Francis Bacon’s paintings are disturbing. His images present active figures who are defined by their activity, but their activity is fraught with violence. I analyze their activity in terms of the activity of actualization itself, which is shown to be a serial process both of construction and destruction in which the viewer participates. It is a process of relating one element to another in the...

Legal idea, as a kind of rational cognitive state, is the spiritual core of national laws. Traditional articleremembering legal education is either necessary or meaningful in practice. The cultivation of young students’ scientific legal idea is vital for the success of national law modernization. In practice, to cultivate young students’ scientific legal ideas, we should strengthen the recognit...

The longest continuous discussion of change (kínhsiv) in the Aristotelian corpus is book G of the Physics. There are, of course, many difficult issues raised in this book but, for the purposes of this examination, a summary of Aristotle’s conclusions pertaining to the location of change suffices, and so we can keep our account brief. Aristotle defines change as ‘the actualization of the potenti...

Healthy behaviors in pregnant women have a major effect on pregnancy outcomes; however, only few studies have explored the relationship of multiple psychosocial factors with healthy lifestyles during pregnancy. The objective of this study was to investigate whether the five psychosocial factors of anxiety, stress, depression, marital dissatisfaction, and social support are associated with six d...

Administered the Multiscore Depression Inventory and the Personal Orientation Inventory to 248 academically gifted adolescents drawn from across the state of South Carolina to participate in a select program. Low but significant correlations were noted among several of the scales. Factor analysis of the scales of both instruments resulted in five factors for females and six for males. In both s...

The subject of creation has long been recognized as central to Leibniz's philosophy. In general, the tendency has been to understand Leibniz's view of the creation of the universe as the actualization of a set of possible substances which stand together in a relation of pre-established harmony. From there, scholarly interest generally seems to shift to questions concerning Leibniz's views on su...