Reading Pope Research Articles

Pope, Spinoza, and the Limits of Thought: (Re)Thinking An Essay on Man

Abstract: In this article I (re)think An Essay on Man with respect to the history of philosophy, by reading Pope's poem comparatively with Spinoza's Ethics , a method suggested by Jean-Pierre de Crousaz's contemporary critiques of the Essay , which accused Pope of Spinozism. I also consider the Essay in the light of Fredric Jameson's assertion that there exist perennial problems that "philosophy," "theory," indeed "thinking" itself cannot solve, but which must continue to be posed anyway, not set aside or abandoned. I thus suggest a new approach to the Essay , focused on several such problems, which have often vexed previous criticism.

The Eutopian City: The Challenge of Urban Conviviality in the Laudato Si’ and Fratelli Tutti Encyclicals

Abstract This article aims to show how the concept of the eutopian city can be used as a key for reading Pope Francis’s latest two encyclicals (Laudato Si’, from 2015 and Fratelli Tutti, from 2020). We highlight the ideal of conviviality in the notion of common home, political love, and social friendship, whose paradigm in contemporary urban life would be the experience of neighbourhood. This involves thinking of the city as a space of conviviality and the construction of a common project of society, overcoming the divisions of a closed world in favour of an open world. The papal texts therefore reveal formulation of a political proposal precisely at the time when politics was dying, fostered by new climate conditions and the renewed culture of walls.

Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man, ed. Tom Jones.

Alexander Pope, <i>An Essay on Man</i>, ed. Tom Jones.

A Brief History of Insanity: The Gaudio Translation

We have to recover the history. James Meredith, the African-American who integrated the previously whites only segregated University of Mississippi in the mid-1960’s, once told me that it was only when he worked in Japan after WWII that he realized that segregation of the races was not ordained by God. Recently, I think I received some indication of why he thought that and why the current situation is as it is. I had of course been familiar with American slavery, but before that 1619 project, I was surprised to come across the Dum Diversas and Romanus Pontifex Papal Bulls/Letters of Pope Nicholas V in the mid-1400’s blessing and calling for the perpetual enslavement of Africans. An HBO series entitled Exterminate All the Brutes referred to another Papal Bull/Letter of 1478 of Pope Sixtus IV which blessed and protected by God the start of the Spanish Inquisition. This 1478 Papal Bull/Letter to Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain is entitled Exigit Sinceras Devotionis Affectus. Until May 20, 2021 it had never been translated into English and appears for the first time in this article as the Gaudio Translation. The combination of the three Papal Bulls/Letters suggests the origin of the idea of white supremacy that went on to permeate the world in a 550 year pandemic. By bringing this origin story to light today, in reading Pope Sixtus IV, we each see how little we have progressed since 1478 in our thinking about each other. This origin story also shows us just what we have to do to free our minds of these shackles that hold back all of us - confusing true faith with merely terrestrial human frailty to the detriment of so many millions.

Analyzing Inclusivity in Pope Francis’ Fratelli Tutti (On Fraternity and Social Friendship) and its Implications to Catholic Education

