Chuang Tzu’s selflessness: mind-state and the cultural semiotics of jingshen

AbstractAt present, semiotic studies at home and abroad generally attach importance to the interpretation of symbols themselves, while the efforts in researching on the cognitive subject of symbols needs to be intensified and more attention should be paid to the process of symbolic activities. Cultural semiotics of jingshen attempts to construct a brand-new cognitive paradigm, not only to interpret the meaning of symbols, but also to develop the study of the relationship between the subject and the object in symbolic activities. In fact, the process of symbolic activities has been constantly emphasized in traditional Chinese culture. Although for an individual “the known” is infinite and “the knowable” is finite, the limitation of “the knowable” can be overcome through “self-cultivation.” The Chinese sages raised the concept of the “unity of three-tiered self-cultivation,” namely “unity of the mind and the body,” “unity of the mind and the objective world,” and “unity of apriorism and empiricism.” From the perspective of the cognitive paradigm, this concept gives due attention to the process of symbolic activities by emphasizing the effect of the cultivation of the cognitive subject on symbolic cognition and interpretation. The unity of the “three-tiered self-cultivation” of the cognitive subject can promote the development of a cultural semiotics of jingshen to construct an ideal cognitive paradigm in pursuing jingshen freedom and liberating symbolic meaning.

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Historia jednego motywu – rzecz o związkach biżuterii z architekturą

Załącznik Kulturoznawczy ◽

10.21697/zk.2017.4.10 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 221-249

Author(s):

Małgorzata Wrześniak

Keyword(s):

Mass Production ◽

Symbolic Meaning ◽

European Culture ◽

History Of ◽

Place Of Origin ◽

The Subject ◽

The Relationship ◽

The City ◽

The Temple ◽

Marital Union

The hereby text is a short study on the relationship between architecture and jewellery. In the first part, it presents the history of occurrence of architectural forms in jewellery from antiquity to present day in the European culture. The second part delivers the examples of contemporary artefacts, particularly rings with microarchitecture. The analysis of the collected examples proves that architecture – its form, construction and detail − is a motive of decoration willingly used in jewellery design, often of a symbolic meaning related to the household or the temple (wedding rings, ritual rings). Nowadays, especially in the 21st century, microarchitecture in jewellery often emerges with reference to the place of origin, i.e. the famous building being, most frequently, the commemoration of a journey, able to bring back the memory of a visited city. The architectural jewellery, whose meanings and functions are the subject of the hereby study, has undergone many transformations throughout history. Even though it has transitioned from simple to complicated and decorative forms, from precious and rare to cheap and popular objects of mass production presenting the miniature replicas of buildings, the jewellery nearly always symbolises the city. Much less often the jewellery design occurs with reference to the metaphorical meanings of buildings as a representation of permanency (the tower in Alessandro Dari’s jewellery) or marital union (the house and the temple in Jewish rings).

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System of relations of drug-dependent personality

Psychological Counseling and Psychotherapy ◽

10.26565/2410-1249-2017-8-06 ◽

2017 ◽

Keyword(s):

Drug Addiction ◽

Object Relation ◽

Drug Addicts ◽

Mental Life ◽

Dependent Personality ◽

The Subject ◽

Points Of View ◽

Drug Dependent ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship

The paper discusses the basic psychological directions of the system of attitudes of drug addiction’s study. The analysis of the problem of the system of attitudes of drug addiction persons made it possible to consider the relationship of drug addicts as a triad of subject-subject attitude to the drug, subject-object attitude to other people and subject-object arritude to himself. Thus, the drug "humanizes", endowed with attributes of a person's mental life. Emotional attachment to the drug is "personalized," and its loss is experienced as the loss of some part of itself. Behavior in relation to the drug is manifested in his persistent search. While, another person is treated by drug addicts in terms of utility, acceptability, need, importance, importance for them. The result of the analysis of different points of view about the peculiarities of the system of attitudes among drug addicts was the construction of a model for studying the relationship of persons with drug addiction in the triad: the subject is a subjective attitude to the drug, the subject is the object relation to other people, and the subject is an objective relation to himself. Drug addicts, animate and personalize the drug, refer to it as a person. At the same time, their relation to other people and to themselves is reified, and others are perceived as objects for manipulation. The findings suggest that formation of subject-subject emotional stereotypes towards close women: mother and wife/girl who are based on the depreciation mother’s social status and further in exaggerating the negative qualities of a partner.

