Appreciating Responsible Persons

2021 ◽  
pp. 9-28
Author(s):  
Cheshire Calhoun
Keyword(s):  
Reactive Attitudes ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Responsible Agent ◽  
The Future

Given how central feeling, expressing, and receiving tokens of appreciation are in our everyday lives with others, one might wonder why these are important. Are these just instrumentally valuable because they make us happier, more satisfied with our lives, and more motivated to do good things in the future? Strawson suggested that “reactive attitudes” like resentment and gratitude are valuable because they are central to regarding others as responsible agents. This chapter takes this thought seriously and argues that if gratitude and appreciation are reactive attitudes, we will need to reconceive what it means to regard someone as a responsible agent. To be a responsible agent is not just to be someone who can be held accountable for failures, but also someone who has the capacity to take responsibility in a variety of ways. The chapter concludes with remarks about why expressing appreciation and feeling appreciated matter.

Digital and Technical Developments in the Amblyopia Therapy

2020 ◽  
Vol 237 (10) ◽  
pp. 1172-1176
Author(s):  
Charlotte Schramm ◽  
Yaroslava Wenner
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Technical Progress ◽  
Therapy Monitoring ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Technical Developments ◽  
The Future

AbstractThe digital media becomes more and more common in our everyday lives. So it is not surprising that technical progress is also leaving its mark on amblyopia therapy. New media and technologies can be used both in the actual amblyopia therapy or therapy monitoring. In particular in this review shutter glasses, therapy monitoring and analysis using microsensors and newer video programs for amblyopia therapy are presented and critically discussed. Currently, these cannot yet replace classic amblyopia therapy. They represent interesting options that will occupy us even more in the future.

The Kind Master is Petting Puppies - Transmutation of the Simplified Populist Rhetoric into Instagram Photography

2020 ◽  
pp. 28-31
Author(s):  
Teja Miholič
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Do So

The communication power of the social network Instagram is important to address due to its relaxed nature of presenting details from the ordinary lives of individuals. A comparison of the manners in which influencers and politicians represent themselves brings to front a changed dynamic of social power, as it is available online to anyone who can persuade followers to identify with them or to wish to do so in the future. Two ways of identification with an influencer are assumed, namely increasing and decreasing of distance between them and their followers. The text focuses on the latter, where politicians approach the people by showing the banality of their everyday lives. After reviewing the profiles of two Slovenian politicians, a noticeable pattern is that they most often do so with photographs of puppies and kittens. Keywords: populists’ rhetoric, master, Instagram, politics, pets, selfie

The Everyday Archaeologist Matters

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah E. Price ◽  
Philip J. Carr
Keyword(s):  
Human Behavior ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Southeastern Archaeology ◽  
The Past ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Future

Archaeology has many goals, and those goals may differ depending on your theoretical paradigm. These aims vary from bringing order to an incomplete and imperfect record of people in the past, to distilling the actions of the past in order to understand not only cultural changes but also the reasons those change occurred, to synthesizing this information to predict human behavior through laws, and to using the past to better the future of humanity. Thinking about the everyday broadens perspectives, posits new questions, presents testable hypotheses, and, perhaps because it is measured on a shared scale, brings some level of consilience to southeastern archaeology. In this chapter, the authors discuss three opportunities for making archaeology relevant: writing palatably, scaling interactions, and engaging people with their past by bringing archaeology into their everyday lives.

scholarly journals Implementing The Values of Pancasila in the Everyday Life of the Millenials

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jasmine Octavia Putri Balaw
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Millennial Generation ◽  
Major Part ◽  
Moral Compass ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
The People ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Future

Introduction: It’s safe to say that Pancasila, as the moral compass of the people and the nation, is held as a foundation—in which, the stronger a foundation is, the sturdier the country ought to be. For the last couple years, the millennial generation has taken the reins concerning the future life of the people and the nation of Indonesia. With the effects of ceaseless tech development, an effort to properly implement Pancasila values in their everyday lives is needed, so that the negative repercussions of globalization would not heavily impact the behavioral shift of the millennials. Methods: This article is written using the method of literature review from publications regarding the corresponding topic, along with determined criteria. Results: The millennial generation has shown the withering of Pancasila values through their behavior in recent times. Seeing that the millennials currently play a major part in the success of the people and the land, it is compulsory that the cultivation of Pancasila is given in schools and higher education, to then help the society build the values in prospect for a more altruistic and stronger character. Conclusion: The efforts of implementing Pancasila values in everyday life should be practiced more frequently. Even if it starts with just one principle, gradual progress will show unwittingly, as the five principles all correspond to each other.

scholarly journals Uncertain Future(s)

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 4-17
Author(s):  
Valerie Hänsch ◽  
Lena Kroeker ◽  
Silke Oldenburg
Keyword(s):  
Social Perception ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
The Future ◽  
Uncertain Future ◽  
Perception Of Time ◽  
Culturally Embedded

In this special issue, we explore the pivotal role that the future as a social perception of time and temporality plays in dealings with uncertainty. There are four linkages between uncertainty and future, as the chapters in this special issue show: Firstly, visions of the future result from current and past interpretations of culturally embedded everyday lives. Secondly, a multitude of co-existing models of time is possible. Thirdly, actors adjust their visions of the future when present conditions change. Fourthly, present actions are directed towards a vision of the future which merely serves as a guideline rather than a potential reality. Thus, the temporality of people’s actions and imagination in uncertain times is at the fore of this special issue exploring the unfolding tension between the immediate and the imagined, the actual and the perceived.

