Peter Dula
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195395037
- eISBN:
- 9780199894451
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195395037.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
For decades, theologians and philosophers of religion have been engaged in vigorous debate about the status and nature of ecclesiology, hence of community. In that discussion, theologians have found ...
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For decades, theologians and philosophers of religion have been engaged in vigorous debate about the status and nature of ecclesiology, hence of community. In that discussion, theologians have found resources in political philosophy, particularly communitarianism and political liberalism. This book turns instead to Stanley Cavell to show how his work illuminates that discussion, in particular, how his understanding of companionship and friendship might usefully complicate the communitarian‐liberal divide. Since the 1960s, Cavell has been the most category‐defying philosopher in North America as well as one of the least understood. In part, this is because philosophers are not sure what to do with Cavell's extensive engagements with literature and film or, stranger yet, Cavell's openness to theological concerns. This book, the first on Cavell and theology, places Cavell in conversation with some of the philosophers most influential in contemporary theology (Alasdair MacIntyre, Martha Nussbaum, and John Rawls). It then takes up Cavell's relationship to Christian theology, shows how the figure of Christ appears repeatedly in his work, and illustrates how Cavell's account of skepticism and acknowledgment is a profoundly illuminating and transformative resource for theological discussions, not just of ecclesiology, but of sin, salvation, and the existence of God.Less
For decades, theologians and philosophers of religion have been engaged in vigorous debate about the status and nature of ecclesiology, hence of community. In that discussion, theologians have found resources in political philosophy, particularly communitarianism and political liberalism. This book turns instead to Stanley Cavell to show how his work illuminates that discussion, in particular, how his understanding of companionship and friendship might usefully complicate the communitarian‐liberal divide. Since the 1960s, Cavell has been the most category‐defying philosopher in North America as well as one of the least understood. In part, this is because philosophers are not sure what to do with Cavell's extensive engagements with literature and film or, stranger yet, Cavell's openness to theological concerns. This book, the first on Cavell and theology, places Cavell in conversation with some of the philosophers most influential in contemporary theology (Alasdair MacIntyre, Martha Nussbaum, and John Rawls). It then takes up Cavell's relationship to Christian theology, shows how the figure of Christ appears repeatedly in his work, and illustrates how Cavell's account of skepticism and acknowledgment is a profoundly illuminating and transformative resource for theological discussions, not just of ecclesiology, but of sin, salvation, and the existence of God.
Stephen H. Webb
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195152296
- eISBN:
- 9780199849178
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195152296.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
Many of us keep pet animals; we rely on them for companionship and unconditional love. For some people their closest relationships may be with their pets. In the wake of the animal rights movement, ...
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Many of us keep pet animals; we rely on them for companionship and unconditional love. For some people their closest relationships may be with their pets. In the wake of the animal rights movement, some ethicists have started to re-examine this relationship, and to question the rights of humans to “own” other sentient beings in this way. This book brings a Christian perspective to bear on the subject of our responsibility to animals, looked at through the lens of our relations with pets—especially dogs. The book argues that the emotional bond with companion animals should play a central role in the way we think about animals in general, and—against the more extreme animal liberationists—defends the intermingling of the human and animal worlds. It tries to imagine what it would be like to treat animals as a gift from God, and indeed argues that not only are animals a gift for us, but they give to us; we need to attend to their giving and return their gifts appropriately. Throughout, the book insists that what Christians call grace is present in our relations with animals just as it is with other humans. Grace is the inclusive and expansive power of God's love to create and sustain relationships of real mutuality and reciprocity, and the book unfolds the implications of the recognition that animals participate in God's abundant grace. The book's thesis affirms and persuasively defends many of the things that pet lovers feel instinctively—that their relationships with their companion animals are meaningful and important, and that their pets have value and worth in themselves in the eyes of God.Less
Many of us keep pet animals; we rely on them for companionship and unconditional love. For some people their closest relationships may be with their pets. In the wake of the animal rights movement, some ethicists have started to re-examine this relationship, and to question the rights of humans to “own” other sentient beings in this way. This book brings a Christian perspective to bear on the subject of our responsibility to animals, looked at through the lens of our relations with pets—especially dogs. The book argues that the emotional bond with companion animals should play a central role in the way we think about animals in general, and—against the more extreme animal liberationists—defends the intermingling of the human and animal worlds. It tries to imagine what it would be like to treat animals as a gift from God, and indeed argues that not only are animals a gift for us, but they give to us; we need to attend to their giving and return their gifts appropriately. Throughout, the book insists that what Christians call grace is present in our relations with animals just as it is with other humans. Grace is the inclusive and expansive power of God's love to create and sustain relationships of real mutuality and reciprocity, and the book unfolds the implications of the recognition that animals participate in God's abundant grace. The book's thesis affirms and persuasively defends many of the things that pet lovers feel instinctively—that their relationships with their companion animals are meaningful and important, and that their pets have value and worth in themselves in the eyes of God.
