Ian Ravenscroft (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199267989
- eISBN:
- 9780191708268
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199267989.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind
A line-up of seventeen philosophers from the USA, the UK, and Australia present new essays on themes from the work of Frank Jackson, which bridges mind, language, logic, metaphysics, and ethics. ...
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A line-up of seventeen philosophers from the USA, the UK, and Australia present new essays on themes from the work of Frank Jackson, which bridges mind, language, logic, metaphysics, and ethics. Central to Jackson's work is an approach to metaphysical issues built on the twin foundations of supervenience and conceptual analysis. In the first part of the book, six essays examine this approach and its application to philosophy of mind and philosophy of colour. The second part focuses on Jackson's highly influential work on phenomenal consciousness. The third part is devoted to Jackson's work in ethics, both normative ethics and metaethics. The last three papers discuss Jackson's ground-breaking work on conditionals. The final section of the book comprises a substantial essay by Jackson in reply to his critics: this offers some of the clearest expressions of the ideas which Jackson has brought to the fore in philosophy.Less
A line-up of seventeen philosophers from the USA, the UK, and Australia present new essays on themes from the work of Frank Jackson, which bridges mind, language, logic, metaphysics, and ethics. Central to Jackson's work is an approach to metaphysical issues built on the twin foundations of supervenience and conceptual analysis. In the first part of the book, six essays examine this approach and its application to philosophy of mind and philosophy of colour. The second part focuses on Jackson's highly influential work on phenomenal consciousness. The third part is devoted to Jackson's work in ethics, both normative ethics and metaethics. The last three papers discuss Jackson's ground-breaking work on conditionals. The final section of the book comprises a substantial essay by Jackson in reply to his critics: this offers some of the clearest expressions of the ideas which Jackson has brought to the fore in philosophy.
Torin Alter and Sven Walter
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195171655
- eISBN:
- 9780199871339
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195171655.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind
What is the nature of consciousness? How is consciousness related to brain processes? This book discusses these topics. All chapters focus on consciousness in the “phenomenal” sense: looking at what ...
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What is the nature of consciousness? How is consciousness related to brain processes? This book discusses these topics. All chapters focus on consciousness in the “phenomenal” sense: looking at what it's like to have an experience. Consciousness has long been regarded as the biggest stumbling block for physicalism, the view that the mind is physical. This controversy has gained focus over the last few decades, and phenomenal knowledge and phenomenal concepts — knowledge of consciousness and the associated concepts — have come to play increasingly prominent roles in this debate. Consider Frank Jackson's famous case of Mary, the super-scientist who learns all the physical information while confined in a black-and-white room. According to Jackson, if physicalism is true, then Mary's physical knowledge should allow her to deduce what it's like to see in color. Yet it seems intuitively clear that she learns something when she leaves the room. But then how can consciousness be physical? Arguably, whether this sort of reasoning is sound depends on how phenomenal concepts and phenomenal knowledge are construed. For example, some argue that the Mary case reveals something about phenomenal concepts but has no implications for the nature of consciousness itself. Are responses along these lines adequate? Or does the problem arise again at the level of phenomenal concepts?Less
What is the nature of consciousness? How is consciousness related to brain processes? This book discusses these topics. All chapters focus on consciousness in the “phenomenal” sense: looking at what it's like to have an experience. Consciousness has long been regarded as the biggest stumbling block for physicalism, the view that the mind is physical. This controversy has gained focus over the last few decades, and phenomenal knowledge and phenomenal concepts — knowledge of consciousness and the associated concepts — have come to play increasingly prominent roles in this debate. Consider Frank Jackson's famous case of Mary, the super-scientist who learns all the physical information while confined in a black-and-white room. According to Jackson, if physicalism is true, then Mary's physical knowledge should allow her to deduce what it's like to see in color. Yet it seems intuitively clear that she learns something when she leaves the room. But then how can consciousness be physical? Arguably, whether this sort of reasoning is sound depends on how phenomenal concepts and phenomenal knowledge are construed. For example, some argue that the Mary case reveals something about phenomenal concepts but has no implications for the nature of consciousness itself. Are responses along these lines adequate? Or does the problem arise again at the level of phenomenal concepts?
