scholarly journals The Challenge of Nissology:A Global Outlook on the World Archipelago Part II: The Global and Scientific Vocation of Nissology

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-36
Author(s):  
Christian Depraetere
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Biological Diversity ◽  
Systematic Treatment ◽  
Major Objective ◽  
Holistic Understanding ◽  
The World ◽  
Do So

Islands are the rule and not the exception. One major objective for nissology- defined as the study of islands and islandness - in the 21st century should be to debunk the unfair prejudice that island studies’continues to suffer at present time. To do so, a systematic treatment of the island phenomenon needs to be undertaken and this should be backed up by substantial theoretical underpinnings. In seeking to turn the dominant continental paradigm on its head, islands not only deserve to be“studied on their own terms”; they also become the deus ex machina of a holistic understanding of the world archipelago and its ongoing globalization. This vision should contribute towards bridging the gap between'continentalists’who tend to consider islands only as epiphenomena of larger land trends. and 'island studies’practitioners. This paper,the second of two segments, focuses mainly on the contribution of islands to global cultural and biological diversity. and concludes with an appeal for a more rigorous, pan-epistemic treatment of island studies.

scholarly journals The Challenge of Nissology: A Global Outlook on the World Archipelago Part I: Scene Setting the World Archipelago

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-16
Author(s):  
Christian Depraetere
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Systematic Treatment ◽  
Major Objective ◽  
Holistic Understanding ◽  
The World ◽  
Do So

Islands are the rule and not the exception. One major objective for nissology- defined as the study of islands and islandness - in the 21st century should be to debunk the unfair prejudice that 'island studies’continues to suffer at present time.To do so, a systematic treatment of the island phenomenon needs to be undertaken and this should be backed up by substantial theoretical underpinnings.In seeking to turn the dominant continental paradigm on its head, islands not only deserve to be "studied on their own terms"; they also become the deus ex machina of a holistic understanding of the world archipelago and its ongoing globalization. This vision should contribute towards bridging the gap between 'continentalists’who tend to consider islands only as epiphenomena of larger land trends. and 'island studies’practitioners. This paper(the first of two segments) concentrates on the physical geographical and historical unfolding of the importance of islands.

scholarly journals A Kantian Account of Emotions as Feelings1

Mind ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 129 (514) ◽  
pp. 429-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alix Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Moral Agency ◽  
Mental States ◽  
The State ◽  
Systematic Treatment ◽  
Cognitive States ◽  
The World ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Distinct Role ◽  
Do So

Abstract The aim of this paper is to extract from Kant's writings an account of the nature of the emotions and their function – and to do so despite the fact that Kant neither uses the term ‘emotion’ nor offers a systematic treatment of it. Kant's position, as I interpret it, challenges the contemporary trends that define emotions in terms of other mental states and defines them instead first and foremost as ‘feelings’. Although Kant's views on the nature of feelings have drawn surprisingly little attention, I argue that the faculty of feeling has the distinct role of making us aware of the way our faculties relate to each other and to the world. As I show, feelings are affective appraisals of our activity, and as such they play an indispensable orientational function in the Kantian mind. After spelling out Kant's distinction between feeling and desire (§2), I turn to the distinction between feeling and cognition (§3) and show that while feelings are non-cognitive states, they have a form of derived-intentionality. §4 argues that what feelings are about, in this derived sense, is our relationship to ourselves and the world: they function as affective appraisals of the state of our agency. §5 shows that this function is necessary to the activity of the mind insofar as it is orientational. Finally, §6 discusses the examples of epistemic pleasure and moral contentment and argues that they manifest the conditions of cognitive and moral agency respectively.

scholarly journals Spirituality of liberation: A conversation with African religiosity

2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vuyani S. Vellem
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Black Africans ◽  
Black African ◽  
The World ◽  
Reformed Churches ◽  
Do So

The arrival of a salvationist, authoritative religiosity through Western Christianity in South Africa, in the company of a capitalist modernity, did not only dismantle and subvert the African indigenous dispensation of religiosity. It also sought to destroy it completely and arguably continues to do so in subtle forms in the 21st century, by attacking the imagination and consciousness of black Africans. This article argues that African religiosity as expressed in African Initiated Churches (AICs) is the site of the spirituality of liberation. Employing the notion of mokhukhu – a shack – the article places the sanity of black Africans, the spirituality of liberation, black African agency and consciousness within the narrative of African religiosity. It concludes by offering African religiosity as a resource for an alternative civilisation and an important agenda in the current debates of the World Communion of Reformed Churches.

