scholarly journals Antropological Concept in Mystical Poetry of Parvin Etesami

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 186-199
Author(s):  
T. A. Koshemchuk ◽  
M. L. Reysner ◽  
M. Yahyapour
Keyword(s):  
Persian Literature ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Organic Unity ◽  
Religious Worldview ◽  
Classical World ◽  
True Path ◽  
Mystical Tradition ◽  
Spiritual Tradition ◽  
First Time ◽  
Creative Life

The essay reflects on the creativity of Parvin Etesami (1907 – 1941), a distinguished Persian poet, little known abroad. We highlight anthropological teaching based on the religious worldview as one of the aspects of her mystical poetry. Created in the era when Persian literature and its classical tradition were breaking, Parvin’s poems affirm loyalty to the mystical tradition and the ways of self-creation of an individual laid down in it. The article shows that the Muslim science of behavior guides a person striving for wisdom and determines their path. The preaching of morality in Parvin’s poems, coupled with her mystical enlightenment, attempts to return her contemporaries to the classical world of their tradition. This research investigates the concept of man and is based on the only collection of 60 poems published in Russian (Journey of Tears, 1984), as well as on the new poetic translations. Two of the poems translated by M. Yahyapour and M. L. Reysner are introduced to the readers for the first time. The paper describes different facets of personality and fate, found in poetic self-reflection, the most significant of which is Parvin’s Auto-Epitaph. The values corresponding to Parvin’s spiritual personality are revealed: purity of soul, strictness, restraint, intellectualism, moral seriousness. Following the Sufi teachings about men, Parvin criticizes deviations from the true path —such as susceptibility to passions and pride. The poet considers them the destroyers and believes that they occur because of the evil forces distorting the human soul. The poet proposes a way out for the soul captured by the world — the knowledge of the Truth and the appeal to the experience of the righteous. The essay demonstrates that in Parvin’s poetry, fidelity to a thousand-year-old spiritual tradition and individual creativity appear as an organic unity. In the era that leads a person of the West and the East away from the spiritual roots of culture, the poet becomes a gnostic and a mystic in his individual creative life and, abandoning modern trends, consciously takes the path of mystical enlightenment and brings to her readers the wisdom found on these paths.

scholarly journals TYPES OF INDIVIDUAL WOMEN EROTIC CODE

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Life Experience ◽  
Married Couples ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Early Life Experience ◽  
New Material ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact ◽  
First Time

The article is devoted to the current issue of sexuality. Significant expansion and development of psychologists’ professional activity necessitate creating of generalized classification of individuals and married couples’ behavioral erotic types. The destruction of self-reflection, self-perception and the difficulty of interpersonal understanding are due to the substitution of concepts. The study of sexual-psychological characteristics of behavioral patterns of women in erotic relationships is very important in this regard. The new material on the topic under study is generalized. Erotic imagination functions and erotic images impact on the process of forming a fixed erotic Image of a sexual partner in women are determined. The impact of early life experience (imprinting) influenced on the individual erotic code formation is determined. Several motivational schemes of sexual behavior are described. Authors submit the definition of «individual erotic code» for the first time. «Individual erotic code» is found out as the unified recording system of the individual model erotic behavior and her «ideal partner» reactions on this behavior. The types of women individual erotic code, based on the concept of archetypes (K.G. Jung, D. S. Bolen) study are defined. Types of individual erotic code were named after the ancient Greek goddesses: Artemis, Athena, Hestia, Hera, Demeter, Persephone, Aphrodite. The attention is focused on the deep analysis of individual women erotic code stages realization, such as, the genesis of erotic impulse, the tempting process, the sexual act behavior, the pregnancy, the caring of posterity. Materials of research can be used in the practical work of psychologists and psychotherapists which working both with married couples, as well as in individual work with the client.

scholarly journals A Haven for Learning: Gaining Professional Knowledge through Sincere Conversation in an Online Reading Course

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah A Graham
Keyword(s):  
Professional Knowledge ◽  
Online Course ◽  
Active Listening ◽  
Online Reading ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Online Setting ◽  
The Right ◽  
Reading Teacher ◽  
First Time ◽  
Verbal Exchanges

