In my dissertation Happiness and Superlative Value in the Eudemian Ethics, I analyze dimensions of the Eudemian Ethics (EE) that, as I see it, make the EE a distinctive contribution to ethics. The EE discusses a superlative excellence called kalokagathia, the virtue of being-beautiful-and-good, which does not figure in the Nicomachean Ethics (NE). The agent who possesses kalokagathia is the best agent of Aristotle’s EE. Scholars tend to hold that the practically wise person, the phronimos, or the theoretically wise person, the sophos, are the best agents of the NE. If my reading of the EE is right, then the EE and the NE conceive differently of the best agent. This is salient in both treatises’ construals of the unity of the virtues. In the NE, the unity of the virtues includes the character virtues and phronêsis. In the EE, it additionally includes the virtues of theoretical thinking, or so I argue. The EE starts with what I call the Superlative Thesis (ST): happiness is what is best, most beautiful, and most pleasant of all. I take this beginning to be programmatic. Aristotle aims to show how these three kinds of value combine in the best human life, rather than coming apart. The Pleasure Thesis (PT) is the most contested aspect of ST: happiness is the most pleasant thing of all. On my reading, Aristotle fully embraces PT. In laying out his proposal for the best human life, the Aristotle of the EE develops a distinctive kind of naturalism, which I call Natural Goods Naturalism. I reconstruct this position in two steps: by interpreting the EE’s function argument; and by exploring the notion of natural goods, which is central to the EE, but does not figure in the NE. In sum, my dissertation argues that the EE contains a distinctive and under-appreciated option within ancient ethics, and that it contains ideas that are relevant to today’s virtue ethics and ethical naturalism.

In this thesis I detail how large-scale public entertainment, in the form of gladiatorial games (munera) and dramatic festivals (ludi), could function as a tool for social control in the Roman West. Using late-Republican and imperial Pompeii as a test case, I argue that these spectacular performances provided local notables with a rare and powerful platform for mass messaging. The chief purpose of this communication within the arena and theatres of Pompeii was not to transmit particular words or gestures from wealthy benefactors to their captive audience, but rather to arrive at a public consensus that implicitly acknowledged the legitimacy of local political, religious, and cultural institutions while also underscoring existing social hierarchies and power relations within the unified community. The local laws, traditions, and setting conditioned the behaviour of the entertainers and spectators, who played central rôles in a series of formulaic rituals at these regular events. The processions that preceded games, for example, and the prize-giving ceremonies after munera were staged as dialogues between benefactor and spectators, structured in ways that celebrated the prosperity, civic identity, and political stability of the community. Such a function was particularly important to ensure stability in periods of great uncertainty. I suggest that the construction and renovation of venues for public entertainment should also be understood in terms of crisis communications, as part of a response to political turbulence following the wars of the late Republic and a string of local catastrophes under Nero. In the highly urbanized regions of early imperial Italy, however, the emphasis on civic politics at mass spectacles risked inflaming tensions between neighbouring rivals. This system of social control was not, however, limited to the duration and location of mass spectacles. The Pompeian council limited freedom of association and the production of formal texts and images concerning mass spectacles to the margins of the city. The unofficial forms of expression that clustered here, often in dialogue with one another, suggest that individuals continued to identify with their rôles as consensus-building spectators beyond the games. In spite of its rich and varied dossier of evidence for quotidian life, genuinely original or subversive content that is independent of official messaging appears only rarely in the archaeological record at Pompeii.

As one of the major institutional platforms for the activist intellectuals to inaugurate political and cultural modernity, study societies had been proliferating throughout late Qing China (ca. 1894-1911). While existing studies have subsumed this distinctive sociological phenomenon under the political programmes of the broader reform and revolutionary movements, or conceived it as an instance of prototypical formation of civil society in the sociopolitical context of late Qing, they fail to problematize the meanings and functions of 'civilization' and 'civility' as the constitutive (albeit highly contested) principles of the various cultural-political practices of study societies. This study purports to fill this gap by analyzing the symbolic and practical aspects of the study society movement, with specific reference to its guiding motifs of 'Confucian religion' and 'military citizenship'. Despite their manifold differences, these notions implicated the reconstruction of social ties and cultural tradition with the distinctive purpose of constituting and strengthening a 'civilized' community of the Chinese people and citizens, which was to engage in cultural and political competition with Christianity and the imperialist states of the West. / The dual themes of competition and civilization in study societies are then explained in terms of the sociological theory of state formation and civilization, which has been articulated on the basis of European experiences of absolutist and bureaucratic state-building. Art alternative model of nationalist-imperialist state formation is set forth to explain why and how the late Qing study societies arose as a civilizing movement despite the breakdown of the state monopoly of violence and powers, an exceptional setting standing in contrast to the rise and spread of 'civilization' in the European and other world-historical contexts. The concrete courses and outcomes of the study society movement in reformist Hunan and revolutionary Shanghai are further compared and explained in terms of the cultural impacts of war-making, which in the context of late Qing had led to the rapid rise and demise of study societies by transforming the gentry elites along the directions of local militarization and semi-colonial commercialization. / Chen, Hon Fai. / "August 2007." / Adviser: Suk-ying Wong. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-02, Section: A, page: 0774. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-267). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstract in English and Chinese. / School code: 1307.

