Active Powers and Powerful Actors

2001 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 91-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rom Harré
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Agent Causation ◽  
Moral Concepts

The usual context for raising the issue of ‘agent-causation’ is that of human action. Cf. the excellent recent book by Fred Vollmer (1999). And a long list of articles. The motivation for mounting a defence of the propriety of agent causation might be to restore moral concepts to a place in human life, via responsibility of actors for their actions, threatened by event (internal or external) causality explanation formats.

The Marble Faun

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Old World ◽  
American Expatriates ◽  
Art And Culture

Any narrative of human action and adventure – whether we call it history or Romance – is certain to be a fragile handiwork, more easily rent than mended.’ The fragility – and the durability – of human life and art dominate this story of American expatriates in Italy in the mid-nineteenth century. Befriended by Donatello, a young Italian with the classical grace of the ‘Marble Faun’, Miriam, Hilda, and Kenyon find their pursuit of art taking a sinister turn as Miriam's unhappy past precipitates the present into tragedy. Hawthorne's ‘International Novel’ dramatizes the confrontation of the Old World and the New and the uncertain relationship between the ‘authentic’ and the ‘fake’, in life as in art. The author's evocative descriptions of classic sites made The Marble Faun a favourite guidebook to Rome for Victorian tourists, but this richly ambiguous symbolic romance is also the story of a murder, and a parable of the Fall of Man. As the characters find their civilized existence disrupted by the awful consequences of impulse, Hawthorne leads his readers to question the value of Art and Culture and addresses the great evolutionary debate which was beginning to shake Victorian society.

scholarly journals ETIKA DALAM PANDANGAN AL-FARABI

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 139
Author(s):  
Muhammad Syafi'i
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Social Morality ◽  
Philosophical Framework ◽  
Important Basis ◽  
Human Social Life

Ethics is a philosophical part of axiology and becomes an important basis in the formation of morality. Today, ethics even becomes a serious individual matter that has an impact on human social life. There are many Islamic philosophers who highlight the theme of ethics within the philosophical framework, one of them is Abu Nasr Muhammad al-Farabi. His view of human action and especially of happiness shows his different mind from the previous philosopher. His view of happiness reflects the orientation of human life in the present that overriden by the crisis of existence. In addition, some of his essays even focus exclusively on ethical discussions. Unfortunately, only a few scholars studied his ethical mind in a brief sub-section. Therefore, this paper will try to fill the void, as well as to contribute about the importance of ethics for the sustainability of individual morality and social morality.

Child

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebekah Sheldon
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Young Adult Fiction ◽  
Self Similar ◽  
To Come

In the conclusion of The Child to Come, the book asks, ‘What happens when the life figured by the child--innocent, self-similar human life at home on a homely Earth--no longer has the strength to hold back the vitality that animates it?’ This chapter looks at two kinds of texts that consider this question: Anthropocene cinema and Young Adult Fiction. By focusing on the role of human action, the Anthropocene obscures a far more threatening reality: the collapse of the regulative. In relation, both children’s literature and young adult literature grow out of and as disciplinary apparatuses trained on that fraught transit between the presumptive difference of those still in their minority and the socially necessary sameness that is inscribed into fully attained adulthood.

scholarly journals In Search of the Good

Open Theology ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Riggs
Keyword(s):  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Social Philosophy ◽  
Modern Concept ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Innate Capacity ◽  
First Cause ◽  
Ethical Vision ◽  
Maximus The Confessor

AbstractThe concept of recognition is increasing in importance in political and social philosophy as a means of explaining and dealing conceptually with the problems of multiculturalism. Nevertheless, the phenomena which this concept signifies, namely human capacities for intersubjectivity, belong to human beings even before the development of the modern concept. This article explores how the content of the concept of recognition plays a role in two Platonic philosophies of Late Antiquity, those of the Neoplatonic philosopher Proclus and the Christian philosopher, monk and theologian Maximus the Confessor. It is shown that their versions of a metaphysics of the Good provides the foundation for a moral and ethical vision of human life which makes recognitive judgements – which make acts of recognition possible – a necessity for human action. Although proper recognition pertains to the rational recognition of the First Cause as the true end of all human action, nevertheless Proclus and Maximus make recognitive judgements not only possible but a necessary function of even the lower, irrational faculties of soul. In this way, they explain how human beings have an innate capacity at all levels of cognition for recognizing things and other people as goods to be pursued or avoided.