Jennifer M. Welsh
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- April 2004
- ISBN:
- 9780199267217
- eISBN:
- 9780191601118
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199267219.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
Outlines and evaluates the political, legal, and ethical objections to humanitarian intervention. In so doing, it questions not only whether the doctrine of ‘sovereignty as responsibility’ has taken ...
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Outlines and evaluates the political, legal, and ethical objections to humanitarian intervention. In so doing, it questions not only whether the doctrine of ‘sovereignty as responsibility’ has taken hold in international society, but also whether it should – particularly in the form suggested by Western states. The author argues that the ethical position of pluralism – as articulated by non-Western states – represents the most compelling case against humanitarian intervention, by emphasizing the impact on international society of relaxing the norm of non-intervention. Despite these pluralist objections, military intervention in cases of supreme humanitarian emergency can be defended on moral grounds, provided the intervention meets certain tests of legitimacy. Given the unintended consequences of military action, the author also suggests that more attention should be paid to the non-military means of operationalizing ‘sovereignty as responsibility’.Less
Outlines and evaluates the political, legal, and ethical objections to humanitarian intervention. In so doing, it questions not only whether the doctrine of ‘sovereignty as responsibility’ has taken hold in international society, but also whether it should – particularly in the form suggested by Western states. The author argues that the ethical position of pluralism – as articulated by non-Western states – represents the most compelling case against humanitarian intervention, by emphasizing the impact on international society of relaxing the norm of non-intervention. Despite these pluralist objections, military intervention in cases of supreme humanitarian emergency can be defended on moral grounds, provided the intervention meets certain tests of legitimacy. Given the unintended consequences of military action, the author also suggests that more attention should be paid to the non-military means of operationalizing ‘sovereignty as responsibility’.
Frank Jackson
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198250616
- eISBN:
- 9780191597787
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198250614.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
Conceptual analysis is currently out of favour, especially in North America. This is partly through misunderstanding of its nature. Properly understood, conceptual analysis is not a mysterious ...
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Conceptual analysis is currently out of favour, especially in North America. This is partly through misunderstanding of its nature. Properly understood, conceptual analysis is not a mysterious activity discredited by Quine that seeks after the a priori in some hard‐to‐understand sense. It is, rather, something familiar to everyone, philosophers and non‐philosophers alike—or so I argue. Another reason for its unpopularity is a failure to appreciate the need for conceptual analysis. The cost of repudiating it has not been sufficiently appreciated; without it, we cannot address a whole raft of important questions.I have always been suspicious of excessively abstract theorizing in philosophy. I think that an important test of metaphilosophical claims is whether they make good sense in the context of particular problems. The discussion in the book is, accordingly, anchored in particular philosophical debates. The basic framework is developed in the first three chapters via a consideration of the role of conceptual analysis in the debate over the doctrine in metaphysics known as physicalism, with digressions on free will, meaning, personal identity, motion, and change, and then applied in the last three chapters to current debates over colour and ethics.Less
Conceptual analysis is currently out of favour, especially in North America. This is partly through misunderstanding of its nature. Properly understood, conceptual analysis is not a mysterious activity discredited by Quine that seeks after the a priori in some hard‐to‐understand sense. It is, rather, something familiar to everyone, philosophers and non‐philosophers alike—or so I argue. Another reason for its unpopularity is a failure to appreciate the need for conceptual analysis. The cost of repudiating it has not been sufficiently appreciated; without it, we cannot address a whole raft of important questions.
I have always been suspicious of excessively abstract theorizing in philosophy. I think that an important test of metaphilosophical claims is whether they make good sense in the context of particular problems. The discussion in the book is, accordingly, anchored in particular philosophical debates. The basic framework is developed in the first three chapters via a consideration of the role of conceptual analysis in the debate over the doctrine in metaphysics known as physicalism, with digressions on free will, meaning, personal identity, motion, and change, and then applied in the last three chapters to current debates over colour and ethics.
Torin Alter
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195171655
- eISBN:
- 9780199871339
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195171655.003.0004
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind
The knowledge argument aims to refute physicalism — the view that the world is entirely physical. The argument first establishes the existence of facts (or truths or information) about consciousness ...
