Humanism and Humanistic Education in the Eighties: The Lessons of Two Decades

1980 ◽  
Vol 162 (3) ◽  
pp. 5-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Nash
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Productive Efficiency ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Humanistic Education ◽  
Knowledge And Attitudes ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Organizational Competence

The decades of the sixties, seventies, and eighties are analyzed as representing the thesis, antithesis, and synthesis of the humanistic dialectic. The sixties represented the decade of independence, affluence, hedonism, dissent, tolerance and non-interference, permissiveness, self-expression, self-actualization, and individualism. The seventies epitomized the advent of dependence, scarcity, anxiety, competitiveness, Puritanism, patriotism, hierarchy, cognition, productive efficiency, and obedience. The lesson of the sixties and seventies is that humanism and humanistic education in the eighties must help us to move from the idea of the isolated self to that of the social, independent, synergetic self. The skills, knowledge, and attitudes of collaboration, mutual creativity, conflict resolution, communication, political sensitivity, and organizational competence will have to become paramount if humanism, humanistic education, and human beings are to flourish in the last decades of the twentieth century.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 3-5
Author(s):  
J. Pierre Loebel ◽  
Julian Savulescu
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Treatment Plan ◽  
Venn Diagram ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Social ◽  
Growing Body

This introductory chapter discusses the lack of a unifying theory in psychiatry. No generally accepted theory of mental illness exists, in part because there is little agreement on what the concepts ‘mental’ and ‘illness’ entail. Lacking such a theory, the profession has experienced internal divisiveness, uncertainty among applicants for training, and attacks from outside. Since the decline of nineteenth- and twentieth-century paradigms such as psychoanalysis and behaviourism, psychiatrists have been in search of one that acknowledges what is universally recognized, that is, that human beings function in a nexus comprising the psyche, the soma, and the social surround, and that each domain requires consideration when drawing up a psychiatric formulation and treatment plan. Thus, the biopsychosocial (BPS) paradigm proposed by George L. Engel in 1977 was adopted without much enquiry into details. This book presents a nascent, stronger version of the concept based on a growing body of genetic, epigenetic, and other evidence that encompasses a central, overlapping component to the Venn diagram description of the BPS conceptualization.

scholarly journals al-Farāfīr

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alba Rosa Suriano
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Political Condition ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
The Spectator ◽  
Poor Management

Based on the Hegelian dialectic of the servant-master, this comedy represents, with the sarcasm and irony typical of its author, a profound reflection on the relationships between human beings. Starting from the local, with a pungent criticism on the social and political condition of Egypt in the Sixties, the two protagonists Farfūr and the Master guide and involve the spectator in a consideration on humanity and on the meaning of life that reaches universality. Divided into two acts, the comedy has no precise indications about time and space, which is confused with the time of representation, also thanks to the involvement of actors who are among the spectators. Discussing each other on names, trades and interpersonal relationships, the two protagonists criticise corruption, poor management of public health, social inequalities, but also the intellectual class that fails to give answers to people’s practical needs. The division in two of human society is even more evident with the second act, when the author’s reflection moves towards the existing organisational and economic systems, dismantling the complexity and reducing them again to a mere servant-master relationship. The other characters of the play are functional to the discourse of Idrīs: wives and children, spectators-actors and especially the figure of the author, who gradually disappears and abandons his own creatures to their fate.

scholarly journals SOCIAL BEHAVIOR OF BRAZILIAN ORGANIZATIONS: AN ANALYSIS OF ISOMORPHISM MECHANISM

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 102
Author(s):  
Adelaide Maria Bogo ◽  
Alan Christian Schmitt ◽  
Elisa Henning ◽  
Margarete L.A. Menegotto
Keyword(s):  
Social Behavior ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
The Social ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Basic Human Needs ◽  
Sustainability Reports ◽  
Mimetic Isomorphism

Human's behavior is determined by variables that are commonly understood as needs and motives and, in general, it is motivated by a desire to achieve some goal. According to Maslow, these needs are construct on a hierarchy composed of five groups - physiological, safety, love/belonging, esteem and self-actualization. In order to fulfill these needs, organizations have social behavior to address the issues of human beings, individually or collectively way. Therefore, identifying the types of actions performed and then analyzing them in the context of basic human needs, will allow us to understand isomorphic features in the social behavior of these organizations. In this sense, this study aims to analyze the social behavior of Brazilian organizations and the existence of isomorphism in these practices. The sample consists of companies listed on the ISE-BOVESPA stock market and the data were collect in the Sustainability Reports. The methodology utilize Content Analysis technique to define the categories and descriptive statistics to understand the isomorphic behavior. The findings indicate a concentration of actions on the need for ‘Safety’ and the existence of coercive and normative isomorphism in social activities for internal audiences and mimetic isomorphism in actions aimed at external audiences.

La mobilitŕ spaziale di entitŕ tangibili nella societŕ globale

2009 ◽  
pp. 41-64
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Scidŕ
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Evolutionary Process ◽  
Cultural Adjustment ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Communication Structure ◽  
Sharp Drop ◽  
Global Society ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Sixties

- The spatial mobility of tangible entities in a global society, The paper handles some tangible consequences of the mobiletic revolution, as a necessary but not exhaustive catalyst of the evolutionary process of globalization whose effects have deep repercussions on the social, economic and territorial organization of the social system both at a national and an international level. For the social scientists coining the formula "mobiletic revolution" by the middle of the Sixties, the overall results seem to be expressed by a new global society benefiting a sharp drop of space friction. Today, the related consequences of it find their evidence in the people, goods and information mobility, respectively through public and private networks, through the transport system and finally through the communication structure development. In turn, such changes produce a number of interactions and synergies caused by the growth of each of the three mobility carriers, which gradually brought the human beings to an ambiguous cultural adjustment as regards the new shaped space-time dimensions. Key words: mobiletic revolution, social change, social relations, mobility carriers.

