Il contributo di Cicerone alla nascita della dottrina moderna della “sovranità del popolo”

The aim of this paper is to show how a key concept of modern and contemporary political philosophy, the “sovereignty of people”, has been established and defended at the beginning of the 17th century by Franciesco Suarez thanks to the influence of Cicero’s political thought. With a view to this goal, I will summarize the dispute on supreme power which took place between the protestants (James I of England) and the Post-tridentine Catholic church (Roberto Bellarmino and Francisco Suarez). A comparison between Cicero and Suarez will show that a point of convergence between the two thinkers can be identified in the idea of a unification of single wills, which brings to the formation of a moral “persona” and, subsequently, to the creation of a perfect community

To be at Home: House, Work, and Self in the Modern World

Houses and homes are dynamic spaces within which people work to organize and secure their lives, livelihoods and relationships. Written by a team of renowned historians and anthropologists, and and accompanied by original photography by Maurice Weiss, To Be at Home: House,Work, and Self in the Modern World compares the ways people in different societies and historical periods strive to make and keep houses and homes under conditions of change, upheaval, displacement, impoverishment and violence. These conditions speak to the challenges of life in our modern world. The contributors of this volume position the home as a new nodal point between work, the self and the world to explore people’s creativity, agency and labour. Houses and homes prove complex and powerful concepts – if also often elusive – invoking places, persons, objects, emotions, values, attachments and fantasies. This book demonstrates how the relations between houses, work and the self have transformed dramatically and unpredictably under conditions of capitalism and modernity – and continue to change today

A method for capturing customers’ preferences for housing customisation

The housebuilding sector has used mass production systems and reduced portfolios for many decades in different countries, countering the constant changes in society, resulting in neglecting the increasing diversity of customers’ requirements. Housebuilding companies should be able to meet this requirement’s diversity by offering a higher product variety and at the same time maintaining costs within market expectations. Mass customisation strategies have been presented as efficient alternatives to keep the balance between fulfilling clients’ specific needs and maintaining reasonable prices in housing by focusing on value generation. Moreover, there are limited ways of increasing value generation in housing considering its tradeoff with product cost, emphasising the need for the delimitation of a set of options (i.e.: solution space) adequate to customers’ preferences. Some research opportunities highlighted in the literature for adopting mass customisation in housing include solution space clear definition and the need for methods to explore the value perceived in product alternatives and reduce trade-offs between preferences and choice complexity. Accordingly, the main aim of this investigation is to propose a method for capturing customers’ preferencess and supporting customer integration in mass customisation strategies for housing. The design science approach was used as methodological underpinning for building the solution in this investigation. This thesis was structured in three academic papers. The first paper provides an overview of the available practices in house building and focuses on developing a framework of customer integration and core decision categories that support the definition of mass customisation strategies. In the second paper, a method for identifying customers’ preferences and support solution space definition was proposed, based on preference modelling and willingness-to-pay approaches regarding customer value and its balance with operations costs. In paper 3, another method is presented by adapting menu-based choice for housing and its implementation in an empirical study. The main contributions of this thesis include the method for capturing customers’ preferences, a framework of decision categories, and approaches for modelling customers willingness-to-pay for customised housing

Educação musical escolar: uma investigação a partir das concepções e ações de três professoras de música

Este trabalho discute dados provenientes de pesquisa que investigou como as concepções e ações de educação musical de professores de música configuram a prática pedagógico-musical em escolas do ensino fundamental. Utilizando como referencial teórico a fenomenologia social de Schutz, realizamos três estudos de caso qualitativos com três professoras de música da rede privada de ensino de Porto Alegre, RS. Os resultados sugerem que as práticas pedagógico-musicais das professoras configuram formas que não aquelas expressas em suas concepções e ações. As professoras parecem não perceber os pressupostos implícitos em suas concepções e ações, bem como as inconsistências e contradições subjacentes às mesmas, porque, em seu trabalho cotidiano, possuem um interesse fundamentalmente prático. Seu principal propósito é ensinar música a determinados grupos em contextos específicos, e não questionar os princípios que fundamentam suas práticas pedagógico-musicais. Esses resultados sinalizam caminhos para repensarmos a formação dos professores de música e a elaboração de políticas curriculares. = This paper discusses data from a research that investigated how Brazilian music teachers' conceptions and practices of music education constitute their music teaching practices at primary schools. Taking the social phenomenology of Schutz as our theoretical framework, we carried out qualitative case studies of three music teachers working at private schools of Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. The results revealed some inconsistencies and contradictions underlying teachers' conceptions and practices that block the realisation of their work as intended by them. The teachers did not seem to be aware of these inconsistencies and contradictions because, in their daily work, they have an eminently practical interest. Their main purpose is, firstly and mostly, to teach music to certain groups of students in specific contexts, and not to question the principles that ground their pedagogical practices. These results provide insights that can contribute for rethinking music teachers' education and educational policie

PALESTRA: Políticas educacionais para o ensino superior: um desafio para os cursos de música

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