The Second Council of Nicaea, in 787 AD, marked the end of iconoclasm, while in 843 the Treaty of Verdun laid the foundations of Europe. With these agreements, a sustained period of imageless iconolatry was initiated. However, the veneration of icons was based on the absolute worship of matter and form, which replaced the prime spiritual concept of ‘image and likeness’. Millennia of research and thought resulted in imageless representations of natural phenomena. Pushing aside the topology of the image and its sign, the intelligent man, from the Age of Reason and onward, considered himself as an auto-authorised and teleological-free entity. To this end, he maximised the intelligibility of his space by designing an all-inclusive Cartesian cocoon in which to secure his mass and form. Yet, there he found his pet (Schrodinger’s Cat) to be both dead and alive, and the apple, still forbidden, had become a bouncing ball, serving as evidence of gravity. Hence, this intelligent design, by default, carries the residual fear of Manichaean and Augustinian devils, and is deemed to have converted to a de-sign crisis. Relying on literature sources, this dissertation examines two dominant models that govern human cognition and the production of knowledge. Despite remarkable scientific achievements which resulted, the aftermath of human progress was, among others, the maximisation of residual fear, to such an extent that voracious black holes devour all matter. Inaugurating the transhumanist period, the human becomes a Manchurian Candidate, still an upgraded ape and a victim of his own nature in the Anthropocene. In an attempt to overcome this de-sign crisis, the research presented in this thesis aims to address the necessity of the restoration of icons, as evidenced by Byzantine art and philosophy but neglected in the name of human supremacy and imperialism. This thesis elucidates Classical and Late Antiquity manuscripts in an effort to set a new ‘restore point’, endeavouring to launch the image in the current organosilicon substances; examples from Scripture narratives as well as from visual arts contribute to this effort. The proposed concluding scheme is the Module of Theōria, which reflects the major transhumanistic elements such as transmutation, interaction and fluidity. Theōria functions through noetic mechanisms, using ‘image and likeness’ as the prime carriers of knowledge. The anticipated outcome is to reveal a human investment in a pro-nature incorruptibility with the advent of Theōria in the field of Τechnoetics, where one can administer ‘image and likeness’ to gain capital liquidity.

Esta tese de doutorado é uma discussão sobre a precariedade na articulação poíesis/práxis/ theoria na formação musical no Brasil. A educação brasileira encontra-se, atualmente, numa estrutura de semiformação (Halbbildung1), com tendência tecnicizante, na qual está inserido o ensino de música (da escolaridade regular e das escolas especializadas na formação musical). Essa articulação precária da poíesis/práxis/theoria no ensino musical talvez seja decorrente, entre outras possíveis razões, da hegemonia da indústria da cultura (enquanto sistema ideológico) que promove padrões pré-estabelecidos para o consumo, aprisionando a aísthesis num gosto nivelador e mediano. Nesta perspectiva, buscamos investigar as possibilidades de rearticulação dialética das atividades musicais (poíesis/práxis/theoria) para uma formação musical alicerçada na apreciação musical e na compreensão da obra de arte, alternativa à indústria da cultura. Para tanto, partimos da fundamentação teórica dos conceitos adotados (educação, arte, cultura, indústria da cultura, formação/Bildung, as atividades da poíesis, práxis e theoria) e abordamos as considerações de Adorno sobre a educação em música, com ênfase no pensamento dialético e discutimos formas para que ocorra esta articulação poíesis/práxis/theoria, uma vez que em diversos contextos do ensino musical essas atividades se encontram totalmente dissociadas, dificultando uma compreensão global do objeto de estudo. Por meio das várias propostas pedagógicas sobre a educação e a formação musical surgidas no século XX no mundo e seus desdobramentos no Brasil, traçamos uma retrospectiva da gradativa exclusão da música da escolaridade regular e a crescente interferência da indústria da cultura nos âmbitos do ensino, da poética e da práxis musicais, influenciando os hábitos de audição e a aísthesis (percepção), o gosto e o juízo