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Improving Seed Quality of Soybean Suitable for Growing in Europe
Authors: Sudarić Aleksandra , Matoša Kočar Maja , Duvnjak Tomislav , Zdunić Zvonimir , Markulj Kulundžić Antonela
Published: November 2019

The potential of soybean for food, feed, and pharmaceutical industry arises from the composition of its seed. Since European countries import 95% of the annual demand for soybean grains, meal, and oil, causing an enormous trade deficit, the governments in Europe had started to introduce additional incentives to stimulate soybean cropping. To rebalance the sources of soybean supply in the future, production must be followed by continuous research to create varieties that would make European soybean more appealing to the processing industry and profitable enough to satisfy European farmers. This chapter is giving an overview of the European soybean seed quality research and an insight into soybean seed quality progress made at the Agricultural Institute Osijek, Croatia. The studies presented are mainly considering maturity groups suitable for growing in almost all European regions. The most important traits of soybean seed quality discussed are protein content and amino acid composition, oil content and fatty acid composition, soluble sugars, and isoflavones. Defining quality traits facilitates the parental selection in breeding programs aiming to improve the added value properties of final soybean products and enables the exchange of materials between different breeding and research institutions to introduce diversity, which is a prerequisite for genetic advance.
Bauman on Moral Blindness
Authors: Ohaekwusi Anthony Chuwkuebuka ,   Akademia Ignatianum
Published: November 2019

This article analyzes Zygmunt Bauman’s notion of moral blindness against the backdrop of his designation of modern culture as a dynamic process of liquefaction constantly dissolving every paradigm and subject to the flexible and indeterminate power of individual choice. Bauman argued that the social conditions of this radically individualistic liquid modernity result in a kind of moral insensitivity that he calls adiaphorization. Adiaphorization for him places certain human acts outside the “universe of moral obligations.” It defies the entire orthodox theory of the social origins of morality as it reveals that some dehumanizing monstrous atrocities like the holocaust and genocides are not exclusively reserved for monsters, but can be attributable to “frighteningly normal” moral agents. The present text therefore attempts to discuss the various moral implications of Bauman’s analysis of moral blindness, with a view to highlighting its weaknesses. It moves on to explore Bauman’s recourse to Emmanuel Levinas’ ethics of the “face of the Other” as a viable ethical remedy that trumps the uncanny effects of this whole adiaphorization effect. Finally, the paper further advances his call for a rediscovery of the sense of belonging, by appealing to some major insights originating from African traditions of ethical communalism in order to propose a possible route towards the avoidance and amelioration of this moral challenge.
A Trace of Similarity within Even Greater Dissimilarity
Authors: Tabaczek Mariusz ,   Akademia Ignatianum
Published: November 2019

This article readdresses the Przywara-Barth controversy concerning analogia entis. The main point of our analysis is the question of whether the concept of analogy presented by Erich Przywara was in line with the classical Aristotelian-Thomistic definition and use of analogy in theistic predication. First, we ask about Przywara’s strong conviction that analogy is primarily a metaphysical and not merely a grammatical doctrine. Secondly, after presenting the complexity of Aquinas’ notion of analogy, as well as the variety of opinions on this subject among his commentators, we analyze (1) the objectives of Przywara’s view of analogia entis, (2) his grounding it in the terminology taken from the typology offered by Cajetan and juxtaposing analogia proportionalitatis and analogia atributionis, and (3) his introduction of the concept of “a new ‘attributive analogy’” proceeding from above to below and sustaining the tension within analogia entis. We show that Przywara remained a faithful student and interpreter of Thomas, where this makes Barth’s accusation that the Catholic doctrine of analogia entis puts God and creatures on a common plane of being unjustified.
Enseñar a Pensar Desde la Fenomenología
Authors: López Sáenz Carmen
Published: November 2019

The Philosophy Program for Children initially inspired by Lipman’s work has been successfully applied in different countries. This program defends the necessity to teach children to think philosophically. In order to achieve this goal, it is necessary both that teachers are philosophically educated and that philosophy is included in the curriculum of all schools. The aim of this paper is to show that phenomenology helps toward the success of this task as much as pragmatism, the tradition that inspired Lipman. The interest of Husserl and his followers in Lebenswelt and in knowledge makes pedagogical reflection and practice richer. Phenomenological applications and methodologies are so broad that they give education a critical orientation. The controversy between Merleau-Ponty and Piaget shows the validity of the Philosophy Program for Children. Hermeneutic phenomenology goes deeply into dialogue, an activity essential to the institution of an investigative community in the educational process.
Habits and Explanation
Authors: Caruana Louis
Published: November 2019

