Americanizing the World

2020 ◽  
pp. 100-151
Author(s):  
Duncan Bell
Keyword(s):  
Secret Society ◽  
International Arbitration ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Review Of Reviews ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
World Mission ◽  
The Universe

This chapter explores how W. T. Stead and Cecil J. Rhodes imagined the future of the “English-speaking peoples.” It offers an analysis of Stead's views on utopia and religion, before tracing his early political endeavors. Stead argued in 1896 that the English-speaking race had a “world mission” to accomplish, and the “supreme thing for the English-speaking man is to recognize his place in what may be called the economy of the universe.” His self-appointed task was to reveal and disseminate this providential truth. The chapter also shows how he utilized the Review of Reviews to advocate a series of interconnected policies during the 1890s, including international arbitration, imperial consolidation, and increased naval spending, all of which were bound up with his dream of Anglo-America. The chapter then shifts to Stead's proposals for a federal racial union, focusing in particular on his arguments in The Americanization of the World, his most elaborate account of the dream. The remainder of the chapter discusses Rhodes' conception of empire, race, and Anglo-America, as well as his fantasy of a secret society to proselytize the cause of the “English race.” While Rhodes was clearly an advocate of a racial union, the chapter argues that the character of his vision, as well as its public presentation, was shaped by Stead.

THE METAPHOR LONDON-AS-THE-WORLD AS A KEY METAPHOR IN THE STRUCTURE OF THE LONDON TEXT OF ENGLISH LINGUISTIC CULTURE

2020 ◽  
pp. 202-216
Author(s):  
Aleksei V. Sosnin ◽  
◽  
Yuliya V. Balakina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Deep Structure ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Linguistic Expression ◽  
The World ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Civilized World

The article examines the metaphor London-as-the-World in the structure of the London text of English linguistic culture (i.e., an emic or invariant text for a group of texts related to the British capital). Such an analysis makes it possible to update the most important dimension of the London text: its objects turns out to be a key component of Englishness, being conceptualized as a model of all-English and world processes, as an analogy of the civilized world and the universe. The metaphorical realizations of the London text are seen as the result of conceptual fusion. The research cited in the article is carried out at the junction of the cognitive and semiotic approaches, according to which socially significant mental entities are examined via a semantic analysis of corresponding supertexts. The integration of the cognitive and the semiotic is effected within the framework of unified semantics. Thereby a semiotic analysis of text consists in singling out propositions of diverse degrees of similarity in it, in the selection and classification of predicates with which characters and “things” are endowed in the text, and in the inclusion of individual entities from the text in the general categories, what reveals the picture of the world deep structure from the standpoint of that text. The article draws on the literary canon of New English, and a study into that material educes a continuity in the metaphors and the means of their linguistic expression that were used by the English-speaking community to structure the reality. The article thus postulates the relative stability of London text as a supertextual entity.

Does This Bring Us Back to God?

2021 ◽  
pp. 181-192
Author(s):  
Bruce Ledewitz
Keyword(s):  
Causal Structure ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Final Conclusion ◽  
Process Thought ◽  
Traditional Theism ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Ex Nihilo ◽  
The Universe

The book returns to the question of God within the world of the yes. The reader is given tools to continue the investigation, but no final conclusion is reached on the question of God. David Griffin’s process thought is naturalistic and panentheistic. This view of God shares attributes of traditional theism. But in process thought, God does not create ex nihilo, does not coerce, and remains within the causal structure of nature. Griffin argues that God is a necessary feature of process thought and its endorsement of enduring meaning. Donald Sherburne offers a different view, called “Whitehead Without God.” The book concludes that process thought without God can still renew public life. It remains for us in the future to investigate the mystery of holiness in the universe.

scholarly journals Antropogeneza i jej związek z ewolucją wszechświata w teilhardyzmie

2007 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-102
Author(s):  
Grzegorz Baczewski
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Evolutionary Process ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human Race ◽  
Main Concept ◽  
Common Information ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Spiritual Reality ◽  
The Universe

