Beautiful Soul Research Articles

Век великодушия: megalopsychia Аристотеля и die schöne Seele Гегеля

Modernity loves noble aspirations; the image of a hero following the path of ad­venture in order to save the universe and become happy forms the center of many works of art. Often, the image of such a hero is reinforced by the idea of magnanimity, that is, the idea of a moral character that allows its owner to overcome emerging difficulties and cope with outstanding circumstances. However, for a long time, ideas about generosity did not have the degree of un­ambiguity that we put into this word now. For example, in the Middle Ages, generosity was strongly associated with the sin of pride, and therefore commen­tators on Aristotle (for example, Albertus Magnus) tried to find a clear substan­tive difference between magnanimitas and superbia. For this reason, critical concepts of Aristotle and Hegel are interesting, because they show that the great soul (or beautiful soul) does not have noble connotations, for they are ironic (or ordinary). Both Aristotle and Hegel greatly influenced subsequent ideas about generosity; by showing its dual nature, they showed the “other side” of this virtue. This article provides a consistent analysis of Aristotle’s ideas about generosity, set out in the Nicomachean Ethics, and Hegel’s Gestalt, de­scribed in the Phenomenology of Spirit. The final section presents a comparison of the two concepts, revealing which critical foundations are significant for both Hegel and Aristotle, and also describes possible lines of further research

Dissecting probable indicators of juvenile delinquency among Gweru Urban adolescents in Zimbabwe

Society today is still naïve that some children are no longer innocent, beautiful souls but callous and dangerous to the community. The escalating crime incidents by juveniles make it imperative to concede the rampant prevalence of juvenile delinquency. This research sought to identify the probable indicators of juvenile delinquency in the milieu of the unprecedented global trend. The study used a mixed-method approach guided by the pragmatist research paradigm. A descriptive research design enhanced an appreciation of participants’ multiple realities based on their lived experiences premised on qualitative and quantitative research. Random sampling was used in selecting 209 students to complete a translated questionnaire. An interview was used to collect data from teachers and parents selected purposively. Data was analysed using frequency count. Data from interviews was thematically analysed. Significant findings were that mental illness, social conditions such as neighbourhood location, home conditions such as family size, school conditions such as strictness of school and environmental factors were the indicators of juvenile delinquency. After-school programs to increase school time counselling services at schools were some of the recommendations by key informants on curbing juvenile delinquency. The overall conclusion is that probable indicators of juvenile delinquency result from several factors such as individual, home, social environment, and school.

Temporal and Spatial Philosophy in Confessions of Tam Seti

The study attempts to reveal the aesthetic system and techniques of fictional work, the hidden secrets of narrative narrative expression, and its highly distinguished means in Tam City novel by Azzedine Mihoubi. In order to achieve three things, the first: the work of the contemporary Algerian-Arab novelist and its artistic development, the second: time and the philosophy of the narrator in defining it, and the third: time and place and the bankruptcy of the narrator in his allocation. Because the language used in the novel gave it a rare and beautiful soul, which distinguishes it from most Algerian novels.

Voices of Sunu Gaal, une « appreciative inquiry » à la dimension du Sénégal

Activating positive energies to help others fulfil themselves and bring their dreams to life is the DNA of Beautiful Soul. UNICEF contacted the organization to roll out Appreciative Inquiry (AI) throughout West and Central Africa. They want to hear the people, the children whose cause they serve, but whose voices are stifled by bureaucracy and political correctness.

