Vital Strife
Vital Strife

Author: Benjamin C. Parris

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2022-08-15

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 1501764519

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Vital Strife examines the close yet puzzling relationship between sleep and ethical care in early modernity. The plays, poems, and philosophical essays at the heart of this book—by Jasper Heywood, William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, John Milton, and Margaret Cavendish—explore the unconscious motions of corporeal life and the drowsy forms of sentience at the boundaries of human thought and intentionality. Benjamin Parris shows how these writers, although trained under the Renaissance humanist paradigm of attentive care, begin to dissolve the humanist coupling of virtue with vigilance by giving credence to the vital power of sleep. In contrast to humanist thinkers who equated sleep with carelessness, these writers draw on the ancient Stoic principle of oikeiôsis—the process of orienting the living being toward its proper objects of care, beginning with itself—in asserting the value of sleep, while underscoring insomnia's threat to the ethical flourishing of persons and polity alike. Parris offers an important revaluation of Stoic philosophy, which has too often been misconstrued as renouncing feeling and sympathetic connection with others. With its striking new account of the reception of Stoicism and attitudes toward sleep and sleeplessness in early modern thought, Vital Strife reveals the period's mounting concern with the regenerative nature of physical life and its elaboration of a newfound ethics of care.

A Digest of the Law of Evidence
A Digest of the Law of Evidence

Author: Sir, James Fitzjames Stephen

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 9781230195728

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ... 184 DIGEST OF THE LAW OF EVIDENCE. notes. These are the only Acts which deal with the Law of Evidence as I have denned it. It will be observed that they relate to three subjects only--the competency of witnesses, the proof of certain classes of documents, and certain details in the practice of examining witnesses. These details are provided for twice over, namely, once in 17 & 18 Vict c. 125, ss. 22-27, both inclusive, which concern civil proceedings only; and again in 28 Vict. c. 18, ss. 3-8, which re-enact these provisions in relation to proceedings of every kind. Thus, when the Statute Law upon the subject of Evidence is sifted and put in its proper place as part of the general system, it appears to occupy a very subordinate position in it. The ten statutes above mentioned are the only ones which really form part of the Law of Evidence, and their effect is fully given in twenty1 articles of the Digest, some of which contain other matter besides. INDEX. Abortion, 33. Accomplices, evidence of, 118. "Action," an, definition of, 2. Acts of conspirators, 6; illustrations of, 7., showing intention, good faith, &c., 15; illustration of, 17. Acts of notifications, relevancy of statement in certain, 45. of Parliament, 79. of State, judgments, &c. foreign and colonial, 82. Admissions defined, 22; who may make, and when, 23; illustrations of, a. by agents and persons jointly interested with parties, 24; illustrations of, 25. by strangers to an action, 26. by person referred to by party, 27; illustration of, ii. made without prejudice, ib. of evidence, improper, 130. Adultery, competency of witnesses in proceedings relating to, 111., letters as evidence in cases of, 84. Advocates' privileges as to certain questions, 112. Affairs of State, ...