Time Out of Mind: Anthropological Reflections on Temporality

KronoScope ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-137
Author(s):  
Robin Fox
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Basic Feature ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
Human History ◽  
Time Out

AbstractOur conception of historical time is biased towards the present and the immediate. We relegate ninety-nine percent of human history to 'pre-history.'This temporal obsession with the present emerged, along with consciousness, in social systems inherently cyclical. Kinship systems evolved from those with alternating generation terms through those with linear terms. Conceptions of time likewise altered from the cyclical to the linear.Time eventually came to be seen as progressive and cumulative. Theories of historical time however remain stubbornly cyclical, biased towards the post-Neolithic, and determined to set limits to time. This hierarchy of preferences in temporal thinking seems a basic feature of human nature.

scholarly journals The researching of diagnostic’s systems area as the reflection-ontological basis of cognition

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 10-14
Author(s):  
Elena N. Pesotskaya ◽  
Vera I. Inchina ◽  
Mikhail V. Zorkin ◽  
Svetlana V. Aksenova
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Cognitive Model ◽  
Diagnostic System ◽  
Basic Component ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Diagnostic Systems ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Nature And Society

The concept of a diagnostic system is defined as a basic component of diagnostics, which is a multivariate knowledge of features of personality reflection. Multi-level of communications in the field of diphase procedural interaction of the formed diagnostic systems is proposed to be practically investigated on the basis of a synergistic cognitive model. In the structure of the diagnostic system itself, the phases of procedural interaction are distinguished, where the first one passes before diagnosis and outside its value-reflexive processes, forming against the background of a specific society and system of its medicine as a whole. The second phase involves the activities of a specific professional. The openness of this integrity stems from the phenomenal characteristics of the nature of social systems, the inclusion of individuals and their synergy. The significance of the parametric aspect of communication in complex intersubjective interactions, including network interactions, which influence the transformation of both human nature and society by the type of mutual determination of any nonlinear actions inherent in them initially, is shown.

scholarly journals Исторический процесс в свете христианской антропологии Ф. М. Достоевского

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (18) ◽  
Author(s):  
Boris Nikolaievitch Tarassov
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Field Of View ◽  
Christian Realism ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Moral World ◽  
The Law ◽  
The One

Based on the fundamental concepts of the "mystery of man" and Christian realism, the "law of the Ego" and the "law of love" for Dostoevsky's creative consciousness, the article examines the one-sidedness of biologizing and socializing concepts of human nature since the Enlightenment and their connection with entropic processes in the spiritual and moral world of people and declining trends in the course of history. It is shown how the spiritual laws of life, which are leaving the field of view of rationalistic and pragmatic consciousness, transform social-progressive design and planning, and introduce nihilistic elements into them. It is emphasized that the methodology of Christian realism is universal, that it connects the "mystery of man" with the mystery of history, and becomes one of the main principles for assessing the hierarchy of values in various ideological and social systems.

Coda

2018 ◽  
pp. 277-280
Author(s):  
Erika Lorraine Milam
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Ongoing Study ◽  
Human History ◽  
The Public ◽  
Brain Sciences ◽  
Mind And Brain ◽  
The Mind

This concluding chapter reflects on the lessons presented by this volume as a whole and considers the ongoing study into the origins of humanity in the post-1970s era. In the decades after, readers have not lost their passion for epic evolutionary dramas in which the entirety of human history unfolds before their eyes. Yet when students today respond to the question “What makes us human?” they are far more likely to invoke neurological facts than paleontological ones. The public battlefield over violence and cooperation has since shifted to new ground in the mind and brain sciences. Despite the apparent polarization of scientists writing about human nature into culture- and biology-oriented positions, the intellectual landscape defined by scientists working on the interaction between culture and biology has continued to flourish.

The Natural Roots of Religious Experience

1981 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 511-523
Author(s):  
W. Norris Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Religious Experience ◽  
Mystical Experience ◽  
Initial Endowment ◽  
Human History ◽  
Religious Context ◽  
Theological Controversy ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Present World

This paper is devoted to the task of exploring just what there is in man's nature which makes it possible for him to be open to religious experience, to be positively disposed to receive it. By ‘natural’ here I mean only that which all men are in fact endowed with when they enter this present world of human history before they enter into any particular religious context. Hence I am not going to get involved in the difficult theological controversy as to whether this initial endowment includes only what is due to human nature as a created nature or also some supernatural extra gift of God as orienting man in a special way towards himself in this existential historical order, which could have been otherwise. What he begins life with in the present historical order I shall call natural, whatever its origin.What I mean by ‘religious experience’ must be left somewhat vague, so as to include its many varieties. Let us describe it roughly as any direct existential awareness of the presence or activity of an ultimate, absolute, transcendent dimension of reality, especially the more intense forms of unitive awareness of this Transcendent which have traditionally been called ‘mystical experience’. Before beginning our exploration, let me stress that my purpose here is not to establish or validate that there is such a thing as authentic religious experience. I presuppose that as known or accepted from elsewhere, at least as a hypothesis for discussion.