scholarly journals Knowledge about ways to prevent and spread STIs among students enrolled in State Schools in the City of Macapá, Amazônia, Brazil

2020 ◽  
pp. 05-16
Author(s):  
Ana Laura Góes Salviano ◽  
Giovanna Rocha Santana ◽  
Claudio Alberto Gellis de Mattos Dias ◽  
Maria Helena Mendonça de Araújo ◽  
Euzébio de Oliveira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Secondary Level ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Sexual Education ◽  
Positive Aspect ◽  
8Th Grade ◽  
Patterns Of Behavior ◽  
The City ◽  
State Schools

Sexuality began to be seen as a positive scope of human action, in this context, it began to value sexual education, raising discussions about its importance. The aim of this article was to analyze knowledge about forms of contagion and prevention of STIs. This study was conducted in 03 state schools of elementary and secondary level. The sample consisted of 287 students regularly enrolled in these schools covering the 8th grade/ 7th grade of elementary school until the 3rd year of high school. Data on gender, age, marital status, education and others were collected in this study. Most participants have already had contact with the term STI; however, it still has beliefs about its forms of transmission. There is a need to approach sexuality with a more natural and positive aspect of human life, providing the free discussion of norms and patterns of behavior and the debate of attitudes.

scholarly journals Multisensor Smart Robot for Border Security Surveillance with Human Action Prediction

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (10S) ◽  
pp. 371-376
Keyword(s):  
Continuous Monitoring ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Image Sensor ◽  
Border Security ◽  
National Defense ◽  
Infrared Sensor ◽  
Action Prediction ◽  
Security Surveillance ◽  
Border Surveillance

Border surveillance (BS) is the most important task in the field of national defense and security. To maintain the peace and to ensure safety of the borders it needs to kept under 24/7 monitoring. Especially, under the current circumstances, like Illegal immigration, importing, implanting explosive device, terrorist activities are common challenges occur in our country border. To curb such happenings on the border areas, the least that can be done is to provide a continuous monitoring. The edge of a country border spreads to several thousand heaps for which human surveillance is more challenge and may lead to loss of human life. To overcome the problem in this paper a new Wireless Multifunctional Smart Robot for Border Security Surveillance with Real Time Object Recognition (OR) system is introduced the proposed robotics system is based on IOT and OR. This method mechanically senses the interruption form the strangers and sends the photos to the admin that categorized which kind of object is to be capture in the image sensor with the help of Navy biases algorithm the Human action has been detected. The multi-sensor Smart robot is proficient for sensing motion using Passive and also Infrared Sensor, poisonous gas using Gas sensor, fire or blast using Flame Sensor, high temperature using Temperature sensor, Camera for capturing the activities in the border, ultrasonic sensor for detecting any obstacles and GPS is used for tracking the location. Any trespasses, bombs, harmful gases, fire and other dangerous situations are sensed and sent to the server. This system detects the dangerous conditions near the border and saves the life immediately without any loss of human life.

scholarly journals Flanagan and Cartesian free will: a defense of agent causation

Disputatio ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (21) ◽  
pp. 69-90
Author(s):  
John Lemos
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Agent Causation ◽  
Common Misconceptions

Abstract In a recent book, The Problem of the Soul, Owen Flanagan discusses the Cartesian, or agent causation, view of free will. According to this view, when a person acts of his own free will his action is not caused by antecedent events but is caused by the agent himself, and in acting the agent acts as an uncaused cause. Flanagan argues at length that this view is false. In this article, I defend the agent causation view against Flanagan’s criticisms and I go on to critically address his own ‘neo-compatibilist’ alternative to the agent causation view. In doing so, I hope to exhibit some common misconceptions about the nature of the agent causation view and to show that this is a view that deserves more serious consideration.

