Anthropocentrism in the Structure and Description of Language

2021 ◽  
pp. 29-48
Author(s):  
Milivoj B. Alanović
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Grammatical Structure ◽  
Verb Constructions ◽  
The World ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Original Domain ◽  
Language Meaning

Although the connection between language, meaning and culture has been dealt with on several occasions in Serbianlinguistics, we thought it appropriate to point out several examples of the lexical-grammatical structure of the Serbian language that illustrate the anthropocentric view of relations in the world immediately surrounding man. In order to realise our intention, we opted for verb constructions in which we can see the semantic transition from the original to the secondary domains, where the original domain primarily indicates the state of affairs typical of man or living beings in general.

Suspicion and prejudice: The role of ideology in the study of Christian revival among the Roma

2019 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 455-470
Author(s):  
Manuela Cantón-Delgado ◽  
Marcos Toyansk ◽  
Javier Jiménez-Royo
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
External Financing ◽  
Regional Network ◽  
The World ◽  
New Form ◽  
Evangelical Movement ◽  
State Of Affairs

The state of affairs of some studies concerning Romani groups’ conversions throughout the world to the global evangelical movement, and the subtext that prevails in such studies, could reveal a persistence of ‘enlightened prejudice’ towards the nature of religions, namely, a kind of suspicion and authoritarianism that continues to tacitly fuel hostility against emerging religious phenomena, and the tendency of analysts to share, consciously or unconsciously, the language of the State, producing a negative vision of the Romani world. The creativity and autonomy exhibited by Romani Evangelism, which stays away from external financing and, generally speaking, policies of minority promotion, contribute to a vast trans-regional network of congregations, that aim towards an unprecedented global pan-Romanism with a strong social base. This is a response to a historic diaspora, and, in turn, a new form of the secular Romani diaspora.

Measuring World Development

1975 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Galtung ◽  
A. Guha ◽  
A. Wirak ◽  
S. Sjlie ◽  
M. Cifuentes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The World ◽  
Radical Content ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
World Development ◽  
Selection Of

The purpose of this article is to discuss how the old and rather technocratic idea of expressing the state of affairs in a society in numbers, by means of social indicatros, can be given a more radical content. One idea is to measure not only how good a society is to its own citizens, but also how good or bad it is to the rest of the world. A second idea is to avoid abstractions like GNP and averages and try to develop measures that reflect the state of affairs at the level of human beings. A third idea is to find ways of developing indicators that would give less power to experts and more to people themselves. The article starts by giving the outline of a basic discussion on indicators, proceeds with a discussion of the basic values guiding the selection of indicators and ends with a presentation of the indicators.

An Impossible Prayer: Ethics between Performative and Constative

Derrida Today ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-147
Author(s):  
Eric Aldieri
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Real Effects ◽  
The World ◽  
State Of Affairs

This article takes up the blurred distinction between performative and constative utterances in an effort to develop a quotidian and idiomatic conception of prayer as perjurious testimony. Focusing on a passage in the recently published Le parjure et le pardon seminars, I argue that a quotidian and idiomatic conception of prayer is one whose function interminably oscillates between constative and performative, rendering the distinction between these two uses of language indiscernible. This oscillation plays not to prayer's detriment, but instead serves as the animating force behind prayer and the impossible ethical desire prayer expresses. The impossibility of a prayer whose desire is rendered perjurious by the state of affairs from which it emerges opens onto a number of political, ethical, and theological concerns that the second half of the paper addresses. By reading Simone Weil's reflections on the ‘Our Father’ in light of Derrida's considerations above, I argue that prayer's impossibility is a condition of possibility for its ability to produce real effects in the world it betrays.

scholarly journals A new epistemological case for theism

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
CHRISTOPHE DE RAY
Keyword(s):  
World View ◽  
The State ◽  
States Of Affairs ◽  
Traditional Theism ◽  
The World ◽  
State Of Affairs

Abstract Relying on inference to the best explanation (IBE) requires one to hold the intuition that the world is ‘intelligible’, that is, such that states of affairs at least generally have explanations for their obtaining. I argue that metaphysical naturalists are rationally required to withhold this intuition, unless they cease to be naturalists. This is because all plausible naturalistic aetiologies of the intuition entail that the intuition and the state of affairs which it represents are not causally connected in an epistemically appropriate way. Given that one ought to rely on IBE, naturalists are forced to pick the latter and change their world-view. Traditional theists, in contrast, do not face this predicament. This, I argue, is strong grounds for preferring traditional theism to naturalism.

scholarly journals Just Caring for Caregivers: What Society and the State Owe to Those Who Render Care

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Reiheld
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Division Of Labor ◽  
The State ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Public Concern ◽  
The World ◽  
Private Matter ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Distributed Scheme

Traditional considerations of justice for those who require caregiving have centered on what is due to the dependent person. However, considerations of justice also bear strongly on what is due to the caregiver. I focus on unpaid dependency work, too long treated as a private matter rather than a public concern. More is owed to those who render care: the division of labor is unjust, the nature of dependency work creates vulnerabilities for caregivers, and unpaid caregivers are disadvantaged in the world of paid work. Obligations to mitigate these facts are ultimately based on the truth that all members of society at some point in their lives benefit from caregiving and that noncaregivers benefit unfairly from the heavy distribution of dependency work to a small number of certain kinds of individuals. It is necessary to ask which agents of justice are responsible for remedying this state of affairs, and how. I propose a distributed scheme of obligation in which members of society and the state, as arbiter of social responsibility, share responsibility for the remedy. It is incumbent upon us as a society to refrain from making vulnerable the most essential among us, to reap benefits without sowing unjust burdens.

