SymposionPub Date : 2016-08-21DOI: 10.5840/symposion2016312
J. Bransen
{"title":"Learning to act","authors":"J. Bransen","doi":"10.5840/symposion2016312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/symposion2016312","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper I argue that to understand minded agency - the capacity we typically find instantiated in instances of human behaviour that could sensibly be questioned by asking \"What did you do?\" - one needs to understand childhood, i.e. the trajectory of learning to act. I discuss two different types of trajectory, both of which seem to take place during childhood and both of which might be considered crucial to learning to act: a growth of bodily control (GBC) and a growth in taking responsibility (GTR). The discussion of GTR takes up about half of the entire paper. In the final two sections I argue that GTR is the most promising trajectory in terms of which to understand a child’s process of learning to act.","PeriodicalId":37705,"journal":{"name":"Symposion","volume":"3 1","pages":"11-35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5840/symposion2016312","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70921875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SymposionPub Date : 2016-01-01DOI: 10.5840/SYMPOSION20163211
G. Calder
{"title":"Family Autonomy and Class Fate","authors":"G. Calder","doi":"10.5840/SYMPOSION20163211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/SYMPOSION20163211","url":null,"abstract":"The family poses problems for liberal understandings of social justice, because of the ways in which it bestows unearned privileges. This is particularly stark when we consider inter-generational inequality, or ‘class fate’ – the ways in which inequality is transmitted from one generation to the next, with the family unit ostensibly a key conduit. There is a recognized tension between the assumption that families should as far as possible be autonomous spheres of decision-making, and the assumption that we should as far as possible equalize the life chances of all children, regardless of background. In this article I address this tension by way of recent liberal egalitarian literature, and consideration of the different dimensions of class fate. I argue, firstly, that the tension may not be of the a priori nature which liberals have tended to identify – and secondly, that as well as distributive and recognition-based aspects, the notion of contributive justice provides a particularly illuminating way of analyzing what is wrong about class fate, and the role of the family in","PeriodicalId":37705,"journal":{"name":"Symposion","volume":"3 1","pages":"131-149"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5840/SYMPOSION20163211","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70921480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SymposionPub Date : 2014-10-01DOI: 10.5840/SYMPOSION20141210
Jason Aleksander
{"title":"The Problem of Temporality in the Literary Framework of Nicholas of Cusa’s De pace fidei","authors":"Jason Aleksander","doi":"10.5840/SYMPOSION20141210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/SYMPOSION20141210","url":null,"abstract":": This paper explores Nicholas of Cusa’s framing of the De pace fidei as a dialogue taking place in caelo rationis . On the one hand, this framing allows Nicholas of Cusa to argue that all religious rites presuppose the truth of a single, unified faith and so temporally manifest divine logos in a way accommodated to the historically unique conventions of different political communities. On the other hand, at the end of the De pace fidei , the interlocutors in the heavenly dialogue are enjoined to return to earth and lead their countrymen in a gradual conversion to the acceptance of rites which would explicitly acknowledge the metaphysically presupposed transcendent unity of all true faiths. In light of these two aspects of the literary framing of the De pace fidei , the question that motivates this paper concerns the extent to which the understanding of history subtending Cusanus’ temporal political aims is consistent with the understanding of history grounded in his metaphysical presupposition that there is una religio in omni diversitate rituum . In addressing this question, I shall argue that the literary strategy of the De pace fidei sacrifices Nicholas of Cusa’s apologetic doctrinal aims insofar as the text creates an allegorical space in which the tension between its literal and figurative dimensions assigns to its readers the task of choosing their own orientations to the significance of history as a foundation for future action.","PeriodicalId":37705,"journal":{"name":"Symposion","volume":"1 1","pages":"135-145"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5840/SYMPOSION20141210","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70921850","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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