Trans Romance: Queer Intimacy and the Problem of Inexistence in the Modern Novel

This article introduces the problem of inexistence to studies in genre and gender, providing a hermeneutic point of reference for literary history and trans theory. It seeks to negotiate the affinities and disaffinities between queer and trans by foregrounding the latter’s struggle for existence against the former’s mobilization of a rhetoric of negative relationality, while at the same time preserving the bonds of intimacy across and beyond the coalition of LGBTQIA+. Such queer intimacy is read in relation to a haptic technology of queer close reading, enabling differentially sexed bodies to imaginatively inhabit each other. I begin by considering how Djuna Barnes’s close, haptic readings of Henry James and Marcel Proust enact a reversal of sex, but I consider how the affective evidence of these trans moments do not amount to trans existence but raise the ethical necessity of holding open the difference between the ephemeral trans experiences within cis existence and the real struggle for trans existence of trans subjects today. Such a divide, however, is simultaneously held against the moments of intimacy that are capable of being produced across cis and trans subjects through such close reading and cross-inhabitation of bodies. To read trans literary history before trans, I thus propose the notion of trans inexistence through an interpretation of Jacques Maritain’s figure of the “angel” and Hegel’s “beautiful soul.” By situating Barnes’s and Jean Genet’s own characterizations of their transfeminine characters in terms of the angel in a post-Romantic, Catholic context, I interpret the trans angel as a figure of inexistence, tied to a minimal transcendence from the terms of history and materiality, including the sexed body. Finally, I consider how Genet’s phenomenology of proprioception draws together the problems of queer intimacy, haptic reading, and trans inexistence. In analyzing how Genet and his characters cross-inhabit each other’s bodies via proprioceptive mimicry, I unfold both the vast potential and the limits of the intimacies constructed across cis male and transfeminine lives and the accompanying role played by the literary mode of romance.

Two legends and one life

The two legends of architecture — the legend of the construction of the Cathedral of the Dormition at the Kyiv Lavra by twelve brothers and the legend of the Master Builder Manole — are interlinked by common semantics. Despite both temporal and socio-cultural distance of their origin, as well as the differences in their semantic tonality, these legends are marked by mutual development, which in the mythological sounding includes essential principles not only of architectural character, but also of symbolic expression of the «architecture» of human life. According to the legend, the Cathedral of the Dormition was shrinking during its construction and only after it had been built it rose in all its glory. The laws of physics have nothing to do with that legend, as another thing is symbolically hidden in it — the phenomenon of the dense transition of formational frames of life in the historical emergence of Kievan Rus'. Formally, the Old Russian state in a single year (the year of Duke Vladimir's adoption of Christianity) passed through three modes of production: patrimonial, which happened; slave-holding, which almost was not there; feudal, in the sense that Christianity appeared in the feudal Middle Ages. Such a unique ontological situation is rooted in the subconscious as a being-not-being objective basis of society and is reflected in this legend. The legend of the Master Builder Manole is not about the foundations of a church cathedral, but about the walls, which were being demolished without a living person being built into them. This person had to be a pure, beautiful soul. Built into the wall of a religious temple, such a soul made it impervious to physical decay. Again, the laws of physics were of no use — «of use» were only the laws of the power of the unity of the Man and something in which he is «concretised», giving his creation the power of indestructibility. In the history of the blind determination of the classics such a phenomenon was reached through self-sacrifice. In these legends, we shall hear echoes of an intolerably intensive yet triumphant journey of becoming, echoes that demand contemporary reflection.

Harmony without equality: Schiller's theory of virtue

AbstractIn this paper I reconstruct Schiller's theory of virtue from his essay “On grace and dignity” and discuss how it fits into Kant's moral philosophy. According to Schiller, a virtuous person – a beautiful soul – is characterised by harmony between reason and sensibility. I show that despite some misleading textual clues and interpretations based on them, Schiller does not regard the harmony between reason and sensibility as an equal partnership. On the contrary, just like Kant, Schiller fully recognises the priority of reason. The difference between their positions is more subtle. Whereas Kant holds that sensibility must be overtly subordinated to reason, Schiller believes that there should be a semblance of an equal partnership between reason and sensibility, provided that the latter is sufficiently ennobled.

CHARACTER EDUCATION OF GANDRUNG DANCE IN THE SPIRIT OF NUSANTARA

Art is an expression of the soul that is very pure and full of the value of beauty. This pure and beautiful soul can be realized if everyone can interpret art positively. Various positive characters can be developed through artistic activities. Mutual respect for differences is a powerful way to strengthen the spirit of the archipelago. Real goals that can be achieved by describing various types of Gandrung include Gandrung Banyuwangi, Gandrung Bali, and Gandrung Lombok performances which are harmonious, aesthetic, and full of character values reflecting multiculturalism. This research uses a qualitative approach combined with creating works of art. This qualitative approach was carried out in the early stages of the research to identify the existence of Gandrung arts in Banyuwangi, Bali, and Lombok. Information about the informants was collected using the purposive method, observation and study of documentation. Gandrung proves that art can create beauty, harmony, and financial benefits for society. Finally, a sense of nationalism grew with the spirit of the archipelago, revealing various potentials of this nation. This study found that the infatuation with performing arts has character values of tolerance, cooperation, hard work, discipline, creativity, and entrepreneurial spirit, which are obtained formally and can also be obtained informally (in a community environment).

