Society Needs Morality

2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-117
Author(s):  
Robert A. Hinde
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Religious Belief ◽  
The Future ◽  
Current Reality

Morality must be resurrected in our societies. It must be a morality whose nature and sources are understood and are in keeping with current reality. Hitherto, morality has been seen as closely related to religion. That religious belief is helpful to many is indisputable, but religious narratives, treated literally, are unacceptable to modern minds, and the supposed nature of God, as discussed by sophisticated theologians, is inaccessible to everyman. Morality, based on an understanding of human nature as shaped by culture, offers hope for the future.

The Nature of Degrowth: Theorising the Core of Nature for the Degrowth Movement

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pasi Heikkurinen
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Culturally Sensitive ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Radical Reduction ◽  
Nature Experience ◽  
Matter Energy

This article investigates human–nature relations in the light of the recent call for degrowth, a radical reduction of matter–energy throughput in over-producing and over-consuming cultures. It outlines a culturally sensitive response to a (conceived) paradox where humans embedded in nature experience alienation and estrangement from it. The article finds that if nature has a core, then the experienced distance makes sense. To describe the core of nature, three temporal lenses are employed: the core of nature as ‘the past’, ‘the future’, and ‘the present’. It is proposed that while the degrowth movement should be inclusive of temporal perspectives, the lens of the present should be emphasised to balance out the prevailing romanticism and futurism in the theory and practice of degrowth.

La Bête humaine

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Émile Zola
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Second Empire ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Context ◽  
The Future

Did possessing and killing amount to the same thing deep within the dark recesses of the human beast? La Bete humaine (1890), is one of Zola’s most violent and explicit works. On one level a tale of murder, passion and possession, it is also a compassionate study of individuals derailed by atavistic forces beyond their control. Zola considered this his ‘most finely worked’ novel, and in it he powerfully evokes life at the end of the Second Empire in France, where society seemed to be hurtling into the future like the new locomotives and railways it was building. While expressing the hope that human nature evolves through education and gradually frees itself of the burden of inherited evil, he is constantly reminding us that under the veneer of technological progress there remains, always, the beast within. This new translation captures Zola's fast-paced yet deliberately dispassionate style, while the introduction and detailed notes place the novel in its social, historical, and literary context.

scholarly journals Prototype Aplikasi Pencarian Informasi Ayat Al-Quran Berdasarkan Suara Bacaannya Berbasis Android

Repositor ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 561
Author(s):  
Fakhrul Islami ◽  
Gita Indah Marthasari ◽  
Eko Budi Cahyono
Keyword(s):  
Speech Recognition ◽  
Success Rate ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Application Development ◽  
Speech Recognition Technology ◽  
The Future

AbstrakAplikasi Al-Quran dengan berbagai macam fitur telah banyak dikembangkan oleh para developer untuk memberikan kemudahan dan kenyamanan bagi pengguna aplikasi tersebut. Namun, inovasi untuk pengembangan aplikasi tidak akan berhenti sampai di situ saja. Dilatarbelakangi oleh sifat lupa pada manusia, seperti mengingat informasi suatu ayat: nomer ayat dan nama surah yang begitu banyak. Maka dibuatlah sebuah fitur pencarian informasi ayat Al-Qur’an dengan menggunakan suara bacaan ayatnya. Penelitian ini membahas tentang pengembangan aplikasi Al-Qur’an dengan penambahan fitur yang memanfaatkan teknologi speech recognition. Karena masih dalam bentuk prototype, aplikasi ini hanya berisi data surah sebanyak 37 surah pada juz ke-30. Pengujian aplikasi dilakukan sebanyak 10 kali percobaan dengan menggunakan beberapa ayat al-Quran secara random. Tingkat keberhasilan dari pengujian tersebut adalah 90%. Dengan demikian fitur ini dapat dijadikan solusi untuk pengembangan aplikasi Al-Qur’an kedepannya.AbstractThe Quran application with various features has been developed by devlopers to provide convenience and comfort for its users. But innovation for application development would not stop here. Due to the human nature is forgetful so it made human remember information of Quran (number of verse and the name of Quran Chapters) hardly. Then a feature of the Quran verse information was made by using the Quran recitation sound. This study discussed the development of Quran application with the addition of features of speech recognition technology. Due to the form of this application was still a prototype, it contained 37 chapters in the 30th section. The application testing was performed 10 times by using several verses of Quran randomly. The success rate of testing reached 90%. So this feature could be the solution of the Quran development in the future.

Epilogue and Conclusion

2021 ◽  
pp. 268-272
Author(s):  
Sarah Mortimer
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Religious Belief ◽  
Natural Law ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Political Authority ◽  
Historical Change ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Hugo Grotius ◽  
The Church

This chapter draws together the themes of the book and looks forward to the later-seventeenth century. It argues that for much of the sixteenth century politics was subordinate to religion; temporal authorities needed the additional sanctions provided by religious belief if they were to exert any power over the consciences of individuals. The effect was to entangle temporal power in the deepening conflicts over religious truth, and thus to reveal the brittleness of any conception of political authority which relied on the support of the Church. At the same time, older traditions of political thought did not go away and often became stronger. The circulation of classical ideas, the discovery of new peoples, the growing interest in historical change and development all suggested alternative ways of legitimizing political power, often using natural law and avoiding any reliance on specifically Christian commitments. What happened in the early-seventeenth century, and most obviously in the writing of Hugo Grotius, was a move not only to ground political society in a particular conception of human nature (conceived of juridically, as a source of rights and obligations) but also to detach Christianity from that view of human nature. It was this understanding of human beings which enabled the development of a social contract tradition through the seventeenth century and beyond, and became an important source for modern liberalism. The questions it raised would help to shape the thought of the next century.

4. Religion

2021 ◽  
pp. 81-103
Author(s):  
James A. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
History Of Religion ◽  
Natural Religion ◽  
Treatise Of Human Nature ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of

‘Religion' discusses Hume’s various treatments of religion, particularly in the essay ‘Of Miracles’, Dialogues concerning Natural Religion, and ‘The Natural History of Religion’. Hume's earlier writings show some interesting implications for religion, including A Treatise of Human Nature and the essay ‘Of National Characters’. Looking at ‘Of Miracles’ shows that Hume’s theme was not the possibility of miracles as such, but rather the rational grounds of belief in reports of miracles. Considering the Dialogues emphasizes the distinction between scepticism and atheism. Meanwhile, ‘Natural History’ emphasizes Hume’s interest in the dangerous moral consequences of monotheism. What is the future for religion? Perhaps Hume was unlikely to have supposed that his writings would do anything to reduce religion’s hold on the vast majority of human beings.

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