Este trabalho se compõe, por assim dizer, em três tempos. Num primeiro tempo intenta-se construir a noção de linguagem em relação com a mitologia. Num segundo tempo, a relação entre mitologia e estratégia política. Ou seja, o uso da mitologia que se poderia chamar de mitologia tecnicizada. Num terceiro tempo, linguagem, mitologia e política historicamente articulados em simbolização no texto Clara de Schelling. / This work is structurated, so to speak, in three parts. The fisrt part aims at \"constructing\" the notion of language in relation to mythology. In the second part, the relation between mythology and politic strategy. In other words, the \"use\" of mythology that could be called \"technical use of mythology\". In the third part, language, mythology and politics articulated in symbolization in Schelling\'s Clara.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:12:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 EdrisiAF_TESE.pdf: 2696449 bytes, checksum: 2bf551b579d0227160e510a27e887618 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-06-14 / This thesis aims better understanding the relation between time and evil in Schelling s Freiheitsschrift, having its starting point in approximations from Gnosticism. For that purpose, before approaching that relation, it is reviewed (chapter I) the question of Gnosticism, a strain of thought essentially concerned with the problem of time and permeated by the belief in an evil nature of creation, and which is alleged to have significantly influenced certain ideas of Schelling. An evaluation of approximations between Gnosticism, gnosis and German thought follows (chapter II), as well as an evaluation of Schellingian aproximations to Gnosticism (chapter III). Then, the Freiheitsschrift is analysed as the text where Schelling, having taken hold of a very distinct appropriation of Gnosticism, goes beyond Kantian theodicy (chapter IV). Some interrogations about whether key ideas of Schellingian philosophy (about gnosis, creation, duality, time, and evil) are conceived in a way that is essentially different from that of historic Gnosticism, despite the much that has been said to the contrary, are then addressed (chapter V). The proposal of a Platonic-Plotinian key to the understanding of the relations between time and evil in the Freiheitsschrift comes next (chapter VI), and then gives way to the concluding remarks (chapter VII). We perceive that Gnosticism and Neoplatonism are systems of thought that sometimes converge, and that German thought is one of the places of this convergence. Notwithstanding this perception, it is possible to affirm that Schellingian thought, with its valorization of time and of a certain perception of evil, is essentially anti-gnostic, despite some contrary observations / Esta tese objetiva contribuir para um melhor entendimento da rela??o entre o tempo e o mal no Freiheitsschrift de Schelling, a partir de aproxima??es desde o Gnosticismo. Para tanto, antes de come?ar a tratar dessa rela??o far-se-? uma revis?o da quest?o do Gnosticismo (cap?tulo I) corrente de pensamento essencialmente preocupada com a problem?tica do tempo e permeada pela cren?a em uma natureza m? da cria??o, e que alegadamente teria influenciado de modo significativo algumas ideias de Schelling. Seguir-se-? uma avalia??o das aproxima??es entre Gnosticismo, gnose e pensamento alem?o (cap?tulo II) e outra particularmente dedicada ?s aproxima??es schellinguianas ao Gnosticismo (cap?tulo III). Analisar-se-? ent?o o Freiheitsschrift como texto onde Schelling, tendo feito uma apropria??o muito particular do Gnosticismo, vai al?m da teodic?ia kantiana (cap?tulo IV). Interrogar-se ? ent?o (cap?tulo V) se algumas ideiaschave da filosofia schellinguiana (sobre a gnose, a cria??o, a dualidade, o tempo, o mal) s?o concebidas de um modo essencialmente distinto daquele do Gnosticismo hist?rico, apesar do muito que se disse em contr?rio. Apresentar-se-? em seguida a proposta de uma chave Plat?nica-plotiniana para o entendimento das rela??es entre o tempo e o mal no Freiheitsschrift (cap?tulo VI), passando-se logo em seguida ?s considera??es conclusivas (cap?tulo VII). Constata-se que o Gnosticismo e o Neoplatonismo constituem sistemas por vezes convergentes entre si, e que o pensamento alem?o ? um dos espa?os dessa converg?ncia. N?o obstante essa constata??o, ? poss?vel afirmar que o pensamento schellinguiano, com sua valoriza??o do tempo e de uma certa percep??o do mal, ? essencialmente antign?stico, a despeito de algumas observa??es em contr?rio

