researched field circumscribed deliberative and decision-making spaces, pertaining to the set of income-generating initiatives in Campinas-SP. This selection was due to the fact that these spaces are illustrative of the subject being discussed herein. Therefore, the scope of research includes the deliberative assembly of the Center for Workshops and Labor (NOT, in Portuguese) and the rounds of conversation in three workshops. Through data generation tools, namely observation of participants, maintenance of a field log and creation of focus groups, this study presents the material produced in association with workshop participants and their monitors. In consequence, we were able to deepen the analysis of how the aforementioned dimensions took part in this space. Our findings indicate that need for work, as well as a right and a desire to work, are categories that not only go a long way toward the inception of a subject in their relationship with work, but can also guide emancipatory processes that aid in engendering a more just and humane society
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LANDRETH, ANTHONY WILLIAM. "FAR BEYOND DRIVEN: ON THE NEURAL MECHANISMS OF MOTIVATION." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1196094476.
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Hersey, Shane J. "Endangered by desire : T.G.H. Strehlow and the inexplicable vagaries of private passion." Thesis, View thesis, 2006. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/19524.
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This thesis is about the depth of colonisation through translation. I develop an analytic framework that explores colonisation and translation using the trope of romantic love and an experimental textual construction incorporating translation and historical reconstruction. Utilising both the first and the final drafts of “Chapter X, Songs of Human Beauty and Love-charms” in Songs of Central Australia, by T. Strehlow, I show how that text, written over thirty years and comprised of nine drafts, can be described as a translation mediated by the colonising syntax and grammar. My interest lies in developing a novel textual technique to attempt to illustrate this problem so as to allow an insight into the perspective of a colonised person. This has involved a re-examination of translation as something other than a transtemporal structure predicated on direct equivalence, understanding it instead as something that fictionalises and reinvents the language that it purports to represent. It begins by establishing an understanding of the historical context in which the translated text is situated, from both objective and personal viewpoints, and then foregrounds the grammatical perspective of the argument. Utilising the techniques and processes of multiple translation, Internet-based translation software, creative writing and historical reconstruction, it continues to consider the role of imagination and begins the construction of a visceral argument whereby the reader is encouraged to experience a cognitive shift similar to that understood by the colonised other, which is revealed in a fictional autobiography written by an imagined other. It concludes by considering the coloniser within the same context, using, as an example T. Strehlow, who had a unique understanding of the Arrernte language. Tracking his extensive alterations, revisions and excisions within his drafts of Chapter X, this thesis traces a textual history of change, theorising that the translator, no matter how "authentic", is as much translated by the text as she or he is a translator of the text.
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Cimmarusti, Claudia. "Dalla relazione : Desiderio e legge nell'opera di Alexandre Kojève." Thesis, Paris 1, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA01H209/document.
