Perennial Philosophy in the Intellectual Foundations of Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Titus Burckhardt

Perennial philosophy holds that there is something hidden in all transcendent matters that does not belong to a particular period of history and to a particular geographical location. Rather, it exists at all times and is transferred from one period to another as a tradition. Therefore, the term tradition in Perennial philosophy is the same as the sacred intellect that lies in the institution of all these transcendent affairs. Among the thinkers who sought to discover the foundations of Perennial philosophy were Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Titus Burckhardt. Perennial philosophy and traditionalist views have always formed the main and deep theories of these two thinkers. It can also be argued that the traditionalist view of the world has influenced all of Nasr and Burckhardt’s scientific theories. What has been studied in this article is the study and analysis of the views and opinions of Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Titus Burckhardt about Perennial philosophy, and the purpose of this research is to extract the basics of Perennial philosophy based on the views of these two thinkers among their works.

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Turkey’s foreign policy in perspective: Some regional and national interests

OOO Zhurnal Voprosy Istorii ◽

10.31166/voprosyistorii202010statyi48 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2020 (10-3) ◽

pp. 82-92

Author(s):

Gekkaya Funda

Keyword(s):

Foreign Policy ◽

Political Ideology ◽

Geographical Location ◽

National Interests ◽

Security Culture ◽

Center Stage ◽

External Relations ◽

The World ◽

Transit Route ◽

And Control

The formation of external policy of any country aims at serving the state’s interests. For this matter, many countries seek their way through this by taking into account the potential prospects available to them. The fundamental subtleties and factors that influence a state’s choices of external policy include geographical location, history, security, culture, trade, political ideology, military might, et cetera. Countries often make external contacts based on some regulations and response to unfolding events. Thus, external policy to an extent pertains to the guiding principles outlined to be pursued through state values, decisions and actions taken by the states themselves and their attempt to develop, manage and control the external relations of national societies. In this regard, the Caucasian region has been an important factor in Turkey’s foreign policy. Since these states emerged in the early 1990s, energy has taken a center stage within the region, while Turkey remains a transit route to the world...

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Specialty Space: Breast Care Centers

HERD Health Environments Research & Design Journal ◽

10.1177/1937586721990563 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 193758672199056

Author(s):

Diane Guevara

Keyword(s):

Design Process ◽

Interior Design ◽

Care Center ◽

Geographical Location ◽

Design Guidelines ◽

Relevant Evidence ◽

The World ◽

Hospital Gowns ◽

Breast Care ◽

Color Scheme

As background, breast care centers around the world vary in interior design based on geographical location and the trends of the healthcare design process at the time of construction. However, at the forefront of healthcare interior design is the evidence-based design (EBD) process and the Universal Design (UD) guidelines. The Center for Health Design states that the EBD process differs from the linear design process, in that EBD uses relevant evidence to educate and guide the design decisions. The objective of this study was to support future EBD and UD use in the development of patient areas in breast care center interior design. The methods for this study incorporated an extensive review of the literature, examples of eight breast care centers around the world, observations, an interview, and a staff survey concerning the interior design of a local breast care center. The results revealed that using the EBD process and UD, to develop guidelines for patient areas in breast care centers’ interior design, directors could use guidelines to evaluate existing breast care centers or preconstruction for new breast care centers. This study concluded with design guidelines for patient areas in breast care center interior design. The recommended guidelines targeted the following features: robes (vs. hospital gowns), spa-like atmosphere, monochromatic color scheme, use of wood and stone, private check-in areas, wayfinding, room temperature comfort, seating comfort, seating style choices including bariatric, personal items storage, access to natural light, indirect artificial lighting, living plants, views of nature, flooring comfort, and wheelchair accessibility.