Bernard Capp
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199255986
- eISBN:
- 9780191719592
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199255986.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History, Social History
This book explores how women of the poorer and middling sorts in early modern England negotiated a patriarchal culture in which they were generally excluded, marginalized, or subordinated. It focuses ...
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This book explores how women of the poorer and middling sorts in early modern England negotiated a patriarchal culture in which they were generally excluded, marginalized, or subordinated. It focuses on the networks of close friends (‘gossips’) which gave them a social identity beyond the narrowly domestic, providing both companionship and practical support in disputes with husbands and with neighbours of either sex. The book also examines the micropolitics of the household, with its internal alliances and feuds, and women's agency in neighbourhood politics, exercised by shaping local public opinion, exerting pressure on parish officials, and through the role of informal female juries. If women did not openly challenge male supremacy, they could often play a significant role in shaping their own lives and the life of the local community.Less
This book explores how women of the poorer and middling sorts in early modern England negotiated a patriarchal culture in which they were generally excluded, marginalized, or subordinated. It focuses on the networks of close friends (‘gossips’) which gave them a social identity beyond the narrowly domestic, providing both companionship and practical support in disputes with husbands and with neighbours of either sex. The book also examines the micropolitics of the household, with its internal alliances and feuds, and women's agency in neighbourhood politics, exercised by shaping local public opinion, exerting pressure on parish officials, and through the role of informal female juries. If women did not openly challenge male supremacy, they could often play a significant role in shaping their own lives and the life of the local community.
Jeffrey Jensen Arnett
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195309379
- eISBN:
- 9780199786688
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195309379.003.0003
- Subject:
- Psychology, Developmental Psychology
This chapter looks at how relationships with parents change in emerging adulthood. The discussion starts looking at the many facets of emerging adults' relationships with their parents, followed by ...
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This chapter looks at how relationships with parents change in emerging adulthood. The discussion starts looking at the many facets of emerging adults' relationships with their parents, followed by the changes that take place when emerging adults move out of their parents' households, as well as the experiences of emerging adults who move back in again and those who remain at home. The shift that often takes place in emerging adulthood from a parent-child relationship to a new relationship as friends and near-equals is discussed, along with the enduring repercussions of parents' divorces and remarriages — how emerging adults recall these events and how they believe they have been shaped by them.Less
This chapter looks at how relationships with parents change in emerging adulthood. The discussion starts looking at the many facets of emerging adults' relationships with their parents, followed by the changes that take place when emerging adults move out of their parents' households, as well as the experiences of emerging adults who move back in again and those who remain at home. The shift that often takes place in emerging adulthood from a parent-child relationship to a new relationship as friends and near-equals is discussed, along with the enduring repercussions of parents' divorces and remarriages — how emerging adults recall these events and how they believe they have been shaped by them.
Peter Dula
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195395037
- eISBN:
- 9780199894451
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195395037.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
This chapter explores the fiction of W. G. Sebald in order to illustrate skepticism and the companionship Cavell and Sebald think should be a response to it. Many of Sebald's characters may be ...