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Cette étude entend sonder la potentialité spéculative d'une philosophie éminemment kojèvienne qui naisse à partir de la relation entre le Désir et la Loi. Le privilège herméneutique accordé à ce plexus pour une enquête monographique de l'œuvre de Kojève vient de l'intuition d'une unité fondamentale dans sa pensée. Il s'agit de débuter une recherche sur la relation analysée à la lumière de la nouvelle ontologie que Kojève essaie de penser. Nous savons que Kojève est passé à l'histoire en tant que « interprète » de Hegel, en tant que doctor subtilis des légendaires Séminaires sur la Phénomélogie de l'Esprit. L'introduction à la lecture de Hegel a été le Livre-Evénement qui a affecté le Paris intellectuel des années Trente du XXème siècle et ses protagonistes de prestige ; mais fut uniquement la pointe de l'iceberg de la production scientifique de notre auteur. La reconstruction de I'opera omnia de Kojève, par conséquent, a été la base à partir de laquelle est devenue possible ce travail. À partir des écrits de la jeunesse émerge la matrice scientifique et, au même temps, spéculative de la réflexion kojèvienne : je fais référence au Journal d'un philosophe (1920-1923) et à l'idée du déterminisme dans la physique classique et dans la physique moderne (1932). La question, formulée en partie déjà de Kojève, est la suivante : c'est possible associer à la révolution quantique en physique la révolution psychanalytique en considérant que la détermination relative de la réalité physique implique et suppose l'existence de l'inconscient psychique ? Les observations préliminaires sur la science ont été fonctionnelles à donner une réponse affirmative à cette question et à présenter la généalogie de la thèse principale de ce travail : le sujet kojèvien n'est pas seulement - à la Butler - un sujet de désir ; mais, plutôt, un sujet de désir et loiThis work seeks to explore the potential of the philosophy of Kojève, which has its offspring in the relation between Desire and Law. This plexus is regarded as the hermeneutic theme of the work of Kojève, based on the intuition of a fundamental unity within his thought.This study aims at starting a research about relationship, in the light of Kojève's nouvelle ontologie. Kojève is regarded as “the interpreter” of Hegel and the doctor subtilis of the legendary Seminars on the Phenomenology of Spirit. The Introduction à la lecture de Hegel was the work that revolutionised the scholars in Paris in the 1930s, but it was only the tip of the iceberg of the author's scientific production. Therefore, the reconstruction of the opera omnia of Kojève is the base of this work, which could not have been possible without it.The scientific and speculative roots of Kojève's thought are evident since the early works of the author, and particularly the Journal d'un philosophe (1920-1923) and l'idée du déterminisme dans la physique classique et dans la physique moderne (1932). The main question, partly formulated by Kojève himself, is the following: can we associate the quantic revolution in physics to the revolution of psychoanalysis, given that the relative determination of physic reality implies the existence of the psychological unconscious? The preliminary observations on science have been fundamental in order to give a positive answer to this question. They also represent the foundations of this research. According to Kojève, the subject is not simply, as Butler would hold, a subject of desire; but a subject of desire and law
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Di, Lecce Giuseppe. "The naked king : on the desire to replace philosophy with Conceptual art during the years 1966-1972 and the aesthetic response by Theodor W. Adorno, Umberto Eco and Jacques Rancière." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-14321.
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The aim of this essay is to investigate the reconfiguration and, to some extent, the total deconstruction of the aesthetic field, such as we have know it since Baumgarten, that is promoted by Conceptual art. It is our intention to show the philosophical importance and the theoretical implications of the questions raised by this artistic movement, which somehow instigated the tumultuous debate directed to overwhelm much of the art world from the late 1960's onward. We believe that the very core of Conceptual art is philosophical and in this respect our programme is to investigate how Conceptual art not only challenges the viewer with traditional aesthetic concepts, but also with the very means used by philosophy to analyse art. This essay aims therefore to be an analysis of the philosophy of Conceptual art, which we put in relation to the aesthetic investigations of three philosophers - TheodorWiesengrundAdorno, Umberto Eco and Jacques Rancière. The ambition is to shed theoretical light on an artistic movement certainly scantly considered within the philosophical domain, while it indicates itself as the contingent successor to philosophy.
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Bäärnhielm, Pousette Sophie. "Avskapelse och livsglupskhet : Helig självsvält och oheligt ätande hos Etty Hillesum och Simone Weil." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Estetik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-44960.
