Praxis Essays

  • Postmodernism and Social Praxis

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    Postmodernism and Social Praxis Whereas the interpreter is obliged to go to the depth of things, like an excavator, the moment of interpretation [genealogy] is like an overview, from higher and higher up, which allows the depth to be laid out in front of him in a more and more profound visibility; depth is resituated as an absolutely superficial secret.(18) So those are the changes, and I try to show those changes...(19) In Communities of Resistance and Solidarity, as well as in A Feminist

  • Theory and Praxis in Aristotle and Heidegger

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    Theory and Praxis in Aristotle and Heidegger ABSTRACT: The discussion of Heidegger's “destructive retrieve” of Aristotle has been intensified in recent years by the publication of Heidegger's courses in the years surrounding his magnum opus. Heidegger's explicit commentary on Aristotle in these courses permits one to read Being and Time with Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and Metaphysics. My paper analyzes a network of differences between the two thinkers, focusing on the relationship between

  • Praxis Statement

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    Praxis Statement When I first decided to be a teacher I had many thoughts and opinions about teaching and education. Some of my thoughts and opinions have stayed them same; however, many have changed from the discussions and readings in LL ED 411 and 480. When I first decided that I wanted to be a teacher I thought that most students learned in the same manner. I also thought that the teacher should have power over the classroom. Likewise, I thought that technology should not be used in the classroom--except

  • My Personal Praxis Statement

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    My Personal Praxis Statement As a college student, I often find myself inundated with work. To make it worse, these assignments usually are uninteresting and irrelevant. It is in the midst of these tedious exercises that I begin to wonder whether all of this work is worth it. When this issue creeps into my mind, I think back to my reasons for choosing to pursue this profession. When I started college, I knew that I could not function in a typical nine to five job. The banality and predictability

  • Aristotle's Analysis of Oedipus the King

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    thought. A Greek drama by Sophocles, Oedipus Rex, was praised in the Poetics of Aristotle as the model for classical tragedy and is still considered a principal example of the genre.  In this essay I will analyze Oedipus Rex using Aristotle's concepts praxis, poiesis, theoria. Thought and character make persons actions.  They only indicate the basic meaning of action but if one wants to understand how the arts imitate action more than just in concepts of thought and character he or she should explore

  • Praxis

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    relationship. Professional partnership becomes a resource that is used by patients to manage their illness. And lastly, graceful care is described as the nurse using all her power to promote the client’s well being and personal growth (Connell). Praxis The scripted role-play assisted me in building my confidence in talking to patients. It helped me practice on my communications skills. Also, it gave me a general idea of what type of patients that I may encounter in practice. This exercise helped

  • Sidney's The Defence of Poesy and Television Commercials

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    applying Aristotle's saying: "it is not gnosis but praxis" (513) which counts in the end. The power of poetry to move us to exemplary action--to practice virtue--constitutes its best defense. EMU familiar with the terms "faith and praxis" should have no trouble following that line of reasoning. Madison Avenue swears by this truth, combining product knowledge and enjoyment to send us scrambling towards the nearest mall. Again, it is not gnosis but praxis which counts in the end. An argument for economic

  • Case-Based Environmental Ethics

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    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. 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. What I propose to do in this paper is to discuss whether environmental ethics

  • Point of View and Theme in Heart of Darkness

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    culture and ideology within which they judge and respond. Therefore the text reveals itself as non-essentialist. It is also seen through the narratorial voices, who are all significantly European males, although challenging the received view of imperial praxis as glorious and daring, a racist and patriarchal text, which eventually, through Marlow's own assimilation of the ideology of his time, reinscribes and replicates that which it attempts to criticise:  European action in Africa. Marlow quickly

  • Sources and Implications in Paul Ricoeur's Ideology Concept

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    mediate ideological phenomena in a Ricoeur-like fashion. 1. Introduction Once the contemporary trend in Philosophy moves toward the praxis, our aim in this paper is to take this point into amount to trace the main features of Paul Ricoeur concept of ideology. As a minor purpose we provide a Theoretical framework to think deeply about political and social praxis. This is so as a matter of make them feasible answers to problems that have been appearing recently. It is important to highlight

