Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T19:20:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Jose Altran.pdf: 1835681 bytes, checksum: 676cdf4ba6912928ccee8a5a2f3d586b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-09-12 / The dissertation suggests that an epistemology that listen to irrationality is relevant to face perennial obstacles in the philosophy of science, against which many objects collide. This seems to be an especially useful alternative in the sciences of religion, where we see ourselves immobilized by rationality when engaging researches that are related to their typically unspeakable phenomena. The mystical experience, often taken as the basis of religion, is a scenario that often brings amid its ineffability a sense of univocity - which is, precisely, the horizon of academic making. Would this ineffable hold an episteme? Following the publications of Marcelo Dascal, Henri Bergson and others, it is argued that, overcoming asymmetric impositions of epistemic legitimacy that inhibit controversies, we could find in bergsonian intuitionism a way toward these subjects as elusive as dangerous, since they put the rationality as a functional pillar for science and irrationality as a metaphysical pillar to reality itself. The transformations that the mystics brought to the world throughout history could be taken as signs that not only the irrationality was their compass, but also that it can bring extremely desirable outcomes for humanity, althought impelled by unspeakable epiphanies. Our aim is to gradually create lucid foundations for the study of alleged mystical univocities that invariably would become relative under the eyes of reason / A dissertação sugere que uma epistemologia que dê ouvidos à irracionalidade é pertinente para enfrentarmos entraves perenes na filosofia da ciência, frente aos quais muitos objetos colidem. Esta parece uma alternativa especialmente útil nas ciências da religião, onde nos vemos imobilizados pela racionalidade ao nos engajarmos em pesquisas que guardam relação com seus fenômenos tipicamente indizíveis. A experiência mística, tantas vezes tida como base das religiões, é cenário que frequentemente traz em meio à sua inefabilidade uma sensação de univocidade - justamente o horizonte do fazer acadêmico. Moraria neste inefável uma episteme? Por meio de Marcelo Dascal, Henri Bergson e outros, argumenta-se que, superadas imposições assimétricas de legitimidade epistêmica que inibem controvérsias, poderíamos encontrar no intuicionismo bergsoniano um caminho a seguir frente a esses assuntos tão fugidios quanto delicados, uma vez que coloca a racionalidade como pilar funcional para a ciência, e a irracionalidade como pilar metafísico para a realidade em si. As transformações que os místicos trouxeram ao mundo ao longo da história servem como indício de que não só foi a irracionalidade sua diretriz, como que ela pode trazer resultados objetivos e extremamente desejáveis para a humanidade, mesmo impelidas por epifanias indizíveis. Pretende-se, assim, aos poucos, criar fundamentos lúcidos para o estudo de supostas univocidades místicas que invariavelmente se tornariam relativas sob o domínio da razão

Controverse qui traverse les années, l’expérimentation animale, en dépit de fortes remises en question par des opposants de plus en plus véhéments, s’inscrit dans un certain immobilisme. A quoi tient cette « stagnation » ? Le substantif est-il d’ailleurs à propos ? La controverse en question ne s’inscrit-elle pas plutôt dans une « dynamique immobile » ? Afin d’étudier cette problématique, la thèse favorise une approche communicationnelle. L’étude se fait en trois temps, tout d’abord par l’analyse du dilemme moral sur lequel repose l’expérimentation animale, ce qui suppose un retour vers un certain nombre de textes philosophiques et éthiques fondamentaux. Puis, l’étude analyse les discours des opposants et des partisans et les raisons d’un difficile, voire impossible dialogue entre les deux camps. Dans cette situation de non-communication, le législateur devient, comme nous le voyons en dernier lieu, un recours dont chaque camp attend une solution… Une solution permettant de sortir de l’immobilisme ? / Throughout the years, despite strong questioning from more and more vehement opponents, the animal testing controversy has come to a standstill. What can explain this « immobility » ? Besides, is the noun accurate ? Is this controversy rather not in line with a « dynamic inertia » ? So as to investigate this issue, communicational approach is put forward.The study is divided into three parts. A first one analyzes the underlying moral dilemma of animal testing, which involves going back to some philosophical sources and ethical principles. Then, the study examines the opponents and supporters speeches as well as the reasons for a difficult and even an impossible dialogue between the two sides. In this situation of non-communication, the legislature is, as we see in the third part, a resort from which each side is expecting a solution... A solution to overcome the inertia ?