As an educator teaching an online course for the first time, I observed that the teachers in my class engaged in meaningful and sincere conversation and gained deep insight and greater awareness about their practice. Sincere conversation obviously differs from brief verbal exchanges operating at the surface level. It is conversation that invites self-reflection and contemplation through reciprocal trust, respect, and active listening. This study discusses how sincere dialogue, which leads to greater understanding of what it means to be an effective reading teacher, was enhanced during an online reading course. It highlights how the right conditions created in an online setting can encourage relationships and lead to professional knowledge. Quand j’ai enseigné un cours en ligne pour la première fois, j’ai remarqué que les élèves enseignants qui se trouvaient dans ma classe avaient des conversations constructives et sincères, qu’ils comprenaient bien leur profession et qu’ils en prenaient davantage conscience. Les conversations sincères diffèrent des courts échanges verbaux qui se déroulent en surface. Il s’agit de conversations qui invitent l’auto-réflexion et la contemplation par le biais d’une confiance et d’un respect réciproques, et d’une écoute attentive. Cette étude présente la manière dont le dialogue sincère, qui mène à une meilleure compréhension de ce que cela signifie d’être un enseignant de lecture efficace, a été mis en valeur lors d’un cours en ligne sur la lecture. Elle met en relief la manière dont les meilleures conditions créées dans un cours en ligne peuvent encourager des rapports et mener à la connaissance professionnelle.

scholarly journals Philosophy of history as a philosophy

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 634-644
Author(s):  
Alexey M. Sokolov ◽  
◽  
Nikita V. Kuznetsov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Activity ◽  
World Order ◽  
Philosophy Of History ◽  
Value Orientations ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Target Setting ◽  
Spiritual Tradition ◽  
Classical Philosophy ◽  
Human Thinking ◽  
First Time

The article presents the authors’ vision of the formation of the “philosophy of history” as a form of philosophical knowledge. Analyzing the retrospective of its formation in the first part of the article, the interpretation of the “philosophy of history” is given not as one of the sections of philosophy in general, but as one of its modes in the semantic horizon of which a specific answer to the main question of philosophy is achieved: what is the source of all that exists? In the context of this consideration of the problem, philosophy is viewed as the highest form of human activity, integrating all types of human activity as expressions of its spiritual and, in this sense, supernatural content. In fact, this concerns the formation of historical self-consciousness as one of the modes of the manifestation of modern civilization. The authors trace how “historicity” has asserted itself in the structure of human thinking from the time of antiquity to the present. Through the views of Herodotus, Polybius and Titus Livy, Blessed Augustine, Machiavelli, Vico, Hegel, and Marx, the step-by-step logic of this process is revealed. In the second part of the article, the authors consider the content of the actual “historical” form of being that is characteristic of modern, bourgeois civilization. Independent human activity appears here for the first time as an unconditional principle of the world order (or reality as such), and interest in the past as a source is replaced by interest in the future as a target setting. Thus, the classical philosophy of history is transformed into historiosophy. In conclusion, the authors touch upon the specifics of historical self-consciousness in the Russian intellectual and spiritual tradition. They assume that the experience of recent Russian history cannot be adequately understood in terms of bourgeois thinking since its content does not correspond to the value orientations of the latter.

scholarly journals The Comfort of the Mystics

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 149-152
Author(s):  
Atif Khalil
Keyword(s):  
Eleventh Century ◽  
Early Period ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Mystical Tradition ◽  
Inadequate Knowledge ◽  
Close Study ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Post War ◽  
First Time ◽  
Technical Terms

