This dissertation is a study of the work of John Milton, most especially of his late poems, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes. The early poetry, the prose tracts, and Christian Doctrine are considered in their developmental relation to those late poems. The question my study addresses is this: What does Milton mean by obedience? The critical approach used to address the question is as much philosophical-theological as it is literary. My project seeks to understand the shaping role of Milton's theology on his poetry: that is, to attempt to recreate and understand Milton's thinking on obedience from Milton's perspective. To this end, I focus on providing contextualized, attentive readings of key poetic moments. The contexts I provide are those derived from the two great heritages Milton had at his disposal--the Classical and Christian traditions. The poetic moments I attend to are most usually theologically and conceptually difficult moments, moments in which Milton is working out (as much as reflecting on or demonstrating or poeticizing) his key theological concerns, chief among them, obedience. Milton's concept of obedience is not just an idea developed within given interpretive frameworks, Classical, Christian, and a specific historic context, England in the seventeenth century. It is a strangely practical structure of being intended by Milton to recollect something of the disposition of Adam and Even before the fall. In other words, Miltonic obedience is multifaceted and complex. To address the complexity and nuance of what Milton means by obedience, I suggest that Milton's idea of obedience may be understood as a concept. The definitional source of Milton's concept of obedience is the Bible, and various texts of the Classical tradition. The necessary mechanism of the concept is Milton's idea of right timing, derived from the Greek idea of kairos. The necessary condition of Miltonic obedience is unknowing. With Milton's concept of obedience fully established, the dissertation concludes by suggesting connections between Milton's religious imagination and his political engagements. If Milton's paramount value was obedience, it was so because his paramount concern was liberty, for himself and for his nation.

As presidential candidates rhetorically articulate their beliefs during presidential debates, they reveal a lot about their underlying ideological beliefs. These beliefs were examined through the lens of an established methodology called the Operational Code, which uses a program to decipher a candidate's beliefs through what they say in debate transcripts. In this study, the belief trends of the Operational Codes of all presidential candidates from 1976-2012 were examined through a rhetorical lens, and it was found that rhetoric was indeed the driving force for the apparent changes in Operational Code beliefs. These changes were examined on a greater level of detail through four case studies, which illustrated the changes in Operational Code beliefs and rhetoric of Ronald Reagan, the incumbent presidential candidates, the 2004 election, and lastly, with the independent presidential candidates.

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The Palimpsest of time is ever changing.Mankind has tried to understand and utilize time through many lenses. Through the concepts of Khronographics, Kairographics, and the Technics, Architecture can be used as a means of expressing and revealing time. / Master of Architecture

Coincidence as the animator of the independent Czech art of the 1960s We are currently progressing to viewing coincidence as a phenomenon. While coincidence cannot be explained, it needs to be understood. It may be an important program principle of the universe, where coincidence may give life and matters a different direction, and it is undoubtedly part of all of our creative and resourceful efforts. Therefore, we treasure coincidence and in art, we even intentionally call for it frequently. Naturally, the history of art gives us many examples, where coincidence helped an artist to revive their imagination and strengthened their ability to improvise. Dealing with coincidence and activating coincidence intentionally or unintentionally have always been one of the most tantalising moments of many creative endeavours. It is interesting to observe how the role of coincidence and its impact in art, as well as in a human life intermittently diminishes only to resurface again as if in connection with measuring the powers of the acting individual and the current being. It is exciting to follow the complex movement of coincidence in the wide field of potential meanings and understanding, somewhere between Freedom, Necessity, Fate, Fortune, Higher Power or perhaps Providence, and examine the complexity of...