梁崇榆. / 論文(哲學碩士) -- 香港中文大學硏究院敎育學部, 1996. / 參考文献 : leaves 1-4 (8th group). / Liang Chongyu [Leung Shung Yu]. / Chapter 第一章 --- 緖論 --- p.1.1 -1.10 / Chapter 第一節 --- 香港「中國語文科」的歷史回顧 / Chapter 第二節 --- 香港.學校的民族文化敎育 / Chapter 第三節 --- 當前中國的文化反思 / Chapter 第四節 --- 中、台、港中國語文敎學的中國文化敎育問題 / Chapter 第二章 --- 硏究的目的 --- p.2.1 226}0ؤ2.12 / Chapter 第一節 --- 敎材與敎學目標 / Chapter 第二節 --- 課程的理論探究 / Chapter 第三節 --- 敎材、敎學與文化 / Chapter 第四節 --- 敎科書、課程設計 / Chapter 第三章 --- 理論探究 --- p.3.1 226}0ؤ3.13 / Chapter 第一節 --- 文化的定義及範疇 / Chapter 第二節 --- 中國的傳統文化 / Chapter 第四章 --- 硏究的設計 --- p.4.1 一4.3 / Chapter 第一節 --- 硏究的問題 / Chapter 第二節 --- 硏究的對象 / Chapter 第三節 --- 硏究的構思 / Chapter 第五章 --- 課文分析 --- p.5.1 226}0ؤ5.25 / Chapter 第一節 --- 引言 / Chapter 第二節 --- 項目類分 / Chapter 第三節 --- 精讀課文篇章文化內容分析 / Chapter 第六章 --- 敎學設計 --- p.6.1 一6.9 / Chapter 第一節 --- 設計原則 / Chapter 第二節 --- 中國文化敎學單元示例 / Chapter 第七章 --- 限制與建議 --- p.7.1 -7.4 / Chapter 第一節 --- 歷史的悲劇 / Chapter 第二節 --- 時代的局限 / Chapter 第三節 --- 硏究的限制 / Chapter 第四節 --- 建議 / 附錄：參考書目 --- p.8.1 226}0ؤ8.4

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Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-12-15T11:39:10Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Alexandre Manduca.pdf: 3026030 bytes, checksum: 94b697bfa164d58710ac8f4ab0b4dcf2 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-12-15T11:39:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Alexandre Manduca.pdf: 3026030 bytes, checksum: 94b697bfa164d58710ac8f4ab0b4dcf2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-12-04 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The selection presented in this thesis is the construction of a new human being by means of Biopolitics and of such discourses as the cyborg imaginary, the machine-body and the machine in the biological body. The artificially enhanced body brings life, as a biopolitical device, to a new level, fruit of a symptom of the cultural and communicational imaginary about new possibilities of body management that permeate the appropriation, manipulation and edition of life. It is believed that through a hybrid body the human being would be able to distend and expand itself in order to embrace machinic devices and to serve as an object within the capitalist logic and the consumption society. The Cyborgism in literature and in cinema contributes to this imaginary of a new human being who might be different ‒ a next human, from the classic Frankenstein’s monster to the most recent science fiction films, in which hybrid beings are patterns of overcoming a body that looks obsolete. Biopolitics reinforces this moment in a conceptual and precise way when it transfers to the human the management of one's own life, as observed both in Michel Foucault and in the studies of Giorgio Agamben, Antonio Negri and Nikolas Rose, the main guiding principle of this work. In such scenario, one sees a new journey of the next human, who, through the body, undergoes mutations and is extended by use of machinic experiments, such as grafts, prostheses, chips and silicon. These are potentialized for physically disabled people and for assistive technologies; also, in the Bioidentity phenomenon and in the quality of a body extended to all possible apparatuses, as a biopolitical element that does not cease to be biological. The trajectory of this thesis is to discuss the human as an unfinished project, not as a hybrid body or as a cyborg, but a body ready for the inclusion of the machine in the human through the interference in the DNA. It becomes thus pure information, without ceasing to be biological. The machine in the biological is the extended body, opening the possibility of adapting to the new machinic devices / O recorte apresentado nesta tese é a construção de um novo ser humano por meio da biopolítica e dos discursos do imaginário ciborgue, do corpo-máquina e da máquina no corpo biológico. O corpo artificialmente incrementado eleva a vida, enquanto dispositivo biopolítico, a um novo patamar, fruto de um sintoma do imaginário cultural e comunicacional sobre novas possibilidades de gestão do corpo, que permeiam a apropriação, manipulação e edição da vida. Acredita-se que, mediante um corpo híbrido, o ser humano possa se distender e expandir-se para abraçar aparatos maquínicos e possa servir como objeto dentro da lógica capitalista e da sociedade de consumo. O ciborguismo presente