Search results for "Conscience"
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Er?mos Aporos as the Paradigmatic Figure of Western (Thanato) Political Subject
2013
The originary figure of the Western political subject is neither the Aristotelian zōon politikon nor the Agambenian homo sacer but the Socratic erēmos aporos. Like the Agambenian homo sacer, the Socratic erēmos aporos is abandoned by his fellow citizens, not outside the polis but in the polis, being a refugee in his own city. He lives, as Callicles says of Socrates in Gorgias (486c), “in his city as an absolute outcast.” Moreover, like the Agambenian homo sacer, the Socratic erēmos aporos also lives in a state close to death—“in a state as close to death as possible,” as Socrates says of himself in Phaedo (67d). However, there is a decisive difference between the Agambenian homo sacer and …
Samuel Fernberger's rejected doctoral dissertation: A neglected resource for the history of ape research in America.
2009
I summarize a never-completed 1911 doctoral dissertation on ape behavior by Samuel Fernberger of the University of Pennsylvania. Included are observations on many behavioral patterns including sensory and perceptual function, learning, memory, attention, imagination, personality, and emotion in an orangutan and two chimpanzees. There are examples of behavior resembling insight, conscience, tool use and imitation. Language comprehension was good but speech production was minimal. The document appears to contradict a brief published article on the project by William Furness in that punishment was frequently used. The document is important for understanding Fernberger's early career, for antic…
Estratègies discursives iròniques en la narrativa catalana actual: l'autoconsciència textual
2010
A partir de textos de Jesús Moncada, Quim Monzó, Carme Riera, Ramon Solsona i Sergi Pàmies, l'article analitza l'existència en la narrativa breu catalana actual d'una tendència que es caracteritza per l'ús dels recursos de la metaficció, adaptats als interessos literaris i a l'estil de cada autor però amb una orientación general compartida. Es tracta d'una tendència de clar signe antirealista i amb plena consciència de textualitat que fa explícits els mecanismes de la ficció; una modalitat de discurs irònic que s'interroga sobre les possibilitats i els límits de representació del real i, en definitiva, sobre allò que entenem per realitat. Departing from some texts by Jesús Moncada, Quim Mon…
La conciencia moral desde una perspectiva neuroética. De Darwin a Kant
2017
The personal moral conscience is one of the keystones of moral life. Darwin went as far as to claim that this constitutes the most important difference between man and the lower animals. Yet the most relevant philosophical proposals of our times (Rawls, Habermas) do not expressly deal with this, perhaps because, as Aranguren said, they gave priority to intersubjective ethics over intrasubjective ethics. Without reconstructing that intrasubjective ethics, however, both personal and social life is watered down. In this work an attempt is made to explain what personal moral conscience consists of, what its neurobiological foundations are, and whether these are enough to explain its irreplaceab…
Cudworth on Types of Consciousness
2010
Dialogue sur le handicap : réciprocité et altérité
2017
This dialogue is not one between a lecturer in philosophy (Pierre Ancet) questioning a person in a situation of physical dependency (Marcel Nuss), but a dialogue between two full-fledged authors. In this exchange the organic deficiency constitutes only the specific character of an individual’s experience, which is to be described without making it a pathology. Disability is considered in its organic, psychological and social dimension, as an incapacitating constraint, but also as a potential vector to discover nonstandard capacities. Among these capacities, the authors stress the consciousness of time and of the body, particularly unexpected as this consciousness is examined by an entirely …
La objeción de conciencia farmacéutica a la píldora postcoital
2003
The article represents a taking of position regarding the matter of the conscience objection towards the morning-after pill (MAP). The MAP is considered like an emergency contraception that the woman can take within the 72 hours from the sexual intercourse. The mechanisms of action of the product can be the following: a. to avoid the ovulation; b. to prevent the fusion between oocyte and sperm after the ovulation; c. to make impossible the implant of the embryo in the uterus. The author questions in the article if the MAP is abortive and, in this case, explicits the fundamental points of the Spanish law about the conscience objection. It is not difficult to ascertain that the MAP acts as co…
The «clairvoyants des abîmes»: Cioran, Reader of F.M. Dostoievsky
2013
Le ‘for de la conscience’. L’invention d’une nouvelle frontière juridictionnelle (XIIIe siècle)
2013
International audience; En droit canonique, le "for" désigne tout ressort judiciaire territorial, laïc ou ecclésiastique, dont la compétence varie selon le statut des personnes jugées – un juge séculier ne pouvant, sauf exceptions, juger un clerc, et réciproquement, l’évêque ou son "official" ne jugeant les laïcs que dans certaines causes réservées à l’Église (matrimoniales, notamment). À la marge de ce "for", un nouvel espace de jugement semble s’ouvrir à la fin du XIIe et au tout début du XIIIe siècle : le "for de la pénitence", que le théologien Thomas d'Aquin assimile, au milieu du XIIIe siècle, au "for de la conscience". Cet article montre comment l'Église a, sur le plan de la pratique…
A Comparison between Habituation and Conscience mechanism in Self–Organizing Maps
2006
In this letter, a preliminary study of habituation in self-organizing networks is reported. The habituation model implemented allows us to obtain a faster learning process and better clustering performances. The liabituable neuron is a generalization of the typical neuron and can be used in many self-organizing network models. The habituation mechanism is implemented in a SOM and the clustering performances of the network are compared to the conscience learning mechanism that follows roughly the same principle but is less sophisticated.