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I also argue that the structure and the content of Records of Practical Government was much influenced by Qiu Jun's (1421-1495) Daxue yanyi bu (Supplement to the Extension of the Great Learning), which initiated the tradition of systematic statecraft writing in the Ming. However, because Lu and Qiu lived in different eras and had different social backgrounds and official status, they addressed same issues at different levels in their books. The Daxue yanyi bu was written as a reference for the emperors and officials and as a blueprint for political reform to be initiated by the court. What it deals with are national administrative structures and large social issues. The Records of Practical Government only deals with practical matters from the viewpoint of local officials. Providing guidance to provincial officials at different ranks, it was meant to be a guide to local governance. / I further argue that an immediate reason for Lu's desire to improve local governance was the impact of Zhang Juzheng's political reforms. When Lu became an official, he was involved in the decade-long reforms initiated by Zhang. Zhang was Lu's spiritual guide, although while Zhang's reforms involved officials at different levels, Lu's only concerned local and provincial administrative officials. / In later times, Lu Kun's statecraft thought spread mainly through publication of his books. His ideas on government were well recognized in the Qing dynasty. He was canonized in the Confucian temple in 1826 and considered an accomplished thinker and scholar of practical learning. / Lu Kun was a famous Confucian scholar-official of the late Ming Dynasty. As a magistrate of Xiangyuan and Datong counties of Shanxi province and as a Vice Minister of Justice, he was highly praised by people he governed and by fellow officials of his times because of his uprightness and able administration. This dissertation focuses on the characteristics of Lu Kun's (1536-1618) statecraft thought by analyzing his important work. Records of Practical Government (Shizheng lu), and his understanding of the relationship between the Wanli emperor (reigned 1563-1620) and his officials. / The Records of Practical Government, compiled after Lu retired, is a corpus of official documents Lu wrote and announced when he was an official in Shanxi. These documents reflect his administrative experience and the local custom of places he governed. They also reveal Lu's understanding of local affairs, his emphasis on the responsibility of an official and his design for the strengthening of that. Lu, however, was unable to realize much what he proposed in the Records of Practical Government . His regulations were too detailed and complicated, and his language somewhat harsh, that they were difficult to be observed. / The research also shows Lu's personal understanding and handling of the relationship between the Wanli emperor and his officials, which likewise reveals Lu's statecraft thought. Lu was prudent enough to be able to maintain good terms with Wanli for a smooth discharge of his official responsibility. But when Lu was forced to resign in disillusion during the contention for the confirmation of an heir-apparent, he turned to support officials who left office as a protest to the emperor. / 解揚. / 論文(哲學博士)--香港中文大學, 2007. / 參考文獻(p. 391-448). / Adviser: Hung-lam Chu. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-02, Section: A, page: 0714. / 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. / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / School code: 1307. / Lun wen (zhe xue bo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2007. / Can kao wen xian (p. 391-448). / Xie Yang.

This thesis combines a philosophical interpretation of Epicurean attitudes to language with literary analysis of the language of DRN. Chapters 1-2 describe Epicurean attitudes to diachronic and synchronic linguistic phenomena. In the first chapter I claim that the Epicurean account of the first stage of the development of language involves pre-rational humans acting under a ‘strong’ form of compulsion. The analogies with which Lucretius describes this process were motivated by a structural similarity between the Epicurean accounts of phylogenetic and ontogenetic psychology. Chapter 2 explores the Epicurean account of word use and recognition, central to which are ‘conceptions’. These are attitudes which express propositions; they are not mental images. Προλήψεις, a special class of conception, are self-evidently true basic beliefs about how objects in the world are categorized which, alongside the non-doxastic criteria of perceptions and feelings, play a foundational role in enquiry. Chapter 3 offers a reconstruction of an Epicurean theory of metaphor. Metaphor, for Epicureans, involves the subordination of additional conceptions to words to create secondary meanings. Secondary meanings are to be understood by referring back to primary meanings. Accordingly, Lucretius’ use of metaphor regularly involves the juxtaposition in the text of primary and secondary uses of terms. An account of conceptual metaphor in DRN is given in which the various conceptual domains from which Lucretius draws his metaphorical language are mapped and explored. Chapter 4 presents a new argument against ‘atomological’ readings of Lucretius’ atoms/letters analogies. Lucretian implicit etymologies involve the illustration, via juxtaposition, of language change across time. This is fully in keeping with the Epicurean account of language development. Chapter 5 describes Lucretius’ reflections on and interactions with the Greek language. I suggest that the study of lexical Hellenisms in DRN must be sensitive to the distinction between lexical borrowing and linguistic code-switching. I then give an account of morphological calquing in the poem, presenting it as a significant but overlooked strategy for Lucretian vocabulary-formation.

