scholarly journals The Religious Argument—How We Substantiate Divine Authority in Human Terms

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. p102
Author(s):  
Michael James Fantus
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Method ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Human Race ◽  
Standard Format ◽  
The Real ◽  
Empirical Argument ◽  
The Way

Religious beliefs are unprovable except by empirical argument. The human race has struggled with full submission to these beliefs because beliefs, by definition intangible. The Argument, if performed well, substantiates valid religious beliefs and their utility to in human society, do not exact a price upon it or presume to self-enforce. Still, several kinds of arguments exist: Religion as an absolute, far from optional, and the other provides logic as to how we find God, the Real One, connect with Him and the beautiful universe around us without the constant redirection of religious nonsense-or its proponents in the way?This paper will examine Arguments from Islam, the Fatwa, the Greek, called a Polemic, the Apologetic, which exists in both Protestant and Catholic Christianity, the Chazakah, or presumption used in Judaism, and the Upanishad, an ancient form of spiritual inquiry and scientific method used by Vedantin Hindus. My objectives include overview of the history, structure, and forms of each type of Argument, and finally, recommendations for a standard format all religions can take advantage of.

scholarly journals Public relations as promotional activity

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr.Sc. Almira Curri-Mehmeti
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Local Community ◽  
The Other ◽  
Promotional Activity ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Way

Public relations give opportunity to the organization to present its image and personality to its own “public”- users, supporters, sponsors, donors, local community and other public.It is about transferring the message to the public, but that is a two-way street. You must communicate with your public, but at the same time you must give opportunity to the public to communicate easier with you. The real public relations include dialog – you should listen to the others, to see things through their perspective. This elaborate is made with the purpose to be useful for every organization, not for the sensa-tional promotion of its achievements, but to become more critical towards its work. Seeing the organization in the way that the other see it, you can become better and sure that you are giving to your users the best service possible.

scholarly journals THE PROBLEM OF THE GIFT IN MODERN WESTERN PHILOSOPHY: J. DERRIDA AND J.-L. MARION

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 344-350
Author(s):  
E.R. Rogozina
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Western Philosophy ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Human Race ◽  
The Gift

The article deals with the phenomenon of hospitality. The relevance of addressing the problem of the gift is dictated by the ambiguous interpretation of the term in modern Western philosophy. The problem of the gift is presented most controversially by the French philosophers M. Enaff, J. Derrida, M. Moss, J.-L. Marion. The article notes that the existence of human society is communicative by nature. The desire to accept the other, to tolerate the other, to crave the other, to seek a meeting with him/her persists in time and is constantly updated. The reason for this desire is neither psychological nor social. This desire has an ontological structure, it is inherent in the entire human race, and therefore determines the structure of its existence. This desire arose at the dawn of human relations and is characteristic for any culture. Desire is an attitude towards the other just like a gift and a demand for reciprocity. We are not talking about gratitude as a favor, but about the gesture of the offer, which is intended to glorify the meeting and the need to respond to this gesture with an appropriate gesture. The exchange of gestures, when both sides show interest in the exchange, is communication. Accordingly, the gift is communication.

scholarly journals Quiet Refusals: Androids as Others in Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Nima Behroozi Moghadam ◽  
Farideh Porugiv
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Jacques Lacan ◽  
The Other ◽  
Real Point ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
The Real ◽  
Objet Petit A ◽  
Slavoj Žižek ◽  
Cultural Theorist ◽  
The Way

This study intends to show how science fiction literature in general and Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? in particular can be read as a symptom of the postmodern era we live in. Taking as the main clues the ideas of the cultural theorist Slavoj Žižek, who combines Marxism with the psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan, as well as his account of “postmodernism,” the study discusses how, contrary to what capitalism dubs a “post-ideological” era, we are more than ever dominated by ideology through its cynical function. It further examines (through such Lacanian concepts as fantasy, desire, objet petit a, and jouissance) the way late capitalistic ideology functions in Dick’s narrative, and discusses how the multiculturalist society prompts new forms of racism through abstract universalization which only accounts for and tolerates the other as long as they appear within the confines of that formal abstraction. Finally, it looks into how ideologies as such can be subverted from the Real point within the symbolic.

