Science as an Absolute Good and the Transhumanist Days of Tomorrow

2021 ◽  
pp. 259-264
Author(s):  
Svetlana V. Shibarshina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Absolute Good

scholarly journals Dialectics of the subjective and the objective in the substantiation of law by the classics of German philosophy

2020 ◽  
pp. 76-91
Author(s):  
Д.В. Масленников ◽  
М.Б. Ревнова
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Values ◽  
German Philosophy ◽  
Absolute Good ◽  
Law And Morality ◽  
Thinking Process ◽  
Single Idea ◽  
First Time

Понимание абсолютности оснований духовных ценностей человека, позволяющее трактовать императивность норм права и морали как объективный результат акта его свободы, возможно лишь в актуализации процесса мышления. Эта актуализация должна быть и может быть только собственным актом человека, явлением субъективности его воли. Однако задача теоретического изображения этого процесса впервые могла быть поставлена и решена только классиками немецкой философии. Анализ их позиций позволяет сделать вывод о том, что право и мораль генетически не связаны друг с другом: право не опосредовано моралью и не является его абстракцией. При этом право и мораль содержательно не противоречат друг другу, поскольку являются результатом развития единой идеи абсолютного блага и между ними существует своего рода предустановленная гармония, заданная «духом истории». Understanding the absoluteness of the foundations of a person's spiritual values, which makes it possible to interpret the imperativeness of the norms of law and morality as an objective result of the act of his freedom, is possible only in the actualization of the thinking process. This actualization should and can only be a person's own act, a manifestation of the subjectivity of his will. However, the task of theoretically depicting this process for the first time could be posed and solved only by the classics of German philosophy. An analysis of their positions allows us to conclude that law and morality are not genetically related to each other: law is not mediated by morality and is not its abstraction. At the same time, law and morality do not contradict each other substantively, since they are the result of the development of a single idea of ​​absolute good and between them there is a kind of pre-established harmony set by the “spirit of history”.

Contrast in the Security Concepts of China and the EU: The Perspective of a PLA Officer

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHEN BO
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
International Society ◽  
Security Policy ◽  
International Institutions ◽  
Rule Based ◽  
Territorial Integrity ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Absolute Good ◽  
Analytical Review ◽  
The Eu

This chapter presents the perspectives of officers in the People's Liberation Army (PLA). It provides an analytical review of the two security concepts that have emerged in response to the post Cold War order. It holds that China's security policy is designed first and foremost to safeguard the sovereignty, unity, and territorial integrity of the nation under the paradoxical conditions of globalization. Although recognizing the mutuality of security, the purpose of China's policy is to gain other actors' support for the defence of China's sovereign interests. The EU's core interests are defined in terms of ‘a stronger international society, well functioning international institutions and a rule-based international order’. This also recognizes the mutuality of security but does not place sovereignty as the absolute good: if international society, institutions, and order require the mitigation of sovereignty, then Europeans will accept it.

The Absolute Good and the Human Goods

2003 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 117-126
Author(s):  
R. Ferber ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Absolute Good ◽  
The Absolute

scholarly journals Does Clinically Important Change in Function After Knee Replacement Guarantee Good Absolute Function? The Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica L. Maxwell ◽  
David T. Felson ◽  
Jingbo Niu ◽  
Barton Wise ◽  
Michael C. Nevitt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Functional Status ◽  
Knee Replacement ◽  
Important Change ◽  
Absolute Good ◽  
Patient Acceptable Symptom State ◽  
Total Knee ◽  
Important Amount ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Partial Overlap ◽  
Clinically Important Change

Objective.Poor functional outcomes post–knee replacement are common, but estimates of its prevalence vary, likely in part because of differences in methods used to assess function. The agreement between improvement in function and absolute good levels of function after knee replacement has not been evaluated. We evaluated the attainment of improvement in function and absolute good function after total knee replacement (TKR) and the agreement between these measures.Methods.Using data from The Multicenter Osteoarthritis (MOST) Study, we determined the prevalence of achieving a minimal clinically important improvement (MCII, ≥ 14.2/68 point improvement) and Patient Acceptable Symptom State (PASS, ≤ 22/68 post-TKR score) on the Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC) Physical Function subscale at least 6 months after knee replacement. We also assessed the frequency of co-occurrence of the 2 outcomes, and the prevalence according to pre-knee replacement functional status.Results.We included 228 subjects who had a knee replacement during followup (mean age 65 yrs, mean body mass index 33.4, 73% female). Seventy-one percent attained the PASS for function after knee replacement, while only 44% attained the MCII. Of the subjects who met the MCII, 93% also attained the PASS; however, of subjects who did not meet the MCII, 54% still achieved a PASS. Baseline functional status was associated with attainment of each MCII and PASS.Conclusion.There was only partial overlap between attainment of a good level of function and actually improving by an acceptable amount. Subjects were more likely to attain an acceptable level of function than to achieve a clinically important amount of improvement post–knee replacement.

scholarly journals Philophobia: From Post-Critical to Neo-Critical Pedagogy Through Art Critique (and a Pinch of Hate)

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Itay Snir
Keyword(s):  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Art Criticism ◽  
Modern Concept ◽  
Educational Discourse ◽  
Complex Concept ◽  
The World ◽  
Privileged Status ◽  
Absolute Good ◽  
German Historian ◽  
The Way

