"The thesis itself, involves some psychological and philosophical aspects and thoughts about fear as the main mover in the so called negative aesthetic. This specific method of self-expression, its possible triggers and the reasons that may initiate art creation on the basis of pessimistic and ugly imagery have not been discussed to a great degree in the past. Generally, the content of this writing is focused on the fictious correspondence between two engravers and printmakers. These invented letters serve as an exposé for practical findings and thoughts about the author's works executed during the period 2005-2006." / Master of Arts

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1975. / Also available in print.

This dissertation deals with the transcendental philosophy of Immanuel Kant. I provide the background of transcendental philosophy before Kant, beginning from Aristotle. Kant transformed Aristotelian transcendental philosophy by using the method of the sciences in the Modern period. This method was initiated by Francis Bacon, in his method of induction. Isaac Newton transformed the method so that it could deal with verification and falsification. This Newtonian method was taken up into chemistry, serving as a guide for the analysis and synthesis of elements. Kant used this method in his transcendental philosophy, with a view to putting metaphysics onto the path of a science. Kant was first awakened to transcendental idealism in 1769, though he did not put forth a full transcendental philosophy until 1781. In his mature transcendental philosophy, he not only uses the scientific method, but he also illustrates the categories using biological imagery. After looking at the broad contours of Kant's transcendental philosophy, I deal with the first criticism of his transcendental philosophy. In replying to his critic, Kant made explicit his scientific method, while drawing from the thought of David Hume and Thomas Reid. With Kant's explanations of his transcendental philosophy in hand, I turn to an element of his non-transcendental philosophy, namely moral philosophy, in order to provide a contrast that serves to illuminate the precise nature of his transcendental philosophy.

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Ce travail examine le problème de l'exploration, tel qu'il se présente dans les chroniques de voyage qui ont forgé la cartographie du monde moderne entre la Renaissance et les Lumières, en privilégiant l'analyse des enjeux épistémologiques entre le nouveau et l'inconnu. A travers une lecture de ce corpus portant sur l'Amérique et des spéculations géographiques et politiques sur le continent austral, il montre, d'une part, que dans ces textes un régime de spatialité trouve son instance inaugurale ; de l'autre, que l'histoire de celui-ci est aussi celle de la philosophie elle-même, pour autant qu'elle s'est conçue sur le modèle d'une exploration dans la tradition baconienne jusqu'au XVIIIème siècle chez D'Alembert. Il montre l'ancrage historique des images géographiques ainsi que la continuité entre la production de savoir et la production d'un espace à découvrir au sein des voyages d'exploration, face auxquels, contrairement à la métaphorologie blumenbergienne, l'archéologie foucaldienne trouve une limite. Puis, il interroge l'horizon de sens anthropologique de l'exploration, en particulier à travers la polémique de la présence d'une espèce d'hommes géants au Nouveau Monde, et examine l'appropriation scientifique de cette figure littéraire, dans l'histoire naturelle d'Acosta à Buffon. Enfin, après un regard sur le rapport ambigu entre les usages de la thèse du vieillissement du monde et l'ouverture épistémologique des objets possibles de l'exploration, il propose une analyse de la centralité de la gigantum demonstratio au sein du programme philosophique de Vico. / This study examines the issue of exploration, as it stands in the travel chronicles that have forged modern world cartography between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, favouring the analysis of epistemological questions between the new and the unknown. Through an examination of this corpus about America, and the geographical and political speculation about the Southern Land, it shows, on the one hand, that a regime of spatiality begins with these texts; on the other, that its history is also the history of philosophy, as far as it conceived itself on the model of exploration in the baconian tradition until D’Alembert in the 18th century. It identifies the historical foundation of geographical images used in the modern thought, as well as continuity among knowledge production and the production of a space to discover by exploration travels, about which, unlike Blumenberg’s metaphorology, Foucault’s archaeology founds a limit. Then, it questions the exploration’s anthropological horizon of meaning, particularly by the controversy of a giant human species in the New World, and examines the scientific appropriation of this literary figure in the natural history from Acosta to Buffon. Lastly, after a look on the ambiguous relation between the ageing world thesis and the epistemological openness of possible objects of exploration, it proposes an analysis of the importance of the gigantum demonstratio in Vico’s philosophical program.

