Thesis advisor: Ronald K. Tacelli / This dissertation aims to examine the notion of 'human dignity' in Kant by means of a conversation with three Kantian scholars. One cannot understand Kant's notion of human dignity without placing it in the context of his moral thought. For this reason we look in Chapter One at the philosopher Roger Sullivan. His major work Immanuel Kant's moral theory includes a highly detailed treatment of human dignity. I shall present an analysis of his understanding within the context of his methodology and his general approach to Kant's moral philosophy. We look in Chapter Two at Susan Shell and her 'Kant on Human Dignity.' In addition to this, we consider Shell's methodology and some of her work on the early Kant where we find the roots of Kant's conception of dignity. Chapter Three addresses Oliver Sensen and his novel interpretation of Kant's use of the term 'dignity.' Utilizing the tools of Analytical Philosophy, he enters into dialogue with Kantian interpreters, suggesting that their understanding of dignity in Kant harbours elements at odds with Kant's thought and that they thus fail to grasp the radical nature of Kant's notion. In the final and Fourth Chapter, I try to bring these scholars into a conversation with each other. First, I show the strengths of each position and then, using insights of Sullivan, Shell and Sensen, I venture to ask whether one could not develop the notion of a phenomenology of dignity. I also consider whether in both Shell's and Sensen's account there is not an implicit dynamic at work, which suggests the necessity of transcendence and the Good. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2014. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Philosophy.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2016-12-02T12:36:39Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Ivandra Previdi.pdf: 2305470 bytes, checksum: 482aedc2c4220cf9206dab33096fff01 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-02T12:36:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ivandra Previdi.pdf: 2305470 bytes, checksum: 482aedc2c4220cf9206dab33096fff01 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-10-24 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo / This is a research about the criminal investigation that resulted in the condemnation of the ex-physician Roger Abdelmassih to 278 years in prison, for sexual crimes perpetrated in the assisted reproduction clinic would command in São Paulo. Abdelmassih, now 73, assaulted the first patient when still a young doctor. Thereby, the main issue: how was it possible that this man acted for decades with impunity? From this question, derives the object of research: the silence that covered up the crimes, along with the silence of the victims themselves to begin with. To comprehend this fact, I have listed the following hypotheses: the fear that a possible complaint could turn back against the victims, the concern of losing the high amount of money invested in the ideal of motherhood and the feeling of inferiority towards the scientific knowledge – what has been proven by the depositions contained in the criminal process, which constitutes the corpus of this study. But even more emerged from the case files: beyond the victims themselves, there was a wide network of citizens who were aware of Abdelmassih´s criminal behaviour. Among them, there were some of his relatives and employees, physicians from other clinics, the medicine council, prosecutors, lawyers, and the mass media – including Globo TV, that did not air that which would be the first news report about the subject, based on the interviews of six women and edited almost one year before the scandal erupted. The extracts of the process are here analysed in the light of Communications and Journalism, with Eugenio Bucci, of Sociology and Philosophy, with Edgar Morin and Michel Foucault, and with the complementary support of Psychology and Law. Bucci teaches us how to see journalism as a democracy instrument, under an ethics perspective and the right to information. Edgar Morin sheds light on stretching Philosophy and Sociology to beyond the facts, which leads to a cultural-oriented approach to the events. And Michael Foucault brings the reflection on power, not as a someone else’s practice, but as a continuous torrent seeping into our daily life / Esta é uma pesquisa sobre a investigação que resultou na condenação do ex-médico Roger Abdelmassih a 278 anos de prisão por crimes sexuais praticados na clínica de reprodução assistida que ele comandava, em São Paulo. Abdelmassih, hoje com 73 anos, atacou a primeira paciente quando ainda era um jovem médico. Daí a questão principal: como foi possível que esse homem agisse impunemente durante décadas? Dessa pergunta derivou o objeto: o silêncio que acobertou os crimes, a começar pelo silêncio das próprias vítimas. Para compreender esse fato, elenquei hipóteses, a saber: o medo de que uma eventual denúncia se voltasse contra elas, o receio de perderem o alto investimento feito em busca do ideal de ser mãe e o sentimento de inferioridade diante do saber científico – o que restou comprovado pelos relatos contidos no processo criminal, o corpus deste estudo. Mas dos autos emergiu mais: para além das próprias vítimas, havia uma ampla rede de agentes sociais cientes das atitudes criminosas de Abdelmassih, entre eles parte dos familiares do acusado, funcionários, médicos de outras clínicas, o órgão de classe, promotores públicos, advogados, meios de comunicação de massa – inclusive a TV Globo, que não levou ao ar aquela que seria a primeira reportagem sobre o tema, baseada na entrevista de seis mulheres e editada quase um ano antes que o escândalo eclodisse. Os recortes do processo são aqui analisados à luz da Comunicação e do Jornalismo, com Eugênio Bucci, da Sociologia e da Filosofia, com Edgar Morin e Michel Foucault, e com o apoio complementar da Psicologia e do Direito. Bucci nos ensina a ver o jornalismo como instrumento da democracia, sob a ótica da ética e do direito à informação. Edgar Morin lança as luzes da Filosofia e da Sociologia para além dos fatos, o que coloca os acontecimentos em uma perspectiva cultural. E Michel Foucault traz a reflexão sobre o poder, não como uma prática fora de nós, mas como uma torrente contínua que se infiltra pelas fendas miúdas do cotidiano

