scholarly journals Family transitions to homelessness: a qualitative approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amélia Simões Figueiredo ◽  
Cândida Ferrito ◽  
Alexandra Sarreira Santos ◽  
Sérgio Deodato ◽  
Paulo Seabra ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Events ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Factors ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Homeless Families ◽  
Family Transitions ◽  
Future Expectations ◽  
Significant Life ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

ABSTRACT Objectives: to characterize the homeless families who use a Public Shower Room; identify significant life events/phenomena for the family’s transition to homelessness; understand the relationship between significant life events; identify future expectations of respondents. Methods: an exploratory, descriptive study using the interview and thematic content analysis. Sample consisted of public shower room users. Results: mental illness, social, personal and family factors justify the transition of subjects to homelessness. The total absence of hopelessness alternates with expectations for the future based on resilience and hope. Final Considerations: we highlight in the study the self-determination expressed in small expressions of the narrative, on the one hand, as well as aspects related to the evolution of family relationships, on the other.

Resilience in Very Advanced Ages: A Study With Centenarians

2020 ◽  
pp. 009141502092683
Author(s):  
Ana Saraiva Amaral ◽  
Rosa Marina Afonso ◽  
Daniela Brandão ◽  
Laetitia Teixeira ◽  
Oscar Ribeiro
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Linear Regression ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Health Perception ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Sociodemographic Variables ◽  
Significant Life ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Relationship

This study intends to assess the relationship between resilience in extremely long-lived individuals and sociodemographic, cognitive and health status variables, and significant life events. A selected sample of 48 centenarians (mean age = 100.8 years, SD = 1.2; 83.3% female) from two centenarian studies was considered. A resilience score covering five items (aging and usefulness, hopefulness, worryness, loneliness, and control) was considered. Multivariable linear regression analyses were conducted in order to identify predictors of resilience. No significant differences in the resilience score regarding sociodemographic variables or typology of significant life events were found. Our findings underscore that health perception (better) and pain (less frequent) were associated with higher levels of resilience. In being present in extremely long-lived individuals, resilience should be object of interest in further research.

Between Strangeness and Familiarity: Towards Gadamer's Conception of Effective History

2004 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans-Helmuth Gander
Keyword(s):  
Historical Consciousness ◽  
The Other ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Unified Theories ◽  
Truth And Method ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
German Theater ◽  
Effective History

This essay seeks to examine the relation between selfhood and history through Gadamer's conception of hermeneutical experience, one of the cornerstones of his theory of effective history in Truth and Method . By setting Gadamer's project into relation with those of Heidegger and Hegel, my primary focus is to demonstrate how effective history, in its emphasis upon the finite, the partial, and the fragmented, actually turns these seeming deficiencies into advantages for human self-understanding in the current theoretical climate of plurality and diversity. I argue that the dialectical model of the relationship between self and tradition given by Gadamer serves to reveal our human limitations, and thereby allows us a space in which self-determination can be carried out through an effective-historical consciousness that avoids the pitfalls of subject-centered, all-encompassing, unified theories of history, on the one hand, and scientifically unselfconscious, ahistorical approaches to selfhood, on the other. The essay closes with an application of effective-historical consciousness to the tradition of post-holocaust German theater, where hermeneutical experience functions to provide resources for Jewish self-determination through the same tradition that had formerly excluded them.

scholarly journals Addictive Buying: Causes, Processes, and Symbolic Meanings. Thematic Analysis of a Buying Addict's Diary

2007 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 408-422 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene García Ureta
Keyword(s):  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Personal Responsibility ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Symbolic Meanings ◽  
Moral Model ◽  
The One ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The aims of this study were twofold. On the one hand, to reach an understanding of, and to illustrate the experience of addictive buying and, on the other, to throw some light on the controversial subject of addicts' personal responsibility for their behavior. With these aims, a thematic analysis of an extensive diary written by a compulsive buyer is presented. Four themes emerge from the analysis: the defining characteristics of addiction to buying that determine the boundary separating it from other forms of impulsive or careless buying; several causal factors; the role that money and material objects play in family relationships and friendships through the symbolic meanings they adopt; and the relationship of personal values with impulsiveness and self-control. In view of the results, the moral model of addiction to buying is discussed, and an explanatory model of the ambivalence that is characteristic of addiction to buying is proposed, based on a personal hierarchy of values.