Habits form a crucial part of the everyday conceptual scheme used to explain normal human activity. However, they have been neglected in debates concerning folk-psychology which have concentrated on propositional attitudes such as beliefs. But propositional attitudes are just one of the many mental states. In this paper, I seek to expand the debate by considering mental states other than propositional attitudes. I conclude that the case for the autonomy and plausibility of the folk-psychological explanation is strengthened when one considers an example from the non-propositional-attitude mental states: habits. My main target is the radical eliminativist program. As regards habits, eliminativists could argue in two distinct but related ways. They can either abandon the concept "habit" altogether or retain the folk-psychological term "habit" by reducing it to the causal chain of the observed behavior pattern, as is sometimes done in social theory. I contend that both of these strategies are defective. The correct way to talk about habits is in terms of manifestations and activating conditions, not in terms of causal chains. Hence, if eliminativists take up either of the two arguments given above, they will not succeed. Correspondingly, by the added generality gained through the consideration of habits, the case for folk-psychology is strengthened.
Aristotle, Connectionism, and the Morally Excellent Brain
Authors: DeMoss David
Published: November 2019

Can a mass of networked neurons produce moral human agents? I shall argue that it can; a brain can be morally excellent. A connectionist account of how the brain works can explain how a person might be morally excellent in Aristotle's sense of the term. According to connectionism, the brain is a maze of interconnections trained to recognize and respond to patterns of stimulation. According to Aristotle, a morally excellent human is a practically wise person trained in good habits. What an Aristotelian theory of ethics and a connectionist theory of mind have in common is the assumption that the successful mind/brain has the disposition to behave appropriately in appropriate circumstances. According to Aristotle, the good person knows the right end, desires and chooses to pursue it, and recognizes the right means to it. Thus the good person's brain must be able to form certain moral concepts, develop appropriate behavioral dispositions, and learn practical reasoning skills. I shall argue that this collection of the brain's cognitive capacities is best accounted for by a connectionist theory of the mind/brain. The human condition is both material and moral; we are brain-controlled bodies with ethical values. My essay seeks to understand the relationship between our brains and our values, between how the brain works and how we make moral decisions.
Rawlsian Stability & Feminism
Authors: Stoll Mary Lyn
Published: November 2019

In A Theory of Justice, John Rawls defends two principles of justice, in part by an appeal to stability. Rawls claims that coupled with the publicity condition, the two principles are preferable because they are more likely to encourage stability than are average utilitarian theories. Rawls' radical and feminist opponents have found this appeal to stability problematic since they believe that achieving justice may sometimes necessitate the destabilization of society. Moreover, utilitarian critics argue that even if stability is granted as justification for a theory of justice, it seems at least plausible that institutions structured according to an average utilitarian conception of justice could yield a society that is just as stable. I will argue that with an accurate understanding of Rawls' appeal to stability, these sorts of criticisms lose their strength, and Rawls' argument for the stability of his two principles over average utilitarianism appears that much more convincing. Thus, by getting clear on what Rawls' appeal to stability entails, we gain a fuller understanding of his theory and its justification. Finally, I will consider a revised feminist critique that appeals to the appropriate understanding of stability and go on to suggest how Rawls might respond to such a critique.
A Tragic Vision for a New Millenium
Authors: Sprintzen David
Published: November 2019

After 350 years of continual social transformations under the push of industrialization, capitalism, world-wide social revolutions, and the development of modern science, what reasonably remains of the traditional faith in divine transcendence and providential design except a deep-felt, almost 'ontological' yearning for transcendence? Torn between outmoded religious traditions and an ascendant secular world, the contemporary celebration of individuality only makes more poignant the need for precisely that religious consolation that public life increasingly denies. People must now confront the meaning of their lives without the assured aid of transcendent purpose and direction. The resulting sense of absence profoundly marks the contemporary world. Confronted with the theoretical problems posed by the absence of absolute values, and the historical problems posed by contemporary social movements, Camus dramatized the urgency of developing guides to humane conduct in a world without transcendence. He continued to believe that only when the dignity of the worker and the respect for intelligence are accorded their rightful place can human existence hope to realize its highest ideals, and our life find the collective meaning and purpose that alone can truly sustain us in the face of an infinite and indifferent universe.
Keats and the Senses of Being
Authors: Stambovsky Phillip
Published: November 2019

With its focus on the pathos of permanence versus temporality as human aporia and on the function — the Werksein — of the work of art genuinely encountered, John Keats’s Ode on a Grecian Urn is a particularly compelling subject for philosophical analysis. The major explications of this most contentiously debated ode in the language have largely focused, however, on various combinations of the poem’s stylistic, structural, linguistic, psychological, aesthetic, historical, symbolic, and intellectual-biographical elements. My paper articulates a bona fide philosophical approach to the ode’s famously controversial fifth stanza (the one containing the Urn’s declaration: "Beauty is truth, truth beauty"). I demonstrate how William Desmond’s metaphysics of Being-specifically his analysis of the univocal, equivocal, dialectical, and metaxological senses of being-affords the groundwork for a "hermeneutics of the between" that elucidates the ode’s culminating stanza with all of the cogency and nuance that one would expect to derive from a systematic ontology.
Ecological Hermeneutics
Authors: Keller David R.
Published: November 2019