The early period of Sufism still remains insufficiently explored within westernscholarship. Despite the contributions of a range of academic authorities overthe past two centuries, stretching back to the publication of Lt. Graham’s 1819essay, “A Treatise on Sufism, or Mahomedan Mysticism,” followed by the firstmajor European study of the subject two years later by the young Friedrich A.Tholuck, Ssufismus, sive Theosophia Persarum Pantheistica (Sufism, or thePantheistic Theosophy of the Persians), there still remains a great deal of workto be done in order to better understand the complex, embryonic stages of theIslamic mystical tradition. In this light, The Comfort of the Mystics is a welcomecontribution to our growing but still inadequate knowledge of the first few centuriesof taṣawwuf.The present work is a critical edition of Abu Khalaf al-Tabari’s (d. 1077)Salwat al-‘Ārifīn wa Uns al-Mushtāqīn (The Comfort of Those Knowing Godand the Intimacy of Those Longing for God), a Sufi manual authored in themiddle of the eleventh century, shortly after Qushayri’s (d. 1072) famousRisālah. Gerhard Böwering and Bilal Orfali are to be credited with publishingthe Salwat for the first time through a close study of the Cairo manuscript(MS Tal‘at Tasawwuf 1553) which was transcribed a decade before Qushayri’sdeath. While they were unable to access the only other existing manuscript ofthe entire version of the Salwat, located in Iraq, due no doubt to the politicalinstability of the region and the post-war destruction of the country’s infrastructure,they did manage to compare the work against two later abridgedversions. Along with the text, they provide a meticulously referenced introductionwhich situates the treatise within its broader historical and religiouscontext. The Arabic text is also accompanied by exhaustive indices (127pages) for Qur’anic verses, hadiths, key figures, locations, technical terms andpoetic verses which will be of particular use for researchers.With respect to the author of this little known work, Böwering and Orfalinote that the primary sources do not provide us with a great deal of informationabout his life. On the basis of a well-researched analysis of the medievalsource material, they conclude that Tabari was known for his contributionsnot to the field of Sufism but Shafi‘i law, having studied under some of theleading representatives of the school, including ‘Abd al-Qahir al-Baghdadi(d. 1038), well known for his Al-Farq Bayn al-Firaq, a heresiological survey ...

scholarly journals Studies on A.M. Remizov’s Creative Biography: 1926 –1927. Part 2. Facts and Fables of Parisian Everyday Life

Literary Fact ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 8-39
Author(s):  
Elena R. Obatnina
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
50Th Anniversary ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Exact Time ◽  
Literary Life ◽  
The Subject ◽  
First Time ◽  
Creative Life

The paper contains a description of several subjects from A.M. Remizov’s biography of 1926 –1927, non present in his autobiographical prose. Individual events that required additional verification were found in the epistolary heritage, as well as in the chronicle of the literary life abroad. Not only real, but also mythical cases from the writer’s life are the subject of research. An episode related to the meeting between Remizov and Vsevolod Meyerhold in the period from 1926 to 1930, which still had no exact time reference, is considered for the first time; the participation of K.A. Somov in the publication of the novel Vzvikhrennaya Rus’ (Swirling Russia) is discovered; the motives of Remizov's literary behavior on the pages of the émigré press are examined. The paper also presents vivid events of the writer’s creative life, who in 1927, following his other literary peers, could have celebrated the 50th anniversary of his birth and 25 years of his literary life, but the feeling of literary loneliness forced him to abandon the anniversary.

Genesis and characteristics of the Christian worldwide (based on the publications of the «Nyva» journal (Lviv, 1904—1939s) and in the works of theologists of the late 19th ― early 20th cc.)

2019 ◽  
pp. 113-145
Author(s):  
Roman Blikharskyi
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Max Scheler ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Wilhelm Dilthey ◽  
Religious Worldview ◽  
Christian Worldview ◽  
History Of ◽  
Important Means ◽  
First Time

