scholarly journals Albert Einstein, cosmos and religion

2007 ◽  
pp. 61-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Dokovic ◽  
P. Grujic
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Albert Einstein ◽  
Philo Of Alexandria ◽  
Baruch Spinoza ◽  
Great Scientist ◽  
Religious Background ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Ontological Aspect

We consider Einstein's attitude regarding religious as such, from both cosmological and epistemological points of view. An attempt to put it into a wider socio-historical perspective was made, with the emphasis on ethnic and religious background. It turns out that the great scientist was neither atheist nor believer in the orthodox sense and the closest labels one might stick to him in this respect would be pantheism/cosmism (ontological aspect) and agnosticism (episte?mological aspect). His ideas on divine could be considered as a continuation of line traced by Philo of Alexandria, who himself followed Greek Stoics and (Neo-) Platonists and especially Baruch Spinoza. It turns out that Einstein's both scientific (rational aspects) and religious (intuitive aspects) thinking were deeply rooted in the Hellenic culture. His striving to unravel the secrets of the universe and the roots of cosmological order resembles much the ancient ideas of the role of knowledge in fathoming the divine as such, as ascribed to Gnostics. .

scholarly journals Evaluation of knowledge transfer practices from a Leibniz Perspective

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Fascia
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Possible Worlds ◽  
Business Context ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The Many ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
Start Ups ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Transfer Mechanisms

In recent years, there has been a growing number of subspecialties within the context of business management, which have begun to talk seriously about a notion of religious points of view in a business context. In this paper we unpack a view from Gottfried Leibniz (1646 – 1716) and to a lesser extent Kant (1724- 1804) and Hegel (1770-1831) in relation to this perspective with a view to interpret the complexity and the role of religion in this arena. Leibniz famously argued that the universe as it currently exists, has to be “the best of all possible worlds,” since an omniscient creator would know all possibilities, and, therefore select the best available options for a starting and ending point. We argue that, although dichotically opposed to the many contemporary empirical attitudes, this perspective still has an inherent and modern-day stance, representative to both business theory and decision making via knowledge transfer mechanisms. Thus, we examine why business start- ups evolve and what effect a religious element has on the central caveat for businesses wishing to achieve success and maintain competitive advantage options, perspectives and scenarios. In this regards, we look at a significant amount of literature, in a bid to understand both the problematic nature surrounding the mechanics used to establish meaningful baselines from the many perspectives. The paper then summarises these theoretical baselines into segmented contexts for discussion

Athens, Jerusalem, and Beyond

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. M. Rudavsky
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
Philo Of Alexandria ◽  
Baruch Spinoza

Chapter 2 presents a preliminary chronological overview of the major figures discussed in the work. The major topics of subsequent chapters are arranged thematically, ranging from Jewish philosophy’s earliest awakening in the Hellenistic era with the Greek writings of Philo of Alexandria and its flourishing in the medieval period, to its culmination in the seventeenth century with the radical thought of Baruch Spinoza. The role of Neoplatonism is examined as well as the influences of the Neoplatonists, John Philoponus, Aristotle, the Kalâm theologians, and the Islamic philosophers. The chapter emphasizes the interaction between Jewish thinkers and their intellectual peers.

scholarly journals La indumentaria divina como vehículo de propaganda política y social. Reflexiones desde Arcadia = The clothing of the gods as a vehicle of political and social propaganda. Some reflections from Arkadia

2019 ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Vasilis Tsiolis
Keyword(s):  
Social Contexts ◽  
Hellenistic Period ◽  
Religious Background ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
International Diplomacy ◽  
Ideological Perspective ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The One ◽  
Military Victory