To what extent does Hans-Georg Gadamer’s theory of science provide a basis for the articulation of an ecological hermeneutics? As "hermeneutics" is the art of interpretation and understanding, "ecological hermeneutics" is understood as the act of interpreting the impact of technology within the lifeworld. I consider the potential for ecological hermeneutics based upon Gadamer’s theory of science. First, I outline his theory of science. Second, I delineate ecological hermeneutics as an application of this theory. Third, I discuss what can be expected from the act of ecological hermeneutics. Finally, I make some general comments about the affinity between ecological hermeneutics and brute common-sense.
Relation And Responsibility
Authors: Snelgrove Chelsea H.
Published: November 2019

This paper evaluates some philosophical views regarding the self who is an ethical deliberator and agent-specifically the traditional atomistic individualist self and the expanded biocentric self of deep ecology. The paper then presents an alternative manner of thinking about the ethical self which avoids some of the philosophical difficulties of the foregoing views. This alternative draws on the recent work by Val Plumwood and Donna Haraway. Haraway's cyborg identity is a kind of self-in-relation (Plumwood's term) which allows for ethical deliberations that take relations with others seriously without losing individuality in problematic holism (as deep ecology does). Self-in-relation is defined by the relation of intentional inclusion. This relation is given a functionalist, non-mentalistic interpretation. The notions of ontological foresight and moral foresight are introduced to enable determinations of moral responsibility without falling back into the problematic universalism which otherwise results from the functionalist view of cyborg self-in-relation.
Case-Based Environmental Ethics
Authors: Weir Jack
Published: November 2019

Cases have been widely used in medical ethics and law. In both fields, numerous books and articles about cases have appeared, including book-length catalogs of cases. I argue that pluralistic casuistry provides an adequate approach to environmental ethics. It retains the strengths while avoiding the weaknesses of the other approaches. Importantly, it resolves some broader theoretical issues and provides a clear, explicit methodology for education and praxis.
Science and African Metaphysics
Authors: Asouzu Innocent I.
Published: November 2019

If one takes the African situation as a case study, one finds that serious efforts are made for the sake of scientific progress and exploration. However, the results attained are not comparable to the energy expended. Lack of progress is often attributed to faulty policy formation and execution on the part of African leaders and governments. This essay attempts to shed light on the source of this problem. The heuristic principle I follow holds that the metaphysical preconditioning of consciousness leads us to approach sensory data in particular ways and, furthermore, influences both our formulation of problems and possible solutions. I note the lapses in African metaphysics and sketch an alternate metaphysics which I hope will inaugurate a new African system of thought.
Das Projekt einer globalen Ethik und die afrikanische Philosophie
Authors: Graness Anke
Published: November 2019

Die Frage nach einer globalen Ethik stellt sich heute verschärft unfgrund der neuen Qualität gegenseitiger Abhängigkeit der einzelnen Staaten und Regionen beruhend auf einer eng verknüpften Weltwirtschaft und dem weltumspannenden Netz modernen Kommunikationssysteme. Diese Verknüpfung zeigt sich am deutlichsten in der Vernetzung transnationaler Konzerne, deren Produktionsstätten nicht mehr an nationale Territorien gebunden sind. Die Entstehung einer globalen Interdependenz hängt jedoch nicht nur mit ökonomischen Entwicklungen oder der neuen Effizienz der Kommunikationstechniken zusammen, sondern auch mit der in diesem Jahrhundert entstandenen Möglichkeit einer ökologischen oder militärischen Selbstzerstörung der Erde durch den Menschen.
Who Counts as a Sage?
Authors: Presbey Gail
Published: November 2019

With the recent death of Prof. H. Odera Oruka, founder of the ‘sage philosophy’ school of research based at the University of Nairobi, there is a need to look at some now-problematic issues. I suggest that the original impetus for starting the sage philosophy project-the defense against Euro-American skeptics who thought Africans incapable of philosophizing-has been outgrown. The present need for studies of African sages is to benefit from their wisdom, both in Africa and around the world. I also suggest that the title ‘sage’ has to be problematized. While there were good reasons to focus earlier on rural elders as overlooked wise philosophers, the emphasis now should be on admiring philosophical thought wherever it may be found—in women, youth, and urban Africans as well. In such a way, philosophy will be further relevant to people’s lives, and further light will be shed and shared regarding the lived experience in Africa.
Tatparya and its role in verbal understanding
Authors: Ghosh Raghunath
Published: November 2019

I examine the concept of intention (tatparya) and its role in the phenomenon of verbal comprehension (sabdabodha) with special reference to Navya Nyaya, followed by some critical and evaluative remarks. An effort has been made to give an account of the apprehension of intention (tatparya) in four types of sentences: a) the ambiguous sentence b) the non-ambiguous sentence c) the vedic sentence and d) the sentence uttered by a parrot.
Philosophical Foundation of Ecological Ethics
Authors: Mantatov V. V. , Dorzhigushaeva O. V.
Published: November 2019