While post-critical pedagogy urges us to educate out of and toward love for the world, in this article I argue against the privileged status of love in educational discourse. I hold that renewing the world is impossible without critique, indeed without a pinch of hatred. I suggest, therefore, moving from post to neo-critique, to renewing the world by renewing critique. I start with discussing some good reasons for hating the world, and then turn to the concept of critique, which post-critical pedagogy is by no means the first to attack. A look at the thorough analysis of the modern concept of critique offered by German historian Reinhart Koselleck uncovers the deep contradictions inherent to its totalizing, rationalistic presuppositions that see nothing but absolute good and absolute evil. Koselleck’s comments on premodern critique point the way to a more complex concept of critique, which transcends such binary divisions. In the last section of this article, I take some steps in this direction, fleshing out the concept of neo-critical pedagogy by thinking of art criticism.

Securitization Theory or a Well Overlooked Old: On the Philosophical and Theoretical Premises and Origins of the Theory

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-32
Author(s):  
Oleg Sergeevich Gaidaev
Keyword(s):  
Structural Realism ◽  
Security Studies ◽  
Early Theory ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Absolute Good ◽  
History Of ◽  
Securitization Theory ◽  
Alternative Approaches ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
New Framework

More than 20 years have passed since B. Buzan, O. Wver and J. de Wilde published their Security: A New Framework for Analysis, which has become a classic in the discipline of security studies. Although Russian scholars increasingly attempt to use the securitization theorys conceptual apparatus in their research, the knowledge of the theory itself remains rather fragmentary. The overwhelming majority of existing papers refer to the so-called Copenhagen Schools (CS) intellectual heritage, while more comprehensive approaches and recent studies remain almost unknown among Russian scholars. The author attempts to fill this gap. This article is first in line of a series of studies, entirely devoted to the phenomenon of securitization: from the earliest milestones to the modern stage of development of the theory. The paper examines the theoretical and philosophical premises, as well as the ideas and assumptions of the securitization theory, first formulated by O. Wver in the late 1980s. The author refers to the original texts of the main figures of the CS: O. Wver and B. Buzan, conceptualizing the history of the concept of securitization and immersing the reader into the atmosphere of security studies field at the end of the 20th century. As a result, it becomes possible to determine the key elements of the early theory of securitization: security as a speech act, national security as a main focus of study, post-structural realism as a research agenda of O. Wver, and the idea of security as a negative meaning. The article concludes that despite the shortcomings of the early theory of securitization noted by many critics, it was based on a valuable and fruitful idea - an attempt to go beyond the notion of security as an absolute good or a metaphysical entity, which was typical of traditional and many alternative approaches to the definition of security.

scholarly journals Aristotle’s Criticism of the Platonic Idea of the Good in Nicomachean Ethics 1.6

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 309-342
Author(s):  
Melina G. Mouzala
Keyword(s):  
Practical Wisdom ◽  
Nicomachean Ethics ◽  
Relational Goods ◽  
Absolute Good ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Eudemian Ethics

In Nicomachean Ethics 1.6, Aristotle directs his criticism not only against the Platonic Idea of the Good but also against the notion of a universal Good. In this paper, I also examine some of the most interesting aspects of his criticism of the Platonic Good and the universal Good in Eudemian Ethics 1.8. In the EN, after using a series of disputable ontological arguments, Aristotle’s criticism culminates in a strong ethical or rather practical and, simultaneously, epistemological argument, from which a dialectical postulatum emerges. This argument aims to show that we have to discover the dialectical stages or grades which constitute the relation between the ultimate End, i.e., the Good simpliciter or the absolute Good, and the relational goods till the last prakton good in which each specific praxis ends. According to the present reading, Aristotle sets out to establish a kind of Dialectic of the ends (Dialektikē tōn telōn) or Dialectic of the goods (Dialektikē tōn agathōn), which puts emphasis on the descent to the specific good, which is appropriate to and cognate with each individual, be that a person, praxis, science or craft. It is also suggested that this might be relevant to Aristotle’s tendency to establish a separation of phronēsis, i.e., practical wisdom, from sophia, i.e., wisdom, in the Nicomachean Ethics.

scholarly journals RELIGIOUS IDENTITY: “US” AND “THEM” AS GLOBAL, LOCAL, AND GLOCAL (BELARUS, GERMANY, RUSSIA)

2021 ◽  
pp. 75-86
Author(s):  
EVGENIY I. ARININ ◽  
◽  
ALEXANDER YU. BENDIN ◽  
NATALIA M. MARKOVA ◽  
YULIA G. MATUSHANSKAYA ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Religious Identity ◽  
Group Identification ◽  
Second Order ◽  
First Order ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Absolute Good ◽  
History Of ◽  
Relationship Of

The history of the 19th and 20th centuries has highlighted a number of specific aspects of the phenomenon of religious identity, the roots of which can be traced back to the Reformation. The “language of respondents” (“language of the first order”) and “language of experts” (“language of the second order”) are distinguished, differing as observation of reality and observation of observers of reality. The study analyzes ideas about “us”, “them”, global, local, and glocal on materials from Belarus and Russia in comparison with materials from Germany. The article considers alternative forms of personal and group identification, which have gone through a number of historical stages of their relationships, having retained their significance to the present time, often interpreted as a relationship of absolute “good” with absolute “evil”, while in one case one religion is “good”, and in a friend - another.

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