Conclusion

2019 ◽  
pp. 331-338
Author(s):  
Jens Zimmermann
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Eastern Orthodox ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Jacques Maritain ◽  
Secular Culture ◽  
Christian Humanism ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Incarnational Theology ◽  
Made In

This brief, final chapter, summarizes the main points made in the previous chapters to demonstrate the relevance of Bonhoeffer’s theology for our time. In creatively appropriating biblical and patristic anthropology for our modern age, Bonhoeffer contributes important insights to Christian reflection on current debates about human nature, politics, and secularity. In drawing his insights from the Christ-centered, incarnational theology of the greater tradition, Bonhoeffer’s work also possesses a deeply ecumenical appeal much needed for our time. His Christian personalism, together with his careful correlation of the nature-grace relation appeals to Eastern Orthodox theologians and strongly resembles the integral humanism of Catholicism in thinkers like Henri de Lubac and Jacques Maritain. Given our present postmodern, secular culture, Bonhoeffer’s hermeneutic theology, his humanist ethics, and integral humanism offer exactly the biblically based, philosophically informed and ecumenically appealing model of engaging life, i.e., the kind of Christian humanism, Christians ought to consider in responding to current cultural issues.

Conclusions

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Strecker
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Eu Law ◽  
World Heritage Convention ◽  
State Practice ◽  
The World ◽  
State Obligations ◽  
Made In ◽  
Landscape Protection

The final chapter of this book advances four main conclusions on the role of international law in landscape protection. These relate to state obligations regarding landscape protection, the influence of the World Heritage Convention and the European Landscape Convention, the substantive and procedural nature of landscape rights, and the role of EU law. It is argued that, although state practice is lagging behind the normative developments made in the field of international landscape protection, landscape has contributed positively to the corpus of international cultural heritage law and indeed has emerged as a nascent field of international law in its own right.

scholarly journals Against management: Auto-critique

Organization ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 135050842110209
Author(s):  
Martin Parker
Keyword(s):  
Business School ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Business Schools ◽  
The Uk ◽  
North Western ◽  
Made In ◽  
Highly Cited

In this review I consider the 20 years that have passed since the publication of my book Against Management. I begin by locating it in the context of the expanding business schools of the UK in the 1990s, and the growth of CMS in north western Europe. After positioning the book within its time, and noting that the book is now simultaneously highly cited and irrelevant, I then explore the arguments I made in the final chapter. If the book is of interest for the next two decades, it because it gestures towards the importance of alternative forms of organization, which I continue to maintain are not reducible to ‘management’. Given the intensifying crises of climate, ecology, inequality and democracy, developing alternatives must be understood as the historical task of CMS within the business school and I propose a ten-point manifesto in support of that commitment.

scholarly journals Influence of Technological Parameters on the Emision on DLP 3D Printing Process

2020 ◽  
Vol 70 (12) ◽  
pp. 4387-4392
Keyword(s):  
3D Printing ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Particulate Emissions ◽  
Technological Parameters ◽  
Printing Process ◽  
Laboratory Activity ◽  
Emission Point ◽  
Measurement Methodology ◽  
Made In

The present work addresses the issue of emissions requires it made in resin polymerization processes at 3D digital light process (DLP) printing. From an emission point of view, both particulate and chemical emissions are analysed in the form of gases during the DLP printing process. In the paper, we present first the element, which are study. In second part of the paper, we presented the printer, material for printing, measuring apparatus for emission and measurement methodology. In the three part of paper, we made the determinations for gas emissions. Will follow the determinations for particulate emissions. In the final chapter, the data generated by the printing emissions related to the problems specific to the laboratory activity and it has made the specific conclusion in rapport with the printing process. Keywords: 3D printing; emission particles; air pollution, resin material, DLP printing

Receiving the Ars Poetica

2019 ◽  
pp. 244-272
Author(s):  
Jennifer Ferriss-Hill
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Reception History ◽  
Artistic Process ◽  
Literary Achievement ◽  
Ars Poetica ◽  
Made In ◽  
The Middle Ages ◽  
Making Art