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This chapter explores the fiction of W. G. Sebald in order to illustrate skepticism and the companionship Cavell and Sebald think should be a response to it. Many of Sebald's characters may be understood to be in the grip of the variety of skepticism which Wittgenstein called the private language fantasy. The companionship that Sebald's narrator provides to these characters helps to illuminate the alternative Cavell provides to both MacIntyre and liberalism.Less
This chapter explores the fiction of W. G. Sebald in order to illustrate skepticism and the companionship Cavell and Sebald think should be a response to it. Many of Sebald's characters may be understood to be in the grip of the variety of skepticism which Wittgenstein called the private language fantasy. The companionship that Sebald's narrator provides to these characters helps to illuminate the alternative Cavell provides to both MacIntyre and liberalism.
Peter Dula
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195395037
- eISBN:
- 9780199894451
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195395037.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
A key concept in the later work of Sheldon Wolin is “fugitive democracy.” Wolin argues that, throughout history, democracy has rarely been able to endure through time but instead comes and goes in ...
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A key concept in the later work of Sheldon Wolin is “fugitive democracy.” Wolin argues that, throughout history, democracy has rarely been able to endure through time but instead comes and goes in evanescent, fugitive moments. Much recent work in ecclesiology, especially that of radical orthodoxy, but also that of Stanley Hauerwas and John Howard Yoder, seems to be convinced that the same is true of church. Just to the extent that is true, theologians may find it fruitful to talk about companionship as well as, and sometimes instead of, community.Less
A key concept in the later work of Sheldon Wolin is “fugitive democracy.” Wolin argues that, throughout history, democracy has rarely been able to endure through time but instead comes and goes in evanescent, fugitive moments. Much recent work in ecclesiology, especially that of radical orthodoxy, but also that of Stanley Hauerwas and John Howard Yoder, seems to be convinced that the same is true of church. Just to the extent that is true, theologians may find it fruitful to talk about companionship as well as, and sometimes instead of, community.
David Quint
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691161914
- eISBN:
- 9781400850488
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691161914.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter relates the separate falls of Eve and Adam in book 9, respectively, to deeply held wishes that Milton reveals in other writings throughout his career. The fall of Eve grows out of the ...
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This chapter relates the separate falls of Eve and Adam in book 9, respectively, to deeply held wishes that Milton reveals in other writings throughout his career. The fall of Eve grows out of the desire to make trial of an otherwise cloistered virtue and to stand approved in the eyes of God: individual recognition, which Milton uneasily assimilates with the wish for fame. Adam, on the other hand, falls in the name of marital love. Both Eve and Adam have good reasons that go wrong when they disobey God, and their respective wishes—the proof, in Eve's case, of one's solitary spiritual worth and sufficiency, the remedying, in Adam's, of one's social deficiency through human love and companionship—survive and are ratified after the Fall when the couple appear to have switched positions. Adam at the poem's end asserts his vertical dependence on the only God, while Eve declares her love for and inseparability from Adam.Less
This chapter relates the separate falls of Eve and Adam in book 9, respectively, to deeply held wishes that Milton reveals in other writings throughout his career. The fall of Eve grows out of the desire to make trial of an otherwise cloistered virtue and to stand approved in the eyes of God: individual recognition, which Milton uneasily assimilates with the wish for fame. Adam, on the other hand, falls in the name of marital love. Both Eve and Adam have good reasons that go wrong when they disobey God, and their respective wishes—the proof, in Eve's case, of one's solitary spiritual worth and sufficiency, the remedying, in Adam's, of one's social deficiency through human love and companionship—survive and are ratified after the Fall when the couple appear to have switched positions. Adam at the poem's end asserts his vertical dependence on the only God, while Eve declares her love for and inseparability from Adam.
P. G. Walsh
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- April 2004
- ISBN:
- 9780198269953
- eISBN:
- 9780191601132
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198269951.003.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Early Christian Studies
Marriage is the natural institution of society established for companionship and for the continuation of the human race. It must be lifelong, and the partners must show total fidelity to each other. ...