Principles of Buddhist philosophy central to the formation of an ecological paradigm of mentality include a dynamic vision of the world, a system of relative truth apart from dogmas, a moral foundation for scientific knowledge, an emphasis on nonviolence and the absence of repressive scientific methods, and the progressive movement of the intellect to Universal Consciousness which postulates the unity of microcosm and macrocosm. The comparative analysis of laws and principles of modern ecological science and basic Buddhist thought points to their common intentional direction. Buddhist philosophy declares the creative participation of humankind in the united world synergistic process and forms to be the foundation of an altruistically marked ecological ethics.
Conflict Between Efficiency and Sense of “Ludus”
Authors: Moog Rodrigues Anna Maria
Published: November 2019

Efficiency is a highly considered virtue, especially in our contemporary technological society. It appears to be opposed to the sense of ludus (playfulness) that is greatly valued in Brazilian culture. Is this conflict real? Is it a definite impediment to modernization? This paper deals with this apparent conflict of values, trying to find a way toward a harmonious integration of them. Efficiency is shown as the virtue of a culture turned toward modernity. It is therefore highly prized in contemporary business administration theories. It is also shown that the whole of modern society is oriented toward technological advance and it consequently tends to value efficiency above all other values. Considering other values found in different cultures, there needs to be a better knowledge of them. This study establishes ludus as a typical value of Brazilian culture. An analogy is drawn between the sense of playfulness described and praised by Brazilian authors, and the sense of detachment from technology proposed by Jacques Ellus as a condition for creating a real civilization with technological progress.
Essential and Effective Freedom
Authors: Smith Marc E.
Published: November 2019

The theory of agency, it has been claimed, seems to involve two strange notions: on the one hand, that of a self who is not merely an event, but a substance; and that of causation, according to which an agent, who is a substance, can nevertheless be the cause of an event. The understanding of the conscious subject as constituted by the operations of experience, understanding, judgment and decision, proposed by the Canadian philosopher and theologian, Bernard Lonergan, might resolve the puzzle, and provide the basis for an understanding of human freedom that is the affirmation of neither determinism nor arbitrariness. Perhaps one of the strongest arguments in the proposal's favor is that any attempt to refute it in theory would entail its adoption in practice.
Hedonismo y Fractura de la Modernidad
Authors: Flores Roberto Dante
Published: November 2019

This is an analysis of the ethico-cultural crisis of modernity and the emergence of the so-called postmodern aesthetic expressions (and conduct), examined principally from the point of view of Frederic Jameson and its coincidence with other authors (D. Lowe, G. Lipovetsky, and P. Virilio). I also investigate the relationship between the new sensitivities of the end of the century and the notion of justice, and its moral. This is seen by the authors as a consequence of the impact that mass-media technologies have produced in individuals leading to a new form of experience: the aesthetization of life and the fragmentation of the subject. The culture of the image is omnipresent, diluting art into aesthetization and the subject into the objectivization of consumption. We can see that there is a loss of historicity in the postmodern individual-originating from the speed of audiovisual information-upon perceiving, on a screen, the world in an instanct, without references to either a past or a future. The new technologies are the product of a new stage of capitalism, even more so than in the modernity of massive consumption. As a consequence of these three factors (aesthetization, ahistoricity, consumption), there has emerged a hedonistic ethos which differentiates itself from its modern vanguardist antecedents in that it is no longer the transgressor of a religious moral, or the secularism of duty, because pleasure is no longer forbidden. This framework, which is lacking in hard principles and is sustained by 'weak and conviction free' individuals is compatible with the liberal ethic of Rawls. In the face of the contradiction of modernity, we shall reconsider, as factors of socio-political construction, the moral values provided by the world's great religions.
Postmodernity as the Climax of Modernity
Authors: Goubman Boris
Published: November 2019

Given that any society is endowed not only with a set of institutions but also with the particular pattern of self-reflection and self-description, postmodernity should be viewed as an epoch representing the climax of modernity and its self-refutation. Parting with traditional society, modernity represents the triumph of power-knowledge, the divorce between spheres of culture, the global social relations, the new institutions, the change in the understanding of space-time relations, the cult of the new, and the modernization process. While preserving the institutional set of modernity, the postmodern period casts into doubt the basic thought foundations of classical modernity. The horizons of the emerging cultural future should be viewed in the light of a positive synthesis of the postmodern reflexive pattern with the legacy of modernity.
Nocion de Simbolismo en Merleau-Ponty
Authors: de Walton Graciela Ralon
Published: November 2019

The problem of the relationship between natural and conventional symbolism shows Merleau-Ponty's concern with maintaining an 'organic link between perception and intellection.' For the body affords in itself and in its relation with the world the model on which the interpretation of symbolism is grounded. This paper develops the view that the architectonic of the body implies a silent structure which is the condition for expressive operations. The body is the 'primal expression,' and this means that it is so organized that it brings forth an institution (Stiftung) of meaning. As regards conventional symbolism, Merleau-Ponty turns aside from an intellectual interpretation by contending that the attempt to find in categoreal activity a common fundamental moment must not overlook the fact that meaningful structures cannot be separated from the materials which embody them because 'matter is pregnant with form.' This view opens up the possibility of considering the cultural formations which emerge in the relationship between persons in language, knowledge, society and history as a reprise of the aesthetic logos in a different architectonic.
The Hermeneutic Conception of Culture
Authors: Sampaio Rui
Published: November 2019

