Perfect Happiness and the Resurrection of the Body

1980 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Morreall
Keyword(s):  
Direct Relationship ◽  
The Body ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Beatific Vision ◽  
Traditional Notion ◽  
The Face ◽  
Relationship Of

Although not a great deal has been said about heaven in the Christian tradition, it is part of the traditional notion of heaven that the blessed are in a condition of perfect happiness. In this life we can be happy to a certain degree, but mixed with earthly happiness is disappointment, frustration, and even sorrow. In heaven, by contrast, there is no sadness, nothing is lacking, happiness is complete. The usual way of explaining this perfect happiness is in terms of the ‘beatific vision’ – the face to face relationship of knowing and loving God which the blessed enjoy. On earth we experience only finite objects; nothing that we come to know ever completely satisfies our desire to know, and nothing that we love ever completely satisfies our will. But in the beatific vision we shall be in a direct relationship with the infinite God, who in his boundless perfection will completely ‘fill up’ our capacities to know and love. As the completely adequate object of these capacities, God will make us perfectly happy. As Aquinas puts it, ‘…But if God alone were seen, who is the fount and source of all being and of all truth, he would so fill the natural desire for knowledge that nothing else would be desired, and the seer would be completely happy.’

scholarly journals DINAMIKA ‘NGAJI ONLINE’ RAMADHAN DI MASA PAGEBLUK COVID-19 PADA KOMUNITAS PESANTREN

2020 ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Samsul Arifin
Keyword(s):  
Therapeutic Relationship ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Therapeutic System ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Face ◽  
Face To Face Learning ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Spiritual Relationship

This paper reveals the dynamics of the changing therapeutic relationship of the kiai with students (santri) in learning (ngaji) from face-to-face to online models in the time of COVID-19. The research method is ethnographic-hermeneutic. In the face-to-face learning system, therapeutics occur because of the warm relationship by looking directly at the kiai's face which makes the students feel calm. In the “Ngaji Online” the therapeutic system switches to environmental settings that make students feel safe and comfortable. In the “Ngaji Online” system, the warmth of relationships begins to weaken. However, this weakness can be covered up because the spiritual relationship between the kiai and the students still feels strong. This spiritual relationship is the key to therapeutic for the Islamic boarding school.

scholarly journals Use of smartphones in family relationships of university students of the Nacional del Altiplano University of Puno

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yolanda Pari Ccama
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
University Students ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Communication Styles ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Deductive Method ◽  
The Face ◽  
Probabilistic Sample ◽  
Relationship Of

The excessive use of Smartphone in young people has caused deterioration in family relationships. The objective of the research was to determine the relationship of the use of the Smartphone with family relationships in university students. The hypothetical deductive method was applied, the research is of a correlational descriptive type, a non-probabilistic sample was used for the convenience of 96 students, the survey technique was applied and as a Likert type questionnaire with 36 items raised by variables, dimensions. and indicators. The results showed that there is a relationship between the use of the Smartphone with family relationships, evidencing the deterioration of the face-to-face interaction between parents and children, poor compliance with family functions of socialization, recreation and affection that young people lack and the communication styles they practice at home are mostly passive. We conclude that the use of Smartphone has a significant positive average relationship with family relationships in university students. The educational institutions and the family must regulate the proper use of the Smartphone in family spaces, avoiding the deterioration of family relationships.

The Stranger in Immigrant Integration

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 81-102
Author(s):  
Ellen Jacobsson ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Integration ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Social Relationship ◽  
Immigrant Integration ◽  
The Political ◽  
Coherent System ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Face ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Stranger

This paper suggests that Alfred Schutz’s account of systems of typi­fication together with Sara Ahmed’s account of the proximity of the stranger allows for a different understanding of social integration. The paper proposes to rethink the political and social relationship of the in-group and the stranger, approached through the face-to-face encounter between an integration counselor and an immigrant. The encounter offers a disruption of what is taken for granted by the in-group and functions as a catalyst for a system of reference to appear at all. Through Ahmed’s account on the familiarity and proximity of the stranger, I argue that integration practices are considered to produce, rather than translate, a coherent system of reference for an in-group. The institutionalization of social integration is consequently risking concealing the “unintegratable” stranger rather than offering a solution for the more epistemological dimensions of social exclusion that we find in the experience of sameness and difference.