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KESADARAN HUKUM SEBAGAI ASPEK DASAR POLITIK HUKUM LEGISLASI: SUATU TINJAUAN FILSAFAT

Jurnal Rechts Vinding: Media Pembinaan Hukum Nasional ◽

10.33331/rechtsvinding.v4i3.17 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 4 (3) ◽

pp. 469

Author(s):

Wenda Hartanto

Keyword(s):

Legal System ◽

Social Engineering ◽

Legal Policy ◽

The Public ◽

Social Interests ◽

Plural Society ◽

The Subject ◽

Political Economic ◽

The Relationship ◽

The Ideal

<p>Manusia seperti entitas lainnya, juga bereksistensi. Namun, eksistensi manusia berbeda karena memiliki kesadaran. Sedangkan hukum memiliki tujuan yang mulia yaitu untuk membentuk masyarakat berada dalam tatanan hukum dan berperan sebagai sarana rekayasa sosial demi kemajuan. Namun kesadaran hukum sebagai suatu entitas yang tunggal dibenturkan pada masyarakat plural dengan pandangan-pandangan yang majemuk. Suatu kumpulan individu yang majemuk juga memunculkan kaidah hukum jika disepakati dapat dianggap memiliki aspek moralitas dan kesadaran hukum oleh suatu golongan, tetapi tidak demikian oleh golongan yang lain. Dalam keadaan yang semacam itu, menjadi sangat penting untuk mengetahui bagaimana terjadinya proses relasi antara kesadaran hukum dan politik hukum dalam proses legislasi, serta bagaimana konsep ideal untuk mengakomodir kesadaran hukum masyarakat dalam proses legislasi. Dengan menggunakan metode penelitian hukum normatif bisa dilihat bahwa proses legislasi merupakan aktualisasi politik hukum yang berdasarkan kesadaran hukum masyarakat untuk mencapai tujuan dan melindungi kebutuhan dan kepentingan masyarakat. Indonesia sebagai negara bangsa yang majemuk memerlukan suatu sistem hukum modern yang mampu mengantisipasi serta mengatasi berbagai permasalahan yang mungkin akan timbul. Nilai-nilai Pancasila hadir untuk mengakomodir dimensi kepentingan politik, ekonomi, sosial dan politik manusia sebagai subjek didalam bernegara.</p><p>Humans like other entities, also exist. However, human existence is different because it has consciousness. While the law has a noble purpose which is to establish a community within the legal system and to serve as tools of social engineering for progression. However, legal awareness as a single entity collides with a plural society with diverse views. A group of diverse individuals make some law ,which is agreed by some group, can be considered to have morality aspects and legal awareness by that groups, but not by the other groups. In such circumstances, it becomes very important to understand the process of the relationship between legal awareness and legal policy in the legislation process, and what the ideal concept to accommodate the public legal awareness in the legislation process. By using the normative legal research method, it can be seen that the legislation process is an actualization of legal policy which is based on public legal awareness which aims to protect public needs and interests. Indonesia as a plural nation state require a modern legal system which is able to anticipate and overcome every problems that may arise. Pancasila Values exists here to accommodate the dimensions of political, economic, and social interests of human being as the subject of state.</p>

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CRITICAL TEXTS OF ART JOURNALS AS A TOOL FOR SOLVING THE PROBLEMS OF RELATIONSHIP OF THE VIEWER AND THE WORK OF FINE ARTS

Social Anthropology of Siberia ◽

10.31804/2687-0606-2021-2-1-6-14 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 6-14

Author(s):

Maya Smolina ◽

◽

Alexandra Sukorcheva

Keyword(s):

Art Criticism ◽

Fine Arts ◽

Fine Art ◽

Synthetic Theory ◽

Work Of Art ◽

Basic Principles ◽

The Subject ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship ◽

The Ideal

The object of this scientific research is art criticism in art magazines, the subject is the text of art criticism as a tool for solving problems of the relationship between a work of art and the viewer. The aim is to study journal art criticism as a tool for solving problems of the relationship between a work of art and the viewer. The analysis of the concepts of "art criticism" and "critical texts about art" is given in order to understand the essential features of art criticism and the specifics of its texts. The conceptual basis for the study was the key provisions of the theory of reflection by G.V.F. Hegel, the basic principles of the synthetic theory of the ideal D.V. Pivovarov and the concept of ideal formation, the main provisions of the theory of fine art by V.I. Zhukovsky and N.P. Koptseva.