Heidegger, the founder of the hermeneutic paradigm, rejected the traditional account of cultural activity as a search for universally valid foundations for human action and knowledge. His main work, Sein und Zeit (1927), develops a holistic epistemology according to which all meaning is context-dependent and permanently anticipated from a particular horizon, perspective or background of intelligibility. The result is a powerful critique directed against the ideal of objectivity. Gadamer shares with Heidegger the hermeneutic reflections developed in Sein und Zeit and the critique of objectivity, describing the cultural activity as an endless process of "fusions of horizons." On the one hand, this is an echo of the Heideggerian holism, namely, of the thesis that all meaning depends on a particular interpretative context. On the other hand, however, this concept is an attempt to cope with the relativity of human existence and to avoid the dangers of a radical relativism. In fact, through an endless, free and unpredictable process of fusions of horizons, our personal horizon is gradually expanded and deprived of its distorting prejudices in such a way that the educative process (Bildung) consists in this multiplication of hermeneutic experiences. Gadamer succeeds therefore in presenting a non-foundationalist and non-teleological theory of culture.
The Path to Knowledge
Authors: Wautischer Helmut
Published: November 2019

Recent ethnographies suggest that tribal cosmologies address topics of philosophical relevance and offer valuable insights into the nature of perennial philosophical problems. For example, while postmodern and feminist thought has argued that the verification of knowledge is directly related to political interests, I argue that there are other vantage points not related to such interests that serve as valuable measures for the acceptance of knowledge. Direct empirical verification of the ontological presuppositions that govern the assessment of anthropos in the context sub species aeternitatis empowers an individual to understand his or her role within culture as well. The methodological bounty described in ethnography signals for philosophers to question the categorization of transcendence merely as 'religious experience.' This paper argues that humans may have the capacity both to recognize the divine and to give objective descriptions through symbols and language which allow for the development of methodologies in order to access that knowledge at will.
Paideia, Prejudice and the Promise of the Practical
Authors: Hogan Padraig
Published: November 2019

In an age of radical pluralism it is increasingly difficult to affirm and sustain the educational aspirations of Greek paideia (Latin humanitas). The most challenging attacks on these aspirations come from standpoints which share a postmodern attitude of opposition towards inherited cultural ideals, especially those which claim universality. This paper first examines optimistic and pessimistic prospects for the educational heritage of humanitas, concluding that, in the face of cultural disparateness which is increasingly evident in post-Enlightenment cultures, the pessimistic case seems to be more convincing. Recognizing that this gives added impetus to postmodernist standpoints, the second section examines some key features of these, taking as its examples arguments of Lyotard, Foucault and Rorty. I show that the prejudices of the postmodernist arguments are as invidious as the discriminatory assumptions and the neglect of the quality of educational practice in the Western cultural inheritance. Recalling some insights which can be gleaned from the educational practices of Socrates, the last section joins these with findings of contemporary philosophers on the pre-judgements and partiality which are inescapable features of human understanding. This is a reclamation and elucidation of a practical and promising humanitas which does justice to the claims of diversity and universality.
Philosophic-Methodological and Social-Cultural Factors in the Problem of Youth’s Education and Socialization
Authors: Kuszhanova A. , Ivanenkov S.
Published: November 2019

The socialization of youth is currently in crisis. Education is in crisis across the world. The correlation between socialization and education is a crucial theoretical as well as a practical problem. Schools are the main institution of socialization. Education possesses two different functions: social reproduction and development. The way of life in any concrete society requires stable forms of socialization.
Three Views of Philosophy and Multiculturalism
Authors: Nicholson Carol J.
Published: November 2019

John Searle opposes multiculturalism because he views it as part of a movement to undermine the concepts of truth and objectivity in the Western tradition. Richard Rorty disagrees with Searle about the relation between philosophical theories of truth and academic practices, but he is neutral on the issue of multiculturalism. Charles Taylor approaches the issue historically, defending multiculturalism as emerging from one branch of liberal political theory. I argue that the debate over epistemological and political issues has tended to obscure the educational benefits of multiculturalism. A multicultural curriculum works very well in fulfilling the traditional goals of education in philosophy. It can assist the teacher as Socratic "midwife" and "gadfly" in delivering students from their narrow and uncritical opinions and awakening them to a world of intellectual diversity. Thus, multiculturalism is not so much a recent movement as a new name for an old method of teaching.
Paideia and the “Matter of Mind”
Authors: Sheppard Shelby L.
Published: November 2019