La formulation de la notion de représentation dans l’oeuvre de Roger Chartier, c’est notre objet de l’étude dans cette recherche. La discussion qui a été proposée dans le tout les etapes de la recherche, a donné l’importance au lieu sociale et au temps historique où Roger Chartier a développé (et qu’il encore développe) sa pratique historiographique. En supposant que le concept de représentation est une construction dont le fondement est construit par des référentiels teóriques clés, ont été explorées les lectures de cet historien dans les oeuvres d’ Émile Durkheim, Norbert Elias, Pierre Bourdieu et Louis Marin. Dans notre étape finale, nous verrons comment Chartier articule ces référentiels dans ces recherches, dont le thème s'est concentrée sur la culture écrite dans les sociétés de l’Ancien Régime. Ce que nous interesse c’est d’analyser les bases teóriques de la notion de représentation et la manière dont cette notion a été (et est encore) instrumentalisée dans l’écriture de l’histoire proposée par Roger Chartier. / A formulação da noção de representação na obra de Roger Chartier é nosso objeto de estudo nessa pesquisa. A abordagem proposta em todas as etapas da pesquisa, concedeu ênfase ao lugar social e tempo histórico em que Chartier desenvolveu (e ainda desenvolve) sua prática historiográfica. Partindo-se da hipótese que o conceito de representação é um construto, cuja base foi edificada em referenciais teóricos chaves, foram exploradas as leituras deste historiador na obra de Émile Durkheim, Norbert Elias, Pierre Bourdieu e Louis Marin. Em nossa etapa final, veremos como Chartier articula estes referenciais em suas pesquisas, cujo tema é concentrado na cultura escrita nas sociedades do Antigo Regime. Importa-nos, portanto, analisar as bases teóricas da noção de representação e o modo como esta noção foi (e permanece sendo) instrumentalizada na escrita da história proposta por Chartier.

Ce travail constitue une analyse de la place du pictural dans la poétique de Rimbaud. Il a pour objectif de comprendre la naissance du pictural, cette image particulière qui s’impose au lecteur dans les poèmes de Rimbaud. Le pictural désigne la plasticité de l’image poétique, qui prend la forme d’une image mentale évoquée par l’agencement des mots. Ce travail traite ainsi, non pas du rapport entre un certain poème et une certaine peinture, mais du lien entre la formation du pictural et la forme d’expression. L’auteur cherche à montrer l’importance du pictural qui est ancré dans la poétique de Rimbaud, à travers l’analyse de la formation et de l’évolution de la notion du pictural de ses premiers poèmes aux Illuminations. À cette fin, ce travail explore en premier lieu la connaissance livresque que Rimbaud avait de l’art, la naissance d’une définition personnelle de la peinture qui permettent l’apparition d’une forme primitive du pictural dans les premiers poèmes de Rimbaud. En second lieu, il analyse l’évolution du pictural propre à Rimbaud qui émerge de l’emprunt intentionnel aux formes d’expression déjà établies : les trois chapitres sont consacrés à l’ekphrasis, au pittoresque et à la métaphore dans les poèmes descriptifs des Illuminations. Mettant en relief le rôle de médium du pictural, entre le poète et le lecteur, le lecteur et le texte, et le texte et le poète, l’incorporation du moi du poète dans la poésie est analysée sous l’angle du pictural. La recherche porte finalement sur la correspondance esthétique entre le langage poétique de Rimbaud et le langage plastique de Roger de La Fresnaye autour des dessins de ce dernier pour les Illuminations. / In this analysis of how pictorial takes place in Rimbaud’s poetics, we aim at understanding the birth of pictorial, this particular image which compels the reader of Rimbaud’s poems. Pictorial refers to the plasticity of poetic imaging, when the ordering of words elicits the creation of a mental picture. This study does not deal with the relationship between a given poem and a given painting, but explores the link between the building of pictorial and the wording of expression. We attempt to show the importance of the pictorial that is anchored into Rimbaud’s poetics, through a study of how the elements of pictorial form and develop from his first poems to the Illuminations. We first explore the bookish knowledge of art that Rimbaud had acquired and the emergence of a personal definition of painting which gave birth to a primitive form of pictorial in the first poems of Rimbaud. Secondly, we examine the evolution of Rimbaud’s own pictorial after it had emerged from intentional borrowings from already established forms of expression : three consecutive chapters deal with ekphrasis, picturesque and metaphor in the descriptive poems of the Illuminations. By giving depth to the role of the pictorial’s medium, from poet to reader, reader to text, and text to poet, we analyze the incorporation of the poet’s ego in his poetry, under the pictorial viewpoint. Our research concludes with the esthetical correspondence between the poetic language of Rimbaud and the plastic language of Roger de La Fresnaye in his drawings to illustrate the Illuminations.