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ВЗАИМОДЕЙСТВИЕ АДРЕСАТА ХУДОЖЕСТВЕННОЙ КРИТИКИ И ПРОИЗВЕДЕНИЯ ИЗОБРАЗИТЕЛЬНОГО ИСКУССТВА

Social Anthropology of Siberia ◽

10.31804/2687-0606-2021-2-2-68-83 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 68-83

Author(s):

Ksenia Reznikova ◽

◽

Maya Smolina ◽

Keyword(s):

Conceptual Analysis ◽

Art Criticism ◽

Scientific Research ◽

Fine Art ◽

Conceptual Basis ◽

Synthetic Theory ◽

Basic Principles ◽

The Subject ◽

The Relationship ◽

The Ideal

The object of this scientific research is art criticism, the subject is the interaction of the addressee of art criticism and a work of fine art. The aim is to study the relationship between the addressee of art criticism and a work of fine art. The conceptual analysis of the concept of "art criticism" is given, the features and structure of the text of art criticism are considered. The conceptual basis for the study was the key provisions of the theory of reflection by G.V.F. Hegel, the basic principles of the synthetic theory of the ideal D.V. Pivovarov and the concept of ideal formation, the main provisions of the theory of fine art by V.I. Zhukovsky and N.P. Koptseva. A peculiar result of scientific research is the fixation of the characteristics of various addressees of the text of art criticism ("viewer" and "artist") and the specifics of their relationship with a work of fine art through the study of the text of art criticism

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The phenomenology of the subject-object relation

Philosophy Journal ◽

10.21146/2072-0726-2020-13-4-148-170 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

pp. 148-170

Author(s):

Aleksei F. Losev ◽

Aza A. Takho-Godi ◽

Victor P. Troitskii ◽

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Keyword(s):

Original Composition ◽

Modern Science ◽

Object Relation ◽

Dialectical Method ◽

The Subject ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship ◽

Philosophy Journal

The publication of newly discovered materials from the archive of A.F. Losev relating to the original composition of the famous philosopher’s book “Philosophy of the Name” (1927) continues. Previously, the “Philosophy Journal” (No. 3, 2019) published “The general characteristic of tetractide dialectics”, a fragment which was intended to open the second, unreleased part of the book. In it, a kind of categorical system unfolds from the “dialectics of the first-entity” to the “dialectics of the name of the entity”. This new piece bearing the provisional title of “The Phenomenology of the subject – object relation” presents the closing sections of the second part of the book. Here, Losev begins with treating the relationship of the primo-entity and the name of the entity in energetic terms (eidos, energy, energema). Then, in terms of the same notions he describes the relations between the outside world and the subject of understanding. At the same time, all nuances of such connections and relations are expressed by a list of carefully selected antinomies (matter and essence, object and subject). This demonstrates the effectiveness of the phenomenological-dialectical method adopted by A.F. Losev. The very same dialectical system is well found in other works of A.F. Losev (1920s), such as in the book “Ancient Space and Modern Science” (chapter “Name and its Dialectics”) and “Philosophy of the Name”. In those other works, it is presented in a slightly less detailed form, albeit still in terms of the same antinomies. In the excerpt presented here, the subtle distinction between the two types of meon – the essence (internal) and material (external), receives a clearer exposition than in the above-mentioned books. This distinction is important because it determined the specificity of Losev’s phenomenology in many ways.