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The knowledge argument aims to refute physicalism — the view that the world is entirely physical. The argument first establishes the existence of facts (or truths or information) about consciousness that are not a priori deducible from the complete physical truth, and then infers the falsity of physicalism from this lack of deducibility. Frank Jackson gave the argument its classic formulation, but has since rejected the argument claiming that it relies on a false conception of sensory experience, which should be replaced with representationalism (also known as intentionalism) — the view that phenomenal states are just representational states. This chapter argues that Jackson's representationalist response to the knowledge argument fails. Physicalists face a representationalist version of the knowledge argument that inherits the force of the original. Reformulating the challenge in representationalist terms does little to help physicalists answer it.Less
The knowledge argument aims to refute physicalism — the view that the world is entirely physical. The argument first establishes the existence of facts (or truths or information) about consciousness that are not a priori deducible from the complete physical truth, and then infers the falsity of physicalism from this lack of deducibility. Frank Jackson gave the argument its classic formulation, but has since rejected the argument claiming that it relies on a false conception of sensory experience, which should be replaced with representationalism (also known as intentionalism) — the view that phenomenal states are just representational states. This chapter argues that Jackson's representationalist response to the knowledge argument fails. Physicalists face a representationalist version of the knowledge argument that inherits the force of the original. Reformulating the challenge in representationalist terms does little to help physicalists answer it.
Gilbert Harman
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198238027
- eISBN:
- 9780191597633
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198238029.003.0007
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind
A response to a paper by Frank Jackson. Although philosophers sometimes defend certain ‘analyses’ as analytic or a priori truths, such analyses are far from obviously true and are defended ...
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A response to a paper by Frank Jackson. Although philosophers sometimes defend certain ‘analyses’ as analytic or a priori truths, such analyses are far from obviously true and are defended inductively. Contrary to Jackson's claim, the rejection of analyticity is based on consideration of central cases.Less
A response to a paper by Frank Jackson. Although philosophers sometimes defend certain ‘analyses’ as analytic or a priori truths, such analyses are far from obviously true and are defended inductively. Contrary to Jackson's claim, the rejection of analyticity is based on consideration of central cases.
Aakash Singh Rathore and Ajay Verma
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198068679
- eISBN:
- 9780199081233
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198068679.003.0009
- Subject:
- Political Science, Indian Politics
This concluding chapter outlines some of the tributes dedicated to the Buddha and his greatness. It presents an anthology of the impressions and thoughts of modern thinkers and scientists on the ...
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This concluding chapter outlines some of the tributes dedicated to the Buddha and his greatness. It presents an anthology of the impressions and thoughts of modern thinkers and scientists on the Buddha and his Dhamma. S.S. Raghavachar, Winwood Reade, Ranjan Roy, E.G. Taylor, W.T. Stace praise the greatness of the Buddha and his Dhamma. R.J. Jackson praises Buddhism for having the capacity to direct man to search inwards to the potentiality hidden within himself. Dwight Goddard praises Buddha for his keen eyes to the intrinsic greatness of man and for his exaltation of man as his equal rather as an inferior. E.J. Mill points out the openness of Buddhism to the development of mental culture. While other religions put restraints on the thoughts of its followers, Buddhism stresses to keep one's eyes open and to cultivate knowledge to attain salvation and to attain morality.Less
This concluding chapter outlines some of the tributes dedicated to the Buddha and his greatness. It presents an anthology of the impressions and thoughts of modern thinkers and scientists on the Buddha and his Dhamma. S.S. Raghavachar, Winwood Reade, Ranjan Roy, E.G. Taylor, W.T. Stace praise the greatness of the Buddha and his Dhamma. R.J. Jackson praises Buddhism for having the capacity to direct man to search inwards to the potentiality hidden within himself. Dwight Goddard praises Buddha for his keen eyes to the intrinsic greatness of man and for his exaltation of man as his equal rather as an inferior. E.J. Mill points out the openness of Buddhism to the development of mental culture. While other religions put restraints on the thoughts of its followers, Buddhism stresses to keep one's eyes open and to cultivate knowledge to attain salvation and to attain morality.