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Marriage is the natural institution of society established for companionship and for the continuation of the human race. It must be lifelong, and the partners must show total fidelity to each other. Lustful behaviour in marriage is pardonable, as it safeguards against adultery and fornication. Marriage is good, but consecrated virginity is better. Christian marriage differs from secular marriage in embodying sacramentum, an oath of lifelong allegiance that symbolizes unity in the future Jerusalem. Thus, marriage is good because it incorporates the three goods of proles, fides, and sacramentum.Less
Marriage is the natural institution of society established for companionship and for the continuation of the human race. It must be lifelong, and the partners must show total fidelity to each other. Lustful behaviour in marriage is pardonable, as it safeguards against adultery and fornication. Marriage is good, but consecrated virginity is better. Christian marriage differs from secular marriage in embodying sacramentum, an oath of lifelong allegiance that symbolizes unity in the future Jerusalem. Thus, marriage is good because it incorporates the three goods of proles, fides, and sacramentum.
Sarah Kay
- Published in print:
- 1995
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198151920
- eISBN:
- 9780191672903
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198151920.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, Early and Medieval Literature, European Literature
It can be observed that certain horizontal ties such as friendship, brotherhood, and companionship are formed between characters – junior men – who belong to the same age group and share the same ...
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It can be observed that certain horizontal ties such as friendship, brotherhood, and companionship are formed between characters – junior men – who belong to the same age group and share the same status. One of the fundamental impacts of such relationships on the organization of meaning is that the similarities of these individuals are illustrated as something desirable, since such similarities somehow overpower differences and inequalities as they advocate homogeneity. This endeavour to achieve general likeness may be associated with René Girard's notion of ‘mimetic desire’, wherein there exists an urge among individuals to imitate a certain model that thus results in an indefinite mirroring chain. Here, we observe that there would always be a certain desire for one to copy another, therefore sacrificing ‘difference’.Less
It can be observed that certain horizontal ties such as friendship, brotherhood, and companionship are formed between characters – junior men – who belong to the same age group and share the same status. One of the fundamental impacts of such relationships on the organization of meaning is that the similarities of these individuals are illustrated as something desirable, since such similarities somehow overpower differences and inequalities as they advocate homogeneity. This endeavour to achieve general likeness may be associated with René Girard's notion of ‘mimetic desire’, wherein there exists an urge among individuals to imitate a certain model that thus results in an indefinite mirroring chain. Here, we observe that there would always be a certain desire for one to copy another, therefore sacrificing ‘difference’.
Peter Robb
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198075110
- eISBN:
- 9780199080885
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198075110.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, Social History
This chapter explores the idea of marriage during the late eighteenth century among colonials in India. It explains that under the prevailing code during this period, wives deserved particular ...
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This chapter explores the idea of marriage during the late eighteenth century among colonials in India. It explains that under the prevailing code during this period, wives deserved particular attention and required respect. A gentleman’s marriage assumed companionship and hence parity in class and religion: it offered household management and social graces for the husband in return for protection and comfort for the wife. This chapter also describes the case of Eduardo Tiretta, a sixty-seven year civil architect, who married a fourteen year old girl from Serampore.Less
This chapter explores the idea of marriage during the late eighteenth century among colonials in India. It explains that under the prevailing code during this period, wives deserved particular attention and required respect. A gentleman’s marriage assumed companionship and hence parity in class and religion: it offered household management and social graces for the husband in return for protection and comfort for the wife. This chapter also describes the case of Eduardo Tiretta, a sixty-seven year civil architect, who married a fourteen year old girl from Serampore.
Joan D. Hedrick
- Published in print:
- 1995
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195096392
- eISBN:
- 9780199854288
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195096392.003.0012
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
Unlike the male-dominated marriages of the 18th century, Calvin Stowe and Harriet Beecher Stowe's union was a “companionate marriage” —increasingly the middle-class norm. The marital concept of ...
