Key Concepts in Ortega y Gasset’s Philosophy
Culture
Culture is the set of aesthetic, epistemic, and moral values that have been objectified through reality.
Ratiovitalism
Ortega condemns this philosophical current because it believes that reason has no limits. He criticizes, therefore, reason as a means of knowledge, which is critical to the rationalists who believe they can grasp everything with reason.
Relativism
Relativism basically has two meanings: as epistemology and as an ethical theory. In the first case, it refuses absolute truths. As
Read MoreAudit Regulation in Spain: Technical Standards
Audit Regulation in Spain
Auditing Concept
The term auditing refers to the activity undertaken by a qualified and independent professional, consistent with the analysis, using appropriate review and verification techniques, of the financial information derived from the records examined. It aims to issue a report to highlight their responsible opinion on the reliability of this information so that third parties can understand and evaluate it.
Technical Standards (Introduction)
Specific regulations are
Read MoreMystery in the Welsh Mountains: A Geological Trip
Stranger in the Mist
Giles Hampton was spending a short holiday in Wales. A friend of his had recently sold his business in Liverpool and had moved to Wales. This friend, whose name was Beverley, had built himself a house in Caernarvonshire, near the Snowdon mountains. There was an ancient church called Fablan Fawr a few hundred yards away from his house, so Beverley called his new house Fablan Fawr too.
Giles was very interested in geology. He loved studying rocks and stones. Since that part of Wales
Read MoreSpanish Literature: Key Authors and Works (14th-15th Centuries)
**Juan de Mena (1411-1456)**
**Jorge Manrique (1440-1479)**
Philippine Festivals, Islamic Traditions, and Woodworking
Philippine Festivals
Ati-Atihan (3rd week of January, Kalibo, Aklan)
One of the most religious celebrations in the Philippines. A parade of face-painted celebrants in costumes, with tribal dance and drum beats. Also known as the “Filipino Mardi Gras.”
Masskara (19th of October, Bacolod)
“Mass” means crowd and “Kara” means face. Celebrated with smiling masks and face paint, showcasing the title “City of Smiles.”
Sinulog (3rd week of January, Cebu City)
One of the most attended festivals by locals and tourists.
Software Design Patterns: Creational, Structural, Behavioral
Creational Patterns
Creator patterns streamline the process of creating instances, helping a system to be independent of how its objects are created, composed, and represented.
Factory
Provides an interface for creating an object without revealing the object’s actual class. Motivation: Uses abstract classes/interfaces to define and maintain relations between objects and sometimes creates them. Advantages: Eliminates the need to link our code with specific classes. Disadvantages: Customers may have
Read MoreInteractive Graph Search: Efficient Strategies for Navigating Decision Graphs
Interactive Graph Search
Ahmet Deniz
Introduction
We study Interactive Graph Search (IGS), with the conceptual objective of departing from the conventional “top-down” strategy in searching a poly-hierarchy, also known as a decision graph. In IGS, a machine assists a human in looking for a target node z in an acyclic directed graph G, by repetitively asking questions. In each question, the machine picks a node u in G, asks a human “is there a path from u to z?”, and takes a boolean answer from the human.
Read MoreOrtega y Gasset: Historical, Cultural, and Philosophical Context
Historical Context
Ortega wrote after the upheavals that followed World War I (1914), with the rise of Soviet communism and the Italian fascists, and the Nazi responses of Germany. The general feeling was to live in a very strong, very difficult time, marked by the revolution, which saw great hope but also great fears.
Cultural Context
The culture of the early twentieth century was a revolution in relation to the previous one. It is the time of the vanguards of the new: cubism, surrealism, etc. At
Read MoreDigital Books in Schools: Benefits and Challenges
In my view, digitized books are a good option that should be tested in schools.
In the first place, having access to your books anytime makes learning easier. Also, interactive elements help students learn faster.
Furthermore, digital books will help students’ backs. In addition to this, most students claim to have back pain for this reason.
Opponents of this view say that textbooks minimize inequalities between students. Many families can’t afford new technologies and that poses many problems.
To sum
Read MoreUnitary vs. Composite States: Understanding Political Power Distribution
Unitary State
In a unitary state, political power is concentrated in a single center and is projected throughout the entire territory. This does not preclude delegations for a more efficient distribution of resources and responsibilities between institutions of sub-areas (municipalities, counties, and provinces). Sometimes, the delegated powers can be quite considerable. However, they may be revoked by a unilateral decision from the central power, as it is the sole center of political power.
There
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