scholarly journals Eating Human Beings: Varieties of Cannibalism and the Heterogeneity of Human Life

Philosophy ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 91 (4) ◽  
pp. 483-501
Author(s):  
Mikel Burley
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Important Task ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The Face ◽  
Human Flesh ◽  
Ways Of Being

AbstractPhilosophy as well as anthropology is a discipline concerned with what it means to be human, and hence with investigating the multiple ways of making sense of human life. An important task in this process is to remain open to diverse conceptions of human beings, not least conceptions that may on the face of it appear to be morally alien. A case in point are conceptions that are bound up with cannibalism, a practice sometimes assumed to be so morally scandalous that it probably never happens, at least in a culturally sanctioned form. Questioning this assumption, along with Cora Diamond's contention that the very concept of a human being involves a prohibition against consuming human flesh, the present article explores how cannibalism can have an intelligible place in a human society – exemplified by the Wari’ of western Brazil. By coming to see this, we are enabled to enlarge our conception of the heterogeneity of possible ways of being human.

scholarly journals Genoma humano: Implicações éticas

2001 ◽  
Vol 61 (243) ◽  
pp. 622
Author(s):  
Nilo Agostini
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Code ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Ethical Reflection ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Therapeutic Concept ◽  
Human Dna ◽  
The Face

Novas tecnologias estão mapeando o código genético, decifrando assim as informações contidas no DNA humano. A biomedicina vê-se, com isso, ante novos paradigmas, com a emergência de uma nova concepção terapéutica. Á bioética, por sua vez, tem um lugar de destaque, neste vasto campo, ao acionar a reflexão ética a respeito da vida; chega a definir delimitações protetoras, buscando poteger o ser humano de desvios diversos e mesmo ameaçadores; aponta para a necessidade imperiosa de servir ao bem-estar da humanidade. Á contribuição cristã parte do valor incomparável da vida humana para acolher os beneficios trazidos e evitar extrapolações no uso das biotecnologias. O elemento norteador é sempre a busca do bem integral do ser humano.Abstract: New technologies are mapping the genetic code and thus deciphering the information contained in the human DNA. With the emergence of a new therapeutic concept, biomedicine finds itself in the face of new paradigms. Bioethics, in its turn, is given a prominent role in this vast field, as it sets in motion the ethical reflection about life; defines protective limits that seek to guard human beings against difrent — and even threatening — detours; and it points to die fundamental need to act in the service of the welfare of Mankind. The Christian contribution bases itself on the incomparable value of human life to welcome the benefits of the new biotechnologies but also to prevent extrapolations in their application. Here, our North is, always, the good of the whole human being.

scholarly journals The Metaphor of Consumerism

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 523
Author(s):  
Muhammad Hasyim
Keyword(s):  
Human Society ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Television Commercial ◽  
Commercial Products ◽  
Dynamic Relationship ◽  
Television Advertisements

This research uses semiotic of metaphor to unmask the underlying meaning beneath the semiotic of consumerism on television advertisements. This research attempts to explain how advertised products are being used, through the means of semiotic of metaphor by scrutinizing the dynamic relationship between sign and signifier. Semiotic of metaphor makes the products ‘alive’ within human society hence, this implies that the very existence of human beings is no longer determined by the presence of another human being, instead the very existence is now determined by the presence of certain commercial products in possession. The society, in term of consumerism, views the products as animate or living entities within the sphere of living. Commercial advertisements use metaphorical expressions to relate and exchange in two major concepts: products are humans, and humans are products’ users. Thus, nowadays, humans tend to seek their purpose of living and existence through consumerism. The result of this research shows that television commercial advertisements mainly work by means of certain metaphorical symbolism: it shapes society’s perspective into believing that the very existence of human beings, the actualization of self, and differentiations among them are achieved by using or purchasing certain advertised products therefore, the products serve as the symbols of those achievements.

Assessment of Available Technologies for Hospital Waste Management

2017 ◽  
pp. 172-188
Author(s):  
Alok Rai ◽  
Richa Kothari ◽  
D. P. Singh
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Hospital Waste ◽  
Liquid Discharge ◽  
Hospital Wastes ◽  
Hospital Practices ◽  
Modern Hospital