This paper deals with the connection between the origin of the human race and the evolving universe in the works of Teilhard de Chardin, the French thinker analysed this problem from different points of view: scientific, philosophical and theological, showing its different aspects.The results of his reflections on this topic form a system of thought in which Teilhard tried to explain the mystery of man and the universe, the main concept of this system is the evolution of the whole universe from a material into a spiritual reality. Part of this cosmic evolutionary process is also the origin of the human race (considered by Teilhard as a species of living creatures and only accidentally as individual human beings). Creation of the world and man according to Teilhard is also a continual process in which God uses the natural law of evolution. Man is the best part and the summit of this cosmic process, the human race has been craeted by God as one philum (monophiletism) and not as a couple (Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden) or many phila (poliphiletism). While creating human souls, God also uses the material elements of the world, sublimating them into spirit, these opinions created many problems for the Catholic Church and were not accepted. Teilhardian analyses of the future of the universe and mankind are very interesting and inspiring and have been used by many modern thinkers. Teilhard wrote about one global society united by science and technology (globalisation). In the future people will also form one sphere of human spirit, the sphere of common information (noosphere). Eschatologically, the whole universe along with the human race will be united with God as the mover and final cause of the cosmic evolution (its point Alpha and Omega).The end of the history of all created reality will be the transformation into spiritual reality of the Cosmic Christ, thus anthropogenesis will be fulfilled in cosmogenesis and finally in Christogenesis.

scholarly journals Historical stages of development of ideas about the picture of the World

2021 ◽  
pp. 97-107
Author(s):  
V.A. Meider ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Science ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Structural Elements ◽  
Stages Of Development ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Universe

Presented is an attempt to give a historical overview of development of human ideas about the picture of the world. The basic astronomical, mathematical, natural science and philosophical knowledge that forms the foundation of the modem science of the universe, its evolution and structural elements are presented. This allows to create a specific image of the surrounding reality, and look into the future of the Universe and Person.

scholarly journals Messianic ideas in monotheistic religions

2001 ◽  
pp. 20-29
Author(s):  
O. Sheludchenko
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
First Century ◽  
Social Communities ◽  
Mass Consciousness ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
New Vision ◽  
The Universe

The beginning of the twenty-first century was marked by a series of crisis phenomena in the field of social life, humanity and nature. These crises, quite naturally, require a worldview of their development and the development of prerequisites for overcoming. The mass consciousness remains the ideological and ideological stereotypes that were characteristic of the century that passed before our eyes. Along with this, the development of a new vision of the present and the future - the process is very complicated and painful. Losing the usual stereotypes, people sometimes come to the thought that with them the world perishes, the collapse of social communities may seem apocalypse of the universe in general.

The Future of Islamic Finance after the Corona Crisis

2020 ◽  
pp. 196-211
Author(s):  
Volker Nienhaus
Keyword(s):  
Risk Sharing ◽  
Behavioral Changes ◽  
Islamic Finance ◽  
Real Economy ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
The Real Estate ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Retail Banks ◽  
The Universe

There is much literature on the consequences of the corona crisis for the financial system, but usually without a distinction between conventional and Islamic finance. This research focusses on behavioral changes and market developments in the financial and real economy that will impact Islamic finance differently than conventional finance due to its conceptual peculiarities and prevailing practices. Particular attention is given to the real estate and construction sector, the universe of Sharīʿah compliant stocks, and the consumer finance of Islamic retail banks. Through these channels, “the world” will have an impact on the future of Islamic finance. But the corona crisis has also reinforced calls for more responsible finance, and promotors of Islamic finance emphasize the ideal of risk-sharing as well as the distinct instruments of Islamic social finance for poverty alleviation and social cohesion. Particular attention is given to innovations in equity-like financing, green and socially responsible ṣukūk, digital approaches for Islamic microfinance, and the broader usage for Islamic social finance instruments (zakāt, qarḍ Hasan, [cash] waqf, sadaqat). Through these channels, a revised future Islamic finance may have an impact on the world.

scholarly journals Good Luck

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 230
Author(s):  
Harry F. Recher
Keyword(s):  
Careful Consideration ◽  
Wild Animals ◽  
Good Luck ◽  
Modern History ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World

On last night?s (11 November 2009) ABC Television, I watched Sir David Attenborough being interviewed for the 7.30 Report by Kerry O?Brien. Sir David is a household name throughout the English speaking world, if not universally. Since the beginnings of television, David Attenborough has brought the world of nature into our homes. He has probably seen more of the Earth?s wild animals and untamed places than any known traveller in modern history; a compassionate, intelligent, thoughtful and articulate man, Sir David?s views on the future of the wild planet merit respect and careful consideration. In this interview, three things stood out.

scholarly journals From semiosis to semioethics: The full vista of the action of signs

