[pt] O método das divisões: a última proposta dialética de Platão discute e investiga os fundamentos lógicos e ontológicos que sustentam a última visão platônica do mundo. A pergunta ti estin, apresentada nos primeiros diálogos, impôs à filosofia de Platão um objetivo ambicioso, e o desenvolvimento posterior de sua obra tem como propósito, em grande medida, encontrar uma solução para essa questão. Os últimos diálogos escritos pelo filósofo trazem uma nova proposta dialética que será a derradeira tentativa de dar solução a esse problema. Eminentemente prática, essa nova proposta – o método das divisões – traz em si, como que compactada, toda uma visão da realidade e da sua relação com a linguagem humana. / [en] The methods of divisions: Plato s last dialectical proposal discusses and investigates the logical and ontological foundations that sustain Plato s last worldview. The question ti estin, presented in the first dialogues, imposes to Plato s philosophy an ambicious purpose, and the posterior development of his work has, in many aspects, the goal of finding an answer to this problem. The last dialogues written by the philosopher bring up a new dialectical proposal, which will be his last attempt to solve the matter. Primarily of a practical nature, this new proposal – the method of divisions – implies a whole way of understanding reality and also some claims about the relations between language and reality.

This thesis explores the problem of information systems evaluation by conceptualising it as a process in which the manager comes to an understanding about a system. In other words, information systems evaluation is a hermeneutic process. The thesis explicates this notion through an argument that is itself hermeneutic in its development, beginning with the mainstream functionalist view of information systems evaluation, and then considering an interpretive view of IS evaluation, each of which points to one of two stereotypes of IS evaluation and the manager engaged in this process: the objective/rational manager utilising objective/rational methods versus the subjective/political manager engaged in political manoeuvring, utilising objective/rational methods only as ritual or symbolism. Neither of these opposing stereotypes is satisfactory. Instead, this thesis proposes a dialectic view of information systems evaluation, in terms of which, rather than being a decision maker, the manager is in-the-world, evaluating systems in order to get the job done, on the basis of her thrownness in-the-world. This conceptualisation provides an intuitively appropriate account of evaluation on the part of an individual manager, but we must still consider how managers as members of the organisation, reach a common understanding about a system. This they do through a process of organisational learning as encultured knowing, in terms of which a narrative, situated, pragmatic knowledge is most useful in evaluation. Evaluation, in other words, happens in the course of skilful conversation. Such conversation is, however, not always skilful because the organisation is not just a collection of individuals but also a network of power relations. Conversations as generators of meaning are never held outside of power: systems evaluations as conversations cannot take place outside of a regime of truth. A post-dualist view of action as both constituted by and constituting structure, however, suggests that there is always the potential for genuinely hermeneutic and ethical conversation, provided it is both improvisatory and deconstructive. Having understood the requirement for improvisation and deconstruction, it is possible to suggest some heuristics for information systems evaluation based on these ideas. / Dissertation (Phd (Information Technology))--University of Pretoria, 2003. / Informatics / unrestricted

Concentrating on G.W.F. Hegel’s controversial Naturphilosophie (1830), Part I ventures the following thesis: Hegelian nature is characterized by a “constitutive lack.” Insofar as the natural register lacks the precision and necessity immanent within the dialectical developments of conceptual thought it is capable of radical novelty—the unexpected. This is important: it offers a sense of how the natural register is open to thought and yet, simultaneously, a source of that which has the perpetual possibility of undermining conceptual distinctions and anticipations. The remainder of the project systematically maps what such a conception of nature must mean in terms of Hegel’s concept of spirit (Geist). Consequently, Part II analyzes Hegel’s bizarre account of psychopathology. The central thesis in this context claims that what Hegel’s speculative analysis of ‘madness’ shows us are the ways in which subjectivity might be dominated by its material-instinctual dimension as it unfolds within the unconscious depths of concrete subjectivity. Subjectivity retains the perpetual possibility of regression insofar as it reverts to being materially (maternally) determined strictly by way of externality. Questioning the presupposition of nature’s complete sublation, Part III focuses on Hegel’s political writings. Hegel’s analysis of criminality and punishment allows for the possibility of what we will call “surplus repressive punishment.” A surplus repressive punishment, a brute form of natural external pressure, would constitute spirit’s, i.e. freedom’s, “regressive de-actualization” at both the individual (subjective) and intersubjective (objective, communal) levels. Therefore, surplus repressive punishment, as an expression of spirit’s naturality, serves to undermine spirit’s objective actualization in its entirety. The problem of nature remains very much an active dimension of spirit’s concrete actualization at the socio-political level. The project offers a precise indication of how Hegel’s philosophy of spirit, i.e. his philosophy of freedom, is one intertwined with the problem instantiated by the matrices of nature. Sensitivity to this problem, that there is a problem here, and that Hegel’s system can be pursued to address it is one of the not always recognized merits of his thought. Simultaneously, Hegel’s system becomes surprisingly relevant for our contemporary world insofar as nature remains a problem for our living present.

