Thesis (D. Min.)--Northern Baptist Theological Seminary, Lombard, Ill., 1999. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 57-58).

In this thesis, I argue for rationalism, the claim that political legitimacy should be distributed such that justice is promoted best. In chapter 1, I define legitimacy as the permission to rule. I deny that political institutions generally enjoy authority, which is the moral power to directly impose duties on others. I then describe how legitimate political institutions without authority are possible in principle. In the second chapter, I outline a major problem for rationalism. If individuals have strong, moral rights, then it seems that political institutions cannot legitimately operate without their subjects' consent. I describe the key assumptions in this argument, and discuss a series of unconvincing proposals in the literature to escape it. In chapter 3, I argue that we can solve the problem if we look at theories of the moral justification of rights. There are two major such theories, the interest theory and the status theory. I outline the interest theory, and argue that it allows for non-consensual but legitimate political institutions. In chapter 4, I describe a Kantian claim about the nature of rights, according to which our rights are fully realised only if there are political institutions. If we accept this thought, then non-consensual political institutions can be legitimate on the status theory as well. In chapter 5, I outline what it means to promote-rather than respect-justice, and argue that the promotion of justice enjoys primacy over other values. At first sight, rationalism appears to have very radical implications, given that it asks us to base legitimacy on justice. In chapter 6, I argue that this impression is mistaken. We should often pursue justice indirectly, for example, through methods which focus on legal validity or democratic procedure rather than justice.

O tema central desta Tese é a problematização dos modos de circulação da palavra na escola. Para tanto, a pesquisa fundamenta-se teoricamente na Psicanálise freudo-lacaniana, basicamente afirmando que a palavra é a revelação do sujeito, o meio por excelência de este ser reconhecido. As questões que o sujeito se faz e, ao mesmo tempo, endereça ao Outro: “Quem sou? O que desejo? O que me move?” atrela-se à pergunta “O que o Outro quer de mim?”, pois o sujeito deposita nesse Outro sua verdade e o constitui como um lugar de suposto saber sobre ele, saber desconhecido de nós mesmos. Essa interrogação endereçada ao Outro marca um enigma e uma falta, já que aponta para incompletude, inclusive, desse Outro. Ao mesmo tempo em que é o Outro que permite a função simbólica e apóia o sujeito, oferecendo um fundamento aos seus discursos e uma nomeação, também é essa falta do Outro que abre a possibilidade de uma certa liberdade do sujeito, num eterno deslizamento entre significantes, sem nenhuma garantia e sempre na busca pelo seu ser no desejo – e na falta – do Outro, numa impossibilidade de encontro e, também, numa permanência de movimento. Com tal referencial teórico de base, investigamos nesta pesquisa de que modo se configuram os espaços e as experiências na escola, quanto à circulação da palavra e à própria “tomada” da palavra, no sentido de propiciar o advento do sujeito e a construção de uma experiência coletiva. Partimos do pressuposto de que a escola se constitui como um espaço social fundamental, no qual circulam diferentes formas assumidas pelo discurso social contemporâneo. Nossas indagações referem-se, também, às formas pelas quais estaria se dando a circulação dos discursos vigentes, nesse espaço específico. Os dados foram coletados em situação de trabalho, no Colégio de Aplicação da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, no qual atuei como orientadora escolar das séries iniciais, nos anos de 2008 e 2009. Para a análise dos dados, centrei minha atenção a respeito daquilo que experienciei – a partir do que vi ou ouvi e a partir do circuito de transferência que se criou entre mim, as crianças e os professores. Para tanto, valho-me dos conceitos freudo-lacanianos, e narro histórias que colocam a “palavra em movimento”, em experiência, de forma a produzir uma possibilidade de reflexão em torno das práticas escolares e do lugar do sujeito. Por fim, elaboro novos questionamentos, buscando problematizar tanto as minhas certezas como diferentes enunciados do senso comum, a respeito da criança em situação escolar. Para além de afirmar verdades e conclusões, acrescento ao final, outros pontos de interrogação. E, a partir da dúvida, sugiro o instigante caminho do movimento permanente, na procura de outras possibilidades de trabalho com crianças em idade escolar. / The central theme of this thesis is the problematization of modes of circulation of the word in school. To this purpose, the research is theoretically based on the Freudian- Lacanian psychoanalysis, basically affirming that the word is the revelation of the subject, the means par excellence for his recognition. The questions that the subject asks himself and, at the same time, addresses to the Other: "Who am I? What do I