Niebuhr on Human Nature

2020 ◽  
pp. 39-54
Author(s):  
Gregory J. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Human History ◽  
Will To Power ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Work First

This chapter focuses on Niebuhr’s views of human nature, the intellectual foundation on which his worldview is grounded. A dualistic view of human nature (a predisposition toward self-interest/evil, a potential for good) underlies all of his work. First is a discussion of the biblical conception of human nature which he embraced, starting with the notion of pride (which he viewed as the root of all human folly), which leads to insecurity (the consequence of pride), which results in will-to-power (a flawed attempt to address insecurity), from which, for Niebuhr, flow all the conflicts and wars in human history. The discussion then moves to the classical and modern conceptions of human nature, which Niebuhr ultimately rejected. In Niebuhr’s view, all of this leads to the inability of science, law, institutions, education, and rationality (among other things) to tame human nature and eradicate evil and/or ultimately conflict.

scholarly journals Forest Wood through the Eyes of a Cultural Conservator

Forests ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 1001
Author(s):  
Angeliki Zisi
Keyword(s):  
Time Span ◽  
Human Intervention ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
Human History ◽  
Past Time ◽  
The Past ◽  
Degradation Processes ◽  
Human Creativity ◽  
Natural Degradation

If prehistoric and historical time were placed into the time span of the existence of our universe, then the act of archaeology could be defined as the act of digging up what was only buried yesterday. So, conservation is about preserving a moment that has just become past time, yet significant. It is a moment of human creativity and ingenuity. It is not strange that forest wood has become the material to convey such moments. Forest wood is a living, everlasting source growing without human intervention, within reach, easy to use and shape thinking both great and small. It does not have to be a wooden ship; it can be a mere piece of charcoal. For it is what surrounded humans in the past which archaeologists seek and use to weave human history, and what conservators bring back to context by reviving it. This work presents forest wood as an artefact and its preservation challenges as such. It touches on its natural degradation processes through burial, compromised properties and eventual conservation. Both dry and waterlogged wood are included. The overarching aim of this paper is to pay tribute, preserve and inspire the long-standing, open dialog and fruitful collaboration between cultural conservators and forest and wood scientists.

scholarly journals Legal thinking in the context of linear and cyclical politogenesis

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 15-22
Author(s):  
Roman Anatolevich Romashov
Keyword(s):  
Legal Status ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Wave Theory ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
Legal Thinking ◽  
The Will ◽  
Historical Cycles ◽  
Measurement And Evaluation ◽  
Definition Of

On the basis of a refined definition of legal thinking, its features are determined in relation to socio-historical time and national culture. It is proposed to perceive this phenomenon as a specific mental process of modeling laws of law-making and law-realization activities carried out within the framework of national and international legal cultures and based on axiomatic factors characteristic of these cultures. The specificity of perception of political genesis within a linear and cyclical history is shown. The ratio of circular and spiral development cycles is considered, with emphasis on the wave theory of social development of E. Toffler. Based on the provisions of this theory, a hypothesis of pluralistic multicultural legal thinking is constructed, which presupposes an equal, free dialogue between representatives of various social systems that coexist in modern times, but are in dichronic sociohistorical times. Being capable of moving from one social system to another, carriers of various types of legal thinking, thereby demonstrating their ability to travel not only in space, but also in socio-historical time, adaptation to which occurs in relative independence from the will of states, as well as from national traditions. Analyzed structural and substantive features of legal thinking in the context of changing socio-historical cycles (waves). It is noted that linear and cyclical legal thinking cannot exist in isolation from each other. However, representing different perspectives of the perception of legal reality, the models in question act as parallel planes, each of which sets its own parameters of perception, measurement, and evaluation of the state and law. The modern world, having ceased to be bipolar, is becoming multicultural. At the same time, the recognition of a person, his rights and freedoms as a universal global legal value means that any person, regardless of his social and legal status, is a valuable legal phenomenon a subject of law.

scholarly journals The concept of violence in political thought (Theoretical study, compared with the concept of terrorism)

2019 ◽  
pp. 227-244
Author(s):  
م.د.ناهدة محمد زبون
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Theoretical Study ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human History ◽  
Cain And Abel ◽  
History Of ◽  
Forms Of Violence ◽  
States History

The researcher of human history finds that the first social relations on earth were represented by the violence of Adam, peace be upon him, Cain and Abel. Violence has been a phenomenon of life and society. The history of history is full of all forms of violence and its forms. It speaks of cruelty, oppression and states. History began, in some of its chapters, written with the blood of the victims. It is a testimony to the cruelty of human beings. His human nature and his sin have played a major role that can not be overlooked in the development of important and fundamental developments in some historical turning points where violence was a necessity for life, and its launching change, renewal and reform, and major revolutions in human history are proof of

Revealing the invisible: The virus is looking at you

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-87
Author(s):  
Garry Barker
Keyword(s):  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
Human History ◽  
Greek Orthodox ◽  
Demonic Possession ◽  
Robert Hooke ◽  
The Core ◽  
Information Leaflets ◽  
Greek Orthodox Church ◽  
The Invisible

At the core of the various messages that have been sent out about the Coronavirus is how to deal with an invisible threat. Revealing the invisible is however an ancient issue, one that goes back thousands of years and reoccurs throughout human history. This article is an exploration of the complex interrelationship between several long-standing visual tropes that over historical time have emerged from various cultures in response to a need to communicate invisible forces. Beginning with reflections on the poster for the International Hygiene Exhibition of 1911 held in Dresden, linking in images of an Egyptian sun god, via extramission theory and thoughts about the first drawings done through a handheld, lens-focused microscope by Robert Hooke, a series of links and interconnections are made that explore how the invisible has been represented and how the invisible virus can be read as a type of ‘dark star’ or anti-sun. Christian traditions of the use of unnatural colour to signify both invisible power and demonic possession and the way the Coronavirus has itself been depicted are compared to historical visual tropes such as the aureola and the mandorla as used in the Greek Orthodox Church to depict sacred moments that transcend time and space. From Buddhist and Christian uses of halos via images of sea-mines, a complex series of interconnections are revealed that are now being tapped into by Government-sanctioned information leaflets relating to the Coronavirus outbreak.

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