The “Analytic” Line of the Modern Stoicism: L. Backer, W. Irvine, M. Pigliucci

2021 ◽  
Vol V (1) ◽  
pp. 33-52
Author(s):  
Alexey Pavlov
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Analytic Philosophy ◽  
Normative Ethics ◽  
Theoretical Level ◽  
Philosophy Of Life ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

This article is dedicated to the “analytic” line in the philosophy of modern stoicism. Modern stoicism is developed as the philosophy of life but in this relation, it is understood as not the collection of speculations around such concepts as “life”, “human” and so on but rather as the philosophy about well living. It indicates that the goal of modern stoicism is integrating the eudemonic stance in the analytic normative ethics in which this movement was raised. Modern stoics explains the applicability of stoic ethics for 21st-century people in the way that their view on the world as they think is similar to such of Hellenistic people in many respects. On the theoretical level, modern stoicism is the attempt of application of ethics of late Stoa to the contemporary naturalistic worldview constituting around the data of natural science. This task is realized by representing the ethics of Rome stoicism as a collection of certain psychological practices. By means of it, it turns out possible to represent stoic ethics as some kind of the “framework” of behavior that is potentially compatible with various worldviews. But in this advantage of modern stoicism there is its main trouble also. Cleared out from metaphysics and based on certain obvious practical premises, this framework of sensible staid behavior tells us nothing about the world and hence couldn't be used as the full-blown worldview. However, the very raising of this movement indicates the need to explicitly formulating the problem of worldview within the analytic philosophy.

The image of a modern shaman. A literary example of Ida Brzezińska

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-134
Author(s):  
Angelika Moskal
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Popular Literature ◽  
The Other ◽  
The World ◽  
Evil Spirits ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The Way

Abstract: The shaman figure is most often associated with primitive communities, inhabiting, among others Siberia. The shaman plays one of the most important roles in them - he is an intermediary between the world of people and the world of spirits. Responds to, among others for the safe passage of souls to the other side and protects her from evil spirits. However, is there room for representatives of this institution in contemporary Polish popular literature? How would they find themselves in the 21st century? The article aims to show the interpretation of the shaman on the example of Ida Brzezińska, the heroine of the books of Martyna Raduchowska. I intend to introduce the role and functions of the „shaman from the dead”, juxtaposing the way Ida works (including reading sleepy margins from a rather unusual dream catcher, carrying out souls and the consequences that await in the event of failure or making contact with the dead) with the methods described by scholars shamans. The purpose of the work is to show how much Raduchowska tried to adapt shamanism in her work by modernizing it, and how many elements she added from herself to make the story more attractive.

TECHNOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION AND DIGITALIZATION OF HOTEL BUSINESS: OPPORTUNITIES AND PERSPECTIVES

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iliya Ivanov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Hotel Industry ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Technological Transformation ◽  
The World ◽  
Business Opportunities ◽  
Digital Generation ◽  
Scientific Report ◽  
The Way

At the advent of the 21st century, digital technologies have changed the way that hotel industry brings value to tourists around the world. The aim of this scientific report is to present the opportunities and perspectives for hotel business for digital transformation, as a crucial instrument for the growth of the industry and for meeting the needs of the new digital generation of consumers. With its potential, digital transformation is reshaping the industry, giving strategic advantages to companies focused on digital transformation of the business.

scholarly journals Sensing Possibility in International Law – Concepts and Categories for the 21st Century: A Response to Fleur Johns

AJIL Unbound ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 111 ◽  
pp. 200-204
Author(s):  
Keith Culver
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
International Law ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Concepts And Categories ◽  
The World ◽  
Algorithmic Analysis ◽  
The Way

Fleur Johns raises the alarm regarding the potential for algorithmic analysis of big data to change fundamentally the way international lawyers and their allies gather and interpret facts to which international law is applied. Johns invites her readers to join her in seeking ways to save the aspirations of law on the “global plane” from these disruptive forces. In what follows I take up Johns’ invitation, in the spirit of its advancing claims “in a speculative or polemical mode,” asking the reader to withhold for a moment demands for completeness, instead joining in exploration of how the world of international law might be viewed differently if a larger version of Johns’ argument holds.

Science, Meaning and Philosophy of Life

1996 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 135-147
Author(s):  
Sami Pihlström ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Science ◽  
Philosophy Of Life ◽  
Philosophical Dialogue ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

Quine's philosophical attitude is perhaps best expressed by the label 'scientistic'. His emphasis on physical science as the measure of the way the world is, is a noteworthy metaphilosophical fact. Putnam thinks that naturalism does not adequately take into account the normativity of our practices. While Quine, for one, would keep on insisting on the primacy of science, I would rather say that we only have our fallible necessarily inconclusive scientific-cum-philosophical dialogue to go on with.