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Icelandic Healthcare System

Spravočnik vrača obŝej praktiki (Journal of Family Medicine) ◽

10.33920/med-10-2006-10 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 72-77

Author(s):

Elena Frolova

Keyword(s):

Life Expectancy ◽

Olive Oil ◽

Healthcare System ◽

Fruits And Vegetables ◽

Geographical Location ◽

Health Index ◽

Average Life Expectancy ◽

The World ◽

Level Of Economic Development ◽

Restrictive Measures

Today the whole world continues to look at the surrounding reality through the prism of the coronavirus. A few months ago, in our relatively prosperous life without quarantine, the world-famous Bloomberg agency compiled another rating of countries according to the health index, on top of which were Spain and Italy. When compiling this rating, the average life expectancy of the population, the level of economic development, geographical location, prevalence of bad habits, the availability of clean drinking water, etc. were taken into account. The combination of these indicators provides data for the formation of a health index, which in Spain amounted to 92.8, and in Italy - 91.6. It is believed that the main factor contributing to the high health index in these countries is the favorable climate and the ability to keep to the Mediterranean diet, which is based on olive oil, seafood and a large amount of fruits and vegetables. However, as the tragic reality shows, countries with the best organization of the healthcare system in the world were not able to withstand the epidemic. What is the situation in the country that is the third of the top three in the ranking compiled by Bloomberg - Iceland? There is neither a favourable climate, nor olive oil, nor fresh shrimps, and the average temperature in the summer months there is +10°C. Nevertheless, in terms of life expectancy, this country left behind all the Scandinavian countries and came close to Singapore and Japan. And if we talk about the prevalence of coronavirus, then as of early April, as a result of testing of 4.7% of the population 1364 cases were found in the country, and the number of deaths was only 4. A mass examination of citizens, notably free of charge for everyone, immediate tracking of the routes of infection and isolation of the ill allowed the Icelandic authorities to take control of the situation from the very beginning of the epidemic, even without the introduction of strict restrictive measures [1].

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Instrumentalism

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199368815.013.19 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

P. Kyle Stanford

Keyword(s):

Newtonian Mechanics ◽

Scientific Theories ◽

Restricted Class ◽

Scientific Realist ◽

Scientific Domain ◽

The World

This chapter seeks to explore and develop the proposal that even our best scientific theories are not (as the scientific realist would have it) accurate descriptions of how things stand in otherwise inaccessible domains of nature but are instead simply powerful conceptual tools or instruments for engaging practically with the world around us. It describes a number of persistent challenges facing any attempt to apply the American Pragmatists’ global conception of all ideas, beliefs, theories, and cognitions quite generally as such tools or instruments to only a restricted class or category of such entities (such as our best scientific theories) instead. It then seeks to overcome these challenges by regarding scientific instrumentalism as simply applying the scientific realist’s own attitude toward a theory like Newtonian mechanics to even the most empirically successful and instrumentally powerful theory we have in any given scientific domain.

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OUTDOOR AR-APPLICATION FOR THE DIGITAL MAP TABLE

ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences ◽

10.5194/isprs-archives-xliv-3-w1-2020-93-2020 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol XLIV-3/W1-2020 ◽

pp. 93-98

Author(s):

S. Maier ◽

T. Gostner ◽

F. van de Camp ◽

A. H. Hoppe

Keyword(s):

Augmented Reality ◽

Geographical Location ◽

Satellite System ◽

Reference Points ◽

Sensor Data ◽

Measurement Unit ◽

Positional Accuracy ◽

Digital Map ◽

The World ◽

Global Navigation Satellite

Abstract. In many fields today, it is necessary that a team has to do operational planning for a precise geographical location. Examples for this are staff work, the preparation of surveillance tasks at major events or state visits and sensor deployment planning for military and civil reconnaissance. For these purposes, Fraunhofer IOSB is developing the Digital Map Table (DigLT). When making important decisions, it is often helpful or even necessary to assess a situation on site. An augmented reality (AR) solution could be useful for this assessment. For the visualization of markers at specific geographical coordinates in augmented reality, a smartphone has to be aware of its position relative to the world. It is using the sensor data of the camera and inertial measurement unit (IMU) for AR while determining its absolute location and direction with the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and its magnetic compass. To validate the positional accuracy of AR markers, we investigated the current state of the art and existing solutions. A prototype application has been developed and connected to the DigLT. With this application, it is possible to place markers at geographical coordinates that will show up at the correct location in augmented reality at anyplace in the world. Additionally, a function was implemented that lets the user select a point from the environment in augmented reality, whose geographical coordinates are sent to the DigLT. The accuracy and practicality of the placement of markers were examined using geodetic reference points. As a result, we can conclude that it is possible to mark larger objects like a car or a house, but the accuracy mainly depends on the internal compass, which causes a rotational error that increases with the distance to the target.

