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Mano, Olivia Hatsue. "Hawthorne's defense of nature against civilization." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 2013. https://repositorio.ufsc.br/handle/123456789/106099.
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Kollaja, Joshua. "Oneness the nature of a cyborg apocalypse /." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1950196431&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Collins, Paul Thomas. "Social ideology and the Uruk phenomenon." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.340469.
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Jensen, Anna M. "Modernity and the Good Death : Heidegger and Jose Clemente Orozco's Epic of American Civilization /." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2009. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/1905.
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This thesis will analyze José Clemente Orozco's mural The Epic of American Civilization in terms of the problem of suffering. It will focus specifically on two panels, “Human Sacrifice in Ancient Times” and “Human Sacrifice in Modern Times.” This analysis will comprehend not only the works of art within their historical context, but also within Martin Heidegger's philosophical discussion of the question of suffering. Heidegger presents a unique perspective on the question of human suffering when he writes that Western humans have forgotten how to “dwell.” This dwelling is defined by Heidegger's novel conception of ontology as relational rather than individualistic. According to this theory, humans must identify themselves through their associations, both with other people and with things. Without these associations, humans are not be able to escape the anxiety associated with suffering and death brought about by the isolating effects of Western modernity. A discussion of Mexico provides a practical example of the complexities of the question of dwelling in Western thought. At the time Orozco was painting his mural, Mexican identity was rapidly fragmenting. In the decades after the Mexican Revolution, many artists wrestled with the concept of Mexican identity, and it was in this time of flux that Orozco offered his interpretation of the cyclical progress of humanity. The two paintings depict two forms of suffering, which this paper will refer to as a “good” and a “bad” death. This nomenclature is not strictly accurate as neither form could be said to be desirable in any concrete way. Consequently a Rivera painting (“Revolution – Germination”) will also be presented that suggests an ideal death. However, the focus will remain on Orozco's paintings. Of course, in his own paintings Orozco is not endorsing the act of human sacrifice. However, because of differences in their composition, they suggest not only a cyclic pattern to human history, but also a downward progression where the persistent problems of violence and suffering in human societies have grown more difficult and complicated since the advent of modernity. As Orozco's paintings seem to suggest and Heidegger will argue, the solution to the isolating ‘bad death’ is learning to live relationally. These relationships comprehend the social and the cultural, but the focus will be on the ecological and the divine, because, as several critics will argue, these are the greatest deficiencies in modernity.
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Rowlatt, Linnéa. "A godly environment : religious views of nature in early sixteenth-century Strasbourg." Thesis, University of Kent, 2014. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/55002/.
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This thesis offers three case studies of religious representations of the natural world in Strasbourg from 1510 to 1541 from the perspective of the interactive model of socioeconomic metabolism. This model proposes that long-term environmental instability will exert a negative effect on human/social biophysical structures and may provoke changes in the manner in which the natural world is represented within that culture. Although direct causation is impossible to prove due to the autonomous nature of the cultural sphere, this thesis suggests that the two case studies of early sixteenth-century religious reforms in Strasbourg indicate the presence of theological innovations that changed the conceptual relationship between faithful Christians and Creation, thereby offering an enhanced capacity for adherents to exploit the metabolic opportunities in their natural environment. Further, it suggests that these cultural developments were supported and strengthened in part by the stresses society experienced from the natural world. The thesis begins with a description of the natural environment in Alsace during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, with particular attention given to the weather from 1473 to 1541. These decades spanned the coldest years of the Spörer Minimum, itself the second coldest trough of the Little Ice Age. Although weather was the most dynamic and influential element of the natural environment during this period, the model suggests that long term stress from the environment may provoke re-conceptualization of the entire natural sphere of causation. Three religious perspectives are taken as case studies in the thesis to test the model: Roman Catholic, Radical, and Evangelical Christianity. They were created temporally and geographically in proximity, but offer different theological representations of nature. Tentative conclusions arising from their juxtaposition with each other and the climatic conditions suggest that the model is helpful to better understand the complex social and cultural changes during the Reformation. The first case study focuses on Die Emeis, forty-one sermons delivered by Johann Geiler von Kaysersberg in the Liebfrauenmünster zu Strasbourg for Lent 1509. By reading against the grain of these sermons delivered by a well-known and highly respected Doctor of Theology, an orthodox Catholic representation of the natural world and the appropriate human relationship with it is revealed. This chapter also includes information about pre-Reform society in Strasbourg and Alsace, in order to provide a basis of comparison for later developments. The second case study explores three sources known to be popular with Alsatian peasants from 1515 to 1525: astrologist Leonhard Reynmann's Wetter Büchlin, Ein Fast schon büchlin by Clemens Zyegler, a lay theologian from Strasbourg, and Article IV of the Twelve Articles which formed the foundation of peasant demands during the German Peasants' War. The third case study focuses on Hexemeron Dei opus, written by Strasbourg Reformer Wolfgang Capito. An exegesis of Genesis 1-11, Capito writes explicitly of God's creation of the world for human salvation. The aftermath of the Peasants' War in Strasbourg and Alsace are described here, as well as social initiatives in Strasbourg favoured by Reformers such as welfare reform and education. The model of socioeconomic metabolism suggests that following an extended period of material insecurity and social instability caused by environmental uncertainty, cultural agents will modify the representation of nature in order to render human colonization of the natural world more effective. While it is impossible to firmly attribute causality for developments in the religious view of nature to environmental stress, it can be shown that the weather during the decades at the eve of the Protestant Reformation repeatedly limited or removed adequate metabolic intake from those disadvantaged by an increasingly unequal society, contributing to social instability which culminated in the 1525 German Peasants' War. Representations of nature in the examples studied from the new religious movements removed layers of spiritual mediation between humanity and nature which had been and continued to be accepted by the Roman Catholic Church, specifically articulating views which encouraged greater exploitation of the natural environment. Those who rebelled are known to have strongly favoured the new theologies, indicating the possibility that part of the widespread support in Alsace for reformed and radical theology may have been due to the enhanced conceptual opportunities they provided for exploiting the natural environment.
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Py, Barthélémy. "Le film de montagne dans les cinématographies occidentales." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014MON30052/document.
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Depuis ses origines, le film de montagne est un genre filmique qui recoupe la civilisation occidentale. Il s'inscrit dans l'évolution historique de la montagne et contribue à la reconstruction médiatisée de l'imaginaire ancestral, notamment au travers d'une révolution qui mêle un large faisceau de perceptions et de projections. Le genre peut être entendu comme un objet occidental, créé et façonné selon des codes particuliers, contrairement à d'autres sociétés qui ont certes représenté la montagne, mais de manière différente. L'ancrage du genre est d'abord européo-occidental puis occidental, et montre une prédilection pour la représentation de certaines valeurs civilisationnelles fortes. Il s'en suit une uniformisation des thématiques et codes représentés à l'écran, de l'ascension au capitalisme en passant par l'aventure « extrême » exportée à l'internationalSince its origins, the mountain film is a Genre in connection with the Western civilization. It fits into the historical evolution of the mountain and helps mediated reconstruction of ancestral imaginary, especially through a revolution that mixes a wide ensemble of perceptions and projections. The mountain film can be understood as a Western object, created and shaped by specific codes, unlike other societies that show the mountain in different ways. The genre take place in western Europe, since in western civilization, and shows a predilection for the representation of strong civilizational values. It follows a standardization of themes and codes shown on films : ascent, capitalism, « extreme » adventure exported internationally
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Shaw, William R. "Broadacre City : American fable and technological society /." Thesis, Connect to title online (Scholars' Bank), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10177.
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Williamson, Graham Scott, and n/a. "A Hobbesian theory of primitive state formation." University of Otago. Department of Philosophy, 2006. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20070117.155354.
