Search results for "metaphysics"
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La Escritura como sutura simbólica en la poesía de Francisco Brines: algunas calas
2014
La poesía de Francisco Brines siempre ha sido calificada como clásica, apelando a un equilibrio que, en la mayoría de los casos, parece evidente. Partiendo de la teoría de la herida trágica como origen de la creatividad, formulada, entre otros, por Creuzer, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Jung o Durand, nos hemos acercado a su poesía tratando de mostrar si en ella se da esa reconciliación (equilibrio de base estoica) con lo creado. Análisis que nos revela una rebelión de fondo, del mismo modo que su poesía se nos define de modo similar. En consecuencia, hemos señalado qué marcos escénicos (la ciudad y la noche) son los señalados en su obra como ámbitos de tal rebelión tan poco equilibrada, tan alejad…
European Mediterranean Women and the “Showdown” Between Public Emancipation and Private Self-oppression
2020
This chapter emphasizes the unfinished nature of a form of late-modernity still hanging in the balance between frameworks of representation and legitimization regarding women and the roles they play within the public sphere in virtue of the emancipation that has taken place and the contradictions which emerge when trying to reconcile old and new models of femininity. We shall, therefore, try to disengage some of the knots linking gender violence and “cultural representations” but, above all, the “adaptive preferences” and “corrosive disadvantages” found in European women’s private lives, which clash totally with their social achievements and are attributable to emotional oppression and, sim…
The Bayesian Learning Automaton — Empirical Evaluation with Two-Armed Bernoulli Bandit Problems
2009
The two-armed Bernoulli bandit (TABB) problem is a classical optimization problem where an agent sequentially pulls one of two arms attached to a gambling machine, with each pull resulting either in a reward or a penalty. The reward probabilities of each arm are unknown, and thus one must balance between exploiting existing knowledge about the arms, and obtaining new information.
Ambiguities in organizations and the routines of behavior and change
2015
Purpose– The aim of this article is threefold: the primary aim is conceptual by outlining two ideal-typical ideas about organizational life. These models offer rival ideas about how organizations balance seemingly conflicting patterns of behaviour and change in everyday life. The second ambition of the article is to outline a theoretical approach of organizational life arguing that even fairly loosely coupled organizations may be profoundly patterned by everyday routines as much as by ambiguity. The third and final ambition is to offer empirical illustrations from organizations that are often considered as archetypes of loose coupling and ambiguities: jazz orchestras and university organiza…
La alteración sobrevenida de las circunstancias contractuales y la doctrina rebus sic stantibus. Génesis y evolución de un principio jurídico
2016
The paper analyzes the philosophical-legal implications of the doctrine of the rebus sic stantibus clause. It corresponds to a non-formalist, dynamic and flexible view of law, and contracts in particular, as a historical phenomenon susceptible of evolution and adaptation to reality, to the circumstances of time and place. The paper deeps into the necessity of balance between security and justice, for which a rigorous technical-legal formulation of this legal figure is required.From this perspective we analyze the genesis and evolution of the doctrine and its process of progressive technical decantation.
The European Courts and the Security Council: Between "Dédoublement Fonctionnel" and Balancing of Values
2009
The recent case law of various international tribunals facing questions related to UN Security Council resolutions shows the clear tendency to grant primacy to the UN legal order. This trend, far from being well founded on formal arguments, appears to be a tribute to a legal order perceived as superior, and, at the same time, is revealing of the ‘value oriented’ approach followed by the courts. Such an approach can be categorized from a theoretical perspective in the light of Scelle's theory of relations between legal orders, whereby the courts implement in their respective legal orders values stemming from the UN legal order. Various critical remarks can be advanced in relation to this att…
The Network Balance Realized by Routing Organization System
2011
In the presented paper, we propose to exploit routing organization for the purpose of managing network resources. According to our assumptions, we have the same quantity of materials, objects, tokens, tools etc. at our disposal in every node of the network. During network operation we must distribute resources between these nodes. It should be carried out as instantaneously and as economically as possible. Multi-Agent Systems are also used to deal with this kind of tasks and the centralised algorithms presented in this paper are to be used to measure the efficiency of the distributed MAS solution. From the logistical point of view, we have a sequence of stages with different states of token…
The Dignity in Free Speech: Civility Norms in Post-Terror Societies
2016
ABSTRACTIt is difficult to strike a balance between protecting freedom of speech and ensuring public safety. The attacks on 22 July 2011 in Norway, and the fear of terrorist acts inspired by public utterances on the Internet, have caused many to question whether and how we should regulate hate speech. In this article, we analyse the main arguments from the debate on freedom of speech in post-terror Norway, termed the ‘liberal’ and ‘harm’ (or ‘balance of harms’) arguments respectively. We propose a set of civility norms that may serve to uphold the wide freedom of speech advocated by the liberal argument, while being attentive to the real ethical challenges emphasised by the harm argument.
Security in Niamey : an anthropological perspective on policing and an act of terrorism in Niger
2012
ABSTRACTThe abduction of two Frenchmen in January 2011 in Niamey's supposedly most secure neighbourhood has led many to question the functioning of the city's security apparatus. This paper analyses Niamey's security landscape, initially from an historical and then from a spatial perspective. It argues that for a comprehensive analysis of security, we must first decentre our perspective on security construction, and thus take informal non-organised modes of policing just as seriously as policing by state and vigilante organisations; and second, take into account the inseparability of sociality and security, a fragile balance of trust and acceptable risk. In conclusion I argue that this focu…
Sex in an uncertain world: environmental stochasticity helps restore competitive balance between sexually and asexually reproducing populations
2014
Like many organisms, individuals of the freshwater ostracod species Eucypris virens exhibit either obligate sexual or asexual reproductive modes. Both types of individual routinely co-occur, including in the same temporary freshwater pond (their natural habitat in which they undergo seasonal diapause). Given the well-known two-fold cost of sex, this begs the question of how sexually reproducing individuals are able to coexist with their asexual counterparts in spite of such overwhelming costs. Environmental stochasticity in the form of 'false dawn' inundations (where the first hydration is ephemeral and causes loss of early hatching individuals) may provide an advantage to the sexual subpop…