Kant believed that the moral law is a law that the rational will legislates. This thesis examines this claim and its broader implications for Kant’s moral theory. Many are drawn to Kantian ethics because of its emphasis on the dignity and legislative authority of the rational being. The attractiveness of this emphasis on the special standing and capacities of the self grounds a recent tendency to interpret Kantian autonomy as a doctrine according to which individual agents create binding moral norms. Where this line is taken, however, its advocates face deep questions concerning the compatibility of autonomy and the conception of moral requirement to which Kant is also certainly committed – one which conceives of the moral law as a strictly universal and necessary imperative. This thesis has two main aims. In the first half, I offer an interpretation of Kantian autonomy that both accommodates the universality and necessity of moral constraint and takes seriously the notion that the rational will is a legislator of moral law. As a means of developing and securing my preferred view, I argue that recent popular interpretations of Kantian autonomy fail to resolve the tensions that seem at first glance to plague the concept of self-legislation, where what is at stake is the legislation of a categorical imperative. In the second half of this thesis, I examine the connections between my preferred interpretation of self-legislation and Kant’s dichotomisation of reason and our sensuous nature. I argue that some of the more harsh and seemingly unreasonable aspects of Kant’s moral philosophy can be defended by bringing to light the ways in which they are connected to his commitment both to the autonomy of the will and to developing a genuinely normative ethics.

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The purpose of this thesis is to reflect on the importance that deception has had on the efficient functioning of societies and the development of individuals. I attempt to do so by adopting an historical perspective, analysing the development of the notion of lawful deception during the Middle Ages and, mainly, the Early Modern Age through theological and political discourses. The scope of my investigation is pan-European. I examine sources from the major Western territories, but I pay special attention to those produced in the Spanish-Habsburg Empire, which was a major political and cultural entity during this period. My claim is that between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries, the West witnessed the formation of what I call an "Ethics of Deception:" a trend of thought that, without challenging the Augustinian prohibition of lying, recognised deception as intrinsic to nature and mankind, thereby justifying its use from moral and political perspectives. I explain how this intellectual process was conducted, fostered by new social realities, and helped by the flourishing of casuistry, tacitism and neostoicism. Furthermore, I argue that the acceptance of deception contributed to the creation of a new view of the world, language and human interaction. A view that is in the very basis of some of the most characteristic features of Baroque art and that opened the door to some of the most transcendental cultural changes of the period, such as the creation of politics governed by reason rather than faith, the secularisation of social behaviour, and the emergence of the notions of individualism, privacy and freedom of thought. For these reasons, I claim that deception played an important role in the shaping of Modernity.