Henri Basnage de Beauval (1656-1710) est né dans une famille protestante de la noblesse normande. Arrière-petit-fils, petit-fils, neveu, cousin et frère de pasteurs, il choisit pourtant de devenir avocat, à l’instar de son père, Henri Basnage de Franquesnay. Face à l’accélération des persécutions contre sa communauté confessionnelle, il prend la plume pour dénoncer la violation des consciences et proposer une solution pragmatique à son souverain, celle de la tolérance civile des religions. Un an après la publication de son traité, la Révocation de l’édit de Nantes l’oblige à se convertir au catholicisme et ce n’est qu’à l’été 1687 qu’il s’exile en Hollande où il retourne au protestantisme et commence une nouvelle vie. Au Refuge huguenot, il retrouve son frère Jacques Basnage ainsi que le philosophe Pierre Bayle qui lui offre l’opportunité de devenir journaliste et de faire son entrée dans la République des Lettres. Grâce à son Histoire des ouvrages des savans (1687-1709), il participe à la diffusion des connaissances scientifiques et littéraires et s’érige en intermédiaire entre les lettrés européens. Il propose également une révision du Dictionnaire universel d’Antoine Furetière et réédite les œuvres juridiques de son père. Continuant de défendre l’idée que la tolérance civile des religions est la solution la plus acceptable face au morcellement de la chrétienté, il participe également à la controverse inter et intra confessionnelle de son temps, s’opposant en particulier au pasteur Pierre Jurieu. Il décède à La Haye en 1710, loin de sa patrie. Par une approche à la fois sociale, culturelle et intellectuelle, cette biographie interroge les singularités de l’identité d’un huguenot de la fin du XVIIe siècle, mais également la façon dont ce dernier perçoit le monde et se comporte face aux obstacles auxquels il est confronté. / Henri Basnage de Beauval (1656-1710) was born in a protestant family of the Norman nobility. Great grandson, grandson, nephew, cousin and brother of ministers, he nevertheless chooses to become a lawyer like his father, Henri Basnage de Franquesnay. Facing the growing persecutions against his confessional community, he writes to denounce the violation of consciences and propound a pragmatic solution to his king, that of civil tolerance of religions. One year after the publication of his treaty, the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes forces him to convert to Catholicism and it is only during summer 1687 that he exiles himself to Holland where he returns to Protestantism and begins a new life. In the Huguenot Refuge, he finds his brother Jacques Basnage and the philosopher Pierre Bayle who offers him the opportunity to become a journalist and to enter into the Republic of Letters.Thanks to his Histoire des ouvrages des savans (1687-1709), he takes part in the dissemination of scientific and literary knowledge and stands as an intermediary between the European scholars. He also offers a revision of Antoine Furetière’s Dictionnaire universel and republishes his father’s legal works. Continuing to defend the idea that the civil tolerance of religions is the most acceptable solution to face the Christianity fragmentation, he also takes part in the internal and external confessional controversy of his time, opposing in particular the pastor Pierre Jurieu. He dies in The Hague in 1710, far away from his homeland. By a social, cultural and intellectual approach, this biography aims at questioning the singularities of a Huguenot identity at the end of the seventeenth century, but also the way the latter perceives the world and behaves in front of the obstacles he has to face.

The broad theme of this thesis is engineering decision-making. The various factors that shape technological development are investigated using the development of Sydney's sewerage system as a case study. The thesis focuses on various key decisions, past and present, including the choice of water-carriage technology for sewage collection, the selection of sewage treatment technologies, and on-going preference of engineers and bureaucrats for ocean disposal. Also covered are the legislative and regulatory mechanisms, the policies of the Sydney Water Board with regard to industrial waste disposal and the relationship between the Board and the public. A study was made of historical documents, engineering reports and papers, parliamentary debates, annual reports, minutes, newspaper reports and secondary sources and personal interviews were conducted. Various bodies of literature were referred to and used, including the books and articles on the history and sociology of engineers, the politics of expertise and public participation and the emerging discipline of science and technology studies. It is concluded that the development of Sydney's sewerage system has been shaped by social, political and economic factors and that engineers have played a pivotal role in the decisions made through their deliberate shaping of knowledge and the performance of predictions they have made for various options. The decisions made in this way have been defended against public opinion and public participation in the decision-making process has been kept to a minimum. This thesis supports the argument that technology is socially constructed, that the technical cannot be separated from the social, and that an interactive model of technological development is more appropriate than a linear, causal one. It shows that the role of power in the shaping of technology is crucial, and in particular the alliance of state and professional power that occurs in the shaping of public sector technology.