Paideiarefers to a particular sort of education which has historically been concerned with learning for the sake of learning, i.e., for the development of mind. As such, paideia is distinguished from specialized learning, training and learning for extrinsic purposes. Paideia is embodied in the traditional notion of Liberal Education which holds that such an education is the development of mind through the achievement of worthwhile knowledge and understanding. A contemporary trend in the literature of philosophy of mind and epistemology is a concern with cognitive functions of the human mind and the role of these functions in the acquisition of knowledge. The functional conception of the mind emphasizes learning (cognitive development) through cognitive training to monitor and control one's own mental processes. The uncritical incorporation of cognitive theories of mind and knowledge acquisition into current educational theory and practice suggests that paideia can be combined with, if not enhanced by, cognitive training. This paper takes the position that such an assumption is misguided and that the 'matter' of mind is an issue which requires clarification for advocates of paideia. The paper contrasts the cognitive approach to a 'conventionalist' conception of mind which, arguably, is the concept of mind assumed by advocates of paideia.
Historia y filosofía de la historia en el Benjamin tardío
Authors: Sazbón José
Published: November 2019

This paper deals with Walter Benjamin’s text largely known as "Theses on the Philosophy of History," and disputes its classification under that rubric. The circumstances of the elaboration and, more important, the explicit destination assigned to the reflections of the "Theses," require a consideration of its content and its relation to the historical studies the author was engaged in concerning the "prehistory" of modernity, especially of the remnants of the Parisian nineteenth century: the commonly known work "The Arcades Project." The relevance of a sameness in the language used in the two writings, particularly the resort to images, metaphors and the technique of montage, is stressed. It is argued that Benjamin’s philosophical style was always imagistic and that this fact is particularly relevant to the reflections on the concept of history. Philosophers and historians are both concerned by the historical research and concept construction of a thinker like the late Walter Benjamin. It is therefore desirable to compare and contrast their views.
Os gritos do cárcere: relatos sobre as oprimidas na ditadura argentina
Authors: Sousa Pinheiro Junior Benedito Ubiratan
Published: November 2019

O presente texto tem como objetivo discutir sobre o feminino nas relações de poder no interior dos movimentos revolucionários e do cárcere, fazendo uma construção das diferenças existente entre os gêneros em situação de tortura. A carga conceitual que leva a palavra “mulher” neste âmbito as faz ter tratamento diferenciados e, por conseguinte uma construção narrativa diferenciada, discurso que se faz questionador desde o interior da militância onde várias mulheres reclamavam do tratamento que recebiam por parte dos companheiros de luta. Judith Butler concebe a diferença tácita entre o discurso e a materialidade do feminismo, desassociando do palpável o valor do gênero. A mulher enquanto construção social é violável, torturá-la significa fazê-la minúscula enquanto gênero, o estupro por vários homens era comum e esse ato satisfazia o desejo masculino de inferiorizar a mulher, tratá-la como objeto descartável e medíocre.
O dispositivo da delação nas obras Soledad no Recife e No corpo e na alma
Authors: De Oliveira Samantha Carolina Vieira
Published: November 2019

No cerne desta produção a relevância teórica é discutir a respeito do dispositivo da delação, elemento presente no romance Soledad no Recife do autor Urariano Mota e no testemunho No corpo e na Alma de Derlei Catarina de Luca, partindo de uma análise comparativa entre as obras. Para tal objetivo uso como ferramenta a metodologia arqueológica – ensinada por Michael Foucault – para identificar as facetas daquilo que nomeio como dispositivo da delação e as conjecturas do teórico Giorgio Agamben, que nos ajuda a pensar a respeito do poder Soberano e os corpos matáveis, tendo em vista que as narrativas têm como composição de enredo o período ditatorial brasileiro, cuja perseguição e violência aos militantes era prática habitual do regime.
Notas para uma poética da resistência
Authors: Ferreira Raul Azevedo de Andrade
Published: November 2019

O presente artigo realiza uma reflexão sobre como a noção de resistência pode ser pensada a partir do discurso poético. Neste sentido, ele primeiro mobiliza algumas noções da análise do discurso de linha francesa e enunciados emitidos ao longo da mais recente campanha eleitoral a fim de desenvolver uma breve análise do discurso da extrema-direita, cuja presença no interdiscurso da conjuntura ideológica nacional determina as condições de produção nas quais uma poética da resistência pode ser pensada. Em seguida, ele analisa alguns poemas do poeta recifense Miró da Muribeca procurando exemplificar uma modalidade de poesia onde o ético converte-se em estético.
O duelo entre materialidades: a representação da violência no conto “O duelo”, de Guimarães Rosa, e no filme homônimo, de Paulo Thiago
Authors: Ramos Juliana Marschal , Stumpf Lívia , Alves Cristiane da Silva
Published: November 2019

A literatura é uma forma de expressão da realidade e do cotidiano, que são tecidos por diversos fios, sendo um deles o da violência. Este trabalho tem como objetivo analisar a representação da violência por meio da escrita e por meio audiovisual do conto “O duelo”, publicado na obra Sagarana, de Guimarães Rosa, e na adaptação cinematográfica homônima, dirigida por Paulo Thiago. Por meio de um estudo de cunho bibliográfico e de método comparatista, foram analisadas as ocorrências de atos violentos em ambas as materialidades à luz de pesquisadores como Alves (2003), Brito (2006) e Hutcheon e O’Flynn (2013). É possível perceber que essa adaptação gerou modificações para que o sentido da obra fosse mantido, mas adicionando alguns elementos, como a inserção de personagens de outros livros.
Experimental and Numerical Studies on Asphaltene Deposition Distribution during CO2 Flooding in Ultra-Low Permeability Reservoirs
Authors: Li Rongtao , Liao Xinwei , Zou Jiandong , Zhang Hua , Zhou Xingze , Mu Lingyu , Dong Peng
Published: November 2019

