Deep Thoughts Research Articles

Effects of a brief web-based interpersonal conflict cognitive reappraisal expressive-writing intervention on changes in romantic conflict during COVID-19 quarantine.

Romantic conflict is known to have escalated during the lockdown period of the COVID-19 pandemic. This research investigates whether a single-session online writing intervention results in changes in romantic conflict among American adults cohabitating during COVID-19 quarantine (May 2020). Participants (N = 716, 50% female;mean age = 51.8 years) completed a baseline assessment which was followed by a brief (5–8 min) writing task in Qualtrics. Participants were randomized to one of five conditions, where they were asked to write about (a) a conflict with their romantic partner using cognitive reappraisal;(b) a conflict with their romantic partner expressing their deepest thoughts and feelings;(c) a conflict with someone other than their partner using cognitive reappraisal;(d) a conflict with someone other than their partner and a conflict with their partner expressing their deepest thoughts and feelings;or (e) mundane tasks like laundry, house cleaning, or lawn care. In the reappraisal conditions, participants were asked to use this perspective with the target person in the upcoming weeks. Two weeks later, participants were invited to complete a follow-up survey identical to baseline, where they were asked about conflict with their partner during the follow-up period. Results indicated that participants in the romantic partner cognitive reappraisal condition reported fewer disagreements, fewer relationship aggression events, and lower levels of conflict relentlessness with their partner relative to at least one of the control conditions. Results demonstrate preliminary support for a brief, cost-effective, and accessible tool that can help couples mitigate downstream effects of negative interactions during this stressful time. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved) © 2021 American Psychological Association

A road map for Feynman’s adventures in the land of gravitation

Richard P. Feynman's work on gravitation, as can be inferred from several published and unpublished sources, is reviewed. Feynman was involved with this subject at least from late 1954 to the late 1960s, giving several pivotal contributions to it. Even though he published only three papers, much more material is available, beginning with the records of his many interventions at the Chapel Hill conference in 1957, which are here analyzed in detail, and show that he had already considerably developed his ideas on gravity. In addition he expressed deep thoughts about fundamental issues in quantum mechanics which were suggested by the problem of quantum gravity, such as superpositions of the wave functions of macroscopic objects and the role of the observer. Feynman also lectured on gravity several times. Besides the famous lectures given at Caltech in 1962-63, he extensively discussed this subject in a series of lectures delivered at the Hughes Aircraft Company in 1966-67, whose focus was on astronomy and astrophysics. All this material allows to reconstruct a detailed picture of Feynman's ideas on gravity and of their evolution until the late sixties. According to him, gravity, like electromagnetism, has quantum foundations, therefore general relativity has to be regarded as the classical limit of an underlying quantum theory; this quantum theory should be investigated by computing physical processes, as if they were experimentally accessible. The same attitude is shown with respect to gravitational waves, as is evident also from an unpublished letter addressed to Victor F. Weisskopf. In addition, an original approach to gravity, which closely mimics (and probably was inspired by) the derivation of the Maxwell equations given by Feynman in that period, is sketched in the unpublished Hughes lectures.

Written expressive disclosure in adults with irritable bowel syndrome: A randomized controlled trial

BackgroundThe benefits of written expressive disclosure (WED) to health are documented in a variety of healthy and clinical populations. This study investigates the effect of WED on health-related outcomes in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). MethodsAdults (N = 189) meeting Rome III criteria for IBS were randomly assigned to write about their: (1) deepest thoughts and feelings about the most stressful life event of the past five years (n = 67), (2) deepest thoughts and feelings about their IBS (n = 61) or (3) daily activities in an objective manner (control condition; n = 61). Participants completed four 20-min writing sessions over 2–6 weeks. Gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms, healthcare utilization, health-related quality of life (HR-QOL), pain catastrophizing, and pain self-efficacy were assessed at baseline, one month post-writing completion, and three months post-writing completion. ResultsA significant group (combined WED vs. control) X time interaction was detected for healthcare utilization, F(1,147) = 6.16, p = 0.014, η2 = 0.04. Specifically, number of GI-related medical appointments significantly increased from baseline to 3-month follow-up in the control group, while no significant change was observed in the combined WED group. Among the WED group, individuals assigned to write about their IBS experienced greater improvements in pain self-efficacy than those assigned to write about a life stressor, F(1,92) = 3.89, p = 0.024, η2 = 0.08. GI symptom severity, HR-QOL, and pain catastrophizing improved significantly across groups over time, with no significant between-group differences. ConclusionWriting about one's deepest thoughts and feelings about IBS may increase pain self-efficacy and reduce healthcare utilization compared to control writing in adults with IBS.

