scholarly journals LITERARY TEMPTATIONS OF PHILOSOPHY

Doxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 129-139
Author(s):  
Alexander Afanasiev ◽  
Irina Vasilenko

The article examines the features of literature that are attractive for philosophy. Literary temptations are diverse: from special literary means of expression to a literary style of thinking, from posing common human problems to special ways of representing the world, from studying literary phenomena to following them. The differences between philosophy and literature took shape in antiquity. Philosophy posed a question and gave a reasoned answer, while literature described an interesting adventure. Further evolution has accumulated many differences in means, and in goals, and in perception. But from time to time philosophy and literature interacted. Philosophy sometimes analyzed literature like Heidegger, occasionally used a literary style like Nietzsche. But literature has repeatedly posed philosophical problems like Dostoevsky. Of particular attractiveness are: 1. the comprehensibility and accessibility of the literary language, 2. the emotional impact of literature as the creation of a special experience of the read, 3. a narrative way of representing the world. The desire for clarity has led to the emergence of encyclopedias, various propaedeutics, simplified courses in philosophy and other new forms of organization and presentation of knowledge. The example of children’s literature led to the emergence of philosophy for children. A personal emotional attitude to the text can be a sufficient basis for the scientific work of a humanist. A philosopher always needs rational foundations, but the subject of research could also be asked by literary emotions. Narrative has proved to be an impressive temptation for philosophy. For a long time, it was studied only within the framework of literary theory. From there he came to philosophy. Under the influence of philosophy, the narrative turned into a paradigm for the methodology of humanitarian knowledge. Literary temptations of philosophy gave positive results: discussions were stimulated, interesting concepts were put forward, if philosophy remained philosophy.

Sinteze ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 79-85
Author(s):  
Tamara Žderić

The ornament is a part of every visual culture in the world. Its history goes back to early ages of human race. It is one of the most important fine art categories. The ornament was less important fine art category for a long time. The subject of this paper are various types of ornament altogether with personal experience in creating ornaments. The main aim was to reveal basis of ornament, its features and also to put in focus the importance of our attention in art process. Ornament has four categories determined by its appereance. Its complex forms, mathematical approach and lots of details are features I found similar in my art practice (paintings or drawings with various themes). The conclusions derived from comparison of this two various types of ornaments are contribution to examinations of its history through the eye of the artist.


Author(s):  
Pablo Braga de Souza ◽  
Antônia Maria Nascimento Barcelos ◽  
Suellen Alice Lamas

Ao longo do tempo, o turismo tem se destacado como uma importante atividade econômica no mundo, gerando serviços, produtos, emprego e renda. Entretanto, tão importante quanto o seu potencial econômico, é o seu potencial social, capaz de transformar localidades que apresentam desequilíbrios e limitações, o que vem sendo proposto pelo turismo voluntário também conhecido como volunturismo. Embora seja muito praticada no exterior, essa modalidade, está em estágio inicial no país, o que traz à tona dúvidas e questionamentos em relação ao tema e a necessidade de estudá-lo a fim de que se possa compreendê-lo em sua totalidade. Deste modo, faz-se a reflexão: O que é turismo voluntário? Qual o perfil do público que o pratica? Quais as diferenças entre turismo voluntário e turismo solidário? Quais os impactos nas comunidades visitadas? A partir desses questionamentos, o presente trabalho visa discorrer sobre o turismo voluntário apresentando suas interfaces conceituais, problemáticas e perfil dos praticantes, de modo a contribuir com o esclarecimento e debate teórico sobre o tema. Assim, vê-se a importância de estudos em relação ao turismo voluntário para que, a partir de sua compreensão, os resultados positivos possam ser maximizados e os negativos minimizados. Baseando-se em seu caráter de agente transformador social, pode-se inferir que o turismo voluntário é mais uma forma de se fazer turismo, contrária ao turismo de massas, do que um segmento propriamente dito. Tourism and volunteering: the search for understanding of the voluntourism ABSTRACT Over time, the tourism has distinguished itself as an important economic activity in the world, generating services, products, employment and income. However, as important as its economic potential, it is its social potential capable of transforming localities that show unbalances and limitations, what has been proposed by the volunteer tourism also known as voluntourism. Although it has been practiced abroad, this type of tourism is in an early stage in the country, which propitiates doubts and questions concerning the theme and the necessity to study it in order to understand it in its entirety. Thus, the reflection is done: What is volunteer tourism? What is the public profile that practices it? What are the differences between volunteer tourism and solidary tourism? What are the impacts on the communities visited? Based on these questions, the article aims to discuss about volunteer tourism showing its conceptual interfaces, problematic and the profile of the participants in order to contribute to the elucidation and the theoretical debate on the subject. Therefore, one sees the importance of the studies concerning volunteer tourism so that, from its understanding, positive results can be maximized and negative results can be minimized. Based on its character of a social transforming agent, one can infer that the volunteer tourism is more a way of doing tourism, contrary to mass tourism, than a segment itself. KEYWORDS: Volunteering; Tourism; Knowledge; Voluntourism.