During the many issues that confront the world today ranging from the Covid-19 pandemic to various forms of discrimination that result to hate crimes and other forms of marginalization, Pope Francis issued a social teaching entitled Fratelli Tutti, On Fraternity and Social Friendship. This encyclical draws inspiration from St. Francis’ concept of fraternitas and human solidarity. The study employed an analysis inspired by Paul Ricoeur’s hermeneutical framework which consists of the world behind the text, the world of the text, and the world before the text, to examine its content, context, and application. The research analyzes the document itself, its structure, genre, style of writing and key social encyclical concepts namely human dignity, solidarity and the common good against the backdrop of a “throw-away culture”, an individualistic understanding of freedom and exclusivity. The document educates people to cross borders and build bridges through new ways of encounter. The encyclical assesses current events, lays out the gospel value of inclusivity, presents new perspectives to walk the talk, inspires authentic conversion and calls everyone to action. Fratelli Tutti brings the message of social friendship that can be applied in the context of Catholic education to enrich its three pillars namely instruction, research, and extension.ReferencesAubert, R. (1998). Leo XIII. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leo-XIII#ref77088 on 8 November 2020.BBC (2020). Pope Francis on Iraq visit calls for end to violence and extremism. https://www .bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-56282598.Biography Newsletter (2018). Francis. https://www.biography.com/religious-figure/popefrancis.Beale, S. (2013). 7 Papal Encyclicals That Changed the World. https://catholicexchange. com/7-papal -encyclicals-that-changedthe-world.Bell, Mark. (2020) Fratelli Tutti: Pope Francis' Encyclical and Implications for Labour Law. https://uklabourlawblog.com/2020/10/22/fratelli-tutti-pope-francis-encyclical-and implicationsfor-labour-law-by-mark-bell/.Benedict the XIV. (1740). Ubi Primum, “On the Duties of Bishops” in Papal Encyclicals Online. https://www.papalencyclicals.net/ben14/b14ubipr.htm on 7 November 2020.Cheney, G. (2020). Be Revolutionary: Some Thoughts of Pope Francis. https://www. academia.edu/15265042/Be_Revolutionary_Some_Thoughts_from_Pope_Francis.Fallible Man (1986). trans. C. A. Kelbley. Fordham University Press. Francis. (2020) Fratelli Tutti, On Fraternity and Social Friendship. http://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20201003enciclica-fratelli-tutti.html..Friel, C. (2020) Fratelli Tutti and the Crisis of Liberalism. https://www.academia. edu/44346648 /Fratelli_Tutti_and_the_Crisis_of_Liberalism on 12 November 2020.Gjani, M. (2020). 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(2013). http://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/ encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20130629_enciclica-lumen-fidei.html on 11 November 2020 .Mcguire, J. 7 Basic Points: Humanae Vitae Summary. https://www.hli.org/resources/7-basic-points-humanae-vitae-summary/ on 10 November 2020.Moss, W. (2020). Reading Pope Francis's "Fratelli tutti" through Carl Sandburg. https://www. academia.edu/44418894/Reading_Pope_Franciss_Fratelli_tutti_through_Carl_Sandburg on 12 November 2020.O’Reilly, P. (2020). Pope Francis’ Reforms. https://www.academia.edu/search?utf8=%E2% 9C%93&amp;q=Pope+Francis+thoughts on 12 November, 2020.Paul the VI. (1968). Humanae Vitae. http://www.vatican.va/content/paulvi/en/encyclicals/ documents/hf_p-vi_enc_25071968_humanaevitae.html on 10 November 2020.Piro, I. (2020). Fratelli tutti: Short summary of Pope Francis’ Social Encyclical. https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2020-10/fratelli-tutti-pope-fraternity-social-friendship-shortsummary. html on 11March 2021.Pius XI. (1930). Casti Connubii, “On Christian Marriage”. http://www.vatican.va/content/pius-xi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xi_enc_19301231_casti-connubii.html on 10 November 2020.Pоpоvа, G. (Ed) (2019). Philosophical Hermeneutics: Between Gadamer and Ricoeur – Chavdar Dimitrov.NotaBene 45. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335004013_ Philosophical_Hermeneutics_Between_Gadamer_and_Ricoeur on 11 November 2020.Providentissimus Deus, “On the Study of Holy Scripture”. (1893). https://www.papalencyclicals.net/leo13/l13provi.htm on 8 November 2020Quadragesimo Anno, “On the Reconstruction of Social Order”. (1931). http://www.vatican.va/ content/pius-i/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xi_enc_19310515_quadragesimo-anno.htm on 7 November 2020.Rice, D. (2015). The Papal Encyclical: What is an encyclical? USA Today. https://www.usatoday. com/story/news/world/2015/06/16/pope-francis-encyclical/28814437/ on 6 November 2020.Ricoeur, P. (1979). Response to My Friends and Critics. – In: C.E. Reagan (ed.). Studies in the Philosophy of Paul Ricoeur. Ohio University Press.Stefon, M. (2016). Francis in Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francis-I-pope/additionalinfo#history on 10 November 2020.Stevens, M. (1994) Redemptor Hominis in The New Dictionary of Catholic Social Thought. In Dwyer, J. (Ed). Liturgical Press: 817-822.The Model of the Text: Meaningful Action Considered as a Text. (1984). Social Research 51.Villafana, A. (2018). Environmental Mobilization: Pope Francis’ Encyclical. https://www. academia. edu/31950900/Environmental_Mobilization_Pope_Francis_Encyclical on 12 November 2020.

Reading Pope's Homer in the 1720s: The Iliad Notes of Philip Doddridge

As a young minister in 1725, Philip Doddridge (1702–1751), later to become one of the most influential figures of eighteenth-century Dissent, embarked on a close reading of Homer's Iliad in Greek alongside Pope's English verse translation of 1715–20. As he read he recorded, in shorthand notes, detailed ‘remarks’ critically comparing the Greek and English texts as works of poetry, with a particular eye to the success or otherwise of Pope's version. The unique manuscript containing the remarks has in part survived, and is held by Dr Williams' Library, London. In this discussion, Doddridge is introduced and his remarks transcribed for the first time. They provide a contemporary reading of Pope's Iliad which in its depth and detail goes well beyond anything else available for private readers, as opposed to the professional critics and scholars whose extensive attacks and defences it elicited.