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Unlike the male-dominated marriages of the 18th century, Calvin Stowe and Harriet Beecher Stowe's union was a “companionate marriage” —increasingly the middle-class norm. The marital concept of intellectual companionship, prevalent in the advice literature of the period, was strongly enforced by the teaching of Sarah Pierce at the Litchfield school. The gains for women in the new, companionate ideal were clear, but there were costs as well. Companionate marriages gave rise to more conflict, for the expectations and roles were less defined. A greater stress on their marriage than their contrasting temperaments was the strain of closely spaced childbearing. In both the difficulties and joys of young motherhood Harriet was supported by her help, Anna Smith, a recently arrived English immigrant whom Harriet treated more as a sister than a domestic servant.Less
Unlike the male-dominated marriages of the 18th century, Calvin Stowe and Harriet Beecher Stowe's union was a “companionate marriage” —increasingly the middle-class norm. The marital concept of intellectual companionship, prevalent in the advice literature of the period, was strongly enforced by the teaching of Sarah Pierce at the Litchfield school. The gains for women in the new, companionate ideal were clear, but there were costs as well. Companionate marriages gave rise to more conflict, for the expectations and roles were less defined. A greater stress on their marriage than their contrasting temperaments was the strain of closely spaced childbearing. In both the difficulties and joys of young motherhood Harriet was supported by her help, Anna Smith, a recently arrived English immigrant whom Harriet treated more as a sister than a domestic servant.
Barbara Caine
- Published in print:
- 1993
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198204336
- eISBN:
- 9780191676215
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198204336.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History, Social History
This chapter examines the contribution of Frances Power Cobbe to the feminist movement in Victorian England. Cobbe's feminist ideas have been widely received in comparison to those of Emily Davies. ...
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This chapter examines the contribution of Frances Power Cobbe to the feminist movement in Victorian England. Cobbe's feminist ideas have been widely received in comparison to those of Emily Davies. This is because while Davies' feminism stressed equality Cobbe's centres on sexual difference. Her activities that gained the most attention were her discussions of marital violence and of women's domestic subordination on the one hand, and her defence of celibacy and of female domestic companionship on the other.Less
This chapter examines the contribution of Frances Power Cobbe to the feminist movement in Victorian England. Cobbe's feminist ideas have been widely received in comparison to those of Emily Davies. This is because while Davies' feminism stressed equality Cobbe's centres on sexual difference. Her activities that gained the most attention were her discussions of marital violence and of women's domestic subordination on the one hand, and her defence of celibacy and of female domestic companionship on the other.
Martin Francis
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199277483
- eISBN:
- 9780191699948
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199277483.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History, Cultural History
This chapter focuses on the flyer in love. While some flyers feared that romantic entanglements might compromise combat efficiency, many others found that falling in love offered an affirmation of ...
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This chapter focuses on the flyer in love. While some flyers feared that romantic entanglements might compromise combat efficiency, many others found that falling in love offered an affirmation of life in the present and hope for the future. Romantic love and companionship appeared to be a reward for taking on the obligations of military service, and therefore the flyer' affairs of the heart, far from being esoteric, tell us a great deal about the intersections between masculinity, sexuality, and citizenship in modern Britain. What was especially unusual about the RAF was that the presence of female service personnel, in the form of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF), allowed the possibility of heterosexual romantic attachments developing on the base itself. The romantic universe of the flyer ensured that the wartime RAF was never a closed all-male world, in which masculinity operated independently of a female presence.Less
This chapter focuses on the flyer in love. While some flyers feared that romantic entanglements might compromise combat efficiency, many others found that falling in love offered an affirmation of life in the present and hope for the future. Romantic love and companionship appeared to be a reward for taking on the obligations of military service, and therefore the flyer' affairs of the heart, far from being esoteric, tell us a great deal about the intersections between masculinity, sexuality, and citizenship in modern Britain. What was especially unusual about the RAF was that the presence of female service personnel, in the form of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF), allowed the possibility of heterosexual romantic attachments developing on the base itself. The romantic universe of the flyer ensured that the wartime RAF was never a closed all-male world, in which masculinity operated independently of a female presence.
Austen Clark
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198236801
- eISBN:
- 9780191679360
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198236801.003.0007
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind
This book has shown that some presentations of sensory qualities can be explained, and that those explanations survive the various philosophical objections raised against them. It argued that people ...