scholarly journals Imagining Worlds beyond the Nation-State

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 601-606
Author(s):  
Michael Collins
Keyword(s):  
Possible Worlds ◽  
The Other ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Alternative Pathways ◽  
The One ◽  
Central Characters ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract In addressing the relationship between national and international worldmaking political projects, Adom Getachew's impressive and thought-provoking recent book, Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination, seeks to move beyond recent debates between those who posit an inevitability thesis about the triumph of the nation-state after 1945, on the one hand, and those who insist on the possibilities of alternative pathways, on the other. The argument is compelling in demonstrating that the transcendence of race hierarchies was integral to arguments and aspirations about meaningful sovereignty. Getachew's central characters were visionaries in terms of imagining possible worlds beyond the nation-state. The book is less convincing in demonstrating that an intractable nationalism and indeed underlying racial thinking were not serious impediments to the achievement of these goals.

scholarly journals Philosophy of Justice in the Context of Ukraine

2018 ◽  
pp. 32-41
Author(s):  
Ludmila Sytnichenko
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Relationship ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
Moral Good ◽  
Democratic State ◽  
Theories Of Justice ◽  
Fundamental Dimension ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

This article investigates one of the major problems of modern political philosophy – the problem of justice in its fundamentally important methodological measurement in the Context of Ukraine. It’s consistently shown that justice belongs to a prominent place among the moral and social values: particularly its people owe to each other, because it is the scale, which measured freedom, equality and human rights.For this purpose it is analyzed the relationship and difference of methodological changes in grasping the concept of justice in the works of K-O-Apel, J.Habermas, O.Höffe, R.Forst. It was found that Habermas interprets a new essence of solidarity and justice as normative principles of a democratic state where the requirement of respect for the dignity of each based on the acceptance of the inviolability of his body, life and property. It is proved that O.Höffe draws attention to the need of fundamental changes in the understanding of social justice, emphasizing the pre-modern, paternalistic sense of distributive models. Іn the writings of R.Frost social justice gain a political dimension, just as political or social relationship can exist only in case of their full justification, respect for human dignity. In the latest theories of justice is said that the victim of injustice is firstly the one who is ignored both in the process of manufacturing and distribution of public goods. To conclude: only the justice of exchange permits us to solve the immediate, practical dilemma: should one hand over a part of one’s freedom to social, state, authoritative structures, or be independent of them and be unable to resort to their assistance in case of emergency. People, perforce, mutually abandon part of their freedom as legal agents in order to enjoy their right for freedom. If this abandonment is universal, such exchange may be considered just. By insisting that everything individual is also social because it requires and is embedded into social context, R.Forst presents intersubjectivity as a fundamental dimension of human existence that shows itself in our ability to self-determination, i.e. freedom, but within the limits of human community. Also his point is that our obligations are no less rooted in our existence than our rights, and law has no priority over good and depends on moral good as a defining factor of justice.

scholarly journals Mass culture, education and the perspective of individuality

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-46
Author(s):  
Panos Eliopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Mass Culture ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Natural Right ◽  
New Type ◽  
Individual Existence ◽  
The One ◽  
The Masses ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Culture Education ◽  
Do So

