scholarly journals Trans-humanism’s and Post-humanism’s Dialectics between Truth and Post-truth

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2(10)) ◽  
pp. 34-47
Author(s):  
Monika Banaś
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Creative Activity ◽  
The Face ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
Scientific Discourses ◽  
Post Humanism

The aim of this paper is to invite the reader to reflect on the essence of truth and post-truth in two approaches present in humanities and social sciences: trans-humanism and post-humanism. The notions of truth and post-truth, just like those of trans- and post-humanism, do not have a single defining interpretation. This implies disputes about what truth is and what is the role of man as an being, capable of creative activity, and thus of creating other entities and concepts describing them. However, the problem still remains the doubt as to what extent the ability of creative action allows man to know the truth (alternatively, to establish it), and to what extent it leads us astray. Post-truth emerges as a proposition in the face of the impossibility of reaching a consensus on the former. It is similar in the case of trans- and post-humanism, as concepts offering improved, because more up-to-date, approaches to the exploration of the human being himself, the motives of his actions, and his progress. The issues are presented by means of a critical analysis of selected scientific discourses, including definitions and research approaches that are gaining popularity in academia of the so-called Western cultural circle.

scholarly journals The role of methaphors in education, self-education and teaching on the example of skillful Buddhist pedagogical methods and means. [rev.] Paweł Zieliński: Aspekty pedagogiczne Sutry Lotosu [Pedagogical aspects of the Lotus Sutra], Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Humanistyczno-Przyrodniczego im. Jana Długosza w Częstochowie, Częstochowa 2021 (ss. 192)

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 187-193
Author(s):  
Tomasz Olchanowski
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Lotus Sutra ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
Pedagogical Methods

This article is a review of Paweł Zieliński’s monograph Pedagogical Aspects of the Lotus Sutra. The author focuses primarily on the study of skillful pedagogical methods and means (upaya-kausálya) used by Buddhist teachers in the processes of education, teaching and self-education. These methods, as noted by Zieliński, have not been sufficiently analyzed and researched by Western representatives of the humanities and social sciences.

scholarly journals THE CATEGORY OF IMAGE IN MODERN HUMANITIES: THE PROBLEM AND ITS SCIENTIFIC DISCOURSES

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 70-87
Author(s):  
OLGA PLIASUN
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Primary Interest ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
Scientific Discourses ◽  
The Given

The given article analyzes various approaches to the interpretation of the category of image in modern humanities and social sciences (e.g. politology, economics, culturology, journalism etc.). However, it is stressed that in terms of linguistics the phenomenon of image is insufficiently researched. Thus, the author notes that in linguistic discourse the category of image should be studied within the framework of a new direction of linguistic studies which is currently at the stage of forming – lingvoimageology. The primary interest of lingvoimageology is the study of linguistic mechanisms of image making. The author comes to the conclusion that in modern scientific discourse lingvoimageology is one of the most topical and promising branches of world neolinguistics.

scholarly journals Failing Gloriously and Other Essays

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shawn Graham
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Professional Development ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Digital Archaeology ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
Academic Memoir ◽  
The University

Please, you gotta help me. I’ve nuked the university. Failing Gloriously and Other Essays documents Shawn Graham’s odyssey through the digital humanities and digital archaeology against the backdrop of the 21st-century university. At turns hilarious, depressing, and inspiring, Graham’s book presents a contemporary take on the academic memoir, but rather than celebrating the victories, he reflects on the failures and considers their impact on his intellectual and professional development. These aren’t heroic tales of overcoming odds or paeans to failure as evidence for a macho willingness to take risks. They’re honest lessons laced with a genuine humility that encourages us to think about making it safer for ourselves and others to fail. A foreword from Eric Kansa and an afterword by Neha Gupta engage the lessons of Failing Gloriously and consider the role of failure in digital archaeology, the humanities, and social sciences.

scholarly journals Social sciences: calculation or hermeneutics?