Concepción de “alma bella” en “El Espíritu del Cristianismo y su Destino”.

This paper is about the notion of ‘beautiful soul’ in The Spirit of Christianity and its Fate: an unpublished article, written by Hegel in year 1798. The purpose of this paper is to show that the Hegelian definition of the beautiful subjectivity is similar to Schiller’s own notion. Secondly, the intended goal is to demonstrate that Hegel has a critical perspective on Schiller’s notion of beauty of soul. In other words, Hegel objects Schiller’s view of beauty of soul as an ideal. Thirdly, I will analyze the grounds of the theoretical disagreement between both thinkers. Finally, I will explain why Hegel choose Jesus as the main example of his critical notion of ‘beautiful soul’.

The “Beautiful Soul” and “Religious Consciousness”: Deleuze and Nishida

ABSTRACT A well-known term in eighteenth-century literature and philosophy, the “beautiful soul” (die schöne Seele) has resurfaced in recent years. Deleuze refers to the beautiful soul’s “religiosity” and argues that aggressive “selection” is necessary as its antidote. However, in volatile contexts of social destabilization, such selection risks recoiling into reactionary violence. After first developing in more detail the beautiful soul’s background as a discursive figure, I argue that understanding Deleuze’s selection within a context of spiritual experience is necessary to mitigate this worry. Exploration of this experience is pursued through juxtaposition of Deleuze’s thought with Nishida Kitarō’s investigation of the ontological structure of religious consciousness. The comparative resonances I develop suggest an ontological objectivity to the problems and structuring of the logos of religious consciousness and show how a more explicitly spiritual rendering of “selection,” developed through the Deleuze/Nishida encounter, intervenes into the broader beautiful soul problematic.

APPLICATION OF TRANSLATION SKILLS WHILE TRANSLATING THE NOVEL “KHAYOT NAVOSI”

The article deals with the Uzbek translation of the novel “Tronca” (1963) (“Khayot Navosi”), written by Ukrainian writer Oles Gonchar. The researcher also comments on the specifics of the fiction prose translation on the example of this particular novel translation. Oles Gonchar is one of the great and famous writers of Ukrainian literature. His novel “Tronca” (“Khayot Navosi”) is considered to be one of the most beautiful works of his time. This work was translated into Uzbek by Lola Tajieva. The work is written with enthusiasm and passion for the Motherland and humanity. The author expresses his love for his country and his people, presenting his beautiful and noble soul feelings in the tones harmonious to his short stories. The translation also masterfully conveys the feelings of love for the motherland, passionate feelings highlighting the harmony of a form and content, that is, the original style has not been lost in the course of translation. The author analyzes the difficulties of translating not only the text of the novel, but also proverbs and sayings, sentences related to national values, figurative images, adjectives and analogues, translating of retrospection and re-expressing some actions and images. O.Gonchar depicts positive images in harmony with their external beauty and spiritual world, and the translator has kept this style of the author. The article is dedicated to this. The researcher notes that the story of the Uzbek writer Asad Mukhtor “Chinor” was written in this literary and artistic style, and his glorious love for the people, especially working people is expressed with high pathos. The comparative analysis of the two translations emphasize that these two works may serve as a bridge between peoples.

Dostoevskii and the Birth of the Conscientious Terrorist: From the Underground Man to <em>Underground Russia</em>

The aim of this article is to develop an against-the-grain reading of Dostoevskii's relationship to the rise of revolutionary terrorism in nineteenth-century Russia. I start by interpreting the Underground Man's forlorn state of ‘inertia’ and inwardly directed violence in terms of the Hegelian problematic of conscience (Gewissen) and the ‘beautiful soul’, as elaborated in the Phenomenology of Spirit. I then argue that, as Dostoevskii struggled to affirm a moral ideal that could overcome his protagonist's underground condition (which resembles a warped version of Hegel's beautiful soul), he gave lucid articulation to the moral-aesthetic values that would later become a staple for Russian revolutionaries, particularly the ‘conscientious’ terrorist. Within this context, I examine the case of Vera Zasulich as an unanticipated realization of Dostoevskii's moral ideal.