This epilogue traces the themes and concerns of the previous chapters throughout the Ars Poetica's considerable reception history. If the Ars Poetica's poetic qualities have not always been clear to scholars of literature, they seem to have been more evident to the practicing writers who, inspired by Horace's poem, wrote artes poeticae of their own. Indeed, practicing poets have long discerned what many literary scholars have not: that the poem's value lies not so much in its stated contents as in its fine-spun internal unity; in its interest in human nature and the onward march of time; in the importance of criticism—both giving and receiving it—to the artistic process; and in the essential sameness of writing, of making art, and of living, loving, being, and even dying. The argument made in this study for reading the Ars Poetica as a literary achievement in its own right may therefore be viewed as a return to the complex, nuanced ways in which it was already read in the Middle Ages, through the sixteenth century, and into the twenty-first. The authors of the later works examined in this chapter read the Ars Poetica as exemplifying and instantiating the sort of artistry that it opaquely commands, and they reflected this in turn through their own verses.

Ghost Images and Gorgeous Mistakes

Drift ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeff Ferrell
Keyword(s):  
Made In ◽  
Ghost Images

Following from the argument made in the previous chapter, this final chapter opens with a consideration of ghost images. In a first sense, ghost images entail the problem of photographing ghosts and drifters and, with this, capturing the presence of absence and the visibility of invisibility. Here the photodocumentary tradition is recalled and reimagined and issues of photographic absence, intentionality, and surrealism are explored. In a second sense, the chapter argues, ghost images include those images that have become dislocated from their original contexts of production. Such images—a number of which the author has salvaged from trash cans and trash piles—again raise issues of lost intentionality, residual meaning, and subsequent alteration. The chapter ends by considering and advocating for gorgeous mistakes—for the magic of the accidental and the unexpected—and for mistakes as a kind of method adrift.

A False Dawn and Terminal Decline

2000 ◽  
pp. 353-401
Author(s):  
Peter N. Davies
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Alternative Strategies ◽  
Business World ◽  
British Trade ◽  
Made In ◽  
Successes And Failures

This final chapter evaluates the accuracy of the previous forecasts and predictions made in 1972. It assesses Elder Dempster’s successes and failures whilst taking into consideration the changing global economy and overall decline of British trade and shipping. It discusses alternative strategies that might have enabled the Company to remain viable in the rapidly changing business world of West Africa and prevent its eventual sale to Delmas Vieljeux in 1989. The chapter concludes with a report of the enormous progress and profit made by the Ocean Group at the end of the 20th Century as a result of its transition away from traditional maritime activities to land-based enterprises.

Human nature

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Shapiro
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Social Influence ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Philosophical Thought ◽  
Political Association ◽  
Made In

Every political philosophy takes for granted a view of human nature, and every view of human nature is controversial. Political philosophers have responded to this conundrum in a variety of ways. Some have defended particular views of human nature, while others have sought to develop political philosophies that are compatible with many different views of human nature, or, alternatively, which rest on as few controversial assumptions about human nature as possible. Some political philosophers have taken the view that human nature is an immutable given, others that it is shaped (in varying degrees) by culture and circumstance. Differences about the basic attitudes of human beings toward one another – whether selfish, altruistic or some combination – have also exercised political philosophers. Although none of these questions has been settled definitively, various advances have been made in thinking systematically about them. Four prominent debates concern: (1) the differences between perfectionist views, in which human nature is seen as malleable, and constraining views, in which it is not; (2) the nature/nurture controversy, which revolves around the degree to which human nature is a consequence of biology as opposed to social influence, and the implications of this question for political philosophy; (3) the opposition between self-referential and other-referential conceptions of human nature and motivation – whether we are more affected by our own condition considered in itself, or by comparisons between our own condition and that of others; and (4) attempts to detach philosophical thought about political association from all controversial assumptions about human nature.