The general distinction between uses of the term "idea" which we draw is between occurrences in the mind and dispositions for them as opposed to concepts. Locke uses "idea" in the first way, Malebranche uses it in the second. Leibniz allows that the mind is infinite and that dispositions in the body correspond to dispositions in the mind; thus he is able to maintain that idea are both concepts and dispositions in the mind. We explain concepts in terms of conventional rules, for the most part linguistic and especially mathematical. We call a system of conventional rules an objective structure and, as those who took ideas to be concepts held that they are concepts of divine science, we treat God as the unique objective structure. The question in seventeenth century theories of ideas is how that body of knowledge comprising ideas and their relations is applicable to thing. In the first four chapters, we consider concepts and the Cartesian programme to reduce the description of everything but that which applies concepts to mathematical descriptions. Descartes, Malebranche, and Leibniz held that the lack of simplicity and exactness in human knowledge arises from the correspondence between microscopic activities in the body and mental occurrences. With occurrences in the body explained mechanically, it was held, the world can be described with maximum simplicity and exactness. Extended things are law-obeying configurations to which concepts are applied; thinking things are rule-following things by virtue of applying these concepts. But the parts played by convention and behaviour are left out of their accounts and, omitting these, the world cannot be shown to be anything more than a diagram, perhaps portrayed only in the mind of the investigator. In the antepenultimate chapter, we discuss two related views which led the rationalists to maintain that all rational beings naturally follow a unique objective structure: their position on the correspondence between the activity of the body and occurrences in the mind (illustrated in their theories of vision) and the view that divine science is the standard for all scientific formulations. In the penultimate chapter, we present evidence that rationalist accounts of cognition were in fact modelled on rule-governed activity, Plato's theory of knowledge and Ideas is compared with rationalist accounts and is found to have less relevance to rule-governed activity, Kant, we admit, saw the relevance of rules, but no more than the rationalists. In the ninth chapter, we discuss Malebranche's vision in God (which most clearly presents ideas as concepts), its relation to Descartes' and Leibniz's positions and its dependent on occasionalism. In the fifth chapter, we argue against Chomsky's innatist position and, more generally, claims in the behavioural and social sciences to explain human knowledge in terms of internalized components and covert activities. It is also maintained that Chomsky's innatism bears little resemblance to that of seventeenth century rationalism. We discuss in the sixth through the eighth chapters the Scholastic back-ground to the use of the term "idea" and theories of ideas. In the sixth chapter, the pervasive influence of Suarez is established, as is the prevalence of nominalism in the seventeenth century and its connection with Gaszendism and eventually Locke. Suarez combined aspects of Thomism and nominalism, Thomism was concerned with so-called spiritual objects of knowledge, which roughly act as standards and are the contribution of the knower to what is known; rationalism's account of knowledge maintained these aspects of Thomism, nominalism, on the other hand, presented what we shall call a causal or genetic account of knowledge (according to which our knowledge arises from causal relations and operations of the intellect) and was concerned with so-called material objects got from sensation (while allowing for spiritual operations). The distinction between spiritual and material objects and faculties is introduced in the sixth chapter. In the seventh chapter, we discuss the bridge between these facilities, the intellectus agens, which served as an objective structure in Thomist accounts. In the eight chapter, we discuss uses of “spiritual”, “idea” and “mind”, beginning with Scholastic uses, but concentrating on the differences between Descartes and Gassendi. Locke's causal account is discussed in the final chapter. We emphasise his divergence from Cartesianism, such as his view on the narrow compass of the understanding, his treatment of mathematical ideas as signs and his reliance on mental dispositions. Locke's position suffers from the omission of concepts.