estético, bem como o uso indiscriminado de métodos de ensino de música tendenciosos e restritos à canção popular. A nossa discussão sobre a formação e o ensino de música busca a religação das atividades musicais da poíesis, da práxis e da theoria, de forma dialética, interativa e complementar, plena e não tecnicizante, onde a poética (compositores e obras) venha a ser o eixo sincronizador dessas atividades, das disciplinas e do conteúdo, desenvolvendo um pensamento crítico, hermenêutico e emancipado dos padrões do consumo musical, seja o músico compositor, intérprete ou musicólogo. Por fim, analisamos o projeto de educação musical Tocando a Vida da Instituição Aparecido Savegnago que contempla essa rearticulação das atividades musicais desde suas diretrizes ao cotidiano pedagógico, a fim de verificarmos a pertinência, a viabilidade e a exequibilidade das ideias por nós discutidas. / This doctoral thesis is a discussion of the precariousness of the articulation poiesis/praxis/ theoria in music education in Brazil. Currently, the structure of Brazilian education finds itself in a half education (Halbbildung2) structure, with technicalizing tendencies, into which the teaching of music (in regular schooling and special schools in musical training) is inserted. This precarious articulation of poíesis/praxis/theoria in music education may be due, among other possible reasons, to the hegemony of the culture industry (as an ideological system) that promotes pre-established standards for consumption, and in the process traps aisthesis within a leveling and average taste. In this perspective, we seek to investigate the possibilities for the dialectical re-articulation of musical activities (poíesis/praxis/theoria) for a musical education grounded in music appreciation and comprehension of the work of art, an alternative to the culture industry. In this light, we start from the theoretical framework based on the adopted concepts (education, culture, culture industry, training / Bildung, the activities of poiesis, praxis and theoria), and we discuss the considerations of Adorno regarding music education, with emphasis on dialectical thinking. We examine ways for the articulation poiesis/praxis/theoria to occur, since in many contexts of musical teaching these activities are fully decoupled, making difficult a comprehensive understanding of the object of study. Through the various pedagogical proposals on education and musical training that emerged throughout the world in the twentieth and their evolution in Brazil, we retrospectively trace the gradual exclusion of music from regular schooling and the growing interference of the culture industry in the fields of education, of musical poetics and praxis, influencing listening habits and aisthesis (perception), taste and aesthetic judgment, as well as the indiscriminate use of methods of music education both biased and restricted to popular song. Our discussion of the training and teaching of music seeks the recoupling of the musical activities of poiesis, praxis and theoria in a dialectical, interactive and complementary, full and not technicalizing form, where poetics (composers and works) will be the synchronizing axis of these activities, disciplines and content, developing a critical, hermeneutic thought that is emancipated from the standards of musical consumption, be the musician songwriter, performer or musicologist. Finally, in order to verify the relevance, feasibility and practicability of the ideas discussed, we analyze the design of the musical education project Playing the Life (Tocando a Vida) of the Aparecido Savegnago Institution (Instituição Aparecido Savegnago), which takes into account this rearticulation of musical activities, from their pedagogical guidelines to their everyday pedagogy

Esta tese de doutorado é uma discussão sobre a precariedade na articulação poíesis/práxis/ theoria na formação musical no Brasil. A educação brasileira encontra-se, atualmente, numa estrutura de semiformação (Halbbildung1), com tendência tecnicizante, na qual está inserido o ensino de música (da escolaridade regular e das escolas especializadas na formação musical). Essa articulação precária da poíesis/práxis/theoria no ensino musical talvez seja decorrente, entre outras possíveis razões, da hegemonia da indústria da cultura (enquanto sistema ideológico) que promove padrões pré-estabelecidos para o consumo, aprisionando a aísthesis num gosto nivelador e mediano. Nesta perspectiva, buscamos