Ho kairos sunestalmenos estin, « le temps est écourté », écrit saint Paul à la communauté de Corinthe. La proclamation chrétienne plonge en effet le croyant dans une temporalité abrégée, pressée, contractée, comprise entre la Résurrection et la Parousie. La fin des temps est donc à la fois existentiellement imminente (« le Jour est tout proche ») et chronologiquement indéterminée (« le Jour du Seigneur vient comme un voleur dans la nuit »). Frappée par la surrection brutale d'une telle de crise dans la fluence chronologique, l'existence ne peut qu'en être sidérée. Cependant, malgré la pénurie d'avenir, le temps n'en continue pas moins d'affluer, et de l'angoisse (thlipsis) suscitée doit rejaillir une retemporalisation du temps lui-même. Explorer la temporalité à partir de l'imminence et de l'indétermination de la fin, expliciter le phénomène du temps à partir l'inquiétude eschatologique : telle est la tâche principale de ce travail. Kairos est le nom d'une telle tension existentielle chez Paul, dont les épîtres fournissent un riche matériau philosophique. Martin Heidegger a proposé en 1920 une approche phénoménologique du temps à partir de la situation d'urgence décrite dans l'épistolaire paulinien (Phénoménologie de la vie religieuse). Il était nécessaire d'en développer les prémices. Nous montrons d'abord, par une approche historique, que la conception paulinienne du kairos n'est réductible ni à l'épistémè grecque ni au « cosmos culturel » juif. Nous montrons également, par une herméneutique existentielle, que la tension du kairos (où se mêlent présence et attente) se résout dialectiquement dans une forme inédite de liberté. Nous détaillons enfin, puisqu'un certain savoir est toujours afférant à une situation temporelle critique, les nouveautés anthropologiques (renouvellement de la compréhension de l'homme), sociales (renouvellement de la signification de la communauté) et politiques (renouvellement du rapport au politique) dont l'expérience chrétienne primitive est féconde. / Ho kairos sunestalmenos estin, "time is shortened", wrote saint Paul to the community of Corinth. The christian proclamation actually takes the believer into an abriged, squeezed, condensed temporality bound by the Resurrection and the Parousia. The end of time is therefore both existentially imminent ("the Day is near") and chronologically undefined ("the Day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night"). Struck by the sudden uplifting of such a crisis in the chronological flow, the existence is necessarily stunned. However, despite the lack of future, time is still flowing and generates anxiety (thlipsis) from which must spring out a temporal delimitation of time itself. The exploration of temporality from the imminence and the indeterminacy of the end and the explication of the time phenomenon using the eschatological anxiety are the objects of this work. For Paul, whose epistles constitute a rich philosophical material, that existential tension is referred to as Kairos. Martin Heidegger, in 1920, proposed a phenomenological approach of time based on the situation of urgency described in the Pauline epistolary (Phenomenology of Religious Life). It was necessary to develop those first signs. First, by means of an historical approach, we point out that the pauline conception of Kairos can neither be reduced to the Greek espitémè nor to the Jewish "cultural cosmos". Using existential hermeneutics, we also show that the tension of the kairos (where presence and wait mingle) is dialectically resolved by an unprecedented freedom. Finally, since a certain knowledge is always pertaining to a critical temporal situation, we detail the anthropological (understanding of man renewed), social (significance of the community renewed) and political (relation to politics renewed) innovations of which the primitive christian experience is full of.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T18:47:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Helia Fraga Gomes Bertamoni.pdf: 871925 bytes, checksum: 42947a0bc2277cfb93586c618808151d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-05-29 / Temporality is lived by men through both chronological and existential terms. Such paired experience of temporality frequently unfolds on what we can name as the hiatus between the real and the conceived age. In most cases, the selfperception of age leads to subtraction of years of life, being rare the cases which self-attributed age matches and even increases the real age. That is the topic of this dissertation which has gone not only into authors whose works are molded by diverse philosophies and scientific traditions but also into aesthetics through poets and composers. The main objective was to investigate the proximity and the distance between the chronological and conceived ages among individuals in Health Care. Alongside and according to the individuals, we have also come up with conceptions of aging and old age. From a methodological point of view the option was for the qualitative approach. For being an approach that allows exploration of conceptions and wishes, normally odd to the oriented quantitative approaches, our option provided attributed meanings given by the individuals so as chronos (chronological) and kairos (existential) temporalities could be unveiled / A temporalidade é vivida, pelos homens, quer em termos cronológicos, quer em termos existenciais. Esta dupla experiência da temporalidade desdobra-se, freqüentemente, no que podemos denominar de hiato entre a idade real e a idade concebida. No mais das vezes, a auto-percepção da idade leva à subtração de anos de vida, sendo raros os casos em que a idade auto-atribuída equivale à idade real ou é maior que esta. É este o tema desta dissertação; tema que levou não só à incursão em autores radicados em tradições científicas e filosóficas diversas, como ao campo da estética, através de poetas e de compositores. O objetivo central foi investigar as aproximações e os afastamentos entre a idade cronológica e a idade concebida entre sujeitos radicados na área da saúde. Ao lado disto, procuramos levantar, entre os sujeitos, as concepções de envelhecimento e de velhice. De um ponto de vista metodológico, a opção foi pela abordagem qualitativa. Por tratar-se de uma abordagem que permite explorar concepções e desejos normalmente estranhos às abordagens quantitativamente orientadas, esta opção contribuiu para que os significados atribuídos, pelos sujeitos, às temporalidades cronos (cronológica) e kairós (existencial) pudessem ser desvendadas