Tanis C. Thorne
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195182989
- eISBN:
- 9780199789030
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195182989.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This is first biography of Jackson Barnett, the Native American who gained unexpected wealth from oil found on his property. The book explores how control of Barnett's fortune was violently contested ...
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This is first biography of Jackson Barnett, the Native American who gained unexpected wealth from oil found on his property. The book explores how control of Barnett's fortune was violently contested by his guardian, the state of Oklahoma, the Baptist Church, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, among others. Barnett's case came to national prominence as an example of Bureau of Indian Affairs mismanagement of Indian property. Litigation over Barnett's wealth lasted two decades and stimulated Congress to make long-overdue reforms in its policies towards Indians. Highlighting the paradoxical role played by the federal government, Barnett's story comprises many of the major agents in 20th-century Native American history. As well as a biography, this book is also a study of early-20th-century Indian policy and administration.Less
This is first biography of Jackson Barnett, the Native American who gained unexpected wealth from oil found on his property. The book explores how control of Barnett's fortune was violently contested by his guardian, the state of Oklahoma, the Baptist Church, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, among others. Barnett's case came to national prominence as an example of Bureau of Indian Affairs mismanagement of Indian property. Litigation over Barnett's wealth lasted two decades and stimulated Congress to make long-overdue reforms in its policies towards Indians. Highlighting the paradoxical role played by the federal government, Barnett's story comprises many of the major agents in 20th-century Native American history. As well as a biography, this book is also a study of early-20th-century Indian policy and administration.
Michael Smith
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- May 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199269914
- eISBN:
- 9780191710032
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199269914.003.0007
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, General
This chapter proposes a conception of Practical Ethics which ties what epistemically limited agents are to do on some occasion not only to limits on their non-evaluative information about how much ...
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This chapter proposes a conception of Practical Ethics which ties what epistemically limited agents are to do on some occasion not only to limits on their non-evaluative information about how much intrinsic value would result from various actions, but also to epistemic limits on their evaluative information about what has intrinsic value. The chapter is organized as follows. The first section spells out Moore's view of the way in which uncertainty affects the proposed definition of rightness in terms of the maximization of value. The second section compares Moore's view with an alternative put forward more recently by Frank Jackson (1991). The third and fourth sections present the author's own account and say why it should be preferred to both Moore's and Jackson's views. To anticipate, it turns out that Moore and Jackson are both right about something and wrong about something. The correct view combines elements from both.Less
This chapter proposes a conception of Practical Ethics which ties what epistemically limited agents are to do on some occasion not only to limits on their non-evaluative information about how much intrinsic value would result from various actions, but also to epistemic limits on their evaluative information about what has intrinsic value. The chapter is organized as follows. The first section spells out Moore's view of the way in which uncertainty affects the proposed definition of rightness in terms of the maximization of value. The second section compares Moore's view with an alternative put forward more recently by Frank Jackson (1991). The third and fourth sections present the author's own account and say why it should be preferred to both Moore's and Jackson's views. To anticipate, it turns out that Moore and Jackson are both right about something and wrong about something. The correct view combines elements from both.
Veit Erlmann
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195123678
- eISBN:
- 9780199868797
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195123678.003.0016
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
This chapter discusses the collaboration between Michael Jackson and Ladysmith Black Mambazo on the music video “Moonwalker”. In comparing Jackson's dance style with that of the South Africans, ...
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This chapter discusses the collaboration between Michael Jackson and Ladysmith Black Mambazo on the music video “Moonwalker”. In comparing Jackson's dance style with that of the South Africans, certain parallels in black body styles become apparent and how these intersect with the aesthetics of MTV, black dance, and popular music in articulating racial difference.Less
This chapter discusses the collaboration between Michael Jackson and Ladysmith Black Mambazo on the music video “Moonwalker”. In comparing Jackson's dance style with that of the South Africans, certain parallels in black body styles become apparent and how these intersect with the aesthetics of MTV, black dance, and popular music in articulating racial difference.
