scholarly journals The teachings of nature and will in Descartes

2008 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-98
Author(s):  
Predrag Milidrag
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Mind

The article analyzes Descartes' notion of the teachings of nature as a consequence of the union of the mind with the body in the context of the determination of the will. The paragraphs 3-5 of Second meditations are interpreted concerning the teachings of nature about man.

How Is Strength of the Will Possible? Concerning Francis of Marchia and the Act of the Will

Vivarium ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-183
Author(s):  
Andrea Robiglio
Keyword(s):  
Human Mind ◽  
The Self ◽  
Weakness Of Will ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Mind

AbstractFrancis of Marchia dealt at length in several different contexts with the nature of the will and willing. Here I examine just one of those discussions: the possibility for the will to go against reason's final judgment, a topic related to weakness of will and the source of sin. Marchia is clearly of a voluntaristic bent, holding that the will can indeed act against the determination of reason. After examining Marchia's argumentation for his position, I explore some of the background to Marchia's view in a distinctively later medieval understanding of the human mind as a system of internal acts and dispositions, with the possibility that several of them belong to the same faculty simultaneously. This increasingly complex conceptualisation of the mind mirrors a new, more complex conceptualization of the "Self".

scholarly journals Man is an object and a subject of social and humanitarian sciences

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (86) ◽  
pp. 130-134
Author(s):  
O.V. Ohirko
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Human Person ◽  
The Body ◽  
Human Soul ◽  
Living Matter ◽  
Body And Soul ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Spiritual Ability

Philosophical, anthropological and Christian views on a person as a reasonable, free, religious and social person are considered. Theocentric and anthropocentric views are analyzed. Man is three worlds: physical, cognitive, and affective. Man differs from other creatures by having reason and will and natural inclinations. Man is embodied in the spirit and the spiritualized body, and its human spirit is expressed in bodily form. The body and soul of man are not two realities that are separated from one another. The body is a living matter, merged with the soul. The body, having the ability to feed, move, rest, multiply, falls under the laws of matter, that is, in particular, under the law of death. The human soul animates the body, reveals the spiritual ability to think abstractly, to create ideas, assessments, reasoning, make decisions freely. She does not suffer corporal death and can not decompose. In order for a person to live according to his nature, the mind must freely and sincerely seek the truth, and the will must always desire the truth offered as reason by the mind. A person is a person who has his own mind, will and feeling. In view of its dignity, the human person is the center of public life. Man as an image and likeness of God, is able to know, to love the Creator, and to serve Him. Man as a person is a goal in itself and in no case is not only an instrumental instrument. The purpose of human life is to love people and God, to be kind, to know, to speak and to testify the truth.

scholarly journals Praktik Yoga Arsitek Bade: Membaca Praktik Yoga Penglukunan Dasa Aksara Undagi Bade

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 97
Author(s):  
I Putu Gede Suyoga
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Technical Skills ◽  
The Body ◽  
Spiritual Practice ◽  
Literacy Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Practice ◽  
Design Skills ◽  
The Mind

Every profession has the realm of yoga applications that are relevant to the practice of their profession. An undagi “architect” in addition to equipping himself with design skills and technical skills for “artifacts”, is also obliged to master the mind (yoga), one of which is the literacy technique “union of ten scripts / holy letters”. This study aims to uncover the phenomenon of undagi bade which is able to capture the knowledge behind the script as a practice of yoga for spiritual practice, and manifested in the form of bade architectural artifacts. This study is a qualitative study with a descriptive analytical approach. Collecting data by observation and documentation. Determination of informants is done by purposive sampling. Data analysis was based on Michel Foucault’s knowledge power relations theory. The results of the study showed that the architecture of the bade was composed of pepalihan (parts) that compose parts of the body and roof. The shape varies there are those who are not overlapping called a container and whose roof is overlapped is called a bade, some even have no roof (open) called padma. This roof variant is the result of a deep contemplation of “yoga” literacy. Knowledge of the dasa aksukan capturing was captured by undagi bade to be developed as power in the practice of his profession. This power of knowledge practice applies in the realm of Balinese society whose bodies have been disciplined, obedient and useful in carrying out ceremonial cultural practices of death. Personally the meaning of yoga in literacy is the practice of training the undagi self-discipline in seeking authenticity on the path of Tantra.

