Reasonable Rejection Research Articles

Civilization Without Evil in Leszek Kołakowski’s Works

Leszek Kołakowski had a keen interest in the phenomenon of evil, and many of his works address this topic. Kołakowski made attempts to explore the origin of evil, human experiences of evil, changes in beliefs about evil in European consciousness throughout the ages, and he commented on the proposition that the world should be defined as free of evil. In his works, the phenomenon of evil was examined through the lens of two contextual perspectives: episteme and sacrum. This article explores the ways in which contemporary readers of Kołakowski’s works approach the problem of evil from these two perspectives. The paper discusses Kołakowski’s attempts to analyze the process of eliminating the traditional divide between good and evil and the rejection of Reason, Truth and Virtue in the Platonic and Aristotelean sense.

XIII—Moral Criticism and the Metaphysics of Bluff

Abstract By invoking surprising rationalist considerations that Bernard Williams does not anticipate, this paper defends Williams’s claim that that moral criticism on the basis of purported external reasons amounts to ‘bluff’. After strengthening this rejection of external reasons by drawing parallels to compelling rationalist arguments in other domains, the paper mounts a similarly rationalist critique of internal reasons invoked by Kantian moral philosophers. The paper closes with an apocalyptic line of thought that develops the preceding rationalist arguments into a challenge to the notion of acting for reasons in general.

Body, Shadow and Death: Redefinition of the Origin of Painting with Tracing the Shadow

The origin of things has always captivated people; for painting, there are several myths to illustrate it. In western, Pliny the Elder contributed one of the most antiquity stories in his Natural History; from 1770 to 1820, particularly in Britain and France, there are an increasing number of works based on this story, the majority of which are composed of the same elements: classical environment, two lovers, as well as shadow. Considering Joseph Benoit Suvée's the Invention of the Art of Painting in 1791 as a starting place, this paper intends to challenge Plato's reasonable rejection of shadows while, in the process, analyzing Hans Belting's theory of image anthropology, the present essay focuses on two key concepts of the shadow with the truth. Thus, Pliny argued that shadows may be genuine, whereas Plato held that they could be dangerously deceptive.

The Etymological Demon in Love

ABSTRACT A missing word haunts Milton’s epic poem on loss. While Milton scholarship is silent on the absence of “demon” in Paradise Lost, the word is a shaping presence narratively involved in the subtext from start to finish. Milton leans on the classical etymology of “demon” to offer a reading of Satan’s duality and is especially indebted to Plato, who uses the form daimonion to refer to a divine source. That Milton uses Greek sources to shape the contours of the suppressed word and gives Platonic demons primacy compels readers to question his intentions. By silently enfolding Platonic, Septuagintal, New Testament, Homeric, and Hesiodic demons into the poem, Milton maps Satan’s subconscious rejection of reason in favor of the idols of self-seduction, self-worship, and pride.

A Multiwideband Compact Antenna Design for Vehicular Sub-6 GHz 5G Wireless Systems

This article presents a multiwideband monopole antenna for automotive application in the long-term evolution (LTE) and 5G systems that covers the frequency range from 617 MHz to 5 GHz with reasonable rejection on the L1/L2/L5 GNSS bands. The antenna is suitable for placement on a car roof within a shark-fin radome due to its physical dimensions and performance. The antenna is simulated using software and then fabricated and measured on a 1 m ground plane and a vehicle roof. The measurement results of the fabricated prototype are presented and plotted in terms of reflection coefficient, radiation patterns, antenna efficiency, and linear average gain (LAG). The proposed antenna shows very good properties that make it suitable for the automotive industry.

A Public Health Reset Through Contractualism

A Public Health Reset Through Contractualism

Solidarity as Social Reconstruction

Abstract The neoliberal agenda is based on the rejection of social objectivism and social reason, in favor of individual preferences and subjective values. Reforms carried out under this agenda destroy institutions and practices of solidarity. While the 2008 financial crisis has confronted neoliberalism with a legitimation crisis, an alternative agenda has yet to emerge. In the past decades, this “void” gave birth to the implementation of “regressive communities”. Instead of challenging the neoliberal agenda these communities function as mere authoritarian extensions. By rejecting social issues and defending cultural values they display contempt for social objectivity and reason. A path beyond the neoliberal “all market” approach as well as the subsequent triggerering of “regressive communities” is nowadays sought by social reconstruction through solidarity.