Newman on Natural and Revealed Religion

2020 ◽  
Vol 94 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-186
Author(s):  
Cyril O’Regan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Religion ◽  
The Real ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Basic Frame

This essay reflects on Newman’s famous analyses of natural and revealed religion and their relation in the tenth and final chapter of the Grammar of Assent. There are two lines of reflection, the first internalist, the second externalist. On the first front, the essay draws attention to how conscience plays a foundational role in Newman’s discussion of natural religion and how it helps to distinguish it from the “religion of civilization,” which Newman considers to be a rationalist substitute for the real religion. If natural religion is structurally grounded in conscience, it is historically illustrated in paganism and primitive religions to the extent to which these come to light in the modern age. Crucially, natural religion has significant content that is endorsed and recalibrated in revealed religion. It uncovers God as Judge and discloses humanity both to be under judgment and hoping for reconciliation through a mediator. The second and more externalist line of reflection draws attention to how Bishop Joseph Butler’s classic Analogy of Religion (1736) provides the basic frame for Newman’s reflection on natural and revealed religion and their relation.

scholarly journals Posthuman Conjectures: Animal and Ecological Sciences in Marie Darrieussecq’s Dystopian Fiction

2020 ◽  
pp. 41-54
Author(s):  
Stephanie Posthumus
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Dystopian Fiction ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
Made In ◽  
Animal World

Despite being published over twenty years apart, Marie Darrieussecq’s novels, Truismes (1996) and Notre vie dans les forêts (2017), share many features including their dystopian setting, urgent narrative tone, and themes of hybridity, corporeality and radical revelation. Deconstructing the boundaries between animal and human, nature and culture, human and machine, they invite the reader to move beyond anthropocentrism. In response to this invitation, I propose four posthuman conjectures, tracing the ethos of animal and ecological sciences in the two novels. First, I examine the ways in which the presence of non-human animal worlds requires imagining new subjectivities and writing embodied languages. Second, I move from the animal world to the machine cyborg who remains caught in the effects and affects of the techno-scientific complex in Darrieussecq’s dystopian fiction. Third, I consider the space made in both novels for death and dying as a non-metaphysical phenomenon situating humans in an eco-evolutionary web. Last, I define writing as a form of (post)human technology that the novels use to reject the notion of human superiority and to illustrate language’s capacity to imagine new, less-hierarchical paradigms.

scholarly journals Applying the Canon in Islam

1998 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-115
Author(s):  
Yusuf Talal DeLorenzo
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
History Of Religion ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Use Of Models ◽  
Made In

According to Smith, the Ndembu diviner applies a "canon" of twenty-four fixedobjects to a client's situation, first selecting a few of the objects by shaking the basket,interpreting the selected objects according to a range of meanings fixed by pub­lic convention, and matching the meanings to the client's particular condition.Brannon Wheeler, in his Introduction to Applying the Canon in IslamWhen the idolaters inimical to the message of Muhammad, upon him bepeace, attempted to criticize the Qur'an for its use of the lowly and the trivial inits rhetorical repertoire, the following verse was revealed in reply.Behold, God does not disdain to propound a parable of a gnat, or of something evenless than that. Now, as for those who have attained to faith, they know that it is thetruth from their Sustainer whereas those who are bent on denying the truth say,What could God mean by this parable? (2:26)This exchange then became the basis for djscussion and debate among theclassical Arabic rhetoricians on the subject of what might and what might not besuitable for use in similes, metaphors, and other comparative ljterary devices.That this debate shouJd be recalled at the outset of a review of a work dealingwith Hanafi fiqh scholarship might seem slrangely out of place. Yet, once onehas acqurunted oneself with the underlying premise of this work, one cannothelp but recall the classical debate and the verses of Qur'anic scripture so oftencited in regard to it. What lies at the heart of the matter is that comparisonsdrawn between disparate and remote subjects are sometimes delightful andsometimes awful. This, after all, is the stuff of literature. There are some comparisons,however, that are simply offensive.In fact, there are some things people just don't like to see compared at all.Period. Things held near and dear often fall under this category, things like one'sreligion, ethnicity, culture, and so on. This is human nature. And that is dangerousground.Of course, I've oversimplified the matter. ln fact, I'm going in a direction thatwas certrunly not intended by the author for his readership. Wheeler's Applyingthe Canon in Islam is not a work of literature. Likewise, hjs use of models andexamples from other disciplines, like anthropology and the history of religion,is a methodological rather than a literary choice. But the fact remains that thechoice Professor Wheeler has made in this matter is one that will not likely bemet with objectivity by Muslims. If I may venture a comparison of my own, thisis rather akin to inviting a Muslim to partake of a meal, a sumptuous and hearty ...

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