Modern hospital practices with galloping growth in medical technology facilitate increase human life span, decrease mortality rate and increase natality rate. Life supporting health services generates potentially hazardous and infectious hospital wastes like pharmaceuticals, cottons, food, paper, plastics, radionuclide, sharps, and anatomical parts etc. These wastes are complex in nature with maximum part of municipal solid waste and small part of biomedical waste (anatomical parts, body parts etc.). Improper conduct and management of hospital waste create several problems and nosocomial diseases to human beings and harms environment. Traditional practices included for management are open burning, mixing waste, liquid discharge and waste disposal without treatment normally. Hence, this issue comes in lime light and several guidelines come to sort out this problem. Thus, challenges associated with traditional hospital waste management techniques and modern techniques for management are assessed in general and association with human society in particular in this chapter.

scholarly journals Drive for the divine

2015 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Darryl Wooldridge
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Imago Dei ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
Final Word ◽  
Current Article ◽  
Human Desire ◽  
Derivatives Of

Although the present article stands alone, it is a continuation of ‘Living in the not-yet’ (published in vol. 71, issue 1 of HTS). Both articles are derivatives of a larger study that discusses God as the centre of an often inarticulate and inchoate but innate human desire and pursuit to enjoy and reflect the divine image (imago Dei) in which every human being was created. The current article sets forth foundational considerations and speaks to the ineffaceable drive within humans to find God. It is a reciprocated drive – a response to God who first sought and continues to seek humans – a correlate and concomitant seeking in response to God. Although surely not the final word, this article discusses God as spirit and spiritual, by whom human beings have been created as imago Dei or God’s self-address, showing God’s heart as toward his creation, and humans most especially. Also discussed here is that humans are destined to join the perichoretic relationship that God has enjoyed from eternity. Moreover, in his ascension and glory, Jesus sends the Spirit of adoption into creation so that human creation might enter this same perichoretic relationship with God.

Preserving the world for Christ

2008 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry Harvey
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Conceptual Basis ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
City Of God ◽  
Common Life ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World

AbstractThe practices, habits and convictions that once allowed the inhabitants of Christendom to determine what they could reasonably do and say together to foster a just and equitable common life have slowly been displaced over the past few centuries by new configurations which have sought to maintain an inherited faith in an underlying purpose to human life while disassociating themselves from the God who had been the beginning and end of that faith. In the end, however, these new configurations are incapable of sustained deliberations about the basic conditions of our humanity. Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theology provides important clues into what it takes to make and keep human life human in such a world. The first part of this essay examines Bonhoeffer's conception of the last things, the things before the last, and what binds them together. He argues that the things before the last do not possess a separate, autonomous existence, and that the positing of such a breach has had disastrous effects on human beings and the world they inhabit. The second part looks at Bonhoeffer's account of the divine mandates as the conceptual basis for coping with a world that has taken leave of God. Though this account of the mandates has much to commend it, it is hindered by problematic habits of interpretation that leave it vacillating between incommensurable positions. Bonhoeffer's incomplete insights are thus subsumed within Augustine's understanding of the two orders of human society set forth in City of God.

Pedagogika wobec problematyczności bytu ludzkiego. O konfliktach w życiu człowieka

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (2 (252)) ◽  
pp. 70-85
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Rumianowska
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Existential Philosophy ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The World ◽  
Complex Mechanisms

The purpose of the article is to outline the problem of widely understood conflicts in human life from the perspective of existential philosophy. Without questioning the importance of psychological research on complex mechanisms underlying conflicts, the author points to the issue of the problematic nature of human existence, the category of freedom, the problem of the authenticity of being and the sense of meaning. In the second part of the paper, the essence of educational process in the context of experiencing difficulties and conflicting situations by human beings has been introduced. The necessity of taking into account the problem of being oneself and constituting a human being in relation to himself, the world and others has been presented.

“A Life Worthy of Being Called Human”

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 319-332
Author(s):  
Catherine Larrère ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Environmental Ethic ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Life On Earth ◽  
Ecological Transition

“Act so that the effects of your action are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life on Earth.” How can we understand Jonas’ “maxim”? Is it too anthropocentric to be of any interest for an environmental ethic? Is is too limited to survival to have a moral signification in a truly human ethic? One can argue first that it is not so much anti-Kantian than that it challenges the current prevailing “presentism” and obliges us to take into consideration not only future generations, but also the context in which one anticipates these future generations to be living. Therefore, we can distinguish two different interpretations of Jonas’ maxim: in a first stage, that of sustainable development, it was understood as taking into consideration not only the needs but also the rights of future generations; in a second stage, that of an Anthropocene and ecological transition, it means that making sense of humanity implies connecting human beings to the Earth and other living beings far from opposing them.

