scholarly journals With Jørn Utzon: Approaching and Preaching Architectural Texts

Homiletic ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-69
Author(s):  
Sunggu A. Yang
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Opera House ◽  
Biblical Texts ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Architectural Imagination

Architecture is communication. It conveys human stories, feelings, philosophies, and cultural histories and interacts through them with viewers, occupants, artists, and surrounding communities. Architecture, whether explicitly religious or not, is spiritual, too. Embodying and manifesting spatial spirituality, it invokes in the mind of the appreciator awe, wonder, and contact with the transcendent. All this is possible because architecture is, to borrow Paul Tillich’s language, an art form carrying the ultimate concerns of human life. Recognizing the communicative, spiritual, and existential nature of architecture exemplified in Jørn Utzon’s Sydney Opera House, this article meets a need and demonstrates the potential for architectural preaching. Preaching can serve biblical texts efficiently—particularly architectural ones (e.g., Exodus 26 and Revelation 21)—by approaching them through an architectural hermeneutic and creatively presenting them with architectural imagination.

scholarly journals The Significance of “mushin”: The Essential Mind of Zen Buddhist Philosophy for Humans in a Contemporary World

Asian Studies ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hisaki HASHI
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Mind ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Buddhist Philosophy ◽  
Digital Networks ◽  
Human Origin ◽  
Dynamic Approach ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Zen Buddhist

In our time of an information highway, digital networks are linked around the clock. Among various data many people are unconsciously depending on IT and digital medias with their body––but without any mind. The human origin, its creative thinking and acting, transmitting one idea to another for reforming and developing something new has been quite forgotten. Against this omnipresent phenomenon the Zen Buddhist Philosophy of Mind shows a dynamic approach to re-create and re-construct a human life, accompanied by the unique concept of the absolute one, “mu” (無), mu-shin (無心), the mind of mu presents a dynamic unity in its flexible activity.

scholarly journals The social struggle against death: Human strategies for immortality

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (13-14) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marko Galić
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Life Forms ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Biological Part ◽  
Knowing That ◽  
Social Struggle ◽  
The Social ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Human Death

Death is an infallible part of the human life, and what makes humandifferent from all other beings is fact that he knows that he isgoing to die. Knowing this, human beings are spending their wholelife knowing that the day of their end is going to come. It is clear thatdeath has its biological part, also as a huge event in the existenceof all life forms, including human, death has its philosophical pointof view, and finally, unlike some may disagree, death itself is a hugesocial phenomena as well, and as such, the social influence of deathdeserves close attention and its own part in the social science studies.This paper analyzes the presence of the death in human culture, includinginstitutions, rituals and beliefs following the discourse of lateZygmunt Bauman who left huge influence on this field of study. Sincethe earliest forms of communities, humans are trying to overcomethe death, the state of “after-life” and some form of immortality ofthe being is something that is common to all religions and beliefs everknown to mankind, which stands as a evidence that the final void ofnon-existence know to us as death is something that always presentedhorror in the mind of the humans.

Effects of Electromagnetic Radiation of Mobile Phones on the Human Brain

2020 ◽  
pp. 97-120
Author(s):  
Junaid Ahmad Malik
Keyword(s):  
Human Brain ◽  
Electromagnetic Radiation ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Car Accidents ◽  
Brain Barrier Permeability ◽  
Biological Impacts ◽  
Mind And Brain ◽  
The Mind

With the expanding use of wireless cellular networks, concerns have been communicated about the possible interaction of electromagnetic radiation with the human life, explicitly, the mind and brain. Mobile phones emanate radio frequency waves, a type of non-ionizing radiation, which can be absorbed by tissues nearest to where the telephone is kept. The effects on neuronal electrical activity, energy metabolism, genomic responses, neurotransmitter balance, blood–brain barrier permeability, mental psychological aptitude, sleep, and diverse cerebrum conditions including brain tumors are assessed. Health dangers may likewise develop from use of cellular communication, for instance, car accidents while utilizing the device while driving. These indirect well-being impacts surpass the immediate common troubles and should be looked into in more detail later on. In this chapter, we outline the possible biological impacts of EMF introduction on human brain.