want? What makes me function?" are connected to the question "What does the Other want from me?", for the subject deposits his truth in the Other and constitutes it a place of supposed knowledge about himself, a knowledge unknown to ourselves. This question addressed to the Other exposes an enigma and a lack, as it refers to incompleteness, including that in the Other. While it is the Other that yields the symbolic function and supports the subject, offering a foundation for his speeches and a nomination, it is also this lack in the Other that opens the possibility of a certain liberty of the subject, in a perpetual shifting among signifiers with no guarantees and always in search for his being in the Other’s desire - and lack, in an impossibility of encounter and also in a permanence of movement. With this theoretical base, this research investigated how the spaces and experiences in school are configured, regarding the circulation of the word and the assumption of the word, in order to promote the advent of the subject and the construction of a collective experience. We presuppose that the school is a fundamental social space in which different forms created by the contemporary social discourse circulate. Our questions also refer to the ways the existing discourses circulate, in this specific space. The data were collected at the Colégio de Aplicação school of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), in which I worked as school counselor for the early grades, in the years 2008 and 2009. In respect to data analysis, I focused my attention on what I experienced – what I saw or heard and the transference circuit created among the children, the teachers and me. For that, I utilize Freudian-Lacanian concepts, and I narrate stories that put the word “in movement”, in experience, in order to produce a possibility of reflection on the school practices and the role of the subject. Finally, I formulate new questionings, seeking to problematize both my certainties and different common sense statements regarding the child in the school situation. In addition to asserting truths and conclusions, I present other question marks, in the end. And, stemming from doubt, I suggest the intriguing path of constant movement in search of other opportunities to work with school-age children.

This work deals with the possibilities of using digital certificates and certification authorities or analysis of alternatives and their use to create secure communication in information systems. In practical examples is demonstrated by the CA implementation on different platforms and generate various types of digital certificates. Based on the findings is made recommendations for choosing the appropriate certification authority.

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This thesis is an attempt to make visible how Christians within a minority people in the southern Philippines view the Bible conceptually as a source of spiritual authority and also how they read and interpret the Bible, both privately and within the context of community worship. Reading and studying the Bible is now universally practised by people from multitudes of cultures, a reality that has naturally engendered a great deal of interest on the part of scholars. The resultant scholarship however, has been preoccupied with the findings of the professional researcher, and little has been published which reveals how “ordinary indigenous readers” view the Bible and/or how they interpret it. Using qualitative data gathered by this author among Manobo Christians living in the hills of central Mindanao, this thesis will endeavour to redress this imbalance and provide access to the voices of ordinary Manobo readers. The thesis also makes an important contribution to the Bible’s place within Philippine Christianity. Despite the expanding readership of the Bible within the Philippines almost no research has focused on how the Bible is actually interpreted by ordinary readers. The thesis will major on the appropriation of the Bible by Christians from within the Manobo Bible Church Association of Mindanao, an association of churches born out of the church planting efforts of missionaries belonging to the Overseas Missionary Fellowship. At the centre of the thesis is an encounter between conservative evangelical missionaries and the unique culture and cosmology of the Manobo. The central argument is that the missionaries’ prototypically, evangelical doctrine of Scripture was appropriated and reconfigured by Manobo Christians in ways that reveal the persistent ability of elements of their own cosmology, and customary law, to exert influence upon their localisation of Christianity. In particular, the thesis focuses on how the localisation process has led to innovations by the Manobo on what is meant by the Bible as “spiritual authority” and to reinterpretations of significant theological themes within the evangelical gospel message. At the same time the thesis also outlines how adoption of the Christian Scriptures has redefined the position that indigenous sources of authority, such as spirit priest and village chief, now occupy within Manobo Christian communities.

