Suspicion of the authority of tradition is the very signature of the Age of Reason, and particularly, of the Enlightenment. In the last chapter we saw how the suspicion to which tradition was subjected led to a profound misunderstanding of its very nature. If tradition is not merely doctrines or beliefs transmitted from the past, but the very context in which they are interpreted, then the effo...

gadamer considers understanding as an event which is the result of the fusion of horizon of interpreter and horizon of the text. from his point of view, understanding has a fundamental connection with the concept of horizon and in fact horizon is the central point in the process of understanding. horizon for nietzsche is a limiting concept which is not able to be transitive. husserl draws his a...

To characterize patient satisfaction surveys, such as the U.S. government-mandated Press Ganey health care performance improvement tools, as unpopular among health care providers is an understatement. So it comes as no real surprise that among medical practitioners a recent internet headline went viral that “reported” that a major patient satisfaction study was stopped due to a mortality increa...

This article discusses the modern interpretation that Bologna produced a distinctive regional martial tradition, based on existence of similar treatises. It examines assumption series fencing masters formed distinct lineage and their practices tradition separate to forms outside Bologna. As case study, it also considers 'Viridario' Giovanni Filoteo Achillini, poem contains instructions use swor...

The term stigma refers to problems of knowledge (ignorance), attitudes (prejudice) and behaviour (discrimination). Most research in this area has been based on attitude surveys, media representations of mental illness and violence, has only focused upon schizophrenia, has excluded direct participation by service users, and has included few intervention studies. However, there is evidence that i...