How can an abstract sequence of sounds so intensely express emotional states? In the past ten years, research into the topic of music and emotion has flourished. This book explores the relationship between music and emotion, bringing together contributions from psychologists, neuroscientists, musicologists, musicians, and philosophers .

An informed consent and voluntary assent in biomedical research with adolescents is contingent on a variety of factors, including adolescent and parent perceptions of research risk, benefit, and decision-making autonomy. Thirty-seven adolescents with asthma and their parents evaluated a high or low aversion form of a pediatric asthma research vignette and provided an enrollment decision; their perceptions of family influence over the participation decision; and evaluations of risk, aversion, benefit, and burden of study procedures. Adolescents and their parents agreed on (...) research participation decisions 74% of the time, yet both claimed ultimate responsibility for the participation decision. Both rated most study procedures as significantly more aversive than risky. Parents were more likely to rate aspects of the hypothetical study as beneficial and to provide higher risk ratings for procedures. Disagreements concerning research participation decisions and decision-making autonomy have implications for the exercise of voluntary assent in biomedical research. (shrink)

The paradigmatic importance of Humboldt's university reform today, is reason enough to question the historical significance and the current orientation force that pulses influenced by Schleiermacher, the Berlin founding 200 years ago. But to be in this band the ideas and initiatives with which Schleiermacher brought in the University of Berlin foundation, placed in the broader context of its reasoning, the science of theology character. Central to this is his definition of the relationship between religion and Christianity, church and culture, (...) attributable to the taking Schleiermacher a modern-grade theology, and church Christentums- understanding investigated. (shrink)

1. Grundgestalt, Bewegung, Stufung.--[Beilage]: Musik-Beispiele.

Originally published in 1939 under title: Der Aufbruch der Freiheit zur Gemeinschaft.

Toute évaluation du réel, toute loi de la pensée ou de la connaissance doit justifier sa valeur devant le moi qui décide et qui évalue. La connaissance est liée à des déterminations a priori relatives aux objets à connaître, déterr minations qui justifient leur validité par la valeur et le sens de l’acte de connaître en général, ou bien comme seul organe de cet acte. Par la connaissance, à laquelle le moi se lie strictement et librement dans son propre intérêt, (...) est déterminée l’inclusion complète du moi lui-même et son origine dans la réalité avec tout ce qui est sens et a priori. (shrink)