2008 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 437-491
Author(s):  
John Deely
Keyword(s):  
Physical World ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Distinct Individual ◽  
Fundamental Error ◽  
Contemporary Development ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Sign Vehicle

How anything acts depends upon what it is, both as a kind of thing and as a distinct individual of that kind: “agere sequitur esse” — action follows being. This is as true of signs as it is of lions or centipedes: therefore, in order to determine the range or extent of semiosis we need above all to determine the kind of being at stake under the name “sign”. Since Poinsot, in a thesis that the work of Peirce centuries later confirmed, the proper being of signs as signs lies in a relation, a relationship irreducibly unifying three distinct terms: a foreground term representing another than itself — the representamen or sign vehicle; the other represented — the significate or object signified; and the third term to or for whom the other-representation is made — the interpretant, which need not be a person and, indeed, need not even be mental. The action of signs then is the way signs influence the world, including the world of experience and knowledge, but extending even to the physical world of nature beyond the living. It is a question of what is the causality proper to signs in consequence of the being proper to them as signs, an indirect causality, just as relations are indirectly dependent upon the interactions of individuals making up the plurality of the universe; and a causality that models what could or might be in contrast to what is here and now. To associate this causality with final causality is correct insofar as signs are employed in shaping the interactions of individual things; but to equate this causality with “teleology” is a fundamental error into which the contemporary development of semiotics has been inclined to fall, largely through some published passages of Peirce from an essay within which he corrects this error but in passages so far left unpublished. By bringing these passages to light, in which Peirce points exactly in the direction earlier indicated by Poinsot, this essay attempts a kind of survey of the contemporary semiotic development in which the full vista of semiosis is laid out, and shown to be co-extensive with the boundaries of the universe itself, wherever they might fall. Precisely the indirect extrinsically specificative formal causality that signs exercise is what enables the “influence of the future” according to which semiosis changes the relevance of past to present in the interactions of Secondness. Understanding of this point (the causality proper to signs) also manifests the error of reducing the universe to signs, the error sometimes called “pansemiosis”.

scholarly journals Philosophy of Education: Cosmism in the System of Philosophical Knowledge

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Halyna Berehova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Philosophy Of Education ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Evolutionary Processes ◽  
World Picture ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Cultural Functions ◽  
The Universe

In this article, the attention is concentrated exactly on cosmism and its variations, and also on its role and place in the system of philosophical knowledge which is proposed to be studied in the establishments of higher education. The questions for discussion about the role and place of cosmism in the content of higher education are put forward: Is it necessary for students to study cosmism? Should this knowledge be given in courses? How should it be given for apprehension? Philosophical knowledge is stated to be used as an instrument to form worldview orientations of the future man being able to secure the survival of civilization and mankind. Firstly, the ideas of cosmism help regard the human being as a component of the Cosmos, determine his role and place in the evolutionary processes of the Universe, discover the influence of cosmic forces upon him and the human civilization. Secondly, the ideas of cosmism in the structure of philosophical knowledge carry out humanistic and cultural functions: they complete building the world picture (as scientific, as universal) in the student’s consciousness.

The evolution of summary procedure in investment arbitration: past, present and future

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donny Trinh Ba Duong
Keyword(s):  
Early Stage ◽  
International Arbitration ◽  
Current Regime ◽  
Chamber Of Commerce ◽  
Investment Arbitration ◽  
Look Back ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Substantial Rise ◽  
Summary Procedure

Abstract The last 15 years have witnessed a substantial rise of summary procedure to gradually become more and more significant in the world of investment arbitration since ICSID Arbitration Rules first introduced it in 2006. Before the emergence of this procedure that allows early dismissal of claims, various states have criticized the time and costs needed to defend their position in investment proceedings. Against this background, the birth of summary procedure aims to help parties to save time and costs and avoid unnecessary consumption of parties’ resources by disposing of manifestly frivolous and unmeritorious at an early stage of the proceedings. This feature has captured much attention since major arbitration institutions started to adopt it, with ICSID being the pioneer, followed by the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) and the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC). Given its increasing importance in investment disputes, the ICSID has lately published a series of Working Papers which, among many other things, proposed to enhance the rule on ‘manifest lack of legal merit’. This article aims to look back on the evolution of summary procedure in investment arbitration for the last 15 years by examining its genesis and development, the current regime, and tribunals’ application of this procedure in practice, the future contemplated by the ICSID proposed amendments.

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