scholarly journals From Slyness to Moral Wisdom in the Era of Emergent Technologies

wisdom ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Ana Bazak
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Theoretical Level ◽  
Great Expectations ◽  
Emergent Technologies ◽  
The Third ◽  
Moral Wisdom ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Problems ◽  
New Type

The first aim of this paper is to circumscribe the concept of wisdom from the standpoint of op­posite as well as close notions. The second one is to relate moral wisdom to social conditions; this as­pect emphasises two states of moral wisdom or, ra­ther, two levels on which the concept has been conceived: that of a fragmented and separated cognisance and manners to manage one’s own existence – whether this entity is an individual per­son or a small or large community – and that of an integrated wisdom of humanity in a holistic app­roach. The third aim of this research is to question if and how moral wisdom should be redefined in the present “Era of Emergent Technologies”. Indeed, the abundance of rapid scientific discoveries and of technologies unimaginable before generates great expectations and strong technophile beliefs concer­ning a spectacular and fundamental improvement of human life, generally, thus of every human per­son and community. But as we can see, it is not quite the case: just this incongruent situation allows, more, requires the re-questioning of the concept of moral wisdom nowadays. This re-ques­tioning shows that the different traditional repre­sentations of moral wisdom have to be transcen­ded and that on the theoretical level the urgency is to think within new categories and support a new type of human action adequate to the world global problems whose climbing demonstrates the back­wardness of moral wisdom.

Fatalism, Indian

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian F. Woods
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Human Agency ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Literal Meaning ◽  
Sense Of Agency ◽  
Cosmic Order ◽  
Ultimate Source ◽  
The Status ◽  
Individual Potential ◽  
Vedic Period

Indian speculation about the vicissitudes of human life has a long and complex history. Life in the early Vedic period was considered to be largely hostage to the ‘fate’ of natural and psychic forces controlled by various gods (devas). Fate was what proceeded ‘from the gods’ (daiva), who were considered to be the guardians of the cosmic order and the ultimate source of prosperity. Sacrifice and prayer were the principal means to win their favour. Later the idea arose that one’s present lot is due, not to the whim of some god, but to karma, the effect of one’s own actions performed in this or previous lives. On this view, humans do have some scope or ‘freedom’ to change themselves and the environment in which they live. This more individual potential is called puruṣakāra, which, to varying degrees, may modify daiva. The literal meaning of this term is ‘human action’ (from the Sanskrit for ‘man’ and a verbal root meaning ‘to act’). With the increasing popularity of the karma theory, daiva tended to become equated with the effects of past behaviour. Finally, in the context of the spiritual ascent towards a unifying vision of existence, the status of human agency itself became an issue. As long as the seeker remains blinded by false notions of ‘I’, the ego must experience a sense of agency and a modicum of freedom to chart its course of life. However, from the perspective of enlightenment, or mokṣa, all is ‘fate’ in the hands of a personal God or a Supreme Self.

Technology, philosophy of

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Kroes
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Philosophy Of Technology ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Coherent Field ◽  
Primary Meaning ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Political Economic

The philosophy of technology deals with the nature of technology and its effects on human life and society. The increasing influence of modern technology on human existence has triggered a growing interest in a philosophical analysis of technology. Nevertheless, the philosophy of technology as a coherent field of research does not yet exist. The subject covers studies from almost every branch of thinking in philosophy and deals with a great variety of topics because of a lack of consensus about the primary meaning of the term ‘technology’, which may, among others, refer to a collection of artifacts, a form of human action, a form of knowledge or a social process. Among the most fundamental issues are two demarcation problems directly related to the definition of technology. The first concerns the distinction between technological (artificial) and natural objects. It involves the relation between man, nature and culture. The second pertains to the distinction between science and technology as types of knowledge. The science–technology relationship has become of central importance because of the widespread assumption that the distinguishing feature of modern technology, as compared to traditional forms of technology, is that it is science-based. Another much discussed issue is the autonomy of technology. It deals with the question of whether technology follows its own inevitable course of development, irrespective of its social, political, economic and cultural context.

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