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Secular humanism

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The zaojing is an ancient architectural element that is widely found in various public buildings, such as temples, pagodas, palaces, and theatres. It is a richly decorated sunken ‘dome’ with a round top and a square bottom set into the ceiling and assemble ...

2019

Globalizing the digital: A cross-cultural framework for the ethics of operationalizing Big Data

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Concerns over the ever-increasing production, availability and use of multilayered individual data in social research, business and the everyday life calls for the development of ethical and legal guidelines. In parallel to civic and governmental initiativ ...

2018

Ingenious Architecture: Usage and knowledge in Furetière’s Lexicography

Caroline Dionne

For 17th century lexicographer and writer Antoine Furetière, the terms pertaining to all arts and sciences are the mortar that holds together the edifice of language. In that sense, Furetière’s language is founded in large part upon the words used to descr ...

2014

Counterpoint: The Musical Analogy, Periodicity, and Rural Urban Dynamics

Matthew Skjonsberg

Every thesis calls for its antithesis, and every revolution prompts a counterrevolution—this takes place within the same generation as well as across intergenerational oscillations (Gassett 1958, Sennett 1974). Enlightenment thinkers were critical of the H ...

Taylor & Francis / CRC Press2014

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