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This thesis examines the question of how primitive states form. The first part of the thesis defines a state. I then analyse Hobbes�s Theory of the Commonwealth by Acquisition (TCA), expounded in Leviathan. I conclude that this theory fails as an answer to the question of how primitive states form as it suffers from at least five major flaws. I go on to explain, modify and correct Hobbes�s TCA through techniques that have been used in modern critiques of Hobbes�s Theory of the Commonwealth by Institution. The result is the strongest possible answer that Hobbes can give to the question of how primitive states form. I conclude that his attempt fails as even if the technical aspects of his theory can be fixed, the overall problem of empirical falsification occurs.
I then put forward my own theory, based on the modified Hobbesian theory. The major innovation is the replacement of individuals with groups in the Hobbesian State of Nature. This move answers the problem of empirical falsification, at least initially. The theory also helps to explain several of the more technical problems with Hobbes�s theory. The resulting theory is a Hobbesian theory of primitive state formation.
The next step in the thesis is to match the Hobbesian theory of primitive state formation to the empirical evidence of primitive state formation, represented by anthropology. I analyse the anthropological literature and put forward that at least one recent research program in anthropology matches my Hobbesian theory of primitive state formation.
I conclude that Hobbesian theory, based on the TCA can be successfully modernised into a plausible answer to the question of how primitive states formed.
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Pock, Franz. "The infrastructure of professional competence in transition : a discourse on its nature, effects and implications for professional competence in health care and education in Western cultures and civilization from modern to postmodern times." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.250246.
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Gregg, Gretchen Esely. ""This Beautiful Evil": The Connection between Women, the Natural World, Female Sexuality, and Evil in Western Tradition." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2000. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2718/.
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Female archetypes reflect a social construction of reality, expressing expected modes of behavior, beliefs, and assumptions about women and are reinforced by repetition of common patterns and themes. Often female archetypes take on the physical characteristics of animals, commune with nature, engage in sexual promiscuity, and possess special powers to bewitch and control men into doing their bidding. Four prevalent archetypes include: the Predatory Woman, who with her bestial nature becomes the hunter of men; the Sacrificial Woman, who dutifully negates herself for the sake of men; the Bad Mother, who is cold, unnatural, and challenges men; and les enfants terrible seductive girl-women who at once tempt and torment men. This research traces the development and evolution of female archetypes and explores how images of women, nature, sexuality, and evil are structured within a cultural framework of Western tradition: myths and folktales, religious, philosophical, and scientific works, and film.
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Pereira, Nasthya Cristina Garcia. "Relações homem-natureza: o discurso político sobre agricultura e extrativismo na província do Amazonas (1852-1889)." Universidade Federal do Amazonas, 2008. http://tede.ufam.edu.br/handle/tede/3717.
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Previous issue date: 2008-10-23From a representative point of view, this thesis seeks to demonstrate the understanding of nature by the governors of the state of Amazonas between the years of 1852 and 1889. Concomitant to this purpose, the view on the social milieu of these representatives of the monarchic power has also been taken into consideration in this discourse. Throughout the almost four decade existence of the province, the general view on nature in this region has been maintained. Nevertheless a new connection is perceived regarding the postures of decrees on the natural environment during the last two decades, presenting themselves as more pragmatic actions for the organization of this environment. Primarily through reports from governors of the Amazon province, the natural and human characteristics of the region are analyzed with the additional intention of outlining the difficulties of implementing the nation s civilization project. This project involved the recognition, as part of the national territory as well as the regional survey, of the people living in secluded areas of the country. Nature played an essential role in the definition of nationality as it contained the most valuable assets of the Brazilian empire, which was seeking to establish itself as a civilized nation that had the knowledge and was essentially able to cultivate the rich uncivilized lands. In the face of the of the civilization project that involved the natural environment as well as the inhabitants of the country, the Amazon governors, defending and representing the same project, explained in their reports the difficult task of its realization. The region has been described as a deserted and backward place; in the reports its still uncultivated nature and its idle and wandering population appear as a problematic reality still subject to transformation. Therefore by proclaiming a dull social state they presented plans and ways of civilizing nature and native tribes and clearly believed Amazon region represented a great promise for the future
Esta Dissertação procurou examinar e interpretar, valendo-se especialmente da noção de representação, as visões de natureza e de meio social que os presidentes da Província do Amazonas, entre os anos de 1852 e 1889, deixaram expressas em seus relatórios de governo. No decorrer de quase quatro décadas de existência da província, a visão geral de natureza deste segmento foi tenazmente mantida; contudo, percebe-se um novo enlace a respeito das atitudes de ordenação do meio natural nas duas últimas décadas, apresentando-se como ações mais pragmáticas para a organização desse ambiente. Por meio, primordialmente, do exame dos relatórios dos presidentes da Província do Amazonas, a particularidade natural e humana da região foi analisada com a intenção complementar de evidenciar as problemáticas para a execução do projeto civilizador defendido pelo Império. Projeto que envolvia a afirmação e o reconhecimento do território nacional junto de um levantamento dos grupos humanos de lugares recônditos do país. Nesse processo, a natureza representou um elemento essencial para a questão da nacionalidade, pois encerrava a maior riqueza e o maior patrimônio do Império brasileiro, que desejava se elevar como nação civilizada com o conhecimento e, especialmente, com o cultivo das ricas terras ainda incultas. Diante do projeto civilizador que envolvia a natureza e os habitantes do país, os presidentes do Amazonas, defensores e representantes desse projeto, explicitaram nos relatórios a difícil tarefa para sua realização. A Província era representada como um lugar deserto e atrasado; a natureza ainda inculta e a população ociosa e errante transparecem nos relatos como elementos de uma realidade problemática, todavia passível de transformação. Embora descrevessem um estado social desanimador, não deixaram de apresentar os planos e os meios para civilizar a natureza e os grupos humanos, e claramente acreditaram que o Amazonas representava uma grande promessa para o futuro
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Sganzerla, Anor. "Natureza e responsabilidade: Hans Jonas e a biologização do ser moral." Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2012. https://repositorio.ufscar.br/handle/ufscar/4794.
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Previous issue date: 2012-06-15The challenge of Hans Jonas s philosophy lies in thinking of an ethics for the technological civilization. As he recognizes that modern technology, instead of being a vocation or an instrument, has become a power, a movement of autonomous and ambivalent character which compromises the continuity of human life and extra-human life in the future, Jonas has found in ethics the antidote for protecting life from this pursuit of development related to technological civilization. Jonas identifies the basis for this euphoria for progress and for improvement promoted by this ideal on the Baconian project of salvation of humanity through scientific progress. However, for the author, along with the demonstration of the possible blessings, there are also threats, which are invisible, since only the advantages and benefits are presented. In this way, the philosopher claims that the danger lies not in human incapability or lack of capacity for fulfillment, but in human excessive capacity, together with homo faber s power over homo sapiens. Considering this new scenario of technological civilization, according to Jonas, traditional ethics became insufficient, for his interest was related to guiding man s life here and now. The need for protecting the authenticity of life in the future from the power of modern technology demands a widening of the ethical sphere so that it reaches beyond the anthropocentric perspective and the current moment. However, this widening of the ethical universe does not mean to be a retrocess or even an impediment of the development of scientific technological progress. An Ethos for technology must be found, that is, a power over the power , in order to keep the actions from being nihilistic, based on the force of the power of an unbound Prometheus. The aim is, therefore, to place a voluntary restraint, before it becomes necessary to impose this limit due to the vulnerability of nature and man, always revealed as damaged. Jonas finds the basis for this new Ethos on a philosophy of biology or a philosophy of life. As a result, the author does not intend to promote a moralization of nature, but a biologization of the moral being, considering that responsibility, in man, is ontological. As he reinserts man in nature and resignifies categories such as life, liberty, spirit, metabolism, among others, Jonas observes that ethics is already present in these categories in an ontological way, since life says yes to itself in the sense of continuity, and it says no to non-being. Consequently, responsibility imposes itself as an ethical commandment and an ontological duty, which makes responsibility represent the recognition of the Being that demands that my action recognize his intrinsic good, rather than a calculation ex post facto. As he establishes the continuity of human life and authentic extra-human life in the future as the first commandment of the ethics of responsibility, and considering that responsibility is, therefore, proportional to our power, Jonas uses the model of paternal responsibility, of parental care for the newly-born, as a prototype for the ethics of responsibility in the future. It refers to something in which there is no reciprocity, but its existence requires the duty of care and of preservation. The emphasis given by Jonas to the heuristic of fear, as a method to fight the pursuit of progress at any cost, based on the principle of in dubio pro malo, makes prudence, caution, and precaution the new ethical values of man in technological civilization.
