scholarly journals X. On the nature of death

1834 ◽  
Vol 124 ◽  
pp. 167-198 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Reasoning ◽  
Living Animal ◽  
Experimental Science ◽  
Animal Body ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Mental Operations ◽  
The Veil ◽  
Source Of Information

I need hardly say, that in such a communication as the present, I have no inten­tion of entering into the part of the subject of this paper which may justly be termed metaphysical. The veil which separates it from experimental science must ever remain impenetrable, there being no source of information respecting it, but a direct revelation from the great Author of our being, or the instincts he has implanted in our nature, for all knowledge is not acquired. We come into the world with knowledge essential to our existence. The infant knows as well how to breathe and how to suck as the adult, and these acts depend as much on mental operations as those which are the results of experience. He perceives his wants, and he knows how to relieve them; and the extent to which this species of knowledge exists in some animals, whose rea­soning powers are extremely limited, justly excites our wonder and admiration. They know what is essential to their condition with an accuracy which sets at defiance all the efforts of human reasoning, for their knowledge is the knowledge of their Creator. To the physiological part of the subject alone I wish to direct the attention of the Society. It forms part of the same subject with the three last papers I had the honour to present to it, published in the Philosophical Transactions for 1831 and 1833; namely, the relation which the different powers of the living animal body bear to each other. In these papers I endeavoured to trace the nature of their influence on each other while their state of vigour remains; in the following paper I shall attempt to point out the manner in which they influence each other in their state of decay.

scholarly journals Türk ve İslam Eserleri Müzesi

2021 ◽  
pp. 339-336
Author(s):  
Zeynep Atbaş
Keyword(s):  
Islamic Art ◽  
Book Illustration ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Veil ◽  
The One

"Ottoman sultans showed a great interest in books; on the one hand, they had their palace workshops prepare manuscripts ornamented with unique illustrations and illuminations; on the other hand, they collected books created in other locations of the Islamic world through various means, such as, gifting, looting, and purchasing. The subject of this article involves the artistic manuscripts from the Ilkhanid era that entered the Topkapı Palace Treasury. Most manuscripts in the Topkapı Palace Library consist of copies and sections (juz’) of the Koran. With their illumination and binding, these large-format books designed by the skillful illuminators and bookbinders of the Ilkhanid era are early fourteenth-century masterpieces of Islamic art of the book. Among these are Koran sections prepared for the famous Ilkhanid ruler, Sultan Uljaytu Khodabanda, and the renowned vizier, Rashid al-Din. Some examples were written by the most illustrious Islamic calligraphers, Yaqut al-Musta’simi and Arghun Kamili, illuminated by the famous artist of the era who worked in Baghdad, Muhammad b. Aybak b. Abdallah, and bound by bookbinder Abd al-Rahman. The Ilkhanid era was also a time when fascinating and important manuscripts were prepared in terms of book illustration. Two of the three Mongol-era manuscripts in the Topkapı Palace collection are copies of the Jami’at-Tawarikh—a general history of the world prepared by a commission led by the vizier Rashid al-Din under the order of the Ilkhanid ruler Ghazan Khan— while the third is a copy of the Garshaspnama. In addition, some paintings that appear in one of the palace albums belong to a volume of the Jami’at-Tawarikh on the history of Mongol khans, which has not survived. The significant and unique paintings of the Ilkhanid era are the Miʿrajnama paintings made by Ahmed Musa featured in the album prepared for Bahram Mirza, the brother of the Safavid sultan, Shah Tahmasp. The preface of the album written by Dust Muhammad refers to the famous painter Ahmed Musa, who lived in the era of the Ilkhanid ruler Abu Said, to have “removed the veil from the face of painting and invented the painting that was popular in that era.” In addition, the author states that he illustrated a Miʿrajnama. However, only the eight album pages with miʿraj images have survived this work. Through their bindings, illuminations, calligraphy, and illustrations, Ilkhanid era manuscripts from the Topkapı Palace constitute a vital collection that demonstrates the advanced level reached by the arts of the book during this era. "

scholarly journals Hunting in Extremadura—Profiles of the Hunter on the Basis of His Movements

Resources ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
Luz-María Martín-Delgado ◽  
Juan-Ignacio Rengifo-Gallego ◽  
José-Manuel Sánchez-Martín
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Techniques ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
Hunting Season ◽  
Irregular Distribution ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
One Year ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Source Of Information

Hunters make a large number of trips during the hunting season all over the world due to the irregular distribution of hunting species. The proliferation of this kind of travel gives rise to the origin of a new kind of specific tourism, i.e., hunting tourism. Currently, the economic magnitude of this kind of travel has led to carrying out numerous studies on the subject. It has, however, been observed that most of them concentrate on the economic and environmental aspects of this activity and neglect a parameter as important as demand. Becoming familiar with the characteristics of the hunting traveller allows more appropriate management of this kind of tourism. It is for this reason that this study approaches the various profiles of hunting travellers residing in Extremadura and determines the most important characteristics of their movements. The main source of information for this research is the results obtained from distributing a questionnaire during a period of one year. These data have been processed by univariate and bivariate statistical techniques, which allow us to obtain groundbreaking results. These include, in particular, the considerable mobility of the hunter resident in Extremadura, who makes a large number of trips in order to hunt during the season, and the relationship between the number of days hunters travel, according to their income.

