Memory, History, Oblivion: Ricoeur on the human condition

"Eric Voegelin and Paul Ricoeur on Memory and History"

Paul Ricoeur, Critique and Conviction We are not equal within language. There are inabilities. Take now the ability to act. It is greater among people with power. . . . There are degrees of ability, therefore. For example--and we may have to reconcile ourselves with this, including with Hayden White--this marvelous ability to narrate. Because it is universal: everybody has narrated. We are tryi...

Protection through Oblivion

The growth of high speed computer networks and that of the Internet, in particular, has increased the ease of Information Communication. Ironically, the cause for the development is also of the apprehension use of digital formatted data. In comparison with Analog media, Digital media offers several distinct advantages such as high quality, easy editing, high fidelity copying, compression etc. B...

The Ethics of Reading: Ingarden, Iser, Ricoeur

romantic education:reading william wordsworths the prelude in the light of the history of ideas

عصر روشنگری زمان شکل گیری ایده های مدرن تربیتی- آموزشی بود اما تاکید بیش از اندازه ی دوشاخه مهم فلسفی زمان یعنی عقل گرایی و حس گرایی بر دقت و وضوح، انسان عصر روشنگری را نسبت به دیگر تواناییهایش نابینا کرده و موجب به وجود آمدن افرادی تک بعدی شد که افتخارعقلانیتشان، تاکید شان بر تجربه فردی، به مبارزه طلبیدن منطق نیاکانشان وافسون زدایی شان از دنیا وتمام آنچه با حواس پنجگانه قابل درک نبوده و یا در ...

How tumors escape oblivion

and colleagues have found that certain successful Streptococci actually avoid attachment to host cells. This contrasts with the modus operandi of most pathogenic bacteria. The M1 serotype of the highly heterogeneous Group A Streptococcus (GAS) pathogen is the most common GAS strain found in severe disease outbreaks. M1 GAS are unique in that they produce streptococcal inhibitor of complement (S...