O desafio da filosofia de Hans Jonas foi pensar uma ética para a civilização tecnológica. Ao identificar que a técnica moderna deixou de ser uma vocação e um instrumento para tornar-se um poder, um movimento de caráter autônomo e ambivalente, comprometendo a continuidade da vida humana e extra-humana no futuro, Jonas buscou na ética o antídoto para proteger a vida desse afã de desenvolvimento da civilização tecnológica. As bases dessa euforia pelo progresso e pelo melhoramento promovido por esse ideal, Jonas identifica-as no projeto baconiano de salvação da humanidade através do progresso científico. No entanto, para o autor, junto com a demonstração das possíveis bênçãos, estão contidas também as ameaças, mas estas, por sua vez, são invisíveis, pois, apresentam-se unicamente as vantagens e os benefícios. Desse modo, afirma o filósofo, o perigo não está na incapacidade humana, no sentido de sua incapacidade de realização, mas na sua excessiva capacidade, aliada ao domínio do homo faber sobre o homo sapiens. Frente a esse novo cenário da civilização tecnológica, as éticas tradicionais, para Jonas, tornaram-se insuficientes, pois sua preocupação estava voltada para orientar a vida do homem no aqui e agora. A necessidade de proteger a autenticidade da vida no futuro desse poder da técnica moderna exige um alargamento da esfera ética para além da perspectiva antropocêntrica e do tempo imediato. No entanto, essa ampliação do universo ético não pretende ser um retrocesso ou mesmo um impedimento ao desenvolvimento do progresso técnico científico. Busca-se um Ethos para a técnica, isto é, um poder sobre o poder , para impedir que suas ações continuem sendo niilistas, alicerçadas na força do poder de Prometeu que se encontra desacorrentado. Trata-se, portanto, de colocar um freio voluntário, antes que esse limite não tenha que ser imposto devido à vulnerabilidade da natureza e do homem, que se revelam sempre como dano. As bases para esse novo Ethos Jonas irá buscá-las em uma filosofia da biologia ou uma filosofia da vida. Com isso, o autor não pretende promover uma moralização da natureza, mas uma biologização do ser moral, visto que a responsabilidade no homem é ontológica. Ao reinserir o homem no conjunto da natureza e ressignificar categorias como a vida, a liberdade, o espírito, o metabolismo, entre outras, Jonas constata que a ética já está presente nessas categorias de modo ontológico na medida em que a vida diz um sim a ela mesma no sentido da continuidade, e um não ao não-ser. Sendo assim, a responsabilidade se impõe como um mandamento ético e um dever ontológico, o que faz com que ela não represente um cálculo ex post facto, mas o reconhecimento do Ser que reivindica que meu agir reconheça o bem nele intrínseco. Ao estabelecer como primeiro mandamento da ética da responsabilidade a continuidade da vida humana e extra-humana autêntica no futuro, e que a responsabilidade para tanto é proporcional ao nosso poder, o autor utiliza-se do modelo da responsabilidade paterna, do cuidado dos pais em relação ao recém-nascido, como protótipo para a ética da responsabilidade no futuro. Trata-se de algo em que não há reciprocidade, mas que a sua existência exige o dever do cuidado e da preservação. O destaque dado por Jonas à heurística do temor, como método para combater o desejo de progresso a qualquer custo, alicerçado no princípio in dubio pro malo, torna a prudência, a cautela, a precaução os novos valores éticos do homem na civilização tecnológica.
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Washington, Haydn G. "The wilderness knot." Click here for electronic access to document: http://arrow.uws.edu.au:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/uws:44, 2006. http://arrow.uws.edu.au:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/uws:44.
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Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy University of Western Sydney.Title from electronic document (viewed 2/6/10) Interviews held with: "James' Dharug, Traditional Custodian; Dr. Rob Lesslie, conservation biologist, Dr. Val Plumwood, environmental philosopher, Virginia Young, Director WildCountry Project, Professor Mike Archer, Dr. Deborah Bird Rose, anthropologist, Ms. Penny Figgis, former Vice President of ACF, Dr. Tim Flannery, Director South Australian Museum, Mr. Dean Stewart, Aboriginal Education Officer, Melbourne Botanic Gardens, Dr. Rosemary Hill, ACF Northern Lands Project Officer, Professor Harry Recher.
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Giusti, Matteo. "Nature Routines of Children as Leverage Point for Sustainable Social-Ecological Urbanism : Connecting childhood and biosphere to design sustainable civilizations in the human habitat." Licentiate thesis, Stockholms universitet, Stockholm Resilience Centre, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-134601.
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Strong sustainability requires enhanced knowledge and understanding of complex social-ecological interactions, but it also implies a ‘novel’ conceptualization of the relationship between humans and nature, one in which individuals perceive themselves as embedded members of the Biosphere. The aim of this Licentiate thesis is to investigate the validity of a strategy that is centered on designing the urban green infrastructure to nurture such human-nature relationship in children’s attitudes. The research is framed by spatial cognition, conservation psychology, and social-ecological sustainability and it focuses on the validity of this strategy. Hence, the Licentiate analyzes how reoccurring experiences of nature that are situated in the everyday habitat (i.e. nature routines) affect personal human-nature attitudes and how these can be implemented as leverage points to change social-ecological systems using sustainable urbanism. Paper 1 tests the assumed link between the nature routines in Stockholm and preschool children’s development of cognitive and emotional affinity to nature. The results show that nature-rich routines over a period of four years are significantly correlated with the strength of preschooler’s affinity with nature. Paper 2 uses a mixed methods approach to evaluate changes in Connection To Nature (CTN) in 10 years olds who partake in a project of nature conservation. The results of Paper 2 show that there is an evaluative gap between theory and practice in connecting children with nature that impedes the evaluation of how children’s CTN changes over short periods of time and that impedes the creation of an evaluative framework for nature experiences. Paper 3 considers these empirical results in theorizing an approach to sustainable urban design based on social-ecological sustainability that includes CTN. In order to overcome existing limitations Paper 3 presents the concept of cognitive affordances as a theoretical tool to embed cognitive and emotional attitudes towards nature into the design of urban spaces. All combined these papers provide valid evidence that nature routines in cities, especially for children, can be a significant leverage point to enable future sustainable civilizations.
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Ferrigno, Laura. "Vers un nouveau parcours didactique du grec ancien." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019SORUL015.
