scholarly journals Korelacje między religijnością a poczuciem sensu życia młodzieży szkół ponadgimnazjalnych w Poznaniu w świetle koncepcji Viktora E. Frankla i Dirka Hutsebauta

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 61-77
Author(s):  
Jędrzej Machalski
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Existential Analysis ◽  
Christian Religion ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Over Time

Viktor Emil Frankl is considered to be a pioneering researcher into the issue of the meaning of life. He carried out a thorough analysis of the theories of his predecessors, and coined his own existential analysis and logotherapy, which have become some of the most popular trends in psychotherapy. Searching for the sources of the motivation for human action, one cannot ignore the phenomenon of religiosity. Over time, due to progressive secularization, it has become impossible to describe the religiosity of man through the existing categories. David M. Wulff laid the theoretical foundation for a new way of looking at religion. On the basis of Wulff’s theories, Dirk Hutsebaut distinguished four approaches to the Christian religion. His model of religiosity enables us to distinguish the types of faith and the ways of thinking about religion, also taking into account non-believers. This article, shows the correlation between religiosity and the sense of meaning of life in adolescents.

Time’s Calling: Time, Timing, and Transformation in Futures Work

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 236-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcus Bussey
Keyword(s):  
Human Action ◽  
Adaptive Potential ◽  
Temporal Concepts ◽  
The Future ◽  
Change Context ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Drill Down

Futurists work with time, yet we rarely consider the full implications of what this means. It could equally be said that futurists work within time, navigating the cultures and ecologies of time that shape the worlds they seek to enable. The most interesting result of this way of looking at what futurists do, with and within time, is that it opens up a space for human action that is creative and reflexive. Futurists work with time not because their work concerns the future but because they are interested in change. Change is the work of heads, hands, and hearts over time. It is the result of both accident and intention and dominates our experience of Modernity. The futurist enters a change-context to help individuals, organizations, and communities enhance their adaptive potential. This paper works with thinking about time from a futures perspective. My goal is to drill down into the temporal inventiveness of futures work by dwelling on the linguistic and conceptual aspects of temporal discourse. What really interests me in this is how futurists can leverage a variety of temporal concepts to better achieve their goal of making elements of time, timing, and transformation explicit to their clients and students.

Categorization of College Students' Meaning of Life

1980 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 387-390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen L. Devogler ◽  
Peter Ebersole
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Interrater Reliability ◽  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
State University ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Over Time

This study was designed to develop meaning-in-life categories which have adequate interrater reliability and stability over time. Also of interest were the categories which college students endorsed and the number of students who reported no meaning in life. A pilot study was used to develop appropriate categories. 100 students from a State University class were asked to write about the three most meaningful things in their lives and then ranked their written meanings in order of importance to them. Eight categories had adequate interrater reliability and stability over a 3-mo. period. The “relationship” category was most often chosen followed by “service,” “growth,” “belief,” “existential-hedonistic,” “obtaining,” “expression,” and “understanding.” Only 5% of our sample claimed life to have no meaning.

Unity and Diversity of Russian and Chinese Industrial Wage Policies

1964 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Schran
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Social Experiences ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
A Chain ◽  
Industrial Wage ◽  
Transformation Processes ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Means Of Production

While Russian and Chinese wage and distribution policies in general differ from each other in terms of specific provisions and regulations, they are also generically very similar, if not identical. To provide some insight into the nature of this unity and diversity of policy, it seems best to discuss first the distributive implications of their common ideological reference, i.e. Marxist-Leninist doctrine.Distributive Strategy and TacticsBoth the Russians and the Chinese deal with any human action as a process of material transformation, and consequently view the totality of man's actions as a chain of material transformation processes, conditioned by the distribution of ownership of the means of production as the determinant of social relations of production. Both hold that while human action is governed objectively by material and social nature and its laws, it is determined subjectively by man's technical and social awareness and thus by man's technical and social experiences. Both assert that man's increasing comprehension of nature and its laws manifests itself in increasing accumulation and in enlarged reproduction, i.e., in economic growth. Both aim for the unity of objectivity and subjectivity, i.e., for the complete reproduction of nature by man at the earliest possible moment, and both strive therefore for the most rapidly enlarging accumulation over time.