This Master’s Thesis examines transnational conflicts and Christian-Muslim relations in Nigeria between the years 2001 and 2006. It focuses on two major transnational conflicts: The September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States and the Danish cartoon controversy of 2005/2006. It discusses the impact of these transnational conflicts on Christian-Muslim relations in Nigeria in the light of the implementation of the Sharia Law in some northern Nigerian states and the improved access to the broadcast media and mobile telephone communication in Nigeria. By underscoring the relationship between transnational conflicts and the local context, this study provides a new perspective for understanding Christian-Muslim relations in Nigeria

<p>Organizational Capital Budgeting Model (OCBM) is a general theory of capital budgeting that incorporates traditional capital budgeting theories and the consideration about firm's information/ organization structure. The traditional financial capital budgeting model is a special case of OCBM. Therefore, OCBM not only broadens the traditional model, but also explains the heterogeneous behaviors of firms using quasi/non-financial version of capital budgeting. I demonstrate the validity of OCBM with multiple research methods. The field studies about Asian conglomerates are carefully constructed. The conglomerates are important dataset to study organizational decision making because of their size, scope, controversial behaviors and global presence.</p> / Dissertation

Thesis (M. Div.)--Multnomah Biblical Seminary, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 83-86).

Thesis (M. Div.)--Multnomah Biblical Seminary, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 83-86).

Interrogeant les rapports entre l'État et le champ artistique en France entre 1848 et 1920, ce travail de recherche en histoire de l'architecture repose sur le postulat que la trajectoire architecturale du Musée du Luxembourg fut l'un des lieux privilégiés de la construction d'une représentation négative de l'intervention de l'État dans les affaires artistiques. Ce musée, dont les collections sont aujourd'hui atomisées dans différentes institutions parisiennes et provinciales, devint, en 1818, le premier musée d'art contemporain, par la volonté du roi Louis XVIII. Dès l'origine, il fut considéré comme la pépinière du Louvre. Cette relation de symbiose entre les deux institutions, basée sur le principe des vases communicants, servit de référence à l'émergence de nouveaux paradigmes muséaux en Europe et en Amérique du Nord, jusqu'au premier tiers du XXe siècle. La principale mission du Musée du Luxembourg était d'affirmer la supériorité de l'art français face à celui des autres puissances européennes. Si sa représentativité artistique fut pour le moins partielle, son exemplarité architecturale, elle, demeura un idéal jamais atteint. L'analyse de fonds d'archives, de revues de presse et de documents parlementaires, permet de vérifier l'hypothèse de la construction progressive d'un antagonisme, grâce à la mobilisation de différentes catégories d'acteurs appartenant ou non au champ artistique. Cette mobilisation s'effectue collectivement par le biais des journaux, au sein des sociétés artistiques, des sociétés de mécènes, de groupements de citoyens et de fédérations de commerçants, sous la forme de discours, de pétitions, d'enquêtes ou de campagnes de presse, ou bien individuellement, à l'initiative des artistes représentés au musée ou de journalistes influents. Toutefois, la remise en question la plus décisive du rôle de l'État provient des utilisateurs du musée eux-mêmes, souvent impuissants face à la pesanteur des rouages bureaucratiques, à la maigreur des budgets alloués aux musées nationaux, et à l'inadaptation des locaux avec lesquels ils doivent composer. La construction de cette représentation négative se structure autour de moments clés récurrents : vernissage d'un nouvel accrochage des collections, intégration des œuvres d'un legs ou d'une donation, dépôt et discussion d'un rapport sur le budget des Beaux-arts, Expositions universelles, incidents touchant les collections, rumeurs colportées par la presse. Néanmoins, les moments les plus critiques coïncident avec la remise en question de l'existence même du musée, avec la menace de son expulsion, ou avec l'officialisation et la mise en œuvre de projets de relogement, qu'il s'agisse du transfert du musée dans des bâtiments existants, d'extension de ses locaux, ou de leur reconstruction intégrale. Chacun de ces événements contribue à la cristallisation de thèmes et d'enjeux, qui vont polariser l'essentiel des critiques formulées à l'égard de l'action artistique publique. On peut ainsi dégager quatre thèmes récurrents dans les débats : l'absence d'exemplarité architecturale du musée, incompatible avec le rayonnement artistique de la France et de sa capitale ; l'impossibilité de mobiliser les fonds nécessaires à une résolution définitive de la question de l'exemplarité architecturale ; l'impossible consensus sur la question de localisation du musée dans l'hypothèse de son relogement ; le paradoxe entre la construction d'une expertise des conservateurs en matière de programmation architecturale et l'incapacité de l'État à leur donner les moyens de l'appliquer. En aucun cas, cependant, cette critique de l'action (ou de l'inaction) de l'État ne débouche, avant 1920, sur des projets de création de musées concurrents et indépendants ; la mobilisation du champ artistique est tournée vers une forme d'assistance à l'État, dans la résolution de la crise qui touche le Musée du Luxembourg / This dissertation in architectural history argues that the architectural trajectory of the Luxembourg Museum in Paris was one of the main reasons why the French public art policy was considered as unwarranted and illegitimate. The Luxembourg Museum, whose collections are now scattered in various Parisian and provincial institutions, became in 1818 the world's first museum of contemporary art, by the will of King Louis XVIII. From the beginning, its aim was to feed the Louvre with recent and national art. The symbiotic relationship between these two museums, which was based on the principle of communicating vessels, was a paradigm for new museums in Europe and North America, until the first third of the twentieth century. Although the main mission of the Luxembourg Museum was to assert the superiority of French art face to that of other European nations, it was long criticized not only because it did not reflect the diversity of artistic trends, but also because the conditions under which its collections were stored and exhibited were unworthy of Paris' attractiveness and influence. Through the analysis of primary sources, press reviews and parliamentary papers, we wanted to test the hypothesis that the mobilization of different categories of stakeholders within and outside the artistic field led to an increasing distrust of public art policy. Leading artists represented in the museum, influential journalists from daily and art newspapers, art and patrons societies, citizens and merchant associations, promoted mobilization against through speeches, petitions, surveys or media campaigns. Even the museum professionals themselves were powerless against complicated bureaucratic procedures, shoestring budgets for national museums, and unsuitable storage and exhibition spaces, and ended up questioning the role of the French state in art policy. The negative image of the role of the French state was shaped at key moments and recurring events: the re-hanging of the collection, the display of a new gift or bequest, discussions about the annual budget of the ministry of Fine-Arts, World Fairs, preventive conservation matters, and rumors. However, the most critical moments coincided with the questioning of the very existence of the museum, with the threat of its uprooting, or the formalization and implementation of resettlement, extension or reconstruction schemes. Each of these events crystallized themes and issues that polarized most of the criticisms aired at the public art policy. We identified four major topics in this debate: the shameful absence of a purpose-built museum of contemporary art in Paris; the Governement's inability to raise funds to finally resolve the architectural issue; the lack of consensus on the future museum's location issue; the contradiction between the recognition of the curators' skills in architectural design and the inability of their administration to give them the opportunity to apply them. The main paradox is that although the public art policy was more and more considered as inaccurate and illegitimate, most of the artistic field helped the Government to resolve the ‘Luxembourg issue' and build a monument worthy of the nation