Resumen: La indumentaria divina, ampliamente tratada desde múltiples puntos de vista en los estudios de la Antigüedad, también se presta a análisis que ponen de manifiesto connotaciones ideológicas, de tipo social o político, a menudo propagandístico, conscientemente reflejadas bien en las propias prendas reales, bien en las obras artísticas que las representan o en elaboradas narrativas. En la presente contribución me propongo llevar a cabo una aproximación a la cuestión desde esta perspectiva “política” e ideológica, discutiendo dos casos de vestidos destinados a sendas diosas arcadias: el vestido de la diosa Despoina, parcialmente conocido por un fragmento marmóreo del grupo escultórico de culto del santuario de Licosura, por un lado, y el peplos enviado a Atenea Alea de Tegea por parte de una mujer residente en Chipre, llamada Laodice, por otro. Teniendo en cuenta el extraordinario bagaje religioso de la región, junto con su capacidad de aglutinar elementos de culto innovadores, pero también su versatilidad religiosa ante los imperativos políticos y sociales, así como su papel protagonista en el Peloponeso durante la época helenística (especialmente en el marco de la Liga aquea), estos dos casos sirven para profundizar en lo que se percibe detrás de las telas, es decir el mensaje que las prendas, por sus características, pretenden transmitir. El análisis nos conduce a vislumbrar la posible exaltación triunfalista y propagandística de alguna realidad no estrictamente religiosa, quizás una victoria militar de la Liga aquea, en el caso de Licosura y un acto posiblemente adscribible a un contexto de diplomacia internacional, orientada a crear redes de parentesco entre Chipre y Tegea, en un intento de potenciar las relaciones entre las partes para beneficio mutuoAbstract: The clothing of the gods, widely treated from different points of view in the ancient studies, can be analyzed in terms of its ideological, social or political connotations. Such connotations are often propagandistic and have been consciously reflected in the real attire itself or in garments represented on artistic works and elaborate narratives. In this paper I am proposing to approach the issue from a "political" and ideological perspective, discussing two cases of dresses of arkadian goddesses: the garment of the goddess Despoina, as it can be seen in a fragment of the acrolithic cultic group of her sanctuary at Lycosoura, on the one hand, and the peplos offered to Athena Alea at Tegea by Laodice, a woman resident in Cyprus, on the other. Bearing in mind the extraordinary religious background of Arkadia, together with its ability to bring together innovative elements of worship, but also its religious versatility in changing political and social contexts, as well as the leading role of this region in the Peloponnese during the Hellenistic period (especially as part of the Achaean League), the two cases chosen serve to the present study as a platform to deepen what is the message that garments, by their characteristics, intend to convey. The analysis leads us to glimpse the possible triumphalist and propagandistic exaltation of some reality not strictly religious, perhaps a military victory of the Achaean League, in the case of Lycosoura and an act possibly to place in an international diplomacy context, aimed at creating networks of kinship between Cyprus and Tegea, in an attempt to enhance relations between the parties for mutual benefit.Palabras clave: Agapenor, Chipre, indumentaria divina, manto de Despoina, Licosura, peplos de Laodice, Tegea.Key words: Agapenor, clothing of the gods, Cyprus, garment of Despoina, Lycosoura, peplos of Laodice, Tegea.

Quantitative Conditions and Convergent Operations That Are Compatible With the Universe as a Persistent Generator of Successive Simulations

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 4178-4187
Author(s):  
Michael A Persinger ◽  
Stanley A Koren
Keyword(s):  
Structural Organization ◽  
Total Duration ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Intrinsic Properties ◽  
Basic Assumptions ◽  
Electron Orbit ◽  
Quantitative Analyses ◽  
Massive Information ◽  
The Universe

                The capacity for computer-like simulations to be generated by massive information processing from electron-spin potentials supports Bostrom’s hypothesis that matter and human cognition might reflect simulations. Quantitative analyses of the basic assumptions indicate the universe may display properties of a simulation where photons behave as pixels and gravitons control the structural organization. The Lorentz solution for the square of the light and entanglement velocities converges with the duration of a single electron orbit that ultimately defines properties of matter. The approximately one trillion potential states within the same space with respect to the final epoch of the universe indicate that a different simulation, each with intrinsic properties, has been and will be generated as a type of tractrix defined by ±2 to 3 days (total duration 5 to 6 days). It may define the causal limits within a simulation. Because of the intrinsic role of photons as the pixel unit, phenomena within which flux densities are enhanced, such as human cognition (particularly dreaming) and the cerebral regions associated with those functions, create the conditions for entanglement or excess correlations between contiguous simulations. The consistent quantitative convergence of operations indicates potential validity for this approach. The emergent solutions offer alternative explanations for the limits of predictions for multivariate phenomena that could be coupled to more distal simulations.