Playfulness and Seriousness

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Elena Shliakhovchuk
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Video Games ◽  
21St Century ◽  
New Method ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

Despite the early focus on the demonizing of video games, in the 1990s some researchers suggested that video games might help in developing some useful skills and might convert in a new method of learning. At the beginning of the 21st century, researchers came to the conclusions that video games are more than a source of fun, relaxation, and distraction, but they are stages for the discourse on cultural, social, and political practices and systems that foster conceptual and critical thinking on a wide variety of issues. The 21st century gamers themselves confessed that games have an impact on the way they think, the way they learn, and the way they see the world.

scholarly journals Inside communities, outside conventions: What is at stake in doing theology?

2000 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilyn J. Legge
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Common Life ◽  
Global Commons ◽  
God's Love ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

When the way to proceed is uncertain and vision is hampered, we need to make a new compass to provide orientation and direction for assessment and renewal of theological enterprise. After sketching key challenges of the postmodern global terrain for theological work and community, I offer four "points" (practices) that have power to locate and guide Christian theologies and ethics toward 21st-century negotiations of "a new global commons," shared public spaces dedicated to a less violent and more mutual common life. I contend that what is at stake for those doing theology and ethics is relating to the crises of postmodern context in ways that express and practice the bearing of God's love in the world by shaping justice in communities where domination is resisted and religious practice can be both positive and subversive.

scholarly journals The Dialogue of Arts in Romanian Contemporary Drama

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 207-213
Author(s):  
Laura Bilic
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Music Technology ◽  
Dance Music ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
The World ◽  
Continuous Work ◽  
New Generation ◽  
The Way

Abstract The beginning of the 21st century is characterized in Romania by the emerging of a new generation of playwrights. Numerous actors or people coming “off the stage” begin to write drama, so that the playwrights become authors of the texts played on the stage. Thus, the playwrights join a trend that is common in Europe, being part of a category named by Bruno Tackels “les écrivains de plateau” - the writers of the stage. Nowadays, we witness a change in the way the young artists view drama - they do not only want to change the way of writing and performing drama, but they also want to change the world they live in. The contemporary performance has gradually lost its specificity by blending itself with visual arts, dance, music, technology, becoming a project. In our modern society the artists do not look for something meant to last forever, so the work of art becomes a continuous work in progress. Therefore, a bridge is being shattered - the bridge between nowadays and posterity.

scholarly journals Curriculum For Todays Learner

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Allen Jackson ◽  
Laura Gaudet ◽  
Larry McDaniel ◽  
Ottley Wright ◽  
Don Watt
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Educational Experience ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
The World ◽  
Complex Picture ◽  
Access Information ◽  
The Way

For the 21st century learner, the foundational principles of information development have grown exponentially. In many fields, the life of knowledge can be measured in months or years, with learning occurring in vastly different ways than in previous decades. Education as a continual process, can last a lifetime, and can be greatly facilitated by technological advances which alter the way in which people access information and think about the world. Faculty members in colleges and universities are challenged to provide a more complete and complex picture of the culture and world in which we live. Educators must maintain a curriculum to meet the demands of an ever-changing population of learners, while striving to diversity higher education curricula to provide a more rigorous educational experience.

scholarly journals From Culture to People: Thinking Anthropologically with Jesus and Paul

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes Merz
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Level ◽  
Human Diversity ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
The Way ◽  
Culture Concept

The culture concept has been crucial to anthropology. Yet, I argue against its use. I examine how Jesus and Paul interacted with, and focused on, people and contend that we shift our attention from culture to people. Human diversity and difference should no longer be categorized into different cultures as relative, bounded and divisive units. Rather, we should view it as an integral part of humanity’s commonality. Shifting our attention to people as cultural beings also means a move beyond a preoccupation with knowledge by embracing practical, reflexive, and ontological engagements with others. It is only when we try to understand specific people’s diverse perspectives and the way they see themselves and the world, that we can take them seriously. This opens up anthropology, both at a theoretical level and by collaborating with other disciplines, including theology. 

On the usefulness of the history of science for scientific education

1997 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 291-307
Author(s):  
C. Debru
Keyword(s):  
History Of Science ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Scientific Culture ◽  
Scientific Education ◽  
Scientific Revolutions ◽  
Claude Bernard ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Way

My purpose in this, the Claude Bernard Lecture, is to convince myself as well as my audience of something that is very difficult to demonstrate, the relevance of history in a culture of innovation. This is a puzzling and challenging point. Contemporary scientific culture is based on the cult of the newer and the unexpected, which are rightly considered to be better and more promising. In what way may the knowledge of the scientific past contribute to the understanding of present science and prepare young minds to be active investigators of nature? The practice of history may appear to be a withdrawal from reality, paving the way for a very bookish and progress–preventing view of the world, just as Aristotelian physics were for centuries. Natural science took a new start when scientists realized that they should learn from nature rather than from books. There are very sound reasons why science does not need history, and many prominent scientists have, at times, expressed reluctant opinions regarding the value of the history of science for the active scientist. ‘Science is revolutionary’, said Claude Bernard. This forceful statement may be interpreted as a final condemnation of history, and there is nothing to add to it, because it is simply true. Authors of major scientific revolutions like Darwin held similar views.

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