Annotation: The main topic of this thesis is an analysis of tameness and wildness phenomena in particular Hermann Hesse's novels. Thesis will aim to expressions and interpenetrations of those phenomena and their position in period mind frame.Aim will be chronological analysis of those phenomena, their evolution and change in particular novels and an attempt of their synthesis. Key words: Hesse, Nietzsche, tammeness, wildness, Freud, Jung, Demian, Steppenwolf, Narcissus and Goldmund, The Glass Bead game, dialectic, dualism

No description available.

No description available.

In 2016's global business landscape, the increase in workers moving across borders to find employment accentuates the language and cultural challenges for both employees and organizations. Employees working in a multinational environment need to have an understanding of language and culture to handle the complex nature of professional work in a multinational corporation (MNC). The purpose of this study was to explore what communication competencies employees in a small MNC needed to communicate across multicultural environments in the workplace. A dialectic approach of intercultural communication was used to explore these needs in one small MNC located in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia using English as the corporate language. Data were collected from 9 employees of one data security firm using semistructured interviewing, the data was then coded into NVivo. Using interpretative phenomenology analysis, the themes of understanding, cultural sensitivity, pace, and fitting in emerged. Results of the study indicated a disconnect in the cultural mentality of Americanness versus Arabness in the business environment where societal factors and national identity reflected in how the employees think and act in the workplace. Lack of cultural knowledge in an MNC can impact the financial health of an organization in lost opportunities, reduced productivity, and long-term relationship damage with clients and partners. The results of this study could contribute to positive social change by providing small MNCs with the insight to enhance intercultural communication and intercultural awareness among employees in building a global workforce.

L’intérêt que porte ce mémoire à la méthodologie de la recherche aristotélicienne de la vérité le confine à un examen précis des étapes préliminaires de cette recherche, dans l’objectif de surmonter une conception trop simplifiée de l’opposition entre la science et l’opinion chez Aristote. S’ancrant dans une présentation des fonctions de la dialectique, telles que décrites par le philosophe dans les Topiques, cette enquête entend fournir une comparaison étroite entre les méthodes dialectique et apodictique. Plus précisément, elle est le lieu d’une déconstruction des préjugés qui sous-tendent une lecture traditionnelle des Seconds analytiques, selon laquelle (1) la méthode apodictique doit guider la recherche scientifique et (2) l’épistémologie d’Aristote est radicalement fondationnaliste. La lecture, alternative, de ce traité que propose ce mémoire lui permet d’assouplir les conditions imposées par Aristote aux prémisses du syllogisme apodictique, de manière à exploiter les nuances qui s’inscrivent dans la distinction qu’il opère entre le mieux connu par nature et le mieux connu pour nous. Ce faisant, la frontière entre la dialectique, qui part des idées accréditées, et l’apodictique, qui part de prémisses vraies, se révèle moins franche et la notion d’epistēmē, moins « scientifique » au sens moderne du terme. Enfin, cette lecture alternative des Seconds analytiques est mise à contribution pour l’examen de l’hypothèse, inspirée d’un essai d’Owen (1961), selon laquelle le chapitre II, 19 de ce traité fournirait les pistes de réflexion permettant d’élucider, en même temps que le rôle de l’induction, celui de la dialectique dans le cheminement vers les premiers principes. / The attention this master’s thesis gives to the aristotelian method towards truth confines it to a precise examination of the preliminary steps of this method, in order to distance itself from an over-simplified opposition between science and opinion in Aristotle. Starting from a presentation of the functions of dialectic, as described by the philosopher in the Topics, this inquiry intends to provide a close comparison between the methods of dialectic and demonstration. More precisely, it aims to deconstruct the presuppositions underlining a traditional reading of the Posterior analytics, according to which (1) demonstrative method should provide a guide for scientific research and (2) Aristotle’s epistemology is radically foundationalist. The alternative reading this study suggests to adopt allows it to ease the conditions imposed by Aristotle on the premises of apodictic syllogism, as ways to exploit the distinction he makes between what is better known by nature and what is better known for us. In doing so, the frontier between dialectic, which starts from accredited ideas, and demonstration, which starts from true premises, appears to be less opaque and the concept of epistēmē, less “scientific” in the modern sense. Finally, this alternative reading of the Posterior analytics is put to contribution in examining the hypothesis, inspired by an essay from Owen (1961), regarding the possibility for the last chapter (II, 19) of this treatise to help us elucidate, both at the same time, the role of induction and that of dialectic in the path towards truth.

Researchers, policy makers and practitioners alike have in recent years acknowledged a growing tendency towards opening up the innovation process by combining internal organizational assets with external actors’ resources. However, opening up the innovation process usually also entails revealing ideas, which may result in misappropriation. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate tensions related to the openness-appropriability relationship; this is done in three studies. The first study concerns a specific contextual factor that is likely to stress the openness-appropriability tensions: the location of external partners in innovation. The second study relates to the way managing openness-appropriability tensions affects performance, and the third study involves a theoretical discussion about the nature of the tensions occurring in the openness-appropriability relationship, i.e. paradoxical, dilemmatic, or dialectical. The first two studies apply quantitative methods, using survey data, while the third is a conceptual paper. The findings from the first study indicate that the use of different groups of appropriability mechanisms varies across various types of openness and that the location of external partners in innovation refines these linkages even more. The second study’s main takeaway is that the higher appropriability intensity, i.e. the extent to which appropriability mechanisms are put into practice, explains higher performance outcomes. The third study suggests that the tensions between openness and appropriability are more likely of paradoxical nature. From a theoretical perspective, findings indicate that paradoxical tensions between openness and appropriability may have a spatial dimension, and that these tensions should also be investigated in regards to performance. Managerial implications point out that opening up to innovation partners located abroad is likely to require more costly appropriability mechanisms. / <p>QC 20170126</p>

