scholarly journals The philosophical foundations of anthropological concept of Eduardo Viveiros de Castro

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 278-282
Author(s):  
Nikita G. Naumov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Critical Position ◽  
Philosophical Foundations ◽  
Western Modernity ◽  
The World ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Ontological Turn ◽  
Epistemological Basis

The article discusses the contribution of the Brazilian anthropologist E. Castro to the formation of the post-structuralist method in anthropology. The analysis of the key notions of E. Castro’s concept (perspectivism, multinaturalism, equivocation) is proposed, according to which the subjectivity of a human is not unique and is one of the positions within the framework of the universal perspectivist structure of the world. The analysis of the sources and ethnographic data with which E. Castro worked is carried out, and the reaction of the academic community to his research, methods and intellectual moves for the transformation of the anthropological discipline itself is considered. By means of a critical approach to E. Castro's program and the analysis of its reception by his anthropological colleagues, it is revealed that the ontological turn in anthropology in E. Castro’s understanding is an attempt at a theoretical inversion, in which the premise of the unity of nature, which is technically a conceptually indefinite remainder of the ethnological classification, is replaced by the postulation of a fundamental plurality of conditionally independent agents (in the manner of G. Leibniz’s monadology). Ontology is understood here as a kind of hierarchical predicate through which the Amerindian societies are denied the subjectivity of their ways of creating a picture of the world and at the same time the epistemological basis of the dominance of Western modernity is laid. As a result of generalizing the data, the author gives a critical position in relation to the key notions and methods of E. Castro. The author comes to the conclusion that projects for expanding the non-trivial use of E. Castro’s tools also inherit its conceptual features, the ambiguous nature of which is revealed in the text of the article: the costs of “ontologizing” of anthropology, the utopian nature of ideas about access to pre-colonial thought and an even more universalist regime of dominance of modern epistemology.

scholarly journals Trying to save the world with company law? Some problems

Legal Studies ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 513-534 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorraine Talbot
Keyword(s):  
Academic Community ◽  
Company Law ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Corporate Sector ◽  
Critical Position ◽  
Shareholder Primacy ◽  
Social Agenda ◽  
The World ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
New Ideas

This paper aims to unravel two connected errors in the current critical position on companies. Since the financial crisis, there have been a growing number of voices in the academic community raised against the shareholder value driven corporate sector. The often conservative and highly doctrinal voices of English company lawyers have become in parts more radicalised and have found common research ground with varied academic disciplines and with company lawyers in other jurisdictions more accustomed to critical approaches. New ideas have been forged; old ideas have been rediscovered and re-examined. In the emerging networks, the neoliberal domination of the study of companies is being substantially challenged. As exciting as this is, I am concerned that critical scholars have cohered around a core claim about company law which is erroneous. Furthermore, they have largely assumed that the current economy can sustain a social agenda as well as creating profit. This, I argue, hugely underestimates entrenched problems in the economy. In unravelling these issues my aim is to reorientate challenges to shareholder primacy and to the claims of capital more generally.

A Dialectical Approach to Search Engine Evaluation

Libri ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-237
Author(s):  
Mahdi Zeynali-Tazehkandi ◽  
Mohsen Nowkarizi
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Related Literature ◽  
Philosophical Foundations ◽  
Dialectical Approach ◽  
Retrieval Systems ◽  
The World ◽  
Information Retrieval Systems ◽  
Oriented Approach

AbstractEvaluation of information retrieval systems is a fundamental topic in Library and Information Science. The aim of this paper is to connect the system-oriented and the user-oriented approaches to relevant philosophical schools. By reviewing the related literature, it was found that the evaluation of information retrieval systems is successful if it benefits from both system-oriented and user-oriented approaches (composite). The system-oriented approach is rooted in Parmenides’ philosophy of stability (immovable) which Plato accepts and attributes to the world of forms; the user-oriented approach is rooted in Heraclitus’ flux philosophy (motion) which Plato defers and attributes to the tangible world. Thus, using Plato’s theory is a comprehensive approach for recognizing the concept of relevance. The theoretical and philosophical foundations determine the type of research methods and techniques. Therefore, Plato’s dialectical method is an appropriate composite method for evaluating information retrieval systems.

scholarly journals Contribution of Cyanotoxins to the Ecotoxicological Role of Lichens

Toxins ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 321
Author(s):  
Dobri Ivanov ◽  
Galina Yaneva ◽  
Irina Potoroko ◽  
Diana G. Ivanova
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Effective Application ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common

The fascinating world of lichens draws the attention of the researchers because of the numerous properties of lichens used traditionally and, in modern times, as a raw material for medicines and in the perfumery industry, for food and spices, for fodder, as dyes, and for other various purposes all over the world. However, lichens being widespread symbiotic entities between fungi and photosynthetic partners may acquire toxic features due to either the fungi, algae, or cyano-procaryotes producing toxins. By this way, several common lichens acquire toxic features. In this survey, recent data about the ecology, phytogenetics, and biology of some lichens with respect to the associated toxin-producing cyanoprokaryotes in different habitats around the world are discussed. Special attention is paid to the common toxins, called microcystin and nodularin, produced mainly by the Nostoc species. The effective application of a series of modern research methods to approach the issue of lichen toxicity as contributed by the cyanophotobiont partner is emphasized.

