scholarly journals Czy teologia ciała jest teologią fundamentalną? O naturze teologii ciała jako dyscypliny poznawczej

2019 ◽  
pp. 115-127
Author(s):  
Michał Chaberek
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Physical Reality ◽  
The Body ◽  
Systematic Theology ◽  
Human Knowledge ◽  
Fundamental Theology ◽  
Theology Of The Body ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The Status

This paper elaborates upon the status of the Theology of the Body (TOB) among the philosoph- ical and theological disciplines. The TOB is a relevant part of ecclesiastical reflection due to the modern cultural context. The genesis of the TOB is deeply rooted in social, political and econo- mic development of the Western civilization after the Enlightenment and Positivism of the 19th c. The TOB is a part of theology which is a valid and necessary part of the human knowledge. The justification for the TOB comes from its subject matter, which is the human body. The human body transcends physical reality through its actions and points towards the invisible realm of the soul and morality. The TOB needs to be recognized as one of the ontological disciplines rather than a deontological one, only. The TOB can be categorized as a part of fundamental theology within systematic theology.

scholarly journals The Saint and the Cynic: Resentment and Jewishness in Améry, Sloterdijk, and Wyschogrod

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 95-116
Author(s):  
Menachem Feuer
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
Harold Bloom ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Peter Sloterdijk ◽  
New Thinking ◽  
Modern Condition ◽  
Enlightenment Philosophy

The constellation of pain, resentment, the body, and time – as they exist in the wake of the Enlightenment and in the dawn of a new barbarism - is found throughout the work of Jean Améry and Peter Sloterdijk. Both thinkers were especially influenced by Nietzsche’s readings of resentment, his challenge to the Enlightenment, and his turn to the body as the basis of a new kind of thinking which starts with pain, dwells in irreversible time, and ends with the possibility of action and joy. While this new thinking is novel and appeals to all humankind, the most unexpected points of convergence between Améry and Sloterdijk can be found in their particular neo-Nietzschean articulations of Jewishness: using what Harold Bloom would call revision, they both propose a revision of Nietzsche’s reading of Judaism as resentment. Améry associates Jewishness with “revolt” while Sloterdijk associates what he calls “kynicism” (as opposed to cynicism) with Jewishness.1 Intensely aware of the mortal blows that have been dealt to the Enlightenment, philosophy, and modernity as well as to the human body during the Holocaust, Améry and Sloterdijk both address – either directly or indirectly – the meaning of cynicism in relation to Jewishness, in particular, and the modern condition, in general. 

scholarly journals The emergence of artificial Intelligence through the prism of Haeckel’s biogenetic law

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (11) ◽  
pp. 25-36
Author(s):  
С. С. Бескаравайний
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
The Body ◽  
Learning Ability ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Status ◽  
Genetic Law ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Functional Mechanisms

The article discusses the analogies between the formation of humanity as a collective subject, and the modern process of forming artificial intelligence, which should also have the features of a collective subject. It is shown that attempts to rely solely on the study of individual intelligence are unproductive. The isomorphism of anthroposociogenesis and the creation of AI is motivated by the following: AI is created by human civilization - therefore, its thinking will reproduce both the features of individual intelligence and the features of civilization that ensure the socialization of the individual. The problem of copying consciousness is difficult to analyze, therefore, the formation of subjectivity is considered. A technosubject is a collection of devices and programs that can determine their own future. It has been established that the bio-genetic law acts as a vector for the evolutionary variability of technical devices and sets the boundary conditions that must be met in the process of becoming a techno-subject. Copying the process of the emergence of the human mind and at the same time the practice of society in the accumulation and processing of information shows the path of development. Since now all functional mechanisms of the development of the mind and consciousness have not been revealed, it is necessary to correlate the new, computer mind with the form, with the external manifestations of the previous, natural, intelligence. There are also differences between these processes: 1) in comparison with the formation of human intelligence, the formation of AI is more reflexive, conscious, 2) the fundamentally different physicality of AI, due to the transfer of a large amount of information between machines, 3) the formation of techno-subject can be completely different in speed, since the learning ability of neural networks can exceed the learning ability of a person. Now, technological structures for storing information that we perceive in a socio-technological context can become elements of the body of a new subject. The Internet of things shows the possibility of a fundamentally new physicality, and communications in it are equivalent to unconscious biochemical processes in the human body. At the same time, copying the forms of the human body is redundant, but copying of manipulators and robot operators that can interact with the infrastructure created by man is necessary. It is shown that the Internet as a whole, as a single system, in modern conditions cannot become an AI carrier, it is more a medium than a subject. The carriers of AI should be the structural units of the technosphere, which will become the spokesmen of those contradictions that are sources of development. Probably, these will be technocenoses that will strive to achieve autotrophy, which will require extremely clear goal-setting from them, and, as a result, will lead them to the status of a techno-subject.