Conceptions of Happiness and Human Destiny in the Late Thirteenth Century

Vivarium ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 276-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Human Life ◽  
The Self ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Union With God ◽  
Henry Of Ghent ◽  
Self Transcendence ◽  
Coming To Know ◽  
Human Destiny

AbstractMedieval theories of ethics tended on the whole to regard self-perfection as the goal of human life. However there was profound disagreement, particularly in the late thirteenth century, over how exactly this was to be understood. Intellectualists such as Aquinas famously argued that human perfection lay primarily in coming to know the essence of God in the next life. Voluntarists such as the Franciscan John Peckham, by contrast, argued that ultimate perfection was to be achieved in patria through the act of loving God. The present article argues that Giles of Rome and Henry of Ghent defended a different sort of voluntarism with respect to the final destiny of human beings. Rather than claiming that the goal of human life lay in the perfection of the self, they argued instead that ultimate union with God was to be achieved mystically through an act of self-transcendence, which occurred through ecstasy or quasi-deification.

scholarly journals O corpo, a semente e o fruto: a antropologia paulina entre o simbólico e o conceitual em seu discurso sobre o ser humano e sua ressurreição

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (19) ◽  
pp. 253
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Portella, Carlos Queiroz
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Apostle Paul ◽  
Human Identity ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
The Face ◽  
True Measure

A modernidade, e particularmente a pós-modernidade, tem colocado em crise a identidade humana, seu “porquê” e “para quê”. Diante de sociedades ocidentais cada vez mais descritianizadas e secularizadas, se faz necessário ao teólogo e ao cientista da religião o debruçar-se sobre as tradições religiosas para verificar o que veiculam em sua antropologia. No caso específico do presente artigo, a intenção é esclarecer como o cristianismo, particularmente o apóstolo Paulo, compreende o ser humano. Contudo, sendo esta tarefa que se encontra para além de um artigo, resta-nos esclarecer a visão de Paulo a respeito do ser humano a partir de um ponto que consideramos chave para sua antropologia: a ressurreição, o ser humano novo, particularmente descrito em 1Co 15. Entendemos que Paulo constrói muito de sua antropologia a partir da visão que tem sobre o futuro escatológico do ser humano, pois nele estaria a verdadeira medida do ser humano unido a Deus, isto é, sua realização plena. Contudo, para se chegar a esta visão prenunciada por Paulo, será preciso antes, ainda que de forma célere, percorrer alguns de seus conceitos ao referir-se ao ser humano, em várias situações, e compreender como tais conceitos constroem a antropologia paulina e apontam para sua concepção de ressurreição / novo ser humano.Modernity, and particularly postmodernity, has put human identity in crisis, its why and for what. In the face of ever more decritianized and secularized Western societies, it is necessary for the theologian and scientist of religion to dwell on religious traditions to verify what they convey in their anthropology. In the specific case of the present article, the intention is to clarify how Christianity, particularly the apostle Paul, understands the human being. However, since this task is beyond an article, we can clarify Paul's view of the human being from a point that we consider to be key to his anthropology: the resurrection, the new human being, particularly described in 1Co 15. We understand that Paul builds much of his anthropology from the view he has on the eschatological future of man, for in him would be the true measure of the human being united to God, that is, his full realization. However, in order to arrive at this vision foretold by Paul, it will be necessary, even if quickly, to go through some of his concepts when referring to the human being in various situations, and to understand how such concepts construct Pauline anthropology and point out for his conception of resurrection / new human being. 

scholarly journals PENDIDIKAN ISLAM DI ERA MILENIAL

Conciencia ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-28
Author(s):  
Abuddin Nata
Keyword(s):  
Education System ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
National Education ◽  
Global Era ◽  
National Education System ◽  
The Face ◽  
New Challenges

Today humans live in the millennial era. The era that is a continuation of this global era has created new challenges that must be transformed into opportunities that can be put to good use, so that challenge brings a blessing for everyone to do. Since the millennial era besides having similarities also has differences, especially in the use of digital technology that goes beyond the computer era, this kaeadaan has invited a number of experts to speak out and at the same time offer a number of thoughts and ideas in dealing with it. Islamic education with various types and levels, ranging from traditional pesantren that is non-formal, hinggapesantren modern with various programs, ranging from kindergarten to college, is institutionally part of the national education system. With such a position, Islamic education will inevitably have to contribute, even responsible menak prepare human beings in the millennial era. That is a human being who is able to change challenges into opportunities, and can use them for his own material and spiritual welfare. This paper seeks to explore the potential contained in Islamic education with various types and levels in the face of challenges in the millennial era. This paper begins by presenting the characteristics and challenges of the millennial era, social problems and their impact on life.

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