The Teaching Life

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay Parini
Keyword(s):  
Beginning Teacher ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Successful Teachers ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Teaching Life ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Teaching Voice ◽  
The Voice

Nobody just walks into a classroom and begins to teach without some consideration of self-presentation, much as nobody sits down to write a poem, an essay, or a novel without considering the voice behind the words, its tone and texture, and the traditions of writing within a particular genre. Voice is everything in literature, playing in the mind of the writer, the ear of the reader; the search for authenticity in that voice is the writer’s work of a lifetime. What I want to suggest here is that teachers, like writers, also need to invent and cultivate a voice, one that serves their personal needs as well as the material at hand, one that feels authentic. It should also take into account the nature of the students who are being addressed, their background in the subject and their disposition as a class, which is not always easy to gauge. It takes a good deal of time, as well as experimentation, to find this voice, in teaching as in writing. For the most part, the invention of a teaching persona is a fairly conscious act. Teachers who are unconscious of their teaching self might get lucky; that is, they might adopt or adapt something familiar—a manner, a voice—that actually works in the classroom from the beginning. Dumb luck happens. But most of the successful teachers I have known have been deeply aware that their selfpresentation involves, or has involved at some point, the donning of a mask. This taking on of a mask, or persona (from the Latin word implying that a voice is something discovered by “sounding through” a mask, as in per/sona), is no simple process. It involves artifice, and the art of teaching is no less complicated than any other art form. It is not something “natural,” i.e., “found in nature.” A beginning teacher will have to try on countless masks before finding one that fits, that seems appropriate, that works to organize and embody a teaching voice. In most cases, a teacher will have a whole closet full of masks to try on for size.

Descartes’ Daydream and the Mind-Body Problem

1998 ◽  
pp. 100-105
Author(s):  
Peter Schuller
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Body Problem ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Physical Processes ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Levels Of Reality ◽  
Human Thinking ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Universe

After exhorting us to wake up from our ‘daydreaming’ and revolutionize our modality of thought to that of conceptualization, Descartes seems to forget about this crucial matter of a discontinuous leap. So, too, it seems has the profession generally and this has infected philosophical research and teaching. It is urged here that discontinuous processes are crucial in the universe, in human life, in human thinking. Such ontological events cannot be handled by dualism, materialism or postmodernism. Concentration on such discontinuous processes is urged, an alternative is briefly indicated, and a criterion for ordering levels of human levels of reality is offered. It follows in the line of Cantor and Marx. It is suggested that a human being is a transfinite entity and that such an entity has many levels of being, among which are cognitive processes, imaginative processes and physical processes. A person is ‘not other than’ these without being ‘nothing but’ any of these.

Classics In Mathematics Education: Mathematics in the Training for Citizenship

1967 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 140-148
Author(s):  
David Eugene Smith
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Limited Space ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Mind

It is the purpose of this paper to set forth certain facts to be kept in mind in the teaching of mathematirs for citizenship. It is proposed to consider in the limited space available what there is in mathematics that the working man needs and what of this science the woman requires in dirceting the education of her children and in managing her home; how mathematics trains the mind and how its poetry affects human life; what potency the subject has in the uplift of your soul and mine; how it has linked itself with all humanity in all times; and how we should go about to make all this real in our everyday teaching.

‘Yet in my flesh I will see God’ : Robert Grosseteste on the body’s claim for ultimate happiness1

2020 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 337-353
Author(s):  
Nico den Bok
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
The Body ◽  
Final Goal ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Theological Vision

Abstract In Christianity the final goal of human life has usually been indicated as seeing God, but not in the sense of really seeing, with bodily senses. From Christology, however, the idea of the body’s desire for ultimate happiness received a new impulse. This article focuses on a crucial moment in its history: the theology of Robert Grosseteste. The appearance of God in the flesh, he claims, was not only needed for saving man, but also fulfilling man, and for fulfilling not only the mind, but also the body. Starting from his innovating argument this article points out how this idea is sustained in his wider theological vision.

scholarly journals PERSPEKTIF HUKUM ISLAM TENTANG SENI

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-59
Author(s):  
Darmiko Suhendra
Keyword(s):  
Islamic Law ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Sound Art ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Work Atmosphere ◽  
The One ◽  
The Mind

Art is defined as the expertise to disclose or express ideas and thoughts a esthetics, including the ability and imagination to realize the creation of objects or the work atmosphere capable of inflicting a sense beautiful. Art is diverse and most of it always questionable in terms of Islamic law. In general, the art divided into two: first, sculpture, painting and drawing. And second, sound art. The main problem in sculpture, painting and drawing is if the object of animate beings, because on the one hand there are numbers of hadith that prohibit making images that are either raised or incurred and three dimensions. While on the other hand it has been commonly done in the community, especially in the natural environment that is fertile and rich with a variety of animals created by God as our State that inspired the artists. In addition, the sculpture on the side can be an expression of sheer beauty, it also has benefits for lessons and so on. Furthermore, sound art is a universal cultural phenomenon, practiced by many nations. In the time of the Prophet himself has been known to sing and play music. In terms of general principles of religious teachings that sound art including mu'amalat dunyawiyyah category. Restrictions on the arts (sculpture, painting, drawing, and sound) for their prudence of Muslims. Prudence was intended that they do not fall to the things that are contrary to the values of Islam which is the focal point at that time. Art as an aesthetic manifestation of the spirit of monotheism and not a waste of money but the art necessary for the improvement of human life, promotion of the dignity and the dignity and refining the soul and the mind. If so the purpose of art, then it is possible that the skill and sunnah favor, not against it.