na literatura e no cinema contribui para esse imaginário de um novo ser humano que poderá ser diferente ‒ um próximo humano, desde o clássico monstro de Frankenstein, até os mais recentes filmes de ficção científica, nos quais os seres híbridos são padrões de superação de um corpo que parece obsoleto. A biopolítica reforça esse momento de forma conceitual e precisa quando transfere ao humano a administração da própria vida, o que pode ser observado tanto em Michel Foucault, como nos estudos de Giorgio Agamben, Antonio Negri e Nikolas Rose, principal norteador deste trabalho. Nesse horizonte, avista-se uma nova jornada do próximo humano, que, por meio do corpo, sofre mutações e é ampliado com experimentos maquínicos, como enxertos, próteses, chips e silício. Estes são potencializados para os deficientes físicos e para as tecnologias assistivas, no fenômeno da bioidentidade, e na qualidade de um corpo estendido a todos os aparatos possíveis, como elemento biopolítico que não deixa de ser biológico. A trajetória desta tese é a de discutir o humano como um projeto inacabado, não como um corpo híbrido ou ciborgue, mas um corpo pronto para a inclusão da máquina no humano por meio da interferência no DNA, tornando-se pura informação sem deixar de ser biológico. A máquina no biológico é o corpo estendido, abrindo a possibilidade de adaptar-se aos novos aparatos maquínicos

This thesis surveys the ninth-century metallic threads decorating silks discovered at Famen temple in Shaanxi province, China. In this research, metallic threads decorating Famen silks have been studied and documented in detail in order to understand how they were produced and how they were applied. Samples of metallic threads were selected and optical microscope and SEM/EDS were used to determine their morphology and composition. Problems regarding the current terminology used to describe metallic threads are briefly considered, and a systematic renaming of different types of metallic threads is suggested. Analysis results show that most Famen metallic threads were made of gold strips without substrate wound around a fibrous core, and that very few are silver strips without substrate wound around a fibrous core. Silver strips with paper substrate wound around a fibrous core are found among Famen silks, providing very early examples of this type of metallic thread in the world. Technical evidence demonstrates that the Famen metallic strips were cut from hammered metallic foil. It was found that metallic threads of different metal composition with different physical characteristics were selected according to the decoration techniques used and the function of the silks. The use of metallic threads with different grades of evenness in dimension and morphology for different decoration techniques was also found. The gold contents of these gold threads are all very high, and the thicknesses of the gold strips are large. All these characteristics are probably related to the function of Famen silks as objects of Buddhist worship that had been donated to the temple by members of the Tang imperial family and other high-ranking people. Technical investigation into the manufacture of modern traditional Chinese metallic threads was carried out in this research. Combined with analysis of the morphological, structural, and material nature of Famen metallic threads, the key technical characteristics of modern traditional metallic threads were found, which provided important evidence for deducing the manufacturing techniques of Famen metallic threads. Successful reconstructive experiments that produced metallic threads similar to Famen metallic threads were carried out in the laboratory by the author. The use of other known related techniques to produce Famen metallic threads was eliminated on technical grounds. With the above evidence, the manufacturing of Famen metallic threads, especially how the metallic strips were wound around the fibrous core, are reasonably deduced here. By investigating a number of currently accessible Chinese historical metallic threads from other periods, the evolutionary principles of Chinese metallic threads are concluded. The special characteristics of Famen metallic threads, the reasons determining these characteristics are better understood, and their role in the development of Chinese metallic threads is assessed.

