Critical remarks on existence theory: Between existentialism and phenomenology

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-84
Author(s):  
Simon Susen
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Existence Theory ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Solid Foundation ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Made In

The main purpose of this paper is to examine the ‘existence theory’ proposed by Patrick Baert, Marcus Morgan, and Rin Ushiyama. To this end, it focuses on some key issues that could, and arguably should, be explored in more detail, especially if the authors decide to develop their project further, permitting them to establish a new interdisciplinary branch of inquiry. The comments and suggestions made in this paper are meant to be constructive, supporting the idea that Baert, Morgan, and Ushiyama’s outline could, and should, be turned into a bold, systematic, and long-term research programme. More specifically, the in-depth analysis of Baert, Morgan, and Ushiyama’s theoretical framework demonstrates that their undertaking, which draws on central insights from both existentialism and phenomenology, contributes to bridging the disciplinary gap between philosophy and sociology. The paper concludes by asserting that Baert, Morgan, and Ushiyama’s model provides a solid foundation for an ambitious, but viable, project that may result in the creation of a new current of research, capable of generating valuable insights into the tension-laden confluence of existential milestones, existential ladders, and existential urgencies in the theatre of human life.

Curriculum and Online Course Development Framework

2021 ◽  
pp. 223-251
Author(s):  
Piti G. Kanjanapongpaisal ◽  
Florence Wolfe Sharp
Keyword(s):  
Online Instruction ◽  
Online Course ◽  
Online Curriculum ◽  
Development Framework ◽  
The World ◽  
Online Course Development ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Solid Foundation ◽  
Development Phases

The online pivot necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 has placed online instruction in the spotlight. While schools and universities around the world quickly moved classes online and kept students learning, it became apparent that most institutions and instructors lacked a solid foundation in creating online curriculum. Recognizing that online instruction is here for the long-term, building skills in creating and managing the online curriculum is essential. This chapter covers the history and foundations of curriculum, explores key issues and opportunities for educators just getting started with online learning, and recommends foundational practices for developing effective online curriculum. The approach takes a practical perspective, stepping through the curriculum development phases and concluding with a look at some of the challenges curriculum developers and instructors face.

scholarly journals "IMPACT OF MINIATURE PAINTING ON CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS OF RAJASTHAN"

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 204-206
Author(s):  
Indu Joshi ◽  
Kamal Kishore Kashyap
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Psychological Effects ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The World ◽  
Miniature Painting ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Indian Painting ◽  
Made In ◽  
Contemporary Artists

Contemporary art which believes in the creation of an unimaginable world by creating new forms of continuous form which has shaped its sensation by mixing multiple modes of expression and has also reduced the distance of art from other experimental disciplines. As a result, the creation of an artwork today has created a new way to express the psychological effects of human beings through pictures by creating musical melodies, perfume fragrances and many other environments.The influence or inspiration of something has always been behind any experiment or work in human life, in the same way, many contemporary artists, influenced by the Indian miniature, painting tradition, developed their own art style by creating new forms. At the same time, the work of inspiring the invaluable heritage of Indian painting in a changing environment. Contemporary artists have succeeded in creating amazing picture forms by blending contemporary and interactive shapes, by entering the world of miniature paintings made in small color, color, method, contemporary artists by entering the world of canvas and oil colors.A long list of artists who have attracted the whole world by creating such art forms is working in Rajasthan, which includes Chhotu Lal, Shail Chappell, Couple Kishore Upadhyay, Rameshwar Baruta, Lalit Shrama, Prabha Shah, Lalchand Marothia, Charan Sharma, Kiran Murdia etc. includes many names. समकालीन कला जो नित नवीन रूपों का सृजन कर एक अकल्पनीय संसार के सृजन में विश्वास रखती है जिसने अभिव्यक्ति के अनेक साधनों के मिश्रण से अपपनी अनुभूति को एक आकार प्रदान करने के साथ अन्य प्रयोगधर्मी विषयों से कला की दूरी को कम करने का भी कार्य किया है जिसका परिणाम है कि एक कलाकृति का निर्माण आज संगीत की धुन, इत्र की सुगंध एवं अन्य कई प्रकार के वातावरण का सृजन कर मनुष्य के मनोवैज्ञानिक प्रभावों को चित्रों के माध्यम से अभिव्यक्त करने का नवीन मार्ग प्रशस्थ हुआ।मनुष्य के जीवन में कोई भी प्रयोग या कार्य के पीछे हमेशा से ही किसी चीज का प्रभाव या प्रेरणा कार्य करती आयी है उसी प्रकार से अनेक समकालीन कलाकारों ने भारतीय लघु, चित्र परम्पपरा से प्रभावितत होकर अपनी कला शैली का विकास कर नवीन रूपों के सृजन के साथ-साथ भारतीय चित्रकला की अमूल्य धरोहर को बदलतते परिवेश में गति प्रदान करने का कार्य किया है। छोटे-छोटे पारस्परिक रूप-रंग, विधि में बने लघु चित्रों के संसार को समकालीन कलाकारों ने कैनवास एवं तैल रंगों की दुनियां में प्रवेश कराकर समकालीन एवं पारस्परिक आकारों के समिश्रण से अद्भुत चित्र रुपों की रचना करने में सफल रहा है। इस प्रकार के कला रूपों का सृजन कर सम्पूर्ण विश्व को आकर्षित करने वाले कलाकारों की एक लम्बी सूची राजस्थान में कार्यरत हैं जिसमें छोटू लाल, शैल चैपल, युगल किशोर उपाध्याय, रामेश्वर बरूटा, ललित श्र्मा, प्रभा शाह, लालचंद मरोठिया, चरन शर्मा, किरण मुर्डिया आदि अनेक नाम शामिल हैं।