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xviii, 419 leaves / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Thesis (Ph.D.1972)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of French Language and Literature, 1972

Astrology is a science which has had an uncertain status throughout its history, from its beginnings in Greco-Roman Antiquity to the medieval Islamic world and Christian Europe which led to frequent debates about its validity and what kind of a place it should have, if any, in various cultures. Written in the second century A.D., Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos is not the earliest surviving text on astrology. However, the complex defense given in the Tetrabiblos will be treated as an important starting point because it changed the way astrology would be justified in Christian and Muslim works and the influence Ptolemy’s presentation had on later works represents a continuation of the method introduced in the Tetrabiblos. Abū Ma‘shar’s Kitāb al-Madkhal al-kabīr ilā ‘ilm akām al-nujūm, written in the ninth century, was the most thorough surviving defense from the Islamic world. Roger Bacon’s Opus maius, although not focused solely on advocating astrology, nevertheless, does contain a significant defense which has definite links to the works of both Abū Ma‘shar and Ptolemy. As such, he demonstrates another stage in the development of astrology. These three works together reveal the threads of a trend of a rationalized astrology separated from its mythical origins which began with Ptolemy and survived through both medieval Islam and medieval Europe. In the two examples of defending astrology I have used, Abū Ma‘shar and Roger Bacon, Ptolemy’s influence can be seen to have persisted from the second century through to the thirteenth, and the nature of the differences in their defenses illustrates the continuation and evolution of the tradition of defending astrology.

L'intrigue des Plouffe de Roger Lemelin (1948) se situe à Québec entre 1938 et 1945, une époque où le clergé catholique exerce toujours une influence considérable sur la population canadienne-française. Les bouleversements politiques générés par la Deuxième Guerre mondiale entraînent un déséquilibre dans les rapports entre l'Église et l'État. Le roman de Lemelin expose certaines thématiques découlant de l'influence de ces perturbations politiques et sociales. Par exemple, l'œuvre traite de la progression de l'influence américaine, de la remise en question du nationalisme canadien-français conservateur et de l'internationalisation engendrée par la guerre; ces thèmes font tous évoluer dans le récit l'interaction des domaines religieux et politique. Vu les enjeux qu'il aborde, ce roman suggère déjà l'entrée du Québec dans l'ère moderne, même si son contexte de création précède d'une vingtaine d'années la période qu'on nomme la Révolution tranquille. Aussi, grâce à la recherche récente sur la période 1930-1960, à laquelle s'intéressent récemment plusieurs historiens, Les Plouffe peut désormais être réinterprété en fonction de la dimension moderne qu'il contient. Le style littéraire de Lemelin et le contenu social des Plouffe sont reliés, et cela apparaît dans multiplicité de discours déclinés dans l'œuvre. Les procédés de dialogisme, identifiés par Bakhtine dans Esthétique et théorie du roman, permettent de discerner, parmi les divers discours idéologiques de l'œuvre, les positions modernes adoptées dans certains cas par l'Église, par le personnage de Denis Boucher et par l'auteur, actualisant ainsi la lecture du roman. L'étude de la forme nous permet donc d'en révéler l'aspect moderne. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Les Plouffe, Roger Lemelin, Révolution tranquille, Modernité, Société québécoise.

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Astrology is a science which has had an uncertain status throughout its history, from its beginnings in Greco-Roman Antiquity to the medieval Islamic world and Christian Europe which led to frequent debates about its validity and what kind of a place it should have, if any, in various cultures. Written in the second century A.D., Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos is not the earliest surviving text on astrology. However, the complex defense given in the Tetrabiblos will be treated as an important starting point because it changed the way astrology would be justified in Christian and Muslim works and the influence Ptolemy’s presentation had on later works represents a continuation of the method introduced in the Tetrabiblos. Abū Ma‘shar’s Kitāb al-Madkhal al-kabīr ilā ‘ilm akām al-nujūm, written in the ninth century, was the most thorough surviving defense from the Islamic world. Roger Bacon’s Opus maius, although not focused solely on advocating astrology, nevertheless, does contain a significant defense which has definite links to the works of both Abū Ma‘shar and Ptolemy. As such, he demonstrates another stage in the development of astrology. These three works together reveal the threads of a trend of a rationalized astrology separated from its mythical origins which began with Ptolemy and survived through both medieval Islam and medieval Europe. In the two examples of defending astrology I have used, Abū Ma‘shar and Roger Bacon, Ptolemy’s influence can be seen to have persisted from the second century through to the thirteenth, and the nature of the differences in their defenses illustrates the continuation and evolution of the tradition of defending astrology.