The Other Side of the Camera: A TV Reporter's Stint as a Congressional Aide

1986 ◽  
Vol 19 (01) ◽  
pp. 43-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larry Warren
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Office Building ◽  
Late Afternoon ◽  
The Real ◽  
Home Team ◽  
Tv News ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Way

On a drizzly late afternoon, soon after the November 1984 elections and well before the start of the 99th Congress, I slogged into the Cannon House Office Building for an interview with a real, live congressman. This was not a new experience. As a television reporter for a decade, I'd interviewed dozens of representatives and senators along the way. This interview was entirely different, however, because this time I was looking for a job, and the member was looking for an APSA Congressional Fellow to help out in his office.After the usual half hour wait in the lobby, I was ushered in to meet the member. It was football season and before settling into the couch, he was bragging about his alma mater's quarterback. Fortunately, my home team had a hot quarterback too, so we debated quarterback's arms instead of the nuclear or conventional variety. I was scheduled for 20 minutes with the member, and half the time expired before the member abruptly turned to the real subject at hand—hockey. About the time I'd run through the last fact in my hockey memory, the member actually picked up my resume and scanned it.One fact leaped from the page and got him even more worked up than his quarterback's passing percentage. “So you're a TV reporter, huh? I've always liked having TV guys around.” By now the 20-minute interview time was up, but it would be another 1½ hours before I got back out into the rain, with my first real insight into politics and TV news, from the other side of the camera.

scholarly journals KEBEBASAN WANITA PADA TEKS “WARDAH AL-HĀNĪ”(1908) DALAM ANTOLOGI CERPEN “AL-ARWĀH AL-MUTAMARRIDAH” KARYA JUBRĀN KHALĪL JUBRĀN (KAJIAN SOSIOLOGI SASTRA)

Jurnal CMES ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 193
Author(s):  
Mufidah Nuruddiniyah, Tri Yanti Nurul Hidayati
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Real ◽  
Women's Emancipation ◽  
Literary Sociology ◽  
Two Sides ◽  
The Way ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

<p>Women and emancipation are two things that can not be separated, both are like two sides  of the same coin. One form of women's emancipation is a freedom of determining a spouse. This research aims to describe the several forms of women's freedom of determining a spouse in short story of Kahlil Gibran entitled Wardah Al Hānī based on literary sociology theory of Rene Wellek and Austin Warren. The methodology used to realize that aim is descriptive qualitative. The results reveal that women's freedom of determining a spouse is divided into two perspectives, one relates to the opinion of the character in a story and other determined by his behaviors. In the first side, the character has an opinion that the real happiness in the life only can be brought by love. So, she must choose the man she loved. And in another side, the women's freedom is shown by the way she left her legal husband and went to the other beloved man to make her happiness life.</p><p> </p>

Prelude to Democracy

1940 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-179
Author(s):  
Goetz A. Briefs
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Human Society ◽  
The Real ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Vested Interests ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Difference

ALL human society so far as it is Unitas ordinisanswers the same requirements, namely to constitute unity out of plurality under a (formal or unformal) leadership. Wherever one of these criteria is absent, only an aggregation of individuals may ensue; never society.All human society, therefore, has a constitution whether written or not. This constitution determines who belongs to the society in question, how far its competence reaches, to what ends it is established, how the will of such society is to be formed and executed.All human society exists in the full stream of life; hence it is never frozen or static. On the other hand, human inertia and vested interests exert their strength by trying to fix the constitution of such society and to keep it, in whole or part, in a given status. Hence, there arises the difference between the real and the written constitution—a difference which both the Conservative von Radowitz and the Socialist Lassalle noticed. It prompted Radowitz’ famous dictum: “A government can efficiently and gloriously rule with any constitution as long as such government wields true authority. Without this authority, rule under any constitution will be bad.”

Reading on the Move

PMLA ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 128 (1) ◽  
pp. 232-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lutz Koepnick
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Pulitzer Prize ◽  
Jane Smiley ◽  
The Real ◽  
Alternative Structures ◽  
Good Book ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Way

It is often said that proper reading relies on the art of taking a pause: On our abilityto suspend the pressing rhythms of the everyday and allow ourselves to absorb, and be absorbed by, alternative structures of temporality. The clocks of the imagination do not run at the same speeds as the timetables of the real; to read is to inhabit the present at one's own pace and in the light of a multitude of unknown pasts and possible futures. Recent years have witnessed a swell in publications pondering the state of reading in our world of instant connectivity and shrinking attention spans. In one of these books, Jane Smiley, a Pulitzer Prize winner, considers the peculiar acts of writing and reading a novel as profound contributions to the process of enlightenment—a kind of enlightenment enlightened about itself and no longer repressing the other of reason: “The way in which novels are created—someone is seized by inspiration and then works out his inspiration methodologically by writing, observing, writing, observing, thinking through, and writing again—is by nature deliberate, dominated neither by reason nor by emotion” (176). According to Smiley, the act of reading a novel re-creates an author's deliberate negotiation of affect and rationality. As readers follow the lines of a (good) book, they remain in relative control over the speed of their reading, able to pause when necessary, to hasten forward when desiring so, to reread passages at their leisure, and to close the pages of the book when overtaken by exhaustion. Good stories rely on intricate plot constructions and narrative tensions, but they also situate readers as subjects freed from the temporal determination and ideological drive of other time-based media. Good books can certainly move readers, but—following Smiley's logic—they will not curtail a reader's freedom to move along the text at his or her own speed, and hence they will allow this reader to simultaneously bring into play emotion and reason, the absorptive and the distant.