Comparison between sentiments of people from affected and non-affected regions after the flood

Floods have become the most prevalent natural disaster in the world. Understanding the emotional impact of floods on people helps reduce negative mass incidents and contributes to the implementation of disaster prevention and mitigation. This study collected online discussions related to the great flood in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River basin in China in 2020. Then, we obtained the sentiments of people and the deep thoughts behind their negative sentiment through the dictionary sentiment analysis and the LDA topic modeling, counting them according to the regions. The overall sentiment of Internet users during this flood was neutral, and the posts showing negative sentiment were mostly from the affected areas. People in the affected areas were highly concerned about personal safety and property, whose negative emotions were directed towards the flood prevention work and the relocation of affected people.

THE ILLUSIONS OF SUCCESS

AbstractThe author reflects on life lessons drawn from a varied career in business, government service, and education. Examples of meaning and purpose are drawn from interactions with individuals ranging from a Morgan Stanley banker to Mother Teresa. Topics such as loneliness and isolation are explored, and statistics are cited about recent suicide rates. The author notes that “after four decades of working closely with leaders, observing them and listening to their deepest thoughts and concerns, I have distilled the pursuit of meaning and purpose into eight practices.” In brief, those practices are (1) know and live your own story, (2) maintain deep connections in your core relationships, (3) regularly express gratitude, (4) learn to forgive and serve, (5) define success and failure for yourself, (6) make sure risk continues to play a role in your life, (7) integrate your life, rather than compartmentalizing it, and (8) work to leave a legacy for others. Solitude is also essential and provides the space to reflect upon our lives, relationships, challenges, and blessings. Solitude differs from loneliness. Solitude fills our hearts with gratitude and renewed energy for living. Loneliness kills our very souls and often spirals into sadness and despair.

Qur’anic Manifestation of the Story of Maryam (PBUH): Unearthing Its Parallelistic Connection to Islamic Womanhood

A woman, to many, is God’s most complete creation. She symbolizes independence, love, caring, gentleness and intensity in all cases. This study is a descriptive qualitative study anchored by a feminist approach and textual analysis. The researcher explores and analyzes special features of the feminism approach which appear in the story of Maryam (PBUH) in the Holy Qur’an. The events of the story are expressed in deeper thoughts and understanding to ultimately achieve relevance to Islamic womanhood. It is found out that the story of Maryam (PBUH) shows that Muslim women have a great role in spreading the message of Islam. They value the importance of energizing the Arab tradition and leadership among Arab women as viewed today. The story of Maryam (PBUH) is a model of motherhood and purity. She also stands as the personification of a dedicated teacher and a woman of wisdom.

Toward an Interdisciplinary Learning Approach to Foster Students’ Outlook of Universally Connected World: Starting from Music and Beyond

Music never exists for its own sake. On the contrary, it connects to the universe including Nature, society, and human beings. Music originated from people’s labor and life and has always reflected human conditions related to temporal and spatial elements. It is our belief that music can function as an educatively meaningful window through which the students explore the world with wider views and deeper thoughts. Based on these beliefs, we postulate an interdisciplinary approach starting from music and beyond it to foster students’ outlook of universally connected world. A conceptual model is conceived by the authors which describes the students’ hierarchical progress possibly gained from purposefully designed learning in an interdisciplinary manner. To further rationalize the feasibility for such a learning approach, we propose a down-to-earth way of thinking that music relates to language in lyrics of songs, bears geo-historical footprints because it originates temporally and spatially. From these clues, a common attribute can be found to thread the whole learning process involving several subjects integrated as a whole, rather than the school subjects learned separately. Given an exemplary project for the students to explore two types of folk songs in the North and the South of China, they are led to find a common attribute focusing on isomorphic direction of move between dialect tones of lyrics and tunes of folk songs, discover the inner connections hidden beneath the surface of present phenomena, and dwell on the significant insights which enable them to act like a thinker. The interdisciplinary learning illustrated as a case project here purports to prompt our colleagues that the educative values of music are far from fully recognized and these values should function to a full degree for the young generation to emancipate the constraints of thinking and develop creative minds.

