Emanuele Castrucci
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781474411844
- eISBN:
- 9781474426770
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474411844.001.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Philosophy of Law
Does there exist a Logos capable of limiting the very power of God? This question closely relates an inquiry arising in classical Greek philosophy to the theological knowledge originating in Jewish ...
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Does there exist a Logos capable of limiting the very power of God? This question closely relates an inquiry arising in classical Greek philosophy to the theological knowledge originating in Jewish biblical exegesis. Two thoroughly unrelated worlds, one would say, yet a historical nexus between them existed, that created by Christianity, which has marked the destiny of our West. As Leo Strauss has masterfully shown, Christianity has been for two thousand years, despite its many inner contradictions, something like an interface between two hitherto unrelated worlds: Greek philosophy and biblical revelation. By reformulating them and turning them on their heads, it has shaped an entire civilization: our Western civilization, which is now drawing to a close. Thus, never has it been as appropriate as the present moment to come to grips with our opening question about the “limits of God”, or about the original laws of logic and ontology that somehow “limit” God’s very actions, since it arises from the profound need – prior to St. Paul unthinkable in concrete terms – to form a link between these two radically different worlds. Our West, with its devastating philosophical rationalism, its systematic Christian-Enlightenment repudiation of the Spinozist-Nietzschean concept of potency, from its very inception hinged on this question of knowledge of a law before God and above God. Today we must acknowledge that – precisely because of what this question, taken to its extreme consequences, implies – it was destined from its origins to end.Less
Does there exist a Logos capable of limiting the very power of God? This question closely relates an inquiry arising in classical Greek philosophy to the theological knowledge originating in Jewish biblical exegesis. Two thoroughly unrelated worlds, one would say, yet a historical nexus between them existed, that created by Christianity, which has marked the destiny of our West. As Leo Strauss has masterfully shown, Christianity has been for two thousand years, despite its many inner contradictions, something like an interface between two hitherto unrelated worlds: Greek philosophy and biblical revelation. By reformulating them and turning them on their heads, it has shaped an entire civilization: our Western civilization, which is now drawing to a close. Thus, never has it been as appropriate as the present moment to come to grips with our opening question about the “limits of God”, or about the original laws of logic and ontology that somehow “limit” God’s very actions, since it arises from the profound need – prior to St. Paul unthinkable in concrete terms – to form a link between these two radically different worlds. Our West, with its devastating philosophical rationalism, its systematic Christian-Enlightenment repudiation of the Spinozist-Nietzschean concept of potency, from its very inception hinged on this question of knowledge of a law before God and above God. Today we must acknowledge that – precisely because of what this question, taken to its extreme consequences, implies – it was destined from its origins to end.
Andrew Mangham and Daniel Lea (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781786940520
- eISBN:
- 9781789629170
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781786940520.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
Investigations of male potency and the ‘ability to perform’ have long been mainstays of social, political and artistic discourse and have provoked spirited and partisan declarations about what it is ...
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Investigations of male potency and the ‘ability to perform’ have long been mainstays of social, political and artistic discourse and have provoked spirited and partisan declarations about what it is to be a man. This interdisciplinary collection considers the tensions that have developed between the historical privilege often ascribed to the male and the vulnerability to which his body is prone. Using a variety of historical and literary approaches, the essays in this work consider the critical ways in which medicine’s interactions with literature reveal vital clues about the ways sex, gender and identity are constructed through treatments of a range of pathologies, including deformity, venereal disease, injury, nervousness and sexual difference. The relationships between male medicine and ideals of potency and masculinity are searchingly explored through a range of sources, including African American slave fictions, southern gothic, early modern poetry, Victorian literature and the modern novel.Less
Investigations of male potency and the ‘ability to perform’ have long been mainstays of social, political and artistic discourse and have provoked spirited and partisan declarations about what it is to be a man. This interdisciplinary collection considers the tensions that have developed between the historical privilege often ascribed to the male and the vulnerability to which his body is prone. Using a variety of historical and literary approaches, the essays in this work consider the critical ways in which medicine’s interactions with literature reveal vital clues about the ways sex, gender and identity are constructed through treatments of a range of pathologies, including deformity, venereal disease, injury, nervousness and sexual difference. The relationships between male medicine and ideals of potency and masculinity are searchingly explored through a range of sources, including African American slave fictions, southern gothic, early modern poetry, Victorian literature and the modern novel.
David F. Hendry
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780262028356
- eISBN:
- 9780262324410
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262028356.003.0008
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Econometrics
We now consider the special case in which a congruent, constant regression model in mutually orthogonal, valid conditioning variables can be successfully selected in one decision using the criteria ...
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We now consider the special case in which a congruent, constant regression model in mutually orthogonal, valid conditioning variables can be successfully selected in one decision using the criteria discussed in chapter 5. This establishes a baseline, which demonstrates that the false null retention rate can be controlled, and that repeated testing is not an intrinsic aspect of model selection, even if there are 10300 possible models, as occurs here when N = 1000. Goodness-of-fit estimates, mean squared errors, and the consistency of the selection are all discussed. However, the estimates from the selected model do not have the same properties as if the DGP equation had been estimated directly, so chapter 10 develops bias corrections, after chapter 9 considers the 2-variable case in more detail.Less
We now consider the special case in which a congruent, constant regression model in mutually orthogonal, valid conditioning variables can be successfully selected in one decision using the criteria discussed in chapter 5. This establishes a baseline, which demonstrates that the false null retention rate can be controlled, and that repeated testing is not an intrinsic aspect of model selection, even if there are 10300 possible models, as occurs here when N = 1000. Goodness-of-fit estimates, mean squared errors, and the consistency of the selection are all discussed. However, the estimates from the selected model do not have the same properties as if the DGP equation had been estimated directly, so chapter 10 develops bias corrections, after chapter 9 considers the 2-variable case in more detail.