investigar as possibilidades de rearticulação dialética das atividades musicais (poíesis/práxis/theoria) para uma formação musical alicerçada na apreciação musical e na compreensão da obra de arte, alternativa à indústria da cultura. Para tanto, partimos da fundamentação teórica dos conceitos adotados (educação, arte, cultura, indústria da cultura, formação/Bildung, as atividades da poíesis, práxis e theoria) e abordamos as considerações de Adorno sobre a educação em música, com ênfase no pensamento dialético e discutimos formas para que ocorra esta articulação poíesis/práxis/theoria, uma vez que em diversos contextos do ensino musical essas atividades se encontram totalmente dissociadas, dificultando uma compreensão global do objeto de estudo. Por meio das várias propostas pedagógicas sobre a educação e a formação musical surgidas no século XX no mundo e seus desdobramentos no Brasil, traçamos uma retrospectiva da gradativa exclusão da música da escolaridade regular e a crescente interferência da indústria da cultura nos âmbitos do ensino, da poética e da práxis musicais, influenciando os hábitos de audição e a aísthesis (percepção), o gosto e o juízo estético, bem como o uso indiscriminado de métodos de ensino de música tendenciosos e restritos à canção popular. A nossa discussão sobre a formação e o ensino de música busca a religação das atividades musicais da poíesis, da práxis e da theoria, de forma dialética, interativa e complementar, plena e não tecnicizante, onde a poética (compositores e obras) venha a ser o eixo sincronizador dessas atividades, das disciplinas e do conteúdo, desenvolvendo um pensamento crítico, hermenêutico e emancipado dos padrões do consumo musical, seja o músico compositor, intérprete ou musicólogo. Por fim, analisamos o projeto de educação musical Tocando a Vida da Instituição Aparecido Savegnago que contempla essa rearticulação das atividades musicais desde suas diretrizes ao cotidiano pedagógico, a fim de verificarmos a pertinência, a viabilidade e a exequibilidade das ideias por nós discutidas. / This doctoral thesis is a discussion of the precariousness of the articulation poiesis/praxis/ theoria in music education in Brazil. Currently, the structure of Brazilian education finds itself in a half education (Halbbildung2) structure, with technicalizing tendencies, into which the teaching of music (in regular schooling and special schools in musical training) is inserted. This precarious articulation of poíesis/praxis/theoria in music education may be due, among other possible reasons, to the hegemony of the culture industry (as an ideological system) that promotes pre-established standards for consumption, and in the process traps aisthesis within a leveling and average taste. In this perspective, we seek to investigate the possibilities for the dialectical re-articulation of musical activities (poíesis/praxis/theoria) for a musical education grounded in music appreciation and comprehension of the work of art, an alternative to the culture industry. In this light, we start from the theoretical framework based on the adopted concepts (education, culture, culture industry, training / Bildung, the activities of poiesis, praxis and theoria), and we discuss the considerations of Adorno regarding music education, with emphasis on dialectical thinking. We examine ways for the articulation poiesis/praxis/theoria to occur, since in many contexts of musical teaching these activities are fully decoupled, making difficult a comprehensive understanding of the object of study. Through the various pedagogical proposals on education and musical training that emerged throughout the world in the twentieth and their evolution in Brazil, we retrospectively trace the gradual exclusion of music from regular schooling and the growing interference of the culture industry in the fields of education, of musical poetics and praxis, influencing listening habits and aisthesis (perception), taste and aesthetic judgment, as well as the indiscriminate use of methods of music education both biased and restricted to popular song. Our discussion of the training and teaching of music seeks the recoupling of the musical activities of poiesis, praxis and theoria in a dialectical, interactive and complementary, full and not technicalizing form, where poetics (composers and works) will be the synchronizing axis of these activities, disciplines and content, developing a critical, hermeneutic thought that is emancipated from the standards of musical consumption, be the musician songwriter, performer or musicologist. Finally, in order to verify the relevance, feasibility and practicability of the ideas discussed, we analyze the design of the musical education project Playing the Life (Tocando a Vida) of the Aparecido Savegnago Institution (Instituição Aparecido Savegnago), which takes into account this rearticulation of musical activities, from their pedagogical guidelines to their everyday pedagogy