К работе Мещерякова (послесловие и примечания А.Д. Майданского)

In 1963, a children’s home for the deaf-mute was founded in Zagorsk, near Moscow. Alexander Meshcheryakov, the head of the laboratory at the Institute of Defectology of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences, became its supervisor. Four years later, Evald Ilyenkov joined the experiment. The archival text “On the work of Meshcheryakov”, published now for the first time, was presented at the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences in February 1973. In this paper, Ilyenkov briefly formulates his conception of psychical image as condensing of a temporal process of activity into a spatial form of object, and suggests a number of deep thoughts on connection of the psyche and language, sign and meaning, word and action, taking his stand on the data of the Zagorsk experiment. The process of image formation is demonstrated by the case “Julia and the ravine”. After a walk along the ravine, a deaf-blind girl was able to mould the contour of the ravine from plasticine. Without seeing the ravine, she reproduced the trajectory of her body’s motion as some spatial object. The formation of language in deaf-blind persons begins with gesture speech, which is gradually transformed into verbal speech — first in its dactyl, then written and, finally, sound form. The experimental study of this transformation helps to solve the question of how speech and language are connected to objective reality.

Exploring Acculturation Experiences of Korean Immigrant Older Adults Through Expressive Writing

Korean immigrant older adults residing in areas without well-established Korean ethnic enclaves experience acculturative stress and depressive symptoms due to their lingual and cultural barriers. Expressive writing can be used as a culturally sensitive intervention to help those immigrants disclose their deepest thoughts and feelings related to their immigration and acculturation experiences. This study gathered qualitative data from the author’s experimental study using expressive writing for first-generation Korean immigrant adults 60 to 88 years of age residing in Midwestern cities. Participants were instructed to write for 15-20 minutes per day in three consecutive days at their convenience in a comfortable and private setting and asked to return their writings by mail. A total of 22 participants returned their writings: 14 wrote about their past and current stressful experiences related to their immigration and acculturation, while eight wrote about their daily lives. Eight themes emerged from thematic coding processes guided by the grounded theory approach: (1) survival, resilience, hardiness, tenacity, pride; (2) lingual barriers; (3) religious faith; (4) gender difference in roles and values; (5) racial discrimination; (6) traditional strategies of acculturation; (7) family and intergenerational gap; and (8) aging. The themes illustrate the participants’ lifelong efforts to shape their unique voices through heart-wrenching struggles, haunting wounds, and ethnic pride and resilience. The study findings suggest that culturally relevant programs and services are needed to facilitate social relationships and reduce lingual and cultural barriers for Korean immigrant older adults residing in non-ethnic enclaves.

Semantic Continuumof Myth

Language, the first cultural phenomenon, received textual expression in myths, of which the oldest tell of the mystical relationship of the tribe with the animal. Consideration of the concepts that arose on this basis, and then of “conceptual myths” (OM Freidenberg) about the totem-ancestor makes it possible to analyze their semantic-semantic fields. Moreover, we relied on the cultural-historical concept of G.G. Shpet, which allowed us to trace the evolution and subsequent transformation of the semantic-semantic fields of myth and thus reveal the algorithm for the formation of the mythopoetic tradition, its fading and eternal return. In the center of this work is semantic-semantic fields of myths about the Heavenly deer / moose cow, the cult which stretched over the more than six millennia. Observing the astral objects that served as a spatial-temporal reference point in the hunting and reindeer herding, primitive tribes felt their unity with the star ancestors. For example, two constellations of seven stars, which served the primitive hunters and reindeer breeders as a guide on the way, began to be identified in the russian North with the horned Reindeer Mother / moose cow and her daughter, from which the well-being of people depends. The attempt of comparative-historical reconstruction of semantic-semantic fields in article based on the material of myths about totems-forefathers made it possible to distinguish three main layers. These are 1) the energetically “charged” field of the myth of the shaman visiting the fantastic deer in labor, in which the religious and mythological consciousness received expression; 2) a semantic-semantic field of myths that belong to the artistic and heroic consciousness and narrate about a cultural hero who is ready for a feat for his family-tribal community; 3) the semantic-semantic field of the myth of the Horned mother-deer in the story of Ch. T. Aitmatova’s “White Steamboat (After the Tale)”, the rescue of orphans who became the ancestors of the Bugu tribe (‘deer’), and contains deep thoughts of the author, the bearer of cultural-historical and philosophicalcultural consciousness. As for the semantic-semantic fields, specific to the various interpretations of plots about a moose cow and a calf, close to a household fairy tale, a hunting story and a joke, so they correspond to the scientific and technical type of consciousness that has lost its connection with myth.