Protean

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roald Hoffmann ◽  
Pierre Laszlo
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Noble Gas ◽  
Membered Ring ◽  
Francis Bacon ◽  
Experimental Science ◽  
Greek Myth ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Way

Science often advances upon willful transgression of a seeming interdiction. Examples which leap to a chemist’s mind are noble gas compounds, strained hydrocarbons such as tetrahedranes, activation (by organometallics) of even methane, and, to mention just one brilliant, more recent achievement, inclusion of an allene within the confines of a six-membered ring while preventing its conversion into a benzenoid. Such feats put all the cunning of a scientist into coaxing and, yes, coercing the system at hand to obey instructions from one’s daring imagination. As always, it is hard. Not for nothing is our playroom called a laboratory. And when the task is done and the time arrives to convey to others (who might not be privy to the anguish of the work) all that struggle and the majesty of the achievement, the scientist quite naturally lapses into metaphor. One such, founded in male 19th century language as much as in history, is some more or less prurient variant of “Unveiling the Secrets of Nature.” Another, evoking the thorny, twisted path to understanding and the long hours of toil in the laboratory, is “Wrestling with Nature.” The latter metaphor has been central to experimental science at least since the Elizabethan Age, and is the subject of this small essay. While the roots of the metaphor lie in Greek myth, it makes a striking debut in a seminal brief for experiment in science. This arresting phrase also marks a bifurcation in the way science is viewed by nonscientists, even—and especially so—in our day. The proof text here is that of Francis Bacon (1561–1626), in his 1605 Of the Advancement of Learning. Bacon writes: . . . For like a man’s disposition is never well known till he be crossed, nor Proteus ever changed shapes till he was straitened and held fast; so the passages and variations of nature cannot appear so fully in the liberty of nature, as in the trials and vexations of art. . . . He repeats the imagery in his remarkable 1620 Novum Organum. Bacon’s 1620 book was a clarion call to replace what passed as Aristotelian reasoning about the world with experiment.

scholarly journals Róża bez kolców Zofii Urbanowskiej — między „reklamą” a idealizacją Tatr

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 193-207
Author(s):  
Jolanta Ługowska
Keyword(s):  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Natural Images ◽  
Civic Duty ◽  
Real People ◽  
The World ◽  
Unique Model ◽  
Symbolic Meanings ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Source Of Information

Zofia Urbanowska’s Róża bez kolców [Rose Without Thorns] planned and written by the author as a “fictionalised encyclopaedia of the Tatras” is a valuable source of information, which had its roots both in the Urbanowska’s own experiences associated with her visits to Zakopane filled with field studies, as it were, and meticulous note-taking, and in the literature on the subject, particularly Stanisław Witkiewicz’s Na przełęczy. It is possible to distinguish two levels of meanings in the image of the Tatras created by the author, meanings highlighted primarily in the dialogues of the protagonists, both fictional, belonging to the world presented in Róża bez kolców, and those modelled on real people (Witkiewicz, Matlakowski and others). The first of these levels of meanings is associated with an idea — journalistic in its origin — of popularising the Tatras and highland folklore, an idea defined as a “civic duty” leading, as it turns out in Urbanowska’s novel, to a kind of publicity for the (highest and most beautiful) Polish mountains. The second level is associated with a unique model — firmly established in the literary tradition — of “reading” the Tatra landscape with the help of the language of culture, for example by looking for similarities between natural objects and works of art, or in the writer’s attempts to interpret the symbolic meanings of natural images.

scholarly journals Praca i przedsiębiorczość w świetle wybranych encyklik Jana Pawła II

2006 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 164-184
Author(s):  
Tomasz Tadeusz Brzozowski
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Pope John Paul Ii ◽  
Scientific Authority ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
God's Love ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Source Of Information

As we read in their introductions, papal encyclicals are documents aimed at not only the clergy, but all the faithful of Catholic Church as well as at people of goodwill. All the more, should the thoughts handed down by St Peter's successors be not only the source of information but most of all the material for in-depth analysis or commitment. It strangely happens that the nation declaring in majority its affiliation to Catholic Church, the nation being so fortunate by giving the world this great witness of God's love to man, shows hardly any interest in his teachings. We prefer to remember the Pope John Paul II as the moral and scientific authority, not knowing exactly what hidden massages are implicit in these notions, as well as worship him on posters and T-shirts. In an international competition concerning John Paul II.s teaching, it could turn out that his countrymen know very little of what he had to tell us.  The author of the article wishes to draw readers' attention to some key elements of papal teaching, among which  the  focal points are  subjective . personal  role of man  in  the world, transcendental dimension of human being, personalistic perspective of man with his relation to work and  the  status of  the  latter, as well as  its  significance  in man´s development. Tomasz Tadeusz Brzozowski has made these issues the subject of his analysis, which has been detailed and deepened by relating them to John Paul II's teaching expressed in his social encyclical, also provided with the author's commentary. If the content of this article influences at least to a small extent a bit deeper reception of papal teachings, it will accomplish its aim filling its author with satisfaction.