An ultrafast multi-layer Graphene/InGaAs/InAlAs/InAs P-I-N photodetector with 100 GHz bandwidth

In recent years, the data traffic has grown exponentially and the forecasts indicate a huge market that could be addressed by optoelectronics. However, the processing capacity, space, and energy consumption of the available technology is a serious bottleneck for the exploitation of these markets. Graphene material is a new candidate using in optoelectronics’ devices such as photodetector. The responsivity of Graphene photodetectors depends critically on the elevated temperature of the electronic subsystem upon photoexcitation. We performed in this study a multi layer Graphene/InGaAs /InAlAs/InAs Photodetector PIN simulation with Atlas under Silvaco tcad Tools using Graphene and high electronmobility II I-V materials. Our devices exhibit 100 GHz bandwidth with 40 ps transient reponse, (2.7 × 10−7 A) of photocurrent, high responsivity with value of 1.26A/W and a suitable efficiency η of 95 % with reasonable rejection ration of Iilumination/Idark of 2 order of magnitude.

Pusey and Scripture: Dead End or Fertile Ground?

AbstractPusey is often characterised as obscurantist and conservative in his rejection of the higher literary criticism of the Bible in the later part of the nineteenth century. Much of the criticism of Pusey has focused on a limited assessment of Pusey as a scriptural scholar and on unfair psychological analysis. This article examines Pusey's epistemology more deeply and concludes that he had a breadth of vision which commends itself to the modern world as a critique of reason rather than a rejection of reason. Pusey's role as a biblical scholar is reassessed within the broad context of the Oxford Movement.

Tannic acid assisted interfacial polymerization based loose thin-film composite NF membrane for dye/salt separation

In this work, a novel tannic acid assisted interfacial polymerization (TAIP) method was developed for preparing loose nanofiltration membranes (LNMs). Piperazine (PIP) and tannic acid (TA), two kinds of common monomer for interfacial polymerization (IP), were employed to deposit on substrate for the TAIP process. The TAIP process resulted in enlarged pores in the skin layer due to the longer monomers, thus achieved considerable permselectivity in separating salts from dye/salt mixture solution. The optimal TAIP membrane (M4) exhibited high permeability (32.57 LMH·bar−1 to Congo Red solution), reasonable rejection to dyes (99.40% and 99.19% for Congo Red and Rose Bengal, respectively) and satisfactory transport to salts (90.59% to Na2SO4 and 97.75% to NaCl). Meanwhile, this membrane retained high performance in dye/salt separation (7.16 LMH·bar−1 of permeability, 97.47% of CR rejection and 2.55% of NaCl retention) under even as high as 6 wt% of salt concentration. Moreover, TAIP LNM showed high stability throughout a 30-hour-long running test to separate salts from dye/salt mixture solution. We anticipated the TAIP methodology, together with the consequential LNM, to provide a potential candidate for dye/salt separation application.

Reason, ideas and their functions in classical German philosophy

«Вестник Санкт-Петербургского университета. Философия и конфликтология» — научно-теоретический рецензируемый журнал, обобщающий результаты исследований ученых всего мира в области традиционных философских дисциплин — онтологии, теории познания, логики, этики, социальной философии, эстетики, истории философии, философии культуры и философии религии, а также актуальные разработки в конфликтологии, философии политики и права.

Defending Honor and Beyond: Reconsidering the Relationship between Seemingly Futile Defense and Permissible Harming

In Helen Frowe’s book, Defensive Killing, she argues that some cases of seemingly futile self-defense are actually instances of justifiable defense of the victim’s honor. This paper explores Frowe’s claim, first by isolating the central cases and then by examining her rejection of punitive reasons. From there, the paper examines Frowe’s understanding of “defense of honor,” ultimately suggesting that Frowe’s conception is best construed as action that has expressive, but not defensive, value. From there, I turn to two more general puzzles. First, what if the defender mistakenly believes that she can successfully defend and acts for that reason, but the reason that actually supports her action is not one she is acting in light of? And, second, how ought we to understand the interests of an aggressor who has forfeited his rights?

Minimally Deliberative Deliberative Systems? Problematisation and the Deliberative Democratic Effects of Poorly Deliberative Communication

This article deals with the role of public communication in democratic decision-making, with a view to identifying communicative practices that can be expected to meet deliberative democratic standards. On the basis of two case studies, a mechanism is reconstructed through which public communication, although being poorly deliberative, can influence decision-making and achieve some of deliberative democracy’s most fundamental goals, namely, to attain mutually justified decisions, to secure the free and reasoned consent of citizens and to promote substantively correct decisions. This mechanism consists in the recurrent problematisation of a situation and the concomitant generation of political demands and proposals. This argument can at least be formulated if one adopts an institutional system perspective coupled with a concept of mutual justification understood along the lines of the ‘reasonable rejection test’.

British Romanticism and the Critique of Political Reason. Timothy Michael. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. Pp. viii+283.

<i>British Romanticism and the Critique of Political Reason</i>. Timothy Michael. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. Pp. viii+283.