Mixing and crossing disciplines: Leonardo da Vinci's holistic approach to knowledge

AbstractThere is unanimous consensus on the interdisciplinary nature of Leonardo da Vinci's work due to his holistic vision of the world. Our study aims to point out that da Vinci created links and bridges among concepts belonging to exact and human sciences, revealing not only the interdisciplinary but also the transdisciplinary nature of his approach. This is shown in his notes that reflect the philosophical thoughts and social implications of his observations.More specifically, in order to highlight da Vinci's unique approach to knowledge, we analyse two significant examples never cited nor commented on. The first concerns how da Vinci used quantitative law to deduce and apply fluid dynamics of crowded people flux in surprising ways; the second is related to the architectural study of the arch that suggests da Vinci had some deep thoughts on the world.From this analysis, we conclude that, considering the huge number of relevant “case studies” provided by da Vinci and their semantic density, his approach to knowledge can be framed within innovative philosophical studies on interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity.

“Head” Related Phrases In Chinese Language And Their Semantics

Everyone knows that phraseological units are the most popular genre of oral folk art, which was formed as a result of life observations of the ancestors. Learning and analyzing Chinese phraseology allow us to better understand the inner world of the Chinese nation. This article reveals and semantically analyzes aspects of the word “head” that are closely related to Chinese culture. The worldview, deep logical thoughts, feelings, superstitions, lifestyle and environment of the Chinese people are described in phraseological expressions in a concise and clear form.
 This article discusses the semantics and features of Chinese-language phraseological phrases associated with the word “head”. Chinese-language phrases associated with “head” express meanings such as wisdom and ignorance, process of thinking, cunning,sagacity, and planning. Phraseological units in Chinese linguistics are closely related to practical life and determine such features as philosophical and ideological thinking, logical observation. Taking into account the above, the article provides a comparative analysis of phraseological units related to “head” in Chinese and Uzbek languages. The figurative meanings of the word “head” are being revealed, semantic connections and semantic structure of phrases in the sentence are in the process of learning. Chinese phraseological expressions are poorly studied in Uzbek-Chinese studies. We hope that this work will provide practical assistance to our young people who are learning Chinese.

The Sea and the Kingfisher of Bui Ngoc Tan: on the perspective of sociocriticism

“The Sea and the Kingfisher” (French: La Mer et le martin-pêcheur) is a special novel written by Bui Ngoc Tan. This work is not only the pride of contemporary Vietnamese literature in general and Hai Phong literature in particular when it won the Henri Queffenlec Award in France in 2012; but also the stamp of the author's journey "resurrection of the dead", after more than 5 years of imprisonment and 20 years of torture of reading and writing.
 Because of his special circumstances, social change is always reflected in Bui Ngoc Tan’s work. “The Sea and the Kingfisher” is the same as a little cosmos, a panoramic discourse reflecting all of the love and sorrow of a generation having to face so many incidents and ideological conflicts.
 Above all of the limited literature, “The Sea and the Kingfisher” is a worthy writing. This is seen as a realistic novel, straight and steady, which exposes a world that is still deep in darkness, beneath the golden and glamorous slogan. There are honest people buried deep in the bottom, crumpled and writhed, silently alive, and silently dead. "Belles-lettres" of Bui Ngoc Tan, is a chord of many "words" that were invoked from thousands and thousands of lives of anonymity in the same era. It is both pristine, bitter, and a sigh of pain, laden with deep thoughts. It's also the crystallization of the love of life and faith, thus the aspiration of social transformation.
 Using the sociocriticism, the writer focuses on researching the relationship between life and the working life of Bui Ngoc Tan through his works. And then, we will reach a deeper understanding of the value of Bui Ngoc Tan's literary heritage, the morality or the self-consciousness of the writer's social role, and the aspirations to improve society by literature that he cherished all life.

Biographical narrative in diaries of Dymytrii Tuptalo and Taras Shevchenko

The paper deals with a specific genre of diary in the heritage of D. Tuptalo and T. Shevchenko. The comparative analysis allowed the researcher to clarify the nature of the genre and define its basic characteristics. Special attention has been paid to the general features in both diaries, such as language, orientation towards a future reader, the atmosphere of ‘expectation’. In both diaries, the authors present themselves as a part of the action and even heroes of the stories. Thus a description of all events is typically given from the author’s perspective; the author and the narrator merge in a first-person narrative. The communicative techniques in the structure of the text are described briefly; these are comparison, evaluative judgments, the image of the Other, speaking to the reader, etc. The researcher interprets some theses about writers’ views concerning religion, friendship, and the phenomenon of silence. The character of such silence in the text is multidimensional: the varieties of literary pause/silence may be found throughout the diaries; the figures expressing silence belong to several types. The meaning of silence shifts according to the context. Some specific discoveries are based on such common features in both diaries as critical thinking, engaging the reader in the text, deep existential thoughts, digression (a partial retreat from the main theme in the text). The comparison of Tuptalo’s and Shevchenko’s texts allows seeing how the genre of a writer’s diary was shaped in Ukrainian literature.

