L'objectif de ce travail consiste à identifier les apories inhérentes à ce que d'aucuns appellent la postmodernité. L'impasse actuelle résulte, selon nous, d'une fracture du logos dont le corollaire est la montée des monismes dans la pensée occidentale. Cette fracture pose d'énormes problèmes sociaux, éthiques et sotériologiques. Une solution à l'impasse passe par un retour aux sources de la pensée occidentale. Un retour au logos ne peut cependant advenir qu'à travers une philosophie qui, contrairement à certains monismes, ne serait basée ni sur l'objet ni sur le sujet. Il s'agit dans le cadre de ce travail de faire émerger cette « philosophie du milieu », de définir quels sont ses modes d'applications et quels sont ses concepts opératoires, comme le synéchisme. Il appert que, dans ce que Jean-François Lyotard appelle « les sociétés industrielles avancées », deux visions de l'homme s'affrontent, réduisant toutes deux l'expérience de la réalité à un unique élément, qu'il soit corps ou langage. Il résulte de cette dichotomie soit une dévalorisation de la subjectivité soit un scepticisme antirationaliste. Ces monismes tirent une bonne part de leurs fondements théoriques de la pensée de Ludwig Wittgenstein. Or Wittgenstein n'est ni entièrement positiviste ni entièrement relativiste, comme ses successeurs l'ont interprété; sa pensée n'est fondée ni sur l'objet, comme celle des matérialistes, ni sur le sujet, comme celle des relativistes. Sa conception « transcendantale » de l'éthique, concomitante de sa définition de la limite du langage, fait plutôt de ce penseur un dualiste. Malgré son dualisme, de par son association à la pensée d'Arthur Schopenhauer, Wittgenstein participe de plein doit à cette philosophie « du milieu » que nous tentons de définir. Ayant été confronté, essentiellement, aux mêmes apories et aux mêmes impasses sociales quelque cinq siècles avant l'Occident, la société tibétaine sut trouver, au 15e siècle, un juste milieu entre des conceptions monistes réductrices grâce à la philosophie de Tsongkhapa. Dans le cadre d'une réforme tant éthique que philosophique, ce dernier a habilement marié la réflexion sur la nature ultime des phénomènes à des principes de raison et d'empirisme. Son approche, identique à celle préconisée par Platon deux mille ans plus tôt, s'est réclamée du juste milieu entre l'ultime et le conventionnel. En outre, elle offre à terme une sortie de l'impasse engendrée par le matérialisme et le relativisme en formulant une conception unifiée, disons synéchiste, de la réalité. Philosophe très influent il y a un siècle, mais aujourd'hui presque oublié, Arthur Schopenhauer est au cœur de la pensée postmoderne. Ayant exercé une influence déterminante sur Nietzsche, Freud et Wittgenstein, Schopenhauer a introduit dans la pensée occidentale la notion de maya, ou d'illusion du réel, reléguant au second plan le cogito cartésien. Contrairement à ce l'on croit au sujet de sa philosophie de la Volonté, Schopenhauer assigne à la raison un rôle sotériologique essentiel. Sa philosophie, inspirée de celle de Platon et de Kant, se situe « au milieu » entre le sujet et l'objet. Elle maintient que tout dépassement de l'illusion du réel passe par l'attitude éthique qui aspire à mettre un terme à la soif d'existence. Les parallèles avérés entre sa philosophie et le bouddhisme sont d'ailleurs à même de démontrer que l'approche préconisée par Schopenhauer et fondée sur le synéchisme entre le sujet et l'objet est rigoureusement superposable à celle appliquée au Tibet par Tsongkhapa quatre siècles plus tôt. Enfin, afin d'obvier aux apories soulevées par les monismes et les dualismes, le « synéchisme » est proposé comme concept opératoire permettant de sortir de l'impasse postmoderne. Ce concept initialement développé par C. S. Pierce se révèle approprié autant comme méthodologie que comme conception du langage en donnant un sens précis à l'approche du « milieu » fondée sur l'absence d'en-soi des phénomènes subjectifs et objectifs. ______________________________________________________________________________

In 1750, the architect Giovanni Niccolo Servandoni built a Temple of Love in Gennevilliers, just north of Paris for the notorious libertine, the Duc de Richelieu. The new social freedom gained by the decline of the ancien regime gave birth to a democratic space that first appeared in the theatre and a personal freedom which changed the currents of thought on love. Servandoni's work as a painter, theatre designer and engineer of spectacles are promoted in the theory of Jacques-Francois Blondel and later Nicolas Le Camus de Mezieres as prime examples of architecture in their theories of sensation. Libertine love, read through the literature of the time, clearly understands the limit of sensation and the "terrible state/loss of freedom" produced by real love. By general consensus an agreement to operate within the realm of sensation governs the ethics of libertine love and architecture. Servandoni's Temple of Love provides an ironic statement on love in the eighteenth century.

Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 1992 / ENGLISH ABSTRACT:The aim of this study was to compile a description of the life and contribution of Stephanus Petrus Erasmus, eastern frontier pioneer and Voortrekker. Secondly, Erasmus has been set against the background of the problems of the frontier farmers of the north-eastern frontier wards, Brak River and Kraai River in the years 1825 - 1837. Stephanus Erasmus was christened as the surname child of Daniel Elardus and cat.har-dria Elisabeth Erasmus in April 1788. In 1804 or 1805 Daniel Erasmus moved from the Graaff-Reinet district to the Swellendam district. Here Stephanus Erasmus married Maartje Wilhelmina Zacharia Kruger in 1812. At least ten children were born out of this marriage, while a second marriage to Anna Maria Neethling produced a daughter. Erasmus moved to the Beaufort district in 1821. From 1822 1824 he -'resided in the Graaff-Reinet area, and from 1825 he settled in the new district of SomersetEast. Like many of the other frontier farmers, this frontier pioneer probably participated in the northeastern migration for economical and geographical reasons. Erasmus played a leading role in this district in the capacity of provisional field cornet for Brak River. From 1835 he was field cornet for the new ward of Kraai River where he settled on the farm Mooiplaats. As a respected leader, Erasmus was fully aware of the administrative neglect of the north-eastern frontier wards. The progressive destabilisation of these wards, as well as the conflict between groups of black refugees this the uncertainty regarding dissatisfaction with frontier farmers, contributed insecurity. The question of for concern to Erasmus and his The their and the north-eastern towards the feeling of landownership was a cause fellow pioneer farmers. issue contributed to British government. Like many other frontier farmers, Stephanus Erasmus came into conflict with the authorities with regard to the treatment of his slaves. To make matters worse, a murder charge was brought against him after he had shot and killed a black man in the execution of his duties as field cornet. In 1836 Erasmus went on a hunting expedition in the direction of the Vaal River. During this expedition the Ndebele of Mzilikazi ambushed them on 21 August 1836 and two of Erasmus's sons were killed. Two days later Erasmus took part in the Vaal River battle. Erasmus then returned to the Colony from where he emigrated by the middle of 1837. As the leader of his own trek he held the office of commandant. It appears that he was a distinguished and revered Voortrekker leader. He was, for example, one of the six commandants at the battle of Blood River, and was in a leadership position during the battle of the White-Mfolozi. As a citizen of the Republic of Natal, Erasmus played a leading role in public life. He was a member of the Volksraad as well as a member of the Council of Landdros and Heemrade. After Britain had annexed Natal, Erasmus moved to Winburg and Potchefstroom. In 1845 he went to Ohrigstad where he died in February 1847. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING:Die doel van hierdie studie was om 'n beskrywing van die lewe en bydrae van Stephanus Petrus Erasmus, oosgrenspionier en Voortrekker, te gee. Tweedens is Erasmus geplaas teen die agtergrond van die probleme van die grensboere van die noordoostelike grenswyke, Brakrivier en Kraairivier, in die jare 1825 - 1837. stephanus Erasmus is in April 1788 gedoop as 'n kind van Daniel Elardus en Catharina Elisabeth Erasmus. Teen 1804 of 1805 het Daniel Erasmus van die distrik Graaff-Reinet na die distrik Swellendam verhuis. Stephanus Erasmus is in die distrik in 1812 met Maartje Wilhelmina Zacharia Kruger getroud. uit hierdie huwelik is minstens tien kinders gebore, terwyl nog In dogter uit 'n tweede huwelik met Anna Maria Neethling gebore is. Erasmus het in 1821 na die distrik Beaufort verhuis. Van 1822 1824 was hy in die distrik