Rival Conceptions of Order

2020 ◽  
pp. 27-54
Author(s):  
William Bain
Keyword(s):  
De Novo ◽  
International Order ◽  
Empirical Observation ◽  
Creation Story ◽  
External Relations ◽  
Internal Relations ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Will Power ◽  
Final Causes ◽  
Politics And Law

This chapter lays out rival conceptions of order. The theory of immanent order is predicated on a doctrine of internal relations such that mutually related things jointly compose an interconnected whole. This whole imparts a necessary and rationally intelligible pattern of place and purpose, knowledge of which is acquired by investigating both efficient and final causes. The theory of imposed order is predicated on a doctrine of external relations. Singular things, having no intrinsic connections, enter into relations that are imposed from without, either by legislation or the force exerted by an impersonal mechanism. The result is a contingent pattern of order that is explained with reference to empirical observation and investigating efficient causes. Each of these theories of order presupposes a particular conception of God and a particular interpretation of the creation story in Genesis. These theories provide the ground of the argument that is developed throughout this book, namely that modern theories of international order are deeply indebted to ideas traceable to the biblical conception of God and the emphasis it places on will, power, and might. The implications here are twofold. First, modern international thought did not emerge de novo with the collapse of medieval Christendom. Second, particular conceptions of God give rise to analogies and metaphors that are used to comment on questions of politics and law. The chapter concludes by suggesting that the character of modern theories of international order is negotiated by the distinctive commitments of these rival theories.

Habermas on Rawls and the normative foundations of democracy

2021 ◽  
pp. 136843102098541
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Kędziora
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
John Rawls ◽  
Political Liberalism ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Veil Of Ignorance ◽  
Normative Foundation ◽  
Internal Relations ◽  
The Veil ◽  
Politics And Law ◽  
Normative Foundations

The debate between Jürgen Habermas and John Rawls concerns the question of how to do political philosophy under conditions of cultural pluralism, if the aim of political philosophy is to uncover the normative foundation of a modern liberal democracy. Rawls’s political liberalism tries to bypass the problem of pluralism, using the intellectual device of the veil of ignorance, and yet paradoxically at the same time it treats it as something given and as an arbiter of justification within the political conception of justice. Habermas argues that Rawls not only incorrectly operationalizes the moral point of view from which we discern what is just but also fails to capture the specificity of democracy which is given by internal relations between politics and law. This deprives Rawls’s political philosophy of the conceptual tools needed to articulate the normative foundation of democracy.

Оксана Кукуруз, Взаимодействие политики и права в процессе общественной трансформации в Украине и Республике Польша

2021 ◽  
pp. 158-162
Author(s):  
Ivanna Kyliushyk
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
Book Research ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Common Goal ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Effective Development ◽  
Politics And Law

The author of the book research the interaction of politics and law as two important social regulators that have a common goal the effective development of society. The author defines the real models of interaction between politics and law, which have formed in Ukraine and the Republic of Poland in the process of social transformation, and the creation of an appropriate model, which should be based on the goal of ensuring the public interest.

The Angels

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Schäfer
Keyword(s):  
Great Care ◽  
Creation Story ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Mount Sinai

This chapter examines rabbinic attitudes toward the angels. Enoch-Metatron, being transformed into the highest of all angels and becoming a divine figure next to God, stands at the extreme (Babylonian) end of a much larger spectrum of rabbinic attitudes toward the angels. Earlier Palestinian sources were vehemently opposed to any such possibility of the angels being granted a role transcending their traditional task of praising God and acting as his messengers. This is particularly true for the creation story and the revelation of the Torah on Mount Sinai. With regard to the former, the rabbis set great store in pointing out that the angels were not created on the first day of creation—to make sure that nobody should arrive at the dangerous idea that these angels participated in the act of creation. Similarly, the rabbis took great care in not granting the angels too active a role during the revelation of the Torah on Mount Sinai.

Beginning and End: Exploring the Qur͗anic ‘Grand Story’

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Mahmoud
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Form ◽  
Conceptual Scheme ◽  
Creation Story ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Human Attributes

This chapter discusses the Qur'anic ‘grand story’, which refers to the underlying, basic conceptual scheme that informs Qur'anic stories and bestows meaning and coherence on them. Ths basic conceptual scheme is predicated on a relationship between humankind and God that leads to either salvation or damnation. In expressing this relationship, the Qur'anic narrative form turns God into a person with a dramatic presence and human attributes. The chapter reflects on the beginnings as expressed by the creation story and on the eschatological future. It cites the cosmic beginning as the seed of the Qur'anic grand story; this beginning is a preparation of the physical stage for the climactic moment of the human beginning when God creates Adam. It also explains how the creation story and the specificity of the ‘Adamic beginning’ relate to the grand story.

