Myth, Power, and Cyberspace: When faced with these three words, what image comes to mind? Could the world conceived in the popular science-fiction movie ‘The Matrix’ be a likely illustration? The enormous potential of the Internet is, to some extent, predicted in this movie by its subtle integration of Myth, Power, and Cyberspace. Such potential can also be seen from the all-around penetration ...

We are so used to think by ourselves that we almost forget how rare and strange this psychological feat actually is. The ability to retract ‘within’ oneself is a recent and culturally determined phaenomenon which was hardly available throughout the major part of human history.[9] To think is to think aloud. Even in our own Antiquity to think and to speak did largely coincide [7]. If we look at ...

This paper is about the possible relation between aesthetic experience of sublime, as presented in On Sublime by Pseudo-Longinus, and abstract art according to W. Kandinsky A. Reinhardt. The analysis confirms complementarity Pseudo-Loninus?s description sublime idea spiritual ascent provoked arts, which characteristic for both these painters. their writings also points towards necessary paintin...

This paper argues that far from advocating fear of violence as a continuous source of civic provocation Machiavelli’s ideal ruler employs an aesthetic approach to civic violence; one that actually harms few citizens and moderates their fear with admiration through carefully considered psychological imperatives similar to those articulated two hundred years later in theories of the sublime. Such...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Detecting incidence and enlargement of lesions is essential in monitoring the progression of MS. In clinical trials, lesion load is observed by manually segmenting and comparing serial MR images, which is time consuming, costly, and prone to inter- and intraobserver variability. Subtracting images from consecutive time points nulls stable lesions, leaving only new lesion ...

Students in Younghusband courses for social work are now grappling with a topic in their syllabus having the same title as the present work. With sublime skill, the organisers of their course have picked out a fundamental subject which hardly anyone is qualified

The main goal of this paper is to show the important anthropological consequences Kantian analysis sublime. From Kant’s idea sublime, first, a high estimation humanity inferred and, second, concept human being as infinite finitude deduced. Since sublime also respect for nature, it infers conception nature opposite that represented by scientific modernity, humanized worthy admiration and respect.

ilence plays an intriguing role in eighteenth century accounts of the sublime. It is often present in lists of sublime objects, typically (as in Burke) associated with the other privations—darkness, solitude etc.2 In the course of the century there was a huge variety of increasingly intricate speculations on the sublime, leaving behind their Longinian origins in rhetoric and variously becoming ...