Les organisations alternatives (OAs) s’opposent au quotidien à des formes traditionnelles d’organisation du travail. Les valeurs de solidarité, d’autonomie, d’engagement et d’inclusion constituent généralement leur raison d’être. Par conséquent, les profits s’imposent comme un moyen de répondre adéquatement à ces valeurs plutôt que comme une fin en soi. Ce positionnement fait en sorte que les OAs entrent fréquemment en dissonance avec des éléments structurels et idéologiques du système sociopolitique et économique capitaliste néolibéral. Les tensions dialectiques représentent un cadre théorique pertinent pour comprendre comment les membres d’OAs vivent et gèrent ces éléments qui entrent en opposition de manière dynamique dans les discours. L'analyse, basée sur des entretiens avec onze membres d'OAs, révèle quatre tensions principales : une tension interne/externe, une tension individuelle/collective, une tension rigidité/flexibilité et une tension inclusion/exclusion. Les tensions laissées ouvertes, lorsqu’on ne cherche pas à les résoudre hâtivement, peuvent stimuler le dialogue et favoriser le partage, l’implication des membres et l’innovation sociale. Toutefois, l’ambigüité et le désordre dans le sens et les interprétations constituent également un terrain propice à l’émergence de hiérarchies informelles et d’un contrôle normatif dont la force coercitive se trouve dans les valeurs fondamentales défendues. / Alternative organizations (AOs) oppose themselves from traditional forms of work organization on a day-to-day basis. Values of solidarity, autonomy, social responsibility and inclusion generally guide how organizing occurs. Consequently, members of AOs accept profits only insofar as they enable the organization to live out these values rather than as an end in themselves. This perspective is frequently in dissonance with the ideology and practices of the neoliberal socio-political and economic system. Dialectical tensions represent a relevant theoretical framework for understanding how those who work in AOs experience and manage these tensions, which play out dynamically in organizational interactions and discourses. The analysis, based on interviews with eleven members of AOs, reveals four main tensions: an external/internal tension; a rigidity/flexibility tension; an individual/collective tension; and an inclusion/exclusion tension. When tensions are left open, rather than being quickly resolved, they can stimulate dialogue and foster sharing, inclusiveness, and social innovation. However, paradoxes, ambiguity, and disorder in meaning and interpretations are also a breeding ground for informal hierarchies and normative control whose coercive force is found in the core values defended.

No description available.

[pt] Esta tese defende que é através de uma experiência vital que, em Platão, se efetiva uma compreensão filosófica. Trata-se de sublinhar os aspectos pessoais e profundos da vivência filosófica para apresentar a idéia de que, em Platão, a filosofia é uma experiência que, mesmo sendo estritamente racional, perpassa a totalidade da alma humana. A tese estrutura-se em quatro capítulos. O primeiro e o segundo salientam o aspecto psicagógico da filosofia, analisando a relação de Platão com a poesia grega (cap. 1) e a retórica (cap.2). No primeiro capítulo afirma-se que, mesmo com todas as críticas que Platão apresenta contra a poesia, ele ainda reserva um aspecto essencial desta, a psicagogia (condução da alma), como parte constituinte da filosofia. O segundo capítulo defende que há um aspecto da retórica - também a psicagogia - que deve estar presente na filosofia para que esta inscreva o conhecimento na alma do aprendiz. O terceiro capítulo analisa as críticas de Platão à palavra escrita, presentes na Carta VII e no Fedro. Defende-se que a filosofia depende de um processo pessoal que não está garantido ao ser descrito por palavras: precisa, antes, ser vivido por uma experiência vital para tornar-se vivo naquele que sabe. Por fim, o quarto capítulo apresenta a noção de dialética na República como uma conversão. A noção de conversão corrobora esta tese, pois afirma que o processo racional filosófico pretende uma transformação pessoal e profunda do aprendiz de filosofia. / [en] This thesis claims that a philosophical understanding, in Plato, may only happen correctly whenever it comes through a vital experience. It intends to highlight the personal and deep aspects of philosophical experience. The thesis supports that, in Plato, philosophy is a kind of experience that, although being strictly rational, the whole soul engages in it. It has four chapters. The first and second present the psykhagogikos aspect of philosophy, analyzing Plato`s relation with Greek poetry (chap. 1) and rhetoric (chap. 2). In the first chapter, we claim that, despite all Plato`s criticism against poetry, he still retain an essential aspect of it - psykhagogia - as a necessary part of philosophy. The second chapter supports that there is an aspect of rhetoric - also psykhagogia - that must be present in philosophy so that knowledge might be inscribed in the soul of the student. The third chapter analyses Plato`s criticism against the written word, present in The Seventh Letter and the Phaedrus. We claim that philosophy depends on a personal process that is not assured by being described through words: it is necessary, first, to be felt by a vital experience, so that it may become alive in one who knows. At last, the forth chapter presents the notion of dialectic in the Republic as a conversion. The notion of conversion confirms this thesis because it claims that the rational philosophical process intends a personal and deep transformation in the student of philosophy.

Dans Feminist Politics and Human Nature, publié en 1983, la philosophe américaine Alison Jaggar expose les idéologies des féminismes libéral, marxiste, radical, et socialiste, en fait l’épistémologie, et conclut que le féminisme socialiste est celui qui convient le mieux à la participation' de la femme au renouvellement social. Par ailleurs, les féministes de toutes les tendances proposent des transformations qui, pour la plupart, sont nettement révolutionnaires, d’où le titre de ce mémoire, «La révolution féministe», qui résume, dans les grandes lignes, les thèmes exploités par cette auteure.