Why Are Religious Reasons Dismissed? Euthanasia, Basic Goods, and Gratuitous Evil

Many proponents of euthanasia eschew appeals to religious premises as good reasons for thinking that human life has intrinsic worth. The reasons offered are that religious reasons do not meet some theory-neutral epistemic standard. My first argument is to show that pro-euthanasia arguments fail to meet those same standards. In order to avoid this incoherence, the rejection of religious reasons is a function of thinking that such reasons are simply false. Arguing against religious belief has typically fallen to the evidential argument from evil. My second argument is to show that the argument from evil must hold to a basic goods account of human life. Such an account is contrary to the view of human life held by most euthanasia proponents. So, euthanasia proponents who reject religious belief on the basis of an argument from evil must hold to a contradictory view of human worth. One cannot both be a euthanasia proponent and reject arguments against euthanasia (that are based in part on religious premises). I explore ways to resolve this tension, but none save pro-euthanasia arguments.

Rejection of manuscripts and possible reasons

Rejection of manuscripts and possible reasons

Technology Focus: Unconventional Resources (July 2015)

Technology Focus At this time in the industry, it is worth reflecting on what drove Steve Jobs, who was one of the most inspirational and innovative thinkers of recent times. Apple’s chief design officer, John Ive, had this to say about Jobs: “The defeat of cynicism. The rejection of reason. The rejection of being told 100 times, ‘You can’t do that.’ So his, I think, was a victory for beauty, for purity. And as he would say, ‘for giving a damn.’ ” With the industry downturn, the same resolve is necessary to find the technical solution that allows the unconventional business to thrive despite severe economic headwinds. And the past is evidence of our capabilities. In the mid-1990s, with low gas prices, ultratight gas was developed from vertical wells. Water-fracturing technology was developed in this economic environment. The large volumes of proppant previously used were proved not to be necessary in many reservoirs. Significant cost savings were the result, without noticeable effect on production. In this low-gas-price environment, fracture-staging methods were also developed that were cost effective and promoted operational efficiency, such as induced stress diversion. As gas prices improved in the early 2000s, the number of fracture stages increased. Methods such as flow-through fracture plugs were promoted, which, while costing more, led to more-effective cleanup and recovery. Finally, as gas prices continued to increase in the 2000s, horizontal wells increased dramatically in shale gas and then in shale oil. History shows that technology adapts to the economic conditions. The optimum technology in a high-price environment is not optimum for a low-price scenario. The only limit to unconventional development is our imagination. So, with a dramatic drop in oil price, unconventional-reservoir development is again ripe for innovation. The path to developing these new technologies requires a sustained focus on innovation and resilience to potential early setbacks. “And when the ideas didn’t come,” Ive continued about Jobs, “and when the prototypes failed, it was with great intent, with faith, he decided to believe we would eventually make something great.” Do you have the faith? JPT

Investigation of sorption characteristics of polymeric membranes containing ionic liquids for n-butanol recovery from aqueous streams

Ionic liquid–polydimethylsiloxane (IL–PDMS) blending membranes were prepared to separate n-butanol from aqueous mixtures. The ionic liquids (ILs) used were [hmim][PF6] (1-hexyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate), [bmim][PF6] (1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate), and [bmim][TF2N] (1-Butyl-3-methylimidazolium bistrifluoromethylsulfonylimide). Sorption experiments were carried out to define the sorption and separation capacity of the blending membranes using aqueous butanol solutions in the range of 1–5% (wt), and also sole solvents of butanol and water. The desorption experiments allowed to determine the selectivity of the membranes as the liquid composition inside the membrane could be obtained with the desorption step. The results obtained by IL–PDMS blends were compared with the results obtained by unblended PDMS membranes to show the effect of the IL in the PDMS matrix. [Hmim][PF6]–PDMS-blended membranes showed lower selectivity. The addition of [bmim][PF6] to PDMS enhanced the selectivity and sorption amounts mildly. [Bmim][TF2N]–PDMS-blended membranes presented the best sorption and selectivity results showing a great affinity to butanol and a reasonable rejection to water.

Exergy and exergoeconomic analyses and optimization of geothermal organic Rankine cycle

This paper presents thermodynamic and economic analyses on a novel-type geothermal regenerative organic Rankine cycle based on both energy and exergy concepts. An optimization study is also performed based on the heat exchangers total surface area parameter. Parametric studies are performed to investigate the effect of operating parameters, and their effects on the system energetic and exergetic efficiencies and economic parameters are investigated. The energy and exergy efficiency values are found to be 16.37% and 48.8%, respectively, for optimum operating conditions at a reasonable rejection temperature range of the geothermal water from 78.49 °C to 116.2 °C. The mass flow rates of the organic fluid, cooling water and provided geothermal water are calculated for a net out power of 5 MWe.

In the Face of Austerity: The Puzzle of Museums and Universities

In the Face of Austerity: The Puzzle of Museums and Universities