Matter Of Thinking Research Articles

Nothing: The Gift of Anxiety. Derrida, Heidegger, Lacan

Derrida’s reading of Heidegger’s 1962 lecture On Time and Being concludes the last session of the 1978–79 seminar published in Donner le temp II. There, Heidegger suggests that the task of thinking consists of thinking Being without regard to metaphysics, while ceasing all overcoming of metaphysics as such. What is given as the task for thought is that which onto-theology makes impossible to think, that is, the constitutive aporetic remainder of metaphysical thinking. This essay contends that for both Heidegger and Derrida the task of thought consists in this same matter of thinking, with which the question of the gift primarily deals. It maintains that in order to think the giving of the gift without regard to metaphysics, the gift could be thought in terms of anxiety. In this perspective, anxiety emerges as a thoughtful affect that gives an access to thinking the impossible, cutting through the onto-theological order of metaphysics. Finally, bringing together Heidegger and Lacan’s accounts of anxiety allows us to creep deeper into this liminal dimension of what is to be thought.

AN APPROACH TO THE ISSUE OF CRITICAL THINKING IN THE MAIN AREAS OF PSYCHOLOGY

In modern psychology, different qualities of the mind are distinguished. To characterize a person’s thinking from an individual psychological aspect, qualities of the mind are used, such as breadth, flexibility, speed, independence, criticality, etc. These qualities are important and mutually related to each other. People differ from each other in the level of development of these qualities, which are of great practical importance. Thinking, especially critical one, has been studied in many directions in the history of psychology. Representatives of the Wyusburg school, associationism, Gestalt psychology and behaviorism took different approaches to the matter of thinking and its criticality.

Cognitive Metaphors in Vi Thuy Linh’s Poems

The purpose of this study is to examine cognitive metaphors in Vi Thuy Linh's poetry to see the new and reckless poetic thinking as well as the concepts in her poetry. The linguistic description method; context analyzation are used to clarify how the nature of cognitive metaphor models structure the mindset, perception, and human activities and discover specific features in the way of perceiving and thinking and reflecting the world of author. Along with statistical and classifying methods based on two volumes "Khat" and "Dong Tu" I have seen cognitive metaphors expressions in this is the destination domains of love. Through research, it has been highlighted that cognitive metaphor is not only a rhetorical form of literature but also a matter of thinking, a specially mental mapping that has a great influence on how people think and act in daily life. In practical terms, the research took advantage of conceptual models of cognitive linguistics to explain the thinking manipulations and arguments in Vi Thuy Linh's poetry - what makes the difference in her language usage as well as the style of composition.

HUDUD: THE RIGHT OF ALLAH SWT IN PERSPECTIVE OF PUNISHMENT FOR ADULTERY

Allah swt is the Creator and all creations (as servants) in this world are subjected to His commands and directions. Since He created humans and all creations in this world, then only Allah swt knows what is the best for His creations. This concept paper is to highlight about Hudud as one of punishment under Islamic criminal law which is also known as right of Allah swt. The general evidence of Hudud being proved by Quranic Verses in Surah Al- Baqarah which remind people not to transgress or challenge the limits of Allah swt (2:229). Qisas and Takzir also the types of punishment for Islamic criminal law. Hence, the author selects Hudud, and specifically chooses punishment of adultery to be emphasized in this paper to give clear picture to mass about this kind of punishments and the wisdom behind the implementation of the punishments. Muslim worldwide also are not confident about the survival of Islam without the sword and the harsh punishment of Islamic law. Islam is a religion of wisdom. The wisdom came with comprehensive way of life. In educating people to abide with all rules and regulations in their daily life, we need to have some guidance and reference. Islam already remind people to always stick with Al- Quran and As Sunnah, so that the people always having guidance to survive in this challenging world and prepared for Hereafter. It is hoped that this paper may provide better picture of Hudud by using punishment for adultery as matter of thinking, or to the best, change the mentality of some who label Islamic law is harsh and strict.

