Idea Of Promise Research Articles

HUSSERL AND REINACH, THE IDEA OF PROMISE

In this paper, I discuss the possibility of reading the description of promise presented by Reinach in The A priori Foundations of the Civil Law under the light of Husserl’s Ideas I. In order to present my argument, first, I briefly present the phenomenological method proposed by Husserl in Ideas I highlighting eidetic reduction. Second, I present the Reinachian description of social acts emphasizing the act of promising. Third, and finally, I try to demonstrate that the Reinachian description of the social act of promising is the description of a universal and necessary relation, a synthetic and a priori statement and corresponds to the idea of promise.

El pensamiento político de Hannah Arendt: notas sobre revolución, promesa y fundación política

Presentaremos aquí una lectura de Sobre la revolución para poner en valor la tarea crítica sobre los conceptos políticos de la tradición en la elaboración de una teoría política propia de gran originalidad. Primero, analizaremos las dificultades metodológicas y contextuales del libro. Segundo, analizaremos el trabajo de renovación de ciertos conceptos políticos claves para la idea de promesa mutua (su mayor innovación conceptual). Luego, reflexionaremos sobre el tipo de instituciones que piensa Arendt en torno a la fundación de la libertad en el mundo contemporáneo. Finalmente, ofreceremos algunas conclusiones que se desprenden de nuestra lectura del texto.

Americanism in Henry James' "The Modern Warning"

Americanism in Henry James' "The Modern Warning" George Monteiro Of the English-speaking visitors who visited the United States in the nineteenth century and then wrote and published their impressions, the most famous are Frances Trollope, Charles Dickens, and Matthew Arnold. Among the many others now largely forgotten is Sir Lepel Henry Griffin. In 1884, after a visit of some three weeks, Griffin joined the field of those critics of American democracy with "A Visit to Philistia," followed by a small volume titled The Great Republic. The idea for Henry James' story "The Modern Warning"—first called "Two Countries"—came to him from his reading of Griffin's book.1 The work of an individual famous in his day for several well-publicized administrative successes as a member of the Indian Civil Service, The Great Republic takes up the matters of politics and manners in the U.S. as the writer had encountered them. Griffin's stance and attitude, along with the flavor of his language, can be gleaned from the opening pages: America of to-day, the apotheosis of Philistinism, the perplexity and despair of statesmen, the Mecca to which turns every religious or social charlatan, where the only God worshipped is Mammon, and the highest education is the share list; where political life, which should be the breath of the nostrils of every freeman, is shunned by an honest man as the plague; where, to enrich jobbers and monopolists and contractors, a nation has emancipated its slaves and enslaved its freemen; where the people is gorged and drunk with materialism, and where wealth has become a curse instead of a blessing. [In fact] America is the country of disillusion and disappointment, in politics, literature, culture, and art; in its scenery, its cities, and its people. With some experience of every country in the civilised world, I can think of none except [End Page 169] Russia in which I would not prefer to reside, in which life would not be more worth living, less sordid and mean and unlovely.2 In sum, concludes Griffin, "the ideal aristocracy, or government of the best, has in America been degraded into an actual government of the worst, in which the educated, the cultured, the honest, and even the wealthy, weigh as nothing in the balance against the scum of Europe which the Atlantic has washed up on the shores of the New World."3 Most readers on either side of the Atlantic were unimpressed. In the United States, Griffin's work was dismissed as a study of "our institutions through the large lens of a telescope," according to one reader.4 In England, Arnold carefully distanced himself from his countryman;5 while Goldwin Smith joined the dissenters by cautioning that The Great Republic was "too rampant to produce a serious effect."6 In James, who was always alert to possibilities for new stories and novels, The Great Republic sparked an idea of promise: the excesses of patriotism. He had already touched on the subject in stories such as "An International Episode," "Pandora," and "The Point of View." When this last story was published in 1883 in the Century, it prompted an unexpected remonstrance from Thomas Sergeant Perry, James' good friend, over his satirical characterization of the American "democrat." James fired back. "Who are 'the people?'" he began. "I think it odious for any class to arrogate that title more than another. . . . I pretend to be one 'of the people,' moi. And I can imagine no coterie-literature more coterie than a class of novel devoted to the portrayal of the professional democrat."7 Shortly after reading The Great Republic in 1884, James set down notes for a new story. In a notebook entry dated five days after the Fourth of July, he conceived of a character who would stand as the "type of the conservative, fastidious, exclusive Englishman (in public life, clever, etc.), who hates the U.S.A. and thinks them a contamination to England, a source of funeste warning, etc., and an odious country socially." The plot, as James saw it, calls for the Englishman to fall in love with "an American Girl and she with him." The complication, as...

Electronic coupling of vertically coupled quantum dots: effect of the time-dependent magnetic field

The fast development of the new classes nanostructures such as self-organized quantum dots leads to the possibility of controlling their shape, their dimensions, the structure of energy levels and the number of confined electrons (from one to 1000). A fascinating idea of great promise is the possibility of utilizing electronic spins in semiconductor quantum dots as quantum bits (qubits) for a new generation of computers. In this work, we consider two vertically Ga 0.68In 0.32As coupled-quantum dots embedded in GaAs. We study the dynamical response of two electrons in these two vertically tunnel-coupled quantum dots with a time dependent magnetic field and including the Coulomb interaction between the electrons. We find that, for a certain frequency ranges, a sinusoidal perturbation acts like an attractive effective interaction between electrons. Including the Zeeman splitting on the spins of the electrons we discuss the dynamical evolution of the magnetization.

Revelation and Theology: The Gospel as Narrated Promise by Ronald F. Thiemann

Revelation and Theology: The Gospel as Narrated Promise by Ronald F. Thiemann

The Patriarchs and the Promise

The problem which is pursued in this essay can be expressed in the following question: to what extent and in what form is the idea of the promise of land and progeny to be traced to the patriarchs? This is a problem of the History of Religion, and stems directly from the post-Wellhausen estimate of Hebrew history and religion which was facilitated by external archaeological data and internal biblical research inspired and informed by the principles of Formgeschichte.