Graaff-Reinet woonagtig. Sedert 1825 het Erasmus hom in die nuwe distrik Somerset-Oos gevestig. Soos sy mede-grensboere het die grensboerpionier waarskynlik vanwee ekonomiese en geografiese redes aan die noordoosmigrasie deelgeneem. In die distrik het Erasmus In belangrike leiersrol vervul as provisionele veldkornet van Brakrivier en sedert 1835 as veldkornet van die nuwe wyk Kraairivier. Daar het hy hom op die plaas Mooiplaats gevestig. As In gerespekteerde leiersfiguur sou Erasmus deeglik kennis neem van die administratiewe verwaarlosing van die , noordoosgrenswyke. Die toenemende destabilisasie van die noordoosgrenswyke en die konflik tussen groepe swart vlugtelinge en die noordoosgrensboere het tot die gevoel van onveiligheid bygedra. Die reg op grondbesit het Erasmus en sy mede-grensboere na aan die hart gele en onsekerheid rondom hierdie kwessie het tot toenemende ontevredenheid teenoor die Britse regering gelei. Soos talle ander grensboere het Stephanus Erasmus met die regering gebots as gevolg van die behandeling van sy slawe. Om sake te vererger is 'n moordaanklag teen hom aanhangig gemaak nadat hy 'n swartman in die uitvoering van sy pligte as veldkornet doodgeskiet het. In 1836 het Erasmus 'n jagtog in die rigting van die Vaalrivier onderneem. Hiertydens het die Ndebele van Mzilikazi op 21 Augustus 1836 'n verrassingsaanval op sy j agkamp geloods en is onder andere twee van Erasmus se seuns gedood. Hierop het Erasmus twee dae later aan die Vaalrivierslag deelgeneem. Daarna het Erasmus eers na die Kolonie teruggekeer en teen die middel van 1837 het hy geemigreer. As leier van sy eie trek het hy die amp van kommandant beklee. Dit blyk dat hy 'n vername en gewaardeerde Voortrekkerleier was. Hy was byvoorbeeld een van die ses kommandante by die slag van Bloedrivier en ook in 'n leiershoedanigheid tydens die slag van die Wit-Mfolozi. As burger van die Republiek van Natal het Erasmus 'n leiersrol in die openbare lewe gespeel. Hy was naamlik Volksraadslid en lid van die Raad van Landdros en Heemrade in Natal. Na die Britse anneksasie van Natal het die ou Voortrekker na Winburg en Potchefstroom verhuis waarna hy in 1845 na ohrigstad getrek het. Hier is Erasmus in Februarie 1847 oorlede.

Newspaper article: "Planted 100 years ago”. At the bottom of the article, a typed addition reads: "In January 1960 the old tree which stood just inside the gates of the Botanical Garden's Grey Street entrance was partially blown down in a gale, and ordered to be removed in toto. It had been planted by Col. Grahams, the founder of Grahamstown."

The flourishing city of East London has received but scant attention from historians. Its importance has been overshadowed by that of Cape Town, Durban and Port Elizabeth, each with a foundation bordering on the romantic. The introduction to this thesis indicates traces of the existence of primitive man in these parts. The historical survey will commence with notices taken of the region by nautical and land expeditions in search of either shipwrecked sailors, or news of native races. The first serious notice of East London taken by the white people came in the time of Sir Benjamin D'Urban who sought a seaport for his new province of Queen Adelaide. Our port was opened in 1836 under the appellation of Port Rex, but faded into temporary insignificance, almost oblivion, with the reversal of Sir. B. D'Urban's frontier policy by Lord Glenelg and the abandonment of the new province in 1837. It was not destined to remain forgotten, for Sir Harry Smith at the end of 1847, saw in the mouth of the Buffalo River the same possibilities as had struck the advisers of Sir B. D'Urban. To him it was the future London of the East, and the connecting link between British Kaffraria and the world outside. From that time East London has grown steadily, and of recent years very rapidly. It is not proposed to carry this survey much beyond 1866 in which year British Kaffraria was annexed to the Cape Colony.