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This essay investigates the philosophies and practices of Simone Weil and Etty Hillesum from the viewpoint of their relation to eating. By analyzing them aided by Renée Girard’s theory of mimetic desire, I discuss similarities and differences between Weils and Hillesums work and spiritual development. Entering their thinking through Robert Daly’s notion of a phenomenology of redemption, which describes the form of mimetic desire that counters, rather than produces, violence, I discuss, guided by Susan Bordo’s work on eating disorders as well as Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of perception, how Weil and Hillesum can be said to engage in this respectively. By contrasting Weil’s decreation with Hillesum's compulsive overeating, or “life-gluttony”, my analysis argues that Hillesum's diaries depict how she copes with violence by practicing a kind of radical self-love, through which she becomes able to reconcile with both herself and her outside world. As for Weil, I argue that the self-destructive ethics that her decreation consists in prevent her from reaching a full reconciliation, insofar as it constitutes only internalized violence, and not a refusal of violence as such. Thus, my conclusion is, Hillesum's philosophy might be said to be an expression of a more complete redemption, as I formulate it taking my departure in Daly's concept, than Weil's.Denna uppsats diskuterar Simone Weils och Etty Hillesums verk och liv med avstamp i Weils formulering av begreppet avskapelse samt den livshunger, eller livsglupskhet, som Hillesum beskriver i sina dagböcker. Med hjälp av Renée Girards teori om mimetiska begär undersöker den hur självsvält och överätande figurerar i Weil och Hillesums liv och verk, och hur dessa fenomen relaterar till deras respektive andliga och etiska övertygelser. Utifrån Richard Dalys tanke om en försoningens fenomenologi, baserad i Girards teori om mimetiska begär, Susan Bordos analys av ätstörningar som kulturellt fenomen samt Maurice Merleau-Pontys kroppsorienterade fenomenologi utreder den skillnader och likheter mellan Weil och Hillesum med avseende på hur deras etiska övertygelser gestaltas av och i deras liv och verk. Min analys gör gällande att Hillesums dagböcker skildrar hur hon gör upp med våld genom att praktisera ett slags radikal självkärlek, genom vilken hon blir förmögen att försonas med såväl sig själv som sin omvärld. Vad gäller Weil, hävdar jag att den självförintande etik som hennes avskapelse består i omöjliggör en fullkomlig försoning, såtillvida som den endast utgör ett internaliserat våld, och inte en uppgörelse med våldet som sådant. Därmed, är min slutsats, kan Hillesums filosofi möjligen sägas vara ett uttryck för enmer fullkomlig försoning, som jag formulerar den med avstamp i Dalys begrepp, än Weils.
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Fabris, Alberto. "Itinéraires du désir dans la philosophie de Giordano Bruno." Thesis, Lyon, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018LYSEN074/document.
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Le présent travail de thèse est consacré à la question du désir et à la façon dont elle émerge dans la philosophie de Giordano Bruno (1548-1600). En dépit de sa place relativement marginale dans le corpus très vaste des études bruniennes, et malgré sa présence non immédiatement évidente dans les écrits du Nolain, nous pensons qu’une recherche sur le statut du désir peut ouvrir une perspective pertinente et radicale sur la pensée de ce philosophe de la Renaissance tardive. Loin d’être une question accessoire, le désir se situe au coeur de la philosophie de Bruno et incarne le rythme immanent de sa spéculation. Face au thème capital de la nolana filosofia – la modalité à travers laquelle le fini réalise et exprime l’infini – la question du désir nous ouvre des chemins suggestifs à travers l’imposante oeuvre de l’ex-moine dominicain. Nous avons abordé ce sujet sous plusieurs perspectives, toujours attentifs à exprimer le caractère systématique sus-jacent à la grande ampleur des thématiques que l’on trouve dans les écrits du philosophe. Nous avons préféré procéder de manière diachronique, en privilégiant une approche conceptuelle plutôt qu’un exposé de la philosophie brunienne dans son déroulement chronologique. Nous nous sommes d’abord penchés sur un traité tardif, la Lampas triginta statuarum, où le désir apparaît comme la force qui amène les « ténèbres »indistinctes à exprimer la richesse infinie de formes qu’elles renferment en puissance. Dans les dialogues cosmologiques en italien, le désir, force immanente aux révolutions des planètes (qui assurent la succession des saisons et des civilisations), réalise dans chaque être la vicissitude qui lui permet « d’être tout et de devenir tout ». La comédie italienne le Chandelier montre comment la poursuite d’un désir statique, obsessionnel et contraire à la nature amène