Cynthia Grant Tucker
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195390209
- eISBN:
- 9780199866670
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195390209.003.0008
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
The 1882 ordination of Abby's son Christopher Rhodes Eliot (1856‐1945) in the Boston suburb of Dorchester brings the story back to the east, and eight years later, his marriage to Mary Jackson May ...
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The 1882 ordination of Abby's son Christopher Rhodes Eliot (1856‐1945) in the Boston suburb of Dorchester brings the story back to the east, and eight years later, his marriage to Mary Jackson May (1859‐1926) introduces a radical spirit into the line of Eliot women. Descended from staunch abolitionist preachers and independent females the likes of Abby May and Louisa May Alcott, Mary takes charge as the dominant spouse and is instrumental in Christopher's moving the family to Beacon Hill and taking charge of Bulfinch Place Church in Boston's squalid West End. Summers at Camp Maple Hill on Lake Memphremagog in Quebec reinforce the female hegemony that emboldens the next wave of parsonage females. Martha May Eliot (1891‐1978) and Abby Adams Eliot (1892‐1992) will script larger lives without abandoning their inherited values.Less
The 1882 ordination of Abby's son Christopher Rhodes Eliot (1856‐1945) in the Boston suburb of Dorchester brings the story back to the east, and eight years later, his marriage to Mary Jackson May (1859‐1926) introduces a radical spirit into the line of Eliot women. Descended from staunch abolitionist preachers and independent females the likes of Abby May and Louisa May Alcott, Mary takes charge as the dominant spouse and is instrumental in Christopher's moving the family to Beacon Hill and taking charge of Bulfinch Place Church in Boston's squalid West End. Summers at Camp Maple Hill on Lake Memphremagog in Quebec reinforce the female hegemony that emboldens the next wave of parsonage females. Martha May Eliot (1891‐1978) and Abby Adams Eliot (1892‐1992) will script larger lives without abandoning their inherited values.
ROBERT V. DODGE
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199857203
- eISBN:
- 9780199932597
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199857203.003.0017
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Behavioural Economics
Phil Jackson is the most successful coach in the history of the National Basketball Association, though he has little in common with the players. The son of two Assemblies of God ministers from the ...
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Phil Jackson is the most successful coach in the history of the National Basketball Association, though he has little in common with the players. The son of two Assemblies of God ministers from the most rural of states, he coaches mostly African-American players who come from large urban areas. Basketball team is a “commons” where studies show individual self-interest competes with group, or team interest. Jackson has coached the greatest of all basketball players, Michael Jordan, and also other outstanding individuals such as Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant; he has managed to turn them into team players where all who had tried before had failed. This chapter presents the story of this unusual man and how he overcame the multi-person prisoner's dilemma of the commons in a very public arena.Less
Phil Jackson is the most successful coach in the history of the National Basketball Association, though he has little in common with the players. The son of two Assemblies of God ministers from the most rural of states, he coaches mostly African-American players who come from large urban areas. Basketball team is a “commons” where studies show individual self-interest competes with group, or team interest. Jackson has coached the greatest of all basketball players, Michael Jordan, and also other outstanding individuals such as Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant; he has managed to turn them into team players where all who had tried before had failed. This chapter presents the story of this unusual man and how he overcame the multi-person prisoner's dilemma of the commons in a very public arena.
Cathy Gutierrez
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195388350
- eISBN:
- 9780199866472
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195388350.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter examines Spiritualist writings about health and the body. For a movement that was otherworldly in its focus, Spiritualists were extremely interested in medicine and many, including ...
