This paper is one of the four interrelated action agenda papers resulting from the National Summit on Public Health Legal Preparedness convened in June 2007 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and multi-disciplinary partners. Each of the action agenda papers deals with one of the four core elements of legal preparedness: laws and legal authorities; competency in using those laws; coordination of law-based public health actions; and information. Options presented in this paper are for consideration by policymakers and (...) practitioners — in all jurisdictions and all relevant sectors and disciplines — with responsibilities for all-hazards emergency preparedness.One expert's framing of the mission of public health may help improve understanding of the range of hazards for which to be legally prepared. These hazards include urgent realities — such as chronic disease, injury, disabilities, conventional communicable diseases, and an aging and obese population — and urgent threats, such as pandemic influenza, natural disasters, and terrorism. (shrink)

Les origines grecques de la conception d'harmonie (H. Dufourt) - Du monde au matériau : le devenir-musical du timbre (A. Soulez) - La musique est-elle un langage? (R. Casati et J. Dokic) - Le devenir du matériau musical au XXe siècle (M. Solomos) - Hauteur, timbre, harmonie, synthèse (J.C. Risset) et d'autres articles...

This book is an introduction to philosophy of sex. The history of philosophy of sex is depicted (from Plato to Herman Schmitz) to set up the background against which the philosophy of sex by Herman Schmitz is analyzed. This leads to the discussion of topics like masturbation, the ontology of the sexed human body, and same-sex marriage.

Karl Schmitz‐Moormann argues that the doctrines of God and Creation, usually explicated in Roman Catholic theology by using the analogy of being, must rather be conceived in light of evolution and an analogy of becoming. God the Trinity, characterized by unity, information, and freedom, provides the image toward which the creation tends in its evolutionary processes. Informed by Teilhard and others, the author hereby provides more of a new research program for theology's engagement with natural science than a fully (...) developed theology. (shrink)

예술과 유희는 철학적, 미학적, 문화사적으로 자주 논의되어 온 문제이다. 그런데 유희는 단순히 예술의 한 특징이나 측면이 아니라, 예술과 삶, 예술과 문화, 예술과 사회, 예술과 정치, 예술과 인간(몸) 등과 직, 간접적으로 연관되어 있는 대단히 중요한 예술철학적 주제이다. 필자는 본고에서 예술과 유희의 문제를 두 명의 독일 사상가들인 발터 벤야민(Walter Benjamin, 1892-1940)과 헤르만 슈미츠(Hermann Schmitz, 1928- )의 이론을 통해 고찰하고자 한다. 철학적 입장과 방법론이 현저하게 다르지만, 두 사상가는 예술과 유희의 존재론적, 인식론적 의미에 대해 각기 매우 독창적이며 의미심장한 이론을 전개한다. 벤야민은 거시적인 ‘토대와 (...) 상부구조’의 발전 경향과 상호작용의 관점에서 예술과 유희의 문제를 논구한다. 그의 이론에서 유희는 예술의 근원적 추동력일 뿐 아니라, 새로운 역사적 주체인 대중의 내적 구성과 해방적 실천을 가능케 하는 인간학적 핵심 개념으로 등장한다. 한편, 슈미츠는 신체적 경험과 주관적 사실의 전면적인 재평가를 바탕으로 예술과 유희의 의미를 논의한다. 신체적으로 경악할 수 있는 존재인 인간은 카오스적 다양체의 도전에 대해 신체적 공명 능력과 대상화 능력으로 응답한다. 이들이 바로 유희적 동일시와 시와 예술을 통한 대상화 능력이다. 유희적 요소가 날로 증가하고 있는 동시대 예술작품을 깊이 이해하고자 할 때, 벤야민과 슈미츠의 이론은 여러 지점에서 중요한 시사점을 줄 수 있을 것이다. (shrink)

This new annotated translation of Chapter Six of Hegel's _Phenomenology of Spirit_, the joint product of a group of scholars that included H. S. Harris, George di Giovanni, John W. Burbidge, and Kenneth Schmitz, represents an advance in accuracy and fluency on previous translations into English of this core chapter of the Phenomenology. Its notes and commentary offer both novice and scholar more guidance to this text than is available in any other translation, and it is thus well suited (...) for use in survey courses. (shrink)

Insbesondere die Tragfähigkeit des transzendentalen Idealismus für Kants Metaphysik der Natur sowie die Schlüssigkeit seiner Moralphilosophie stehen in den Beiträgen des Bandes erneut auf dem Prüfstand. Zentrale Konzepte von Kants Transzendental- und Moralphilosophie, wie Substanz, Zeit, Freiheit und der kategorische Imperativ, werdenvor dem Hintergrund der Frage behandelt, wo Kant im Spannungsfeld zwischen traditionellem und modernem Wissenschaftsverständnis zu verorten ist. Bedeutende Vertreter der Kantforschung (u.a. H. E. Allison, P. Guyer, D. Schönecker, M.Caimi, H. Schmitz) liefern im vorliegenden Band Klärungen: Sie (...) ordnen Kant in den Kontext der Tradition und der zeitgenössischen Diskussion ein und ziehen produktive Vergleiche mit Autoren nach Kant, die sich kritisch mit ihm auseinander setzten. Der Band richtet sich an fortgeschrittene Studierende und Kantforscher, die sich einen repräsentativen Überblick über den aktuellen Stand der Debatte verschaffen wollen. (shrink)

Zum Alltag gehort, dass nicht immer alles glatt lauft. Uberraschendes passiert, Routinen greifen nicht mehr, das Selbstverstandliche wird problematisch. Wie reagieren Menschen auf solche Irritationen, die aus dem "plotzlichen Einbruch des Neuen" (H. Schmitz) resultieren? Wie es scheint, haufig spontan, intuitiv, improvisierend. Was aber heisst Improvisation und wie gelingt sie? Und wie spielen Irritation und Improvisation in alltaglichen und beruflichen Situationen konkret zusammen? Die Beitrage des Buches behandeln diese Fragen aus der Perspektive der Neuen Phanomenologie. Mit Beitragen von Heinz (...) Becker, Walter Burger, Sabine Dorpinghaus, Jurgen Hasse, Henning Hintze, Robby Jacob, Robert Josef Kozljanic, Gudula Linck, Hermann Schmitz, Klaudia Schultheis, Viola Straubenmuller und Barbara Wolf. (shrink)