Woodrow Wilson—Then and Now

1974 ◽  
Vol 7 (03) ◽  
pp. 256-259
Author(s):  
Pendleton Herring
Keyword(s):  
Human Evolution ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
The Body ◽  
Woodrow Wilson ◽  
Public Office ◽  
Samson Agonistes ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Mind

It was in this house that Wilson, after the burdens of public office, sought “some ease.” In words I quote from John Milton's “Samson Agonistes:”“Ease to the body some, noneto the mindFrom restless thoughts, thatlike a deadly swarmOf hornets armed, no soonerfound aloneBut rush upon methronging, and presentTimes past, what once I was,and what am now.”One cannot speak of Woodrow Wilson fifty years after his death without recalling his last tragic days. Most poignant is Raymond Fosdick's account:“I went down to Washington to see him…. It was less than a month before he died, and it was very obvious that his strength was failing, although his mind was keen and alert. When I said to him: ‘How are you, Mr. President,’ he quoted a remark by John Quincy Adams in answer to a similar query: ‘John Quincy Adams is all right, but the house he lives in is dilapidated, and it looks as if he would soon have to move out’…. His whole thought centered on the League of Nations, and I had never heard him speak with deeper or more moving earnestness. In his weakness the tears came easily to his eyes and sometimes rolled down his cheek, but he brushed them impatiently away. I think he had a premonition that his days were numbered - “The sands are running fast,’ he told me - and perhaps he Wanted to make his last testament clear and unmistakable. The League of Nations was a promise for a better future, he said, as well as an escape from an evil past. Constantly his mind ran back to 1914. The utter unintelligence of it all, the sheer waste of war as a method of settling anything, seemed to oppress him. ‘It never must happen again,’ he said. ‘There is a way out if only men will use it.’ His voice rose as he recalled the charge of idealism so often used against the League. ‘The world is run by ideals,’ he exclaimed. ‘Only the fool thinks otherwise.’ The League was the answer. It was the next logical step in man’s widening conception of order and law. The machinery might be changed by experience, but the core of the idea was essential. It was in line with human evolution. It was the will of God.

Gender determination of caucasoid hair using image analysis

1993 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 216-217
Author(s):  
T.B. Ball ◽  
W.M. Hess
Keyword(s):  
Image Analysis ◽  
Cross Sections ◽  
Scalp Hair ◽  
The Body ◽  
Equivalent Diameter ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Hair Samples ◽  
Length Width ◽  
Morphological Differences

It has been demonstrated that cross sections of bundles of hair can be effectively studied using image analysis. These studies can help to elucidate morphological differences of hair from one region of the body to another. The purpose of the present investigation was to use image analysis to determine whether morphological differences could be demonstrated between male and female human Caucasian terminal scalp hair.Hair samples were taken from the back of the head from 18 caucasoid males and 13 caucasoid females (Figs. 1-2). Bundles of 50 hairs were processed for cross-sectional examination and then analyzed using Prism Image Analysis software on a Macintosh llci computer. Twenty morphological parameters of size and shape were evaluated for each hair cross-section. The size parameters evaluated were area, convex area, perimeter, convex perimeter, length, breadth, fiber length, width, equivalent diameter, and inscribed radius. The shape parameters considered were formfactor, roundness, convexity, solidity, compactness, aspect ratio, elongation, curl, and fractal dimension.

Burnout of the Mind – Burnout of the Body?

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Traunmüller ◽  
Kerstin Gaisbachgrabner ◽  
Helmut Karl Lackner ◽  
Andreas R. Schwerdtfeger
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Allostatic Load ◽  
Maslach Burnout Inventory ◽  
The Body ◽  
Lower Percentage ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Urinary Catecholamines ◽  
Morning Cortisol ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Cortisol Increase

Abstract. In the present paper we investigate whether patients with a clinical diagnosis of burnout show physiological signs of burden across multiple physiological systems referred to as allostatic load (AL). Measures of the sympathetic-adrenergic-medullary (SAM) axis and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis were assessed. We examined patients who had been diagnosed with burnout by their physicians (n = 32) and were also identified as burnout patients based on their score in the Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey (MBI-GS) and compared them with a nonclinical control group (n = 19) with regard to indicators of allostatic load (i.e., ambulatory ECG, nocturnal urinary catecholamines, salivary morning cortisol secretion, blood pressure, and waist-to-hip ratio [WHR]). Contrary to expectations, a higher AL index suggesting elevated load in several of the parameters of the HPA and SAM axes was found in the control group but not in the burnout group. The control group showed higher norepinephrine values, higher blood pressure, higher WHR, higher sympathovagal balance, and lower percentage of cortisol increase within the first hour after awakening as compared to the patient group. Burnout was not associated with AL. Results seem to indicate a discrepancy between self-reported burnout symptoms and psychobiological load.

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