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The Story of One Theme – on the Relationship Between Jewellery and Archi

Załącznik Kulturoznawczy ◽

10.21697/zk.2019ee.01.20 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol ENGLISH EDITION (1) ◽

pp. 379-404

Author(s):

Małgorzata Wrześniak

Keyword(s):

Mass Production ◽

Symbolic Meaning ◽

European Culture ◽

History Of ◽

Place Of Origin ◽

The Subject ◽

The Relationship ◽

The City ◽

The Temple ◽

Marital Union

The hereby text is a short study on the relationship between architecture and jewellery. In the first part, it presents the history of occurrence of architectural forms in jewellery from antiquity to present day in the European culture. The second part delivers the examples of contemporary artefacts, particularly rings with microarchitecture. The analysis of the collected examples proves that architecture – its form, construction and detail − is a motive of decoration willingly used in jewellery design, often of a symbolic meaning related to the household or the temple (wedding rings, ritual rings). Nowadays, especially in the 21st century, microarchitecture in jewellery often emerges with reference to the place of origin, i.e. the famous building being, most frequently, the commemoration of a journey, able to bring back the memory of a visited city. The architectural jewellery, whose meanings and functions are the subject of the hereby study, has undergone many transformations throughout history. Even though it has transitioned from simple to complicated and decorative forms, from precious and rare to cheap and popular objects of mass production presenting the miniature replicas of buildings, the jewellery nearly always symbolises the city. Much less often the jewellery design occurs with reference to the metaphorical meanings of buildings as a representation of permanency (the tower in Alessandro Dari’s jewellery) or marital union (the house and the temple in Jewish rings).

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Humanitarian Detention and Figures of Persistence at the Border

Critical Times ◽

10.1215/26410478-7862552 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2 (3) ◽

pp. 435-465 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Debarati Sanyal

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Möbius Strip ◽

The Subject ◽

Colonial Histories ◽

The Relationship ◽

Mobius Strip ◽

The Ideal

Abstract Starting with Alan Kurdi as the “ideal” figure of the refugee, juxtaposed with the figure of the migrant swarm, which rehearses the contrast between humanitarian compassion and securitarian anxiety, this essay traces how these seemingly opposed logics meet in the “humanitarian” detention of children at Europe's borders. This essay examines the partial reinscription of colonial histories and their racist aftermaths in current technologies of surveillance, capture and detention. Adapting the figure of the Möbius strip to envision the relationship between camp and polis, the essay analyzes an experimental documentary on migrant detention at the Greek-Turkish border. In Blue Sky from Pain, by Stephanos Mangriotis and Laurence Pillant, detention sites contain unpredictable subjectivations, forms of dissent, and figures of persistence, even when the detainees are children. The film puts pressure on the frames by which we imagine the subject of human rights and the object of humanitarian compassion.

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The relationship of the scleractinian corals to the rugose corals

Paleobiology ◽

10.1017/s0094837300025707 ◽

1980 ◽

Vol 6 (02) ◽

pp. 146-160 ◽

Cited By ~ 29

Author(s):

William A. Oliver

Keyword(s):

Critical Points ◽

Scleractinian Corals ◽

Convincing Evidence ◽

Early Triassic ◽

Rugose Corals ◽

History Of ◽

The Subject ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship ◽

Biologic Factors

The Mesozoic-Cenozoic coral Order Scleractinia has been suggested to have originated or evolved (1) by direct descent from the Paleozoic Order Rugosa or (2) by the development of a skeleton in members of one of the anemone groups that probably have existed throughout Phanerozoic time. In spite of much work on the subject, advocates of the direct descent hypothesis have failed to find convincing evidence of this relationship. Critical points are:(1) Rugosan septal insertion is serial; Scleractinian insertion is cyclic; no intermediate stages have been demonstrated. Apparent intermediates are Scleractinia having bilateral cyclic insertion or teratological Rugosa.(2) There is convincing evidence that the skeletons of many Rugosa were calcitic and none are known to be or to have been aragonitic. In contrast, the skeletons of all living Scleractinia are aragonitic and there is evidence that fossil Scleractinia were aragonitic also. The mineralogic difference is almost certainly due to intrinsic biologic factors.(3) No early Triassic corals of either group are known. This fact is not compelling (by itself) but is important in connection with points 1 and 2, because, given direct descent, both changes took place during this only stage in the history of the two groups in which there are no known corals.

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