scholarly journals DA EUROPA À AMÉRICA LATINA: A VULNERABILIDADE COMO LOCUS THEOLOGICUS

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cleusa Caldeira

RESUMO: O contexto hodierno está marcado pela violência intersubjetiva em escala planetária, que coloca em risco o futuro da humanidade e do planeta. Diante disso, somos levados a perguntar: haverá esperança para a humanidade? Onde está Deus diante do sofrimento do inocente? Estas questões requerem da teologia uma aproximação ao real, sem cair, contudo, na tentação de apelar para um resgate milagroso ou ficar paralisada frente ao nada. Antes, ela deverá pensar na contribuição do cristianismo entre a derrocada do sujeito moderno e a emergência da vulnerabilidade. Depara-se, pois, com a crise do humanismo moderno e a abertura à uma nova hermenêutica do humano como possibilidade de encontrar na kénosis outra maneira de ser-no-mundo em tempos de fragmentos. Nesse horizonte, apresentamos duas versões da narrativa cristã que tematizam outro modo de ser-no-mundo, na assunção da vulnerabilidade constitutiva da subjetividade, como caminho de redenção.ABSTRACT: Today’s context is marked by intersubjective violence on a planetary scale, which keeps the future of the humanity and the planet at risk. As a result, we are compelled to question: will there be a hope for the humanity? Where is God amidst the suffering of the innocents? These questions require from theology, a true approximation to the reality, without falling, however, into the temptation to look for a miraculous rescue or to be paralyzed in the pain of emptiness. Rather such questions should reflect upon the Christian contribution which throws light on the destructiveness of the modern subject and the emergence of the vulnerability. One finds, therefore, with the crisis of modern humanism and the openness to a new hermeneutic of the human, as a possibility of finding meaning in the kenosis, a different way of being-in-the-world in times of fragmentations. In this perspective, we present two versions of the Christian narrative that thematisize the other way of being-in-the-world, in the assumption of the constitutive vulnerability of the subjectivity, as a path of redemption. 

2014 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Gilmour

Ever since the Charter of the United Nations was signed in 1945, human rights have constituted one of its three pillars, along with peace and development. As noted in a dictum coined during the World Summit of 2005: “There can be no peace without development, no development without peace, and neither without respect for human rights.” But while progress has been made in all three domains, it is with respect to human rights that the organization's performance has experienced some of its greatest shortcomings. Not coincidentally, the human rights pillar receives only a fraction of the resources enjoyed by the other two—a mere 3 percent of the general budget.


Author(s):  
Ram Prasad Rai

The main concern of this paper is to study on masculinity and more importantly the hyper masculinity of the Gurkhas in Imperial Warriors: Britain and the Gurkhas by Tony Gould. The writer describes the courage with discipline and dedication, the Gurkhas had while fighting for Nepal, their homeland during the Anglo-Nepal War (1814-1816) and for Britain in the First and Second World Wars, following the other wars and confrontations in many parts of the world. Despite a lot of hardships and pain in wars, they never showed their back to the enemies, but kept Britain’s imperial image always high with victories. They received Victoria Crosses along with other bravery medals. As a masculinity, the hegemonic masculinity is obviously present in the book since the high ranked British Officers are in the position to lead the Gurkha soldiers. However, the masculinity here is associated with the extreme level of bravery and that is the hyper-masculinity of the Gurkhas. Since this is a qualitative research work, the researcher has consulted various books, reviews and journal articles related to the Gurkhas. It is a new concept in the study of the Gurkhas in the particular book by Gould. So, it will certainly be a new insight for the future researchers in the related area.


Author(s):  
Gulnaz T. Javan

When Dr. Richard Feynman first gave the good news in 1959 that nanotechnology was on its way to change or perhaps transform the world of technology, many people might have considered his concepts too futuristic to be realized. Criminals, on the other hand, would not have known how effective nanotechnological tools would become in solving crimes in a few decades. Among some of the medical applications of the technology are drug production, diagnostics, and production of medical as well as forensic tools and devices. Forensic science can be described as the sum of scientific tests or techniques used in the investigation of crimes. This chapter is, therefore, aimed at introducing and discussing nanotechnology as applied in forensic science along with instrumentation used in performing nano-analysis. The future prospects of the technology as employed in forensic science and toxicity of nanomaterials are also dealt with in this chapter.


2020 ◽  
pp. 75-96
Author(s):  
Ronald W. Schatz

The Labor Board vets insisted that they were always realistic and had no ideological convictions of any kind. This chapter argues that such a characterization is not accurate. Clark Kerr, John Dunlop, and the other veterans of the board’s staff were in truth utopians—not utopians as that term is usually imagined, but liberal reformers who believed that they could transform the world over time, one step at a time. The famous German sociologist Karl Mannheim termed that mindset “liberal-humanitarian utopian.” The chapter looks back to their youth to explain how they came to that worldview and how unarticulated utopian beliefs pervaded their teaching, writing, and other work. The chapter concludes with the prediction advanced by Clark Kerr, John Dunlop, Charles Myers, and Frederick Harbison that the U.S. and Soviet systems would converge in the future--a conviction that appeared realistic in the latter 1980s and the early 1990s.