Synergistic Methodology Based on Ion Exchange and Biodegradation Mechanisms Applied for Metal Complex Dye Removal from Waste Waters

2018 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-44
Author(s):  
Nicoleta Mirela Marin ◽  
Olga Tiron ◽  
Luoana Florentina Pascu ◽  
Mihaela Costache ◽  
Mihai Nita Lazar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ion Exchange ◽  
Synergistic Effects ◽  
Freundlich Isotherm ◽  
White Rot ◽  
White Rot Fungus ◽  
Basic Anion Exchange Resin ◽  
Km Value ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Basic Anion

This study investigates the synergistic effects of ion exchange and biodegradation methods to remove the Acid Blue 193 also called Gryfalan Navy Blue RL (GNB) dye from wastewater. Ion exchange studies were performed using a strongly basic anion exchange resin Amberlite IRA 400. The equilibrium was characterized by a kinetic and thermodynamic points of view, establishing that the sorption of the GNB dye was subject to the Freundlich isotherm model with R2 = 0.8710. Experimental results showed that the activated resin can removed up to 93.4% when the concentration of dye solution is 5.62�10-2 mM. The biodegradation of the GNB was induced by laccase, an enzyme isolated from white-rot fungus. It was also analyzed the role of pH and dye concentration on GNB biodegradation, so 5�10-2 mM dye had a maximum discoloration efficiency of 82.9% at pH of 4. The laccase showed a very fast and robust activity reaching in a few minutes a Km value of 2.2�10-1mM. In addition, increasing the GNB concentration up to 8�10-1 mM did not triggered a substrat inhibition effect on the laccase activity. Overall, in this study we proposed a mixt physicochemical and biological approach to enhance the GNB removal and biodegradability from the wastewaters and subsequently the environment.

Integrating the Universe of Effector and Regulatory Immune Cell Subsets: An Emerging Role of Protein-Glycan Interactions

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 348-356
Author(s):  
Susana A. Pesoa ◽  
Diego O. Croci ◽  
Gabriel A. Rabinovich
Keyword(s):  
Immune Cell ◽  
Immune Cell Subsets ◽  
The Universe

National Liberalisms in Historical Perspective

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark I. Vail
Keyword(s):  
Economic Model ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Historical Source ◽  
Market Making ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
The Face ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Analytical Frameworks

This chapter analyzes the development of French, German, and Italian liberalism from the nineteenth century to the 1980s, giving particular attention to each tradition’s conceptions of the role of the state and its relationship to groups and individual citizens. Using a broad range of historical source material and the works of influential political philosophers, it outlines the analytical frameworks central to French “statist liberalism,” German “corporate liberalism,” and Italian “clientelist liberalism.” It shows how these evolving traditions shaped the structure of each country’s postwar political-economic model and the policy priorities developed during the postwar boom through the early 1970s and provides conceptual touchstones for the direction and character of these traditions’ evolution in the face of the neoliberal challenge since the 1990s. The chapter demonstrates that each tradition accepted elements of a more liberal economic order while rejecting neoliberalism’s messianic market-making agenda and its abstract and disembedded political-economic vision.

Laws of Nature

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Laws Of Nature ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Scientific Theories ◽  
Law Of Nature ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Universe

The concept of a law of nature, while familiar, is deeply puzzling. Theorists such as Descartes think a divine being governs the universe according to the laws which follow from that being’s own nature. Newton detaches the concept from theology and is agnostic about the ontology underlying the laws of nature. Some later philosophers treat laws as summaries of events or tools for understanding and explanation, or identify the laws with principles and equations fundamental to scientific theories. In the first part of this volume, essays from leading historians of philosophy identify central questions: are laws independent of the things they govern, or do they emanate from the powers of bodies? Are the laws responsible for the patterns we see in nature, or should they be collapsed into those patterns? In the second part, contributors at the forefront of current debate evaluate the role of laws in contemporary Best System, perspectival, Kantian, and powers- or mechanisms-based approaches. These essays take up pressing questions about whether the laws of nature can be consistent with contingency, whether laws are based on the invariants of scientific theories, and how to deal with exceptions to laws. These twelve essays, published here for the first time, will be required reading for anyone interested in metaphysics, philosophy of science, and the histories of these disciplines.