scholarly journals PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF COLORS AND COLOR THERAPY

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (3SE) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Sangita Saxena
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Psychological Effects ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Green Plants ◽  
Specific Effects ◽  
Man And Nature ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Relationship

The entire fabric of life is made of colors, whether our clothes are yes, home, or car. Everyone is identified with colors. Colors have specific effects on human life and mind. Color is a valuable gift of nature and also the beauty of human life. The redness of the dawn, the blue sky, the gray mountains, the straw, the green plants and the trees, the turquoise sea - everything unique and wonderful. The relationship between man and nature is also unbreakable. Sometimes Basanti yellow, sometimes greenery sawan, sometimes Sitabh and sometimes Tamavruta night. This is also the journey of man's life. Sometimes golden hope and sometimes disappointment. The cloudy sky blurts the mind as well, the rays of the sun rip it off, making everything clear. If there is no color in life, then it will become very dry and dry. जीवन का समूचा ताना-बाना रंगों से बना है, चाहे हमारे वस्त्र हांे, घर हो, या गाड़ी हो। सबकी पहचान रंगों के साथ है। रंगों का मनुष्य के जीवन और मन पर विशिष्ट प्रभाव होता है। रंग प्रकृति की बहुमूल्य देन है और मानव के जीवन का सौंदर्य भी। उषाकाल की लालिमा, नीलाभ नभ, भूरे पहाड़, तिनकों, पौधों और पेड़ों की हरिताभा, फीरोज़ी समुद्र- सबकुछ विशिष्ट और अद्भुत। मनुष्य और प्रकृति का संबंध भी अटूट है। कभी बसंती पीला तो कभी हरियाला सावन, कभी सिताभ तो कभी तमावृता रात। ऐसे ही मनुष्य की जीवन-यात्रा भी है। कभी सुनहली आशा तो कभी निराशा की कालिमा। मेघाच्छादित आकाश मन को भी धुँधला देता है तो उसे चीरती सूर्य की किरण, सबकुछ स्पष्ट करने वाली। यदि जीवन में रंग न हांे तो बहुत शुष्क और नीरस हो जाए।

scholarly journals PSYCHOLOGICAL USE OF COLORS IN THE FIELD OF MEDICINE

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (3SE) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Ashish Kumar Tomar
Keyword(s):  
Human Brain ◽  
Human Life ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Human Happiness ◽  
Deep Relationship ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Definite Role

Color is an integral part of our life. Colors have such a deep relationship with human life that one cannot realize human happiness in a colorless world. It is only through colors that we can see from the greenery of the nature to the golden light of the sun, the blue of the sky, the black of the clouds and the light of the moon. The seven-color rainbow line drawn in the clouds tells a beautiful story of each color. Seeing which the mind becomes a part of the colorful world. Colors also have a definite role in the multi-colored life of human beings. Colors have a profound effect on the human brain. Modern psychologists believe that the likes of color and influence affect the entire equation of a man's life. This strength of colors has also made it useful for healing. There are many diseases, colors are used for the treatment of them. Due to these characteristics, it has been named color therapy. रंग हमारे जीवन का एक अभिन्न हिस्सा है। रंगों का मानव जीवन के साथ इतना गहरा रिश्ता है कि बेरंग दुनिया में मानव खुशियों का एहसास ही नहीं कर सकता। रंगों के माध्यम से ही प्रकृति की हरियाली से लेकर सूरज की सुनहरी रोशनी, आसमान का नीलापन, बादलों की काली घटाएं और चन्द्रमा का उजलापन देख पाते है। बादलों में खिंचती सात रंगों की इन्द्रधनुषी रेखा प्रत्येक रंग की सुन्दर कहानी बयां करती है। जिसे देखकर मन रंगीन दुनिया का हिस्सा बन जाता है। मनुष्य के बहुरंगों जीवन में रंगों की भी एक निश्चित भूमिका होंती है। रंग मनुष्य के मस्तिष्क पर गहरा असर डालते है। आधुनिक मनोवैज्ञानिकों की मान्यता है कि रंगों की पसन्द व प्रभाव से आदमी की जिन्दगी का पूरा समीकरण प्रभावित होता है। रंगों की इस ताकत ने उसे उपचार के लिए भी उपयोगी बना दिया है। कईं सारी बीमारियाँ है, जिनके उपचार के लिए रंगों का इस्तेमाल किया जाता है। इन खूबियों के कारण इसे कलर थेरेपी यानी रंग चिकित्सा का नाम दिया गया है।

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