Orientador: Alcides Hector Rodriguez Benoit / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-26T14:41:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Nepomuceno_PenelopeDinizBittencourt_M.pdf: 1783415 bytes, checksum: 399f24ff66cbe0a2ba76394954bfdd16 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: O objetivo primordial deste trabalho é, visando à prática, analisar de modo crítico aquilo que Marx denomina como sendo ideologia. Contudo, a apreciação de qualquer temática marxista deve considerar a totalidade na qual se encontra inserida, bem como a relação dialética existente entre seus mais variados elementos. Por isso, começar pelo método, passando pelo sistema, longe de constituir apenas uma escolha, revela-se como exigência basilar que deve nos acompanhar durante toda a empreitada / Abstract: The main objective of this work is to analyze in a critical way what Marx called as being ideology, aiming at the practice. However, the attention to any Marxist theoretical framework must consider the entirety in which it is found, as well as the dialectical relation present amongst their most diverse elements. Therefore, starting from the method, passing through the system, far from constituting only a choice, reveals itself as a basic requirement that must accompany us during this undertaking / Mestrado / Filosofia / Mestra em Filosofia

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-01-19T09:53:06Z No. of bitstreams: 1 raulfuriattimoreira.pdf: 911597 bytes, checksum: a1ef985b37bf89e5ac2564a2af7b2652 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-01-25T17:42:29Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 raulfuriattimoreira.pdf: 911597 bytes, checksum: a1ef985b37bf89e5ac2564a2af7b2652 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-01-25T17:42:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 raulfuriattimoreira.pdf: 911597 bytes, checksum: a1ef985b37bf89e5ac2564a2af7b2652 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-05-28 / O contexto da década de 1970, no Brasil, promoveu diferentes manifestações artísticas que colaboraram para questionar as realidades preestabelecidas, além de encontrarem brechas na censura e na repressão da liberdade de expressão, alcançando o público e fazendo com que as ideias se espalhassem e colocassem em discussão o status quo. Concomitantemente, a indústria cultural e a intensa migração de mão de obra formal para o Sudeste foram culminantes para a explosão de diversos confrontos identitários. Dentre eles, a presente dissertação destacou o disco “Alucinação”, do cancionista cearense Belchior, lançado em 1976. O disco questiona tanto a situação político-social quanto as manifestações de discursos identitários. A partir de um aspecto denominado nordestinidade, ideia concernente a marcas locais e a sensações de não pertencimento a um determinado estereótipo social dominante, além da ligação desses aspectos a reflexões tempo-espaciais, delineou-se um percurso migratório do eu lírico do disco responsável por colocar em questão a percepção dialética da realidade através de uma alternativa dessa mesma dialética. Assim, nos foi possível conceber em “Alucinação” um exercício de absorção das materialidades do cotidiano e do presente, fundamentais para problematizar a estagnação das identidades e seus possíveis malefícios. / The 70’s context, in Brazil, promoted different artistic manifestations which contributed to question pre-established realities and to find gaps in censorship and in the repression of freedom of expression, reaching the public and making the ideas to be spread, putting in discussion the status quo. At the same time, the cultural industry and the intense formal hand migration to the Southeast were culminating for the explosion of various cultural clashes of identity nature. Among them, this thesis highlighted the disc "Alucinação", by the songwriter Belchior, who comes from Ceará, released in 1976. This disc questions both the political and social situation as the manifestations of identity discourses. From an aspect called nordestinidade, an idea concerning local characteristics and feelings of not belonging to a certain dominant social stereotype, besides the connection of these aspects to time-space reflections, we designed a migratory route from the persona present in the disc responsible for putting into question the dialectic perception of reality through an alternative for this same dialectic. Thereby, it was possible to conceive in “Alucinação” an exercise of absorbing daily and present immaterialities, essential to problematize identities’ stagnation and its possible harms.