  • Translating for Social Change

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    someone made a racist, homophobic, Western-centric, sexist comment at work, or at the Thanksgiving dinner table for that matter. How could I possibly communicate the things that had been discussed in the classroom, laced with words like paradigm, praxis, pedagogy, and a completely deconstructed concept of the word "culture"? All these things would need an introduction of their own-and that may work in a classroom-but rarely in a conversation! In this essay I will approach the issue of communicating

  • Nahua Philosophy

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    river. It exists in both an independent state and an interconnected state simultaneously, thus making it complete reality for the Nauha. The nature of Teotl served as a model for Nauha sages to conceive their metaphysics, axiology, epistemology, praxis, and aesthetics. The sacred force gave them the wisdom to make choices that help them maintain the proper path. The world is filled with pain, sorrow, and suffering, but wisdom can teach you how to maintain equilibrium and reduce misfortune. This

  • Luctis Cogitatio and Noctis Reflectio as the Forms of Consciousness and Human Exploration of the World

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    person in the world. This allocates two spheres and two forms of consciousness: 'day time' (practical) and 'night' (spiritual). The basic functions of the former are: cognitive-explanatory; service of the practical, economic, and industrial activity; praxis; methodological for engineering and technology; critical-reflecting control of mind; the blocking of 'night' consciousness and the curbing of irrational instincts; safety and preservation; establishment of norms. Functions of the former include elements

  • Praxis In Nursing

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    Not only does it include practicing, but also doing what one can to better the healthcare system. It is a way to create positive change. Praxis is experiencing a situation where you recognize a social injustice, reflecting on the experience, and correcting the action that took place. Nursing praxis is guided by the four ways of knowing; however, these concepts are part of a bigger picture, emancipatory knowing. This is described as “the human ability to recognize social

  • Strategic Importance of Knowledge Management

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    and Takeuchi, 1995). Davenport et al. (1998) define knowledge as ``information combined with experience, context, interpretation and reflection''. The terms ‘‘knowledge’’ and ‘‘information’’ are often used inter-changeably in the literature and praxis but a distinction is helpful. The chain of knowledge flow is data-information-knowledge. Information is data to which meaning has been added by being categorized, classified, corrected, and condensed. Information and experience, key components of

  • Analysis Of Praxis And Experiential Learning

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    Praxis and experiential learning provide numerous benefits for students. Being out on the field and seeing the real jobs, opportunities, and volunteer positions available expands students’ understanding of the impact of their degree. In class, we were provided with the opportunity to see the positive impact of such experiences through a presentation. In addition to the presentation, all four of the readings from Week Ten relate to experiential learning and praxis. These readings summarize the

  • The Professional Assessments for Beginning Teachers

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    Critique of Praxis General Test Information The Professional Assessments for Beginning Teachers or Praxis is administered through Educational Testing Services and is currently the most popular norm-referenced test being used (Brown, 2008). The Praxis Series tests measures the knowledge of important content and skills required to teach (Educational Testing Service, 2010). Each of the tests reflects what is believed to be important for new teachers as reflected by practitioners across the United

  • Overview of the Paradox of Praxis 1

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    The Paradox of Praxis 1 (Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing) is a performance and conceptual work of art by the artist, Francis Alÿs. The work is set in Mexico City, Mexico in 1977 and is four minutes and fifty-nine seconds long. This video shows Francis Alÿs pushing a large block of ice around the city, until it has melted into nothing. The introduction of the film shows the alternative name of the work, Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing, in a way that seems to set the viewer

  • Practicing Praxis: A Response to The Yellowman Tapes

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    case of the Hugh Yellowman tapes. His essay argues for an approach that surrenders the fieldworker’s hypothetical gain to the socio-emotional needs of subjects’ epistemological structure and, most intriguingly, he treats ethnographic materials as praxis rather than data. After years of apprehension with the objectifying habits of cultural anthropology, a discipline internally dithered by the bickering of Science vs. Humanities, I am finally moved to disengage from such authoritatively based methods

  • long term care praxis note

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    Community is an essential part of the existence of human being. The term community may be describe in so many forms. However, Yiu (2012) define community as a group of people, who live, learn, work, and play in an environment at a given time; they have unique characteristics and interest; function in a social system that meets their needs, such as an organization, a region, a province or a nation (p. 213). Elderly resident living in Leisure World Long term care center Brampton, Wood is the community