Pengawasan Hukum Terhadap Penyalahgunaan Izin Tinggal Terbatas Penanaman Modal Asing

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 774-795
Author(s):  
I Gusti Putu Anom Kresna Wardana ◽  
Tsaltsa Syah Putri ◽  
Tunggal Bayu Laksono
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Efficient Implementation ◽  
Foreign Investor ◽  
Residence Permit ◽  
Foreign Investors ◽  
Legal Supervision ◽  
Literature Reviews ◽  
The World

Every country in the world has sovereignty, especially over the security of its country, one of the things that can threaten the security of the country is the entry of foreigners whose activities are not according to the permits given to them, one of which is the misuse of residence permits by foreign investors in Indonesia. This study aims to explain in detail about the misuse of residence permits by a foreign investor in Indonesia and further discusses the legal supervision carried out by Immigration in dealing with irregularities committed by foreigners. This study uses a descriptive type with empirical normative research methods, where in finding data sourced from secondary data, namely through interviews, and secondary data obtained by conducting literature reviews such as laws and other regulations. At this writing it was found that the perpetrators took actions that were not in accordance with the purpose of giving a residence permit and did not carry out proper procedures to obtain a new Limited Stay Permit. From this research, it can be concluded that the supervision of foreigners must be tightened, one of which is the effective and efficient implementation of the Foreigner Supervision Team which is formed on the basis of synergy between related Ministries/Institutions in Indonesia.

The Foundations of Science in the Research of the Russian Scientist Vyacheslav Semenovich Styopin

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-152
Author(s):  
Nikoleta Mihaleva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Internal Structure ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Russian Scientist ◽  
Philosophical Foundations ◽  
The World ◽  
Main Components ◽  
Methodological Reflection ◽  
Number Of Authors

The focus of the article is a philosophical and methodological reflection of V.S. Styopin on three main components of the foundations of science: ideals and norms of scientific research, the scientific picture of the world and the philosophical foundations of science. Each of them, in turn, has a rather complex internal structure. Therefore, the task of the article is not limited to the development of perceptions of these three "blocks" of foundations, which has been thoroughly achieved by a number of authors, including Styopin, but mainly to what extent these grounds express important values and goals and dimensions of science.

Larry Page’s Styles of Leadership

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 134-142
Author(s):  
Anggita Rachmanantya ◽  
Sari Wahyuni ◽  
Andi Nurrohman ◽  
Anansya Ralia ◽  
Aniek Martono
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Organizational Strategies ◽  
Transformational Leader ◽  
Constructive Feedback ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
The World ◽  
Speak Up

Leaders are very important for organizations and businesses. The various characters of leaders can determine the success of an organization due to their role and responsibility for planning, organizing, and decision-making of organizational strategies to achieve their goals. One of the leaders whose characteristic is quite interesting and possibly become our role models is Larry Page, a co-founder of Google Inc. The researchers used qualitative research methods by descriptive research in explaining Larry Page style of leadership in leading Google Inc. Result of this study shows that Larry Page has a very open and equal way of leading, making him a democratic and transformational leader for an instance Larry believe in crazy ideas of their employees since he believes that insane ideas could change the world whereas not all the leaders can trust their subordinate. To hear the ideas, Larry always encourages his subordinate to speak up at every opportunity and instantly give them constructive feedback.

Religiosity Rejected

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-254
Author(s):  
Renee Lockwood
Keyword(s):  
Belief Systems ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Human Potential ◽  
Religious Organization ◽  
Western Modernity ◽  
Collective Group ◽  
Ultimate Concern ◽  
The World ◽  
Traditional Sense ◽  
Religious Nature

As the descendant of Werner Erhard's 1970s Human Potential group est (Erhard Seminars Training), Landmark Education has continuously denied being a religious organization. Despite ample discourse on the religious nature of the group within popular online and print media, a conspicuous void within academia - particularly within Religious Studies - speaks volumes. Rarely are the boundaries of what constitutes a ‘religion’ expanded in order to explore those groups that, though not understood to be ‘religious’ in a traditional sense, clearly contribute to contemporary 'spiritual' life. And yet, that Landmark Education is perceived as being somehow religious demands deeper analysis. This article highlights the problematics of 'religion' within late Western modernity as illustrated by the contention surrounding the religious status of both Scientology and Transcendental Meditation. A discussion of Landmark Education is offered in light of these issues, along with a dissection of the religio-spiritual dimensions of the organisation and its primary product, the Landmark Forum. Incorporating several eastern spiritual practices, the highly emotional nature of the Landmark Forum’s weekend training is such as to create Durkheimian notions of 'religious effervescence', altering pre-existing belief systems and producing a sense of the sacred collective. Group-specific language contributes to this, whilst simultaneously shrouding Landmark Education in mystery and esotericism. The Forum is replete with stories of miracles, healings, and salvation apposite for a modern western paradigm. Indeed, the sacred pervades the training, manifested in the form of the Self, capable of altering the very nature of the world and representing the 'ultimate concern'.