Doctor Educationis / This dissertation is a study of a primary school teacher researching her classroom practice within the broader specific aim of the project was to investigate how a primary school teacher could go about her work in more for democratic ways. The research method used in the study was that of action research, and the empirical basis for argument in the dissertation lies in the use of data created during the process of researching that classroom practice. A fundamental assumption of the study is that teachers are the central driving force in any meaningful development of a critical pedagogy. Teachers, acting as trans formative . intellectuals, can work towards socialist transformation, because viewing teachers as intellectuals redefines their work and the political nature of schooling. The study, therefore, takes the problematic relationship between authority and emancipation as central to its concerns and tries to develop a rationale for making an emancipatory view of authority, and thus a rationale for a particular notion of professionalism, a central category in the development of a critical theory of schooling. In taking the position that teachers are central to learning in the classroom, and are the nexus of the authority/emancipation problematic, critical reflection on the classroom practices was approached both reflexively and dialectically so that uncertainties and contradictions could surface and be explored. The epistemological radicalism inherent in action research made this form of reflection possible. The study views primary school teachers as important mediators of change. This meant examining the process of instruction more carefully. The task was to understand how mediation generates higher mental functioning. To this end, Vygotsky's notion of a zone of proximal development, as the zone in which mediation can take place, is explored. The problem of how to investigate the substance of the zone of proximal development is met by the use of rationally reconstructed mediational operators. Drawing from the data in the study, three mediational operators are fashioned to study the one-to-many interaction in the process of instruction. These mediational operators serve as explanatory constructs to explicate the interrelation between the teacher's (and other significant others') instructional process and the learners' existing levels of development. • The preoccupations of this reflective dissertation writing take a multi-disciplinary approach, for to consider critical pedagogy means also to consider the psychological functioning of human beings within society - the mind-in society dialectic. The study reveals that 'democratic practice' is something to be negotiated and contested continually, for the authoritative position of teachers has to be questioned endlessly to locate the contradictions within that position. The experience of this study suggests that action research is a powerful means whereby teachers can reflect both reflexively and dialectically on their practice, that action research is intrinsically educational. A significant realization in the study, therefore, is the ways in which the educators themselves may become educated to take responsibility for their agency in transformation. • Bringing power relations into question is a permanent political task inherent in all social existence, thus a local specific inquiry such as this one can take on a general significance at the level of that regime of truth which is essential to the structure and functioning of our society. • Chapters One to Three provide the social and theoretical context for the study, dealing as they do with the crisis in schooling, the role of the teacher in change and the ways in which a teacher can research her practice for a transformed pedagogy. Chapters Four to Six consider the teacher-researcher at work in her classroom and indicate how she goes about trying to understand her role as mediator in the instruction process her process of reflection and action while she was teaching. • Chapters Seven to Nine represent the reflection which took place after the initial investigation of actual day-to-day practice. These chapters arise historically out of the research process and include argument for developing a more critical pedagogical discourse, a deeper understanding of the instruction process (the teaching/learning dynamic), and discussion of the validity of an action research paradigm for emancipatory pedagogical practices .