THE Theology of the Body

2018 ◽  
pp. 862-876
Author(s):  
José Granados
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
The Body ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
The Core ◽  
John Paul Ii ◽  
Theology Of The Body ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Vision Of God

This chapter outlines and defends the theology of the body that has been developed following the famous series of Wednesday catecheses offered by Pope St John Paul II. The chapter emphasizes three themes at the heart of the Theology of the Body. First, a vision, following Gaudium et Spes 22 that places Christ and the Incarnation at the core of the interpretation of humanity and society. Second, a vision of the human body that makes it possible to describe human existence in the light of love and to recover the theological significance of the notion of ‘experience’. Third, a corresponding anthropology of love that offers the key to the Christian vision of God, humanity, and the world; this anthropology of love is centred in the family relationships, as the privileged place where God reveals himself.

scholarly journals The Relationship Between Male/Female Identities Along the Biblical-Christian Tradition: Guidelines for Today’s Educations

2019 ◽  
pp. 63-72
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Mari
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
John Paul Ii ◽  
Theology Of The Body ◽  
Theological Foundation ◽  
The Relationship

The article presents anthropological, philosophical and theological foundation of the relationship between male/female identities in the light of the biblical-christian tradition. The first part introduces the concept of the primary reciprocity in Gen 1-2 focusing on affinity and difference between man and woman as well as man and woman’s reciprocal essentiality. The second part pertains to male/female reciprocity according to the “theology of the body” by John Paul II which includes a broad notion of freedom. Lastly, the article describes educational tasks including the nuptiality of human body with regards to Christian personalization. Proposed pedagogical vision involves promoting male and female identities according to their difference and to their common dignity.

scholarly journals Technification of human body as a practice of removing biological restrictions

2020 ◽  
pp. 65-76
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Georgievna Krushinovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
The Body ◽  
Technological Determinism ◽  
Biological Origin ◽  
Personal Property ◽  
The Status ◽  
Modern Context ◽  
Radical Transformation

  This article is dedicated to comprehension of the idea of technification of body, as well as practical results and consequences of its implementation. The author examines the emergence of individual dimensionality of body, its relevant perception, as well as goals and meanings of the heightened technoscientific attention toward it. The idea of radical transformation of a human, is acquiring the status of feasible, and the purpose of such transformation consists in elimination of natural principles, and thus, predetermination of a human through gradual technification of body — imposition of high technologies for modification of its external and internal structure. A human is essentially opposed to the natural world, his initial biological “insufficiency” assigns the ability to transcend the givenness, which underlies the establishment and evolution of culture. Such circumstance in a certain way is the cause of instrumental attitude to the body, which is of biological origin. In the process of cultural development, body acquires the status of personal property, which means liberation from its nonhuman determination. In the modern context, the aforementioned trends supported by technological progress and transhumanist expectations, result in the fact that body as a "soma", as a local autopoietic biosystem is being abated. The elimination of the purpose of human body set by nature is interpreted as “self-sovereignty"; however, the abolition of natural determinism implies the emergence of technological determinism.  

Conceptualizing the human body within practice theory

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-140
Author(s):  
Dimitri Ginev
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Practice Theory ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Status ◽  
Static Point ◽  
Point Of Reference

This article explores the status of the human body within configured social practices. It argues that the body is at once situated in configurations of practices and transcended by the horizons of possibilities upon which these practices project their existence as a potentiality-for-being. The human body’s status of situated transcendence is addressed in terms of a hermeneutic theory of practices that conceptualizes the interplay of practices and possibilities. Placed within this interplay, the body cannot be taken as a static point of reference. This conclusion is employed for the purpose of criticizing a series of conceptions that defends or at least leaves enough room for essentialist conceptualization of the body.

scholarly journals Dagens kroppsidealisering og kristen kroppsrealisme

Prismet ◽  
1970 ◽  
pp. 171-184
Author(s):  
Ove Olsen Sæle
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
The Body ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
Underlying Basis ◽  
Human Flesh