Towards advance care planning in pediatrics: a qualitative study on envisioning the future as parents of a seriously ill child

Advance care planning enables parents to discuss goals and preferences for future care and treatment of their seriously ill child. Although clinicians report parental factors as common barriers for advance care planning, parental views on reflecting on their child’s future have had limited exploration. A clear understanding of their perspectives might help clinicians to implement advance care planning tailored to parental needs. This interpretive qualitative study using thematic analysis aims to identify how parents envision the future when caring for their seriously ill child. Single interviews and two focus groups were attended by 20 parents of 17 seriously ill children. Parents reported to focus on the near future of their child. However, their actions and deeper thoughts showed perspectives towards a further future. Future perspectives initial focused on practical, disease-related themes, but more existential elaborations, reflecting underlying life values, were also identified. Parents needed acknowledgement of their challenging situation, care tasks, and expertise as a precondition for sharing their deepest thoughts regarding the future of their child.Conclusion: When envisioning the future of their seriously ill child, parents tend to stay in the near future, whereas they value the opportunity to share further thoughts within a compassionate relationship with clinicians.What is Known:• Parents prefer open and honest information about their child’s illness and prognosis and they value the concept of advance care planning, while they emphasize the need for an individualized approach.• Health care professionals see parental factors like unease and emotional burden as key barriers for advance care planning.What is New:• When envisioning the future of their seriously ill child, parents tended to stay close to the near future initially, with a focus on disease-related, practical themes. Ongoing conversations uncovered deeper, value-based elaborations towards the future. To engage parents in advance care planning, the future needs to be discussed in relation to the present and the past.• There is “no sharing without caring”. Parents who felt cared for and acknowledged in their challenging context by clinicians, were open to share their perspectives on the future of their seriously ill child. To share deeper motives and values underlying goals and preferences for future care and treatment, parents need a stimulating attitude of listening and encouragement from clinicians to express their feelings.

THE ROLE OF SULTONKHUJA ADO IN THE LITERARY ENVIRONMENT OF KUKAND

The details of Sultankhuja Ado, a descendant of Khoja Ubaydullah Ahror, are insufficient in the studies of independence and early literary studies. There is no information about his life in the manuscripts of the poet kept in the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan. We can briefly study the life and activity of the poet based on various sources dating from the 18th - 19th century. In some of the manuscripts we have seen, such as “Samaria” by Abu Tahirhoja, “Tazkiraii Kayiyumi” by P. Kayumiy, “Buyuk ma'naviy murshid” by B.Valihojaev, “Zapiski o Bukharskom Hanstve” by P.Demezon and I.V.Vitkevich, we have read the references in the sources and in the articles of several researchers. For example, literature scholar E. Shodiev notes that there are poems by the poet in "Bayozi Fakhri Rumoni". Sheikh-ul-Islam, Khujakalon Sultanhoja Ado was born in Samarkand. But the year of birth is unknown. He received his first religious education from his father Khudoyorbek. He later continued his education at the Kukeldash madrasah in Bukhara. He was one of the leading students of the Madrasah. He was promoted to the rank of the Sheikh-ul-Islam of Samarkand because of his profound knowledge of religion and deep thoughts.