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This chapter examines Spiritualist writings about health and the body. For a movement that was otherworldly in its focus, Spiritualists were extremely interested in medicine and many, including Andrew Jackson Davis, worked as healers and country doctors. In an epoch when bloodletting and heroic measures were still common, a spiritual or philosophical explanation for ill health was often preferable to mainstream authority. Spiritualists embraced the idea of the Grand Man from Swedenborg, where the microcosm of the human body reflected the macrocosm of the universe as a whole. Resembling the Kabbalah’s articulation of Adam Kadmon and tracing its roots to Plato’s Timaeus, this construction of the body as the cosmos in miniature did not distinguish between the material and spiritual worlds but rather saw them as united parts of the divine.Less
This chapter examines Spiritualist writings about health and the body. For a movement that was otherworldly in its focus, Spiritualists were extremely interested in medicine and many, including Andrew Jackson Davis, worked as healers and country doctors. In an epoch when bloodletting and heroic measures were still common, a spiritual or philosophical explanation for ill health was often preferable to mainstream authority. Spiritualists embraced the idea of the Grand Man from Swedenborg, where the microcosm of the human body reflected the macrocosm of the universe as a whole. Resembling the Kabbalah’s articulation of Adam Kadmon and tracing its roots to Plato’s Timaeus, this construction of the body as the cosmos in miniature did not distinguish between the material and spiritual worlds but rather saw them as united parts of the divine.
Grant Parker
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199212989
- eISBN:
- 9780191594205
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199212989.003.0012
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Prose and Writers: Classical, Early, and Medieval
The varied career of T. J. (Theo) Haarhoff gives unusual insights into South Africa of the first half of the twentieth century: no mere classicist, he was also an Afrikaans poet and a public ...
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The varied career of T. J. (Theo) Haarhoff gives unusual insights into South Africa of the first half of the twentieth century: no mere classicist, he was also an Afrikaans poet and a public intellectual of note. In works such as Vergil, the Universal he linked Roman antiquity to the South African present. His scholarly writings on ancient ethnic identity reveal much about his times, particularly the optimism that many placed in international organizations following the First World War. Much emerges from his relation with or admiration of the scholars Gilbert Murray and Jackson Knight, and the South African statesmen Jan Smuts and J. H. Hofmeyr. Ancient ‘universalism’ in Haarhoff's work involves relations between English‐ and Afrikaans‐speaking whites, much more so than South Africa's full racial and ethnic diversity. An ardent Smuts man, his views were liberal for their time but, from a later perspective, did not go far enough.Less
The varied career of T. J. (Theo) Haarhoff gives unusual insights into South Africa of the first half of the twentieth century: no mere classicist, he was also an Afrikaans poet and a public intellectual of note. In works such as Vergil, the Universal he linked Roman antiquity to the South African present. His scholarly writings on ancient ethnic identity reveal much about his times, particularly the optimism that many placed in international organizations following the First World War. Much emerges from his relation with or admiration of the scholars Gilbert Murray and Jackson Knight, and the South African statesmen Jan Smuts and J. H. Hofmeyr. Ancient ‘universalism’ in Haarhoff's work involves relations between English‐ and Afrikaans‐speaking whites, much more so than South Africa's full racial and ethnic diversity. An ardent Smuts man, his views were liberal for their time but, from a later perspective, did not go far enough.
Peter Slade
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- February 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195372625
- eISBN:
- 9780199871728
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195372625.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
With both a theology of open friendship in place and an understanding of Mississippi's history as the Closed Society, the third chapter lays out the short history of Mission Mississippi. Started in ...
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With both a theology of open friendship in place and an understanding of Mississippi's history as the Closed Society, the third chapter lays out the short history of Mission Mississippi. Started in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1992, this extraordinary organization owes its existence to an alliance of white businessmen, African American ministers, and a pioneering community development and reconciliation ministry called Voice of Calvary. The second half of the chapter constructs and considers Mission Mississippi's theology of racial reconciliation paying close attention to the preaching of its director Dolphus Weary. Mission Mississippi, through its call for Christians to form intentional relationships outside their social, denominational, and economic circles, has at its heart a theology of open friendship.Less
With both a theology of open friendship in place and an understanding of Mississippi's history as the Closed Society, the third chapter lays out the short history of Mission Mississippi. Started in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1992, this extraordinary organization owes its existence to an alliance of white businessmen, African American ministers, and a pioneering community development and reconciliation ministry called Voice of Calvary. The second half of the chapter constructs and considers Mission Mississippi's theology of racial reconciliation paying close attention to the preaching of its director Dolphus Weary. Mission Mississippi, through its call for Christians to form intentional relationships outside their social, denominational, and economic circles, has at its heart a theology of open friendship.
