Humans, among Other Classical Animals

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley Clements
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Environmental Destruction ◽  
Existential Crisis ◽  
Historical Moment

This book considers the question of how studying Classics can be relevant at the present moment of environmental and existential crisis. In a series of encounters from the European assimilation and destruction of the New World to our present environmental destruction of our shared world, it explores an answer by demonstrating how the Classics have been implicated in the structures of thought that have ultimately led us to our present historical moment. Telling the story of anthropology’s Classical entanglements from its inception to its growth to critical self-awareness, it demonstrates that Classical ideas have played a crucial—and often deleterious—role in the Western placing of the human and in the discipline that claimed the study of humanity as its own. Responses to our present crisis, it argues, should therefore include, as a prerequisite, considering the origins and implications of these Classical foundations because only by so doing can we attain the full self-awareness necessary to think beyond them and consider the alternatives we now need.

scholarly journals The Midlife Crisis of the Network Society

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 107-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikki Usher ◽  
Matt Carlson
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Middle Age ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Network Society ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
Midlife Crisis ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
The World ◽  
Brave New World

The network society is moving into some sort of middle age, or has at least normalized into the daily set of expectations people have for how they live their lives, not to mention consume news and information. In their adolescence, the technological and temporal affordances that have come with these new digital technologies were supposed to make the world better, or least they could have. There was much we did not foresee, such as the way that this brave new world would turn journalism into distributed content, not only taking away news organizations’ gatekeeping power but also their business model. This is indeed a midlife crisis. The present moment provides a vantage point for stocktaking and the mix of awe, nostalgia, and ruefulness that comes with maturity.

scholarly journals Maya Angelou’s Battle with Alienation in I know Why the Caged Bird Sings

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qudsia Zaini ◽  
Mohsin Hasan Khan
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Human Values ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Existential Crisis ◽  
Gender Consciousness ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
American Author ◽  
Great Force

e themes of the existential crisis have been central in taking up their work in different domains of human experience and exhibit the force of departure from the so-called standardized norms and values of a society. These themes have been taken up by many authors of African American origin. This paper attempts to represent and explain the theme of alienation through an in-depth analysis of Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. The crisis of identity, gender, consciousness, and everything seemingly comes to question in the powerful narratives of these kinds of writings. One such African American author is Maya Angelou. She is one of those who take these themes with great force and tries to free herself from the shackles of the so-called canonized versions of human values and seeks to explore a world in which she recreates an establishment of her new perspectives and freedom of humanity. The paper concludes by showing the struggles for recognition and self-awareness and developing onto a stronger woman pushed by her feeling of alienation.

scholarly journals Reframing the Purpose of Business Education: Crowding-in a Culture of Moral Self-Awareness

2020 ◽  
pp. 105649262094079
Author(s):  
Julian Friedland ◽  
Tanusree Jain
Keyword(s):  
Business Education ◽  
Business Schools ◽  
Financial Burden ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Moral Self ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Existential Crisis ◽  
Professional Success ◽  
Purpose Of Business ◽  
Do So

Numerous high-profile ethics scandals, rising inequality, and the detrimental effects of climate change dramatically underscore the need for business schools to instill a commitment to social purpose in their students. At the same time, the rising financial burden of education, increasing competition in the education space, and overreliance on graduates’ financial success as the accepted metric of quality have reinforced an instrumentalist climate. These conflicting aims between social and financial purpose have created an existential crisis for business education. To resolve this impasse, we draw on the concept of moral self-awareness to offer a system-theoretical strategy for crowding-in a culture of ethics within business schools. We argue that to do so, business schools will need to (1) reframe the purpose of business, (2) reframe the meaning of professional success, and (3) reframe the ethos of business education itself.