An integrated study of visual metaphors in Chinese editorial cartoons

AbstractConceptual metaphor theory highlights that metaphor is a matter of thinking. This assumption indicates that metaphors exist not only in language, but also in other modes. This study examines uses of visual and visual-verbal metaphors in 50 Chinese editorial cartoons conceptualizing serious haze problem, with the intention of eliciting implicit meaning conveyed by visual signs alone or together with verbal texts. Both conceptual and critical discourse analysis of the metaphors are conducted. The study finds that the way a metaphor is realized visually and verbally in a cartoon determines the features mapped onto the topic, and further implicitly expresses a critical stance toward the topic under discussion. The metaphors in the cartoons evoke a general understanding of haze problem by activating the war scenario and familiar cultural or social context in viewers. It is found in this corpus that visual fusion and visual replacement are the most frequent kinds of visual metaphors. The study further affirms that visual metaphors are better in conveying rich and implicit conceptual and affective meaning, and can be direct manifestation of the conceptual metaphor without the mediation of language. In sum the study suggests the need for an integrated approach to visual metaphoric representation in multimodal analysis.

Learning Improvement Efforts Through Reflective Studies in Elementary Schools

The study aims to demonstrate to primary school teachers that learning improvement must be conducted by the teachers themselves through the study Reflesi to improve the quality of the process and learning outcomes. Low quality of education in elementary schools due to the lack of attention of teachers to the development of students' learning skills, including problems of individual differences, has not yet gained service in learning. In such conditions, it is necessary to improve the learning to repair, improve the quality of learning and produce innovations that can improve learning processes and outcomes. The study uses a qualitative approach as a reflection of elementary school teachers in developing learning skills through the method of reflection learning. The research was conducted using participatory or empirical paradigms as a fundamental concept that departed from the study of participatory action. The results of research related to the analysis of increased learning efforts in elementary school through the reflection of learning show that teachers who are reflecting learning during the teaching process can create a better teaching process. Reflections of learning provide meaningful experiences and make teachers aware of their strengths and weaknesses in teaching. That continuous improvement in learning can improve the mastery of teaching skills, material mastery, development and the students' condition. Reflection learning is a matter of thinking and motivating teachers to always improve their learning regardless of whether or not there is a problem in the classroom.

Alterocupar-se: obliquação e transicionalidade na experiência literária

Resumo O artigo busca desenvolver a noção de obliquação e entender por que a experiência literária parece ser o seu lugar privilegiado, por meio de um movimento duplo, mas conjugado. Em primeiro lugar, trata-se de pensar, através de uma leitura transversal da teoria da enunciação, a obliquação como condição fundamental da reflexividade - que seria, para fazer uso de um jogo de palavras, um reflexo à obliquação. Assim, se em seu curso sobre A hermenêutica do sujeito, Foucault se propunha realizar “uma analítica das formas da reflexividade, na medida em que são elas que constituem o sujeito como tal”, a nosso ver, tal exercício ainda precisa ser complementado por uma ontologia dos modos de obliquação, entre os quais está a experiência literária aqui analisada. Em segundo, levando isso ao paroxismo, tentaremos argumentar, fazendo um livre uso do conceito de objetos transicionais, que a obliquação precede e até mesmo possibilita a ocupação do próprio lugar, ou seja, de que há um privilégio ontológico da ficção, do outrar-se, sobre a própria subjetividade.

Golosina canibal 2.0

An analysis of the presence of the topic "cannibal" in recent Argentine literature. This article offers a reading of the novel El Entenado (1982) by Juan José Saer, observing the way in which it is inserted within the system of the author 's work and within the Argentinean literary canon. The Saerian heritage is resignified from the figure of cannibalism and its presence in cultural studies. It is a matter of thinking of "cannibalism" as a theme where the opposition between the interior and exterior is relativized by founding an exuberant de-colonial polysemy that challenges the stigma of savagery and barbarism with which classical historiography has characterized the New World. The cannibal cleavage of texts published after the year 2000 -texts singularly crossed by the experience of the migration- makes dance in the pendulum of the culture the knowledge and the flavor, the eating and the being-eaten.

Social Discrimination in Antology of Poetry Essay Atas Nama Cinta Written by Denny Ja (Content Analysis Research)

Essay poetry is regarded as a matter of thinking and experience of social conditions in society nowadays. Although it has different role in the variety of literary form, it can be well received by society. Essay poetry should consist of three conditions, namely (1) essay poetry explores the inner side of an individual who is in a social conflict; (2) essay poetry using language that is easily understood; and (3) essay poetry is fiction. It may tell about real characters based on the history. However, the reality enriched with various fictional and dramatic figures that the essay poetry emphasizes is a reflection and moral content conveyed through a story, not merely an accurate portrait of history. The research method used is qualitative through content analysis technique. The data were collected based on anthology of poetry essay Atas Nama Cinta written by Denny JA. Through this poetry essay, it will be examined on social issues such as discrimination experienced by humans in general, such as discrimination against different religions, gender, Chinese, and others. The stories that are presented seem to open the knowledge about the other side of the human love story that commonly romantic and cheerful. The social and cultural conditions of discrimination embrace society in a real way. In fact, this reflects social conditions of society in general in the era of globalization and information.Keywords: discrimination, social, essay poetry