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This book has shown that some presentations of sensory qualities can be explained, and that those explanations survive the various philosophical objections raised against them. It argued that people initially adopt an attitude of methodological solipsism, concentrating on the sensory qualities presented in the experience of just one subject. Explanations of perceptual effects proceed by showing that the thing or distal stimulus presenting a particular sensory quality in a particular situation has the same physical effect on some stage of the sensory system as some paradigm object that has and is perceived to have that quality. This book has also addressed sense impressions, an ensemble in a channel subserving discriminations; differentiative properties; quality space or sensory order; relative similarity; companionship and imperfect community; and multidimensional scaling.Less
This book has shown that some presentations of sensory qualities can be explained, and that those explanations survive the various philosophical objections raised against them. It argued that people initially adopt an attitude of methodological solipsism, concentrating on the sensory qualities presented in the experience of just one subject. Explanations of perceptual effects proceed by showing that the thing or distal stimulus presenting a particular sensory quality in a particular situation has the same physical effect on some stage of the sensory system as some paradigm object that has and is perceived to have that quality. This book has also addressed sense impressions, an ensemble in a channel subserving discriminations; differentiative properties; quality space or sensory order; relative similarity; companionship and imperfect community; and multidimensional scaling.
Geoffrey L. Greif
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- April 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195326420
- eISBN:
- 9780199893553
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195326420.003.0004
- Subject:
- Social Work, Communities and Organizations
This chapter examines how friendships operate and are maintained. Men were asked how they were helped by their friends. Being supported, being listened to, receiving advice, and providing ...
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This chapter examines how friendships operate and are maintained. Men were asked how they were helped by their friends. Being supported, being listened to, receiving advice, and providing companionship were the four most frequently mentioned methods. Men were asked what they did with their friends, and sports, mentioned by 80% of the respondents, was the most common activity. Communicating was second. Finally, men were asked how they made friends with other guys. Finding commonalities, making friends through work, and reaching out and being friendly were the most common approaches. How men lose friends is also discussed.Less
This chapter examines how friendships operate and are maintained. Men were asked how they were helped by their friends. Being supported, being listened to, receiving advice, and providing companionship were the four most frequently mentioned methods. Men were asked what they did with their friends, and sports, mentioned by 80% of the respondents, was the most common activity. Communicating was second. Finally, men were asked how they made friends with other guys. Finding commonalities, making friends through work, and reaching out and being friendly were the most common approaches. How men lose friends is also discussed.
Leonore Davidoff
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199546480
- eISBN:
- 9780191730993
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199546480.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, Social History, Family History
Childhood patterns among siblings continued into adulthood. Many young adults lived at home into their twenties; women did so until they married. They were often sent as companion/housekeeper to ...
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Childhood patterns among siblings continued into adulthood. Many young adults lived at home into their twenties; women did so until they married. They were often sent as companion/housekeeper to unmarried brothers. Friends of siblings were a main source of marriage partners. Siblings who had been close felt bereft when a sibling married. A few unmarried siblings lived together all their lives. Unmarried sisters ran schools, needlework and retail enterprises, or lived on unearned income. Brothers were expected to provide financially for sisters; sisters to serve brothers’ needs. Sisters remained vulnerable to brothers’ inability or unwillingness to support them. Unmarried women joined married siblings’ households to provide companionship and childcare. Adult siblings’ conflicts overlaid childhood tensions. Divisive issues included religious and political beliefs or inheritance from parents. Surviving brothers and sisters came together in old age for companionship. Deep affection and involvement, but also rivalry characterized adult sibling relationships throughout life.Less
Childhood patterns among siblings continued into adulthood. Many young adults lived at home into their twenties; women did so until they married. They were often sent as companion/housekeeper to unmarried brothers. Friends of siblings were a main source of marriage partners. Siblings who had been close felt bereft when a sibling married. A few unmarried siblings lived together all their lives. Unmarried sisters ran schools, needlework and retail enterprises, or lived on unearned income. Brothers were expected to provide financially for sisters; sisters to serve brothers’ needs. Sisters remained vulnerable to brothers’ inability or unwillingness to support them. Unmarried women joined married siblings’ households to provide companionship and childcare. Adult siblings’ conflicts overlaid childhood tensions. Divisive issues included religious and political beliefs or inheritance from parents. Surviving brothers and sisters came together in old age for companionship. Deep affection and involvement, but also rivalry characterized adult sibling relationships throughout life.