scholarly journals Polysemie du verbe manger chez les Dagara du Burkina Faso

2007 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-209
Author(s):  
Penou-Achille Some
Keyword(s):  
Burkina Faso ◽  
The State ◽  
Grammatical Structure ◽  
Abstract Schema ◽  
Good For ◽  
State Of Affairs

In Dagara, the most common translation for the verb di is 'eat'. Other translations, however, are: 'spend, take advantage of 'burn, wear out, hurt, be infected,' 'be named x, look like x, be x only by name,' and 'be topmost, reach the target, make good for a bad situation'. For each of these meanings, di always differs from its false-synonyms ('munch, blaze, wear, hurt, call, be or have, resemble, manage, make up for. . .'). We distinguish two main types, one where di is a verb of accomplishment, and one where di is a verb of state. The investigation reveals how grammatical structure fits with semantics as well as ethnological data, mainly through a constant valuation of the state of affairs by the Speaker. The article concludes by showing how all of the meanings can be united around a single common, abstract schema.

Dekonstruktion als Gerechtigkeit

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans-Martin Schönherr-Mann
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Strong State ◽  
The World ◽  
The Law ◽  
Law And Justice ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
The Individual

The state and the law are based on inescapable power, which means that justice can only be regarded as being independent of the law and thus of the principles of generality and equality. Justice aims to satisfy both ‘the event’ and ‘the individual’, which can only be achieved by examining the problems connected to it without bias. Therefore, every conceptual approach related to this state of affairs has to be analysed down to its last inconsistency. That is the point of deconstruction, which has always been concerned with doing justice to the event in question. Democracy cannot be completed, only further developed, which contradicts the idea of a strong state. Democracy demands responsible citizens, that is, those who are willing and able to deconstruct, who have perennially come to the fore whenever people have distrusted the diverse interpretations of the world that have been proposed. Derrida’s understanding of the state assumes there is an unbridgeable gap between the law and justice that exposes democracy as being notoriously insufficient, which both the state and its citizens therefore have to uphold in order to strive for their emancipation as individuals.

scholarly journals DIGITAL FINANCIAL ASSETS: SEGMENTS AND PROSPECTS OF LEGAL REGULATION IN THE BRICS COUNTRIES

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 95-113
Author(s):  
I. Sarnakov
Keyword(s):  
World Economy ◽  
Current Trend ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
The State ◽  
Financial Assets ◽  
Brics Countries ◽  
Legal Nature ◽  
The World ◽  
State Of Affairs

In the environment of the current trend towards digitalization of the world economy, the issue of the legal regulation of the institute of digital financial assets as well as the activity relating to the generation of these assets is of considerable interest. As practice shows, individual countries face the situation where these assets are already turning over, but there is still no legal regulation. This state of affairs may give rise to cases of illegal turnover of financial assets and fraud in this sphere. Presently, the geopolitical map on digitalization of the economy is fragmented. Some countries have recognized and legalized the turnover of digital financial assets, others have so far not adopted an unambiguous attitude with respect to this new institute, while a third group of countries has not even recognized their legal nature nor their very existence. This ambiguity raises many issues relating to the legitimacy of digital financial assets and the feasibility of the introduction of this new financial product. The article analyzes the state of the legal regulation of the institute of digital financial assets in the BRICS countries, considers the standpoints of legislators and scientists on the legal nature of these financial assets.

scholarly journals Walka z czarną śmiercią w świetle wybranych pism i traktatów z XIV w.

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-43
Author(s):  
Janusz Smołucha
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Body Fluids ◽  
The State ◽  
Giovanni Boccaccio ◽  
Black Death ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Francesco Petrarch ◽  
State Of Affairs

Combatting the Black Death in the light of selected writings and treatises from the XIVth century This article analyzes texts that show attempts to resist the plague epidemic in Europe in the second half of the XIVth century. Much information on this subject has survived in writings by Italian authors, including Giovanni Boccaccio, Matteo Villani, and Francesco Petrarch. In Italian cities, the sickness led to demographic disaster, permanently changing the social order and the daily life of their inhabitants. Using the above mentioned texts, the author reflects on the triumphal march of the plague, searching for answers to the question as to the extent to which contemporary doctors were responsible for the state of affairs. When they encountered the first attack of the plague, they were helpless, not possessing either appropriate knowledge of medicines. Authors of chronicles noted that when examining the sick, doctors only took simple steps such as measuring temperature and analyzing body fluids, and the drew on philosophy and astrology when doing so. Sharper and sharper criticism fell on their heads as a result, and accusations not just of ignorance but also of cowardice. This was because many medical persons fled from territories affected by plague. Francesco Petrarch was one of the fiercest critics of doctors at this time. In the course of the epidemic, he lost Laura, the love of his life, and his beloved son. Petrarch wrote of the plague and the death that accompanied it in several tracts and poetic pieces. In those, he showed the fear and terror that haunted people when the world they had hitherto known lay in ruins.

scholarly journals On Revelation of the Meaninglessness of Language

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. p79
Author(s):  
Fanyu Mao
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
The World ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Conceptual Relationship

There is a conceptual relationship between language and significance, that is, whenever it comes to language, it is set to have meaning. But it does not mean that whenever we speak, we have meaning or we speak meaningfully. Based on the research of the meaning of language, the thesis proves that talking about the things that do not exist in the world will lead to meaninglessness from the two perspectives. One is the opinion from Wittgenstein that “Meaning of a proposition is the state of affairs”, the other, limitations of language. It further probes the meaning of human life based on the meaninglessness of language and three suggestions have been put forward as to how to experience the meaning of human life.

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