Evolutional Progress in Psychiatry: A Plea for Optimism

1918 ◽  
Vol 64 (265) ◽  
pp. 189-210
Author(s):  
Hubert J. Norman
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Golden Rule ◽  
Distant Future ◽  
Paradise Regained ◽  
Kingdom Of Heaven ◽  
The World ◽  
Practical Politics ◽  
The Will ◽  
To Come

Human perfectibility, or even entire social amelioration, appear with the passage of time to recede into a yet further distance; and, whilst forming subject-matter for academic discussion and for visionary imagination, they hardly come within the range of practical politics. With them, as with disquisitions about the hereafter, there has been a tendency to allow “other worldliness” to obscure the necessity for doing our duty here and now, and letting the distant future take care of itself. To those who object that this view is a sordid, or at least a selfish one, it may be answered that if we observe the Golden Rule—if even we practise but a negative virtue by refraining from doing evil—we shall yet make for the desired goal, possibly as rapidly as those who, their eyes fixed on that distant point, fail to observe the obstacles which lie immediately in their path, and who have, again and again, to arise bruised and disheartened by their stumbles and disappointments. It may indeed be that their aims are but illusions, mere figments of the fancy, impossible of realisation. “Uniform and universal knowledge, social salvation and sovereign goodness, a golden age to come excelling a past golden age, a Paradise regained in lieu of a Paradise lost, in fact, a kingdom of heaven on earth or elsewhere, are not yet matters with which the sober-minded scientist can grapple;” and nescience can only formulate them in phraseology which lacks verisimilitude even to those who utter it. It is doubtful whether the projectors of ideal commonwealths would have desired to have been themselves inhabitants thereof; even if they had had the will it is certain that they would not have had the ability to carry it into effect. Much of their work is perchance energy misdirected, and the words of Milton may be applicable to others as well as to him of whom he uttered them. “Plato, a man of high authority indeed, but least of all for his Commonwealth, in the book of his laws, which no City ever yet received, fed his fancie with making many edicts to his ayrie Burgomasters, which they who otherwise admire him wish had been rather buried and excused in the genial cups of an Academick night-sitting.” It is no use, as he further remarks, “to sequester out of the world into Atlantick and Eutopian politics, which never can be drawn into use, and will not mend our condition; but to ordain wisely as in this world of evil.”

Song and Dance Man

2021 ◽  
pp. 189-216
Author(s):  
Kevin Winkler
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
Early Time ◽  
Art Form ◽  
The World ◽  
Will Rogers ◽  
Concert Halls ◽  
The Will ◽  
Grand Hotel

With the back-to-back successes of Grand Hotel and The Will Rogers Follies, no one would have imagined that these would be the final Tommy Tune hits seen on Broadway. A series of flops (1994’s garish, vulgar The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public, the antithesis of the elegant simplicity of his earlier work) and stillborn projects (1995’s Busker Alley, whose pre-Broadway tour collapsed when Tune broke his foot, and the abandoned Irving Berlin jukebox musical Easter Parade in the late 1990s) tarnished Tune’s status as a director who could rescue any show from disaster. In the years when he was one of Broadway’s most consistently inventive and successful directors of musicals, Tune had continued his performing career. Now, he increasingly spent more time on stage. His intimate, convivial “new vaudeville” act, built around Tune’s easygoing vocals and smooth tapping, featured songs by the Gershwins, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, and other golden-age composers and underscored his affinity for music of an early time. The act proved remarkably flexible and durable, playing nightclubs and concert halls across the country and the world for more than thirty years. His enthusiasm for touring brought him a unique kind of celebrity. For many, he became the quintessential “Broadway Baby,” a man who summoned the spirit and continuity of the theater, even for those with little knowledge of the art form.

scholarly journals Pasang Ri Kajang in Developing Youth Character of Environmental Love in Tana Toa Kajang

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 131
Author(s):  
Kamaluddin Tajibu
Keyword(s):  
Character Education ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Community Leaders ◽  
Community Members ◽  
The World ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
The Will ◽  
To Come ◽  
Youth Community