It is undeniable that schools and classrooms must function according to some conception of authority, but contemporary educational theory often overlooks this concept. This ‘forgetting’ of authority can lead to misconceptions about the concept itself or to conflating it with other concepts such as autonomy, agency, self-regulation, or power. In turn, these misconceptions can then diminish the role that students play in education by ignoring or overlooking any authoritative aspect of it. The authority relationship between student and teacher in educational theory—and in classrooms—then often defaults to an unbalanced binary structure in which teachers hold authority but students do not. To rectify this problem, authority and its importance in the classroom must be remembered and reconsidered. This thesis undertakes a critical analysis of authority to state its complex features clearly. Moreover, this analysis will show how authority is distinct from importantly related concepts like autonomy, agency, self-regulation, and power. The analysis then moves to examine the education models of Peters, Dewey, and Neill, with the purpose of highlighting the prevalence and importance of authority in education. With these distinctions and boundaries drawn, the final section of this thesis will describe the strengths of an authoritative student role in epistemic, political, and moral realms, positioning student-held authority alongside the socio-critical theory of Freire, Apple, and Giroux. / Graduate

In 1997 the journalist and author Maciej Zaremba published an article in the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter. The article drew associations between racial biology, eugenics and the Swedish social democratic governance. Zaremba’s article presented records from a period of forty years when over 60 000 people of the Swedish population were sterilized. The records showed that many of them were executed under questionable circumstances. Zaremba woke a debate within the Swedish mass media with the intended goal to foil the general view of the Swedish state of welfare. In this study the debate that led to the laws of sterilization will be investigated to provide answers if the motives behind the law were based on eugenic motives. Furthermore, any disagreements between the different parties in the parliament are analyzed. Previous published research in the field evolves around the origin and the consequences of the Swedish sterilization laws however, the analysis of the argumentation that led to the creation of the regulations seems to be missing. The empirical data is gathered through qualitative research of parliament protocols and newspapers followed by an analysis based on Foucaults concept of bio power. The model for a power analysis by Axelsson and Qvarsebos have been used to concretize the concept of bio power. The analysis shows that the arguments were often rooted in eugenic thoughts and beliefs. The overall purpose was to improve the human race through the fabrication of sterilizations.

Esta dissertação tem como tema central as figuras de autoridade segundo o olhar infantil. O objeto de pesquisa constitui-se a partir da pergunta “Quais as figuras de autoridade para as crianças nas relações de poder que permeiam o ambiente escolar e familiar?”. O referencial teórico principal abarca os conceitos de autoridade, de Hannah Arendt, e de relações de poder, de Michel Foucault, estabelecendo um diálogo com os campos da filosofia, história e da psicanálise. Como metodologia de pesquisa foram realizadas entrevistas abertas com crianças de seis a onze anos do Colégio de Aplicação da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (CAp/UFRGS). Para suscitar o diálogo, foram utilizados três filmes de animação e tiras de histórias em quadrinhos. No total, foram realizadas vinte intervenções, das quais participaram setenta e seis crianças, divididas em cinco grupos. Levou-se em consideração os discursos acerca da crise na educação e de autoridade que se multiplicam em diferentes meios e se fazem presentes em nossa sociedade. O trabalho abrange ainda uma breve definição dos conceitos de infância, imagem e representação; e a ligação do conceito de autoridade com a tradição e a transmissão. Podemos concluir, a partir do referencial teórico utilizado e das análises das falas dos