This study argues that the dialectic and the metamorphosis of the basso del tema and tema in Beethoven’s Eroica Variations, Op. 35 mirror the stages of the philosophical thought of German Idealism. The philosophical systems of the post-Kantian generation were housed in the values of the Goethezeit, in which the concept of self was regarded as fundamental for the worldview. In Germany these systems generated a new intellectual ethos that merged cultural nationalism with the glorification of the self (Burnham). Beethoven’s music gave reliable expression to the values of the Goethezeit, depicting the self as a spiritual entity with a constitutive autonomy, a possibility for self-transcendence, and a fundamental condition of struggle for freedom. While research has focused on Beethoven’s heroic style (Broyles) and the philosophy of his music (Adorno), there is very little literature on the relationship between Beethoven’s music and the philosophical thought of the time. In 1930 Schenker discussed the use of the Eroica theme in the Eroica Variations (Marston): first, the material is stated in its simple form; then, rhythmic structure, dynamics, tempo, texture, and key transform it. Schenker considers the large-movement form rather than the theme, giving emphasis to the basso del tema. This study proposes an analysis of Op. 35–focusing first on the first fourteen variations and then on the fifteenth variation and on the fugue individually–as the musical statement of the philosophical thought of the Goethezeit and offers a discussion on the historical perspectives in Op. 35. Then, the study applies the proposed philosophical and historical analysis of the Eroica Variations to explain how an interpretation based on critical theory can help concert performers develop a deeper understanding of such a demanding piece of repertoire. Finally, the study examines the Eroica Variations as one of the most substantial concert pieces for piano by Beethoven and of the beginning of the nineteenth century, and offers suggestions on how to meet the musical and technical challenges of the piece. / Music Performance

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[pt] A tese busca percorrer a formação para e pelo negativo a partir da leitura do prefácio da Fenomenologia do Espírito de Hegel. A escolha por essa seção se radica em dois fundamentos específicos: primeiro, nas afirmativas hegelianas de que o fim da formação é o seu começo, agora justificado. Nesse sentido, a leitura do prefácio após o fim do livro justificaria sua existência e o faria ser um desdobramento de todo o percurso da Fenomenologia. Segundo, na própria escrita fática hegeliana que, como é sabido, escreveu o prefácio apenas ao final de todo o percurso. Isso nos indica que com a finalização do livro Hegel estava em condições de escrever um prefácio que fosse, a um só tempo, começo e fim da obra que escolheu para introduzir seus leitores ao negativo e à dialética. Para que consigamos percorrer todo o trajeto, somos levados a outras obras e, também, a outros pontos da obra. Ao fim, a capacidade de leitura do Prefácio busca se tornar, então, a explicitação da formação atingida. / [en] This thesis tries to follow closely the process of formation of the consciousness through and to the negative in Hegel s Phenomenology of Spirit. We do so by exploring Hegel s preface section to said book and we do so for the following reasons: first, Hegel himself asserts more than once that the beginning and the end are one an the same, the only difference being the fact that the end is beginning justified; secondly, Hegel himself wrote the preface (and not an epilogue, for instance) just after he finished the book, not before. Those two factors combined together seem to tell us that Hegel himself needed his own formation before he could write the section because it s rooted in the formation itself. In our theses we put forward the notion that, by the same token, if one can close read the preface, one can be said to be formed, the reading of the Preface serving as proof of the conclusion of the formative process.

As organizations continue to grow in size, reaching global proportions, they have ever increasing impacts on their environments. Some believe that a much broader array of concerns should be brought into organizational decision-making processes, including greater consideration of social, political, ethical and aesthetic factors (Mitroff and Linstone, 1993; Courtney, 2001). Decision environments such as these are decidedly "wicked" (Rittel and Webber, 1973). Designing decision support systems in such environments where there is a high level of interconnectedness, issues are overlapping and a multiplicity of stakeholders is involved, is a very complex task. In this dissertation a methodology for the development of a DSS for wicked situations is proposed using the design theory building process suggested by Walls et al. (1992). This proposed theory is based on dialectic theory and the multiple perspective approach suggested by Linstone and Mitroff (1993). The design process consists of identifying relevant stakeholders, their respective worldviews, and conflicts in these worldviews. A design (thesis) and "counter design" (antithesis) are created, and a prototype systems based on these designs are developed. These prototypes are then presented to the different stakeholder groups who engage in a dialogue which leads to the development of a synthesized design. The process is repeated until all conflicts are resolved or resources are exhausted, and a final system is produced. Using action research and system development research methodologies, the proposed design theory was applied to zoning decision process in Orange County, Florida. The results of this study led to the following: 1. It is feasible to implement the MPDP methodology proposed in this dissertation. 2. The MPDP methodology resulted in a synthesized design that accommodates the different views of the stakeholders. 3. The MPDP methodology is suitable for contentious situations and may not be feasible for structured decisions. 4. Most of the subjects did achieve a more understanding of the decision process. These results suggest that the MPDP design theory can be effective in developing decision support systems in contentious situations.