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Orthodox Christianity represents the oldest Christian tradition. However, the tragic schism between the Christian East and West has resulted in a lost cognizance of the East by the West (Chrysostomos, 2007). Ultimately, this loss, for the West, involves the loss of part of its own Christian heritage. As attempts at rapprochement are made, on the ecclesiastical, cultural, and international levels, it is important that the West begin to develop an understanding of human psychology from an Orthodox perspective, i.e., a psychology consistent with the cosmology and soteriology of Orthodoxy. Orthodox Christian Psychotherapy bridges the divide between mystical, neptic, and hesychastic teachings and the methods and goals of modern Western psychotherapy. It is the meeting of the transcendent and the secular, and of spirituality and psychotherapy, as they impact all those in need of inner healing from spiritual, behavioral, and / or psychological disorders and pathologies (St. John Climacus, 1979; Romanides, 2007). This study in practical theology concretizes the above by examining the intensity of depressive symptomatology and comorbid anxiety before and after a twelve-week treatment plan using Orthodox Christian neptic-psychotherapeutic interventions and techniques. The results represent yet another step in disentangling the mystery of the relationship between spirituality, psychological treatment, and mental health. The findings, which confirm the efficacy of Orthodox Christian Psychotherapy, offer insight into the ways in which neptic-psychotherapeutic interventions may be applied at the pastoral and clinical level and utilized to treat and / or prevent depressive symptomatology and comorbid anxiety, and possibly other spiritual, behavioral, developmental, and / or psychological disorders and pathologies, in both the Orthodox and general populations. / Practical Theology / D. Th. (Practical Theology)

近年來世界各國的電視產業均開始從類比邁向數位時代，然而有線電視數位化亦已成為其未來的發展趨勢，對於有線電視業者目前除積極提供原有的影音視訊服務外，也開始紛紛推出互動電視等進階服務。因此有線電視在數位化之後首先面臨的問題就是頻道數大幅增加，而要如何經營、如何提供多樣化的服務、及如何定價這些都將會是急待解決的問題。故本研究希望從經濟學的角度、互動數位有線電視整體產業的影響並考量消費者的利益，採用一個創新的方法「創意問題解決理論」(Theoria Resheneyva Isobretatelskehuh Zadach，TRIZ)來討論互動數位有線電視的定價策略。本研究主要研究目的希望以TRIZ的創新方法求出理想解，並建議未來互動電視之定價策略，提供政府政策做為未來訂定數位電視價格之參考。 本研究建議有線電視在進行互動數位電視發展時應針對不同的頻道服務採取不同的差別定價：對於免費收看的頻道可依據廣告播出的形式分為基本免費頻道與選擇性免費頻道，而付費頻道則可分為單一計價方式、組合計價方式與差別計價。對於法規政策本研究則建議取消費率上限原則、重新訂定節目廣告化與廣告節目化的認定原則與開放有線電視跨區經營的限制。 / In recent years, global television industry is moving from analog to digital era, and digitalization becomes a trend. The cable operators start to offer advanced services such as interactive televisions in addition to their existing video and audio services. Major issues facing the cable operators include how to operate their businesses, how to provide a variety of services, and how to justify their prices with the substantially increasing channels after digitalization. This study is to discuss the pricing strategy of the digital cable TV using an innovative method of “creative problem-solving theory”(Theoria Resheneyva Isobretatelskehuh Zadach,TRIZ) from the perspectives of economic development, industry, and consumers. We also recommend the pricing strategies for the digital cable TV industry and the government’s price policy based on the TRIZ results. This study suggests that the pricing policy for the digital cable TV industry is to offer different services with reasonable price discrimination. For example, free channels can be categorized into basic cable channels and optional cable channels with cable TV advertising. The pricing strategies for the pay channels are the fixing pricing strategy, product bundle pricing strategy, and differential pricing strategy. This study also suggests the authorities to make rate cap expiration, to re-regulate the advertising nature of programs and program-like television advertisings, and to cancel the limitation of the service area of the cable system.