inévitablement à la perte des personnages qui l’incarnent. Cette même aspiration “civile” sera présente dans le traité magique Des liens où le philosophe-mage s’appuie sur l’amour, « le lien le plus puissant », pour donner vie à une république qui, à travers ses citoyens, reflète la puissance infinie inhérente à la nature. En dernier lieu,nous verrons comment, dans Des fureurs héroïques, l’élan cognitif qui amène Actéon à « devenir nature » correspond à la manière la plus humaine qui soit de réaliser l’infiniMy PhD dissertation aims at analysing the concept of desire in relation to Giordano Bruno’s philosophy. Despite the relatively marginal place of this issue among secondary bibliography and its not immediately evident presence in Bruno’s works, I think that this kind of research can open apertinent and radical perspective on Bruno’s thought. Far from being a secondary aspect, the desire is at the core of Giordano Bruno’s philosophy and it embodies its immanent rhythm. In relation to the fundamental theme of Bruno’s philosophy – the way in which the finite realises the infinite – the question of desire can disclose to us new perspectives. I have looked at this problem from many perspectives, always attentive to express the systematic character under the great varieties of topicswe can find in the Nolana filosofia. I have proceeded diachronically, privileging a conceptual approach rather than a chronological account of Bruno’s thought. First, I have considered the Lampas triginta statuarum, a late Latin treatise in which the desire appears as the force that leads the tenebræ toexpress the infinity of forms they contain in potentiality. In the cosmological dialogues in Italian, the desire – immanent force that assures planets’ revolutions (and in that way the cycle of seasons andcivilisations) – realises in all the beings the vicissitude that allows it to “be everything and becomeeverything”. The comedy The Candle Bearer shows how the pursuit of a static, obsessional, andunnatural desire causes the loss of the three main characters. We can find the same “civil afflatus” inthe magical treatise De vinculis where the magic-philosopher builds through love (“the most powerfullink”) a republic that, through its citizens, reflects the infinite power of nature. Lastly, we will see how, in The Heroic Frenzies, the cognitive desire that allows the metamorphosis of the hunter Acteon in nature corresponds to the most human way to realise the infinite
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Kuang, Quan. "Une ontologie de la liberté dans l'œuvre de Paul Ricoeur." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016STRAK010/document.
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Penser l’être humain comme un être libre : tel est le souci constant de la réflexion de Paul Ricœur. Au niveau anthropologique, le philosophe cherche à remettre la liberté en lien avec la condition concrète de l’homme, où la nature, le corps, autrui et la société sont en jeu. Ce n’est qu’en reconnaissant une telle condition que la liberté devient réelle, affirmative et puissante. Au niveau ontologique, c’est la liberté humaine qui offre un accès privilégié à la compréhension de l’être en général. Après avoir écarté la notion de l’être comme objectivité, la liberté le dévoile comme un acte affirmatif. Au niveau méthodologique, le développement d’une herméneutique phénoménologique constitue un élément essentiel de l’ontologie de la liberté, dans la mesure où la pensée est elle-même toujours impliquée dans cette interrogation ontologique. C’est par un tel « engagement » que la pensée atteste l’être de la liberté, surtout face à l’énigme du malOne of the persistent concerns of Paul Ricœur’s philosophy is to reflect upon the human being as being free. At the anthropological level, Ricœur always considers freedom within concrete human condition, in which nature, body, others and society are all involved. One’s freedom becomes real, affirming and powerful only when such condition is recognized. At the ontological level, it is only as a free being that one has the privileged access to the understanding of being in general. Human as free being reveals that being should not be understood as objectivity, but as an affirming act. Finally, at the methodological level, Ricœur’s elaboration of phenomenological hermeneutics constitutes an essential element of his ontology of freedom. From his methodological development, it can be seen that the thinking philosopher himself, as a free being, is also engaged in his inquiry. In this regard, Ricœur’s philosophy as such becomes an attestation of free being, especially in his confrontation with the enigma of evil
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Stenfelt, Matilda. "Intentionalitet i kollektiva beteenden hos en artificiell svärm." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för datavetenskap, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-166315.