entrevistados, que as crianças percebem e distinguem figuras de autoridade em sua vida cotidiana; observamos, porém, que tais figuras têm se construído discursivamente de modos mais sutis em relação às formas de autoridade experimentadas pelas gerações anteriores às de nosso tempo. Observamos também o quanto as crianças assumem estratégias de resistência nas relações entre pais e filhos, o que faz supor que também o poder dos pais e conseqüentemente dos professores se mantém, mas de formas menos visíveis e num campo de disputa e negociações muito intenso com os filhos e alunos. Supomos que entre os fatores que têm participado de tais modificações, nos âmbitos familiar e escolar, estejam as variadas formas de socialização a que as crianças estão sujeitas atualmente, bem como a fragilidade dos modos de transmissão entre as gerações, que tem reforçado para as crianças a autoridade parental como algo negativo e complexo. Ainda assim, a distinção entre as idades infantil e adulta aparece de forma bem delimitada para as crianças entrevistadas. Salientamos a forte ligação das figuras de autoridade com as funções de cuidado, proteção e sustento (no caso da mãe, do pai e das avós) e de cuidado, organização e disciplinamento (no caso das professoras e do diretor); não havendo ligações explícitas formuladas em torno do saber que estas figuras poderiam deter e da relação deste com a autoridade por eles exercida. Concluímos que as figuras de autoridade fixas e estavelmente legitimadas de outras décadas apresentam-se sob novas configurações e estabelecem-se por movimentos transitórios, passíveis de mudanças. / This dissertation is focused on authority figures on the vision for children. The object of research is from the question "What are the authority figures for children in the power relations that permeate the school environment and family?". The theoretical framework encompasses the main concepts of authority, Hannah Arendt and power relations, Michel Foucault, establishing a dialogue with the fields of philosophy, history and psychoanalysis. As research methodology were conducted open interviews with children aged six to eleven years of the Colégio de Aplicação from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (CAp/UFRGS). To stimulate the dialogue, we used three animated films and strips of comics. In total, we do twenty interventions, attended Seventy-six children were divided into five groups. We took into account discourses about the crisis in education and authority that are multiply in different ways and are present in our society. The work also covers a brief definition of the concepts of childhood, image and representation, and the connection of the concept of authority with tradition and transmission. We can conclude from the theoretical reference and analysis of the interviews, that children perceive and distinguish authority figures in their daily lives; noted, however, that such figures have been discursively constructed in ways more subtle about the ways authority experienced by previous generations to our time. We also observed how the children take strategies of resistance in the relationship between parents and children, which would mean that also the power of parents and consequently of teachers therefore remains, but in ways less visible and a playing field and very intense negotiations with children and students. We suppose that among the factors that have been involved in such changes, in family and school scope, are the varied forms of socialization that children are currently subject, as well as the fragility of transmission between generations, which has reinforce to children the parental authority as something negative and complex. Nevertheless, the distinction between child and adult ages, it is clearly defined for the children interviewed. We emphasize the strong connection of authority figures with the duties of care, protection and support (for the mother, father and grandparents) and care, organization and discipline (in the case of the teachers and director), there is no explicit link made in around to know that these figures could hold and its relationship with the authority they exercised. We conclude that the fixed authority figures and legitimated stably of other decades have occurred in new settings and settle down by transitional movements, subject to change.