Levinas on God and the Trace of the Other

2018 ◽  
pp. 320-342
Author(s):  
Michael L. Morgan
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Religious Texts ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Normative Force ◽  
Interpersonal Experience ◽  
Divine Transcendence ◽  
The Face ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Levinas takes the face-to-face relationship between each subject and every other particular person to be a relationship of the self with transcendence. He believes this dimension of our interpersonal experience is represented in traditional religious and theological texts by the relationship with the divine or God. This paper explores how Levinas’s appropriation of the Cartesian expression “the idea of infinity” introduces this divine character of the face-to-face and how Levinas goes on to develop and enrich this association of the face-to-face, its ethical character, and divine transcendence. Levinas takes the divinity of the face-to-face to refer to the universality, objectivity, normative force, and motivational attraction of the sense of responsibility he believes is foundational for human experience. In short, for Levinas, the divinity associated with morality in traditional religious texts refers to the normative weight and psychological appeal of ethics itself.

scholarly journals Crossing over with the Angel

2005 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-295
Author(s):  
Alexander V. Kozin
Keyword(s):  
Structural Analysis ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Crossing Over ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Third ◽  
Analytical Extension ◽  
The Face ◽  
Relationship Of

This essay is an analytical extension of Roland Barthes’ structural analysis of an excerpt from the Old Testament (Genesis 32: 22–32), known as “The Struggle with the Angel”. It thus continues the search for “the third meaning” of this enigmatic passage. In this essay, “The Struggle with the Angel” is undertaken in the phenomenological (xenological) register which situates it in the liminal sphere at the crossing of disclosure and concealment. Subsequent semiotic analyses of three visual renditions of Genesis 32: 22–32, Rembrandt’s “Jacob’s Struggle with the Angel”, Sir Jacob Epstein’s “Jacob and the Angel”, and Marc Chagall’s “Jacob Wrestling with the Angel”, show the “third meaning” of the passage to be predicated on the foundational relation between naming and facing, pointing to the understanding of “The Struggle” as the face-to-face relationship of love and responsibility grounded in ethics.

Apparatus, Attention, and the Body: The Theatre Machines of Boris Charmatz

2007 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 124-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald Siegmund
Keyword(s):  
Facial Expression ◽  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
The Body ◽  
Practical Philosophy ◽  
Political Conception ◽  
The Face ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Kinetics Of

The final installment of a continuing series on choreography considering the mutual interrogation of philosophy and dance, the articles propose a tentative ethics of dance as a “practical philosophy” under the influence of Gilles Deleuze read through specific choreographic practices. Gerald Siegmund describes his private experience of Boris Charmatz's choreographic machine as a metaphor for the entrapment of theatre and as generative of new bodily subjectivities. Introducing anthropological applications of cognitive science to the particular strategies of choreographers working in Brazil, Christine Greiner argues for a political conception of self through dance. Examining the kinetics of the face in RoseAnne Spradlin's Survive Cycle, Victoria Anderson Davies meditates on the relationship of facial expression to language, to consciousness, and to movement.

scholarly journals The Enigma of Gülchatai’s Face or The Face of the Other

Corpus Mundi ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 166-196
Author(s):  
Serguey N. Yakushenkov
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Cultural Encounter ◽  
The Face ◽  
Large Face

The article analyzes the problem of interpretation of the image of the Other through their Body. In modern society, the problem of denoting the Other is extremely important. Very often mass media resorts to the metonymy of the body for naming the Other, for example, "the face of Caucasian nationality". This usage of the word ‘face’ as a certain metaphor to describe the nationality depersonalize people. The usage of the metonymic method of pars pro toto indicates archaic nature of the notions related to the corporality of the Other. As an argument, the author quotes numerous examples of images of mythological heroes whose otherness is expressed through hypertrophied bodily parts, for instance a large face or a tremendous head. The article analyses the popular Soviet movie "The White Sun of the Desert", because this movie demonstrates in the best way the Soviet and post-Soviet pattern of Cultural Encounter. The astonishing popularity of the movie in the USSR shows that the representation of a face-to-face meeting with the Other that the movie offered was very close to the Soviet viewer. The author argues that Russian society still faces the challenge of rediscovering the dialogue of cultures instead of a monologue.

scholarly journals Speaking and Listening in Racial Relations

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-21
Author(s):  
Maria Cristina Francisco
Keyword(s):  
Black Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
Racial Relations ◽  
Racial Issues ◽  
The Face ◽  
Racist Ideology ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Voice