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Målet med den här datorbaserade filosofiska utredningen inom kognitionsvetenskap är att utforska intentionalitet i kollektiva beteenden hos artificiella svärmar. Två definitioner av intentionalitet utforskades; som representationer hos agenter och som observerbara attribut hos agenter, även kallat intentional stance. För den representativa definitionen användes en modell av kollektiv intentionalitet som integrerar två olika ståndpunkter, singularståndpunkten och pluralståndpunkten av kollektiv intentionalitet. Modellen har fem villkor för intentionalitet enligt SharedPlans. Genom att använda Belief-Desire-Intention-modellen för intelligenta agenter operationaliserades villkoren till möjliga representationer. En implementation av en målinriktad artificiell svärm i NetLogo analyserades genom att studera hur väl den uppfyllde de operationaliserade villkoren. Fyra av fem villkor var uppfyllda. Flera simuleringar med olika hastighet genomfördes även under observation. Dessa visade att processen kunde delas upp i tre faser med olika egenskaper. Den utforskande fasen hade gemensam intentionalitet centrerad till ett fåtal aktiva individer. Beslutsfasen hade individuella intentioner som kunde stå i konflikt med varandra medan gemensamma intentioner strävade mot samma mål. I flyttfasen var de individuella intentionerna att förhålla sig till varandra, vilket fick gruppen att upplevas som en enhet med intentionen att flytta gruppen. Resultaten visade att intentionalitet kan observeras och analyseras hos den här artificiella svärmen. Däremot har svärmen inte kollektiv intentionalitet utifrån båda ståndpunkterna.
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Spånberg, Martin. "Etikens Pathos : En undersökning av begärsbegreppet i Emmanuel Levinas Totalitet och oändlighet." Thesis, Högskolan i Jönköping, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-47071.
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In this essay, I examine the conception of metaphysical desire as understood by Emmanuel Levinas within his work Totality and Infinity. The main problematic of the work is whether a relationship with an absolute Other, understood as a positive infinity, that is posited beyond the realm of the I, is possible, or whether the totality of the same is inevitable. I present metaphysical desire to the Other as a crucial point in Totality and Infinity, which in its endless-growing hunger beyond satisfaction becomes an infinity within a finite subject, therefore sets up the relationship between the I and the infinite Other, as a concretization of the idea of infinity. In addition, I construe, in the light of the critique of Levinas by Jacques Derrida and other research, an understanding of metaphysical desire as a pathos of ethics that interrupts the spatio-temporality of the same by being a spatio-temporality which opens the I and directs it toward the Other without abolishing their distance. In this neverending movement the egoism of the I is discontinued and peace becomes possible without resulting in totality. Instead, the movement toward the infinite Other is a movement toward an uncharted future, a movement which consists of an infinite dialogue with the Other.
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Martínez, Reinoso Rodrigo Guillermo. "Sociedad y deseo a la luz de la relación entre ontología y política en la obra de Gilles Deleuze." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/403874.