Asphaltene deposition is one aspect of the serious causes decreasing the production capacity, and a common phenomenon during CO2 flooding in ultra-low permeability reservoirs. Prior to asphaltene deposition, the asphaltene first precipitates from the crude oil. It is urgent to find out the asphaltene precipitation and deposition mechanisms, influencing factors and distribution characteristics.

Laboratory experiments and numerical simulations were conducted to study the asphaltene precipitation and deposition influencing factors and adverse effects. Visible microscope detection experiment and static PVT cell experiment were employed to qualitatively and quantitatively investigate the asphaltene precipitation under the influence of pressure, temperature and asphaltene content respectively. Core flooding experiments were designed to study the adverse effects of asphaltene deposition on porous medium porosity and permeability under different pressure, temperature and asphaltene content. Models describing asphaltene precipitation and deposition were built up and validated by experimental data. The asphaltene deposition characteristic was studied using a permeability heterogeneity conception model with five-point injection pattern under different pressure.

The results obtained by experimental studies indicate that the amount of asphaltene precipitation increases as the pressure rises to minimum miscibility pressure (MMP) and then decreases slowly. The increased temperature and asphaltene content result in the increased asphaltene precipitation. The adverse effects caused by asphaltene deposition on porosity and permeability have the same change trend as asphaltene precipitation under the influence of pressure, temperature and asphaltene content. The simulation results show that asphaltene deposition characteristics are mainly influenced by pressure, oil composition change and permeability heterogeneity.

The asphaltene precipitation mechanisms and asphaltene deposition adverse effects and distribution characteristics investigated in this research are encouraging. They can propose efficient and referable solutions about reducing formation damage and maintaining well productivity during CO2 flooding.
Investigation of Coal Wettability for the CO2 Sequestration and ECBM Applications: A Review
Authors: Ibrahim Ahmed Farid , Nasr-El-Din Hisham
Published: November 2019

The efficiency of the enhanced-coalbed-methane (ECBM) and CO2 sequestration process depends on the wettability behavior of the coal-water-CO2 system. It depends on the CO2 diffusion rate from the cleat network, through the micro-cleats, to the surface of the coal matrix. If the coal is hydrophobic, the gas will fill the smaller pores, which leads to faster diffusion of CO2 to the coal surface (diffusion coefficient of CO2 = 1.7*10−7 m2/s at 100 bar and 300 K). The diffusion coefficient decreases to 2*10−9 m2/s at the hydrophilic system.

This paper interoperates the published experimental outcomes of coal wettability at varies range of pressure, temperature, and gas composition. Wettability studies usually used contact angle measurements as a simple method to characterize the coal. Adsorption isotherm, Zeta potential measurements were used to interoperate the contact angle results and understand the wettability behavior. Recently, Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer (FTIR) technique was employed to investigate the functional chemical groups of the oxidized coals.

Coal has different ranks with different oxygen-containing polar groups such as carboxyl (COOH), hydroxyl (OH), and methoxyl (OCH3) groups. Coal becomes more water-wet with decreasing rank, carbon content and with increasing oxygen-containing groups. Regardless of the coal rank, the coal becomes more CO2-wet with increasing pressure up to the critical gas conditions where the coal wettability slightly increases. As the water-salt concentration increases, it compresses and destabilizes the double-layer surrounding the coal surface, causing a reduction in the absolute zeta potential value and making the coal surface more hydrophobic. The temperature has a negative effect on CO2 wettability to coal and the coal becomes more hydrophilic with increasing the temperature. In oxidized coal surfaces, FTIR technique is more sensitive than contact angle measurements.
Preliminary Environmental Risk Assessment Study Using US DOE’s National Risk Assessment Partnership on Leakage through Legacy Wells at the Shenhua CCS Demonstration Project
Authors: Nguyen Minh C. , Zhang Liwei , Wei Ning , Li Xiaochun , Zhang Ye , Stauffer Philip H.
Published: November 2019

