On Passivity
On Passivity

Author: Nicholas J. Pappas

Publisher: Algora Publishing

Published: 2021-05-01

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 1628944633

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Is it always better to be active than passive? Is passivity a sign of cowardice - or prudence? Are people who keep their thoughts to themselves passive, or might they be actively preparing for well-considered future actions? Seemingly simple concepts turn out to be deeper and more significant than they first appear. Have you ever been accused of being passive? Do you feel as though you think too much and don’t act enough? Have you wondered if thinking in itself constitutes doing something? This book explores active and passive behaviors and the relationship of each to thought—good, bad or otherwise. In keeping with a long dialogic tradition, On Passivity encourages complex thought in the context of a simple setting. The two main characters, Director and Friend, explore the idea of passivity while attending a wedding reception. Throughout the dialogue they explore these core questions: • What is passivity and is it inherently bad? • How do we demonstrate both active and passive thought? • Why should we concentrate on thought? Director and Friend go beyond a definition of passivity and investigate the role thought plays in both passivity and activity. Is thinking doing nothing? What is thought? Are we passive when we think, only to become active when we ‘do’? How do we bridge the gap between activity and passivity? The role thought plays in gaining knowledge, reasoning, telling the truth, and living life are concepts disassembled and reassembled in a courageous way. Can we be true to ourselves and accepted for what we choose to ‘do’ even if it seems passive to those around us? As the book ends, we see a glimpse of how scary it might be if everyone were active all the time. In brief, we’re left rethinking everything.

Half-Lived Life
Half-Lived Life

Author: John Lee

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2011-12-20

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0762776048

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“So this is my life? What happened to the person I thought I might be at this stage of the game? Where did that person go? Why am I feeling like I’m just treading water, trying to stay one step ahead of my bills and obligations. Anyway, I’m just too tired at this point to try to figure out where that other person went. But I sure expected to be living a different life than this one.” Most people in their forties, fifties, and beyond catch themselves saying something similar to this. Everyone has a mental image of the person they want to be, but few of us actually fulfill these wishes. Once people realize they are living a completely different life than they’d envisioned, they often think it is too late to change and carry on with the same old habits. Too many people settle for a half-lived life. Best-selling author John Lee has long been addressing the fallacy of this attitude in talks and workshops—and now he sets this program into book form. In The Half-Lived Life, he introduces and explains how passivity holds us hostage to old ways of doing things—and provides solutions on escaping this paralyzing state of mind, body, and spirit while increasing our emotional intelligence (EQ). He also shows the freedom to be gained via compassionate assertiveness—an outgrowth of setting boundaries and enforcing limits. Just as Lee’s seminars have successfully led many to find their authentic self in the second half of their life, so too will this book.

Radical Passivity
Radical Passivity

Author: Thomas Carl Wall

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 1999-01-28

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 143842308X

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Radical Passivity examines the notion of passivity in the work of Levinas, Blanchot, and Agamben, three thinkers of exceptional intellectual privacy whose writings have decidedly altered the literary and philosophical cultures of our era. Placing their use of passivity in the context of Heidegger and Kant, Wall argues that any philosophical understanding of Levinas's ethics, Blanchot's aesthetics, or Agamben's community must begin with an understanding of a "logic" of passivity that in fact originates (in the modern era at least) in Kant's analysis of the transcendental schema.

Passivity
Passivity

Author: Rodney W. Tolleson

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2014-08-24

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 9781500709372

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Passivity, A Silent Killer is one of those books that hits home. Anyone dealing with passivity will find Rodney Tolleson's honest appraisal of his own life refreshing, full of insight and life changing. It's also very beneficial for those who are in relationship with people who have developed a passive approach to life and their Christianity. Passivity helps identify passive behavior patterns and provides ministry tools for healing and freedom.You'll enjoy hearing Rodney's first-hand account of growing up as a shy boy in Alabama. He also shares his attempts to confront passivity in his own strength. Finally, you'll learn how the “Rolaid King” confronted lifelong patterns of behavior through a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ and inner healing. This book has the power to change marriages, families and churches. Passivity is directed mainly to men but its truth has the ability to impact women, as well.