Author(s):  
L. Andrew Cooper

This essay presents two interviews with Dario Argento, one conducted by Élie Castiel and the other by Stephane Derderian. In the Castiel interview, Argento talks about early influences on his career; his approach to every film; eroticism and sadism as well as the question of voyeurism in his work; the importance of objects in the genre films that he has made; and the future of horror films. In the Derderian interview, Argento shares his thoughts on the bloodiness in Deep Red; what the subject of visual memory that often comes up in his films such as The Bird with the Crystal Plumage represent for him; the place of homosexuality in his films; why people who see his films don't look for a suspect as much as they look for a truth; the psychology of the murderer vs. the psychology of the investigator in his films; and the presence of the world of painting in Deep Red, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, and The Stendhal Syndrome.


1878 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 130-154
Author(s):  
Gustavus George Zerffi

The principal component elements in the progressive struggle of the historical development of Idealism and Realism were, “Hellenism ” on the one side, and a misunderstood “Christianity” on the other. Hellenism, in spite of its Platonic idealism, still represented the embodiment of the forces of nature, while Christianity strove for the spiritualization and “disembodiment” of all phenomena, and of man himself. This tendency, which took its origin in the ascetics of India and the mystic priests of Egypt, produced that grand and mighty phenomenon of monasticism, the aim of which was to retire from the world, and to attain a state of conscious blissfulness in this life. Monks were said to be able to dispense with food, to float in the air, to have intercourse with angels and sometimes also with demons, to see with bodily eyes the glories of the saints, to pierce the future, and to lead an incorporeal life in spite of their living bodies. An EgyptoBuddhistic Platonism began to sway the minds of Christian believers, and they thronged in tens of thousands to people deserts and woods, mountains and sea-shores, with anchorets, pillar saints, coenobites, and hermits. Humanity was apparently altogether absorbed in a spiritualized stoicism, applying Epicurus's principles to an ascetic life, finding joy, contentment.


Author(s):  
Andreas Fügener ◽  
Jörn Grahl ◽  
Alok Gupta ◽  
Wolfgang Ketter

A consensus is beginning to emerge that the next phase of artificial intelligence (AI) induction in business organizations will require humans to work with AI in a variety of work arrangements. This article explores the issues related to human capabilities to work with AI. A key to working in many work arrangements is the ability to delegate work to entities that can do them most efficiently. Modern AI can do a remarkable job of efficient delegation to humans because it knows what it knows well and what it does not. Humans, on the other hand, are poor judges of their metaknowledge and are not good at delegating knowledge work to AI—this might prove to be a big stumbling block to create work environments where humans and AI work together. Humans have often created machines to serve them. The sentiment is perhaps exemplified by Oscar Wilde’s statement that “civilization requires slaves…. Human slavery is wrong, insecure and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.” However, the time has come when humans might switch roles with machines. Our study highlights capabilities that humans need to effectively work with AI and still be in control rather than just being directed.


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-152
Author(s):  
Ineke Vanessa Priscilia

Everyone at the present time are required to always be able to work hard in everything, working hard to do this is so that everyone can be a decent living in the future. Related to the hard work everyone is going to see the risks that would be faced by unnoticed when and how the shape of these risks arise. These risks will be experienced by everyone with a variety of shapes and time, ranging from the risk of life-threatening risks through the belongings. Therefore many people do an agreement with the other parties in terms of the transfer of these risks, one of them with the insurance agreement or the insurance agreement. Insured or the insurance agreement is done so that there is a guarantee against self or one's goods at risk as a result of an event that is not yet clear. The insurance agreement is then performed by several parties with the rights and obligations held by the parties, and any related party to the agreement is not to be insured do not perform the agreed performance as it will be deemed to have committed acts of defaul. Keywords: insurance agreement, the insured premiums, insurer


2021 ◽  
Vol V (1) ◽  
pp. 159-165
Author(s):  
Elena Smirennikova

The article deals with a fragment of a lecture by V.V. Bibikhin, in which eternity is interpreted as a constant renewal, the young-new. The new present, the “now”, makes the preceding present different, thereby turning it into the past. This "now" does not exist in the way of being and is recognized only as the boundary between the past and the future. But it touches us, captures us. The new can't be planned, it can only be allowed, let be. The allowing is a risk, because the unknown will always fall out, something that you cannot prepare beforehand, prepare a way to deal with it. However, in the new we always recognize the same thing. Also to be ready for the new is to be ready for the generosity of being, which gives more and more. Being gives space and time to appear. The non-appeared, the different, seems to us separated with a line, a boundary. And we imagine eternity as something being abroad, beyond the line of time. But for Bibikhin, this is a meeting with the boundary itself, which is different both to what is located on one side of the boundary and to what is on the other. Eternity is not there, “beyond the line”, but here and now: it exists by its absence. Absolutely different, boundary, line, eternity — not just different, but is different, new each time. That is why Bibikhin's eternity is the young-new itself.


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