Our approach to the human body has always correlated with the contemporary cultural context. Today’s modern hi-tech society, with its extreme body discipline and body idealism, seems to express an even stronger mind-body duality than ever. The historical concept of mind-body duality, where the human flesh was subordinated and suppressed by human consciousness, soul and spirit, seems to form an underlying basis for today’s superficial body approach as well. Christian theology, paradoxically, can also provide a more subtle, positive and comprehensive conception of the body, which hopefully can function as a counterbalance to the current superficial body approach.Keywords: Mind-body duality • Ireneus, Descartes • today’s superficial body approach • a Christian conception of bodyNøkkelord: Kropp/sjel-dualisme  • Ireneus, Descartes • Dagens overfladiske kroppstilnærming • En kristen kroppsrealisme

scholarly journals My performance is my world. Queer and normativity in the practices of New York’s ballroom culture

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 59-68
Author(s):  
Łukasz Kiełpiński
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The Body ◽  
Safe Space ◽  
Central Concept ◽  
The Status ◽  
Social Advancement ◽  
Verbal Discourse ◽  
Form Of Expression ◽  
Ballroom Culture

The central concept of the article is performance as a form of expression specific to non-normative people. In confrontation with the oppressive discourse of dominant groups, the body of an excluded individual and its metamorphoses in themselves appear to be an alternative way of non-alienated expression. This phenomenon is discussed via the example of the practices of New York’s ballroom culture — primarily via the example of the film Paris is Burning from 1990, directed by Jennie Livingston. In the ballroom community, black and non-heteronormative Americans found a safe space for experiments with their identity, thanks to which they could experience a form of capitalistic success through an ephemeral performance. However, these practices, despite their apparent subversiveness and emancipatory potential, did not have the ambition to change the status quo. They only allowed experiencing the feeling of social advancement within the existing system. The story that ballroom culture members in the 1980s told about themselves through their own performances was part of a unique, non-verbal discourse of excluded groups, which developed a specific communication code based on the human body, its ways of moving and its aesthetic metamorphoses.

scholarly journals Wertkörper

2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (178) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rüdiger Kunow
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Global Market ◽  
The Body ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Global Expansion ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Neoliberal Capitalism ◽  
Enlightenment Project ◽  
Common Logic

Recent advances in the fields of genomics and biotechnology have greatly expanded the discretionary autonomy of human beings over their bodies. Biology has so become a new and alluring terrain for the enlightenment project of self-realization and selffulfilment. These developments have been co-evolving with the global expansion of neoliberal capitalism. This article states that there is a common logic at work in both areas, leading not only to the emergence of a global market in biological materials but also to a re-calibration of the biology of human life into lively capital. For this reason, the new „freedom“ of constructing the body according to one’s own preferences and desires in a dialectical inversion entails new obligations and constraints. In the end, only the technologically enhanced human body is fit for the neoliberal world of social cut-backs and can avoid being consigned to a new, this time biologically defined underclass.

scholarly journals Gente alta é parente do tuiuiú, baixa é da anta: alteridades antropomórficas

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriana Werneck Regina
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Common ◽  
Body Shapes ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Human Condition

RESUMOSão partilhadas reflexões acerca de uma pesquisa sobre quais as qualidades são destacadas pelas pessoas panará quando se reconhece o estatuto de sujeito dos humanos e não humanos. A partir de narrativas da origem da mulher e das práticas sociais a elas conectadas, é explicitado que a condição de humanidade é incompleta para abarcar a identificação de uma subjetividade. O que é associado à animalidade parece ser incluído na configuração de pessoa, incidindo nas formas corporais humana e animal do mesmo sujeito ou de pessoas que dele descenderam. Tornar inteligível a afirmativa de que gente alta descende de jaburu e baixa de anta entremeia o texto, contornando um antromorfismo heterogêneo e sugerindo que o comum entre humano e não humano inclui aspectos físicos, afetivos e performáticos. A relação entre alimento, divisão e multiplicação com o corpo é enfática e problematizada, paralelamente. Palavras-chave: Panará. Jê. Corpo. Humano. Não Humano. ABSTRACT Reflections are shared about a research on what qualities are highlighted by people Panará when it recognizes the status of subject of human and non human. From narratives of women's origin and social practices connected to them, it is explained that the human condition is incomplete to include the identification of a subjectivity. What is associated with animality seems to be included in one configuration, focusing the human body shapes and animals of the same subject or who it descended. Make intelligible the assertion that high people descended from jaburu and low tapir intersperses text, bypassing a heterogeneous anthropomorphism and suggesting that the common between human and non human includes physical, emotional and performative. The relationship between food, divide and multiply in the body is emphatic and problematized in parallel. Keywords: Panará. Gê. Body. Human. Not human.

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