The study is aimed to determine the values of Pasang ri Kajang in building the youth character of environmental love in Tana Toa Village, Kajang District, Bulukumba Regency. This type of research is a qualitative descriptive study with intercultural communication as the approach of study. The data are obtained from Ammatoa with its traditional stakeholders, the Ammatoa youth community as well as community leaders who have concerned with Ammatoa community members. Data are analyzed using semiotics analysis. The results of the Pasang believed to be the will of Turiek Akrakna, which is handed down to Ammatoa I, and passed onto his successor, Ammatoa, is a source of values that govern the world life in its journey towards a life in the days to come. The noble values that can be implemented into conservation character education from the local wisdom of the Ammatoa indigenous people are about 1) Love to Almighty God and His universe; 2) Be responsibility, discipline, and independence; 3) Be honest, 4) Be scrupulous; 5) Work hard in preserving nature; 6) Do justice; 7) Be Modesty; and 8) Love for peace and unity. These values are very suitable to be implemented in building the character of children to love the environment, especially the forest environment.كان الغرض من هذه الدراسة هو تحديد قيم Pasang ri Kajang في بناء شخصية الشباب في الحب البيئي في قريةTana Toa ، منطقةKajang ، محافظة Bulukumba  هذا النوع من البحث هو دراسة وصفية نوعية مع نهج تواصل بين الثقافات. تم الحصول على مصادر البيانات منAmmatoa  مع أصحاب المصلحة التقليديين وأفراد المجتمع (الشباب) ، وكذلك قادة المجتمع الذين لديهم قلق لأفراد مجتمع Keammatoaan .تم تحليل البيانات باستخدام تحليل السيميائية. كانت نتائج الأزواج، التي يعتقد أنها إرادةTuriek Akrakna ، والتي تم تسليمها إلىAmmatoa I ، وتم نقلها إلىAmmatoa ، خليفته، مصدرًا للقيم التي حكمت حياة العالم في رحلته إلى الحياة في الأيام القادمة. القيم النبيلة التي يمكن تنفيذها في الحفاظ على تعليم الشخصية من الحكمة المحلية لسكان أماتوا الأصليين هي 1) حب الله والكون ومحتوياته، 2) المسؤولية والانضباط والاستقلالية، 3) صادق، 4) شامل، 5 ) العمل الشاق في الحفاظ على الطبيعة، 6) العدل، 7) البساطة، 8) حب السلام والوحدة. هذه القيم مناسبة جدًا ليتم تنفيذها في بناء شخصية الأطفال الذين يحبون البيئة، وخاصة بيئة الغابات. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui nilai-nilai Pasang ri Kajang dalam membangun karakter pemuda cinta lingkungan di Desa Tana Toa Kecamatan Kajang Kabupaten Bulukumba. Jenis penelitian ini adalah penelitian deskriptif kualitatif dengan pendekatan komunikasi antarbudaya. Sumber data diperoleh dari Ammatoa dengan para pemangku adatnya, Warga masyarakat (pemuda), serta tokoh masyarakat yang mempunyai kepedulian terhadap warga masyarakat Keammatoaan. Data dianalisis dengan menggunakan analisis semiotika. Hasil penelitian Pasang yang diyakini sebagai kehendak dari Turiek Akrakna yang diturunkan kepada Ammatoa I, dan diteruskan kepada Ammatoa penerusnya, merupakan sumber nilai-nilai yang mengatur kehidupan dunia dalam perjalanannya menuju kehidupan di hari kemudian. Nilai-nilai luhur yang dapat diimplementasikan ke dalam pendidikan karakter konservasi dari kearifan lokal masyarakat adat Ammatoa adalah: 1) cinta kepada Tuhan dan alam semesta beserta isinya, 2) tanggung jawab, disiplin, dan mandiri, 3) jujur, 4) teliti, 5) kerja keras dalam pelestarian alam, 6) keadilan, 7) Kesederhanan , 8) cinta damai dan persatuan. Nilai-nilai tersebut sangat cocok diimplementasikan dalam membangun karakter anak akan cinta lingkungan terutama lingkungan hutan.

scholarly journals COVID-19 update: the first 6 months of the pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Novelli ◽  
Michela Biancolella ◽  
Ruty Mehrian-Shai ◽  
Caroline Erickson ◽  
Krystal J. Godri Pollitt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
International Organizations ◽  
Distant Future ◽  
Current State ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
To Come

AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic is sweeping the world and will feature prominently in all our lives for months and most likely for years to come. We review here the current state 6 months into the declared pandemic. Specifically, we examine the role of the pathogen, the host and the environment along with the possible role of diabetes. We also firmly believe that the pandemic has shown an extraordinary light on national and international politicians whom we should hold to account as performance has been uneven. We also call explicitly on competent leadership of international organizations, specifically the WHO, UN and EU, informed by science. Finally, we also condense successful strategies for dealing with the current COVID-19 pandemic in democratic countries into a developing pandemic playbook and chart a way forward into the future. This is useful in the current COVID-19 pandemic and, we hope, in a very distant future again when another pandemic might arise.