YAFFE ON CRIMINAL ATTEMPTS

Central to Gideon Yaffe's powerful theory of the legitimate criminalization of unsuccessful attempts is his “transfer principle,” according to which, “if a particular form of conduct is legitimately criminalized, then the attempt to engage in that form of conduct is also legitimately criminalized.” I argue that this principle, taken together with Yaffe's theory of the nature of attempts, threatens to lead to a normatively problematic conclusion in support of the legitimate criminalization of attempts that are merely a matter of thinking and do not involve action in the public space. And I argue that Yaffe's efforts to block this conclusion are themselves problematic. This leads to a proposed revision of the “transfer principle,” one that draws on plausible normative views about the nonlegitimacy of criminal sanctions in cases of attempts that are merely a matter of thinking and do not involve action in the public space.

Buddhism and Autonomy-Facilitating Education

This article argues that Buddhists can consistently support autonomy as an educational ideal. The article defines autonomy as a matter of thinking and acting according to principles that one has oneself endorsed, showing the relationship between this ideal and the possession of an enduring self. Three central Buddhist doctrines of conditioned arising, impermanence and anatman are examined, showing a prima facie conflict between autonomy and Buddhist philosophy. Drawing on the ‘two truths’ theory of Nagarjuna, it is then shown that the prima facie conflict can be defused by noting that the self has reality at one level, but is a fiction at another level. This approach allows us a new way of seeing autonomy as an extrinsic value—as a step in the journey towards nirvana, but of no value once one has achieved nirvana.

Figure-ground reversal among the Barok

What is the relation of art,  of thinking and feeling in images, to the form and being of a human culture? We in the modern Western cultures often say that our greatest art transcends the age and cultural surroundings in which it was created. But of course Shakespeare, Vermeer, and Mozart were very much persons of their own times and cultures, and their art, however transcendent, must manifest a significant part of the creativity of the age and culture. My experience in studying the Usen Barok people of Central New Ireland has convinced me that their culture is very much a matter of thinking and feeling in images. This means that the conception and motivation behind the malagan and other New Ireland art styles manifests something very basic in the cultures of this remarkable island. The fact that the Barok do not participate in the malagan tradition may serve, through the examples I present, to give the reader a broader and more varied sense of the possibility of a culture organized around art principles — around thinking and feeling in images. Let me first clarify an important point. By ―image‖ I do not simply mean ―visual image,‖ though New Irelanders often show a predilection for the visual. A cultural image can be verbal, as in the tropes, conceits, and other word pictures that carry much of the force of Shakespeare’s expression; it can be expressed in the nonrepresentational forms of music; or it can be kinesthetic or architectural, as it often is in New Ireland. An image has the power of synthesis: it condenses whole realms of possible ideas and interpretations and allows complex relationships to be perceived and grasped in an instant. I shall illustrate this by using a common Barok verbal image as an example. Like other New Irelanders, Barok trace clan membership through the mother’s

The use of LigaSure for preservation of a previous coronary artery bypass graft by using the left internal thoracic artery in a left upper lobectomy

We report an interesting clinical case concerning the use of an electrothermal bipolar tissue-sealing system (LigaSure, Valleylab, Inc, Boulder, Colo) 1 in a particularly challenging technical situation, such as the resection of the left upper pulmonary lobe in a patient with a previous coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) with the left internal thoracic artery (LITA). Clinical Summary In a 63-year-old man, an opacity localized in the left upper pulmonary lobe was incidentally discovered on chest radiographic analysis. He had undergone CABG 8 years before with the LITA on the left anterior descending coronary artery. Clinical and laboratory evaluation showed no abnormalities. Spirometric results were normal. Computed tomographic analysis demonstrated a peripheral mass in the left upper lobe, and there was no significant mediastinal adenopathy. Bronchoscopy did not demonstrate abnormalities of the left upper bronchus, and percutaneous needle biopsy showed a non‐small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). A standard posterolateral thoracotomy incision was performed through the fifth intercostal space. A 6-cm tumor was found in the left upper lobe (Figure 1). The dissection of the lobe from the pericardium was possible, but dense adhesions were identified between the LITA and the apex of the upper lobe. The challenge was to do an upper lobectomy while avoiding injury to the LITA. Therefore the part of parenchyma adjacent to the LITA was separated from the upper lobe by using LigaSure system (Figure 2). After this maneuver, we performed an anatomic upper lobectomy, leaving a small strip of parenchyma adjacent to the LITA; we tested the arterial graft manually, and a good pulsation was found. Anatomopathologic studies showed a 6‐cm stage IB squamous cell carcinoma, according to TNM classification. 2 The patient’s postoperative course was unremarkable, and he was discharged on the seventh postoperative day.