Matthew Reynolds
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780198187127
- eISBN:
- 9780191719066
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198187127.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
This chapter argues that in Clough's poems during the 1840s, a possible step into community of feeling and obligation with other people is suspended by the thought that to take it would be to betray ...
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This chapter argues that in Clough's poems during the 1840s, a possible step into community of feeling and obligation with other people is suspended by the thought that to take it would be to betray one's true self. It describes Clough's characteristic plot-line as the opposite of Aurora Leigh's, which has the true self being discovered through companionship, above all through love. It shows that as Clough was having religious doubts during that time, the dance may well allude most to the shared faith and rituals of the Anglican Church; certainly the final lines, where the speaker dedicates himself to ‘the bare conscience of the better thing’, suggest a quaker-like rejection of religious forms. Clough manifests the new imaginative verve in the Bothie which has an origin in a dual liberation he had experienced at Easter 1848. It also shows that quantity is indeed the defining principle of Clough's work.Less
This chapter argues that in Clough's poems during the 1840s, a possible step into community of feeling and obligation with other people is suspended by the thought that to take it would be to betray one's true self. It describes Clough's characteristic plot-line as the opposite of Aurora Leigh's, which has the true self being discovered through companionship, above all through love. It shows that as Clough was having religious doubts during that time, the dance may well allude most to the shared faith and rituals of the Anglican Church; certainly the final lines, where the speaker dedicates himself to ‘the bare conscience of the better thing’, suggest a quaker-like rejection of religious forms. Clough manifests the new imaginative verve in the Bothie which has an origin in a dual liberation he had experienced at Easter 1848. It also shows that quantity is indeed the defining principle of Clough's work.
Colwyn Trevarthen
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199755059
- eISBN:
- 9780199979479
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199755059.003.0012
- Subject:
- Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Evolutionary Psychology
A search for the early modern human infant and mother who enjoyed a long and intense attachment within a family group leads to the conclusion that what was new in the environment of evolutionary ...
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A search for the early modern human infant and mother who enjoyed a long and intense attachment within a family group leads to the conclusion that what was new in the environment of evolutionary adaptedness (EEA) was not just the large-brained head that required an early birth or the weak body, but the artful mind that asked for specially sensitive and imaginative care and cooperation. A human infant is born seeking an intimate companion with whom to share creative actions and ideas. The brains of Homo sapiens sapiens change themselves and one another epigenetically while transforming the environment and harvesting its resources. They join their imaginations in synrhythmic displays of social cooperation, making culture. This is passionately emotional intelligence, not just calculatingly cognitive. Its early development needs a secure, loving, and playful family, the essential base for a future industrious community of adults who trust one another and work together.Less
A search for the early modern human infant and mother who enjoyed a long and intense attachment within a family group leads to the conclusion that what was new in the environment of evolutionary adaptedness (EEA) was not just the large-brained head that required an early birth or the weak body, but the artful mind that asked for specially sensitive and imaginative care and cooperation. A human infant is born seeking an intimate companion with whom to share creative actions and ideas. The brains of Homo sapiens sapiens change themselves and one another epigenetically while transforming the environment and harvesting its resources. They join their imaginations in synrhythmic displays of social cooperation, making culture. This is passionately emotional intelligence, not just calculatingly cognitive. Its early development needs a secure, loving, and playful family, the essential base for a future industrious community of adults who trust one another and work together.
Dale F. Lott
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520233386
- eISBN:
- 9780520930742
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520233386.003.0019
- Subject:
- Biology, Natural History and Field Guides
We, humans, sometimes want more from animals than just their hides and meat. We want, in a certain sense, companionship. This chapter explores that desire, and the ways it has connected us to bison. ...