Narrating the Writing Center: Knowledge, Crisis, and Success in Two Writing Center Stories' is year-long comparative case study of two writing centers in the US and the UK and draws upon ethnographic and textographic methodologies. Using writing center documents such as annual management reports, websites, training materials, and interviews with writing center staff and administration, I investigate historical, cultural, and political influences on writing centers and trace moments of change in writing center history in order to contextualize the changes both writing centers faced in terms of funding, location, and identity. I examine traditional and contemporary epistemological paradigms that inform writing centers' everyday practices and underlying ideology that both correspond with and resist institutionally-sanctioned ways of knowing and institutionally-embedded ideology. Using documents and interviews from both sites, I explore the ways in which writing centers find themselves in a reactive position during crises, such as the crisis of access, of literacy, and of funding, rather than a proactive position. Drawing from frame analysis, I argue for reframing the narratives surrounding writing center identity and praxis through the use of code words which have the potential to align writing center praxis with institutional values and result in increased agency for writing centers during crises. I conclude with a blending of contemporary definitions of kairos and stasis in order to create a rhetorical method of writing center communication that can serve as a potential path toward writing center sustainability, and I offer current writing center administrators a heuristic for implementation.

No Brasil, muitas crianças e jovens têm a oportunidade de conhecer diferentes modalidades esportivas. Por vezes esse contato desperta um encanto pelo esporte, sendo a ele dada uma importância e um significado tão grande que faz com que eles prefiram-no às atividades comuns para outras pessoas da mesma idade, como brincadeiras, convívio familiar ou escolar. Em busca de melhores condições de treinamento e desenvolvimento, esses futuros atletas, muitas vezes tem que se distanciar de seu núcleo familiar ainda de forma precoce. Este trabalho buscou investigar como as mulheres olímpicas brasileiras, medalhistas de modalidades coletivas, reconhecem o momento que marca o início de sua especialização esportiva, exclusivamente aquelas que em sua história consta a marca do distanciamento familiar e da saída de casa. A metodologia do trabalho se ancora nas narrativas biográficas, considerada uma modalidade de história oral. Para tanto, a partir das narrativas biográficas, relacionamos esta marca do início com a figura mítica de Kairós, o deus do tempo oportuno / In Brazil, many children have the opportunity to learn about different sports. This contact often awakens an attraction for it practice and it\'s given a great importance that makes them choose sport over others activities common to other people of the same age, such as child\'s plays, family and school contact. As they search for better conditions for sport development, these new athletes often have to distance themselves from their family at an early age. This work sought to investigate how Brazilian Olympic women, medalists of collective modalities, recognized the moment that marks the beginning of hers sporting career, especially those athletes that had to leave their homes. The methodology is anchored in the biographical narratives, considered a modality of oral history. From the biographical narratives of these women, we relate the beginning of the their sporting careers with the mythical figure of Kairos, the god of opportune time

This study aims to examine Business Intelligence research conduct within Swedish government agencies and workplaces in order to understand the recent debate regarding Business Intelligence research ethics and thus answer the following question: Does Business Intelligence praxis in Sweden meet ethical guidelines recommended by international field experts? A theoretical analysis of relevant and also recent publications, including a Business Intelligence method review, was conducted using qualitative content analysis. In order to validate the results from my theoretical analysis I conducted a series of interviews with a number of professionals who useBusiness Intelligence research in their work and decisionmaking process. / Program: Magisterutbildning i strategisk information och kommunikation