scholarly journals The Unbearable Lightness of Trust: Trade, conviviality, and the life-world of Indian export agents in Yiwu, China

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-31
Author(s):  
Filippo Osella
Keyword(s):  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Export Trade ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Life World ◽  
Extreme Caution ◽  
The World ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
World Centre

Abstract Drawing on ethnographic data collected in China, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and India, this article explores the life-world and practices of small-scale Indian export agents based in Yiwu, China, the world centre for the export of small commodities. It shows that in a market overdetermined by fast-moving goods, short-term gains, and low margins, export agents have to steer their way between acting with extreme caution or taking risks with their clients and suppliers. These apparently contradictory dispositions or orientations are negotiated by the judicious exercise of mistrust and suspicion. The article suggests not only that mistrust is valued and cultivated as an indispensable practical resource for success in Yiwu's export trade, but that contingent relations of trust between market players emerge at the interstices of a generalized mutual mistrust, via the mobilization of practices of hospitality, commensality, and masculine conviviality. Indeed, feelings of amity and mutuality elicited by the performance of modalities of social intimacy become the affective terrain upon which divergent economic interests might be reconciled and taken forward. That is, mistrust might not lead to generalized distrust, instead a situational or contingent trust might actually emerge through the judicious exercise of mistrust.

scholarly journals Analisis Tentang Tujuan Pendidikan Agama Kristen (PAK) Dalam Matius 28:19-20

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-58
Author(s):  
Rinaldus Tanduklangi
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Gospel Of Matthew ◽  
Great Commission ◽  
New Covenant ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
The World ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive

The Gospel of Matthew is a part of the new covenant the presents the great commission of the Jesus. The great commission is the command of the Lord Jesus to the disciples and to all believers in all ages. The great commission becomes the foundation in carrying out educational actions for the world in which Jesus has provided instructions, methods and ways of implementing them. The great commission becomes the foundation of education especially Christian religious education. This paper aims to analyze theologically the objectives of Christian religious education based on Matthew 28: 19-20. In an effort to trace the intention used qualitative-descriptive research methods. The results obtained that the purpose of PAK based on Matthew 28: 19-20's exposure is to make disciples of all nations, baptize and teach them to do all the commands of the Jesus. Injl Matius merupakan salah satu bagian kitab perjanjian baru yang menyajikan amanat agung Tuhan Yesus. Amanat agung ialah perintah Tuhan Yesus bagi para murid dan kepada semua orang percaya di segala zaman. Amanat agung menjadi landasan dalam melaksanakan tindakan pendidikan bagi dunia yang di dalamnya Yesus telah memberikan petunjuk, metode dan cara pelaksanaannya. Amanat agung menjadi landasan  pendidikan khususnya pendidikan agama Kristen (PAK). Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk menganalasis secara teologis tujuan pendidikan agama kristen (PAK) berdasarkan Matius 28:19-20. Dalam upaya menelusuri maksud tersebut digunakan metode penelitian kualitatif-deskriptif. Hasil yang diperoleh bahwa tujuan PAK berdasarkan paparan Matius 28:19-20 ialah memuridkan segala bangsa, membaptis dan mengajar mereka melakukan segala perintah Tuhan Yesus.

scholarly journals Forgery Protection of Academic Certificates through Integrity Preservation at Scale using Ethereum Smart Contract

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 673-688
Author(s):  
Auqib Hamid Lone ◽  
Roohie Naaz
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Regulatory Body ◽  
Signature Scheme ◽  
Proof Of Concept ◽  
Universities And Colleges ◽  
Smart Contract ◽  
Reliable Model ◽  
The World ◽  
Multi Level

Academic credentials are precious assets as they form an evidence for one’s identity and eligibility. Fraud inissuance and verification of academic certificates have been a long-standing issue in academic community. Due to lack of antiforgery mechanisms there has been substantial increase in fraudulent certificates. The need of the hour is to have a transparent and reliable model for issuing and verifying academic certificates to eliminate fraud in the process. Decentralized, Auditable and Tamper-proof properties of Blockchain makes it possibly the best choice for issuing and verifying academic certificates. In this paper we propose a model, where regulatory body authorizes higher education Institutes (universities and colleges) for issuing academic certificates to students in a decentralized way. Anyone in the world can verify the authenticity of the certificate by triggering appropriate smart contract functions, thus eliminating any possibility of fraud in the process. In addition we used multi signature scheme where certificates are required to be signed by designated authority from Higher Education Institutes, thus allowing for multi-level checks on certificate contents before being successfully deployed on Blockchain. We have also provide Proof of Concept in Ethereum Blockchain and evaluated its performance in terms of cost, security and scalability.

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