The Translation and Interpretation of Tujia Love Songs “Adieu: A Tujia Love Duet” and “Visiting Sweetheart Solo” in Enshi

Tujia Love songs, as a means of expressing love, are one of the important parts of the folk songs in Enshi, Hubei Province. The love songs are the exposure of Tujia’s history, life, beliefs and values, as well as the reflection of their specific needs, national psychology, national survival relationship and life concept. It reflects the national emotion and personality characteristics. The research on it is of great value for the development of national culture and intercultural communication. This article focuses on the translation and interpretation of two representative love songs, “Adieu: A Tujia Love Duet” and “Visiting Sweetheart Solo” to interpret the typical artistic characteristics and cultural images and promote communication and understanding across cultures. By using case-studying method, these two love songs are used as models to dig out the characteristics of Tujia love tradition and Tujia love songs in common. While in translating these songs, cultural images, metaphors, terms of addresses and lining words are the most important parts which need to be closely studied, lingered on and treated with. Thus the artistic conception, dialect characteristics and cultural context can be disclosed through the process of translation, with the goal of readability and reader acceptability being realized as well as the combination of information and cultural atmosphere being reconstructed. In a word, the unique language artistic characteristics by using lining words is the result of dialect characteristics; rich and diverse rhetorical devices are the common means to make folk songs more vivid, humorous and interesting; different performance methods are adopted to perform diverse and wonderful folk songs; while the culture images and the terms of address have made rich cultural connotation. The love songs are the window of displaying the beautiful soul of Tujia people and also the accumulation of Tujia history and culture. Their pursuit of free love “with songs as the match-maker” is in line with the contemporary concept of freedom in marriage and love.

The concept of “neo” and the novels of G. Rodenbach: between romanticism and symbolism

Various forms of transition in literature and art of the turn of 19th and 20th centuries havent been explored enough. The use of the concept of neo allows to clarify the ideas of neo-romanticism that have developed in modern science. The article analyzes the novel heritage of the Belgian writer Rodenbach as a transitional phenomenon that brings together the writer's tetralogy with romanticism, Parnassus and symbolist French poetry; as well as phenomenon that organically includes Belgian literature in the European space of intertextuality. It is proved that addressing the problems of art, the artist-creator, the beautiful soul, connects Rodenbach with the traditions of Yens romanticism, at a new stage of development of literature generates a transformation of the myth of romanticism. The ideal of art is not subject to devaluation, but the artist, who lives in society, always fails. Indulging in earthly passion, coming into conflict with society and himself, he doesnt keep faith in his beliefs. Real life creates illusions and self-deception, leading the character to disaster. Rodenbach uses a romantic model of mythologization, saturating it with symbolic allusions and signs, on the eve of modernism creates a neo-romantic novel synthesis.

Explorations of Beliefs about EFL Teachers’ Roles from Both Teachers’ and Students’ Perspectives through Metaphor Analysis

Metaphor acts as a window into comprehending teachers’ experiences through providing insights into complex concepts of teaching and learning. As a result, it plays a crucial role in exploring beliefs about teachers’ roles in the teaching and learning process. To elicit ideas and beliefs which both teachers and students held about the role of English teachers, questionnaires were given to 30 teachers and 85 students in the University of Duhok, English Department. The questionnaire asked the subjects to provide their beliefs about English teachers’ roles by using a sentence completion task “An English teacher is…. because….”. Eight conceptual categories are introduced from the linguistic metaphors and example metaphors for each category are given in the results tables. The eight conceptual categories include: teacher as devotee, teacher as nurturer, teachers as provider / source of knowledge, teacher as cultural transmitter, teacher as authority, teacher as guider, teacher as a friend, and teacher as a nice beautiful soul. All participants expressed the same conceptual categories, but still they use different metaphors to express their views. An interesting feature of these results is that there are some parallel and overlaps of metaphors among different subjects. The findings of this study suggested subtle differences between students’ and teachers’ beliefs. This study will benefit teachers, curriculum designers, and researchers. Researchers may carry out comprehensive studies using metaphor as an investigating tool to better understand both students and teachers’ perceptions of the teachers’ roles. The results will help develop comprehensive and inclusive methods of teaching. Larger samples with variables such as gender, age, different locations, and proficiency of participants should be taken into consideration during future studies.

