{"title":"\"To become like a particle of dust\": Dignity as a Gandhian Practice","authors":"Manu Samnotra","doi":"10.1353/tae.2022.0043","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Most approaches to dignity's history, and its meanings, rely on a hierarchical grammar that elevates the dignified individual. Hierarchy links dignity, through the armament of rights, to coercive bodies and mechanisms that give political substance to dignity claims. This essay seeks in Mohandas Gandhi's thought an alternative practice of dignity, one that departs from this dominant tendency. Unlike most counterparts in the western canon, Gandhian dignity gives ontological priority to vulnerability. Gandhi's anti-hierarchical conception frames dignity in direct relation to existing inequalities, and is elaborated through experiments in proximate living, and via service to the most vulnerable.","PeriodicalId":55174,"journal":{"name":"Discrete Event Dynamic Systems-Theory and Applications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4000,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Discrete Event Dynamic Systems-Theory and Applications","FirstCategoryId":"94","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tae.2022.0043","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"AUTOMATION & CONTROL SYSTEMS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:Most approaches to dignity's history, and its meanings, rely on a hierarchical grammar that elevates the dignified individual. Hierarchy links dignity, through the armament of rights, to coercive bodies and mechanisms that give political substance to dignity claims. This essay seeks in Mohandas Gandhi's thought an alternative practice of dignity, one that departs from this dominant tendency. Unlike most counterparts in the western canon, Gandhian dignity gives ontological priority to vulnerability. Gandhi's anti-hierarchical conception frames dignity in direct relation to existing inequalities, and is elaborated through experiments in proximate living, and via service to the most vulnerable.
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The research on discrete event dynamic systems (DEDSs) is multi-disciplinary in nature and its development has been dynamic. Examples of DEDSs include manufacturing plants, communication networks, computer systems, management information databases, logistics systems, command-control-communication systems, robotics, and other man-made operational systems. The state processes of such systems cannot be described by differential equations in general. The aim of this journal, Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications, is to publish high-quality, peer-reviewed papers on the modeling and control of, and all other aspects related to, DEDSs. In particular, the journal publishes papers dealing with general theories and methodologies of DEDSs and their applications to any particular subject, including hybrid systems, as well as papers discussing practical problems from which some generally applicable DEDS theories or methodologies can be formulated; The scope of this journal is defined by its emphasis on discrete events and the dynamic nature of the systems and on their modeling, control and optimization.
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