Design of a Muscle-Powered Soft Robotic Bi-VAD for Long-Term Circulatory Support

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jooli Han ◽  
Matthew Kubala ◽  
Dennis R. Trumble
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Ventricular Assist Devices ◽  
Circulatory Support ◽  
Important Advance ◽  
Ventricular Assist ◽  
Cardiac Compression ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Muscle Energy ◽  
Made In

Congestive heart failure (CHF) remains one of the most costly diseases in the industrialized world, both in terms of healthcare dollars and the loss of human life. Despite great strides made in the treatment of CHF using mechanical ventricular assist devices (VADs), several longstanding difficulties associated with pumping blood continue to limit their long-term use. Among the most troublesome have been the increased risk of infection associated with the use of percutaneous drivelines and the persistent risk of clot formation at the blood-device interface. Development of a completely self-contained, non-blood-contacting VAD for long-term use would therefore be an important advance in circulatory support technology. Toward that end, we have developed a muscle-powered co-pulsation VAD (Figure 1) that avoids both these problems by using an internal muscle energy converter (MEC) to drive a non-blood-contacting direct cardiac compression sleeve (DCCS) for long-term circulatory support.

The So-Called Prothetic i- and the sḏm-f Paradigms II: The “Nominal” sḏm-f and a Reappraisal

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 259-267
Author(s):  
Sami Uljas
Keyword(s):  
Present Author ◽  
Textual Data ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Syllabic Structure ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Partial Revision

This article discusses, first, the role of the i-prefix in the so-called “nominal” sḏm-f paradigm in earliest Old Egyptian textual data. It is argued that this represented a means of facilitating the creation of a distinctive syllabic structure with 2rad roots and of harmonising it with that of the 2red and 3inf classes. Second, the study contains a partial revision of some of the key issues treated in an earlier article by the present author on the role of the similarly written prefix in the subjunctive and “circumstantial” sḏm-f paradigms.

Soil and ecological division into districts of the Baikal region

2018 ◽  
Vol 940 (10) ◽  
pp. 54-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
I.A. Belozertseva ◽  
A.A. Sorokovoj
Keyword(s):  
Baikal Region ◽  
Soil Cover ◽  
Soil Formation ◽  
Forest Steppe ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Soil Cover Structure ◽  
Reflecting Surface ◽  
Heat And Moisture ◽  
Made In

On the basis of long-term researches of soils in the territory of Russia and Mongolia soil and ecological division into districts of the Baikal region is carried out. At division into districts the whole set of an environment of soil formation was considered. On the map of soil and ecological division into districts 13 mountain, mid-mountain, low-mountain taiga, foothill, hollow-valley, forest-steppe and steppe provinces reflecting surface device originality as the ratio of balance of heat and moisture forming a basis to zoning is shown against the background of difficult orography are allocated. In total 42 districts on lithologic-geomorphological features are allocated. In formation of distinctions of a soil cover of these provinces the leading role is played by bioclimatic factors and inside them the lithologic-geomorphological ones. In the view of structural approach of the district they are considered as territories with a certain natural change of several types of the soil cover structure caused by features of a relief and the parent rock. The map is made in the MapInfo program. It is revealed that on ill-defined width zoning of soils the vertical one which has a greater influence on soils of this region is imposed. Soils of the Baikal region are not similar to the soils located at the same latitude of the flat European territory of Russia. Zone soils of this territory are specific and original.

