Search results for "Plural"

Patriotism and pluralism: identification and compliance in the post-national polity

2009

The paper discusses the identity-building power and motivational force of patriotism. The basic idea underlying the discussion is that far from being a mere irrational and destructive force, patriotism is an expression of ‘existing human social identity.’ Thus, it argues that rather than dismissing patriotism altogether as an undesirable and/or irrational phenomenon, we need to understand how to discriminate between alternative forms of patriotism while investigating what constitutional reforms might be required to support those forms of patriotic identification that are morally desirable. I argue that to flourish, desirable forms of patriotism (what I call Ethical Patriotism) r…

The Relativity of Knowledge

2020

The three central themes of epistemological relativism are the relativity of truth, knowledge and reality. In the previous chapter, I demonstrated how the relativity of truth could be given a well-founded formulation by setting truth claims in relation to context and points of view—without renouncing the concept of an objective truth. In this chapter, I will examine the relativity of knowledge in regard to justifying it. The traditional theory of knowledge is individualistic, while viewpoint relativism leads to communal epistemology, where knowing is always in relation to a community. I will begin my analysis from the classical concept of knowledge, which can be considered the basic definit…

Cultura de mercado y resistencia cultural

2003

A proposito di "Metafisica o ontologia?" di Gabriel

2015

La tesi di Gabriel contesta tendenze riduzionistiche sull’esistenza, diffuse in ambito analitico, che pretendono di determinare come esistente un solo tipo di ente. Egli sostiene, contro simili tendenze, oggi prevalentemente fisicaliste, che «c’è qualcosa che esiste al di sopra, accanto o al di sotto della natura», e non teme di intrecciare di nuovo, in vista di un tale risultato, l’ontologia con una questione metafisica dell’essenza («che cos’è l’ousia?»), sia pure radicalmente riformata nella misura in cui riconduce gli esistenti non a un significato unico di sostanza, ma a «diverse forme di unità» e, di caso in caso, a «specifiche condizioni d’individuazione». L'articolo discute la sua p…

Enterprise architecture operationalization and institutional pluralism: The case of the Norwegian Hospital sector

2021

Enterprise architecture (EA) is a systematic way of designing, planning, and implementing process and technology changes to address the complexity of information system (IS) landscapes. EA is operationalized when architecture visions move towards realization through concrete projects. We report a case study on the dynamics of operationalizing EA in the Norwegian hospital sector by exploring different EA project trajectories. Our empirical context is an institutionally pluralistic setting where multiple logics coexist. We show that the distinct logic of EA is added to the institutional context and we find that tensions among existing medical, technical, and managerial logics and EA principle…

Les Fleurs bleues de Raymond Queneau : le roman hybride

2015

Entre el negocio y los derechos humanos

2008

The Ethnic Pluralism of the Nineteenth Century in Transylvania according to the Ecclesiastical Painting of the Grecu Brothers

2016

Abstract Despite the development of the iconographic programs, the frescoes painted by the Grecu brothers remind us not only of the large ensembles beyond the Carpathians in Walachia and Moldova but also other Transylvanian decorations. These frescoes express not only the spirit of the time or the mentality of the community to which they belonged, but they also represented an opportunity to show the painters’ originality and personality, their need for personal affirmation and artistic individuality, connected to a new sensitivity of a given historical context. The representation of the inhabiting nations in Transylvania in the Passion’s Cycle highlights the disadvantaged status of the Roma…

El Mediterráneo o la creatividad

2001

The Historical Background of Relativism

2020

Epistemological relativism has been defended and criticised since ancient philosophy (Baghramian M, Relativism. Routledge, London, 2004). At the beginning of this chapter, I create a short introduction to the history and development of epistemological relativism from Protagoras to today’s relativists. After this, I introduce a few philosophers who have been significant in the development of relativism. First, I introduce Kant’s understanding of knowledge and its construction. Then, I bring forth two notable perspectivists. G. W. Leibniz claimed in his book, Monadology (1898), that every monad has its own perspective of reality. The diversity of perspectives is one of the riches of the world…