From Point Zero to the Future

2020 ◽  
Vol 119 (3) ◽  
pp. 646-654
Author(s):  
Helena Silvestre
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Indigenous Women ◽  
Organizational Forms ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
The Future

This text seeks to describe the territories of the favelas as a fertile ground for the birth of organizational forms that can strengthen struggles toward an emancipated society, in which life is free. It aims to trace the trajectory of resistance in those territories, the occupations, and evictions that shaped and continue shaping them. It highlights the feminized bodies in struggle against forced evictions of communities or carrying out occupations for housing: the conflictual recuperation of parts of the territory to construct commons that nourish our resistance. This effort is necessary because we cannot look at Indigenous women—in defense of forests—or Black women—defending immaterial ancestral territories—without recognizing that the women of the favelas are the daughters of those other women, continuing their resistance and resignifying it in places that are close to us and our everyday lives.

Covid-19 Pandemic Behavioral Response in a Sample of Young Adults

2021 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 525-529
Author(s):  
Cristiane K. Brazil ◽  
Malgorzata J. Rys
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Behavioral Response ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Fear Of Missing Out ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
The Future ◽  
Personal Perceptions ◽  
Self Rate Health

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our everyday lives and our behaviors. New effects, such as being afraid of leaving one’s home, have been reported, and people had to adapt their daily lives to cope with social distancing and pandemic guidelines. This study surveyed 115 young adults ages mostly between 18 and 24 to explore personal perceptions about this pandemic, adaptations made, and feelings in response to this pandemic. Results showed a possible link between self-rate health and confidence in recovering if getting this disease. Behavioral modifications reported included changes in shopping patterns, exercising less, and making more video-calls. Loneliness levels seem to have increased for this age-group, and Fear of Missing Out seems to be still taking place, along with some new feelings of Fear of Going Out. This is unlikely the last pandemic to develop. Understanding the impacts of it will be essential to better act and prepare for the future.

Lisa's Lemonade Stand: Exploring Algebraic Ideas

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 456-460
Author(s):  
Esther M. H. Billings ◽  
Tracy Lakatos
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Exact Nature ◽  
Bus Stop ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
The Future ◽  
Time Required ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Experience Difficulty

Students' informal algebraic encounters in grades K–8 lay the foundation for more formalized study of algebra in the future (NCTM 2000; Yackel 1997). The study of functions and relationships is essential in algebra. Functions and relations involve variables and describe how the change in one variable causes a change in a second variable. Words, tables, graphs, and formulas can be used to describe these relationships, which can also be found in many aspects of real life. Consider the following two examples: (1) the darkness of a piece of toast is a function of the setting on the toaster (Ritchhart 1997) and (2) the length of time required to ride to school on the bus can also be a function of the distance between the bus stop and the school. These relationships were described in words, but they can also be described by using a graph, a table, and depending on the exact nature of the relationship, even a formula. Many children do not realize that their everyday lives are filled with such functions and relations (Ritchhart 1997), and they have limited opportunities to interpret and analyze change graphically. Because students experience difficulty in interpreting graphs (Janvier 1981), they must be given opportunities to both interpret and create them.

Responsibility and the Condition of Moral Sense

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Russell
Keyword(s):  
Moral Agency ◽  
Necessary Conditions ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Moral Sense ◽  
Reactive Attitudes ◽  
Moral Sentiments ◽  
Central Thesis ◽  
Responsible Agent ◽  
Reasons Responsiveness ◽  
Moral Capacity

This chapter presents a thesis about necessary conditions of responsible agency that arise at the interface between (compatibilist) reason-responsive theories and Strawsonian naturalistic approaches. A number of contemporary compatibilists who accept broadly Strawsonian accounts of holding responsible, as understood in terms of moral sentiments or reactive attitudes, have also advanced accounts of moral capacity and moral agency in terms of powers of rational self-control or reasons responsiveness. These accounts do not, however, involve any reference to moral sentiments and our ability to hold agents responsible. The central thesis of this chapter is that the responsible agent (i.e. one who is capable of being responsible) must also be one who is capable of holding herself responsible. Where moral sense is lacking, rational self-control is seriously impaired or compromised.

Epilogue

2020 ◽  
pp. 171-178
Author(s):  
Hubert J. M. Hermans
Keyword(s):  
Digital Age ◽  
Democratic Values ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Complementary Resources ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
Social Domination ◽  
The Future ◽  
New Inequalities

One of the most daunting problems that inner democracy has to face in the future is the increasing power of algorithms in our everyday lives. Institutional structures have emerged that confront us with largely invisible and even unknown power and truth regimes as the result of technological advances. Such basic democratic values as freedom and equality need to be rethought, as new technological advancements tend to introduce new inequalities and new forms of social domination. In this context, the question is posed in this chapter about the role that education can play in protecting and fostering inner democracy. Developing inner democracy in a digital age will require answers from both technological and the educational angles as mutually complementary resources.

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