J. Martinez

The Texas borderlands have come to be increasingly important in the historical literature and in public opinion for the way that the region shapes national thought on race, borders, and ethnicity. With this increasing importance, it is pressing to examine the history of these issues in the region so that they may be accurately and insightfully deployed. This article contributes to the existing scholarship with a close discursive analysis of race in the booster materials, 1904-1941. The booster materials forge a notion of race relations that borrows from tropes common across the West but is also informed by Jim Crow and the unique demands of the region. The booster materials forward a notion of race that is largely unique in Western boosterism, positing only two major characters, Mexicans and white Northerners. The figure of ‘the Mexican’ is drawn more as a part of nature than human society in that it shares the fundamental characteristics of the land, animals, and rivers of the region. Nature in the region is depicted as an adventitious, disorderly, and wasteful body that calls out for northern discipline. The ‘Northerners’ are figured as the ones who, through applying discipline to the natural resources of the area (land, water, and Mexicans) can bring reason, fertility, and profitable connection to the national economy. The consequences of this racial division are further explored in the article as they play out in schooling, religion, justice, beauty, leisure, and sport.

En estas líneas se presenta el contenido del primer artículo que Arintero escribió para el primer número de la revista Ciencia Tomista. Después de una introducción, se sitúa la reflexión arinteriana en el contexto en el que fue publicada, comparándolo con el contexto de la cultura y de la eclesiología actual, poniendo de relieve algunas diferencias, pero también algunas constantes importantes, como el problema del relativismo, que impregnaba la filosofía de muchos hombres de ciencia de entonces y que hoy se ha convertido en un fenómeno masivo en la cultura occidental. Luego se presentan los tres temas más importantes que Arintero trata en su artículo: 1) el concepto genuino de Iglesia, donde aparece como un organismo dinámico que está siempre desarrollando sus capacidades; concepto que sirve para hacer de ella «una hermosa y completa apología» contra todas las acusaciones que se le han hecho y se le siguen haciendo. Se presentan aquí también algunas de esas acusaciones para mostrar su inconsistencia; 2) a continuación se habla de la libertad de investigación en la Iglesia y de la relación entre la religión católica y el progreso, señalando la actualidad de estos temas y alguna pista sobre cómo se abordan hoy; 3) seguidamente se trata el tema de la relación entre la ciencia y la fe, haciendo también referencia a algunos documentos del magisterio pontificio que se centran en la mima cuestión. La conclusión constata la pertinencia del concepto arinteriano de Iglesia –que no pretende ser exhaustivo–, y en ella se señalan algunos datos que muestran su desarrollo orgánico, doctrinal y místico.This is the content of the first article Arintero wrote in the first issue of the Ciencia Tomista journal. After an introduction, Arintero’s reflection is placed in the context in which was published, in comparison with the present context of the culture and the ecclesiology, pointing out the differences, but also some important similarities such as the relativism problem that soaked the philosophy of many scientific men of that time and today, it became a massive phenomenon in the occidental culture. Later, the three most important themes that Arintero deals with, are presented: 1) the genuine concept of the Church, where it appears as a dynamic organism always developing its capabilities; concept able to make “a beautiful and complete apology” of it against all the done accusations and still doing to it. Some of these accusations are also present here to prove their inconsistency; 2) later it is talked about investigation freedom in the Church and the relation between the Catholic religion and the progress showing the present situation of these themes and some clues of how to tackle them today; 3) immediately, the theme of the relation between science and faith is treated with reference to some documents of the pontifical teaching about the same question. The conclusion confirms Arintero’s appropriate concept of the Church-which does not try to be exhaustive- and indicates some data that show its organic, doctrinal and mystic development

En este artículo se abordan las principales reflexiones políticas y jurídicasrealizadas por Muratori durante los últimos años de su vida. En primerlugar, estudiaré su doctrina sobre los fundamentos del poder político ycomentaré algunos de sus consejos sobre cómo deben actuar los gobernantespara fomentar la pública felicidad. Después, partiendo de la idea de que elDerecho condiciona la consecución de esa finalidad, me centraré en el análisisde la obra Dei difetti della giurisprudenza, el tratado jurídico más relevanteelaborado por nuestro autor. Y, por último, desarrollaré las dos principalespropuestas jurídicas contenidas en ese trabajo: la que aboga porlimitar la función desempeñada por la jurisprudencia y la destinada a promoverla imparcialidad de la actividad jurisdiccional y la aplicación correctade las leyes frente a la arbitrariedad judicial.

We address some phenomena about the interaction between lower semicontinuous submeasures on $${\mathbb {N}}$$ N and $$F_{\sigma }$$ F σ ideals. We analyze the pathology degree of a submeasure and present a method to construct pathological $$F_{\sigma }$$ F σ ideals. We give a partial answers to the question of whether every nonpathological tall $$F_{\sigma }$$ F σ ideal is Katětov above the random ideal or at least has a Borel selector. Finally, we show a representation of nonpathological $$F_{\sigma }$$ F σ ideals using sequences in Banach spaces.

It is not yet clear which response behavior requires self-regulatory effort in the moral dilemma task. Previous research has proposed that utilitarian responses require cognitive control, but subsequent studies have found inconsistencies with the empirical predictions of that hypothesis. In this paper we treat participants’ sensitivity to utilitarian gradients as a measure of performance. We confronted participants (N = 82) with a set of five dilemmas evoking a gradient of mean utilitarian responses in a 4-point scale and collected data on heart rate variability and on utilitarian responses. We found positive correlations between tonic and phasic HRV and sensitivity to the utilitarian gradient in the high tonic group, but not in the low tonic group. Moreover, the low tonic group misplaced a scenario with a selfish incentive at the high end of the gradient. Results suggest that performance is represented by sensitivity correlated with HRV and accompanied with a reasonable placement of individual scenarios within the gradient.