Rival Versions of Objective Spirit

Rival Reactions

Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are major events, reshaping competition among related firms (traditionally called rivals). Despite their seeming importance, most M&A studies have found only a limited empirical impact on rival stock prices. Our paper revisits this issue using a novel approach to characterize the degree of interactions among related firms based on their stock return correlations ...

A Hermeneutic Phenomenology of Subjective and Objective Spirit: Husserl, Natorp, and Cassirer

In the introduction to the third and last volume of his Philosophy of Symbolic Forms of 1929, entitled " Phenomenology of Knowledge, " Ernst Cassirer remarks that the meaning in which he employs the term 'phenomenology' is Hegelian rather than according to " the modern usage of the term. " 1 What sense can it make, then, to invoke Edmund Husserl's phenomenology in this context? Yet if, roughly ...

Strategic Seeding of Rival Opinions

We present a network influence game that models players strategically seeding the opinions of nodes embedded in a social network. A social learning dynamic, whereby nodes repeatedly update their opinions to resemble those of their neighbors, spreads the seeded opinions through the network. After a fixed period of time, the dynamic halts and each player’s utility is determined by the relative st...

Beyond Matter and Spirit to an Objective Spirituality through the Totality Axiom

Science has rendered the matter and spirit conceptual framework obsolete. This paper advocates its replacement with structure (what we can understand through science) and essence (what we experience in stream of consciousness). The Totality Axiom is introduced to integrate structure and essence and thus provide a starting point for integrating scientific understanding with spiritual intuition. ...

Recollecting the Spirit of Jihad