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Notre thèse est une étude sur les méthodes didactiques du grec ancien. À travers l’analyse de la crise actuelle de l’enseignement des langues anciennes et de la méthode grammaire-traduction, nous essayons de démontrer qu’aujourd’hui il serait souhaitable d’aller vers des choix didactiques différents. Nous concentrons notre intérêt notamment sur les manuels appelés story-based courses, dont les plus connus sont la méthode Ørberg, le Cambridge Latin Course, Athenaze et Reading Greek. Ces ouvrages sont caractérisés par un récit ininterrompu rédigé en latin ou en grec concernant la civilisation ancienne ; ils proposent une approche inductive de la langue favorisant la lecture cursive et un apprentissage linguistique « naturel ». Nous traitons ainsi l’aspect des pratiques pédagogiques à adopter en classe, aspect qui demeure fondamental pour mettre en œuvre un enseignement cohérent avec ces outils. Des expériences passées (notamment celle de Rouse à la Perse school de Cambridge) mais aussi l’enquête que nous avons menée au liceo classico Francesco De Sanctis de Salerne, révèlent jusqu’à quel point notre enseignement peut être bouleversé et dans quelle mesure les réactions des élèves peuvent changer. Les réflexions issues de notre travail, qui s’adresse en particulier aux enseignant de langues anciennes, visent notamment à permettre une connaissance raisonnée de la méthode natura qui dépasse les préjugés qui souvent l’accompagnent et à en évaluer toutes les potentialitésOur thesis is a study of the teaching methods for Ancient Greek. Through an analysis of the current crisis in the teaching of ancient languages and of the grammar-translation method, we will attempt to demonstrate that nowadays it would be desirable to make different teaching choices. In particular, we focus our interest on manuals called “story-based courses”. The most widely known of these, are the Ørberg method, the Cambridge Latin Course, Athenaze and Reading Greek. These works are characterized by an ongoing tale written in Latin or Greek and concerning the ancient civilization. They offer an inductive approach to the language, that favors fast reading and a “natural” language learning. We also discuss the matter of the educational practices to adopt in class, which remain essential to create a teaching coherent with these tools. Past experiences (in particular the one led by Rouse at the Perse School of Cambridge), but also the research we have carried out at Liceo Classico Francesco De Sanctis of Salerno, have revealed just how much our teaching can be subverted and how much the students’ reactions might vary. The reflections from our work, which is addressed primarily to teachers of ancient languages, aim specifically to allow a reasoned knowledge of the natura method, overcoming the prejudices that often accompany it and evaluating all its potential
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Farwell, Rose-Marie. "Le Néo-paganisme en Angleterre à l’époque contemporaine." Thesis, Paris 4, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA040228.
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Cette thèse examine l’essor récent du néo-paganisme en Angleterre, en tenant compte des particularités du contexte anglais, et en montrant la convergence d’influences historiques, culturelles et littéraires qui ont favorisé son émergence et son développement. Le néo-paganisme se décline en des branches ou traditions distinctes mais toutes issues d’un terreau commun. Cependant, on peut souligner l’émergence d’un néo-paganisme éclectique et syncrétique à part entière, portant sur le « bricolage » identitaire des individus qui composent leur propre spiritualité. Nous examinons la création d’une communauté et d’une identité néo-païennes, difficiles à cerner, mais qui reposent sur un socle commun de croyances et pratiques. Nous examinons les enjeux d’une quête identitaire véhiculée par une mystique de la terre d’Angleterre qui se veut inclusive, s’inscrivant dans une logique multiculturelle de la diversité et du pluralisme. Le néo-paganisme a pu profiter également d’un contexte politique, intellectuel et socioculturel favorable aux religions minoritaires, mais a dû faire des concessions pour se constituer en tant que religion afin d’être reconnu par les autorités publiques. Inversement, celles-ci ont été amenées à élargir et assouplir leur conception et leur définition de la religion afin d’inclure cette religiosité alternative. L’étude examine la plus grande visibilité des néo-paganismes et leur médiatisation, ainsi que les interfaces et zones de porosité entre ceux-ci et la culture dominante pour montrer une diffusion des thématiques néo-païennes dans la culture environnante, même si des problèmes persistent concernant l’acceptation et l’interprétation des noms pagan et surtout witch, et surtout des ambiguïtés en ce qui concerne les notions d’occulte et de magieThis study examines the emergence and growth of paganism over recent decades in a specifically English context, taking into account the various historical, cultural and literary influences and the way paganism has developed as a ‘natural’ product of these. Although the term paganism covers a loose association of distinct branches and traditions, these inspire, influence and feed into each other to a greater or lesser extent, creating a generic paganism that has emerged as the dominant trend, within which individuals concoct and compose their own spirituality. Within a spectrum of practices and beliefs, enough common ground exists for the movement to be recognizable as such, but this contrasts greatly with more traditional ideas of religion. If the growth of paganism is partly explained by the greater availability of information and the use of Internet, it is also seemingly in resonance with various aspects of the contemporary, post-modern western psyche. Furthermore, it has benefited from the official climate concerning positive recognition of minority religions in a multicultural society, although difficulties have arisen in its being accepted as a religion, whether by the authorities, or due to internal factors. This has led to a higher media profile for paganism, sometimes in its favour, but sometimes leading to its scapegoating by newspapers seeking to denounce the perceived excesses of multiculturalism and the “politically correct”. If the name ‘pagan’ seems inappropriate, acting as a barrier in some quarters, no alternative, less controversial term has been found as a replacement. However, it can be noticed that pagan themes and attitudes are being more generally diffused within mainstream culture, with or without the pagan ‘label’
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Green, Mike. "Social critique in the major novels of John Wyndham, civilization's secrets and nature's truths." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ47760.pdf.
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Torres, Alanna C. "Natural resources as a source of conflict in the Middle East." Pitzer College, 2009. http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/u?/stc,72.
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The purpose of my thesis was to counter Samuel Huntington’s argument that the world’s conflict is over differing civilizations, religions, or cultures. Whether or not religion is declining or growing, it cannot be used to portray the world in a 'cosmic war,' or a battle between 'good and evil'. Natural resources, not religions, rest at the basis for the Islamic fundamentalist and militant movement due to its response to the Western structural pressures that are modernizing Muslim societies. Oil and water become vital tools for exercising power and authority of one nation over another, and are identified as the true culprits for a conflict that is often furtively concealed.
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Du, Plessis Lizanne. "The culture and environmental ethic of the Pokot people of Laikipia, Kenya." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/182.
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Bendick, Eric Louis. "Fiber optic vines on the third wall cultivating natural media in the digital age /." Thesis, Montana State University, 2009. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2009/bendick/BendickE0509.pdf.
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Twenty-thousand years ago, the earliest known depictions of natural forms were inscribed by primitive man onto the surface of the "third wall" . . . be it cave, grotto, overhang, or alcove. Today the myriad representations of our natural world, along with the expanding cosmic narratives of 'natural history' that animate and describe such characters within an ornate epistemological framework (part-science: evolution, thermodynamics, ecology, and part-social criticism: environmental justice, sustainability, conservation) proliferate in ever-increasing mobile permutations; not only in our textbooks and living rooms, but also in our cars, on billboards, Jumbotrons, laptops, cell phones, and portable media players. Throughout history, changes in representational 'mode' (across and through new technical mediums) have ushered in significant narrative metamorphoses, formal innovations, and accompanied revolutionary transitions in symbolic language. The focus of this paper is to assess the implications of recent technological shifts, especially those characterized by the widespread contemporary adoption of digital technologies and the emergence of vast, interconnected networks of computing power, on the representation, production, and distribution of 'natural world' (both science and social) new media content. Through a detailed survey of popular case-studies, analytical research, and data trends, this paper will analyze new media models both from within and without as they relate to digital publishing, non-linear content creation, social networking, and the increasingly permeable interface between consumer and producer in our contemporary mediascape. Finally, this paper applies formative research to prescribe a more general use of 'best practices' in new technology which may facilitate a more progressive and participatory moment in post-industrial 'natural world' media-making, in concert with peers and fans, corporations and collectives, and open to interpretation, cross-pollination, and synergistic hybridity. It is no exaggeration to remark that this technological transformation will forever change the way we learn, evaluate, and participate in a global dialogue whose subject is none other than the globe itself. As our ancestors surely harnessed the power of the 'third wall' to communicate in both personal and broad strokes, so this essay seeks to re-imagine the 'digital third wall' as a place of increasing ubiquity, intimacy, contention, and epistemological power throughout the evolving realms of scientific and social natural representation.