For Adorno and Horkheimer, rationalism – in fact, a technical rationalism which becomes a rationalism of domination– failed to provide the path to the liberation of man and society. The aftermath, half education of the masses, is not an incomplete education or lack of education, but substantially hostility towards culture and genuine education, decay and involvement of education in individual considerations and benefits, with the contribution of mass dissemination of culture and art. Half education is the spread of culture and art without a living relationship with the consciousness of people, without consequences for their lives. Adorno clarifies that in this context, the relationship between life and production reduces the former into the transitory epiphenomenon of the latter, as life and individual existence are not known in their immediacy, they do not connect directly, but they rather become part of the teaching for of material production. For Ortega y Gasset, a new type of human being has been born, the massman, who becomes isolated, trapped in the irrational feeling that nothing else, apart from his own private welfare, matters, but he also continues to demand as if it were his natural right to do so. Nonetheless, and although he remains an individualist, he does not have real access to the gifts of individuality. Marcuse understands that, ultimately, there is a conflict between production and profit on the one hand and self-determination on the other. As technology spreads its dominance over nature, man conquers man through mass control, diffused through work and culture. In this way, technological rationalism becomes ultimately political rationalism.

scholarly journals A Population-based Case-Control Study of Stillbirth: The Relationship of Significant Life Events to the Racial Disparity for African Americans

2013 ◽  
Vol 177 (8) ◽  
pp. 755-767 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol J. R. Hogue ◽  
Corette B. Parker ◽  
Marian Willinger ◽  
Jeff R. Temple ◽  
Carla M. Bann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Racial Disparity ◽  
Case Control Study ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Case Control ◽  
Significant Life ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Control Study

Significant life events and pulmonary tuberculosis

1989 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary D'Arcy ◽  
Petrina Keane ◽  
Luke Clancy
Keyword(s):  
Pulmonary Tuberculosis ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Respiratory Diseases ◽  
Active Tuberculosis ◽  
Significant Life ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThe relationship between significant life events and pulmonary tuberculosis was studied with a view to ascertaining whether such events were more prevalent in patients with tuberculosis than in patients with other respiratory diseases. The study was carried out at Peamount Chest Hospital, Newcastle, Co. Dublin. Sixty-five patients with pulmonary tuberculosis and 45 patients with non-tuberculous respiratory diseases were interviewed. We found that there was a significant increase in life events in patients with active tuberculosis when compared with non-tuberculous patients.

scholarly journals Metaphysics of the Divine Intellection in Marius Victorinus and its Possible Philosophical Sources

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-128
Author(s):  
Alexey Ruslanovych Fokin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
God The Father ◽  
The One ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Internal Potential

The article deals with the doctrine of Marius Victorinus (ca. 281/291‒382/386) on the Divine thinking or intellection, and provides a reconstruction of its possible philosophical sources. In the beginning the author after a breaf mentioning of Aristotle’s noetic theory in his “Metaphysica” emphasizes an important role of the neoplatonic doctrine of the “intelligible triad” in the Trinitarian doctrine of Victorinus, in which God is seen as the unity of the three Divine attributes, potencies or acts: being, life and thought, which correspond to the persons of the Christian Trinity. It is noted that the relationship between these Divine acts has a dynamic character, based on the logic of the eternal process of self-determination of God as the pure Being (Father), which defines himself as the Life (Son) and returns to himself as the Intellect (Holy Spirit), by which the fullness of Divine self-knowledge is achieved. This process Victorinus also connects with the idea of God as an absolute Spirit –a Substance that exists, lives and thinks of itself. Further the author consideres Victorinus’ concept of two actions and movements in God: one is internal, characterizing God the Father, the other is external, characterizing the Son-Logos. It has been argued that this doctrine goes back to the similar doctrine of Plotinus, which he applies to the One and the Intellect. It is noted that Victorinus in the light of the Neo-Platonic dialectics of the One and the Intellect reconsidered an Aristotelian theory of Divine intellect, which thinks of itself. He not only applies it to the Son-Logos, but also joins to it a Plotinian-Porphyrian conception of the “super-thinking” of the One, as a result of which Divine thinking according to Victorinus has two different forms: an internal, potential, hidden and unmanifest thinking (or “super-thinking”) of God the Father, and an external, actual and manifested thinking (or “self-thinking”) of the Son-Logos; the latter initially dwells in the internal thinking of the Father, and then was genereted from it as a Divine thinking that thinks both of the Father and of itself, becoming self-knowledge or self-thinking.

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