At the Name of Jesus

2019 ◽  
pp. 149-186
Author(s):  
George Pattison
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Spiritual Life ◽  
Fundamental Importance ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Core ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The Social ◽  
Everyday World ◽  
Pavel Florensky ◽  
God's Call

In this chapter the focus turns from God’s call to human beings to human beings calling upon God in prayer. This is especially exemplified in the practice of hesychasm or calling on the name of Jesus. This practice stimulated a series of philosophical and theological approaches to language among early twentieth century Russian thinkers: Pavel Florensky, Sergius Bulgakov, A. S. Losev, and Gustav Shpet. Despite significant differences these converge on the fundamental importance of the personal name as the core of human beings’ capacity for language. These thinkers also share an emphasis on the social concreteness of language, a focus further developed in Bakhtin’s dialogism. Bakhtin shows how the prosaic everyday world can become a milieu in which to seek and express authentic personal being and therewith a spiritual life in the condition of secularity.

Addressing the Social Determinants of Health

2019 ◽  
Vol 101 (4) ◽  
pp. 357-395 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saty Satya-Murti ◽  
Jennifer Gutierrez
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Social Determinants Of Health ◽  
Social Determinants ◽  
Social Activism ◽  
Determinants Of Health ◽  
Medical Attention ◽  
Community Center ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The Social

The Los Angeles Plaza Community Center (PCC), an early twentieth-century Los Angeles community center and clinic, published El Mexicano, a quarterly newsletter, from 1913 to 1925. The newsletter’s reports reveal how the PCC combined walk-in medical visits with broader efforts to address the overall wellness of its attendees. Available records, some with occasional clinical details, reveal the general spectrum of illnesses treated over a twelve-year span. Placed in today’s context, the medical care given at this center was simple and minimal. The social support it provided, however, was multifaceted. The center’s caring extended beyond providing medical attention to helping with education, nutrition, employment, transportation, and moral support. Thus, the social determinants of health (SDH), a prominent concern of present-day public health, was a concept already realized and practiced by these early twentieth-century Los Angeles Plaza community leaders. Such practices, although not yet nominally identified as SDH, had their beginnings in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century social activism movement aiming to mitigate the social ills and inequities of emerging industrial nations. The PCC was one of the pioneers in this effort. Its concerns and successes in this area were sophisticated enough to be comparable to our current intentions and aspirations.

D?r al-?arb as the Motherland? The Muslim Tatars of (the Grand Duchy of) Lithuania and Social Contract

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-177
Author(s):  
Egdūnas Račius
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Contract ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Nation State ◽  
The Social ◽  
State And Society ◽  
Muslim Minority ◽  
Grand Duchy Of Lithuania ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
Grand Duchy

Muslim presence in Lithuania, though already addressed from many angles, has not hitherto been approached from either the perspective of the social contract theories or of the compliance with Muslim jurisprudence. The author argues that through choice of non-Muslim Grand Duchy of Lithuania as their adopted Motherland, Muslim Tatars effectively entered into a unique (yet, from the point of Hanafi fiqh, arguably Islamically valid) social contract with the non-Muslim state and society. The article follows the development of this social contract since its inception in the fourteenth century all the way into the nation-state of Lithuania that emerged in the beginning of the twentieth century and continues until the present. The epitome of the social contract under investigation is the official granting in 1995 to Muslim Tatars of a status of one of the nine traditional faiths in Lithuania with all the ensuing political, legal and social consequences for both the Muslim minority and the state.

The Samarin Family and the Parish Question in the Russian Empire. 1860s–1910s

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 235-246
Author(s):  
Alexey L. Beglov
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
Public Discussion ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Church Life ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
The Church ◽  
Do So

The article examines the contribution of the representatives of the Samarin family to the development of the Parish issue in the Russian Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The issue of expanding the rights of the laity in the sphere of parish self-government was one of the most debated problems of Church life in that period. The public discussion was initiated by D.F. Samarin (1827-1901). He formulated the “social concept” of the parish and parish reform, based on Slavophile views on society and the Church. In the beginning of the twentieth century his eldest son F.D. Samarin who was a member of the Special Council on the development the Orthodox parish project in 1907, and as such developed the Slavophile concept of the parish. In 1915, A.D. Samarin, who took up the position of the Chief Procurator of the Most Holy Synod, tried to make his contribution to the cause of the parish reforms, but he failed to do so due to his resignation.

Gandhian Method of Conflict Resolution: Perception of Educated Youths

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. P. K. Kar
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Image Of God ◽  
Integral Approach ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
The Image Of God ◽  
Negative Concept

Gandhiji’s method of conflict resolution was based on truth and non-violence. Truth was for him the image of God. He did not believe in personal God. For Gandhi truth is God and God is truth. Life is a laboratory where experiments are carried on. That is why he named his autobiography “My Experiment with Truth”, without these experiments truth cannot be achieved. According to Gandhi, the sayings of a pure soul which possesses nonviolence, non-stealing, true speech, celibacy and non-possession is truth. The truth of Gandhiji was not confined to any country or community. In other words , his religion had no geographical limits. His patriotism was not different from the service of human beings but was its part and parcel(Mishra:102). Gandhiji developed an integral approach and perspective to the concept of life itself on the basis of experience and experiments. His ideas ,which came to be known to be his philosophy, were a part of his relentless search for truth(Iyer:270). The realization of this truth is possible only with the help of non-violence The negative concept of Ahimsa presupposes the absence of selfishness, jealousy and anger, but the positive conception of ahimsa demands the qualities of love ,liberalism, patience, resistance of injustice, and brutal force.

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