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-46
Author(s):  
N.M. Smirnova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Digital Analysis ◽  
Methodological Foundation ◽  
Cultural Reality ◽  
Further Development

Critical analysis of cognitive claims to universal calculating social science’s formation has been presented in this paper. It has clearly been argued, that originated in G. Leibnitz’s metaphor: “intellection is calculation”, this idea even in its further development does not have any sufficient methodological foundation for its wider extrapolation upon the scope of social organization. It might only be accepted by means of natural reductionism, which implicates elimination of social subject matters’ meaningful dimension, obviously regarded as constitutive for culture and sociality. This implies in its turn bringing down the role of philosophy to topology and digital analysis and theoretical elimination of both human and his meanings of being from socio-cultural reality.

scholarly journals DIRITTO E TECNOLOGIA

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerio Onida
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Genetic Manipulation ◽  
Fundamental Difference ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Technological Changes ◽  
Conflicts Of Interests ◽  
The Face

The intervention starts from the observation that technology is a tool for the transformation of reality that is itself “neutral”, i.e. usable for different and even opposite purposes, while law is a tool to orient, to condition and to govern human behaviours in relation to social ends, that is to say, what is right or better for society. Hence the intrinsic “finalism” of law, and the fundamental difference between the “power” of technology and the juridical power that is exercised for social purposes and to settle conflicts of interests between individuals and between communities. It then examines the potential and limitations of the use of computer techniques to perform legal acts; the new role of law in the face of the growth of technological “powers” of data collection and use; the demand to adapt the regulation of relationships between individuals (such as labour relationships) in the face of technological changes in reality; the problems of “relocation” of the law related to the development of the Internet; the new demands to legal powers to regulate phenomena such as the genetic manipulation of the human being and the use of artificial intelligence, with a view to safeguarding the essence of being “human”.

De l’indétermination de la traduction – le cas de la traduction du mot « honneur » en chinois

2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-138
Author(s):  
LI Wenrui
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
French Language ◽  
Semantic Fields ◽  
The Face ◽  
Cultural Connotations

Translation is a subject that can never be spoken of sufficiently, especially at a time when exchanges and conflicts between cultures are intensifying with globalization. Starting from the possibility (or the impossibility) of translation, this article does not reflect upon the old question of the opposition between the fidelity and freedom of the translator, or the theories of foreignization and domestication, but rather focuses on the role of the translator in the relations of otherness. In the face of indetermination, we seek, through the example of the translation of a word ‘honor’, full of historical and cultural connotations in the French language, to prove that grasping meaning is fundamental in order to produce a good translation. In order for that, the translator should be a linguist to grasp meaning and significance in the vast semantic fields, then be a scientist who knows how to reappropriate the conceptual tools proposed by other social sciences. These two roles guarantee the understanding and the demonstration of the otherness, which can only come from a systematic structuring of the culture of departure.

scholarly journals IMPACT OF HUMAN AND SOCIAL SCIENCES ON COMBAT TO COVID-19 IN BRAZIL AND ANGOLA

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. a2en
Author(s):  
Joseneide dos Santos Gomes ◽  
Manuel Francisco Neto ◽  
Maria Mbuanda Gunga Francisco
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Social Communication ◽  
Social Problem ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
Human And Social Sciences ◽  
Communication Pedagogy

This article presents a theoretical approach on the role of human and social sciences in combating Covid-19, and aims to encourage reflections on the importance of interdisciplinarity, intradisciplinarity and multidisciplinarity in understanding and solving this very complex social problem. Despite the active involvement of doctors and various specialties and nurses in the fight against covid-19, there is a need to apply knowledge from different areas of scientific knowledge in human and social sciences. In fact, currently, no one works in isolation when success is desired, since the human being is of a bio-psycho-socio-cultural nature. Social communication, pedagogy, psychology, sociology, anthropology were focused, without denying the contribution of so many others that were not mentioned.

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