Books in Brief

Books in Brief Dawn Coleman PETER RILEY Whitman, Melville, Crane, and the Labors of American Poetry: Against Vocation. Kettering: Oxford University Press, 2019. 224 pp. Against Vocation takes to task the still-influential modernist myth that a poet's vocational identity depends on his gendered, raced aloofness from the marketplace: that the true poet is a solitary genius atop Mount Parnassus, alone with his deep thoughts and rapidly filling sheets of paper, set apart from the trade-seared, toil-smeared world below. More precisely, Riley argues that early twentieth-century "classical modernism" (27)—the book's final section, on Hart Crane, points an accusing finger at T. S. Eliot and Wallace Stevens—advanced the lasting ideology of "vocational modernity": a capitalist-regime valorization of "the exceptional sovereign individual" (read: professionalized white male) that arises in tandem with anxiety about a burgeoning and diversifying contingent labor force (14). He argues that for too long scholars have unwittingly reinforced this ideology by regarding the extra-literary day jobs of Whitman, Melville, and Crane as regrettable distractions from the main event of their literary output. Rejecting the premise that poetry would ideally be untainted by the marketplace, Riley investigates the aesthetic ramifications of Whitman's house-flipping, Melville's custom-house inspecting, and Hart Crane's copywriting to argue that these three poets' literary writing—the "poetry" of the title is a broad canopy—shows them responding in generative ways to the stimuli associated with their embeddedness in the urban labor market. If this argument sounds like it might be an ode to day jobs or to flex work or maybe even to the gig economy, it is not. Riley manages to show that art can arise from workaday economic pursuits even as he keeps plenty of critical distance from capitalist exploitation. In fact, he would like to credit all three poets with some measure of resistance to vocational modernity, but such claims are tricky considering that both Whitman and Melville wrote before this construct fully took shape. Without leaning on an agonistic framework, Riley maintains that these poets' [End Page 103] non-alignment with vocational modernity allows their writing to "represent a nexus of production that signals the potentiality of non-capitalist worlds to come" (21). The book never quite makes good on this teasing utopian gesture but is nonetheless eminently satisfying in its analysis of an intransigent ideology and in its fine-grained close readings. The book's two Melville chapters attempt a heavy lift: challenging the longstanding critical view that Melville's career is "the ultimate parable of frustrated vocational integrity in American literary history" (72). Riley acknowledges evidence for this view, in particular the self-aggrandizing rhetoric in Melville's 1851 letter to Hawthorne about being damned by dollars, but urges us to question a narrative that from the Melville Revival on has reinforced myths of vocational modernity. Instead, he invites us to recognize how Melville throughout his career troubled notions of authorial autonomy and stood in solidarity with contingent labor. This argument is a tough sell for Melville in his most ambitious years, and the chapter on Moby-Dick proceeds with mixed results. An extended reading of "The Grand Armada" as privileging Ishmael's narratorial enmeshment and "receptive distraction" (98) over against Ahab's lyric stasis and selfcontainment feels strained, and although Melville clearly took issue with much of Emerson's "The Poet," as this section contends, his annotations of that essay indicate admiration as well (see Melville's Marginalia Online). Yet this chapter also advances a winning reading of the novel's prefatory matter, which has received surprisingly scant critical attention. Riley convincingly takes the "Late Consumptive Usher to a Grammar School" and the "Sub-Sub-Librarian" as "experiments … in virtual biography," or the ghosts of Melville's own "counterfactual vocational pathways" (79). He contends that Melville fashions both characters, if one can apply the term to such wispy entities, as individualized and valued collaborators, through which he engages in "the playful staging of a sovereign vocational crisis that acknowledges an often hidden interdependence of labor" (83). "Etymology," for instance, humanizes the Usher through its idiosyncratic selections and gratuitous, non-etymological translations of "whale." Who asked...

Some Relationships among Different Ways of Increasing Rational Knowledge

A geometrical model is presented here which seems to allow some original considerations regarding the scope and results of Science and Technology (S&T) activities, aimed at searching new rational knowledge. Was this approach validated? It may result in deeper thoughts over the nature of such activities and their reciprocal relationships.

Domniemane datowanie niedatowanych utworów Karola Wojtyły: Dzieła literackie i teatralne, Juvenilia (1938-1946)

Karol Wojtyła left behind many undated works. Determining the date of their creation sometimes requires a detective’s acumen. Based on the extensive information available in his poetry, meditations or plays, the context of their creation can be worked out quite accurately. This article is an attempt to determine the chronology of the early works of Karol Wojtyła, starting with the adaptation of The Stage Image titled “Christ – King” based on the Apocalypse of Saint John, his rhymed verses as a secondary-school graduate, through the series of Sonnets, and Symphonies – Unifications, then his autumnal poetry, works from the time of the war and occupation – sometimes forgotten by the very author – and ending with Songs about the Hidden God – the most mature poem from the period before his priesthood. Confirmations of the suggested arrangements often come from the recollections of people who were close to the young Wojtyła. His letters to his friends, the Kotlarczyks and the Szkockis, are also an endless source of information. The literary works of the future Pope, full of his deepest thoughts, as well as fears and premonitions, complement the various stages of his life, and thus help us to better understand not only the artistic creativity, but also the teachings, of John Paul II.

Bernard Shaw's Fiction, Material Psychology, and Affect: Shaw, Freud, Simmel

Bernard Shaw's Fiction, Material Psychology, and Affect: Shaw, Freud, Simmel