2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 153-182
Author(s):  
Abbas Mirshekari ◽  
Ramin Ghasemi ◽  
Alireza Fattahi

In recent times, cyberspace is being widely used so that everyone has a digital account. It naturally entails its own legal issues. Undoubtedly, one of the main issues is that what fate awaits the account and its content upon the account holder’s death? This issue has been neglected not only by the primary creators of digital accounts but also by many legal systems in the world, including Iran. To answer this question, we first need to distinguish between the account and the information contained therein. The account belongs to the company that creates it and allows the user to use it only. Hence, following the death of the account holder, the account will be lost but the information will remain because it was created by him/her and thus belongs to him/her. However, does this mean that the information will be inherited by the user’s heirs after his/her death? Can the user exercise his/her right to transfer account content to a devisee through a testament? Comparing digital information with corporeal property, some commentators believe that the property will be inherited like corporeal property. This is a wrong deduction because the corporeal property can disclose the privacy of the owner and third parties less than the one in cyberspace. This paper aims to show what happens to a digital account after its user passes away and examine the subject using the content analysis method in various legal systems in the world, especially in Iran as a case study. The required information is collected from law books, articles, doctrines, case laws, and relevant laws and regulations of different countries. To protect the privacy interests of the deceased and others, it is concluded that the financially valuable information published by the account holder before his/her death can be transferred to successors. As a rule, the information that may violate privacy by divulging should be removed. However, given that this information may be a valuable source in the future to know about the present, legislators are suggested to make digital information, which may no longer lead to the invasion of the decedent’s privacy, available to the public after a long time.


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-139
Author(s):  
Dita Dzata Mirrota ◽  
Desy Nailasari

An authentic assessment is carried out comprehensively to assess the learning inputs, processes and outputs. Authentic assessment must reflect real-world problems, not the world of schools. This study aims to describe the problematics of the implementation of authentic assessment in the subject of the Qur'anic Hadith. This type of research is field research. The results of this study are the implementation of authentic assessment in the subjects of the Qur'an in Hadith in the MTsN Gandusari Blitar: the implementation of authentic assessment in the Blitar Gandsari State MTs requires improvement. Problems with authentic assessment implementation: more instruments and formats, a long time, the assessment process, assessment of attitudes that require accuracy, limited educators, inputs, and considerable costs. The solution given to the problem: conduct MGMP, workshops or guidance on authentic assessment, increase the number of educators, assess according to the provisions, certain parties who give their role, and get used to assess authentically properly and correctly.