Saline aquifers, among other potential CO2 storage formations, have been proven to offer the highest storage capacity necessary for commercial-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects. They are an ideal target for emission reduction from coal-fired power plants in the sourcesink model. However, unlike hydrocarbon reservoirs which are typically well developed, these deep formations face the challenge of characterization due to a lack of data and their uncertainty. Spatial reservoir information is critical in understanding CO2 injectivity, plume dynamics, and pressure management during and after injection operations. In this study, we combine geologic and dynamic data from the Shenhua CCS Demonstration Project in the Ordos Basin, China to provide an improved explanation for the pressure behavior and interesting injectivity at the site as well as presenting a risk assessment study of long-term storage safety. We extend the work of Nguyen et al. (2017a, b) in that a system of interconnected meandering channels are incorporated into our geologic model to account for the pore volume needed to allow high injectivity. CO2 injection simulations are carried out by varying geologic and rock/fluid parameters to generate scenarios that offer a better understanding of the subsurface spatial heterogeneity which contributed to our observed behavior. Simulation results suggest that the lateral extent of conceptual fluvial channels may not be as extensive as previously thought since the pressure front travels faster than our CO2 plume, resulting in minimal pressure buildup at the bottom-hole level. Our study also finds that the injection well may have penetrated a sandbody with interconnected permeability which contradicts the notion in previous work that a high permeability area to the Northwest of the injection well may be the cause of low-pressure buildup. Injection rate allocation is an important parameter in explaining the bottom-hole pressure (BHP) response at the injection well. Our models also provide a range of scenarios with the target 300,000 tons of CO2 being successfully injected into 5 layers of saline aquifers, with the sandstone Liujiagou formation receiving most of the injection. Risk assessment based on these scenarios honoring historical injection data suggests that there is a low probability of CO2/brine leakage through legacy wellbores in the area, including the injection and two monitoring wells.
Study on Dynamic Phase Behavior of Oil and Gas System during CO2 Flooding
Authors: Xianhong Tan , Kuiqian Ma , Shichao Chai , Xiaofeng Tian , Nan Li , Shiqiang Peng , Na Li , Wei Zheng , Lijun Zhang , Chen Hao
Published: November 2019

CO2 flooding is one of the most promising EOR methods. Due to the complicated compositional change during the displacement process, the effect of CO2 injection on phase behavior of oil and gas system is still not clear so far. It can great limits the forecast of development effect and composition optimization of injection gas. In this paper, taken an offshore oilfield of China as an example, based on compositional grouping, PVT test and slim tube test, phase behavior of oil and gas system during impure CO2 flooding was studied by PVT Sim 20. Results show that under reservoir conditions, the thickness of oil layer can greatly influence the composition distribution of the reservoir fluids. Thus, the phase behavior can be significantly different. For the initial stage of CO2 flooding, two-phase region of the phase diagram continuously extends. The cricondenbar increases obviously and the cricondentherm decreases. Critical point moves towards top left. With the CO2 flooding proceeding, the two-phase region begins to shrink when the gas oil ratio achieves 2:1. The cricondenbar increases slightly and the cricondentherm decreases significantly. Moreover, with the mixing of contaminated gases, the two-phase region enlarges and the cricondenbar increases greatly. However, the cricondentherm changes slightly. For pure CO2, the saturation pressures for different oil gas ratio are all lower than reservoir pressure, thus, it can achieve miscible flooding. Comparatively, for impure CO2, it becomes more and more difficult to fully miscible with oil. In sum, the CO2 displacement is the synthetic action of dissolution, dispersion, expansion, extraction, and viscosity reduction. Macroscopically, it is shown as the dynamic change of phase behavior of CO2-oil system.
CO2 Sequestration-Enhanced Oil Recovery (CO2/EOR) in the 21st Century
Authors: Merchant David
Published: November 2019

During the past 47 years, CO2 flood technology for Enhanced Oil Recovery projects evolved from a partially understood process filled with uncertainties to a process based on proven technology and experience. Many questions involved with CO2 flooding have been thoroughly analyzed and answered. This knowledge is currently being used by a limited number of companies that actually know how to design, implement, and manage a CO2 flood for long term profit. The purpose of this report is to help disseminate this knowledge to operating companies interested in EOR flooding or to CO2 Sequestration Communities interested in storing CO2 in EOR projects.

Carbon Sequestration Options for CO2/EOR from the 20th Century:

In 2015 and 2017, Merchant Consulting published two papers: CMTC-440075-MS "Life beyond 80 – A look at Conventional WAG Recovery beyond 80% HCPV Injection in CO2 Tertiary Floods" and CMTC-502866-MS "Enhanced Oil Recovery - The History of CO2 Conventional WAG Injection Techniques developed from Lab in the 1950's to 2017". The objective of these reports were to target all "10 CO2 Recovery Methods" used to date including "Conventional WAG Techniques" Results show Tertiary Oil Recovery can be as high as 26% OOIP with 190% HCPV Injected.

Carbon Sequestration Options for CO2/EOR in the 21st Century:

From 2005 to 2019, the Shale Oil Revolution killed CO2/EOR Sequestration by driving oil prices down to the $50-$60 dollar range along with the inability to lower CO2 Capture costs. The purpose of this report is to provide the CO2 Sequestration Community an update of combining two existing Conventional CO2/EOR Recovery Techniques that will compete economically with today's Shale Oil Revolution (Primary Recovery - Single Cycle). This includes:

"Shale Oil CO2/EOR Huff-n-Puff" Tertiary Oil Recovery to recover 2X to 3X times todays 1X Primary Unconventional Oil Recovery.

New methods also target: Zero Emissions (No Flare) and incorporates Q45 Tax Credits