<p>U našem radu reč je o elementima frankofone civilizacije u nastavi francuskog jezika. Tokom rada sa učenicima i studentima nivoa znanja A1-B2 francuskog, primetili smo da su manje senzibilizovani za frankofonu kulturu, i da su više upoznati sa elementima francuske kulture, u ovom slučaju mislimo na teritoriju današnje Francuske. To nas je navelo da uradimo analizu frankofonih elemenata u udžbenicima francuskog kao stranog jezika, korišćenim na prostoru Srbije. Naš korpus ekscerpiran je iz sto dvadeset čitanki i metoda francuskog jezika, od Drugog svetskog rata do 2013. g., reč je o metodama koje su objavljene na teritoriji bivše Jugoslavije, današnje Srbije i Francuske.<br />U prvom delu rada objašnjeni su razlozi izbora teme, ciljevi rada kao i sama njegova struktura. Takođe je prikazano mesto koje zauzima učenje francuskog kao stranog jezika u obrazovnom sistemu aktuelne Srbije.<br />Nakon toga izložen je teorijski pregled stavova kada su u pitanju pojmovi civilizacija, kultura i jezik, neodvojivi u učenju stranog jezika, kao i pojam interkulturalnosti, koja je jedna od nezaobilaznih kompetencija u nastavi stranih jezika danas. Potom je dato viđenje francuske i frankofone civilizacije u nastavi francuskog iz perspektive bivše i sadašnje teritorije naše države.<br />U trećem delu rada objašnjen je pojam Frankofonije, razlozi zašto je značajna u nastavi francuskog, koja je njena uloga i šta ona zapravo danas predstavlja. Takođe je definisan pojam frankofonog elementa i dat opis udžbenika francuskog jezika, korišćenih od Drugog svetskog rata na prostoru današnje Srbije, kao i tematske kategorije prema kojima su klasifikovani frankofoni elementi.<br />Četvrto poglavlje posvećeno je analizi korpusa koji je prethodno podeljen u sledeće tematske kategorije: &bdquo;jezički varijeteti&ldquo;, &bdquo;geografija&ldquo;, &bdquo;slavne ličnosti, kulturni spomenici, istorija&ldquo;, &bdquo;grafičke umetnosti, skulptura i arhitektura&ldquo;, &bdquo;književnost&ldquo;, &bdquo;muzika&ldquo;, &bdquo;film&ldquo;, &bdquo;štampa i dokumentarni tekstovi&ldquo; i &bdquo;stripovi&ldquo;. U ovom delu rada prikazani su frankofoni elementi kroz osnovni pedagoški materijal, njihova upotreba, kao i jezičke kompetencije za koje su predviđeni.<br />U poslednjoj fazi rada predložen je dodatni pedagoški materijal, nekoliko autentičnih frankofonih dokumenata, kao i njihova primena u nastavi francuskog kao stranog jezika, sve u cilju njihove bolje iskorišćenosti.<br />VIII<br />Na osnovu urađene analize izvodi se zaključak da frankofoni elementi nisu dovoljno zastupljeni u nastavi francuskog jezika i da bi trebalo da budu više prisutni, kroz različit i raznovrstan pedagoški materijal, pogotovo s obzirom na to da ih je moguće uklopiti u već postojeće udžbenike, za šta dajemo primere na samom kraju rada.<br />U našem svetu višejezičnosti, mulitkulturalnosti i interkulturalnosti, budućnost francuskog jezika jeste u prihvatanju svih njegovih raznovrsnosti i različitosti.</p> / <p>Our dissertation deals with elements of the Francophone civilization in teaching the French language. While teaching students with the French language knowledge (level A1-B2), we noticed that they are less familiar with elements of Francophone culture, and more familiar with elements of French culture, meaning the culture of the territory of present-day France. That led us to perform an analysis of Francophone elements in textbooks used for teaching French as a foreign language which are used on the territory of Serbia. Our corpus was extracted from a hundred and twenty textbooks and methods used for teaching the French language, starting from the period of World War Two up to 2013. These methods were published on the territory of former Yugoslavia, present-day Serbia, and present-day France.<br />The first part of the dissertation explains the reasons behind the choice of the topic, the aims of dissertation and its structure. This part also indicates the position of learning French as a foreign language in the current educational system of Serbia.<br />This is followed by a theoretical overview of perspectives on the notions of civilization, culture, and language which are inseparable in learning a foreign language, including the notion of interculturality which is one of the mandatory competencies in teaching foreign languages today. After that, a look at the French and Francophone civilization in teaching the French language from the perspectives of the former and present-day territory of our country is provided.