scholarly journals The Issue of the “Thing Itself” in Psychiatric Phenomenology and Existential Analysis

Phainomenon ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-28
Author(s):  
Camille Abettan
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Disorder ◽  
Existential Analysis ◽  
Over Time

Abstract Psychiatric phenomenology emerged from the willingness to spread Husserl’s program of going back to the things themselves into the psychiatric field. However, what this initial will then became is not very clear. We show that if this will to go back to the things themselves really enabled to bring phenomenology and psychiatry together (especially by the Swiss psychiatrist L. Binswanger), the thing to whom we have to go back changed over time: first conceived as the experience lived by people with a psychiatric disorder, it was then conceived as the psychiatric disorder itself. We show that both of these ideas are inadequate. Our thesis is that psychiatric phenomenology has to be considered as belonging to the hermeneutical field (as defined by Ricoeur and Gadamer). We show that this hypothesis leads to a more insightful understanding of what is psychiatric phenomenology and what status we should concede to it.

scholarly journals Skilled we-intentionality: Situating joint action in the living environment

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
Julian Kiverstein ◽  
Erik Rietveld
Keyword(s):  
Joint Action ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Over Time

There is a difference between the activities of two or more individuals that are performed jointly such as playing music in a band or dancing as a couple, and performing these same activities alone. This difference is sometimes captured by appealing to shared or joint intentions that allow individuals to coordinate what they do over space and time. In what follows we will use the terminology of we-intentionality to refer to what individuals do when they engage in group ways of thinking, feeling and acting. Our aim in this paper is to argue that we-intentionality is best understood in relation to a shared living environment in which acting individuals are situated. By the “living environment” we mean to refer to places and everyday situations in which humans act. These places and situations are simultaneously social, cultural, material and natural. We will use the term “affordance” to refer to the possibilities for action the living environment furnishes. Affordances form and are maintained over time through the activities people repeatedly engage in the living environment. We will show how we-intentionality is best understood in relation to the affordances of the living environmentand by taking into account the skills people have to engage with these affordances. For this reason we coin the term ‘skilled we-intentionality’ to characterize the intentionality characteristic of group ways of acting, feeling and thinking.

scholarly journals Faith and spirituality in the meaning of life of the elderly with Chronic Kidney Disease

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (suppl 3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Halanna Carneiro Gumarães Bastos Moura ◽  
Tânia Maria de Oliva Menezes ◽  
Raniele Araújo de Freitas ◽  
Fabiana Araújo Moreira ◽  
Isabella Batista Pires ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Kidney Disease ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Kidney Disease ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
Elderly Person ◽  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Existential Analysis ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
The City

ABSTRACT Objective: to understand faith and spirituality in the meaning of life of the elderly with Chronic Kidney Disease. Methods: a qualitative research based on Viktor Emil Frankl’s Logotherapy and Existential Analysis. Twenty elderly people were interviewed between August 2018 and January 2019, between 60 and 79 years old, who underwent dialysis in a private unit, a reference in nephrology in the city of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Results: two categories of analysis emerged: Meaning of faith in the lived of the elderly with Chronic Kidney Disease; Faith as a forerunner of the meaning of life. Final considerations: faith and spirituality were understood as a fundamental foundation in the search for the meaning of the study participants’ lives, besides unveiling itself as an important strategy of resilience to the experienced of the elderly person with Chronic Kidney Disease.

The 'Weakness' of Christ: An argument for his truth

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
José M. Millás
Keyword(s):  
Christian Formation ◽  
Christian Religion ◽  
Over Time

Sometimes we meet people who have had a good Christian formation, but who have become agnostics over time. We might think that these are exceptional cases. However, we are convinced that these cases are a symptom of an obvious fact: in traditionally Christian countries there is a crisis that affects both the faith and the life of the baptized. They stop practicing, become agnostics, and either live as such, or seek alternatives to a Christian religion that has lost its attractiveness and credibility.