Fixed Capital and the Flow

2018 ◽  
pp. 85-100
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Carolyn Miller
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Structure ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Steam Power ◽  
British Industry ◽  
Mill On The Floss ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Historical Moment

This essay examines the temporal structure of George Eliot’s novel The Mill on the Floss (1860) from the perspective of energy and ecology, arguing that Eliot’s well-established interest in epochal shift extends to a searching and prescient inquiry into the temporality of energy and energy regime transition. The novel is set at a water-powered mill in the historical moment that saw an unprecedented energy transition in British industry from water power to coal-fired steam power—the moment that saw the birth of what Andreas Malm calls “the fossil economy”—and it distinguishes between the variant temporalities of these two energy regimes. The essay connects The Mill on the Floss’s dual temporality to our present moment of ecological crisis and its demand that we, as critics, shift not so much from an eco-historicism to an eco-presentism, but toward a temporally doubled methodology that inhabits the present and the past dialectically.

FAFAMI Project — Family Speaking Is Familiar: History and Prospects

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 1223-1229
Author(s):  
Daniela Aparecida da Silva ◽  
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Larissa Cristina Oliveira ◽  
Nayara Hakime Dutra Oliveira ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
Paulo State ◽  
Teaching Research ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Historical Moment ◽  
The University

This article aims to address the FAFAMI Project — Family speaking is familiar — in it’s historicity to the present moment, as a project of teaching, research and extension of the University of São Paulo state (UNESP) in Franca, SP, contributions to the historical moment and to the reality of the families with whom it operates. As this project aims to bring the university closer to the community, trying to themes that are related to the daily life of the families, there was a need to a bibliographical research for reflective notes that contextualize the moment in which we are inserted, the economic, political and social regent system and its implications for society, especially for the working class. And, also, reflect on the role of families in this system, how they are seen, their responsibilities in society, as how they are configured, among other fundamental questions for any analysis of reality.

scholarly journals La práctica de la atención plena en estudiantes universitarios. Dificultades y facilidades percibidas Mindfulness Practices in University Students.Positive and NegativeAspectsPerceived)

Retos ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 118-122
Author(s):  
Inmaculada Canales-Lacruz ◽  
Glòria Rovira
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Physical Education Students ◽  
Mindfulness Practices ◽  
Motor Actions ◽  
Infant Education ◽  
The University

Este artículo examina las dificultades y facilidades percibidas por el alumnado universitario durante la realización de prácticas motrices introyectivas (PMI), las cuales, se distinguen por estimular el autoconocimiento a través de la acción motriz consciente.  Se realizó un análisis de contenido de los diarios de prácticas de 42 estudiantes (19,8±1,42 años) de las sesiones de PMI incluidas en la diplomatura de maestro en educación infantil de la facultad de ciencias humanas y de la educación de Huesca de la Universidad de Zaragoza, España. La variable independiente fueron las PMI programadas y las variables dependientes los beneficios y dificultades experimentados. Se utilizó el software NUDIST 6. Los resultados mostraron que las PMI proporcionaron bienestar al alumnado, en forma de alivio de tensiones, de ensimismamiento (máxima implicación en el momento presente) y de darse cuenta (aumento de la sensibilidad y de la autorregulación), rasgos que conforman las competencias sociales y personales tan necesarios y relevantes para lograr el bienestar docente. Las dificultades encontradas fueron la atención externa, la agitación mental, el malestar y la vergüenza.Abstract. This article examines the positive and negative aspects of introjective psychomotor practices (PMI) as perceived by physical education students. The aim of PMI is to stimulate self-awareness through conscious motor actions. The study comprised a content analysis of teaching practice logbooks of 42 students (average age 19.8 ±1.42 years), concerning PMI included in the Diploma in Infant Education offered by the Faculty of Human Sciences and Education of the University of Zaragoza in Spain. The independent variable was the series of PMI and the dependent variables were benefits and difficulties perceived by the students. NUDIST 6 software was used for data analysis. Results show that PMI improve students’ welfare through stress relief, introspection (maximum self-implication in the present moment) and self-realization (an increase in sensory awareness and self-regulation). These are aspects that shape social and personal competences and are necessary and relevant for achieving educational wellbeing. Negative aspects concerned external attention, mental agitation, discomfort and embarrassment.

scholarly journals Integrated Learning in a Science of Kriyayoga Course

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 55-65
Author(s):  
MAUREEN P. HALL ◽  
BALRAM SINGH ◽  
AMINDA J. O’HARE ◽  
EVAN G. AMES
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Development ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Public University ◽  
Medium Size ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Key Points ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
Learning Data