Orientador: Alcides Hector Rodriguez Benoit / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-05T11:00:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 PereiraFilho_Gerson_D.pdf: 13290018 bytes, checksum: a2fdc79aa291b09494dbcf826907d231 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005 / Resumo: A proposta desta tese de doutoramento é promover uma investigação sobre o processo de fundação da cidade platônica no Diálogo Leis, procurando verificar como esse texto e esse processo estão vinculados ao conjunto dos Diálogos, permitindo-nos compreender que o autor filósofo estabelece um percurso teórico, conceitual e metodológico relacionado diretamente ao contexto de transformações históricas das cidades e regimes políticos gregos. Assim, nesse percurso histórico dos textos dialógicos, verificamos a elaboração, ainda que incipiente, de uma teoria da história em Platão / Abstract: The proposol of this thesis of doctorate is to promote an investigation on the foundation process of the platonic city in the Dialogue of Laws, seeking to verify how this text and this process are linked to the set of dialogues, allowing us to comprehend that the philosopher author establishes a theoretical, methodological and conceptual path directly related to the context of the historical transformations of the Greek cities and their political regimes. Therefore, in this historical route of the dialogical texts, we verify an elaboration, even though incipient, of a theory of history in Plato / Doutorado / Doutor em Filosofia

Orientador: Celso Dal Re Carneiro / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Geociencias / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-15T15:40:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Martins_JoseRobertoSerra_M.pdf: 2357471 bytes, checksum: 19beeda9b140e61ad2baf860519a183a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: O objetivo da pesquisa é produzir material didático capaz de explicar a idéia de Plataforma Continental Jurídica (PCJ) em manuais escolares e atividades de educação básica. A tarefa exige análise direta (1) dos condicionantes geológicos e geomorfológicos sobre as quais estão definidos os critérios de delimitação da PCJ, e (2) do processo pelo qual um país legitima a incorporação da mesma ao respectivo território. Os documentos reunidos salientam resultados sociais, culturais, econômicos e estratégicos que podem ser obtidos pelo Brasil nesse processo, a depender do acolhimento do pleito por parte da Comissão de Limites da Organização das Nações Unidas (ONU). O texto da Convenção das Nações Unidas sobre Direito do Mar (CNUDM) garante aos Estados costeiros a expansão da Plataforma Continental, além do limite de 200 milhas marítimas - limite externo da Zona Econômica Exclusiva (ZEE). Para tanto, o Estado deve realizar levantamentos da margem continental (leito e subsolo marinhos) que comprovem a continuidade do bloco crustal para além dos limites da ZEE. Após o levantamento (LEPLAC, no Brasil), o país deve pleitear à Comissão de Limites da ONU a expansão de direitos sobre recursos minerais da área. A Dissertação contextualiza o tema, segundo ordenação temporal que vai da evolução geológica à da incorporação jurídica. O enfoque é essencialmente histórico: (1) Uma história de milhões de anos: sintetiza os processos geológicos formadores de nossa margem continental; (2) Uma história de milhares de anos: enfoca a relação da humanidade e do processo civilizatório com o mar; (3) Uma história de dezenas de anos: explica os trâmites legais para definição da Plataforma Continental Jurídica, com base em princípios geológicos, históricos e legais. O pleito brasileiro de 4.452.000 km2 amplia em 52 % a área de 8.514.876,6 km2 de terras emersas que compõem o território nacional. O material didático elaborado e testado propõe atividades capazes de desvendar, em sequência, cada aspecto citado. As metas principais são: (1) convidar o leitor a analisar uma situação-problema segundo ângulos diferentes de visão; (2) demonstrar que o processo civilizatório, decorrente de uma história das mentalidades, é parte fundamental para plena compreensão do interesse legal do Estado e (3) comprovar que esses conhecimentos são absolutamente imprescindíveis para plena formação de um cidadão brasileiro, em sintonia com os dias atuais. / Abstract: The objective of this research is to produce educational materials capable of explaining the idea of the Extended Continental Shelf (ECS) in textbooks and activities for basic education. It requires direct analysis of: (1) the geological and geomorphological requirements for such definition, and (2) the process by which a given country is capable to declare its ECS. The collected documents highlight social, cultural, economic and strategic results that Brazil may obtain from this process, depending on the acceptance of a case by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (UN-CLCS). The text of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) provides for coastal states to expand the Continental Shelf beyond the 200 nautical miles - the outer limit of the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). To this end, the State should carry out surveys of the continental margin (soil, sediments and bedrock) to prove the continuity of the crustal block beyond the limits of the EEZ. After the survey (LEPLAC in Brazil), the country must plead to the UN-CLCS expansion of rights to mineral resources of the area. The dissertation contextualizes the issue, according to a temporal ordering from the geological evolution towards a legal definition. The approach is essentially historical: (1) A history of millions of years: summarizes the forming geological processes of the Brazilian continental margin, (2) A history of thousands of years: focuses on the relationship of humanity and the civilizatory process with the sea, (3) A history of decades: it explains the legal procedures for setting the Extended Continental Shelf, based on geological, historical and legal principles. The Brazilian application of 4,452,000 km2 expands 52% the area of 8,514,876.6 km2 of dry land that compose the country. The developed and tested teaching materials have proposed activities capable of revealing, in sequence, each one of these aspects. The main goals are: (1) to invite the reader to examine a concrete problem under different angles of vision, (2) to show that, due to a history of mentalities, the civilizatory process is key to a complete understanding of the legal interests of a State and (3) to demonstrate that this knowledge is indispensable to educate Brazilian citizens. / Mestrado / Mestre em Ensino e Historia de Ciencias da Terra