“Complexio Oppositorum”?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Mosse
Keyword(s):  
South India ◽  
Cultural Continuity ◽  
Roman Catholicism ◽  
Social Spaces ◽  
History Of Christianity ◽  
Institutional Conditions ◽  
Christian Religion ◽  
History Of ◽  
Traditional Roles ◽  
Over Time

This chapter concerns Roman Catholicism in rural Tamil society as the product of shifting socio-political and institutional conditions. It argues that narratives of ‘Christian modernity’ — deepened and made more sophisticated with recent ventures in this field (Robbins 2004, Keane 2007) — have drawn attention away from settings where Christianity was introduced in ways that facilitated its localization within existing social and representational structures; where rather than disrupting existing socio-political arrangements it provided another means for their reproduction. At the same time, it shows how an over-commitment to the idea of cultural continuity fails to detect the ways in which, over time, participation in the realm of ‘Christian religion’ opened space for types of thought and action beyond traditional roles, and altered modes of signification within indigenous systems that were/are socially transformative. The tension between continuity and rupture in the history of Christianity in south India, and the co-existence of apparently antithetical moral traditions and social spaces— the ‘complex of opposites’—is bound up with five hundred years of fraught and shifting understandings of the categories of ‘religion’ and ‘culture’ themselves.

scholarly journals RESILIENCE IN THE FACE OF SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 183-195
Author(s):  
Gildázio Pereira da Silva Júnior ◽  
Dr. Flávio de São Pedro Filho
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Contingency Theory ◽  
Brazilian Amazon ◽  
Human Action ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Subject ◽  
General Goal ◽  
Conceptual Study ◽  
Social And Environmental Impacts

The dynamics of the systems present in the Amazon require a detailed view of the aspects involving human actions and their consequent interactions with the forest. The impacts caused by this relationship have been the subject of numerous studies aimed at understanding the responsiveness to these impacts, risks, and vulnerabilities of the environment subject to risk factors. The general goal of this paper is to conduct a theoretical and conceptual study on resilience in the face of socioenvironmental impacts in the Brazilian Western Amazon. The specific goals are to contextualize the concepts of situational resilience in the face of environmental impacts, to address the main definitions of environmental impacts in the Amazon, and analyze the approach in the face of the Amazon environmental heritage. Regarding the problem, the following question was proposed: how is resilience characterized in the face of social and environmental impacts? In order to answer this question, a theoretical-conceptual review based on the Contingency Theory was conducted to support the conclusions. In order to reach this goal, we sought the conceptualization of resilience in the face of environmental impacts, the search for the main definitions of environmental impacts in the Brazilian Amazon and some concepts about the Amazonian environmental heritage in a qualitative approach by collecting data through qualitative research for further analysis of the problem and literature review, in order to build knowledge for the theoretical foundation using the Contingency Theory, which springs from environmental conditions to actions that minimize the impacts of human action.

scholarly journals Construction of Meaning of Life: A Qualitative Study on a Subaltern Individual

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anand Shankar ◽  
Nishtha Jain
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Life Forms ◽  
Subaltern Studies ◽  
Construction Of Meaning

Meaning of life forms the core of human existence and is the primary motive behind human action. Considering the role of culture and context in conferring meaning of life, the literature in subaltern studies in this area is severely lacking. The present study seeks to understand construction of meaning of life of a person belonging to a subaltern background from a qualitative perspective. The data was collected using unstructured interview from one individual with low job permanency and low financial stability. Using thematic network analysis, four global themes emerged: construction of rigid boundaries/ insurmountable walls in life; enhancing quality of life through positivity, balance, and work; living in the present; and a cauldron of strong repressed emotions. Meaning of life impacts an individual’s psychological well-being, health, quality of life, life satisfaction and meaninglessness may lead to psychological problems and depression. The study doesn’t comprehensively view the relation between meaning of life and class. It is important to carry out studies delineating the role of culture and class in construction and development of meaning of life.

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