O Brasil possui a segunda maior população bovina do planeta. É também o segundo maior produtor de carne bovina do mundo (ultrapassado somente pelos Estados Unidos) e o maior exportador deste produto. O mesmo sucesso ocorre com a avicultura e a suinocultura nacional. Em paralelo a esta dinâmica de crescimento do sistema-carne, tem-se verificado a emergência de discursos críticos à pecuária e ao consumo de carne em geral, sejam eles vinculados à militância por direitos e bem-estar animal, ou às questões envolvendo o meio-ambiente e a saúde humana. Através de metodologia qualitativa e etnográfica, este trabalho contrasta os argumentos e expressões retóricas de representantes e críticos da carne em três principais eixos: relações humano-animais e socioambientais envolvidas na produção de carne; carnivorismo e comensalismo; impactos do consumo de carne na constituição biológica e moral do ser humano. A partir da ideia de rastreamento de fluxos discursivos, a pesquisa visa mapear a paisagem fenomenal das contemporâneas “guerras da carne”, procurando elencar elementos para responder à seguinte questão: o que está em jogo, para as sociedades modernas, quando produzem e consomem carne? / Brazil possesses the second largest bovine population in the world. It is also the second largest producer of beef (surpassed only by the United States of America), as well as the largest world exporter of this product. The same success occurs with Brazilian aviculture and swine breeding. However, an emerging criticism of stockbreeding and meat consumption in general has marked a parallel presence to this ever expanding meat system. They are linked to militancy in favor of animal wellbeing and rights and questions involving the environment and human health. Through qualitative and ethnographic analysis, the investigation contrasts the arguments and rhetorical expressions of meat representatives and critics in three main axes: human-animal relations and environmental issues involved in the production of meat; carnivorism and commensalism; impacts of meat consumption on biological and moral constitution of the human-being. Through the idea of tracking discursive flows, the research aims to chart the phenomenal landscape of contemporary “meat wars”, seeking elements to answer the follow question: what is at stake for modern societies when they produce and consume meat?