Wealth, Poverty and Justice: The Relationship Between Traditional Understanding and Christian Teaching

1989 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Max T. Chigwida
Keyword(s):  
Christian Teaching ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Traditional Understanding

scholarly journals Kant’s Idea of Human Dignity: Between Tradition and Originality

Kant-Studien ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 106 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Bacin
Keyword(s):  
Human Dignity ◽  
Traditional View ◽  
Traditional Paradigm ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Traditional Understanding

Abstract:This paper focuses on the relationship between Kant and the traditional view of dignity. I argue that some amendments to Sensen’s description of the traditional paradigm enable us to see more clearly both where Kant adheres to the latter and where his view is original. First, a consideration of Pufendorf’s use of dignity suggests (1) that, contrary to Sensen’s reconstruction, the traditional paradigm does not entail a connection between dignity and duties to oneself, and (2) that Pufendorf’s understanding of dignity as a kind of esteem, as opposed to price, provides a crucial mediation between the traditional view and Kant’s view. Finally, I argue that the traditional understanding of dignity also includes a subordinate justificatory element that helps to explain Kant’s use of dignity in the

(Em)Powering the Constitution: Constitutionalism in a New Key

Global Jurist ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ming-Sung Kuo
Keyword(s):  
Political Power ◽  
Constitutional Rights ◽  
Multiple Functions ◽  
Limited Government ◽  
Constitutional State ◽  
Power Needs ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Traditional Understanding

The idea of limited government is the key to constitutionalism in the traditional understanding of the relationship between the constitution and political power. In contrast to the traditionalist view that the constitution is aimed to constrain political power, this essay aims to explore a new understanding of constitutionalism. By way of analyzing the multiple functions of the constitution and taking up the concept of “total constitution" associated with the growing horizontal effect of constitutional rights, this essay argues that the relationship between the constitution and political power needs to be recast on complementary rather than opposing terms. The aspiration to “total constitution" in the sense of a fulfilled constitutionalism is substantiated by the omnipotent constitutional state. Taking account of constitutional omnipotence, political power is instrumental rather than antagonistic to the normative implementation of constitutionalism. Recasting the constitution as an expression of political power is the key to a new understanding of constitutionalism.

6. The ‘Middle Ages’ of ‘others’

2014 ◽  
pp. 110-115
Author(s):  
Miri Rubin
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Christian Teaching ◽  
The People ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Middle Ages

‘The “Middle Ages” of “others”’ considers the people outside the Christian faith—Muslims, pagans, and Jews—to be found at the borders of Europe as well as within its midst. Christian teaching offered a message of hope through redemption, a path to salvation. Those outside the Christian body were destined to live in sin, existing as a menace to themselves and to others. The relationship between Jews and Christians is old and highly complex. Despite the close connections between their faiths through Hebrew texts, Jews were ostracized by Christians throughout this period. They faced forced conversion to Christianity, expulsion, or death.

scholarly journals A STUDY ON THE TIME METROPHOR AND THE ELIMINATED OF TIME: GULTEN IMAMOĞLU PAINTINGS

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (72) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Document Analysis ◽  
Eternal Return ◽  
Analysis Study ◽  
Culture Time ◽  
Sense Of Time ◽  
Qualitative Pattern ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Investigation Process ◽  
Traditional Understanding