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Człowiek w teorii — teoria w człowieku. Przykład biografii naukowej Czesława Robotyckiego (przyczynek do problemu upodmiotawiania dyskursów naukowych)

Kultura i Spoleczenstwo ◽

10.35757/kis.2017.61.3.12 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 61 (3) ◽

pp. 197-208

Author(s):

Marcin Kafar

Keyword(s):

Close Connection ◽

Individual Experience ◽

Human Being ◽

Scientific Theories ◽

Contemporary Theory ◽

Meeting Point ◽

Cognitive Context ◽

The World ◽

Complicated Conditions

This article considers the dichotomy between theory and life, treating it as a reflection of the process of subjectivization of discourse of the anthropological variety. In accord with the accepted premise, scientific theories do not emerge on their own but as result of complicated conditions at the meeting point of subjective-individual experience and the language of theory, leading to a close connection between the maker of given theory and the theory itself. In such a cognitive context, legitimacy is achieved by analytical-interpretative tasks, which consist in seeking meanings and discovering the sense of manifold signs of the presence of the human being in theory (thus someone real, who situates himself openly or covertly in the constructed descriptions of the world) and the theory in the human being, that is, the conceptual or otherwise indicated manifestations of self-understanding. An instructive exemplification of such analytical and interpretative work is the scientific autobiography of an outstanding Polish anthropologist, Czesław Robotycki, a scholar developing the contemporary theory of culture while taking into account cultural paradoxes and the attitude of anthropological distancing which were personally important to him.

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The Development of the Offshore Reinsurance Market in Singapore and Its Experiences for India

Research in Economics and Management ◽

10.22158/rem.v2n5p205 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 2 (5) ◽

pp. 205

Author(s):

Bofang Li

Keyword(s):

Insurance Industry ◽

Geographical Location ◽

Regulatory System ◽

Growth Trend ◽

Healthy Development ◽

Advantages And Disadvantages ◽

Steady Growth ◽

The World ◽

Regulatory Commission ◽

Reinsurance Market

In March 2017, China Insurance Regulatory Commission issued Notice on Matters Related to the Provision of Guarantee Measures for Offshore Reinsurers, and announced the formal establishment of a deposit system for Offshore reinsurers.This measure improves China’s reinsurance regulatory system. It can not only prevent the cross-border transfer of foreign financial risks through reinsurance exchanges but also promote the smooth and healthy development of Chinese reinsurance market. The establishment of Offshore reinsurance margin system provides institutional guarantee for the construction of international Offshore reinsurance in China. India, as a major shipping country in the world, has superior geographical location and mature shipping business. The establishment of international reinsurance center plays an important role in promoting the development of India’s insurance market and shipping market. Offshore reinsurance business accounts for greater proportion in business structure of the international reinsurance center. The establishment and development of Offshore reinsurance center in India need to compete with many mature Offshore reinsurance companies in the world. Singapore is not only Asia’s largest international financial center but also one of Asia’s largest international reinsurance centers. Its Offshore reinsurance market is more mature. In the past 10 years, it has maintained a steady growth trend, which can provide a reference for the development of Offshore reinsurance business in India. This paper begins with the development conditions and market data of Singapore Offshore reinsurance market, analyzes the development of Singapore’s Offshore reinsurance market and the development of the domestic insurance industry in India, combines with the analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of Mumbai, Kandla Port and other places, and puts forward suggestions for the development of Offshore reinsurance business in India.