Através da noção de Abfall, de Schelling, apresentada no texto Filosofia e Religião (1804), esta tese procura mostrar a integralidade da fundamentação objetiva para a reconstrução do mundo ideal, ou do ideal da razão enquanto organismo vivo. Para tanto, num primeiro momento, reconstruiremos o caminho para o Sistema do Idealismo Transcendental e, com isso, apresentaremos a dialética da imaginação como forma sistemática do Eu enquanto princípio. Num segundo momento, mostraremos como essa forma sistemática é ampliada enquanto princípio ou como uma forma formante de sujeito e objeto no Absoluto. Num terceiro e conclusivo momento, mostraremos a fundamentação da essência da identidade alma-Absoluto na intuição intelectual, entendida como princípio e conhecimento que supera infinitamente toda determinação conceitual e, ao mesmo tempo, efetiva o princípio transcendental e a causa imanente da equipossibilidade volitiva e cognitiva do puro sujeitoobjeto. / Through Schellings notion of Abfall as presented in Philosophy and Religion (1804), this thesis seeks to show the integrality of the objective foundation of the ideal world\'s reconstruction or of the ideal of reason as a living organism, so that the finite, as it exists in the limitated and temporal world, presents itself in a way somehow infinite. It aims at the difficult that pervades the author\'s whole philosophy of identity: the problem of the sense of finitude and time sense in a philosophy where the Absolute does not go out of itself. Our thesis is that: if the reason ideal is the most distant of what can be determined, and if it realises itself just in individuo, then such realization is necessarily something universal in two vectors of only one action: on the one hand ideas are determined in individuo if and only if in the unity of the ideal of reason; on the other hand, ideas are determined in individuo by absolute freedom, because the Absolute refers to the producing individual through the eternal concept of individual; in other words, through the soul understood as a Potenz, that is protected inside subject of individual conscience. As a Potenz, the soul is unconditional freedom and as such the source of the concepts of class. Therefore well reconstruct the route to the System of Transcendental Idealism to show the dialectics of imagination as a systematic form of I as a principle. Secondly, well show how that systematic form is extended as a principle or a form forming the subject and object in the Absolute. Thirdly, we\'ll show the fundaments of the essence of the soul-Absolute identity on intellectual intuition understood as transcendental principle and knowledge that infinitely overcomes all temporal determination and, at the same time, realises the transcendental principle, and the immanent cause of the pure subject- object\'s volitive and cognitive equipossibility.

Redan i Sun Zis klassiska verk Krigskonst beskrivs hur avskräckning skapas genom förberedelser i fred som syftar till att för motståndaren framstå som oövervinnerlig. Huruvida Sverige nyttjar avskräckning som en övergripande strategi eller i olika form på olika nivåer gör det relevant att studera fenomenet och om det finns en skillnad i synen på avskräckande förmåga relativt strategisk nivå och strategiska maktmedel. Vilket utifrån hur avskräckning uttrycks och beskrivs samt de förmågor som anses generera denna effekt skapar ett svenskt perspektiv på avskräckning.   Syftet med uppsatsen har varit att undersöka och jämföra om dagens syn på begreppet avskräckning, avskräckande marina förmågor och metoder skiljer sig från första delen av kalla kriget. För att därigenom kunna påvisa om det skett en förändring i den direkt avskräckande strategin för det militära försvaret av Sverige och om en utveckling i så fall är att betrakta som en optimering eller suboptimering av svensk avskräckning.   Resultatet i uppsatsen konstaterar en skillnad i synen på avskräckning inom den överordnade strategin utifrån de förändrade säkerhetspolitiska förutsättningarna. Samtidigt som den militärstrategiska nivån ska generera en förnekande- och direkt avskräckande effekt mot ett överraskande anfall och försvara Sverige enskilt, för vilket det saknas en trovärdig militär förmåga till såväl förnekande- och direkt avskräckning som kollektiv- eller utsträckt avskräckning. Sammantaget visar studien att Sveriges nutida avskräckningsstrategi är ofullständig och som en konsekvens av detta blir det militära maktmedlets förmågor och metoder idag, illusoriskt lika de som uttrycktes under kalla kriget.

The topic of Tillich and Judaism has received relatively little scholarly treatment. This is despite the importance of Jews and Judaism for Tillich, which is established by numerous biographical details, including the reason for his opposition to the Nazi government and ensuing emigration to the United States in 1933 (Introduction and Chapter 1). Tillich’s ecumenical activities are acknowledged, but Tillich’s dialectical theological method is analyzed to determine how it could have justified his pro-Jewish stance. This refers to his consistent attacks on anti-Semitism, and after World War II, numerous lectures on the structural similarities between Judaism and Christianity, not to mention lifetime relationships with secular and religious Jews (Chapters 1 and 2). Tillich has a dialectical understanding of reality, influenced by F. W. J. Schelling, and this influences every major aspect of his theology. Select primary sources are analyzed to assess the evolution of Tillich’s idea of Judaism through his dialectical, theological and inclusive history of religion (Chapters 3 through 6). ‘Jewish prophetism’, highlighting the critical and existential dimensions of Judaism, emerged as the most characteristic expression, significantly, after World War I, as Tillich rejected the religious nationalism of his early adulthood. After World War II and the Holocaust, Tillich’s ‘dialectic of the Holy’ expressed the fullness of the divine reality as the permanent polar tension between the priestly/mystical/vertical/’Is’, and the prophetic/critical/horizontal/’Ought’. This polar tension is found in his ontology, Christology, and history of religion. The importance of Jewish prophetism, rooted in historic Judaism, would have made it difficult for Tillich to eliminate the Jewish roots of Christianity, compared to the so-called ‘German Christians’ prevalent in Weimar and Nazi Germany. Chapter 7 concludes with a criticism and defence of Tillich’s method. Tillich’s idea of Judaism is inadequate for interfaith dialogue, because it fails to address the fullness of Judaism’s own self-understandings, and is limited to the prophetic aspect. However, the prophetic aspect ensures that the critical and existential aspects of any religion endure in a transformation to a more adequate expression of the divine. Tillich’s ‘religion of the concrete spirit’ not only preserves the importance of Jewish prophetism, but opens the door to dialogue with non-theistic religions, such as Buddhism.