scholarly journals Fantasie en ideologie in Eugene Marais se Dwaalstories

Literator ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 36-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. A. Jooste
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Real ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Social ◽  
The One ◽  
The Way

In the four short stories published in the volume Dwaalstories, Eugène Marais achieves a very charming combination of fantasy and ideological coding. The fantasy seems, on the one hand, to camouflage the possible effects of certain ideological stances in the stories and also to predispose a naïve reading, while the more submerged ideological coding, on the other hand, invites closer inspection, which will uncover the real clout of the message. Traditionally, fables recount the victory of the weak over the powerful due to the intervention of some magical outside force. In these African fables this convention is employed to demonstrate the successful undermining of the despotic use of power which causes the innocent to suffer. Assisted by forces of magic residing in Nature, the weak react against injustice, so rectifying the social imbalances and counteracting the dangers caused by the inhumane use of group or institutional force. The purpose of this article is to describe the way in which fantasy and ideology are intercoded in Marais’s Dwaalstories.

Die musikalische Ambivalenz in Kleists Die heilige Cäcilie oder die Gewalt der Musik: Urteil über den Katholizismus oder Hilfsmittel zur Glaubensfindung?

2020 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-43
Author(s):  
Raphaela Tkotzyk
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
German Literature ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Church ◽  
Concrete Statement ◽  
Alternative Understanding ◽  
The Way

AbstractHeinrich von Kleist’s attitude toward the Catholic Church has produced two major positions in modern German literature. On one hand, there are those who understand Kleist simply as a church critic; on the other hand, there are those who consider Kleist’s attitude – and his alleged Kantian crisis and departure from all scholars – as supportive towards the Church. Die heilige Cäcilie precisely exemplifies this debate, because, depending on the way one reads the narrative, the text can be interpreted as an endorsement or as a criticism of the Church. However, the text can be read quite differently for yet, a third, alternative understanding: the element of music involved in Die heilige Cäcilie undermines a concrete definition of its position as well as a concrete statement regarding Kleist’s religious creed. Thereby, it serves as a tool to help the reader to make decisions in terms of religious beliefs and doctrines.

Handling of Facts and Forensic Tactics in Cicero’s Pro Roscio Amerino

Nova Tellus ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamás Nótári
Keyword(s):  
Public Affairs ◽  
The Other ◽  
Criminal Case ◽  
The Real ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The One ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
The Way

Pro Sexto Roscio Amerino is Cicero’s first “criminal case”, in which he tries to clear his defendant of the charge invented by his relatives and the dictator’s confidant under the pretext of Sulla’s massacres. Sextus Roscius junior was charged with patricide by his relatives asserting that he had his father murdered in June 81. By the assistance of Sulla’s confidant, Chrysogonus, the relatives attained that the victim’s name—although he was considered the dictator’s adherent—should be in­cluded in the register of persons inflicted by proscriptio, and so his property could be sold by auction, of which both Chrysogonus and the relatives of the murdered man had their handsome share, except for, “as a matter of fact”, Roscius senior’s son, who was thus done out of his inheritance. To enjoy the treacherously obtained property in safety, they wanted to get the lawful inheritor out of the way by a well-thought out Justizmord, therefore, they charged him with par(r)icidium. The case covered a dan­gerous political swamp, so they thought that none of the illustrious advocates of the age would undertake the defence. However, the young Cicero resolved to represent the case that seemed hopeless not so much for legal but much more for political reasons; his undertaking —which was eventually crowned by success— required a lot of courage, precise handling of the facts of the case and rhetoric skill, yet, in the long run established the reputation of the ambitious advocate and launched his career as an orator and a man of public affairs. Afterwards, the orator speaks about the acknowledgement obtained through the successful statement of the defence, on the one hand; and, seriously criticizes his own one-time overflowing, unrestrained style, yet, appreciating his own courage, on the other. First, we intend to shed light on the historical situation; after that, we outline the statutory background of the crime that provides grounds for the charge. Finally, we analyse the handling of the facts of the case applied in Pro Roscio Amerino and the rhetorical tactics by which he uncovered the real movers of the invented charge and their motivation and attained the acquittal of the accused.

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