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THE FUNСTIONING OF MARKETS IN THE EMIRATE OF BUKHARA IN THE END OF 19TH–END OF THE 20THCENTURIES

Journal of look to the past ◽

10.26739/2181-9599-2021-5-11 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4 (5) ◽

pp. 72-77

Author(s):

Shukhrat Y. Kudratov ◽

Keyword(s):

Foreign Firm ◽

Geographical Location ◽

Economic Life ◽

The World ◽

Intermediary Product ◽

Important Center

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Emirate of Bukhara was known among the eastern countries as an important center of trade. Due to its favorable economic and geographical location, Bukhara connects the east and south of Asia with its north and west, and through Russia with European countries.The following article provides information about the popularity of the Emirate of Bukhara as the most important center of trade among the countries of the East in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the abundance of majestic markets for various goods produced in the countries of the world. It is also separately provided about the division of markets by type, the performance of their role in economic life, their specialization in trade, the establishment of separate markets where various goods are sold and the high development of the culture of trade.Index Terms:market, trade, commerce, merchant, dome, tim, trade house, batman, foreign firm, intermediary, product.

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Women, marginalisation and politics in Africa and Asia

Integrity Journal of Arts and Humanities ◽

10.31248/ijah2021.019 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 27-35

Author(s):

Amaka Theresa Oriaku Emordi ◽

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Papia Sengupta ◽

Hope A. Ikednma ◽

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...

Keyword(s):

Feminist Theory ◽

Geographical Location ◽

Secondary Data ◽

Political Rights ◽

Gender Imbalance ◽

Education Governance ◽

Radical Feminist ◽

Socially Disadvantaged ◽

The World ◽

Individual Choices

Across the world, women are on the fringes in all facets of life endeavours- economy, education, governance, and politics compared to their male counterparts. Irrespective of the geographical location, women are culturally and socially disadvantaged. They are systematically deprived of individual choices, economic opportunities, political rights, political power as well as intellectual recognition. Women are on the lower incomes ladder compare to their male counterparts. Feminists have argued that women’s fivefold role – mother, wife, home-manager, informal educator, and family nurse is responsible for women’s impediments in life. As a beast of burdens, women have obstructed them from pursuing their aspirations at the same speed as their male counterparts. Consequently, women are marginal in the scheme of mainstream issues of life as politics and economy. Using secondary data and applying the radical feminist theory, women marginalization in Nigeria and India was investigated. The paper revealed some forms of women marginalization in these countries and their similarities to show that women marginalization is a universal phenomenon, cutting across culture, race, and continent. While the concept of marginalization may vary according to the historical and socio-economical context of societies like Nigeria and India, its impact on the marginalized remains the same across cultures, peoples, and continents. To address this gender imbalance and disparity in opportunities between men and women, there is a need for a rotund education for a large majority of women in these continents to accelerate the empowerment of women in every aspect of life.

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1. The methods and fruits of science

Philosophy of Physics: A Very Short Introduction ◽

10.1093/actrade/9780198814320.003.0002 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 7-22

Author(s):

David Wallace

Keyword(s):

Dark Matter ◽

Philosophy Of Science ◽

Scientific Realism ◽

Scientific Method ◽

Scientific Theories ◽

Real Science ◽

The World ◽

Key Topics ◽

Theory Test

This chapter briefly discusses central key topics in the philosophy of science that the remainder of the book draws upon. It begins by considering the scientific method. ‘Induction’—the idea that we construct scientific theories just by generalizing from observations—is a very poor match to real science. ‘Falsification’—Popper’s idea that we create a theory, test against observation, and discard it if it fails the test—is much more realistic, but still too simple: data only falsifies data given auxiliary assumptions that can themselves be doubted. The issues are illustrated through an example from modern astrophysics: dark matter. The chapter then explores how we can resolve issues of underdetermination, where two theories give the same predictions. Finally, it introduces ‘scientific realism’, the view that our best theories tell us things about the world that go beyond what is directly observable.

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