PEDIATRICS ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-234
Author(s):  

. . . Revolutions born in the laboratory are to be sharply distinguished from revolutions born in society. Social revolutions are usually born in the minds of millions, and are led up to by what the Declaration of Independence calls "a long train of abuses," visible to all; indeed, they usually cannot occur unless they are widely understood by and supported by the public. By contrast, scientific revolutions usually take shape quietly in the minds of a few men, under cover of the impenetrability to most laymen of scientific theory, and thus catch the world by surprise. . . . But more important by far than the world's unpreparedness for scientific revolutions are their universality and their permanence once they have occurred. Social revolutions are restricted to a particular time and place; they arise out of particular circumstances, last for a while, and then pass into history. Scientific revolutions, on the other hand, belong to all places and all times. . . . Works of thought and many works of art have a . . . chance of surviving, since new copies of a book or a symphony can be transcribed from old ones, and so can be preserved indefinitely; yet these works, too, can and do go out of existence, for if every copy is lost, then the work is also lost. The subject matter of these works is man, and they seem to be touched with his mortality. The results of scientific work, on the other hand, are largely immune to decay and disappearance.


2018 ◽  
Vol 212 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-90
Author(s):  
Asst. Prof. Dr. Hussein Abdu-All Al-Luha

     Pun is regarded as one of the sophisticated and most important art of eloquence and the higher in rank. It depends on the ambiguity in meaning in a way that the intended meaning is referred indirectly. It was highly used by the poets during the Mammalia era in a way that they were well known for using it and we rarely see one of their poets that do not use it in his writing. Choosing this period in particular was because they used pun a lot in a way that they were highly known for using it till the point that it became a characteristic of their poetry. The poets competed with each other in using pun and they were indulged in it more than any other time. This is not an excuse to underestimate the value of their poetic production; because being fond of pun is part of their literary style which they adopted in a way that it became a prominent feature of their literature regarding it a necessity to elaborate speech. The most prominent feature of pun in this era is its richness and variety; it is an image of the culture where the aesthetic touches which pun creates through the profoundness of the meaning which creates an intellectual continuity between the text and the recipient by digging deep for the intended meaning. This is what confirmed the importance of the subject to be researched and make a scientific work related to eloquence. The poets of that time used pun a lot to express their feelings; through it the poet can reveal his creativity, sensation and sophisticated artistic taste in using the utterance to refer to more than one meaning, as well as the meditation it arouse and comparisons it leads to indicating a great energy of creativity and a wide artistic ability in investing in this art suitable for the meaning which the poet does not want to reveal.The rhetoricians declared anonymously that pun has two basic cornerstones; the explicit meaning and the hidden meaning, the intended one. Based on that, the rhetoricians have divided pun into several types


2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-140
Author(s):  
Wiwin Fahrudin Yusuf ◽  
Moh Badrun Nafi'uddin

Education is a very complex activity. Almost all dimensions of human life are seen in the educational process, either directly or indirectly. Under no circumstances can humans resist the effects of implementing education. Education is also a process in which it finds transformation both within oneself and in the community. Therefore, the correct educational process is to free a person from various confines, intimidation and exploitation. This is a portrait of the world of education which is increasingly concerning, even disturbing many people. This situation implies that the dehumanization of school education becomes something that cannot be separated from life, education seems to be the ghost of society. The dehumanization of education, to borrow Paulo Freire's term, is education that oppresses, curbs, and shackles the subject of learning, both the learner and the teacher himself. The context of the research in this scientific work is to discuss the principle of freedom of learning of Imam Al-Ghazali and how the principle of the system among Ki Hajar Dewanatara's perspective. This research is a library research (Library Research), by discussing the principle of freedom of learning by Imam Al-Ghazali and how the principle of the system among Ki Hajar Dewanatara's perspective. Data collection was carried out with yellow books and books, journals, theses, and other scientific works related to the above discussion. Data analysis is carried out by discussing content (content analysis) which is sometimes found in books and books. Check the validity of the data is done with Credibility (Credibilty). The results of this study indicate that: The basic principle of Imam Al-Ghazali's freedom of learning can be interpreted as a conscious effort that leads to the creation of outer and inner behavior to do good and stay away from evil, to have a complete personality both to himself or to others. And also in the principle of the Among Ki Hajar Dewantara system in the implementation of learning at Ki Hajar Dewantara's school, using the "Among System". In the Among System, every teacher (pamong) as a leader in the educational process is required to behave: Ing Ngarsa Sun Tuladha, Ing Madya Mangun Kasra, Tut Wuri Handhayani.