Orientador: Itala Maria Loffredo D'Ottaviano / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-24T07:00:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Gomes_EvandroLuis_D.pdf: 65179990 bytes, checksum: eb0820af0f1fcdc2d6afcfdea584cfe4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: A instauração da lógica paraconsistente, o levantamento e a descrição de seus antecedentes históricos, bem como a análise de seus fundamentos filosóficos são aqui apresentados sob a ótica da historiografia contemporânea da lógica. O estádio atual da lógica paraconsistente permite historiar sua instauração e, de modo quase arqueológico, reconstituir a pré-história dessa abordagem e de suas esquematizações lógico-teóricas. Estudamos, particularmente, os efeitos da contradição em contextos racionais e os instrumentos lógico-teóricos de sua contenção, manuseio ou assimilação. Formas de paraconsistência lato e stricto sensu são estabelecidas à medida em que o ex falso, lei lógica que sustém que qualquer fórmula se segue de uma inconsistência formal, se verifica ou não é válida, em teorias e contextos racionais nos quais vigorem, por exemplo, a lógica clássica ou intuicionista. Tal lei lógica não vale nas teorias paraconsistentes, que podem conter inconsistências sem que sejam triviais. Consideramos textos, contextos e marcos do ponto de vista analítico, descritivo e histórico a fim de desvelar as formas de cultivo dessa abordagem. Na Parte I, historiamos a pré-história da paraconsistência. No Capítulo 1, Elementos lógico-paraconsistentes em autores antigos, identificamos e coligimos textos significativos para os primórdios da paraconsistência no pensamento ocidental, a partir dos quais delineamos uma interpretação que vincula elementos paraconsistentes às realizações teóricas de Heráclito de Éfeso, Aristóteles e os estoicos. No Capítulo 2, Elementos lógico-paraconsistentes em autores medievais, estudamos a maturação dos elementos relativos à abordagem da contradição no pensamento racional, herdados, em parte, do período anterior; há fundamentos paraconsistentes em autores como Pedro Abelardo, Pedro Hispano e Guilherme de Ockham, que por sua própria elaboração, elevaram tais elementos à sofisticação daqueles encontrados na polêmica acerca da admissibilidade ou não do ex falso. Na Parte II, historiamos a paraconsistência stricto sensu propriamente dita e seu prelúdio. Observação: O resumo, na íntegra, poderá ser visualizado no texto completo da tese digital. / Abstract: The establishment of paraconsistent logic, the quest for and the description of its historical background, as well as the analysis of their philosophical foundations are here presented by the way of contemporary historiography of logic. Nowadays paraconsistent logic stage of development allows writing the history of its instauration and, in a quite archeological way, to rebuilt the prehistory of this approach and their theoretical schemata. We specially study contradiction effects over rational contexts and the logical and theoretical tools for its suppression, handling or absorption. Broad and strict paraconsistency are also confirmed by the level of refusal of the ex falso. Such logical law affirms that every formula follows from a formal inconsistency and, it is related to the formal trivialization of the theories if underlying logic involved were, for instance, classical or intuitionist. In paraconsistent theories, on the other hand, ex falso does not hold in general. Such theories can be inconsistent but being not trivial. We consider texts, contexts and historical marks from analytical, descriptive and historical point of views in order to understand its formation chains. In Part I, we tell the history of the antecedents of paraconsistent approach. In Chapter 1, Paraconsistent logical elements in ancient authors, we identify and gather meaningful texts to the prehistory of paraconsistency in Western thought. From those elements, we outline an interpretation that matches paraconsistent elements to the theoretical achievements of Heraclitus of Ephesus, Aristotle and by the Stoics. In Chapter 2, Paraconsistent logical elements in medieval authors, we study the growing process concerning handling with contradiction in the rational thought, most of them inspired in the treatment of the issue in the former tradition. There are paraconsistent ground, for instance, in the work of Peter Abelard, Peter of Spain and William of Ockham. Such authors, by their own effort, could arise such elements into sophisticated arguments found in their discussion if ex falso is or not admissible. In Part II, we have the history of strict paraconsistent positions properly said and its prelude. Note: The complete abstract is available with the full electronic document / Doutorado / Filosofia / Doutor em Filosofia