This study investigated changes in student self-awareness in a newly developed science course, The Science of Kriyayoga, which is a part of the Indic Studies minor at a medium size public university. Students enrolled in this course learned and practiced Kriyayoga techniques twice a week, over 15 weeks. Kriyayoga, a form of contemplative practice, emphasizes an anchoring and habitation in the present moment. Kriayoga is based on techniques designed to accelerate spiritual development and to create a profound state of tranquility in the participants. Pedagogy for this course utilized mind and body techniques for deepened learning. Data was collected in the form of surveys and interviews with students over two iterations of the course taught by the same instructor. One main question used for this study was, “To what extent and in what ways do you understand yourself in a scientific way through this course?” Two other questions were “Who are you?” and “What/who is your ideal?” Both quantitative and qualitative data was distilled and themes emerged which represent the key points of the findings.

scholarly journals Empire and Natural Law in Dryden’s Heroic Drama

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Holberton
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Natural Law ◽  
New World ◽  
Political Instability ◽  
Cultural Influence ◽  
Modern Natural ◽  
Historical Moment ◽  
Law Making

Dryden’s early heroic plays find dramatic potential in early modern natural law debates about sovereignty, and explore the language of contract central to these debates. The Indian Emperour interrogates the context of Spain’s claims to empire in the new world, reflecting the historical moment of England’s growing colonial ambitions. The Conquest of Granada shows how natural law’s metaphors of contract can destabilize an empire from within, as Dryden’s hero Almanzor employs them to contest and divide. Almanzor’s claims connect to an earlier critical exchange between Davenant and Hobbes on the cultural influence of epic romance and theatre in relation to political instability. Dryden’s play, however, works to redeem romance from its association with the misinterpretation of passion and interest in Hobbes’s writing. In The Conquest of Granada, romance and theatre become part of the process of refined law-making, providing a culture of propriety and discrimination which supports the artifice of empire.

scholarly journals Maya Angelou’s Battle with Alienation in I know Why the Caged Bird Sings

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 177-186
Author(s):  
Qudsia Zaini ◽  
Mohsin Hasan Khan
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Human Values ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Existential Crisis ◽  
Gender Consciousness ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
American Author ◽  
Great Force

The themes of the existential crisis have been central in taking up their work in different domains of human experience and exhibit the force of departure from the so-called standardized norms and values of a society. These themes have been taken up by many authors of African American origin. This paper attempts to represent and explain the theme of alienation through an in-depth analysis of Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. The crisis of identity, gender, consciousness, and everything seemingly comes to question in the powerful narratives of these kinds of writings. One such African American author is Maya Angelou. She is one of those who take these themes with great force and tries to free herself from the shackles of the so-called canonized versions of human values and seeks to explore a world in which she recreates an establishment of her new perspectives and freedom of humanity. The paper concludes by showing the struggles for recognition and self-awareness and developing onto a stronger woman pushed by her feeling of alienation.

scholarly journals The Civilizational Orientation in the Making of the New World

2000 ◽  
pp. 564-579
Author(s):  
Anouar Abdel-Malek
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Social Thought ◽  
Public Mind ◽  
The Public ◽  
Polar System ◽  
Left And Right ◽  
Historical Moment

The historical moment of the position of the problem, from the onset, leads to the heart of the sudden perplexity about the nature, rôle and prospect of “the civilizational question” in our times. While the very category of “civilization” was avoided until recently, a ?urry of amazement-cum-disquiet has been pervading the public mind, more speci?cally the intellectual circles used to the long-prevailing dichotomies of social thought (“left” and “right”; “developed” and “under-developed”; “center” and “periphery”; “conservative” and “radical”; “reactionary” and “progressive”; “religious” and “secular”). All of a sudden, as it were, on the morrow of the implosion of the former U.S.S.R., the end of the bi-polar system, the advent of unipolar world hegemonism in 1989-1991, a resounding essay in 1993 came as a shock. “Civilizations,” ?nally in the limelight, were deemed to “clash.”

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