O tema central desta Tese é a problematização dos modos de circulação da palavra na escola. Para tanto, a pesquisa fundamenta-se teoricamente na Psicanálise freudo-lacaniana, basicamente afirmando que a palavra é a revelação do sujeito, o meio por excelência de este ser reconhecido. As questões que o sujeito se faz e, ao mesmo tempo, endereça ao Outro: “Quem sou? O que desejo? O que me move?” atrela-se à pergunta “O que o Outro quer de mim?”, pois o sujeito deposita nesse Outro sua verdade e o constitui como um lugar de suposto saber sobre ele, saber desconhecido de nós mesmos. Essa interrogação endereçada ao Outro marca um enigma e uma falta, já que aponta para incompletude, inclusive, desse Outro. Ao mesmo tempo em que é o Outro que permite a função simbólica e apóia o sujeito, oferecendo um fundamento aos seus discursos e uma nomeação, também é essa falta do Outro que abre a possibilidade de uma certa liberdade do sujeito, num eterno deslizamento entre significantes, sem nenhuma garantia e sempre na busca pelo seu ser no desejo – e na falta – do Outro, numa impossibilidade de encontro e, também, numa permanência de movimento. Com tal referencial teórico de base, investigamos nesta pesquisa de que modo se configuram os espaços e as experiências na escola, quanto à circulação da palavra e à própria “tomada” da palavra, no sentido de propiciar o advento do sujeito e a construção de uma experiência coletiva. Partimos do pressuposto de que a escola se constitui como um espaço social fundamental, no qual circulam diferentes formas assumidas pelo discurso social contemporâneo. Nossas indagações referem-se, também, às formas pelas quais estaria se dando a circulação dos discursos vigentes, nesse espaço específico. Os dados foram coletados em situação de trabalho, no Colégio de Aplicação da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, no qual atuei como orientadora escolar das séries iniciais, nos anos de 2008 e 2009. Para a análise dos dados, centrei minha atenção a respeito daquilo que experienciei – a partir do que vi ou ouvi e a partir do circuito de transferência que se criou entre mim, as crianças e os professores. Para tanto, valho-me dos conceitos freudo-lacanianos, e narro histórias que colocam a “palavra em movimento”, em experiência, de forma a produzir uma possibilidade de reflexão em torno das práticas escolares e do lugar do sujeito. Por fim, elaboro novos questionamentos, buscando problematizar tanto as minhas certezas como diferentes enunciados do senso comum, a respeito da criança em situação escolar. Para além de afirmar verdades e conclusões, acrescento ao final, outros pontos de interrogação. E, a partir da dúvida, sugiro o instigante caminho do movimento permanente, na procura de outras possibilidades de trabalho com crianças em idade escolar. / The central theme of this thesis is the problematization of modes of circulation of the word in school. To this purpose, the research is theoretically based on the Freudian- Lacanian psychoanalysis, basically affirming that the word is the revelation of the subject, the means par excellence for his recognition. The questions that the subject asks himself and, at the same time, addresses to the Other: "Who am I? What do I want? What makes me function?" are connected to the question "What does the Other want from me?", for the subject deposits his truth in the Other and constitutes it a place of supposed knowledge about himself, a knowledge unknown to ourselves. This question addressed to the Other exposes an enigma and a lack, as it refers to incompleteness, including that in the Other. While it is the Other that yields the symbolic function and supports the subject, offering a foundation for his speeches and a nomination, it is also this lack in the Other that opens the possibility of a certain liberty of the subject, in a perpetual shifting among signifiers with no guarantees and always in search for his being in the Other’s desire - and lack, in an impossibility of encounter and also in a permanence of movement. With this theoretical base, this research investigated how the spaces and experiences in school are configured, regarding the circulation of the word and the assumption of the word, in order to promote the advent of the subject and the construction of a collective experience. We presuppose that the school is a fundamental social space in which different forms created by the contemporary social discourse circulate. Our questions also refer to the ways the existing discourses circulate, in this specific space. The data were collected at the Colégio de Aplicação school of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), in which I worked as school counselor for the early grades, in the years 2008 and 2009. In respect to data analysis, I focused my attention on what I experienced – what I saw or heard and the transference circuit created among the children, the teachers and me. For that, I utilize Freudian-Lacanian concepts, and I narrate stories that put the word “in movement”, in experience, in order to produce a possibility of reflection on the school practices and the role of the subject. Finally, I formulate new questionings, seeking to problematize both my certainties and different common sense statements regarding the child in the school situation. In addition to asserting truths and conclusions, I present other question marks, in the end. And, stemming from doubt, I suggest the intriguing path of constant movement in search of other opportunities to work with school-age children.