The Matter of Language; or, What Does "the Sound Must Seem an Eccho to the Sense" Mean?

Alexander Pope's famous dictum that "The Sound must seem an Eccho to the Sense" usually is taken to advocate straightforwardly that poetic sound can and should imitate meaning, in a kind of onomatopoeia writ large. This essay contends, however, that the real complexity of the line has not been recognized. Pope conjures a "seem"-ingly stable relation between "Sound" and "Sense" only to destabilize both terms and to raise fundamental questions about the material stuff of language. Indeed, reading Pope's "Eccho" alongside Enlightenment philosophy of language, this essay explores some sophisticated ways that poetry can participate in philosophy.

Laudato si’: sobre o cuidado da casa comum – um guia de leitura –

Este artigo constitui um guia de leitura, da encíclica do Papa Francisco, aqui definido como um líder moral e intelectual com coragem de profeta. Oferece um mapa para orientar o leitor da encíclica e para possibilitar, aos que não puderem lê-la, uma compreensão mínima de seus pontos principais e de seus argumentos. Seguindo os passos do próprio texto, frisa o que parece ser o mais relevante em cada parte. No final, o Autor ensaia uma interpretação pessoal do documento.

Imaging Interiority: Photography, Psychology, and Lyric Poetry

considered together, William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience and William Wordsworth’s “tintern abbey” suggest how the romantic lyric anticipates photography. offering up imagery deployed both graphically and typographically, these songs provide a model for the photographer’s work of capturing inner states, thereby exploring what printed media up to 1810 could not. in thematizing the loss of sound, both poems produce a sense of psychological depth in the figure of a seer struggling to hear. Physical marks—whether printed texts or graphic images—are unified into a human perspective as (absent) phonology becomes associated with (present) morphology. these lyric poems teach us, in other words, to warm up cool graphic marks by anthropomorphizing them into a “voice,” the voice that in subsequent decades will be conveyed by figures in photographs or photographers’ ways of seeing. imaGinG interiority 219 Winter 2007 the limitations of printed media before 1810. Jay david Bolter and richard Grusin argue that all new media actively attempt to remediate older media and that such attempts regularly lead to a new medium’s self-consciousness about its own limitations (15). though available for close literary and pictorial analysis, the poetic “songs” i analyze in this essay cannot make noise. remediating a bardic, oral culture that is itself a construct, they register gains for critical awareness but losses in immediacy. as the comparison enables us to see, the interiority that these lyric poems construct and the psychological depth that results arise from a focus on imagery combined with a thematizing of the loss of sound. current criticism seems to offer a contradictory reading of early romantic writers’ particular sense of their own media ecology. on the one hand, Lucy newlyn describes coleridge and Wordsworth as working together to produce poetry to be recited: Hazlitt’s criticism of their work, in fact, was that those who encountered it in printed form would fail to understand it properly in the absence of its authors’ voices and facial expressions (337). similarly, Gillien d’arcy Wood’s argument that the romantics “reacted against modern technologies of the visual” (qtd. in townshend 2) is invoked by dale townshend to support his claim that the romantics denigrated the graphic and privileged the aural in their composition of poetry (1). on the other hand, however, celeste Langan persuasively argues that Wordsworth, scott, and coleridge participate in “the redefinition of english poetry by the medium of print” that involves a “‘blanking’ of the auditory screen” (53). How to resolve this contradiction? in his plenary speech at the 2005 nassr conference, andrew elfenbein asserted that romantic poetry was deliberately not “percussive,” nor was the poetry of late-eighteenthand early-nineteenthcentury elocution manuals and collections. For elfenbein, romantic poetry’s refusal to be—in charles Lamb’s words—“pawed about by boys and men” reciting it is signaled by its meter but also by its appearance on the printed page, where one finds a relative paucity of percussive marks such as exclamation marks (113). newlyn’s work is similarly instructive; in her estimation, the early romantic “anxiety” over reception has particularly to do with the distance between printed form and oral delivery (16). Her account coincides with sarah more’s description of Garrick reading Pope aloud to a salon of bluestockings in order to arrive at a proper interpretation of a few lines (roberts 1: 40).

Reading Pope's Imitations of Horace

Reading Pope's Imitations of Horace

Quests of Difference: Reading Pope's Poems. G. Douglas Atkins

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsQuests of Difference: Reading Pope's Poems. G. Douglas AtkinsJ. Douglas CanfieldJ. Douglas Canfield Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Modern Philology Volume 86, Number 3Feb., 1989 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/391714 Views: 1Total views on this site Copyright 1989 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Quests of Difference: Reading Pope's Poems.

Quests of Difference: Reading Pope's Poems.

Quests of Difference: Reading Pope's Poems

Quests of Difference: Reading Pope's Poems

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