Alignment

2016 ◽  
pp. 33-50
Author(s):  
Pier Giuseppe Rossi
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Enactive Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
Strategic Role ◽  
Education Today ◽  
Current Context ◽  
The Subject

The subject of alignment is not new to the world of education. Today however, it has come to mean different things and to have a heuristic value in education according to research in different areas, not least for neuroscience, and to attention to skills and to the alternation framework.This paper, after looking at the classic references that already attributed an important role to alignment in education processes, looks at the strategic role of alignment in the current context, outlining the shared construction processes and focusing on some of the ways in which this is put into effect.Alignment is part of a participatory, enactive approach that gives a central role to the interaction between teaching and learning, avoiding the limits of behaviourism, which has a greater bias towards teaching, and cognitivism/constructivism, which focus their attention on learning and in any case, on that which separates a teacher preparing the environment and a student working in it.

Jalan Kesempurnaan Menurut Jamaah Insan Al-Kamil di Cijati Desa Cikareo Selatan Sumedang

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-37
Author(s):  
Syarifudin Syarifudin
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Religious Sect ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

Each religious sect has its own characteristics, whether fundamental, radical, or religious. One of them is Insan Al-Kamil Congregation, which is in Cijati, South Cikareo Village, Wado District, Sumedang Regency. This congregation is Sufism with the concept of self-purification as the subject of its teachings. So, the purpose of this study is to reveal how the origin of Insan Al-Kamil Congregation, the concept of its purification, and the procedures of achieving its purification. This research uses a descriptive qualitative method with a normative theological approach as the blade of analysis. In addition, the data generated is the result of observation, interviews, and document studies. From the collected data, Jamaah Insan Al-Kamil adheres to the core teachings of Islam and is the tenth regeneration of Islam Teachings, which refers to the Prophet Muhammad SAW. According to this congregation, self-perfection becomes an obligation that must be achieved by human beings in order to remember Allah when life is done. The process of self-purification is done when human beings still live in the world by knowing His God. Therefore, the peak of self-purification is called Insan Kamil. 

FAMILY TRADITIONS: REFLECTION OF SOME FAMILY TRADITIONS IN THE LINGUISTIC PICTURE OF THE WORLD (ON THE BASIS OF ENGLISH AND UZBEK PROVERBS AND IDIOMS)

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 49-56
Author(s):  
Feruza Mamatova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Communication ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication ◽  
The World ◽  
Marriage Partner ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Subject

The present paper aims to compare the principles of choosing a marriage partner and analyse the status of being in the marrriage in the frame of family traditions that are totally inherent to the both of the nations: English and Uzbek. It is known that interconnection and cross-cultural communication between the countries of these two nationalities have been recently developed. The purpose to give an idea about these types of family traditions and prevent any misunderstanding that might occur in the communications makes our investigation topical one. The research used phraseological units as an object and the marriage aspects as the subject

De-Finition

2019 ◽  
Vol 95 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-245
Author(s):  
Erik Ode
Keyword(s):  
Educational Research ◽  
The Other ◽  
Political Perspective ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Scientific Terms

Abstract De-Finition. Poststructuralist Objections to the Limitation of the Other The metaphysic tradition always tried to structure the world by definitions and scientific terms. Since poststructuralist authors like Derrida, Foucault and Deleuze have claimed the ›death of the subject‹ educational research cannot ignore the critical objections to its own methods. Definitions and identifications may be a violation of the other’s right to stay different and undefined. This article tries to discuss the scientific limitations of the other in a pedagogical, ethical and political perspective.

Bahá’u’lláh’s Influence on the New York School of Painting: The “Unapprehended Inspiration” of Newman and Rothko

1991 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-89
Author(s):  
Ross Woodman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Divine Revelation ◽  
New York School ◽  
The World ◽  
Mark Rothko ◽  
The Veil ◽  
The City

As members of the New York School of painters, Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko announced not only the passing away of an entire creation but also the bringing forth of a new one. Though unaware that they were living and painting in the City of the Covenant whose light would one day rise from darkness and decay to envelop the world even as their painting of light consciously arose from the void of a blank canvas, Newman’s and Rothko’s work may nevertheless be best understood as a powerful first evidence of what Bahá’u’lláh called “the rising Orb of Divine Revelation, from behind the veil of concealment.” Their work may yet find its true spiritual location in the spiritual city founded by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá on his visit to New York in 1912.

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