scholarly journals Dust Production around Carbon-Rich Stars: The Role of Metallicity

Universe ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. 233
Author(s):  
Ambra Nanni ◽  
Sergio Cristallo ◽  
Jacco Th. van Loon ◽  
Martin A. T. Groenewegen
Keyword(s):  
Wind Speed ◽  
Galactic Halo ◽  
Magellanic Clouds ◽  
Asymptotic Giant Branch ◽  
Agb Stars ◽  
Circumstellar Envelopes ◽  
Chemical Enrichment ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Universe

Background: Most of the stars in the Universe will end their evolution by losing their envelope during the thermally pulsing asymptotic giant branch (TP-AGB) phase, enriching the interstellar medium of galaxies with heavy elements, partially condensed into dust grains formed in their extended circumstellar envelopes. Among these stars, carbon-rich TP-AGB stars (C-stars) are particularly relevant for the chemical enrichment of galaxies. We here investigated the role of the metallicity in the dust formation process from a theoretical viewpoint. Methods: We coupled an up-to-date description of dust growth and dust-driven wind, which included the time-averaged effect of shocks, with FRUITY stellar evolutionary tracks. We compared our predictions with observations of C-stars in our Galaxy, in the Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC) and in the Galactic Halo, characterised by metallicity between solar and 1/10 of solar. Results: Our models explained the variation of the gas and dust content around C-stars derived from the IRS Spitzer spectra. The wind speed of the C-stars at varying metallicity was well reproduced by our description. We predicted the wind speed at metallicity down to 1/10 of solar in a wide range of mass-loss rates.

scholarly journals Actualized inventory of medicinal plants used in traditional medicine in Oaxaca, Mexico

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cruz-Pérez Alejandra Lucía ◽  
Barrera-Ramos Jacqueline ◽  
Bernal-Ramírez Luis Alberto ◽  
Bravo-Avilez David ◽  
Rendón-Aguilar Beatriz
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Traditional Knowledge ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Risk Category ◽  
Important Species ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Almost All

Abstract Background Oaxaca is one of the most diverse states in Mexico from biological and cultural points of view. Different ethnic groups living there maintain deep and ancestral traditional knowledge of medicinal plants as well as traditional practices and beliefs about diseases/illnesses and cures. Previous ethnobotanical research in this state has helped document this knowledge, but with the addition of more studies, more records appear. We updated the inventory of medicinal knowledge between the different ethnic groups that inhabit the Oaxacan territory. Methods A database was constructed from two sources: (1) original data from a 3-year project in 84 municipalities of Oaxaca inhabited by eight ethnic groups and (2) different electronic databases. Results Records of 1032 medicinal plants were obtained; 164 families were registered, with Asteraceae, Fabaceae, and Rubiaceae being the most commonly used. A total of 770 species were reported in 14 vegetation types; the most important species came from temperate forests. Only 144 species corresponded to introduced species, and 272 were listed in a risk category. Illnesses of the digestive and genitourinary systems as well as culture-bound syndromes were treated with high numbers of medicinal plants. The Mestizo, Mixe, Mixtec, and Zapotec ethnic groups exhibited the greatest number of recorded medicinal plants. The 17 species that were used among almost all ethnic groups in Oaxaca were also used to cure the highest number of diseases. Discussion Inventories of medicinal plants confirm the persistence of traditional knowledge and reflect the need to recognize and respect this cosmovision. Many species are gathered in wild environments. The most important illnesses or diseases recorded in the present inventory are also mentioned in different studies, suggesting that they are common health problems in the rural communities of Mexico. Conclusions Medicinal plants are essential for ethnic groups in Oaxaca. It is necessary to recognize and understand the complex ancestral processes involved in the human-nature interaction and the role of these processes in the conservation of biodiversity and in the survivorship of ethnic groups that have persisted for centuries. Finally, this study serves as a wake-up call to respect those worldviews.

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