<p>Uppsatsen är en beskrivande och reflekterande studie över ett kombinerat demonstrations- och intervjuprogram. Programmet programmerades och användes i syfte att förbereda utvecklingen av ett datorprogram som ska lära ut och träna argumentation.</p><p>Studien beskriver hur intervjuprogrammet konstruerades med avseende på teorier från retorik och pedagogik, samt resultat därur. Avslutningsvis diskuteras processen och potentialen i att skapa ett program som skulle kunna ligga till grund för ett personligt kunskapande, ett argumentationsprogram.</p><p>Sammanfattning;</p><p>Tekniker för argumentation tränas inte naturligt i skolorna, inte heller i vardagen. Successivt lärs argumentation på olika vis, självständigt eller genom andra. Man lär sig eller blir lärd. Intervjuprogrammet gav tydliga signaler om hur ett argumentationsprogram bör utformas för att tala till användaren på ett så tydligt och personligt vis som möjligt.</p><p>Slutdiskussionen redogör för vad ett sådant argumentationsprogram skulle kunna innebära för användaren. Ett eventuellt argumentationsprogram kommer att lära ut en stabil, lite förenklad grund, som ger användaren fem tydliga topiker och träning i att använda dem. Verktyg som senare och i andra situationer kan tillämpas vid argumentation.</p>

Orthodox Christianity represents the oldest Christian tradition. However, the tragic schism between the Christian East and West has resulted in a lost cognizance of the East by the West (Chrysostomos, 2007). Ultimately, this loss, for the West, involves the loss of part of its own Christian heritage. As attempts at rapprochement are made, on the ecclesiastical, cultural, and international levels, it is important that the West begin to develop an understanding of human psychology from an Orthodox perspective, i.e., a psychology consistent with the cosmology and soteriology of Orthodoxy. Orthodox Christian Psychotherapy bridges the divide between mystical, neptic, and hesychastic teachings and the methods and goals of modern Western psychotherapy. It is the meeting of the transcendent and the secular, and of spirituality and psychotherapy, as they impact all those in need of inner healing from spiritual, behavioral, and / or psychological disorders and pathologies (St. John Climacus, 1979; Romanides, 2007). This study in practical theology concretizes the above by examining the intensity of depressive symptomatology and comorbid anxiety before and after a twelve-week treatment plan using Orthodox Christian neptic-psychotherapeutic interventions and techniques. The results represent yet another step in disentangling the mystery of the relationship between spirituality, psychological treatment, and mental health. The findings, which confirm the efficacy of Orthodox Christian Psychotherapy, offer insight into the ways in which neptic-psychotherapeutic interventions may be applied at the pastoral and clinical level and utilized to treat and / or prevent depressive symptomatology and comorbid anxiety, and possibly other spiritual, behavioral, developmental, and / or psychological disorders and pathologies, in both the Orthodox and general populations. / Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology / D. Th. (Practical Theology)

Uppsatsen är en beskrivande och reflekterande studie över ett kombinerat demonstrations- och intervjuprogram. Programmet programmerades och användes i syfte att förbereda utvecklingen av ett datorprogram som ska lära ut och träna argumentation. Studien beskriver hur intervjuprogrammet konstruerades med avseende på teorier från retorik och pedagogik, samt resultat därur. Avslutningsvis diskuteras processen och potentialen i att skapa ett program som skulle kunna ligga till grund för ett personligt kunskapande, ett argumentationsprogram. Sammanfattning; Tekniker för argumentation tränas inte naturligt i skolorna, inte heller i vardagen. Successivt lärs argumentation på olika vis, självständigt eller genom andra. Man lär sig eller blir lärd. Intervjuprogrammet gav tydliga signaler om hur ett argumentationsprogram bör utformas för att tala till användaren på ett så tydligt och personligt vis som möjligt. Slutdiskussionen redogör för vad ett sådant argumentationsprogram skulle kunna innebära för användaren. Ett eventuellt argumentationsprogram kommer att lära ut en stabil, lite förenklad grund, som ger användaren fem tydliga topiker och träning i att använda dem. Verktyg som senare och i andra situationer kan tillämpas vid argumentation.