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Philosophiae Doctor - PhD / A political arrangement is an arrangement for persons. Political arrangements are assessed in terms of the extent to which they manage the affairs of persons, which includes protecting their interests and entitlements. Political arrangements which are unable to protect the interests of its citizens, or a group of citizens, are deemed unacceptable, and where appropriate, alternative arrangements which do protect the interests and entitlements of its citizens are sought. In this thesis I argue that the political arrangement of John Rawls is unable to protect the interests and entitlements of the severely cognitively disabled who are regarded as full citizens by advanced political arrangements in the world today. I argue that it is the contract nature and conception of the person in Rawls’s system which excludes the severely cognitively disabled. This exclusion goes against our widely-held intuitions about the rights and entitlements of the severely cognitively disabled. I look to the Person Life View of Marya Schechtman, a conception of the person that includes the severely cognitively disabled, to see if a conception of the person that includes the severely cognitively disabled is able to solve the gap in Rawls’s system. I argue that it is not able to do so. I then propose a new way of approaching questions of personhood and appeal to the Aristotelian conception of the soul as the basis, arguing that membership of a type of organism typically considered a person is enough to be a complete member of that type and therefore a person.

In this thesis I argue that the tradition of political philosophy which follows in John Rawls's footsteps is obligated to concern itself not only with the realizability, but also with the realization, of justice. Although Rawls himself expresses a commitment only to the former of these, I argue that the roles which he assigns to political philosophy require him to take on the further commitment to realization. This is because these roles are meant to influence not only political philosophers, but the citizens of the wider community as well. The realistically utopian role, which I take to be the central one, requires political philosophy to inspire in that population a hope which I argue that realizability alone cannot provide. Given the deep revisions regarding the political nature of justice as fairness which Rawls made on the basis of realizability concerns, I argue that his theory must in this case be committed to a similar revision. The hope which political philosophy is meant to provide is simply not realizable until the discipline concerns itself centrally with the task of realization.

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Pat M. Neff served as governor of Texas from 1921 to 1925, a period marked by political conflict between rural conservatives and urban progressives. Neff, a progressive, found himself in the middle of this conflict. Neff supported prohibition, declared martial law in the oil boomtown of Mexia, and faced the rise of the Ku Klux Klan as a political force in Texas. Though often associated with the Klan, Neff did not approve of the organization and worked against it whenever possible. During the Railroad Shopmen's Strike of 1922, Neff stalled the federal government in its demand he send troops to Denison just long enough to win re-nomination. William Jennings Bryan mentioned Neff as a possible candidate for the presidency in 1924, but he pursued a back-door strategy that alienated his political base among Texas Democrats.

Orientador: Renê José Trentin Silveira / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-27T15:20:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Lira_AlessandraMendes_M.pdf: 1557104 bytes, checksum: 9e33275fe69b30a8c75da670c6d7d26e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Resumo: O presente trabalho, tem por objetivo, pesquisar as influências de Erich Fromm nas principais obras de Paulo Freire, a saber : Educação como prática da Liberdade (1971), Pedagogia do Oprimido (2005), Conscientização (1980), porém, tendo visitado outras obras, não nos abstivemos de também fazer comentários de outras importantes referências do autor como Extensão ou comunicação (1983) e Ação cultural para a liberdade (1970), livros nos quais há grande discussão dos conceitos abordados. De Erich Fromm foram utilizados os livros citados por Freire, traduzidos para o Português como O medo á Liberdade (1960), O coração do homem (1967a) , Análise do Homem (1974) também O conceito marxista de homem (1967b). Para a pesquisa, foram observadas nos livros mencionados, citações de Freire feitas a Fromm. Observamos que Fromm aparece com recorrência em muitos temas abordados por Freire, tais como: O conceito de Homem, o conceito de liberdade e a noção de medo à liberdade. Partindo dessa observação e dessas temáticas, investigamos a influência de Fromm nos escritos de Freire, observando divergências e convergências entre os autores. O estudo realizado evidenciou que Freire mesmo tendo uma mudança epistemológica ao longo de seus escritos, recorre muitas vezes a Fromm para respaldar seus conceitos, porém trazendo uma perspectiva diferente à superação do medo à liberdade, construindo assim uma alternativa educativa à emancipação humana / Abstract: The work aims to research Erich Fromm's influence in Paulo Freire's major works, namely: Education, the practice of freedom(1971) , Pedagogy of the Oppressed(2005) and Conscientization(1980). Having, however, visited other works, comments were made on other important author bibliographic references, such as Extension or Communication(1983) and Cultural action for freedom (1970); books in which there is great debate on the discussed concepts. Erich's Fromms books used in the research were the ones that were quoted by Freire in his work, translated to Portuguese as: Fear will Freedom (1960), The Heart of Man (1967), Human Analysis (1974) And Also The Marxist concept of man (1967b). For the research, Fromm's quotes made by Freire were observed in the above mentioned books. As noted, Fromm appears frequently in many topics approached by Freire such as: the concept of men, the concept of freedom and the notion of fear of freedom. From these themes and observations, we investigate Fromm's influence in Freire writings, noting differences and similarities between the authors. The study showed that, even considering an epistemological change throughout his writings, Freire often resorts to Fromm to support its concepts, bringing, nonetheless, a different perspective in the solution to overcome the fear of freedom, building thus an educational alternative to human emancipation / Mestrado / Filosofia e História da Educação / Mestra em Educação