Texte remanié de: Mémoire de DEA--Philosophie. / Bibliogr. p. 139-143.

Reproduction de : Thèse de doctorat : Philosophie : Paris 8 : 2007. / Titre provenant de l'écran-titre. Bibliogr. p. 752-773. Notes bibliogr.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Universität Greifswald, 1924. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-223).

Markov chains are algorithms that can provide critical information from exponentially large sets efficiently through random sampling. These algorithms are ubiquitous across numerous scientific and engineering disciplines, including statistical physics, biology and operations research. In this thesis we solve sampling problems at the interface of theoretical computer science with applied computer science, discrete mathematics, statistical physics, chemistry and economics. A common theme throughout each of these problems is the use of bias. The first problem we study is biased permutations which arise in the context of self-organizing lists. Here we are interested in the mixing time of a Markov chain that performs nearest neighbor transpositions in the non-uniform setting. We are given "positively biased'' probabilities $\{p_{i,j} \geq 1/2 \}$ for all $i < j$ and let $p_{j,i} = 1-p_{i,j}$. In each step, the chain chooses two adjacent elements~$k,$ and~$\ell$ and exchanges their positions with probability $p_{ \ell, k}$. We define two general classes of bias and give the first proofs that the chain is rapidly mixing for both. We also demonstrate that the chain is not always rapidly mixing by constructing an example requiring exponential time to converge to equilibrium. Next we study rectangular dissections of an $n \times n$ lattice region into rectangles of area $n$, where $n=2^k$ for an even integer $k.$ We consider a weighted version of a natural edge flipping Markov chain where, given a parameter $\lambda > 0,$ we would like to generate each rectangular dissection (or dyadic tiling)~$\sigma$ with probability proportional to $\lambda^{|\sigma|},$ where $|\sigma|$ is the total edge length. First we look at the restricted case of dyadic tilings, where each rectangle is required to have the form $R = [s2^{u},(s+1)2^{u}]\times [t2^{v},(t+1)2^{v}],$ where $s, t, u$ and~$v$ are nonnegative integers. Here we show there is a phase transition: when $\lambda < 1,$ the edge-flipping chain mixes in time $O(n^2 \log n)$, and when $\lambda > 1,$ the mixing time is $\exp(\Omega({n^2}))$. The behavior for general rectangular dissections is more subtle, and we show the chain requires exponential time when $\lambda >1$ and when $\lambda <1.$ The last two problems we study arise directly from applications in chemistry and economics. Colloids are binary mixtures of molecules with one type of molecule suspended in another. It is believed that at low density typical configurations will be well-mixed throughout, while at high density they will separate into clusters. We characterize the high and low density phases for a general family of discrete interfering colloid models by showing that they exhibit a "clustering property" at high density and not at low density. The clustering property states that there will be a region that has very high area to perimeter ratio and very high density of one type of molecule. A special case is mixtures of squares and diamonds on $\Z^2$ which correspond to the Ising model at fixed magnetization. Subsequently, we expanded techniques developed in the context of colloids to give a new rigorous underpinning to the Schelling model, which was proposed in 1971 by economist Thomas Schelling to understand the causes of racial segregation. Schelling considered residents of two types, where everyone prefers that the majority of his or her neighbors are of the same type. He showed through simulations that even mild preferences of this type can lead to segregation if residents move whenever they are not happy with their local environments. We generalize the Schelling model to include a broad class of bias functions determining individuals happiness or desire to move. We show that for any influence function in this class, the dynamics will be rapidly mixing and cities will be integrated if the racial bias is sufficiently low. However when the bias is sufficiently high, we show the dynamics take exponential time to mix and a large cluster of one type will form.

Zugl.: Augsburg, Univ., Diss., 2006