Showing papers on "Emancipation published in 1969"
31 Dec 1969
TL;DR: In this article, the need for a politics-oriented bioethics as an instrument to build social justice is emphasized. And the content of the Universal Draft Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights assembled by UNESCO with the effective participation of developing countries is discussed.
Abstract: This article reinforces the need of a politics-oriented bioethics as an instrument to build social justice. It analyzes social inclusion from some concepts such as empowerment, liberation and emancipation, as they are the epistemological tools of Intervention Bioethics. The text defends the necessity of a concrete political action aiming at social transformation. It presents the content of the Universal Draft Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights assembled by UNESCO with the effective participation of developing countries, discussing the advance attained by the inclusion of social and environmental themes to the bioethics agenda of 21st century.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a survey and analysis of the antislavery movement in the South is presented, showing that most anti-slavery sentiment was concentrated in the upper slave states.
Abstract: BENJAMIN LuNDY, THE ABOLITIONIST EDITOR OF THE Genius of Universal Emancipation, estimated that there were in 1827 a total of 106 antislavery societies with 5,150 members in the slave states, whereas there were no more than 24 such organizations with 1,475 members in the free states.' These statistics have frequently been used by scholars to support the thesis that there was a strong antislavery movement in the South before an alleged reaction in the 1830's repressed a rising tide of antislavery feeling and transformed it into a positive defense of the institution of slavery.2 Since most Southern antislavery sentiment was in the upper slave states, this paper seeks to determine the validity of this interpretation by a survey and analysis of the antislavery movement in these states.
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31 Dec 1969
TL;DR: The Intervention Bioethics as discussed by the authors is a theoretical framework for the reduction of social inequities through hard practical interventions, as the very original denomination of this theoretical current suggests: hard bioethics.
Abstract: Brazil is a country of great social inequities, where just a small portion of the resident people have access to the most recent advances of medical technology. Moreover, a huge portion of its population is not sure about the possibility of having a meal. In face of this situation of interaction of factors which are responsible for many difficulties, the Intervention Bioethics establishes several concepts that are necessary for the integration of concrete actions. These concepts are: bioethics of emergent and persistent situations; central and peripheral countries; ethics and moral; equity and equality; empowerment, liberty and emancipation; and moral imperialism. As theoretical foundations, we may enumerate: the concentration of power; globalisation; depletion of natural resources; corporeality, pleasure and pain; human rights; the “4 Ps” (prudence, prevention, precaution and protection); critic solidarity; and responsibility. The Intervention Bioethics impels actions towards the reduction of social iniquities through hard practical interventions, as the very original denomination of this theoretical current suggests: hard bioethics.
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01 Jan 1969
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01 Jun 1969
TL;DR: The Aftermath of Slavery: A Study of the Condition and Environment of the American Negro as mentioned in this paper is one of the most complete analyses of slavery and the years immediately following emancipation.
Abstract: William Albert Sinclair, born a slave in 1858, grew up in South Carolina during the tumultuous years of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Influenced by his childhood experiences, Sinclair spent his life fighting for the rights of African Americans and was an active member of the Constitution League, and their successor, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Inspired by the scholarship and activism of T. Thomas Fortune and W. E. B. Du Bois, Sinclair published The Aftermath of Slavery: A Study of the Condition and Environment of the American Negro , one of the most complete analyses of slavery and the years immediately following emancipation. First published in 1905, The Aftermath of Slavery provided a historical analysis of the late nineteenth century that underscored the existence of black resistance to white domination during slavery and Reconstruction. This Southern Classics edition includes a new introduction by Shawn Leigh Alexander, which emphasises the importance of this book as a tool to understanding the meanings of peace and citizenship, as well as violence and terror, in the years directly following emancipation.
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01 Jan 1969
TL;DR: For example, the authors argued that there has never lived a people worth writing about who have not shaped out a destiny for themselves, or carved out their own opportunity. And yet it was at best but an impotent cry, and the Nations were casting about for an answer to the wail which went up from the heart of the oppressed race for opportunity.
Abstract: At the dawn of the twentieth century, men of light and. leading both in Europe and in America had not yet made up their minds as to what place to assign to the spiritual aspirations of the black man; and the Nations were casting about for an answer to the wail which went up from the heart of the oppressed race for opportunity. And yet it was at best but an impotent cry. For there has never lived a people worth writing about who have not shaped out a destiny for themselves, or carved out their own opportunity.
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31 Dec 1969
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a preliminary analysis of the elements that make possible this kind of subjectivity, which leads to a receding subjectivity and consequently, a fragile one.
Abstract: The historical context of modernity weaves new dimensions of the constitution of men and society. The moment brings in its essence the emblematic mark of the rising of the subject, which tends to stimulate the possibility of emancipation and elucidation. However, as the illuminist promise of autonomy cannot be accomplished, the awareness movement results in alienation of human consciousness, which leads to a receding subjectivity and consequently, a fragile one. An individual based on self-reasoning that tends to thoughtlessness and automatism, to a state of res, of thing, ends up being consolidated. This paper aims to provide a preliminary analysis of the elements that make possible this kind of subjectivity.
31 Dec 1969
TL;DR: In this paper, a critical reflection on research performed in Brazil and Argentina by members of the Symbolic Activities in Human Development: focus on people in deficiency and people in a situation of symbolic precariousness and/or social risk research group is proposed in basic, theoretical research, with a focus on the concepts of narrative, forming subjects, enunciation and therapy.
Abstract: The narrative enriches the possibility of a meeting between man and reality, whether in the inner or outer world, and is part of the constitution of human beings as subjects. When one narrates, singular and collective elements come to surface. Seen as an act of forming subjects, it favors the process of emancipation, such as, for example, when it is used to empower subjects in the fields of education and health. Based on critical reflection on research performed in Brazil and Argentina by members of the “Symbolic Activities in Human Development: focus on people in a situation of deficiency and people in a situation of symbolic precariousness and/or social risk” research group, what is proposed in basic, theoretical research, with a focus on the concepts of narrative, forming subjects, enunciation and therapy. As a result, situating the narrative as a theoretical-methodological tool, we observed the meeting between these Argentine and Brazilian references, which present the relation between the narrative and the process of subject forming and emancipation
31 Dec 1969
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that it is possible to dialogue with non-violent inter-subjectivities, which involves recognizing the difference, the total difference, aiming to awaken the consciousness of how men are deceived in a permanent way.
Abstract: The present paper argues the possible existence of a critical language in education. As a counterpart to education for common sense, typical of banking and standardized education practiced by the cultural and educational capitalistic industry, which uses “a simplified language for the use of the masses” (Tognolli), with “fixed invariables, ready made cliches, and a stereotypical translation of everything” (Adorno), the argument of this paper is to show that it is possible to dialogue with “non-violent inter- subjectivities” – which involves recognizing the difference, the total difference (Gur-Ze'ev), aiming to awaken the consciousness of how “men are deceived in a permanent way” (Adorno). This requires the use of critical language in poetic (Bakhtin) and dialogical-loving (Freire) way for, if the critical language is authoritarian and violent, it will be used within the same logic of domination, consequently hindering emancipation.