scholarly journals The causes of proliferation of nuclear weapons: The case of the Middle East

Vojno delo ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-40
Author(s):  
Vladislav Stefanović
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
Nuclear Proliferation ◽  
East Region ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
To Come ◽  
Middle East Region

The subject of this paper is nuclear proliferation and its implications for regional and world security. The study seeks to explain the motive of states to come into possession of nuclear weapons. It also looks at the consequences for the region if one of the states comes into possession of nuclear weapons. The subject matter of the study covers the Middle East region to the greatest extent. Since proliferation is also present outside the region, other cases of proliferation will be included in the research. Proliferation cases outside the Middle East region will be a guide to understanding the proliferation developments in this region, and will seek to explain the causes of nuclear proliferation in the world.

The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition'

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Cook ◽  
Nu'aym b. Hammad al-Marwazi
Keyword(s):  
Civil Wars ◽  
The World ◽  
End Of The World ◽  
To Come

“The Book of Tribulations by Nu`aym b. Hammad al-Marwazi (d. 844) is the earliest Muslim apocalyptic work to come down to us. Its contents focus upon the cataclysmic events to happen before the end of the world, the wars against the Byzantines, and the Turks, and the Muslim civil wars. There is extensive material about the Mahdi (messianic figure), the Muslim Antichrist and the return of Jesus, as well as descriptions of Gog and Magog. Much of the material in Nu`aym today is utilized by Salafi-jihadi groups fighting in Syria and Iraq.

LINGUACULTURAL ASPECT OF TEMPORAL NOMINATIONS

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (30) ◽  
pp. 200-213
Author(s):  
Anna Shapoval
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Experimental Analysis ◽  
Information Resource ◽  
Basic System ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Lunar Calendar ◽  
Temporal System ◽  
The World ◽  
To Come

Analysis of linguocultural aspect of temporal nominations is impossible without involving the problems of hrononymic lexics. Chrononyms is an important information resource of a certain linguaculture, some distinctive peculiarities of conceptual picture of the world. The aim of the experimental analysis is a complex examination of the linguacultural aspect of temporal nominations that function in Chinese and Turkish languages reflecting the concepts of the world. The research was based on the material of the novels “Imperial woman” by Pearl Buck and “Roxolana” by Pavlo Zagrebelniy. The analysis of recent scientific publications allowed us to come to the conclusion that the investigation of hrononymic lexics can involve different theoretical and practical principles. Being guided by the existing classifications of chrononyms (N. Podolskaya, M. Torchinsky, S. Remmer) the linguocultural features of the following types of temporal chrononymic lexical units were identified and studied in the research: georthonyms, dynastic chrononyms, tumultonyms, parsonyms and mensonyms. The results of the research demonstrate that not all lexical units of temporal denotation chosen from the above mentioned novels refer to the class of chrononyms. The group under investigation includes the following lexemes: nominations of the lunar calendar, nominations of the solar calendar, nominations of mixed calendar and temporal slots denoting day and night. The basic system of chronology in the linguiacultures under analysis is the dominance of the lunar calendar nominations (Chinese picture of the world — 51,0 %, Turkish — 40,4 %). In the analyzed works the nominations of the solar calendar are used less often in the Chinese picture of the world; the usage of this unit reaches 20 %, and this phenomenon is historically conditioned. Mixed calendar nominations (21 % of temporal units) are rather common, solar calendar nominations are refined by the monthly calendar; it can be explained by the fact that the Chinese mind is conservative towards the new temporal system. In the Turkish picture of the world 45 % of temporal vocabulary belongs to the solar calendar since in the sixteenth century only a lunar calendar operated in the Ottoman Empire. It should be mentioned that significant place in the temporal vocabulary of “Roxolana” is conditioned by the influence of the linguistic personality of the author, who was a Ukrainian.

Nihilistic Thinking as the Self-Will of the Mind and the Projects of Its Overcoming

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (10) ◽  
pp. 74-87
Author(s):  
Irina N. Sidorenko
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
The Self ◽  
Spatial Perspective ◽  
The World ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Radical Transformation

