The paper offers an interpretation of a classical study of Coleridge’s poetry: The Road to Xanadu by John Livingstone Lowes published in 1927. While Lowes’ book is considered a monumental work summarizing the sources of Coleridge’s poetic image, the paper tries to show that in addition to that Lowes develops a remarkable theory of imagination close to certain themes of Freud’s theory of dream-work, as well as to Warburg’s interpretation of Boticelli or Havlí?ek’s conception of poetic image.

This paper focuses on compost use in overpasses and underpasses for wild animals over roads and other similar linear structures. In this context, good quality of compost may result in faster and more resistant vegetation cover during the year. Inter alia, this can be interpreted also as reduction of damage and saving lives. There are millions of tones of plant residue produced every day worldwide. These represent prospective business for manufacturers of compost additives called “accelerators”. The opinions of the sale (...) representatives’ with regards to other alternatives of biowaste utilization and their own products were reviewed. The robust analyzes of several “accelerated” composts revealed that the quality was generally low. Only two accelerated composts were somewhat similar in quality to the blank sample that was produced according to the traditional procedure. Overlaps between the interests of decision makers on future soil fertility were weighed against the preferences on short-term profit. Possible causes that allowed the boom of these underperforming products and the possible consequences are also discussed. Conclusions regarding the ethical concerns on how to run businesses with products whose profitability depends on weaknesses in the legal system and customer unawareness are to follow. (shrink)

Biochar is a soil—improving substrate made from phytomass pyrolysis. In Southeast Asia, its application decreases due to the long-term growth of biochar cost and thus caused further prolongation of the payback period. In the Euro-American civilization the biochar application is already almost forgotten once it has been much earlier recognized that the crop yields can be increased much faster with higher doses of nutrients and other agrochemicals. The payback period can be expected in decades. Such a long-time investment into soil (...) fertility raises also many ethical questions. The final decision combines issues of social responsibility, risk and other financial indicators as well as personal preferences and more. The attitudes of Western and Central European decision makers in the agriculture business segment were analyzed on the basis of electronic questionnaire survey and a subsequent interview through their local unions. According to the data, most of them did not know about the possibilities of a more environmentally friendly approach to soil enhancement based on the addition of a fertilizer in the form of biochar. Among others, the collected data also shows that the decision makers from Western Europe have a much different ethical approach to the land and financial indicators than the Central Europeans. (shrink)

Dieses Buch setzt sich mit der Idee der Wissenschaft und ihrem Wandel im Laufe der Geschichte auseinander. Aristoteles steht für den Anfang dieser Idee, die in der Geistesgeschichte der westlichen Welt durchgängig lebendig war und letztlich zu unserer modernen Welt geführt hat. Demnach ist Wissenschaft ein Gedankengebäude mit einer bestimmten Architektur: ein Netz von Aussagen, deren Struktur sich letztlich aus wenigen, nicht zu begründenden Grundsätzen ergibt. Wie hat sich diese Idee im Laufe der Geschichte weiter entwickelt? Was sollte man heute (...) in einem solchen Gedankengebäude für die Begriffe, Grundaussagen, Begründungen und folgenden Aussagen fordern, wenn man von einer Wissenschaft redet? Der Autor beleuchtet diese Fragen und gibt mögliche Antworten für drei verschiedene Gebiete: die Physik, die Rechtswissenschaft und die christliche Theologie, denn in allen dreien gibt es eine lange Tradition, sich mit dieser Idee der Wissenschaft auseinander zu setzen. „Die Idee der Wissenschaft“ richtet sich an alle, die sich für den Wissenschaftsbegriff interessieren. Klar und prägnant geschrieben, liefert es Wissenswertes und Anregung für die Auseinandersetzung mit der Frage, was eine Wissenschaft ausmacht. Über den Autor Josef Honerkamp hat mehr als 30 Jahre als Professor für Theoretische Physik gelehrt und auf den Gebieten Quantenfeldtheorien, Statistische Mechanik, Nichtlineare Systeme und Stochastische Dynamische Systeme in Bonn und Freiburg geforscht. In seiner Freizeit verfasst er Lehr- und Sachbücher. (shrink)

Let X be an infinite internal set in an ω1-saturated nonstandard universe. Then for any coloring of [X] k , such that the equivalence E of having the same color is countably determined and there is no infinite internal subset of [X] k with all its elements of different colors (i.e., E is condensating on X), there exists an infinite internal set Z⊆X such that all the sets in [Z] k have the same color. This Ramsey-type result is obtained as (...) a consequence of a more general one, asserting the existence of infinite internal Q-homogeneous sets for certain Q ⊆ [[X] k ] m , with arbitrary standard k≥ 1, m≥ 2. In the course of the proof certain minimal condensating countably determined sets will be described. (shrink)

Von der Grundlegung des Wissenschaftsbegriffs vor allem bei Descartes ausgehend wird ein Begriff der Rationalität exemplarisch entwickelt. Von da aus wird die Differenz zwischen wissenschaftlicher und allgemeiner Rationalität mittels der Unterscheidung der Funktion individueller Einbildungskraft innerhalb wissenschaftlicher und außerwissenschaftlicher Rationalität näher bestimmt, u.a. mit dem Ergebnis,daß individuelle Kunst und Geschieht lichkeit philosophisch als "Substanz” wissenschaftlichen Wissens zu begreifen sind.

This book presents a coherent philosophy of signs without postulating objects to which they refer or meanings which they express.