Peter Slade
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- February 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195372625
- eISBN:
- 9780199871728
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195372625.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
Just as Smith and Emerson describe, there is a reticence within Mission Mississippi to address any issues of systemic injustice. This is the result of the explicit application of the Southern ...
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Just as Smith and Emerson describe, there is a reticence within Mission Mississippi to address any issues of systemic injustice. This is the result of the explicit application of the Southern Presbyterian doctrine of the spirituality of the church. The minister and members of First Presbyterian Church, Jackson (FPC) were very influential in the formation of Mission Mississippi—Lee Paris, its chairman and founder is a deacon at FPC; but less than a year after the first rally there was a backlash against the organization within this congregation. The roots of the protest against Mission Mississippi lie deep in the history of the Southern Presbyterian's opposition to abolitionism, and in FPC's resistance to the Civil Rights Movement. This chapter reveals the connections between this doctrine and the congregation's involvement with the Citizens' Councils, the state's resistance to desegregation, Reformed Theological Seminary, and the foundation of the Presbyterian Church in America.Less
Just as Smith and Emerson describe, there is a reticence within Mission Mississippi to address any issues of systemic injustice. This is the result of the explicit application of the Southern Presbyterian doctrine of the spirituality of the church. The minister and members of First Presbyterian Church, Jackson (FPC) were very influential in the formation of Mission Mississippi—Lee Paris, its chairman and founder is a deacon at FPC; but less than a year after the first rally there was a backlash against the organization within this congregation. The roots of the protest against Mission Mississippi lie deep in the history of the Southern Presbyterian's opposition to abolitionism, and in FPC's resistance to the Civil Rights Movement. This chapter reveals the connections between this doctrine and the congregation's involvement with the Citizens' Councils, the state's resistance to desegregation, Reformed Theological Seminary, and the foundation of the Presbyterian Church in America.
Peter Slade
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- February 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195372625
- eISBN:
- 9780199871728
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195372625.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
In the fifth chapter, the voice of the theologian Miroslav Volf joins the conversation. His influential work on reconciliation, Exclusion and Embrace, emerging from his reflections on the conflict in ...
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In the fifth chapter, the voice of the theologian Miroslav Volf joins the conversation. His influential work on reconciliation, Exclusion and Embrace, emerging from his reflections on the conflict in his native Croatia, shows the importance of open friendship at the heart of the process of reconciliation. His model of reconciliation as embrace provides a template to consider the experience of Christians seeking reconciliation through involvement in Mission Mississippi's programs. This leads back to the question of how activities focused on individual relationship building might lead to changing Mississippi. Dolphus Weary and other African American leaders believe they can. The chapter examines Mission Mississippi's church partnerships and two cases of African American entrepreneurs' working for economic development in Jackson.Less
In the fifth chapter, the voice of the theologian Miroslav Volf joins the conversation. His influential work on reconciliation, Exclusion and Embrace, emerging from his reflections on the conflict in his native Croatia, shows the importance of open friendship at the heart of the process of reconciliation. His model of reconciliation as embrace provides a template to consider the experience of Christians seeking reconciliation through involvement in Mission Mississippi's programs. This leads back to the question of how activities focused on individual relationship building might lead to changing Mississippi. Dolphus Weary and other African American leaders believe they can. The chapter examines Mission Mississippi's church partnerships and two cases of African American entrepreneurs' working for economic development in Jackson.
Williams Martin
- Published in print:
- 1993
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195083491
- eISBN:
- 9780199853205
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195083491.003.0027
- Subject:
- Music, Popular
No matter how often he heard about it, Morton was repeatedly struck by accounts of the magnificent slice of life which prevailed freely in the Storyville district. People from every economic group, ...
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No matter how often he heard about it, Morton was repeatedly struck by accounts of the magnificent slice of life which prevailed freely in the Storyville district. People from every economic group, every, race, every class, and from other parts of the globe came there. Morton played three choruses there, to re-create the type of music Tony Jackson played for the naked dances in the houses. The memory was later expanded and modified into a fuller record. The basis for this was a series of ragtime riffs, modified from chorus to chorus.Less
No matter how often he heard about it, Morton was repeatedly struck by accounts of the magnificent slice of life which prevailed freely in the Storyville district. People from every economic group, every, race, every class, and from other parts of the globe came there. Morton played three choruses there, to re-create the type of music Tony Jackson played for the naked dances in the houses. The memory was later expanded and modified into a fuller record. The basis for this was a series of ragtime riffs, modified from chorus to chorus.
