Search results for "Rhetoric"

Art Education as a Trap

2005

Art education is often talked about as a general good that will solve problems of every description and meet the most varied current problems. In Finland, for example, art education tends to be seen as something that fosters human growth, teaches aesthetic and ethical values, promotes self‐expression and social skills, and meets the challenges of the media age. Any problems that might emerge stem simply from insufficient resources. Instead of continuing what is, probably, a generally known and shared discussion, we want to ask ourselves and others what are the traps art education might conceal, possibly in part under precisely such rhetoric. Our phenomenological perspective emphasises prese…

Rhetoric About Sustainability in Education: The Presence of the Words Not Spoken

2015

In this chapter, Rhetoric about Sustainability in Education The presence of the words not spoken, Astrid Stifoss-Hanssen addresses the rhetorical situation that one runs into when addressing concepts of sustainability. The theme here is how rhetoric and reality can be reconciled. A key concept is ethos. Ethos implies that you really mean what you say and live by it.

“Buoni e cattivi esempi”. Cicerone, Cesare e l’ombra di Silla

2021

The exemplum, one of the tools of persuasion indicated by ancient rhetoric, is used by Cicero in Caesarian Orations with a careful strategy: the exemplary modeling of Caesar allows to define the boundaries of the correct management of res publica. Therefore, in the Pro Marcello Caesar is already presented as a “visible” exemplum, while in the following Pro Ligario the paradigm of Sulla (i.e. that of a dictator guided by crudelitas) becomes effective in admonishing Caesar from a possible degeneration of power.

Anti-Speciesist Rhetoric

2017

The various laws protecting animals that were established in Nazi Germany (but for the most part were never put into effect) had, among others, the aim of marking the taxonomic and ontological distance between pure animals and impure sub-humans (Jews, homosexuals, the Roma). The attention to and respect for the alpha predator and noble animals was a vertiginous ignoratio elenchi of the concentration camps. With analogous fallacy, today’s anti-human and anti-speciesist eco-fascism, which regularly makes use of the reductio ad Hitlerum (“meat-eaters = Nazis”), avails itself in an irrational and populist way of the rudimentary argumentum ad personam typical of xenophobic and racist propaganda.…

Music, Architecture, Proportion and the Renaissance Way of Thinking

2020

During the Renaissance, the language of proportion became a unified theory capable of encompassing the understanding of the world within a coherent theological, philosophical and artistic framework. Music, with its harmonic paradigm, plays a key role in this construction. From the fifteenth century through to the end of the sixteenth century, architects and architectural theorists made reference, both in new treatises and commentaries to Vitruvius, to musical matters, transforming architecture into the summa of knowledge. The affinity to music was grounded on both a common mathematical and rhetoric gnosiology. Formerly conceived of as ideal, numbers became eloquent, reinforcing the quantita…

Repetition times for Gibbsian sources

1999

In this paper we consider the class of stochastic stationary sources induced by one-dimensional Gibbs states, with Holder continuous potentials. We show that the time elapsed before the source repeats its first n symbols, when suitably renormalized, converges in law either to a log-normal distribution or to a finite mixture of exponential random variables. In the first case we also prove a large deviation result.

Kansanjohtaja koetuksella. Kosolan puheen, 4.2.1933, vastaanottoa periferiassa ja keskuksessa

2014

Accelerating bioinformatics applications via emerging parallel computing systems [Guest editorial]

2015

The papers in this issue focus on advanced parallel computing systems for bioinformatics applications. This papers provide a forum to publish recent advances in the improvement of handling bioinformatics problems on emerging parallel computing systems. These systems can be characterized by exploiting different types of parallelism, including fine-grained versus coarse-grained and thread-level parallelism versus datalevel parallelism versus request-level parallelism. Hence, parallel computing systems based on multi- and many-core CPUs, many-core GPUs, vector processors, or FPGAs offer the promise to massively accelerate many bioinformatics algorithms and applications, ranging from computeint…

The Epistemics of “Personalized Medicine”. Rebranding Pharmacogenetics

2015

Whereas chapter 4 focuses on uses and normative claims of the rhetorical frame “Personalized Medicine” in medical and popular writings, chapter 5 analyzes the intellectual formation of pharmacogenetic, -genomics as a disciplinary field. It explores when, how, and why the leading journals in the field present themselves as part of the overall phenomenon labelled “Personalized Medicine”. Pharmacogenetic journals founded at the beginning of the twenty-first century, not only adopted the rhetorical framing of PM, but also branded pharmacogenomics as a milestone in medical history. Their vision extended to a large societal context that included not only pharmacology and genetics, but also broad …

Recensione a Francesco Robortello. Réception des Anciens et construction de la modernité, sous la direction de M. Bouquet, S. Cappello, C. Lesage et …

2021

Recensione a Francesco Robortello. Réception des Anciens et construction de la modernité, sous la direction de M. Bouquet, S. Cappello, C. Lesage et M. Magnien, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2020, pp. 508. Il volume accoglie gli atti del Colloquio Internazionale dedicato all’umanista friulano Francesco Robortello (1516-1567), svoltosi a Rennes fra il 6 e l’8 ottobre 2016. Apparso nel 2020, a quattro anni di distanza dalla sua celebrazione, il volume comprende complessivamente 23 interventi di studiosi francesi, italiani, tedeschi e statunitensi – tutti pubblicati in lingua francese, a eccezione di cinque in italiano. Review to Francesco Robortello. Réception des Anciens et const…