Defining the Environment

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cymie R. Payne
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Fundamental Aspect ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Jus Post Bellum ◽  
Complex Concept ◽  
Scientific Analysis ◽  
Environmental Integrity ◽  
Healthy Functioning

The principle of ‘environmental integrity’ is a fundamental aspect of jus post bellum. Human life, economy, and culture depend on a healthy, functioning environment. However, environmental integrity is a complex concept to describe. Doctrinal thresholds for legally material environmental damage (significant, long-term, widespread) do not capture it. This chapter interrogates the jus post bellum literature and then turns to scholarship on wilderness management in the Anthropocene era, which also engages with the meaning of ‘environmental integrity’, ‘naturalness’, ‘unimpaired’, or, in the words of the Factory at Chorzów case which sets the international law standard for reparations of damage, ‘the situation which would, in all probability, have existed if that act had not been committed’. Recognition that pristine or historical conditions are often impossible to recover or maintain leads to the legal, ethical, and scientific analysis of evolving environmental norms that this chapter offers.

The Conceptual Framework: Growth, Institutions, and Social Orders

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Lorenzo Capussela
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Institutional Economics ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Institutional Reforms ◽  
Reversible Process ◽  
Main Determinant ◽  
Social Orders

This chapter lays out one part of the theoretical framework of the book, drawn from institutional economics. This literature maintains that institutions are the main determinant of long-term growth, and that to remain ‘appropriate’ institutions must evolve in synchrony with an economy’s progress through the stages of its development. Their evolution depends on a society’s openness to political creative destruction. Limited-access social orders tend to constrain it, to safeguard elites’ rents, and typically undermine progressive institutional reforms, breaking that synchrony. The transition from that social order to the open-access one is an endogenous and reversible process, in which inefficient institutions, which allow elites to extract rents, coexist with appropriate ones, which constrain their power and make it contestable. The hypothesis is advanced that Italy has not yet completed this transition, and that the tension between its efficient and inefficient institutions can endogenously generate shocks, which open opportunities for equilibrium shifts.

From Start-Up to Scale-Up

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilles Duruflé ◽  
Thomas Hellmann ◽  
Karen Wilson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Scale Up ◽  
The United States ◽  
Smart Money ◽  
Start Up ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Creation

This chapter examines the challenge for entrepreneurial companies of going beyond the start-up phase and growing into large successful companies. We examine the long-term financing of these so-called scale-up companies, focusing on the United States, Europe, and Canada. The chapter first provides a conceptual framework for understanding the challenges of financing scale-ups. It emphasizes the need for investors with deep pockets, for smart money, for investor networks, and for patient money. It then shows some data about the various aspects of financing scale-ups in the United States, Europe, and Canada, showing how Europe and Canada are lagging behind the US relatively more at the scale-up than the start-up stage. Finally, the chapter raises the question of long-term public policies for supporting the creation of a better scale-up environment.

Populism and Liberal Democracy

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takis S. Pappas
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Comprehensive Theory ◽  
The People ◽  
Original Definition ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Great Relevance ◽  
Definition Of

Based on an original definition of modern populism as “democratic illiberalism” and many years of meticulous research, Takis Pappas marshals extraordinary empirical evidence from Argentina, Greece, Peru, Italy, Venezuela, Ecuador, Hungary, the United States, Spain, and Brazil to develop a comprehensive theory about populism. He addresses all key issues in the debate about populism and answers significant questions of great relevance for today’s liberal democracy, including: • What is modern populism and how can it be differentiated from comparable phenomena like nativism and autocracy? • Where in Latin America has populism become most successful? Where in Europe did it emerge first? Why did its rise to power in the United States come so late? • Is Trump a populist and, if so, could he be compared best with Venezuela’s Chávez, France’s Le Pens, or Turkey’s Erdoğan? • Why has populism thrived in post-authoritarian Greece but not in Spain? And why in Argentina and not in Brazil? • Can populism ever succeed without a charismatic leader? If not, what does leadership tell us about how to challenge populism? • Who are “the people” who vote for populist parties, how are these “made” into a group, and what is in their minds? • Is there a “populist blueprint” that all populists use when in power? And what are the long-term consequences of populist rule? • What does the expansion, and possibly solidification, of populism mean for the very nature and future of contemporary democracy? Populism and Liberal Democracy will change the ways the reader understands populism and imagines the prospects of liberal democracy.

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