Williams Martin
- Published in print:
- 1993
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195083491
- eISBN:
- 9780199853205
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195083491.003.0044
- Subject:
- Music, Popular
“European Concert” is a two-record set performed by the Modern Jazz Quartet in Sweden. The performance in general is very near to perfection. It is a like an anniversary set in that the Quartet was ...
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“European Concert” is a two-record set performed by the Modern Jazz Quartet in Sweden. The performance in general is very near to perfection. It is a like an anniversary set in that the Quartet was formed nearly ten years ago at a recording session for which its four original members were gathered. The quartet comprises of John Lewis, piano and musical director; Milt Jackson, vibraphone; Percy Heath, bass; and Connie Kay, drums. They discovered that they enjoyed playing together very much and they decided to continue. The remarkable feat is that they continue to play with the same passion and commitment to improvisation that they had at the start, and with an magnificent increase in expressive range and sensitive group interplay.Less
“European Concert” is a two-record set performed by the Modern Jazz Quartet in Sweden. The performance in general is very near to perfection. It is a like an anniversary set in that the Quartet was formed nearly ten years ago at a recording session for which its four original members were gathered. The quartet comprises of John Lewis, piano and musical director; Milt Jackson, vibraphone; Percy Heath, bass; and Connie Kay, drums. They discovered that they enjoyed playing together very much and they decided to continue. The remarkable feat is that they continue to play with the same passion and commitment to improvisation that they had at the start, and with an magnificent increase in expressive range and sensitive group interplay.
Richard E. Ellis
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195323566
- eISBN:
- 9780199788705
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195323566.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
This book examines the public debate that took place over Chief Justice John Marshall's famous decision in McCulloch v. Maryland (1819). It sheds new light on how the case came before the US Supreme ...
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This book examines the public debate that took place over Chief Justice John Marshall's famous decision in McCulloch v. Maryland (1819). It sheds new light on how the case came before the US Supreme Court. It also examines many of the key issues involved in the case that John Marshall either slighted or totally ignored: the private profit-making nature of the Second Bank of the United States (2 BUS); the power of the 2 BUS to create branches in the states without their consent, which many people viewed as a direct assault upon the sovereignty of the states and which they feared would lead to the creation of other privately controlled profit-making national corporations that could operate within a state and yet be beyond its control; and the differences between a tax levied by a state for the purposes of raising revenue and one which was meant to destroy the operations of the branches of the 2 BUS. These issues are particularly important to understand because they were at the heart of Ohio's unwillingness to abide by the Supreme Court's decision and which eventually led to Osborn et. al. v. Bank of the United States (1824) and formed the basis for Andrew Jackson's famous veto for the rechartering of the 2 BUS in 1832. The book also examines the relationship between McCulloch v. Maryland and the creation of a federal program of internal improvements.Less
This book examines the public debate that took place over Chief Justice John Marshall's famous decision in McCulloch v. Maryland (1819). It sheds new light on how the case came before the US Supreme Court. It also examines many of the key issues involved in the case that John Marshall either slighted or totally ignored: the private profit-making nature of the Second Bank of the United States (2 BUS); the power of the 2 BUS to create branches in the states without their consent, which many people viewed as a direct assault upon the sovereignty of the states and which they feared would lead to the creation of other privately controlled profit-making national corporations that could operate within a state and yet be beyond its control; and the differences between a tax levied by a state for the purposes of raising revenue and one which was meant to destroy the operations of the branches of the 2 BUS. These issues are particularly important to understand because they were at the heart of Ohio's unwillingness to abide by the Supreme Court's decision and which eventually led to Osborn et. al. v. Bank of the United States (1824) and formed the basis for Andrew Jackson's famous veto for the rechartering of the 2 BUS in 1832. The book also examines the relationship between McCulloch v. Maryland and the creation of a federal program of internal improvements.