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Este trabajo aborda en general sobre la relación dada entre ontología y política a partir de la obra del filósofo contemporáneo Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995). Específicamente, se analizan los conceptos de sociedad y deseo, bajo dos perspectivas filosóficas contrapuestas. Por un lado, una concepción negativa y dialéctica de la relación sociedad-deseo, que exige confrontar las filosofías de Platón, Aristóteles y algunos pensadores modernos, entre ellos: Descartes, Kant, Hegel y Freud; ello bajo el punto de vista crítico que se sostiene desde la ontología de la pura diferencia de Deleuze, punto de vista que se dirige contra la concepción moral de la cultura occidental. Por otro lado, se aborda la concepción afirmativa de la relación sociedad-deseo. Destacando la recepción de las obras de Spinoza, Nietzsche, Hume y Bergson, por parte de Deleuze. Recepción que permite restituir el valor y estatuto ontológico de la naturaleza, el cuerpo, la afectividad, las pasiones y el deseo bajo un sentido inmanente. Finalmente, se trata la teoría general de la sociedad y las sociedades que implica la ontología social de Deleuze y Félix Guattari. Y más específicamente, explicamos el concepto de socius o superficie de inscripción, fundado en la teoría de un inconsciente maquínico trascendental, diverso del concepto de inconsciente individual y personológico sustentado por la tradición psicoanalítica. Mostrando a la vez las aplicaciones de este concepto para desarrollar un análisis social y político diferencial que prescinde de la concepción historicista de la cultura occidental. En efecto, se tratan tres modelos de regímenes de signos o formaciones sociales: un régimen de signos pre-significante, que atañe al socius primitivo o sociedades del marcaje; un régimen de signos significante que atañe al socius bárbaro despótico o sistema de esclavitud maquínico general; y, por último, un régimen de signos post-significante, pasional-autoritario, inherente al socius capitalista o sociedades modernas, régimen que implica el concepto de servidumbre voluntaria. En el epílogo conclusivo de nuestro trabajo sintetizamos todo nuestro trayecto, a la vez que lo matizamos a partir de la interpretación de Deleuze del pensamiento de David Hume. Siendo esta la forma de destacar la concepción afirmativa de la sociedad de Deleuze fundada en el proyecto de Hume de sustituir una psicología del espíritu por una psicología de las afecciones del espíritu. Teniendo como elementos capitales las afecciones de lo pasional y lo social.This paper deals on the relation between ontology and politics from the work of the philosopher Gilles Deleuze. Specifically, the concepts of society and desire are analyzed, from two opposite perspectives. On the one hand, a negative and dialectical conception of the society-desire relationship, which demands to confront the philosophies of Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Kant, Hegel and Freud; This under the critical point of view that is sustained from the ontology of Deleuze's pure difference. On the other hand, the affirmative conception of the society-desire relationship is addressed. Highlighting the reception of the works of Spinoza, Nietzsche, Hume and Bergson, by Deleuze. Finally, it treats the general theory of the society that implies the social ontology of Deleuze. And more specifically, the concept of socius or inscription surface, based on the theory of a transcendental machinic unconscious. Showing at the same time the applications of this concept to develop a differential social and political analysis. In fact, three models of regimes of signs or social forms are treated: a pre- signifying regime of signs that concerns the primitive socius; A significant regime of signs that concerns the despotic barbarian socius; And, finally, a post-signifying, passionate-authoritarian regime of signs inherent in the capitalist society or modern societies.
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Schick, Nemira. "Wet : a novel and a project." Thesis, View thesis, 2003. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/22330.
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Wet : a Project is a ficto-critical essay, a writer's diary, concerned with language, trauma, the body and image. A complement to Wet, it is greatly informed by Probyn's model of 'belonging' as a writing subject, and psychoanalytic theorisation such as Gibb's analysis of psychosomatic speech, Pines' and Anzieu's conceptualisations of the 'skin ego', Kristeva's account of sensation and its relation to language and Lacan's development of the ego in the mirror stage. In addition, it engages Herman's analysis of trauma and Scarry's account of pain, and their relationships to language, the body and subjectivity. Interspersed with autobiographical accounts, Wet : a Project explores the milieus, spaces and specific geographical sites in which trauma, language, forms of identity, desire, belonging and becoming, emerge or assert their visibility.
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Hopkins, Alison Julie. "Convenient fictions : the script of lesbian desire in the post-Ellen era : a New Zealand perspective : a thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy [in Gender and Women's Studies] /." ResearchArchive@Victoria e-thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/1108.