PMLA ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 123 (2) ◽  
pp. 466-476 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gauri Yiswanathan

The rise of the religious right in societies around the world has brought back the contentious issue of religion's place in modern life. The secularization thesis is constantly invoked to explain the historical devaluation of religion's function in society (at least in the Protestant world) from normative to nominal as religion is relegated to the private space of individual belief. While the subject has engaged historians, sociologists, and religious scholars for a long time, yielding a vast and proliferating body of work (Asad; Berger; Casanova; Connolly; Taylor, Secular Age; Wilson), the field of literary studies has not witnessed a corresponding breadth of scholarship. This may be partly due to literature's self-definition as a secular vehicle for ideas whose possible religious origins were subsequently effaced as religious sensibility became absorbed into aesthetic form and imagery, especially in modernist writing. Contributing in no small measure to the perception that literature represents an outgrowth of secularism is Matthew Arnold's influential claim that literature succeeds a depleted Christianity and contains the moral values and direction once supplied by a religious ethos.


2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Luyolo Matolo ◽  
Li Zhemin ◽  
Yu Wen ◽  
Huang Min

<p class="NoSpacing1">South Africa orange exporters have for a long time enjoyed a sizeable market share in many parts of the world. A large portion of that sizeable market share can be located in the European countries then followed by fast developing countries in Asia. This market share can be associated with a declining South African currency compared to the values of these major currencies. On the other hand a number of trade agreements that have been reached by South Africa and these countries over the years have also contributed handsomely in the mentioned market share. Furthermore, diets of consumers in these countries have as well contributed in the conquered market share. Although a number of studies have been conducted on the subject of South Africa’s declining currency and the established trade agreements on products with mixed magnitudes in influencing trade flows, further research is needed for a better understanding on the trade determinants patterns in specific products. This paper focuses on the determinants of South Africa’s orange trade in the top European and Asian importing countries. In order to understand these trade determinants, gravity model has been applied to identify and analyze significant factors encouraging or discouraging the quantities/volumes of oranges exported to the above mentioned countries. Findings have shown that over the reviewed period, South Africa’s orange exports to the European market have been consistence, while exports to Asian market started slow and gradually increased over the years. Gravity model estimated coefficients also showed expected signs.</p>


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. e3159108574
Author(s):  
Daniela da Costa de Oliveira ◽  
Samuel Vitor Assis Machado de Lima ◽  
João Paulo Lima de Oliveira

Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease that affects millions of people around the world. One of the medicinal plants used by the Brazilian population in the treatment of diabetes mellitus is Bauhinia forficata Link. The objective of this work was to conduct a review of clinical case studies in order to analyze the hypoglycemic effect of B. forficata infusion in diabetic and pre-diabetic individuals. A direct search for articles of clinical cases was carried out in the databases LILACS, PubMed, SciELO, and Scopus. Were searched works in Spanish, English and Portuguese, published in the last 10 years and that only used the infusion of leaves of the plant species in the treatment of mens and womens, over the age of 18, with pre-diabetes or diabetes mellitus. Were used the keywords "Bauhinia forficata" and "diabetes", and the boolean operator “AND”. Five studies were found, of which three of them presented positive results in relation to the use of B. forficata infusion as an effective hypoglycemic agent in diabetic and pre-diabetic individuals, while two studies did not present positive results. It was concluded that the infusion of B. forficata is able to assist in the treatment of diabetes mellitus, despite the need for more scientific evidence on the subject.


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