<br />The third part of the dissertation explains the notion of Francophony, provides the reasons why it is significant in teaching the French language, what its role is and what it represents today. The notion of a Francophone element is also defined with a description of French language textbooks used from the period of World War Two on the territory of present-day Serbia, including thematic categories according to which the Francophone elements are classified.<br />The fourth chapter is dedicated to analyzing the corpus which has previously been divided into the following thematic categories: &ldquo;language varieties&rdquo;, &ldquo;geography&rdquo;, &ldquo;famous persons, cultural monuments, history&rdquo;, &ldquo;graphic arts, sculpting, and architecture&rdquo;, &ldquo;literature&rdquo;, &ldquo;music&rdquo;, &ldquo;film&rdquo;, &ldquo;press and documentary texts&rdquo;, and &ldquo;comic books&rdquo;. This part of the dissertation displays Francophone elements through basic pedagogical material, their use, as well as language competencies they are prescribed for.<br />The last phase of the dissertation suggests additional pedagogical material, several authentic Francophone documents, as well as their application in teaching French as a foreign language, all with the aim of maximizing their use.<br />X<br />Based on the performed analysis, a conclusion can be made that the Francophone elements are underrepresented in teaching the French language and that their presence should be increased through various and diverse pedagogical material, especially when it is taken into consideration that they can be fitted into already existing textbooks which is displayed by examples at the very end of the dissertation.</p>

Cheung Tang, Chung Kiu Maggie. / Thesis (M.Div.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 66-69). / In English with some Chinese; abstract also in Chinese. / Chapter CHAPTER ONE --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter i. --- Defining the problem --- p.1 / Chapter ii. --- The religious movements --- p.3 / Chapter iii. --- Same characteristics shared among these movements --- p.5 / Chapter iv. --- Discussion on organization --- p.7 / Chapter v. --- Discussion on eschatological view --- p.8 / Chapter CHAPATER TWO --- Millennialism and messianism in Chinese conception --- p.9 / Chapter I. --- Introduction --- p.9 / Chapter II. --- Human-centrism and pessimism in Chinese culture --- p.11 / Chapter III. --- Christian millennialism and messianism in Chinese tradition --- p.13 / Chapter IV. --- Buddhist millennium and messianism in Chinese tradition --- p.15 / Chapter V. --- Taoist millennium and messianism in Chinese tradition --- p.18 / Chapter VI. --- Eschatological concept in Chinese religious understanding --- p.20 / Chapter CHAPTER THREE --- Chinese Religious Movements ´ؤ nature and eschatology --- p.23 / Chapter Part I - --- Movement of the Celestial Master Sect (Tianshi Dao) --- p.23 / Chapter I. --- Introduction --- p.23 / Chapter II. --- The founding of Celestial Master Sect --- p.25 / Chapter III. --- Content of Celestial Master Sect --- p.26 / Chapter IV. --- Organization --- p.28 / Chapter V. --- Eschatological view --- p.28 / Chapter VI. --- Concluding remarks --- p.31 / Chapter Part II - --- Movement of the White Lotus Sect (Bailian Jiao) --- p.33 / Chapter I. --- Introduction --- p.33 / Chapter II. --- The history of White Lotus Sect --- p.34 / Chapter III. --- Content of White Lotus --- p.37 / Chapter IV. --- Eschatological view --- p.40 / Chapter V. --- Concluding remarks --- p.42 / Chapter Part III - --- Movement of the Taping Heavenly Kingdom --- p.43 / Chapter I. --- Introduction --- p.43 / Chapter II. --- The founding of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom --- p.44 / Chapter III. --- Installation and content of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom --- p.47 / Chapter IV. --- Eschatological view --- p.50 / Chapter V. --- Concluding remarks --- p.51 / Chapter CHAPTER FOUR --- A Christian eschatology in Chinese tradition ´ؤ problem and opportunity --- p.54 / Chapter I. --- Denial of the world in Chinese religious tradition --- p.54 / Chapter II. --- Denial of the world in Chinese Christianity --- p.60 / Chapter III. --- Conclusion --- p.63