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Trolin, Zachris. "Begreppet individ, hos Leibniz och Spinoza, såsom singulärt och del i världens mångfald." Thesis, Södertörn University College, The School of Culture and Communication, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-1179.
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This thesis deals with the concepts of individual and individuation as defined by Leibniz and Spinoza. I go through the use and definition of the concept of individual in four stages.
First I discuss the individual as conceived by Spinoza as a relation formed by a composition of parts and the individual as conceived by Leibniz as a complete notion consisting of all the events in the life of a subject.
Next is the roll of perception in Leibniz discussed, likewise individuation through different perception with varying distinctness, and the affinity of perception with affection.
The discussions concerning the individual concludes in a section about the essence of the individual as being the desire of the individual. In the last stage, I discuss the multitude as being an own individual.
Den här uppsatsen handlar om individ och individuation som det definieras hos Leibniz och Spinoza. Jag följer användandet och definitionen av individ i fyra etapper.
Först diskuterar jag Spinozas individ som relationen av en sammansättning av delar och Leibniz individ som en fullständig notion bestående av alla händelser i ett subjekts liv.
Därefter diskuteras perceptionens roll hos Leibniz, liksom individuation genom olika tydliga perceptioner, samt perceptionens affinitet med affektionen.
För individens del mynnar diskussionerna ut i en del om individens essens i form av dess begär. Den sista etappen diskuterar mångfalden såsom en egen individ.
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Mirizio, Annalisa. "Del pathos al logos, del logos a la escritura: el deseo de las mujeres en las políticas del deseo y la écriture féminine." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/673527.
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Esta tesis doctoral analiza las teorizaciones elaboradas por algunas mujeres, especialmente en el ámbito francés e italiano, acerca de un deseo específicamente femenino. En particular, se estudia cómo de la alianza conceptual entre las denuncias de Luce Irigaray (1974) y la imagen del deseo de las mujeres como "sujeto imprevisto" de la sociedad patriarcal propuesta por Carla Lonzi(1974) ha surgido, en Italia, aquel conjunto de teoría y praxis que se ha llamado "política del deseo"; y cómo la invitación a entrar en la escritura formulada por Hélene Cixous en aquellos mismo años se ha convertido, para esta escritora, en una práctica poética también analiza en qué medida el discurso feminista, entendido como discurso político, puede configurarse como discurso capaz de abarcar en sus cauces el carácter complejo y, a menudo contradictorio del deseo, y qué ventajas teóricas y analíticas presenta el discurso literario, respecto al discurso político, para dar voz a un deseo específicamente femenino.
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Hellgren, Amanda, and Anastasia Partanen. "Becoming-Fashion : Begäret efter övermänniskan." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-12350.
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Vi vill med det här kandidatarbetet ifrågasätta begäret efter övermäniskan som vi menar att reklam för modeindustrin idag porträtterar. Med hjälp av Guy Debords skådespelssamhälle och Gilles Deleuze och Felix Guattaris teorier ifrågasatter vi vad det är vi begär och varför vi gör det. Vi ifrågasätter övermänniskan som modeindustrin producerar med förhoppningen att det ökar medvetenheten för personer i samhället. Ifrågasättandet av begäret har resulterat i två gestaltningar, en klänning av sönderrivna sidor ur boken Mein Kampf och en kreation av hönsnät formad som en naken kvinna. Vi känner oss fångade av modeindustrin och känner oss illa till mods över hur den mänskliga kroppen porträtteras i reklam för mode. Vi menar att det i klädreklam snarare handlar om avsaknaden av den mänskliga kroppen då bilderna retuscheras till en artefakt. Vi ser vår undersökning som en grund till en fortsatt undersökning om ett alternativ och förhoppningsvis kommer vårt begär i framtiden förflyttats från övermänniskan till något mer mänskligt.In this Bachelor thesis we question the desire for the übermensch that we mean advertising for the fashion industry portrays today. With help of Guy Debord's “Society of the Spectacle” and Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's theories we question our desire and why we desire it. We question the übermensch that the the fashion industry produces with the hope that it will increase the society’s awareness. The questioning of desire has resulted in two designs, a dress of torn pages from the book Mein Kampf and the creation of chicken wire shaped like a naked woman. We feel trapped by the fashion industry and feel uneasy about how the human body is portrayed in advertisements