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Diante deste caso de processo erosivo que se perpetua por cinco décadas, nesta tese são apresentadas informações geográficas detalhadas da boçoroca a partir de dados coletados em levantamentos topográficos com equipamentos geodésicos. Durante vinte e quatro meses foi realizado um monitoramento topográfico de parcelas da boçoroca, onde foi constatada uma erosão de rebordo superior a 1,5 m em quatro pontos e uma média de 0,85 m, em toda a parcela monitorada ocorreu uma perda de 305,9 metros quadrados de área. Em relação às propostas de controle do processo erosivo, foram implantados barramentos com fibra vegetal (Bambusa bambos L.) numa parcela experimental com o monitoramento do nível de solo por meio de pinos de erosão, e a partir de uma análise comparativa sendo constatada uma média de movimentação de solo superior na parcela experimental sem o uso de barramentos. A partir das mensurações dos níveis de movimentação do solo e de dados de densidade do solo foram apresentadas estimativas de perda de solo nas parcelas experimentais. Na área da parcela experimental com barramentos foram plantadas espécies vegetais nativas com o intuito de contribuir na recuperação da área degradada. Neste sentido, a partir de informações geográficas detalhadas sobre a área degradada pela boçoroca do Córrego do Grito, a tese visa contribuir no planejamento de futuras medidas para uma recuperação efetiva desta área em Rancharia. A partir da proposta empírica apresentada nesta tese, são apresentadas formas de se repensar sobre a filosofia de Francis Bacon e suas contribuições na Geografia. / This thesis aims to perform a spatial and temporal analysis of the gully of Grito Stream, located in the urban perimeter of the city of Rancharia, and present the proposals to control this peri-urban erosion. This gully presents evidence of development dating back to the 1960s, recent episodes of damage to urban infrastructure and the presence of active erosive processes at the banks. To present a geographic analysis of this case of erosion process are presented aspects of land use history in the municipality of Rancharia and physical-geographic aspects and land use changes in the watershed of the Grito Stream and in detail scale the cartographical information on the gully. In view of this case of erosive process that is perpetuated for five decades, in this thesis detailed geographic information of the gully is presented from data collected in topographic surveys with geodesic equipment. For twenty-four months, a topographic monitoring of borehole plots was carried out, where a ridge erosion greater than 1.5 m was observed in four points and an average of 0.85 m, in all the monitored plot there was a loss of 305.9 square meters of area. In relation to the erosion process control proposals, buses with plant fiber (Bambusa bambos L.) were implanted in an experimental plot with soil level monitoring by means of erosion pins, and from a comparative analysis there is a greater upper soil movement in the experimental plot without the use of buses. Based on the measurements of soil movement levels and soil density data, estimates of soil loss were presented in the experimental plots. In the area of the experimental plot with barriers native plant species were planted with the intention of contributing to the recovery of the degraded area. In this sense, based on detailed geographic information on the area degraded by the gully of the Grito Stream, the thesis aims to contribute in the planning of future measures for an effective recovery of this area in Rancharia. From the empirical proposal presented in this thesis are presented ways to rethink the philosophy of Bacon and his contributions on Geography. / FAPESP: 2013/05664-4

Orientador: Roberto Romano / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-11T13:26:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Pires_BrunaTorlay_M.pdf: 872423 bytes, checksum: be8c8d08a94b8036f9de854463720614 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / Resumo: Este trabalho procura assinalar traços da filosofia de Francis Bacon na Enciclopédia francesa do século XVIII. Estes traços se manifestam nas teses que defendem o intercurso entre avanço técnico e progresso do conhecimento, e o ideal de ciência como conquista indefinida que escapa ao gênio individual, e sobrevive como patrimônio comum da humanidade. Compreensivamente, mostra que o ¿utilitarismo¿ de Francis Bacon e dos enciclopedistas na verdade se fundamenta na idéia capital de que a existência produz-se mediante engenho / Abstract: This work search after some traces of Francis Bacon¿s thought in eighteenth century¿s French Encyclopaedia. These traces are manifest on the thesis that defend the intercourse between technical improvement and advancement of learning, and the ideal of science as an undefined acquisition not due to individual genius, but thought of as mankind¿s common inheritance. As a whole, it points that Bacon¿s and enciclopaedists¿ ¿utilitarianism¿ is in fact grounded on the capital idea that existence is made through ingenuity / Mestrado / Filosofia / Mestre em Filosofia

The subject of this thesis is Roger Bacon`s work De signis. Its goal is to consider in what sense Bacon works out the general theory of signs. In this sense the thesis` method is situated in the field of "archeology of sings". First it examines Bacon`s definition of sign as a relation, investigates its formal properties and ways of application in particular cases, i.e. Bacon`s classification of signs. Then it shows the way in which Bacon applies this general notion in particular examinations, that is in problems of what the words signify, concept of univaocation and equivocation, theory of analogy and last but not least it considers a question of the nature of signification itself. The last chapter is dedicated to the examination of the (re)imposition phenomenon together with consideration of result it has on the notion of sign relation`s nature and how it serves as an explanation of the process in which these relations work. Keywords: Roger Bacon, John Deely, Charles S. Peirce, medieval semiotics, archeology of signs.

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Francis Bacon (1561-1626) is recognized as a founder of the modern scientific project and a forerunner of the modern era of political thought. He advocated the development of an active science that would enable human beings to control nature in order to relieve man's estate. To accomplish this, Bacon argues that we must reconstruct all arts and sciences upon a more solid foundation. In reconstructing the arts and sciences, Bacon subtly changes the meaning of foundational religious, political, and scientific notions in order to better suit his project of progress. As the inheritors of his vision, turning to Bacon helps recover foundational considerations that have been forgotten as a result of his success. This dissertation approaches Bacon's thought through an analysis of his New Atlantis, a fable that envisions the completion of his project. I also turn to his other political, scientific, and religious works as appropriate to supply what is omitted in the fable. I find that although his revision of religious, scientific, and political foundations is conducted subtly they are nevertheless revolutionary, and essential for preparing the various outlooks that characterize the modern world.