The bounds of identity: the Goldsmid mission and the delineation of the Perso–Afghan border in the nineteenth century

2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. D. Hopkins
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
International Order ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Boundary Disputes ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Territorial Boundaries ◽  
Political Communities ◽  
Territorial States

AbstractThis article examines boundary disputes between Qajar Persia and the emerging state of Afghanistan in the nineteenth century. It argues that disputes between these two Islamic polities were central to the creation of modern states through the territorialization of political identity, in the form of border delineation. The demarcation of territorial boundaries represented the ‘indigenization’ of Western norms of statehood. Indigenous political actors increasingly understood and envisaged their political communities in terms of territorial states, reinterpreting and redeploying European political concepts in indigenous spaces. The Perso-Afghan case exemplifies the assimilation of ideas of political territoriality, central to the construction of a modern state-based international order, in Muslim regions outside direct colonial control.

scholarly journals Reductionism at the vertebrate kinetochore

2012 ◽  
Vol 200 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Stankovic ◽  
Lars E.T. Jansen
Keyword(s):  
Chromosome Segregation ◽  
Protein Interactions ◽  
Mitotic Spindle ◽  
De Novo ◽  
Large Structure ◽  
Cell Biol ◽  
Spindle Microtubules ◽  
The Creation

The kinetochore forms the site of attachment for mitotic spindle microtubules driving chromosome segregation. The interdependent protein interactions in this large structure have made it difficult to dissect the function of its components. In this issue, Hori et al. (2013. J. Cell Biol. http://dx.doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201210106) present a novel and powerful methodology to address the sufficiency of individual proteins for the creation of a functional de novo centromere.

The Chamorro Creation Story, Guam Land Struggles, and Contemporary Poetry

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-20
Author(s):  
Craig Santos Perez
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Contemporary Poetry ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
Related Issue ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
Creation Story ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Western Pacific

Abstract This essay focuses on the creation story of the Indigenous Chamorro people from the western Pacific Island of Guam. The essay presents and analyzes the deeper meaning of the story of Puntan and Fu’una as they birth the island of Guam and the Chamorro people. Moreover, it maps the history of Catholic missionization that displaced and replaced the Chamorro creation story. The essay covers the related issue of how colonization removed Chamorros from their ancestral lands and appropriated these lands for imperial, military, tourism, and urban development. Then it highlights the decades-long struggle of Chamorro activists to reclaim the land. Lastly, it turns to contemporary Chamorro poetry to illustrate how authors have revitalized and retold the story of Puntan and Fu’una to critique and protest the degradation of Chamorro lands and to advocate for the protection and return of the land.

scholarly journals SECRETS OF CREATION IN 2 (SLAVONIC) ENOCH

Scrinium ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 432-450
Author(s):  
Andrei A. Orlov
Keyword(s):  
Creation Story ◽  
Esoteric Knowledge ◽  
The Creation

The article explores the theme of the secrets of creation in 2 Enoch. The Slavonic pseudepigraphon appears to contain a systematic tendency of treating the story of creation as containing the most esoteric knowledge. Even though 2 Enoch deals with various meterological, astronomical, and cosmological re-velations, it specifically emphasizes the «secrecy» of the account of creation. 2 Enoch s emphasis on the «secrecy» of the creation story demonstrates an in-triguing parallel to the later rabbinic approach to as esoteric knowledge. 2 Enoch, therefore, can be seen as an important step in the shaping of the later rabbinic understanding of «secret things», which eventually led to the esoterism of the Account of Creation.

scholarly journals Poland's Reason of State in the Creation of a New International Order. Foreign Policy as Poland's Reason of State in the 21st Century

2021 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Piotr Lewandowski ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
21St Century ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Order ◽  
International Environment ◽  
Reason Of State ◽  
The Creation

The article analyzes the Polish reason of state in changing international order understood as the loss of hegemon position by the United States. The author defines the reason of state as an analytical operant and relates it to the security and sovereignty of a state in the international environment. The text also outlines possibilities of development of Poland's reason of state in the region and global geopolitics.

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