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Wong, Heong Fei. "Keeping native culture alive while living between cultures : Burmese-Chinese migrants in Macau." Thesis, University of Macau, 2007. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b1874209.
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Workman, Terry W. "PALEOWETLANDS AND FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY OF QUEBRADA MANI: RECONSTRUCTING PALEO-ENVIRONMENTS AND HUMAN OCCUPATION IN THE NORTHERN ATACAMA DESERT." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1345055481.
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Passetti, Gabriel. "O mundo interligado: poder, guerra e território nas lutas na Argentina e na Nova Zelândia (1826-1885)." Universidade de São Paulo, 2010. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8138/tde-08112010-152048/.
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Esta tese analisa as relações entre indígenas e criollos estabelecidas na Argentina e as entre os Maori e os pakeha na Nova Zelândia, entre as décadas de 1820 e 1880. Suas fontes são relatos de viagens, cartas, relatórios, petições, abaixo-assinados, leis e tratados de paz. São acompanhadas as transformações ocorridas no período, traçados os diferentes projetos dos grupos em luta pelo poder político, as aproximações e distanciamentos, e as estratégias de Caciques e Chefes para participar e controlar as redes de trocas, e evitar a perda de poder e territórios. A análise da atuação britânica permitiu estabelecer conexões entre regiões distantes no espaço, mas próximas quanto às situações vividas. A comparação entre uma colônia do Império Britânico e uma república recém-independente permitiu a compreensão da circulação de ideias, pessoas e produtos e a consolidação de imagens e de discursos que estabeleciam diferenças entre anglicanos e católicos, monarquistas e republicanos. Diante da expansão liberal, tanto os indígenas pampeanos quanto os Maori da Nova Zelândia superaram tradicionais rivalidades e tentaram expulsar criollos e pakehas. Quando foram associados à barbárie por colonos, militares e governantes, enfrentaram os exércitos, armados com os mais recentes e eficientes inventos da guerra, do transporte e da comunicação. Combatidos por estratégias etnocidas ou genocidas, foram derrotados, tiveram seus territórios anexados às jurisdições, terras inseridas nos mercados, e as próprias existências independentes suprimidasa quick turn on the next years. One of the major objectives of the research is the comprehension of , and freedom, and joining in trade networks. The comparison between a British white settler colony and a republic, and Salinas Grandes in Argentina. Associated by settlers, and their own existences as independent were suppressed. The sources analyzed were travel accounts, and willing to defend their own authority, as the King Movement in New Zealand, as whell as the Maori and pakeha in New Zealand, claim, exposed how ideas, from 1826 to 1885. During this time, laws and peace treaties., letters, military and the government to barbarism, native Chiefs united themselves in organized resistance confederations, people and products circulated through the globe. Facing major liberal interests in their lands, recently independent, reports, social and commercial relations between the indigenous peoples of Argentina and the criollos, sovereignty, the political power balance changed from a clear native superiority, their land to the markets, then, they lost their territory to official government jurisdiction, they were attacked by professional armies and their modern guns, This research are focused on comparisons on political, to a draw in the 1850s and, transports and communication. Beaten by ethnocide or genocide strategies
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Drown, Ashley L. "More than Just a Pot: An In-Depth Look into the Invention, Technology, Use and Social Functions of Prehistoric Pottery Vessels." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1273803801.
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Gallopin, Gary G. "Water Storage Technology at Tikal, Guatemala." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 1990. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1299605660.
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Vogelová, Tereza. "Chaos." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta výtvarných umění, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-232326.
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The existing world is becoming more disrupted and is falling apart. For its resurrection and restoration, a new way of thinking is necessary. This new type of thinking is needed to be able to open up its mind and to think about the process of thinking itself; it must understand what is happening in other systems, where processes seem to be taking place by themselves without any other visible interference. First Chaos is the title for an intermedia installation which contains 90 black and white photographs, both digital and analogue, all of which were taken between the years 2008 and 2012. Together, the photographs create one coherent piece – a kind of sculpture. They can evoke a "still film" with a non-linear, cyclical storyline, whilst the images can simultaneously function individually, without any connection to other photographs.
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Patton, Paul E. "People, Places, and Plants: An Appraisal of Subsistence, Technology and Sedentism in the Eastern Woodlands." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1366119433.
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Campos, Filho José Carlos Pires de. "Os pressupostos filosóficos do estado ético-jurídico na obra A cidade de Deus de Santo Agostinho." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2012. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/5925.
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Previous issue date: 2012-08-24The objective of this dissertation is to expose the philosophical assumptions of the theory of the philosopher St. Augustine on the nature of the ethical and legal State The thought here is understood as a defense of the just State and of the conception of natural law against accusations that Christianity causes injury to the political community. The Augustinian conception of a just and happy society allows, instead, enhancing the civic virtues as a means to achieve the common good and peace. The Augustinian ontology allows the truth to be the reference of virtues and vices, as precepts of action capable of forming the unity of a civilization. The "City of God" is the allegory of a just society that is present in this world through the ages in coexistence with the earthly state
O objetivo desta dissertação é expor os pressupostos filosóficos centrais da teoria do filósofo Santo Agostinho sobre a natureza do Estado ético-jurídico. O pensamento é aqui compreendido como uma defesa do Estado justo e da concepção de lei natural contra as acusações de que o Cristianismo causa prejuízo à comunidade política. A concepção agostiniana de sociedade justa e feliz permite, ao contrário, aprimorar as virtudes cívicas como meio para alcançar o bem comum e a paz. A ontologia agostiniana permite que a verdade seja a referência das virtudes e dos vícios, como preceitos do agir capazes de formar a unidade de uma civilização. A Cidade de Deus é a alegoria de sociedade justa presente no mundo através dos tempos em convivência com o Estado terreno
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Church, Rebecca. "The Influence of Culture and Arts on the Development of Peruvian Children." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1271384749.
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Angel, Julie R. "Location, Location, Location: A Probabilistic Model of Banked Earthwork Placement Within the Central Ohio Landscape During the Early and Middle Woodland Periods." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1274205403.
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Candiago, Noémie. "La dette écologique en droit international public." Thesis, La Rochelle, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LAROD007/document.
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La dette écologique est un discours politique qui s'est développé au début des années 90 pour lutter contre le fardeau des dettes financières qui grevait les budgets des États en développement. États et société civile se sont alors appropriés les acquis théoriques et pratiques des sciences économiques et sociales pour contester un ordre du monde inégalitaire et conduisant à la dégradation continue de l'environnement, caractéristique d'un "échange écologiquement inégal". Mais dans la bouche des différents acteurs, la dette écologique a pris des sens différents, si bien que l'on peut dissocier quatre discours de la dette écologique. À chacun de ces discours correspondent un ou plusieurs outils juridiques, outils qui, après analyse, s'avèrent souvent inaptes à valider les prétentions des partisans de la dette écologique. Il apparaît que seule la version communautaire de la dette écologique offre un cadre d'analyse qui soit efficient sans être contre-productif. L'analyse spécifiquement dédiée au régime climatique en droit international confirme ce résultat puisque les normes allant dans le sens d'un accroissement des capacités des populations locales semblent plus à même de réduire la dette climatiqueThe ecological debt is a concept which was developed at the beginning of the 90s in order to fight against the burden of financial debts which crippled the budgets of developing States. States and the civil society used the theoretical and practical knowledge developed by researchers in social and economic sciences to criticize an unequal worldorder, leading to continuous environmental degradation and as such, a characteristic of an unequal ecological exchange. For the different actors, the concept of ecological debt took on various meanings so that we can now dissociate four different discourses. For each discourse, we have identified one or more legal mechanism, but most of them often turn out to be unfit to meet the claims of ecological debt advocates. It appears that only the community version of ecological debt is efficient without being counter-productive. Our analysis of the climate regime in international law confirms this result since norms that empower local communities seem more efficient to reduce climate debt
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呂明聲. "Nature and Civilization The Creation Discourse of Ming-Sheng Lu." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/bkgaj9.