scholarly journals The 2001 Meetings of the World Society for Ekistics

2002 ◽  
Vol 69 (415-417) ◽  
pp. 182
Author(s):  
Athens Center Of Ekistics
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
World Society ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Council Meeting ◽  
Executive Council ◽  
Previous Issue ◽  
Present Issue ◽  
The World ◽  
The City ◽  
Do So

The contents of the present issue come as a continuation of the previous issue of Ekistics, vol. 69, no.412/413/414, January/February-March/April-May/June 2002, with the same theme. As is explained in the table of contents (pages 2 and 3) of that issue and also reproduced in the table of contents (pages 178 and 179) of the present issue, the material used is classified as follows: The 2001 Meetings of the World Society for Ekistics, Berlin, 24-28 October Executive Council Meeting The C.A. Doxiadis Lecture Symposion: Defining Success of the City in the 21st Century General Assembly Apart from the C.A. Doxiadis Lecture, the main contents of both issues refer to the material collected before, during and, in some cases, after the Symposion "Defining Success of the City in the 21st Century". More specifically, the issues contain: Papers reflecting the presentations made during the Symposion and these concern papers delivered before and during the Symposion or documents that were prepared by the presenters after the Symposion. Papers that were made available at the Symposion by members who intended to attend but finally were totally unable to do so. These documents were made available to all participants but were never presented or discussed. Some were revised and edited by the authors. Papers that were prepared after the Symposion by members who could not attend.

Supercomplexity and Education Research

2020 ◽  
pp. 231-243
Author(s):  
Ronald Barnett
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Critical Realism ◽  
The World ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
A Site ◽  
The University ◽  
Do So

Supercomplexity is that state of affairs that is characterized by multiple, conflicting, and proliferating accounts of a situation, in which there are no secure categories through which to anchor oneself in the world. Stated thus, understanding supercomplexity is at a fork: it can lead either to relativism or can be coupled to a realism. I opt here for the latter gambit, specifically marrying supercomplexity to (Roy Bhaskar's) critical realism and I do so by placing my reflections in the context of investigations of the university. Grasped as a site of supercomplexity, the university is open not just to multiple interpretations and ideas (ideas of the university now flourishing and conflicting) but to infinite possibilities. This is where the researcher-as-scholar comes into her or his own in discerning and imagining possibilities for the university in the 21st century.

Psychology from Egyptian, Arab, and Islamic Perspectives

1997 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 356-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fouad A-L.H. Abou-Hatab
Keyword(s):  
Professional Identity ◽  
21St Century ◽  
The West ◽  
Islamic Perspective ◽  
National Heritage ◽  
Western Psychology ◽  
The World ◽  
The One

This paper presents the case of psychology from a perspective not widely recognized by the West, namely, the Egyptian, Arab, and Islamic perspective. It discusses the introduction and development of psychology in this part of the world. Whenever such efforts are evaluated, six problems become apparent: (1) the one-way interaction with Western psychology; (2) the intellectual dependency; (3) the remote relationship with national heritage; (4) its irrelevance to cultural and social realities; (5) the inhibition of creativity; and (6) the loss of professional identity. Nevertheless, some major achievements are emphasized, and a four-facet look into the 21st century is proposed.

Dancing Across the World Wide Web: Advocacy in the 21st Century

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Blair Williams Cronin ◽  
Ty Tedmon-Jones ◽  
Lora Wilson Mau
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
21St Century ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The World

Globalization and interconfessional communications

2001 ◽  
pp. 13-17
Author(s):  
Serhii Viktorovych Svystunov
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The World ◽  
Target Set ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Rapid Appearance

In the 21st century, the world became a sign of globalization: global conflicts, global disasters, global economy, global Internet, etc. The Polish researcher Casimir Zhigulsky defines globalization as a kind of process, that is, the target set of characteristic changes that develop over time and occur in the modern world. These changes in general are reduced to mutual rapprochement, reduction of distances, the rapid appearance of a large number of different connections, contacts, exchanges, and to increase the dependence of society in almost all spheres of his life from what is happening in other, often very remote regions of the world.

Desecularization as Phenomenon at the Turn of 21st Century

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 49-57
Author(s):  
Sergey V.  Lebedev ◽  
Galina N.  Lebedeva
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Islamic Revolution ◽  
Islamic Movement ◽  
The World ◽  
Rational Alternative ◽  
Role Of Religion

In the article the authors note that since the 1970s, with the rise of the Islamic movement and the Islamic revolution in Iran, philosophers and political scientists started to talk about religious renaissance in many regions of the world. In addition, the point at issue is the growing role of religion in society, including European countries that have long ago gone through the process of secularization. The reasons for this phenomenon, regardless of its name, are diverse, but understandable: secular ideologies of the last century failed to explain the existing social problems and give them a rational alternative.

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