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We, humans, sometimes want more from animals than just their hides and meat. We want, in a certain sense, companionship. This chapter explores that desire, and the ways it has connected us to bison. Few animals have much social flexibility. They assign each individual they encounter to one of a small number of categories: members of other species are predators, competitors, or neutral nonentities. Any change in one's behavior, or in the beast's mood, can easily lead to reassignment to a more dangerous status. A relationship with a buffalo is a dangerous liaison. Bison are immune to our charm, sincerity, personal integrity, and peaceful intentions. Expecting reciprocity is part of our romantic illusion about other animals, sometimes wild ones. People don't tame bison to be beasts of burden, they tame them to prove either that they are tamable or that somebody has got the means to do it.Less
We, humans, sometimes want more from animals than just their hides and meat. We want, in a certain sense, companionship. This chapter explores that desire, and the ways it has connected us to bison. Few animals have much social flexibility. They assign each individual they encounter to one of a small number of categories: members of other species are predators, competitors, or neutral nonentities. Any change in one's behavior, or in the beast's mood, can easily lead to reassignment to a more dangerous status. A relationship with a buffalo is a dangerous liaison. Bison are immune to our charm, sincerity, personal integrity, and peaceful intentions. Expecting reciprocity is part of our romantic illusion about other animals, sometimes wild ones. People don't tame bison to be beasts of burden, they tame them to prove either that they are tamable or that somebody has got the means to do it.
Colwyn Trevarthen, Jonathan Delafield-Butt, and Aline-Wendy Dunlop (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- October 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780198747109
- eISBN:
- 9780191809439
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198747109.001.0001
- Subject:
- Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Social Psychology
The Child’s Curriculum Group was created by former nursery school teachers concerned about reduction of local government support for the schools they had nurtured. They have a lifelong commitment to ...
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The Child’s Curriculum Group was created by former nursery school teachers concerned about reduction of local government support for the schools they had nurtured. They have a lifelong commitment to excellent provision for young children and their families and they urge recognition of the benefits to a child and their lifetime of learning when parents and nursery educators nourish companionship in discovery of meaning for work and play in early years. The child’s enthusiasm inspires development of a generous and valued ‘common sense’ in the community. The editors of our book are academics who investigate how the young child shares human vitality and learning. Aline-Wendy Dunlop, Emeritus Professor in Education at Strathclyde University, is Scottish Coordinator for the Pedagogies of Educational Transitions Project (POET), and Vice President of Early Education. She was head teacher at Westfield Court Nursery School in Edinburgh. Jonathan Delafield-Butt is Senior Lecturer in Child Development in Education at Strathclyde on the neuroscience and psychology of human movement and its growth in affectionate care for meaning-making. Colwyn Trevarthen, Emeritus Professor in Psychology in Edinburgh, and Vice President of Early Education, is a psychobiologist with 50 years’ experience in charting the development of communication from birth to symbolic communication by speech and writing. We invited experts in early education and care in different human worlds to share their experience of the strengths of children, and received wonderful contributions. We acknowledge the inspiration from the teachers who founded the Child’s Curriculum project in 2006, and who continue to guide its progress.Less
The Child’s Curriculum Group was created by former nursery school teachers concerned about reduction of local government support for the schools they had nurtured. They have a lifelong commitment to excellent provision for young children and their families and they urge recognition of the benefits to a child and their lifetime of learning when parents and nursery educators nourish companionship in discovery of meaning for work and play in early years. The child’s enthusiasm inspires development of a generous and valued ‘common sense’ in the community. The editors of our book are academics who investigate how the young child shares human vitality and learning. Aline-Wendy Dunlop, Emeritus Professor in Education at Strathclyde University, is Scottish Coordinator for the Pedagogies of Educational Transitions Project (POET), and Vice President of Early Education. She was head teacher at Westfield Court Nursery School in Edinburgh. Jonathan Delafield-Butt is Senior Lecturer in Child Development in Education at Strathclyde on the neuroscience and psychology of human movement and its growth in affectionate care for meaning-making. Colwyn Trevarthen, Emeritus Professor in Psychology in Edinburgh, and Vice President of Early Education, is a psychobiologist with 50 years’ experience in charting the development of communication from birth to symbolic communication by speech and writing. We invited experts in early education and care in different human worlds to share their experience of the strengths of children, and received wonderful contributions. We acknowledge the inspiration from the teachers who founded the Child’s Curriculum project in 2006, and who continue to guide its progress.