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Abstract This paper discusses the surrounding environment of observation and reflection that hopes .to awaken people pay attention to the natural environment by artistic vocabulary. Thus, the author choices "Industrial Zone" as the drawn of category to study the painting research by different media. With this opportunity, the author insight into about the development of Kaohsiung, and explore the conflict relationship between nature and civilization as well. In the creation of form, the traditional Chinese ink painting is the foundation, but traditional re-creation is necessary. Along with the Innovation and change , using the modelling and the intermediary material is carries on the reform as for the creation process, creates the distinctive quality, the multiple development is possible, even breaks between the intermediary material the demarcation line, creates belongs to individual authoring language. This creation elaboration divides into three major aspects to discuss author's creation process: Realistic, the direct-viewing depiction, and a complaint to against the natural destruction. It is irony to glory the good of modern civilization, but the damage by the industry civilization. To awake people’s attention on natural environment, the expression of moral image uses metaphor and symbolic to explain the relationship between nature and civilization. The development of industry civilization of mankind is gains and losses. It tests the human wisdom to accept or reject. Human desire often causes the severe environmental problem. Therefore the civilization development has to meet the social and the ecology needs to preserve the natural status as the premise development. The humanity must recognize oneself is part of the members of natural ecology that conduces to the sustainable development of civil society and the natural environment. After this series creative works, the author has many enlightenment and reconsidering that hopes herself to keep the minds as beginning and to concern the our environment by actual art. Keywords: symbol, natural environment, ecologically sustainable, industrial pollution
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Zhang, Chunyan. "Nature and culture, old and new : a comparative study of the representation of nature in Australian and Chinese cultures." Phd thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/151470.
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Karrow, Douglas David. "Educating-within-place : recovering from metaphysics as technicity /." 2006. http://link.library.utoronto.ca/eir/EIRdetail.cfm?Resources__ID=442371&T=F.
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Musekiwa, Kizito. "A comparison of grade 11 learners' and pre-service teachers' understandings of nature of science." Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/22728.
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A research project report submitted to the Faculty of Science, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the MSc in Science Education. Johannesburg, February 2017.An understanding of the NOS is a basis for scientific literacy which is one of the major goals of science education the world over. This study compared Grade 11 High school learners (n=10) and third year Bachelor of Education, Pre-service teachers’ (n=10) understandings of Nature of Science (NOS). Data on participants’ understandings of NOS was collected by means of a Likert type questionnaire and through semi - structured interviews. Likert type questionnaire data was quantitatively analysed using a combination of descriptive statistics, the Mann-Whitney U test and graphical comparison of group median scores on questionnaire items to ascertain differences in NOS understandings between the Grade 11 learners and the B.Ed. Pre-service teachers. Semi-structured interview data was analysed through a combination of typological and interpretative analysis of interview transcripts to determine differences in NOS understandings between the two groups. The findings reveal that there are no significant differences in the understandings of the NOS between the Grade 11 learners and third year, Bachelor of Education, Pre-service teachers. The analyses reveal that overall; the Grade 11 Learners and third year B.Ed. Pre-service teachers’ understandings of NOS are not very different from each other. Both groups held such misunderstandings as; there is a single scientific method, scientific knowledge is not socially and culturally embedded, scientific knowledge is universal and can be proven through collection of empirical data. It is recommended that if the goal of science education for scientific literacy is to be achieved, initial teacher education training should do more to explicitly develop Pre-service teachers’ subject matter knowledge understandings, pedagogical skills and valuing of NOS, that is, their pedagogical content knowledge for nature of science. Explicit testing of learners’ NOS understandings is also suggested as a way of improving the school Physical Science curriculum. The effectiveness of the current science content and methods courses in improving the Pre-service teachers’ NOS understandings is questioned. Recommendations for further studies are suggested.
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Ko, Elton Liang-yuan, and 柯量元. "Tom VS. Huck: Son of Civilization VS. Son of Mother Nature-- A Ch'an Reading of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Thesis, 1993. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/36276951205751505109.
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This thesis employs Ch'an to interpret Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to highlight the problems attachment is sure to lead one to, and the manifestation of Buddha-nature and karuna as one detaches himself from the laws of civilization. The thesis is divided into five chapters. CHAPTER ZERO introduces existing scholarship, the approach used in the thesis, and some problems about the framework of the thesis. CHAPTER ONE deals with Ch'an notions to serve as a basis for later interpretation. CHAPTER TWO sees Tom Sawyer as a representative of people attaching themselves too much to the laws of civilization. CHAPTER THREE offers the acts of Huckleberry Finn to justify the natural overflow of his Buddha-nature and karuna as he keeps detaching himself from the laws of civilization. CHAPTER THE LAST views Tom and Huck in a parallel way to see the opposite results attachment and detachment are to bring about.
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Walliss, Jillian Louise. "The nature of design : influences of landscape and environmental discourse on the formation of the Australian and New Zealand national park and museum." Phd thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/148257.
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Javorská, Michala. "Etika zahrady." Master's thesis, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-346808.
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The goal of this diploma thesis called "Ethics of the Garden" is to introduce the ecological-ethical issue and the closely related question about the role of a mankind in the world. First of all, the main aim is to introduce the ecological-ethical concept of the American author Michael Pollan. In this concept, a garden is viewed as a source of elementary ethical principals that are applicable in the relationship of mankind to nature. That is why it is called "Ethics of the Garden". The practical part of the thesis is dedicated to the individual principles of this concept. It introduces its characteristics and it also gives specific examples of the practical application of the principles of the "Ethics of the garden" within the context of central Europe. Here only very few original ecosystems (untouched by human intervention) have survived and it is hard to find an ideal solution for the coexistence of mankind and nature. Keywords ecological ethics, environmental ethics, ethics of the garden, environment, nature, culture, civilization, intervention in nature, primary and secondary nature
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Simone, Ashley. "Cicero Among the Stars: Natural Philosophy and Astral Culture at Rome." Thesis, 2020. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-4ntx-kv74.
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This dissertation examines Cicero’s contribution to the rise of astronomy and astrology in the literary and cultural milieu of the late Republic and early Empire. Chapter One, “Rome’s Star Poet,” examines how Cicero conceives of world building through words to connect Rome to the stars with the Latin language. Through a close study of the Aratea, I consider how Cicero’s pioneering of Latin astronomical language influenced other writers, especially his contemporaries Lucretius and Catullus. In Chapter Two, “The Stars and the Statesman,” I examine Cicero’s attitudes towards politics. By analyzing Scipio’s Dream and astronomy in De re publica, I show how Cicero uses cosmic models to yoke Rome to the stars. To understand the astral dimensions of Cicero’s philosophy, in Chapter Three, “Signs and Stars, Words and Worlds,” I provide a close reading of Cicero’s poetic quotations in context in the De natura deorum and De divinatione to show how Cicero puts the Aratean cosmos to the test in Academic fashion. Ultimately, I argue that Cicero profoundly shaped the Roman view of the stars and cemented the link between cosmos and empire.
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Kuczynski, Vanessa Fanny. "An analytical evaluation of Macintyre's critique of the modern conception of the enlightenment project." Diss., 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2011.
