ethos

is that space of practice at the interface of ethics and culture.

by ethos I refer to that space of practice at the interface of ethics and culture. It is a premise of this work that both of the latter terms are very much in question today' (Rabinow 2003:4).Bildung, a process of self-formation, that today might be called an attitude or an ethos (anthropos today)

is the conventions determining how the formal rules of that game are applied in concrete circumstances.

those conventions determining how the formal rules of that game are applied in concrete circumstances.'

is the culturally standardized system of organization of instincts and emotions of the individuals.

defined as 'The expression of a culturallly standardized system of organization of the instincts and emotions of the individuals' (Naven p.118, Steps 108).

is the feelings and emotions and tradition of a person or group (contrasted with eidos which is the 'form' or 'structure of a person or group).

ethos. The characteristic spirit of a person or group... used by Gregory Bateson in Naven to specify a people's emotional character, as distinct from their eidos.' (Morris 2012: 97)

is the tone, character and quality of a people's lives, the aesthetic style, mood, underlying attitude that guides a life.

A peoples ethos is the tone, character and quality of their life, its moral and aesthetic style and mood... it is the underlying attitude towards themselves and their world that life reflects. . . . Ethos guides our assumptions about how we ought to behave, interact think, and feel. world view contributes to the descriptive understanding of the person, the ethos adds a prescriptive or normative element. (p. 18-19).'

ethos, n.Definitions

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