The Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes, Vol. 2: De Cive: The English Version

Hobbes, Thomas; Warrender, Howard

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“…St. Augustine considers inner memory (memoria interior) to be the foundation of thinking in general [9]. In modern times, Hobbes states that we transform our memories into a foresight of the things to come [10].…”

Section: Connotations Of Memory In the History Of Human Thoughtmentioning

confidence: 99%

Memory Culture as the Main Priority of the Modern Education Process

Kirik¹,

Leshkevich²,

Motozhanets³

2018

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Arts, Design and Contemporary Education (ICADCE 2018)

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Abstract-The article considers the phenomenon of memory culture and its role in translating values within the education process. By analyzing the concept of memory culture, the authors reveal its functions, among which axiological, communicative, and moral functions appear to be the most significant. The purpose of the article is to study the concept of memory culture in the context of the education process and the need for an adequate representation of historical reality. The article dwells on three aspects of the issue. First, the phenomenon of collective memory is viewed in relation to psychological features of memory. Second, attention is given to a relatively new discipline in memory studies, memory policy, which may involve considering institutional orders for altering configurations of historical past and manipulating historical memory. Third, the article analyses various connotations of the memory concept, which include its mythological personification, space, and energy semantics. Theoretical basis of the research include works by Russian and foreign scholars: S. Rubinstein, A Luria, M. Halbwachs, P. Nora, P. Hutton, F. Yates, and P. Ricoeur. Methodological strategy relies on an interdisciplinary approach, which draws insights from both natural and social sciences and integrates those insights in a cooperative way. The dialectic method is of particular importance as it takes account of contradictions of the process of shaping memory culture. The study also relies on methodological principles of objectification and deobjectification as they demonstrate the relation between the perception of a past event and social context. The article concludes that memory culture provides an integrative base for shaping a person's value system in the process of education. Furthermore, memory culture appears to be dependent on both the priorities of the epoch and a subject of historical memory. Finally, autopoietic potential of memory underlies its innovative potential. With the increasing role of mass media in the contemporary world, studying the process of shaping historical memory is extremely relevant for the educational domain.

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Section: Connotations Of Memory In the History Of Human Thoughtmentioning

confidence: 99%

Memory Culture as the Main Priority of the Modern Education Process

Kirik¹,

Leshkevich²,

Motozhanets³

2018

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Arts, Design and Contemporary Education (ICADCE 2018)

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“…In this work we read, for instance, that "it were madness to invade such, whom conquering you cannot keep; and failing, should lose the means for ever after to attempt the same again." 75 As in the case of wars of gain, there are also alternative sources of glory that could substitute warfare. In Elements to Law, Hobbes notes that monarchs may instead distinguish themselves in other fields, such music or poetry.…”

Section: Prudence and Self-restraint In Warfarementioning

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Nature and Artifice in Hobbes’s International Political Thought

Jaede

2015

Hobbes Stud

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This article argues that the artificiality of Hobbesian states facilitates their coexistence and eventual reconciliation. In particular, it is suggested that international relations may be characterised by an artificial equality, which has a contrary effect to the natural equality of human beings. Unlike individuals in Hobbes’s account of the state of nature, sovereigns are not compelled to wage war out of fear and distrust, but have prudential reasons to exercise self-restraint. Ultimately rulers serve as disposable figureheads who can be replaced by a foreign invader. Thus, this article highlights the implications of Hobbes’s views on sovereignty by acquisition, which allow for states to be decomposed and reassembled in order to re-establish lasting peace. It is concluded that these findings help to explain why Hobbes does not provide something akin to modern theories of international relations, as foreign affairs appear to be reducible to a matter of either prudence or political philosophy.

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“…which I knew to proceed from a mere instinct of nature.' 92 Consequently, Bramhall argues, bees and spiders do not deliberate or elect as humans do.…”

Section: G Keith the Presbyterian And Independent Visible Churches mentioning

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“…'For bees and spiders, if he [Bramhall] had so little to do as to be a spectator of their actions, he would have confessed not only election, but also art, prudence, and policy in them, very near equal to that of mankind.' 93 The irony in this response is that Hobbes regarded the actions of both insects and humans as the product of the necessity of nature, even while insisting that freedom of action, in the case of human beings, was compatible with that necessity. 94 What is intriguing is that Hobbes does not subject Bramhall to correction here, as he regularly does in other cases of Bramhall's lapses into scholastic diction, by ridiculing and exposing his use of instinct.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Instead, he diverts the reader's attention to quibbles over disputed meanings of 'kind of work,' and to Bramhall's alleged misuse of the word contingent. 95 Does he decline to attack Bramhall's use of the phrase instinct of nature because of instinct's latent ablative rather than substantive and hypostatic force in that phrase, and its implied reference to the ultimate causal agent, God himself? 96 In the year of Leviathan, 1651, 4 years after De Cive had been formally published in Paris, an anonymous and unauthorized translation of it, entitled Rudiments concerning Government and Society, was published in London 97 De Cive begins with a brief dedication to Hobbes' patron, the Earl of Devonshire, a manifesto in which Hobbes dismisses the moral philosophers of the past for their failure to explain 'natural right and natural laws,' and provides a capsule account of the origin and development of his own thinking about natural justice.…”

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