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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Aphorism"”.
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Is Wrong Life All That Is Possible? Adorno and Aquinas on Ethics
… ethical thought is encapsulated in his famous aphorism "Wrong life cannot be lived rightly." This dissertation explicates this alarming declaration, revealing the metaphysical, epistemological, and anthropological analyses that place Adorno's ethical thought into this intractable predicament. I …
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The Aphoristic Moment: Modernist Literature and the Quotable Self
… Not seeking to advance a new theory of the aphorism, and not seeking either to suggest a vision for it that complicates an established view of a conservative form, my thesis starts by claiming just such a conservatism as the basis of its appeal to Oscar Wilde, who saw in it both an …
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Forming A Culinary Architecture
… building in a certain way or attitude is read as aphorism – the statement imbedded in the physical existence of a construction is manifest in the way which its existence is made. We (civilization) make both out of physical need and desire,the question in art is whether our motive is purely …
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Grenades & gravy: an ethnographic study of food in the canadian forces
… is frequently evoked using Napoleon’s oft-quoted aphorism, “an army marches on its stomach”. While the biological necessity of fueling troops is well documented there remain many questions about the social aspects of military feeding and the individuals who produce it. This study’s aim is to …
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Ubuntu : development and validation of a scale to measure African humanism
… humanist philosophy described by the Nguni aphorism “umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu” which translates as a person is a person through other people. While Ubuntu has been a domain of extensive scholarly research, to date almost all of this work has been philosophical or conceptual; by contrast, …
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Looking with Narcissus: Oscar Wilde’s Reception of the Dying God
… from the originator to the recipient, Wilde’s aphorism could be considered a late nineteenth-century version of reception theory, which has sought to challenge conventional critical ideas of influence or tradition in classical studies in recent decades. The Introduction to this thesis relates …
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Praying, believing and being church : a ritual-liturgical exploration
… a multicultural setting, in accordance with the aphorism ‘Lex orandi, lex credendi, lex (con)vivendi’ (cf. Smit 2004). The urban setting of the City of Centurion, in Gauteng Province, The Republic of South Africa, displays a diversity of cultures, languages and individuals in relation with one …
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Derrida and a Theory of Irony: Parabasis and Parataxis
… borders and limits is performed in the fragment/aphorism. The (ir)responsible step taken in Derrida’s texts is understood as a mode of structural irony, and it is proposed that the stylistic changes that occurred in Derrida’s “later” texts were in part due to the autoimmunity caused by an …
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African solutions to African problems: An assessment of the African Union (AU)'s policy implementation for peace and security in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since 2004
… more complex. Hence, the stated ideal of the aphorism ‘African solutions to African problems' can only be meaningfully attained if the mechanisms to achieve peace and security are situated within sovereign African agencies and cultural political philosophies – the complexities of the global …
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From Salisbury to Harare : the geography of public authority finance and practice under changing ideological circumstances
… distribution of public funds. Expressed as an aphorism, the geography of public finance investigates 'who gets what, where; who pays, who benefits, who decides, and who decides who decides'. These issues are addressed in the present study. Annual income and expenditure on both capital and …
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Passing on: "The Weight of Memory" and the Second Generation Fiction of Anne Michaels, W. G. Sebald and Bernhard Schlink
… to appropriate Adorno’s misunderstood aphorism, as the texts present narratives that are unsettling and yet engaging. The work of the gene ration after is that of carrying memory, but not so as to appropriate it or unduly over -identify with it, but rather to respond and demonstrate …
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Culture, food, memory and health : an intergenerational study in Liverpool
… this ethos of individualism wrapped up in the aphorism 'you are what you eat', arguing that we need to focus our attention on the social and cultural ways in which food 'gets done', food as it is valued and practiced, that in turn may lead to more effective health promotion strategies.
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Perpetual Movement: Brief Forms in Latin America
… the form of a sentence as a specific form of the aphorism but also a grammatical and juridical structure for the inscription of order on a body. I analyze the works of Eduardo Lalo, Piglia and Borges, especially the texts written inside the prison. The prison, works both as the opening for a place …
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Simulating the Human in Human-Centred Design: Increasing Efficiency in Design Activities
… is adapted from Prof. George E. P. Box's famous aphorism and encapsulates the central hypothesis of this thesis: well-structured simulation approaches, while inherently imperfect, can systematically enhance the efficiency and rigour of human-centred design (HCD), particularly particularly when …
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The journey from New Delhi to Islamabad : dependence and subversion in the ambivalent expression of nationhood
… of identity take shape. Taking Gayatri Spivak's aphorism that imperialism requires a rereading "not because Empire ..... is abstract, but because Empire messes with identity" as its premise, it attempts to map the spatio-temporal territory of identity expression inscribed between colonial New …
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Rural women as the invisible victims of militarised political violence: the case of Shurugwi district, Zimbabwe, 2000-2008
… between power and war. Inverting Clausewitz�s aphorism of war as politics by other means, Foucault argues instead that politics is war by other means. This inversion allows for a nuancing of the connections between the violence and the Chimurenga trope in Zimbabwe. In this way, the labelling of …
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Sacred Categories: Saul Bellow, Friendship, and the Novel
… and *Humboldt’s Gift* (1975) - allude to an aphorism from William Blake: ‘Opposition is true friendship’. Such oppositional friendship, I argue, offers Bellow a loose and yet elegant dialectic by which the novel can balance such opposing aims as philosophical depth and psychological …
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Sarvanāmaprakaraṇam. Tracing the relevance of pronouns by reading navya vyākaraṇa commentaries
… determined by the reduction in the number of aphorisms; in fact, in the Laghusiddhāntakaumudī, there is complete absence of all the philosophical discussions which are often presented by the Siddhāntakaumudī in order to show the final position of the author with respect to the grammatical …
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Understanding gender and health: systematically comparing the health and health experiences of men and women
… including our health. For many years the aphorism that ‘men die quicker but women are sicker’ was presumed to encapsulate gender differences in health. The first paper presented in the thesis challenged this dominant paradigm. First, an analysis of morbidity in two British data sets showed …