With this study, it is aimed to reveal that Gülten İmamoğlu’s paintings have established a what kind of relationship with the concept of “time”, and created what kind of universe as a result of this relationship. This study is significant because of that it is an analysis that reveals the relationship which underlying of how a painter handles “time” in her paintings. This research performed as a case study in a qualitative pattern. This study is an existing analysis study by using document analysis and the technique of interview. The case studies base on the questions of “how” and “why” and enable to examine the depth of an event or event that the researcher cannot control. This research look for an answer “What is going on?” with a explicitive approach. Collected data was resolved with content analysis. The investigation process was carried out by the researcher. Traditional man; with the belief of “eternal return”, he repeats archetypes and myths throughout the ages and realizes the interest of non-religious time. The relevance of non-religious time has eliminated the temporality of time and a sense of “time” where everything is finite. This is prevented from drifting to a “nihilist” end of man. Humanity which adopted social and spiritual integrity is protected by a “time” insight through the ages. This approach enabled man to see himself as a part of the cosmos and positioned him in a coherent existence with cosmic rhythms. In Mircea Eliade's book “The Myth of the Eternal Return”, the concepts of “repeat”, “archetype” and “myth” are discussed. The thinker went for a comparison by putting forward the characteristics of the traditional understanding of “time” and the historical approach of “historic”, and made conclusions. It can be said that the idea of “time” reflected in the paintings of Imamoglu is fed from the same source with the understanding of “time” determined by Eliade in the “The Myth of the Eternal Return”. This work is an attempt to interpret the artist's paintings on this plane. It is suggested that the paintings of Gülten İmamoğlu should be handled in the context of the “chaos”, “orgy”, “dark” and “water” archetypes as well as their relationship with time. Keywords: Gülten İmamoğlu, Mircea Eliade, The Myth of the Eternal Return, the eliminated of time, archetype, myth, culture, time

scholarly journals To forsvar for teologien: trykkefrihet og teologiske tekstkulturer i svenske og danske tidsskrifter på slutten av 1700-tallet

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 161-182
Author(s):  
Merethe Roos
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Freedom Of The Press ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Religious Issues ◽  
Christian Teaching ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shed Light

Defending Theology: Freedom of the Press and Theological Textual Cultures in Swedish and Danish Periodicals at the Turn of the Eighteenth CenturyThis article examines the relationship between theology and freedom of the press in the periodicals Läsning i blandade ämnen (Stockholm 1797–1801) and Minerva (Copenhagen, 1785–1801). Sweden and Denmark were subject to different press regulations in the last decades of the eighteenth century, not least concerning theological issues. The editors of the periodicals in question sought to contribute to general enlightenment, and each of them published texts thematizing theological and religious issues. Through close reading of theological texts from these periodicals, the present study aims to demonstrate how the different press regulations in the two countries entailed a need for different presentations of Christian ideas during a period when dogmatic Christian teaching was challenged. This will in turn shed light on the role of these periodicals as far as public opinion regarding theology and theological themes in general is concerned.

scholarly journals ПОСТПЕДАГОГИЈА: РАЗВОЈ КОНЦЕПТА И НАЈЗНАЧАЈНИЈЕ ПОСТАВКЕ

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-49
Author(s):  
Јелена Петровић ◽  
Марија Ђорђевић
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Subject Position ◽  
Adults And Children ◽  
Traditional Pedagogy ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Traditional Understanding ◽  
Freedom And Responsibility

The intention of this paper was to perform a theoretical analysis of the concept of postpedagogy, theoretical and practical understandings of the representatives of postpedagogy, with an emphasis on the relationship between adults and children. Also, in the analysis, we tried to determine the post-pedagogical attitude towards the traditional understanding of the term “education”, as well as to touch on the relevance of this concept. Freedom and responsibility of the child, respect for the child and his subject position, but also self-love and authenticity - are the key goals and basis of the post-pedagogical conception. Post-pedagogical thinking implies a radical break with traditional pedagogy. According to postpedagogues, equal relations will be established only when adults renounce education and the belief that man, a child - homo educandus, is a being who needs education and where reason has a leading function. The postpedagogical understanding of the attitude towards the child is not a mere possibility that is accidentally talked about: it is a feature of the time in which we live and in which our children will still live. Postpedagogues call on modern society to reconsider its pedagogical values on which the relationship between adults and children is based.

scholarly journals Restorative justice and the relationship of perpetrator and victim of crime

Temida ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 131-144
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Bulatovic
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Restorative Justice ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
The Core ◽  
Social Reaction ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Traditional Understanding

