Open Access2. Background: Tension, Ambiguity, and Discussion Surrounding a Versehttps://doi.org/10.13109/9783666573507.33SectionsPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail AboutQuod autem ait: Crescite et multiplicamini, replete terram, necesse fuit prius plantare silvam crescere, ut esset quod postea posset excidi. Simulque c...

This essay investigates the German ex-Dadaist Hugo Ball (1886–1927) and his 1920s work on religious conversion from Paul, Augustine Francis to writers poets in modernity. intense engagement was rooted Ball's own radical conversion, or ‘re-conversion’, an austere form of Catholicism childhood 1920, just a few years after breaking with Dada movement he had helped found Zurich 1916. In letters, bo...

THISARTtcLE EXAMINES DISC:OURSES IN THE academic and information science literature that attempt to justify and promote, to criticize and resist, or to explain and interpret transformational social change. These discussions represent one face of a much larger wave of popular and technical discourse that has arisen in response to pressures put on currently dominant institutions by the processes ...

An analysis of Marxist conceptions of the good and the beautiful and their relationship to alienation, “Ugly and Monstrous” argues that Marxism was ultimately a set of aesthetic beliefs, one that paradoxically called for the temporary cessation of all attempts to create beautiful artwork. Marx understood beauty as Kant had – that it is the result of the harmonization of the faculties that occur...

Renunciation is one of the most widely studied subjects among Indic traditions. The image of a half-naked ascetic with a stick in one hand and a begging bowl in other has captured the attention of scholars more often than the mundane householder. Whereas the ascetic captured the imagination with his (and sometimes her) individualistic spirit rebelling against the maligned caste hierarchy, the h...

A well known issue in Western Philosophy is that of "freedom of the will": whether, how and in what sense human beings have genuine freedom of action in the context of a broad range of external and internal conditioning factors. Any system of ethics also assumes that humans have, in some sense, a freedom to choose between different courses of action. Buddhist ethics is no different in this—but ...

Buddhist scholars like Kenneth Ch’en thought that filial piety was a special feature of Chinese Buddhism. Later, John Strong employed “popular Buddhist stories” to show that filial piety was also important in Indian Buddhism, but he asserted that it was “a Buddhist compromise with the Brāhmanical ethics of filiality operating at the popular level.” On the other hand, Gregory Schopen, who mainly...

This paper provides a situated critique of how evidence-based, “best practices”-oriented research can result in unanticipated consequences and perpetuate a self-fulfilling prophesy at the expense of deeper understanding of educational problems. I structure the paper along two analytical steps. First, I explore the sociology of unintended consequences through German Sociologist Max Weber and his...

ness will here be regarded, therefore, not only as a property possessed to a greater or lesser degree by all (conscious or unconscious) mental processes, but as the basis of man’s capacity to move successfully in a world very imperfectly known to him – an adaptation to his ignorance of most of the particular facts of his surroundings. (Hayek 1973:30; emphasis added) Entrepreneurs must formulate...

In this paper I am concerned with contemporary industrial societies’ ability to extend themselves into the far future by economic, scientific and political means on the one hand and their inability to know the potential, diverse and multiple outcomes of this produced futurity on the other. I focus on this discrepancy between the future extension of action and knowledge in order to consider how ...