From preface: This study of the British settlers of 1820 in South Africa uses one party of emigrants as a unit of historical research. In unfolding their story, it attempts to discover how far the standard assumptions about the 1820 settlement are borne out by the historical facts. No systematic set of hypotheses for investigation was established in advance; instead, the structure of the thesis has been determined by the course of the narrative, and the main issues have emerged spontaneously as it has progressed. Although the chronology has been maintained as far as possible, the narrative itself does not follow an entirely straightforward course. The emigrant party of eighty-four men and their families under the leadership of John Bailie which is the subject of the study was officially subdivided five weeks after landing at Algoa Bay, and the dispersal of its members to the established towns of the colony began even sooner. At the end of the three-year period laid down as a residential qualification by Government, less than a third remained to claim land on the party's location in Albany.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-29T14:11:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 tese_9559_SILEYR DOS SANTOS RIBEIRO - MESTRADO EM LETRAS UFES - 2016 - DEPOIS É O CÉU ABSCÔNDITO DO NADA O NIILISMO E A POÉTICA DE AUGUSTO DOS ANJOS - DISSERTAÇÃO DE MESTRADO.pdf: 761532 bytes, checksum: b209a29e0d4099be6e4a75ccc1541f78 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-22 / A presente dissertação de mestrado trata das relações imanentes ao fenômeno niilista, estudando-o, principalmente, sob a perspectiva do filósofo alemão Friedrich Nietzsche, e a poética de Augusto dos Anjos, no que tange à desistência do conhecimento do espírito fatigado e à ascese schopenhaueriana como meio de se evitar o sofrimento intrínseco ao sempre desejar, atitudes consideradas passivas diante da quebra dos fundamentos que significavam objetivamente o mundo / This master's dissertation studies both the inherent relations of the nihilist phenomenon fathoming its core mainly under the perspective of Nietzsche’s philosophy and dos Anjos’s poetry with a focus on the utmost renounce of knowledge symptomised by the wearied spirit that engages in the schopenhauerian ascesis to shun of the pain of the ever returning desire. Those attitudes, namely, the renounce and the ascesis are both passive outcomes of the loss fundamental grounding and meaning of the objective world.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-05-21Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:15:09Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 siveira_jen_me_mar.pdf: 759974 bytes, checksum: c919df57e4df77215d9b28794f080f9a (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / O presente texto trata da relação estabelecida entre o jovem filósofo Friedrich Nietzsche e o experiente compositor e ensaísta Richard Wagner. Concentrando nossa análise no período da amizade existente entre Nietzsche e Wagner, período este que coincide com a produção filosófica do jovem Nietzsche, a saber, de 1869 a 1876, o objetivo de nossa análise é buscar elementos presentes no pensamento de ambos que possibilitaram a aproximação e o desenvolvimento de amizade entre eles. Neste sentido, a crítica à cultura moderna, o elogio ao mundo grego, a influência do romantismo e a filosofia de Schopenhauer aparecem como pontos de apoio que alicerçaram a construção desta amizade / The present text treats the relationship between the young Friedrich Nietzsche and the expert composer and essayist Richard Wagner. Concentrate our analyze on the period of the friendship that was there between Nietzsche and Wagner, period that coincide with the philosophic production of the young Nietzsche, to know, from 1869 until 1876, the target of our analyze is to found elements presents in the thought of both that made possible the approach and development of the friendship between them. In this way, the critique to modern culture, the praise to the greek world, the influence of the romanticism and the philosophy of Schopenhauer appears like points of support that build foundation to this friendship

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Orientador: Suzi Frankl Sperber / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-11T10:24:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Aleixo_ElvisBrassaroto_M.pdf: 1043033 bytes, checksum: 6043d1ba084071a636876098c682d93a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / Resumo: Este trabalho visa à análise da espiritualidade na poesia de Augusto dos Anjos sob a perspectiva do sagrado budista absorvido pelo poeta principalmente por intermédio do pensamento de Arthur Schopenhauer. O trabalho está dividido em três partes: a primeira versa sobre a classificação literária da obra de Augusto dos Anjos e também aborda a relação entre literatura e religião; a segunda apresenta uma refutação ao suposto ateísmo presente em seus poemas e afirma sua espiritualidade eclética; a terceira identifica e faz uma leitura crítica das peças poéticas em que o budismo está presente, privilegiando o conceito religioso de nirvana / Abstract: This thesis makes an analysis of the spirituality in the poetry of Augusto dos Anjos under the perspective of the sacred buddhist that was apprehended by the Brazilian poet mainly through Arthur Schopenhauer thought. The thesis is divided in three parts: the first section turns about the literary classification of Augusto dos Anjos¿ poetic anthology, and it also discusses the relationship between literature and religion; the second presents a refutation against the supposed atheism in his poems and it affirms his eclectic spirituality; the third part identifies and makes a critical reading of specific poems where Buddhist ideas is present, with special attention for the religious concept of nirvana / Mestrado / Literatura Brasileira / Mestre em Teoria e História Literária