Restorative justice as the theoretical foundation of social reaction to crime is one of the key themes of contemporary criminological discourse. The idea of crime as a conflict between perpetrator and victim of crime is included in the core ideas related to the concept of restorative justice, which differs from traditional understanding of crime as a relationship between the state and the individual. This change in perspective on crime points towards social reaction to crime that differs from traditional criminal justice system. As the restoration process of relationship damaged by crime is directly related to possibilities of participation in the very process, institutionalisation of that participation sets the scope of restorative process. In this article, the author points towards the traditional criminal justice and restorative justice processes, focusing the relationship of perpetrator and victim of crime and the process of conflict resolution. The aim of the article is to highlight the conflict perspective as a defining element of the relationship between offender and victim, and to underline the effectiveness of restorative justice as social reaction to crime, which contributes to optimisation of the relationship between the offender and the community.

scholarly journals The Problem of the “Other”: Where Is the Real “I”?

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 7472-7475
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Analysis ◽  
A Priori ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Real ◽  
Methodological Basis ◽  
The Social ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Traditional Understanding

The article deals with the study of the problem of “The Other” in the context of its influence on the formation and formation of “The I”. The methodological basis of the study is existentialism and psychoanalysis. The paper outlines the transition from the traditional understanding of the relationship “The I” - “The Other” to non-classical - “The Other” - “The I”. The paper considers the conditions for constructing the theory of the existence of “The Other” by J.-P. Sartre, as well as the symbolic theory of “The Other” by J. Lacan. The conclusions about the essence of the phenomena of “The I” and “The Other” are drawn based on the conceptual analysis. “The I” is defined as a field of absence, deprivation in an individual. “The Other” is defined as the Symbolic and the ontological facet of the social. The ambivalent process of interaction between “The Other” and “The I” is also presented. “The I” does not exist initially and a priori but it is formed in the process of filling the lack and void with the symbols of “The Other”. The means is the desire which, by splitting an individual, allows him to perceive and realize his being as self. The article shows that this splitting is dual: on the one hand, the I denies the existence of the Other within myself (sadistic component), and on the other, the I entirely denies its Self (masochistic component). The impossibility of being completely satisfied and identifying self with the objects of the Other allows the I not to become like the Other and perceive self as a self-independent and independent being.

The Many Faces of Camouflage: An Essay on Camouflage, Surveillance, Control Society, and Cuttlefish

2016 ◽  
pp. 52-63
Author(s):  
Jan Babnik
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
Photographic Image ◽  
Control Society ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Traditional Understanding

The article investigates the relationship between social control and camouflage in contemporary conditions of new visibility from the perspective of digitalisation of photographic image and its increased integration into military and surveillance technologies. The author investigates the play of visibility and invisibility, of hiding and exposing, implied in traditional understanding of camouflage under the changed conditions of referentiality and visibility through a number of examples, ranging from surveillance projects aimed at preventing human rights violations to the military use of drones and artistic projects that either critique the new means of social control, or offer strategies of resistance to individuals.

scholarly journals Postsecularism and contemporary spirituality

2020 ◽  
Vol XVIII (1) ◽  
pp. 5-17
Author(s):  
Karol Jasiński
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Religion And Spirituality ◽  
The Third ◽  
New Form ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Traditional Understanding ◽  
New Spirituality

The author of the article attempted to define the character of contemporary, new form of spirituality and show its connections with religion. The appearance of a new kind of spirituality is the result of processes taking place in social life. On the one hand, it is marked by secularization and secularism, on the other, it is desecularization and post-secularism. The analyzes were based on the belief that a new spirituality alone is insufficient in the life of a particular man, but it must find a complement to some religion. The article consists of three parts. In the first one the following phenomena were discussed: secularization, secularism, post-secularism. The second part analyzes the phenomenon of new spirituality. In the third, however, attention was drawn to the issue of religion, the traditional understanding of spirituality and the nature of the relationship between religion and spirituality.

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