The purpose of this study is to identify some of the performance problems associated with contemporary piano music, using the Sonata No. 2 for Piano by Karel Husa (1921 - ) as the basis for the discussion. In so doing, this study identifies Karel Husa as an important contributor to twentieth century piano repertoire. Personal interviews and correspondence with the composer provided biographical, analytical, and stylistic insight for this study. Supplemental information on Karel Husa was obtained from journals, newspaper articles, and dissertations. The first chapter provides biographical information gleaned from the interview, with emphasis on Husa's keyboard compositions and early compositional influences. The second chapter offers a detailed formal analysis of the Sonata No. 2 from the perspective of motivlc development and cyclic unity. The final three chapters focus on twentieth century performance problems as exemplified in Karel Husa's Sonata No. 2 for Piano. In Chapter 3, the discussion of notation provides a general background on notational developments in pitch and rhythm in the twentieth century, with the Sonata illustrating these procedures. The fourth chapter concentrates specifically on Husa's individual rhythmic language. The final chapter is devoted to Husa's coloristic use of the piano, addressing his unique contributions to the tonal and timbral resources of the instrument. Innovations in dynamic gradations, playing inside of the piano, and extensive use of all three pedals are discussed, as well as the special techniques required to achieve these sounds. In all the chapters, musical examples from the Sonata Illustrate the discussion, and reprinted by permission from the publisher. Throughout the dissertation, Karel Husahas provided Invaluable assistance and insight thus offering readers an important link to both the Sonata No. 2 and the composer himself.

This dissertation explores the ethical and aesthetic stakes of readers’ judgments by analyzing mock trials of literary characters that were performed in Soviet Russia and abroad in the 1920s and 1930s. Literary trials were part of a larger craze for public mock trials in the decades after the Russian Revolution. Mock trials functioned as a participatory and educational form of entertainment. Fictional defendants included Lenin, invented characters accused of drunkenness and hooliganism, and the Bible. At the same time as increasingly propagandistic mock trials were being performed, intellectuals staged trials of characters from nineteenth-century and contemporary Russian literature. In émigré communities such as Berlin, Paris, and Prague, literary trials were popular as entertainment and fundraisers through the 1920s and 1930s. My analysis focuses on mock trials of characters from works by Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, whose novels proved especially popular for mock trial adaptations in the 1920 and 1930s. I also consider Nabokov’s participation in a mock trial based on The Kreutzer Sonata as a bridge between Tolstoy’s novella and Nabokov’s later novel Lolita. I read back and forth between the literary works and their mock trial adaptations in order to explore both how trial participants interpreted the texts and how the texts respond to the kinds of judgment at work in the trials. The challenges that Dostoevsky and Tolstoy’s fiction pose to readers became the central questions of mock trial adaptations: What is the relationship between interpretation and truth? Do we have the right to judge others? Does narrative have the power to redeem? I argue that while Soviet and émigré literary trials offer selective, politically motivated readings of the original works, they also enter into dialogue with the works’ major ethical questions and offer new ways of thinking about how truth, judgment, and redemption operate in them. As a result, the mock trials bring together two approaches to literature: a reader-centric approach that interprets the text in order to reveal something about the reader’s current reality, and a text-centric approach that aims to uncover the original meaning. While some of the literary trial interpretations and judgments appear to be misreadings, or bad readings, of the original works, I argue that this kind of reading, which closely attends to textual details while asking the text to speak to the readers’ present, offers a model for an ethically engaged approach to literature.

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