for fashion. We believe that the advertising for clothing is more about the lack of the human body when the images are retouched into an artifact. We see our study as a basis for a continued research for an option and in the future hopefully our desire will be moved from the übermensch into something more human. In this Bachelor thesis we question the desire for the übermensch that we mean advertising for the fashion industry portrays today. With help of Guy Debord's “Society of the Spectacle” and Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's theories we question our desire and why we desire it. We question the übermensch that the the fashion industry produces with the hope that it will increase the society’s awareness. The questioning of desire has resulted in two designs, a dress of torn pages from the book Mein Kampf and the creation of chicken wire shaped like a naked woman. We feel trapped by the fashion industry and feel uneasy about how the human body is portrayed in advertisements for fashion. We believe that the advertising for clothing is more about the lack of the human body when the images are retouched into an artifact. We see our study as a basis for a continued research for an option and in the future hopefully our desire will be moved from the übermensch into something more human.
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Weiss, Jeremy. "A Feeling Theory of Feelings." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1462182103.
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Eaton, Marcella. "Philosophy and design in landscape architecture." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/32101.
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Deer, Laraine. "Sensing the self : pathways of perception between visible incisions and vaporous boundaries." Thesis, View thesis, 1997. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/373.
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The dialectic about body and 'self' osculates between material and conceptual paradigms. The breaking down of the poles between mind and body has stimulated a range of debates about subjectivity, desire, and knowledge. The body viewed as an anatomical specimen in the history of Western culture fails to acknowledge the corporeal other, it also does not acknowledge the way in which it has been constructed in a framework based on masculine desire and knowledge. This dissertation explores the profiles of the psychological 'body image' as a pathway to two different conceptual frameworks about the body. Firstly by using vision as a mode of investigating the relationship between the corporeal gendered 'self' and the anatomical other in Western culture. Then using the conceptual understanding of the 'body image' to extend beyond the limits of vision to a vaporous, more ethereal account of self. This concept blurs the edges of the corporeal self by using the olfactory as the basis for crossing the 'unseen' boundaries of body space and subjectivity.
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Xu, Peizhong. ""Without Thought" Philosophy of Design Applied to Product Design." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1378113030.
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Angarita, Soto Angie. "Design Philosophy for User Friendly Parameter Handler." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för innovation, design och teknik, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-16187.
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DCU2 (Drive Control Unit 2) is an important control system used in applications for train systems that are configured by a set of parameters. Traditionally, parameterization is conducted by using an excel workbook during the software development. The parameters are set up and further export the parameters to the compilation step. Such approach has a number of disadvantages, e.g., delays on the validation and verification steps, system configuration overhead, and suboptimal system reliability generated by the parameter configurations. To improve the parameterization process, this thesis implements a model-based software architecture approach and automotive industry standards via rapid prototyping by using scrum methodology. We do this by using Matlab/Simulink, TDL (Time Description Language) and UML (Unified Modeling Language) architectural description languages to enable different views of the software architecture. We then develop different prototypes that implement ASAM (Association for Standardization of Automation and Measuring Systems) standards like XCP protocol over Ethernet (code ASAM MCD-1 XCP V1.1.0) and ASAP2 (code ASAM MCD-2 MC) in every scrum sprint. An evaluation then shows that the thesis successfully implements previously defined standards that use commercial tools from e.g., Vector, proving that the parameter‟s unit control can be handled via online calibration and measurement, leading to a significant improvement in Bombardier‟s software development process in a distributed development environment.