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Modernity has generally been interpreted as a radical expression of human progress in the light of the advances of modern science and technology. According to Alasdair MacIntyre, however, modernity is a project "doomed to failure". Given the progressive-linearity of the modern model of rationality, the past has, in principle, been ruled out as a source of moral-political wisdom and guidance. From the perspective of modernity, the present (as the progressive moment of the future) has therefore nothing to learn from past traditions. MacIntyre contends that the moral confusion within modernity comes from its loss of telos, mediated in terms of the past. Modernity therefore harbours a paradox based on its inability to provide a philosophical justification for establishing the possibility of human solidarity in the present, while simultaneously affirming its faith in the future. In this regard, MacIntyre's work is an important contribution to the philosophical debate on modernity.Philosophy
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O'Brien, Christian. "A clockwork climate? an atmospheric history of Northern Australia." Phd thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/114573.
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Weather and climate are truly arresting in Australia's far north. They set the 'Top End' - the northernmost parts of the Northern Territory - apart; not only from 'temperate' Australia, but also from other tropical locales. Weather and climate are integral to the experience of the place. Authoritative histories of the Northern Territory, with justification, routinely discuss its weather and climate. They indicate the ineluctable physical parameters that bound human activity in this region and which also set the stage for the dramas of human history played out there.
In this study weather and climate are the drama. They are the characters, and they are the plot. Elements of the great aerial ocean in which the 'Top End' is immersed - rain, wind and heat - are studied on a variety of time scales. Events are examined: their intensity, duration, chronology and patterns in time. Just as nature and culture are inextricably entwined, so these elements cannot intelligibly be amputated from human experience. To paraphrase US environmental historian William Cronen, this is a study of stories about stories about weather and climate. The third dimension of this history is its interrogation of the cultural biases and philosophical assumptions both underlying and revealed by these stories about weather and climate.
However, this work focuses on one constellation of encounters and responses: those of the colonial invaders. The ideas and (mis)understandings of this group have determined how weather and climate have been seen since colonial times. Now, in the Anthropocene, as the effects of anthropogenic climate change unfold, this understanding is pivotal in dealing with this looming problem. This study is a history of a plausible, coherent misunderstanding.
It is also a history of the northernmost region of the Northern Territory, a history refracted through a different prism to those of its worthy predecessors. Here the subject is the colonial encounter with tropical skies, science in colonial and northern Australia and experience-based efforts to grasp something so foreign to people from temperate environs. It reveals how western ideas of time have distorted understandings of weather and climate. It demonstrates the poor fit of received ideas of seasonality and climate to historical experience. Reflecting on important contingencies of this place between 1800 and 1942, this history situates human experience in the Northern Territory firmly in the global currents of both environmental history and intellectual history.
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Tsu-Ting, Huang, and 黃琡婷. "On Xunzi's Change the Nature to Initiate the Civilizatuon: From the View of the School Bullyinh Behavior." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/44257462172393823083.
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Cheng, Wei-Chung, and 鄭維中. "Social order of Formosa under the Dutch : the Paradox of Natural Law and the Process of Civilization." Thesis, 2001. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/03209227216767003830.
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This thesis concentrated on historical social interactions concerning legal operations between Dutch, Chinese, and aboriginal people at 17th century Formosa. By describing why Dutch side through a series force actions to form an alliance with aboriginal villages by cultural contrast, explained why Dutch authority had to make a feudal institutional frame (Landdag) at Formosa Island. In analyzing this historical situation, it could be traced back to encounter- experience between European and non-European people at early times. Such experience could be reduced to the core- recognition- problem about social order: natural law’s conceptions. The Paradox of natural law comes from a statement by which European believe social order outside Europe must by some way equal to European societies. In the mean time, if this statement couldn’t confirm by non-European people, it can’t claim itself valid within European societies. This paradox could be resolved only if non-European people decide to receipt a set of Natural law conceptions. This kind of civilization process isn’t come from violent discipline, but cultural transformation. This transformation should be rooted from native people’s cultural legitimization: that means their own civilization process, but enforced implantation. Dutch jury system at Zeelandia City (schepen) gave oversea Chinese citizen a chance to form their own municipal law based on Chinese recognition, even excelling traditional limitation. By this way, Chinese citizens created a new social order under Dutch legal instrument, and expand their own civilization process at the same time.
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Schreiber, Rebecca McNulty. "Education for empire : manual labor, civilization, and the family in nineteenth-century American missionary education /." 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3270021.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007.Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-06, Section: A, page: 2622. Advisers: Frederick Hoxie; Kathryn Oberdeck. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 275-293) Available on microfilm from Pro Quest Information and Learning.
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Green, Michael Douglas. "Social critique in the major novels of John Wyndham : civilization's secrets and nature's truths." Thesis, 2000. http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/1011/1/MQ47760.pdf.
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John Wyndham's four major novels: The Day of the Triffids , The Kraken Wakes , The Chrysalids , and The Midwich Cuckoos . Wyndham has been dismissed by many critics as a writer of "cosy catastrophes", a term coined by Brian Aldiss. This title is meant to suggest that Wyndham's works are critically insignificant, and that, as Nicholas Ruddick suggests, they do not repay serious critical attention. I would argue that not only do Wyndham's works repay critical attention, but that there is consistent social criticism inherent in these works. In the four novels in question, Wyndham seems preoccupied with a number of ideas. He attacks the power of Big Business, Government, and the Military, and what I would characterize as their "Cult of Secrecy". Wyndham also criticizes irrational faith in any ideology, particularly in nationalism, Scientism (or the power of science to solve humanity's problems), and religion. Finally, Wyndham seems specifically concerned with the fate of humankind in light of Darwinian ideas of evolution and survival of the fittest.
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Chilton, Elizabeth S. "Embodiments of choice: Native American ceramic diversity in the New England interior." 1996. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9638945.
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In the northeastern United States--as elsewhere--an overemphasis on cultural-historical ceramic typologies and ceramic decoration by archaeologists has stymied research along other axes of ceramic variation. For example, little attention has been paid to the sequence of choices made by potters during the production process. The goal of this study is to examine the complex relationships among technical choices, historical context, and society during the Late Woodland period (1000-1600 A.D.) in the middle or Massachusetts portion of the Connecticut Valley. Ceramic assemblages from two New England Algonquian sites and one Mohawk Iroquois site are examined using an attribute analysis of technical choice. The attributes selected for analysis reflect choices made by potters along the production sequence: paste characteristics, vessel morphology, construction techniques, surface treatments, and firing conditions. Differences between Algonquian and Iroquoian ceramic attributes are interpreted as embodiments of profound differences in technical systems, which include intended function, the context and scale of production, and stylistic signaling. Since the two groups were interacting and sharing information during the Late Woodland period, Connecticut Valley Algonquians had access to similar kinds of cultural knowledge and technologies. Nevertheless, rather than becoming sedentary farmers, forming extensive and rigid social structures, and producing large, thin-walled, cooking pots like the Iroquois, Connecticut Valley peoples maintained fluid and mutable subsistence, settlement, and social relationships that are reflected in the their diverse and flexible ceramic traditions. Instead of assuming that New England Algonquians were not as culturally or technologically advanced as the Iroquois, I suggest that they can be understood as active agents of their own social change. As such, they made decisions concerning subsistence, settlement, and social structure. As potters, they made choices in ceramic production that both reflected and affected these decisions.
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Acland, Joan Reid. "The native artistic subject and national identity : a cultural analysis of the architecture of the Canadian Museum of Civilization, designed by Douglas J. Cardinal." Thesis, 1994. http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/71/1/NN97631.pdf.