Racial issues are increasingly visible in current times and it is essential to speak and listen to the body in relationships, in the face of the suffering caused by racism. Racism causes suffering and can kill. There are many ways to kill and die. The breath and throat are affected by choking or muting the voice, the vehicle of expression and autonomy of thought. Racism is in the air and all bodily senses recognize it. It enters the throat and chokes. It touches the skin and freezes. Racist ideology enters and roots the body and the mind. It registers internal memories that will communicate in gestures and attitudes in the white body and in the black body. In society, the white body will present itself as a place of privilege. Listening attentively to the analyst in race relations involves listening to oneself, being involved in the context, and recognizing the relationship of these socially marked bodies that solidify inequality. Listening is the art of caring, as it leads to transformations toward the rescue of free movements of the breath, the body and the mind.

Supporting the Use of Rudimentary Vocalizations

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 132-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Zubow ◽  
Richard Hurtig
Keyword(s):  
Rett Syndrome ◽  
Visual Cues ◽  
Acoustic Analysis ◽  
Eye Gaze ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Primary Research ◽  
Multiple Modalities ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Perceptual Judgments ◽  
The Face

Children with Rett Syndrome (RS) are reported to use multiple modalities to communicate although their intentionality is often questioned (Bartolotta, Zipp, Simpkins, & Glazewski, 2011; Hetzroni & Rubin, 2006; Sigafoos et al., 2000; Sigafoos, Woodyatt, Tuckeer, Roberts-Pennell, & Pittendreigh, 2000). This paper will present results of a study analyzing the unconventional vocalizations of a child with RS. The primary research question addresses the ability of familiar and unfamiliar listeners to interpret unconventional vocalizations as “yes” or “no” responses. This paper will also address the acoustic analysis and perceptual judgments of these vocalizations. Pre-recorded isolated vocalizations of “yes” and “no” were presented to 5 listeners (mother, father, 1 unfamiliar, and 2 familiar clinicians) and the listeners were asked to rate the vocalizations as either “yes” or “no.” The ratings were compared to the original identification made by the child's mother during the face-to-face interaction from which the samples were drawn. Findings of this study suggest, in this case, the child's vocalizations were intentional and could be interpreted by familiar and unfamiliar listeners as either “yes” or “no” without contextual or visual cues. The results suggest that communication partners should be trained to attend to eye-gaze and vocalizations to ensure the child's intended choice is accurately understood.

Questions on the role of biofilms for the adaptation of microorganisms to unfavorable environmental factors by the example of P. aeruginosa

2020 ◽  
Vol 99 (4) ◽  
pp. 379-383
Author(s):  
Vasily N. Afonyushkin ◽  
N. A. Donchenko ◽  
Ju. N. Kozlova ◽  
N. A. Davidova ◽  
V. Yu. Koptev ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Antibiotic Resistance ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Barrier Function ◽  
Infectious Agent ◽  
Antagonistic Activity ◽  
The Body ◽  
Main Function ◽  
Pathogenic Potential ◽  
The Face

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a widely represented species of bacteria possessing of a pathogenic potential. This infectious agent is causing wound infections, fibrotic cystitis, fibrosing pneumonia, bacterial sepsis, etc. The microorganism is highly resistant to antiseptics, disinfectants, immune system responses of the body. The responses of a quorum sense of this kind of bacteria ensure the inclusion of many pathogenicity factors. The analysis of the scientific literature made it possible to formulate four questions concerning the role of biofilms for the adaptation of P. aeruginosa to adverse environmental factors: Is another person appears to be predominantly of a source an etiological agent or the source of P. aeruginosa infection in the environment? Does the formation of biofilms influence on the antibiotic resistance? How the antagonistic activity of microorganisms is realized in biofilm form? What is the main function of biofilms in the functioning of bacteria? A hypothesis has been put forward the effect of biofilms on the increase of antibiotic resistance of bacteria and, in particular, P. aeruginosa to be secondary in charcter. It is more likely a biofilmboth to fulfill the function of storing nutrients and provide topical competition in the face of food scarcity. In connection with the incompatibility of the molecular radii of most antibiotics and pores in biofilm, biofilm is doubtful to be capable of performing a barrier function for protecting against antibiotics. However, with respect to antibodies and immunocompetent cells, the barrier function is beyond doubt. The biofilm is more likely to fulfill the function of storing nutrients and providing topical competition in conditions of scarcity of food resources.

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