Passivity of Complex Dynamical Networks
Passivity of Complex Dynamical Networks

Author: Jin-Liang Wang

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-12-12

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 9813342870

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This book intends to introduce some recent results on passivity of complex dynamical networks with single weight and multiple weights. The book collects novel research ideas and some definitions in complex dynamical networks, such as passivity, output strict passivity, input strict passivity, finite-time passivity, and multiple weights. Furthermore, the research results previously published in many flagship journals are methodically edited and presented in a unified form. The book is likely to be of interest to university researchers and graduate students in Engineering and Mathematics who wish to study the passivity of complex dynamical networks.

The Concept of Passivity in Husserl's Phenomenology
The Concept of Passivity in Husserl's Phenomenology

Author: Victor Biceaga

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-06-16

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 9048139155

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Building upon Husserl’s challenge to oppositions such as those between form and content and between constituting and constituted, The Concept of Passivity in Husserl’s Phenomenology construes activity and passivity not as reciprocally exclusive terms but as mutually dependent moments of acts of consciousness. The book outlines the contribution of passivity to the constitution of phenomena as diverse as temporal syntheses, perceptual associations, memory fulfillment and cross-cultural communication. The detailed study of the phenomena of affection, forgetting, habitus and translation sets out a distinction between three meanings of passivity: receptivity, sedimentation or inactuality and alienation. Husserl’s texts are interpreted as defending the idea that cultural crises are not brought to a close by replacing passivity with activity but by having more of both.

Passive Voices (On the Subject of Phenomenology and Other Figures of Speech)
Passive Voices (On the Subject of Phenomenology and Other Figures of Speech)

Author: Kristina Mendicino

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2023-02-01

Total Pages: 387

ISBN-13: 1438491980

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At least since Aristotle's Peri hermeneias, there has been talk of the pathos of language, of language as "symbols of the affections in the soul." The way these affections are registered, however, suggests that they are themselves structured like language. For Aristotle and others, language is suffered before any sense can be voiced. The pathos of language thus becomes a question of how language affects the subject of speech and, in the last analysis, of how language could respond to these questions of language. Passive Voices (On the Subject of Phenomenology and Other Figures of Speech) approaches these questions, first, through readings of Augustine's investigations into language and mind and Edmund Husserl's descriptions of passive synthesis. It then traces the further resonance of Augustine's and Husserl's interventions in selected literary experiments by Georges Bataille, Franz Kafka, and Maurice Blanchot that recall Husserl and Augustine while exceeding the restrictive fictions of phenomenological "science." In drawing out the echoes that emerge across confessional, philosophical, and fictional writings, this book exposes the ways in which speech occurs in the passive voice and affects any claim to experience.

Introduction to Corrosion Science
Introduction to Corrosion Science

Author: E. McCafferty

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-01-04

Total Pages: 583

ISBN-13: 1441904549

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This textbook is intended for a one-semester course in corrosion science at the graduate or advanced undergraduate level. The approach is that of a physical chemist or materials scientist, and the text is geared toward students of chemistry, materials science, and engineering. This textbook should also be useful to practicing corrosion engineers or materials engineers who wish to enhance their understanding of the fundamental principles of corrosion science. It is assumed that the student or reader does not have a background in electrochemistry. However, the student or reader should have taken at least an undergraduate course in materials science or physical chemistry. More material is presented in the textbook than can be covered in a one-semester course, so the book is intended for both the classroom and as a source book for further use. This book grew out of classroom lectures which the author presented between 1982 and the present while a professorial lecturer at George Washington University, Washington, DC, where he organized and taught a graduate course on “Environmental Effects on Materials.” Additional material has been provided by over 30 years of experience in corrosion research, largely at the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC and also at the Bethlehem Steel Company, Bethlehem, PA and as a Robert A. Welch Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Texas. The text emphasizes basic principles of corrosion science which underpin extensions to practice.