Manifestations of Wasaṭiyyah

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Hashim Kamali
Keyword(s):  
Practical Wisdom ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
The Individual

This chapter advances a perspective on how Islam has manifested wasaṭiyyah in the exposition and implementation of its precepts and principles. Thus, it is noted that wasaṭiyyah has helped keep Islam focused on its center, although not entirely neglecting the peripheries. Reconciling and balancing the interests of continuity and change, and those of the individual and society, of past realities and future prospects, of this world and the hereafter through rational methods, consultative engagement, practical wisdom, and ijtihad (independent reasoning) has all in all manifested the reality of wasaṭiyyah in Islam. Suitable illustrations to support some of these statements are also provided.

Practitioner Review: Continuity and Change: The Fair Work Act in Aviation

2011 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 392-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue Bussell ◽  
John Farrow
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Aviation Industry ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
National Debate ◽  
New Development ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact

This article begins by discussing the specific industrial relations challenges of the highly competitive aviation industry. It then reflects on the outcome of the recent intense national debate over industrial relations, exploring the consequences of that debate for practice and policy, and discusses some key issues that remain in play. Although the Fair Work Act 2009 may have come about as a reaction to what many perceive as the ‘excesses’ of Work Choices, the new Act does not so much ‘wind back the clock’ as represent a significant new development in Australia’s long and unique industrial relations history. This article will discuss the impact of the changes, to date, made by the Fair Work Act on one organization, including the expansion of the ‘safety net’, and how the new compromise between the role of the ‘collective’ and the role of the ‘individual’ struck by the Act has the potential to fundamentally change the nature and structure of bargaining. We offer these comments as practitioners who have worked under successive industrial relations regimes since the early 1980s.

Learning Practical Wisdom from Moral Case Deliberation Through Morisprudence

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (Special Issue) ◽  
pp. 106-106
Author(s):  
Jos Kole ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Medical School ◽  
Conceptual Analysis ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Practical Wisdom ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Moral Case Deliberation ◽  
Organizational Contexts ◽  
Moral Case ◽  
Strong Relation ◽  
The Individual

"Moral case deliberation is regularly used as a teaching method at our medical school. Besides we facilitate moral case deliberation on the ward in our hospital. In both instances, our assumption is that practicing moral case deliberation will assist our (future) healthcare professionals to cultivate the virtue of practical wisdom. But, is this assumption, right? The answer to this question requires both empirical research and conceptual analysis. This paper focuses on the latter. The claim defended is that we can elucidate the relation between moral case deliberation and practical wisdom through an analysis of so called morisprudence. We start with discussing two divergent but related interpretations of morisprudence: one introduced by Toulmin and Jonsen, related to casuistry, and one related to a Dutch interpretation with a strong relation to moral case deliberation. The combination of the both interpretations shed new light on the conceptual connections between cultivating prudence (practical wisdom) and moral case deliberation, but it also provides new insights into the individual and collective dimensions of practical wisdom, of character formation within organizational contexts. Finally, it may have consequences for how moral case deliberation should actually be employed to teach practical wisdom. "

Metaphor and (Dis)belief

2019 ◽  
pp. 117-136
Author(s):  
Jeanne Gaakeer
Keyword(s):  
Side Effects ◽  
Practical Wisdom ◽  
Legal Rule ◽  
Negative Side ◽  
Psychological Phenomenon ◽  
Professional Needs ◽  
Belief Perseverance ◽  
Negative Side Effects ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Insight Into

In chapter 7 the importance of insight into how metaphor works in law (“seeing resemblance” according to Ricoeur) is elaborated upon in relation to the legal professional’s development of practical wisdom. The chapter discusses how metaphoric insight is both cognitive and perceptual. It argues that the professional needs to develop his or her legal imagination to be able to perceive similarity in what is initially thought of as dissimilarity to bridge the gap between the generality of the legal rule and the particularity of the individual situation in the case at hand. The chapter also connects the topic of metaphor to an understanding the psychological phenomenon of cognitive dissonance and its negative side-effects such as the confirmation bias and belief perseverance as the obverse phenomena of what Coleridge called poetic faith, i.e. the ability to comprehend contraries and to deal with uncertainties before jumping to conclusions.

Alienation, Society and the Individual: Continuity and Change in Theory and Research.

Social Forces ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 269
Author(s):  
Frank A. Johnson ◽  
Felix Geyer ◽  
Walter R. Heinz
Keyword(s):  
Continuity And Change ◽  
The Individual

scholarly journals The PE Ratio and the Predicted Earnings Growth – the Case of Poland

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-138
Author(s):  
Radosław Kurach ◽  
Tomasz Słoński
Keyword(s):  
Normal Level ◽  
Capital Market ◽  
Average Rate ◽  
Equity Returns ◽  
Rate Of Return ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
Earnings Growth ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Pe Ratio ◽  
Correct Signal

Abstract We examine the components of equity returns on the Polish capital market. To analyse the underlying complexity of returns we took into consideration the model designed by Leibowitz (1999). This model captures three factors: dividend yield, expected growth in earnings and expected change in price-to-earnings (PE) ratio. We applied this model to analyse the average discount/premium not only to particular shares but to market averages as well. Firstly, we examined the variation of PE across the companies (as adapted from Penman (1996)) to analyse the average rate of return and their striking distance of individual stocks from a ‘normal’ level. Then we checked the transitory earnings in the portfolios of high PE, whereby a fall in current earnings relative to sustainable level of earnings leads to a transitory high PE ratio. We expect that the effect of transience in current year earnings can be significant. Lastly, we analysed the individual companies in order to check what percentage of companies give a “correct” signal about future prospects.

scholarly journals A Hermeneutics of Blessing as a Meta-Requisite for Reconciliation: John E. Toews’ Romans Paradigm as a Case Study

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vern Redekop
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Practical Wisdom ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Biblical Scholar

Within an overall framework of reconciliation as a transformation of mimetic structures of violence to mimetic structures of blessing, teachings of blessing are needed throughout the process. “Teachings” are considered as paradigmatic stories, principles, insights, and practical wisdom that are derived both from religious traditions and the human sciences. “Blessing” refers to that which contributes to sustained human well-being at the individual, collective and relational levels. A hermeneutics of blessing is a deliberate interpretive endeavour directed toward the generation of teachings of blessing. It can be used with any particular source and the insights can be both direct and inverse, identifying what is helpful and not helpful for reconciliation processes. John E. Toews, biblical scholar specializing on the book of Romans in the New Testament, is examined as someone practicing a hermeneutics of blessing. His paradigm of Romans shows how it can be viewed as a letter addressing an identity-based conflict involving Jews and Gentiles. A set of practical teachings of blessing is synthesized from Romans 12 to 15, using the Toews hermeneutical paradigm.

Improving the interpretation of high-resolution images

1991 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 654-655
Author(s):  
D. Van Dyck
Keyword(s):  
A Priori ◽  
Quantitative Interpretation ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
X Ray Diffraction ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
High Resolution Images ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Technological Improvements ◽  
Structural Research

We are living in a very exciting period for structural research using HREM. Indeed, the possibility to “see” the individual atoms of which matter is constituted seems within reach. Recent technological improvements allow to obtain a resolution of about 0.1 nm. However, the potential power of the technique is still severely limited by the problem of quantitative interpretation of the images. For instance, the use of computer simulation images requires much a priori knowledge which makes HREM very dependent on other techniques. The situation can be compared with the early days of X-ray diffraction. Recent developments make it possible to retrieve the object structure directly from the electron micrographs. We will discuss future prospects in this direction.

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