 The author analyzes the conceptions of ontological nihilism in the works of S. Kierkegaard, F. Nietzsche, M. Heidegger, E. Jünger. On the basis of this analysis, violence is defined as a manifestation of nihilism, of the “will to nothingness” and hypertrophy of the self-will of man. The article demonstrates the importance of the problem of nihilism. The nihilistic thinking of modern man is expressed in the attitude toward a radical transformation of the world from the position of his “absolute” righteousness. The paradox of the current situation is that there is the reverse side of this transformative activity, when there is only the appearance of action and the dilution of responsibility. Confidence in the rightness of own views and beliefs increases the risk of the violent imposition of own vision of reality. Historical and philosophical reconstruction of the conceptions of nihilism allowed to reveal the following projects of its comprehension and resolution: (1) the project of “positing of values,” which consists in the transformation of the evaluation, which is understood as another perspective of positing values, leading to the affirmation of being; (2) the project of overcoming nihilism from the space of temporality, carried out through the resoluteness to accept the historicity of own existence; (3) the project of overcoming nihilism as the oblivion of being from the spatial perspective of the “line,” allowing to realize the “glimpse” of being. The author concludes that it is impossible to solve the problem of violence and its various forms of its manifestation without overcoming “ontological nihilism.” Significant role in solving the problem of ontological violence is assigned to philosophy as a critical and responsible form of thinking, which is capable to help a person to bear the burden of the world, to provide meanings and affirm being, as well as to unite people and resist the fundamentalist claims of exclusivity and rightness.

New and not so new strategies in promoting integrity with particular reference to Africa

2018 ◽  
pp. 38-74
Author(s):  
Barry Rider
Keyword(s):  
World Economy ◽  
Intelligence Community ◽  
Generational Change ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
The World ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Law ◽  
Financial Intelligence ◽  
New Strategies

This article is focused on exploration not merely proposed developments in and refinements of the law and its administration, but the very significant role that financial intelligence can and should play in protecting our societies. It is the contention of the author that the intelligence community at large and in particular financial intelligence units have an important role to play in protecting our economies and ensuring confidence is maintained in our financial institutions and markets. In this article the author considers a number of issues pertinent to the advancement of integrity and in particular the interdiction of corruption to some degree from the perspective of Africa. The potential for Africa as a player in the world economy is enormous. So far, the ambiguous inheritance of rapacious empires and the turmoil of self-dealing elites in post-colonial times has successfully obscured and undermined this potential. Indeed, such has been the mismanagement, selfishness and importuning that many have grave doubts as to the ability of many states to achieve an ordered transition to what they could and should be. South Africa is perhaps the best example of a society that while avoiding the catastrophe that its recent past predicted, remains racked by corruption and mismanagement. That there is the will in many parts of the continent to further stability and security by addressing the cancer of corruption, the reality is that few have remained or been allowed to remain steadfast in their mission and all have been frustrated by political self-interest and lack of resources. The key might be education and inter-generational change as it has been in other parts of the world, but only an optimist would see this coming any time soon – there is too much vested interest inside and outside Africa in keeping things much as they are! The author focuses not so much on attempting to perfect the letter of the law, but rather on improving the ways in which we administer it.

he designs of the Russian war memorials from the World War I in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes / Kingdom of Yugoslavia: Ideas, symbols, realization

2020 ◽  
pp. 204-227
Author(s):  
Milana Živanović ◽  
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
World War ◽  
War Memorials ◽  
The World ◽  
The Will ◽  
Kingdom Of Yugoslavia ◽  
The Military

The paper deals with the actions undertaken by the Russian emigration aimed to commemorate the Russian soldiers who have been killed or died during the World War I in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes / Kingdom of Yugoslavia. The focus is on the erection of the memorials dedicated to the Russian soldiers. During the World War I the Russian soldiers and war prisoners were buried on the military plots in the local cemeteries or on the locations of their death. However, over the years the conditions of their graves have declined. That fact along with the will to honorably mark the locations of their burial places have become a catalyst for the actions undertaken by the Russian émigré, which have begun to arrive in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Kingdom of SCS) starting from the 1919. Almost at once after their arrival to the Kingdom of SCS, the Russian refugees conducted the actions aimed at improving the conditions of the graves were in and at erecting memorials. Russian architects designed the monuments. As a result, several monuments were erected in the country, including one in the capital.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerhard Preyer
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Relationship

The study of meaning in language embraces a diverse range of problems and methods. Philosophers think through the relationship between language and the world; linguists document speakers’ knowledge of meaning; psychologists investigate the mechanisms of understanding and production. Up through the early 2000s, these investigations were generally compartmentalized: indeed, researchers often regarded both the subject matter and the methods of other disciplines with skepticism. Since then, however, there has been a sea change in the field, enabling researchers increasingly to synthesize the perspectives of philosophy, linguistics, and psychology and to energize all the fields with rich new intellectual perspectives that facilitate meaningful interchange. One illustration of the trend is the publication of Lepore and Stone’s ...

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