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The Canadian Museum of Civilization (CMC) was constructed as a national-popular symbol which would unite a multicultural society. Described as a 'Global Village', CMC was designed to appeal to the 'cultural tourist' of the 21st century. To this end, a marketing strategy was keyed to the Canadian interest in the mythical qualities of the Land. As a museum whose characteristic features have been its 'Indianness', the dissertation seeks to understand why a conflation of these two idioms, Land and 'Indianness', is seen to appeal to Canadians at this postmodern moment. The role of Douglas Cardinal, architect of the Museum, is examined in terms of his effect as a Canadian of Blackfoot, Metis, and German ancestry. Both the formal qualities of the architecture and its signification as a symbol of national identity are considered. This is shaped through an analysis of the iconography of the architecture in relation to traditional Native spiritual symbolism in order to construct a narrative surrounding the Museum which is identity specific. Primary source site visits and interviews were an integral aspect of the dissertation. My observations were developed and structured through the epistemological current of critical theory in anthropology, art history and cultural studies, drawing particularly on theories of postcolonial discourse and identity. Essentially the dissertation explores the relationship between the artistic subject, expressive form and the problematic of signification in relation to a symbol of national identity.
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Theron, Elizabeth Rabie. "Jacob van Maerlant se Der naturen bloeme as ensiklopediese narratief." Diss., 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1108.
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Text in AfrikaansDuring the past decade various studies have been conducted on the medieval bestiary and simultaneously much has been written on the life and work of the medieval scholar and writer, Jacob van Maerlant. Van Maerlant's famous encyclopaedic work, Der Naturen B/oeme (Book of Nature) has been thoroughly investigated in recent literary studies, though little has been done to identify this work as encyclopaedic narrative. The term, encyclopaedic narrative, is relatively unknown in Western literature and therefore demands the research which is conducted in this thesis. In the course of this study, the genre of encyclopedic narrative is investigated and the Naturen 8/oeme is identified as a member of this exclusive genre. Edward Mendelson's article "From Dante to Pynchon" (1976) serves as the starting point for this study, from where it continues its investigation into the works of Jacob Van Maerlant. Van Maerlant's Der Naturen 8/oeme is compared to a unique set of qualities for the encyclopaedic narrative in which corresponding points are identified. From this investigation it is shown that Der Naturen B/oeme qualifies as a member of the genre, encyclopaedic narrative.
Baie navorsing oor die Middeleeuse Bestiarium is reeds gedurende die afgelope dekade gedoen en baie is geskryf oor die lewe en werk van Jacob van Maerlant. Alhoewel sy natuurboek, Der Naturen Bloeme, baie belangstelling in die liter~re w6r~ld ontlok, is daar nog weinig gedoen om Der Naturen Bloeme as ensiklopediese narratief te identifiseer. Die relatiewe onbekendheid van die begrip ensiklopediese narratief in die Westerse literatuur dien as aansporing tot die ondersoeke wat in hierdie skripsie vervat word. In hierdie studie sal die genre van die ensiklopediese narratlef bespreek word. Der Naturen Bloeme word as voorbeeld gebruik. Die ensiklopediese narratief word bespreek na aanleiding van die artikel "From Dante to Pynchon" (1976) waarin Mendelson die term omskryf en riglyne daarstel vir die tipering daarvan as genre. Uit die ondersoek blyk dit dat die ensiklopediese narratief 'n genre is wat erkenning behoort te kry in die literêre wêreld. Die studie ondersoek ook die lewe en werk van Jacob van Maerlant wat as lnformatikus gedurende die MiddeJeeue groot bekendheid verwerf het. Sy omvangryke ensiklopediese werk, Der Naturen Bloeme, word telkens getoets aan die hand van kenmerke vir die ensiklopediese narratief en die raakpunte word uitgewys. Uit die ondersoek word aangetoon dat Der Naturen Bloeme as ensiklopediese narratief erken kan word.
Afrikaans & Theory of Literature
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Banze, Irene Maria Lousada. "O ensino colonial em Moçambique: as missões religiosas no sul de Moçambique como instituições de habilitação para africanos (1911-1975)." Doctoral thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/21678.
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Com enfoque no ensino para Africanos no sul de Moçambique, a presente tese
descreve e analisa o funcionamento das missões protestantes e católicas no Ensino para
Africanos durante a colonização. Conquanto o foco da análise esteja entre 1933 e 1974,
por ser este o período a que as narrativas dizem respeito, a tese inicia com uma abordagem
histórica sobre as missões em África no século XIX. Descreve-se, na abordagem, a
expansão da ação católica, realizada pelas ordens religiosas, e o lançamento da obra
protestante liderada pelas sociedades missionárias anglófonas, anglo-germânicas e anglosaxónicas. A missionação em África encontra eco na Conferência de Berlim, em 1884-
85, onde foi deliberado que o ensino para Africanos seria missionário. A industrialização
da África do Sul, que atinge o pico com a descoberta do ouro, em 1886, catalisa fluxos
laborais de africanos da África Austral para África do Sul, e a aglomeração de
missionários, que ganham convertidos africanos nas zonas rurais e industriais, afirmaram,
assim, os alicerces da missionação na região. O Tratado Luso-Britânico, de 1891, ao
ratificar a incumbência, consignada na Conferência de Berlim, de serem os missionários
a "civilizar" os africanos através de educação para o trabalho e moralização, impulsionou o
lançamento da ação missionária protestante no sul de Moçambique entre 1880 e 1910,
uma ação conjunta dos missionários na África do Sul e convertidos africanos. A partir de
1911 toda a missionação ficou sujeita à legislação portuguesa até que, com a Concordata
de 1940, a Igreja Católica ficou desvinculada e as missões protestantes aprisionadas. A
tese baseou-se em 45 entrevistas a atores da época colonial, designadamente, professores,
enfermeiros, liceais, prestadores de serviços.Focusing on African education in Southern Mozambique, the thesis describes and analyses the role of Protestant and Catholic missions in African education during the colonial regime. Notwithstanding that the focus of the analysis is on the years between 1933 and 1974 since that is the period covered in the interviews, the thesis begins with an historical account of missions in Africa during the 19th century. The historical account details the expansion of the Catholic missions by religious orders, and the Protestant move towards missionization by the Anglophone, Anglo-German and Anglo-Saxon Missionary Societies. Africa’s missionization was given a go-ahead by the 1884-85 Berlin Conference, as it ruled that African education be missionary. The industrialization of South Africa that attained its peak in 1886 with the discovery of gold, had a catalyzing effect on the influx of African labor migrants from Southern Africa to South Africa where the missionary clusters converted the African migrants in the rural and industrial areas; thus, setting the foundations of missionization in the region. The 1891 Portuguese-British Treaty, by ratifying the role assigned to the missionaries at the Berlin Conference, whereby missionaries should, through education and moralization "civilize" Africans, propelled the joint participation of missionaries based in South Africa and their African converts to set-up protestant missions in Southern Mozambique, between 1880 and 1891. From 1911 onwards, all missionary work in Mozambique was subject to Portuguese legislation until the signing of the 1940 Concordat that released the Catholic Church and left the Protestant missions bound. The thesis has been compiled through data from 45 interviewees, who played key roles in the colonial regime namely, teachers, nursing staff, college students and workers of the public and private sectors.
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Brožová, Tereza. "Indiáni jako bezprostřední nebezpečí: Portrét Indiánů v příbězích zajatců." Master's thesis, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-331125.
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in English This particular MA thesis concentrates on the portrayal of Indians in captivity narratives of the early seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the essential source material being Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, first published in 1682. The thesis explores the relationship between Native Americans and settlers who saw Indians as a threat to their own existence and also as a threat to the western expansion. It also focuses on the confrontation of savagery and civilization from the point of view of common presuppositions and prejudices about the Native Americans that are very often depicted in several captivity narratives. Moreover, the thesis provides necessary definition of the genre of the captivity narrative with regard to the reaction of the reading public in the period of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. From the first arrivals of settlers and explorers the American continent symbolized a land of vast opportunities. Nevertheless, the continent not being fully explored was shrouded in a veil of mystery. Explorers and adventurers were fascinated by the extensive natural resources they found in the New World. Moreover, the New World was often called New Canaan or the Garden of Eden as it symbolized for the newcomers a possibility to start a new...