IHOR MICHAEL KOCIUMBAS (16.6.1944–4.7.2020): A beautiful soul – a life well lived

Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation OncologyVolume 64, Issue 6 p. 827-828 Medical Imaging —Obituary IHOR MICHAEL KOCIUMBAS (16.6.1944–4.7.2020): A beautiful soul – a life well lived Irene Buschtedt-Kociumbas, Irene Buschtedt-KociumbasSearch for more papers by this author Irene Buschtedt-Kociumbas, Irene Buschtedt-KociumbasSearch for more papers by this author First published: 13 October 2020 https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-9485.13108Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume64, Issue6December 2020Pages 827-828 RelatedInformation

Shrek and Media Literacy: Five Kurdish Young Women's Perspectives

This study explored how five young Kurdish women perceived the concepts of beauty, self-acceptance, and "princess" in American popular culture through interpretations of the messages from the movie series Shrek. The data were collected through one-on-one interviews via webcam with five young Kurdish women living in Kurdistan and the United Kingdom. The interviews were conducted in the Kurdish language, audiotape-recorded, transcribed, and then translated into the English language. Data analysis focused on comparing the five young women's responses to the interview questions. The results of the study showed that these three issues were interrelated with one another. All five participants believed that one's inner beauty was more important than physical beauty because it would lead a female to accept herself, which, in turn, led to her happiness and being accepted by others. Also, a beautiful soul and self-acceptance were required in a modern princess who should be brave and independent. Inspired by Fiona in the film, the five young women have learned to accept themselves more, think more wisely about their choices in life, and fight for their freedom, if necessary.

La Planète ne se meut pas

According to pythagoreanism and later Plato, if the world is perfect and ruled by mathematical laws, the movement of the planets is harmonious, drawing perfect circles and producing music. In this way, the Harmony of the Spheres theory considers that planets themselves have an eternal and beautiful soul. Thus, we want to show in our article that the modern conception of planet has lost its spiritual meaning under the guise of rationality. If science claims to be more objective than before, in fact it reduces evey being to a simple material object. By opposition, Edmund Husserl calls the Lifeworld (Lebenswelt) the natural perception humans have of their world. According to him, the Earth itself is not a planet, because it is the Arch where Humans live in accordance with a natural world. We will question that point of view through the filter of disenchantment.

Biljana Plavšić at the ICTY: A Feminist Analysis of Representations of the Self

This paper focuses on the legal defence of Biljana Plavsic before the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. It analyses the discursive strategies chosen by Plavsic in her plea of guilt. Utilising the theoretical concepts of motherhood, ‘Beautiful Soul’, double and triple transgressions, and Othering, together with legal and criminological debates on chivalry, Plavsic’s representations of herself and her actions during the war are critically analysed. Studying the case of Plavsic, this article aims to enrich the existing feminist debates on the representation of violent women in the media and in justice tribunals.

The Seeds of Destruction: Naturalism, Hysteria, and the Beautiful Soul in Lewis Nkosi’sMating Birds

If V. S. Naipaul’s late fiction demonstrates the crisis of narrative in the arrested dialectic of what I have called postcolonial naturalism, then the work of South African novelist, playwright, and critic Lewis Nkosi epitomizes the intersection of postcolonial naturalism with the double-voiced discourse of the hysteric. Situated between a post-independence melancholy and the registration of globalization’s volatile new dispensation and refracted through the racial politics of apartheid and its end as well as the lived experience of exile, Nkosi’s apartheid-era debut novelMating Birdsarticulates in both form and content the noble self-exemption of Hegel’s “Beautiful Soul” and the subversive anxiety of the hysteric, to whom no satisfaction can be given. Such an accounting helps to reframe split critical appraisal of the novel by reading its complex of form and content as the living crystallization of historical processes.