O enigma da inclusão: das intenções às práticas pedagógicas

Essa pesquisa buscou tecer uma rede, utilizando teorias e vivências, com o propósito de formular conhecimentos a respeito da inclusão escolar. Sob a égide da abordagem qualitativa e a partir da fundamentação no/do cotidiano, a investigação teve seu foco direcionado para um Centro de Atenção Integral à Criança - CAIC - na cidade de Juiz de Fora-MG, durante todo um ano letivo. O objetivo dessa investigação foi verificar os procedimentos adotados, adaptados ou transformados pela Instituição ao buscar inserir crianças e adolescentes com deficiência no ensino regular. Foram feitas observações em diferentes momentos: entrada, recreio e saída dos alunos; em vários ambientes: salas de aula, salas dos professores, pátio; em diversas ocasiões: aula, conselhos de classe, reuniões pedagógicas e festas em datas comemorativas. Também foram realizadas 34 entrevistas com o quadro docente, administrativo, técnico e alguns estudantes diretamente envolvidos no estudo e suas mães. Acompanhou-se o dia-a-dia de sete alunos com deficiência em turmas de Educação Infantil e Ensino Fundamental. A pesquisa possibilitou concluir que trabalhar, inovar e ousar implementar uma educação inclusiva, que atenda a todos os alunos, com e sem deficiência, indistintamente, no ensino regular não é missão impossível, mas desafio superável. É uma questão de pensar e querer, pensar e fazer uma escola que inspire a troca entre os alunos, confronte formas desiguais de pensamento e de estilo de vida, busque metodologias interativas e faça do reconhecimento das diversidades estratégias para uma nova aprendizagem, enfim, uma escola que reconheça as diferenças e, respeitando-as, com elas conviva.

Heidegger's Reflection on Aletheia: Merely a Teminological Shift?

In The End of Philosophy and the Task of Thinking, Heidegger discusses the need to move beyond prior philosophical thinking to the determination of the proper matter of thinking. In first encountering this idea, which has the form of an injunction to think the philosophical tradition in a way which enables us to overcome that tradition, one may be seized with the inclination to lodge the kind of thoroughgoing critique of the tradition which puts one in position to bury and forget it as if it were a bad dream. Some self-styled Heideggerians employ this tack in an attempt to exponge from philosophy the notions of and presence, as if these notions were nothing more than an elaborate and painfully embarrassing mistake which should simply be forgotten; then the task of philosophy, if there still is one, is to articulate a realm of non-metaphysical discourse in which anything goes as long as it does not involve the dirty words Subjectivity and .presence. But at best such a posture bears only a superficial resemblance to Heidegger's position. While Heidegger does seek to overcome the tradition and its fundamental presuppositions about Being, he is not enjoining us to jettison the tradition but rather to appropriate it productively, to transform its concepts in the way in which concepts become aufgehoben in Hegelian dialectic. It is in this spirit that Heidegger devoted his life to the study of the history of philosophy. (Here we should bear in mind that Heidegger considered philosophy to be a peculiarly occidental pursuit.) And it is in this spirit that we must interpret Heidegger's reflection on aletheia in The End of Philosophy and the Task of Thinking: if we try to think unconcealment in isolation from the traditional understanding of Being as presence, and if we try to understand our own being in isolation from traditional concepts of human being which culminate in the modern notion of Subjectivity, then we fail to think the matter of philosophy authentically and end up engaging in meaningless word-play. It is true that on Heidegger's account the tradition has gone astray, but it is the very crux of his account that we are destined to do so. And perhaps the most conspicuous example of this er-

Community (In Being): On the Idiom of the Matter of Thinking

Community (In Being): On the Idiom of the Matter of Thinking