The Ukrainian religious Christian press, since its inception, was an important means of disseminating information necessary for the life of the Church. Besides the issues of purely Christian doctrine, the authors of religious journals outlined and criticized the ideological tendencies among the representatives of the Ukrainian secular intelligentsia. Their scientific, artistic, social and political activities greatly influenced the then social realities, and partially determined a political future of Ukraine. In the early 20th century, on the pages of the Ukrainian Galician religious periodicals, namely the «Nyva» journal (Lviv, 1904—1939s), there were published a series of articles dealing with the Christian worldview. We have elucidated the reasons why in the late 19th century—the early 20th century for the first time there emerged a necessity to discuss the Christian worldview, contrary to other non-religious worldview models of the modernity. The history of the worldview concept and variation of approaches to its meaning clarifying, the theory of the process of formation of the mindset as well as ways of classification of its different forms, specifically religious worldview, in the philosophical works of Karl Jaspers, Max Scheler and Wilhelm Dilthey, have been researched. As for the Christian-based worldview, we have determined the approaches to the systematization and unification of the ideological principles of the Christians. Those were studied in the writings of thinkers of different Christian denominations, namely Protestantism (James Orr, Abraham Kuyper), Orthodoxy (Mikhail Tareiev), and Catholicism (specifically, the authors of the «Nyva» journal). Keywords: worldview, Christianity, Christian worldview, religion, philosophy, religious periodicals, «Nyva» journal.

A Divinity That Shapes Our Ends

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 259-263
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
Criminal Justice Policy ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Unique Position ◽  
The Law ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
First Time ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Life Sentences

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is in the middle of a tremendous reform of criminal justice policy: for the first time in forty years, there is momentum behind commutations of life sentences. People who have served decades behind prison walls are being granted clemency and released back into society. Simultaneously, a new interpretation of the U.S. Constitution’s protections against cruel and unusual punishment is allowing hundreds of juvenile “lifers” to be resentenced and often released. We argue that it is in the state’s interest to capitalize on these lifers’ hard-won wisdom and experience. Years of isolation, deprivation, brokenness, and self-reflection—while living outside the law and while incarcerated—have put these citizens in a unique position to understand and intervene in cycles of violence that still afflict our communities. For that matter, those rehabilitated lifers who remain in prison also have important contributions to make. This article offers a blueprint for a role the formerly or currently incarcerated can play in decarceration and public safety by helping to create and operate a reintegration hub in Pittsburgh.

Dichtung der augusteischen Epoche und der frühen Kaiserzeit

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niklas Holzberg
Keyword(s):  
Self Reflection ◽  
University Of Munich ◽  
Roman Poetry ◽  
Augustan Age ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

Niklas Holzberg, who until his retirement in 2011 was a professor of Classics at the University of Munich, of-fers a collection of twenty-three papers on Roman poetry of the Augustan age and the early imperial era. Published between 1997 and 2019 in periodicals and anthologies, fifteen of them were originally written in English or Italian and are published here in German for the first time. They discuss works by Virgil, Horace, Ovid, the elegists, Martial, Ps.-Virgil, Ps.-Tibullus and Ps.-Seneca. The interpretations of the texts focus on self-reflection as expressed by intertextuality and implicit metapoetics, sequential reading of poetry books and the recognition of pseudepigraphs as literary games played by anonymous authors impersonating classical poets.

Reflecting on Self-Reflection

2021 ◽  
pp. 316-342
Author(s):  
Andreea Roxana Bell ◽  
Diana Elena Banu ◽  
Constanța Bordea ◽  
Elena Corina Bularca ◽  
Elena Diana Lazăr ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Reflective Practice ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
State School ◽  
Online Teachers ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Social ◽  
Self Study ◽  
Reflection In Action ◽  
First Time

This chapter discusses the challenges of online teaching faced by six English teachers in a state school in Romania in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. As first-time action researchers, these teachers self-reflected on their challenges to make sense of their experiences as they transitioned from face-to-face to online teaching in a collaborative research self-study. Reflective practice is the conceptual framework within which the complexities and tensions of online teaching will be explored, as well as the process by which the authors have responded to the social and technological changes caused by the pandemic. Excerpts from the authors' voices highlight their personal views and experiences as online teachers. It is hoped that not only will this self-study reflection-in-action research provide some useful lessons regarding online teaching, but it will also showcase the benefits of collaboration and reflective practice and the action it led to.

scholarly journals “I’ll Try My Best to be a Dad”: The Experiences of Japanese Fathers with Cancer

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 233339362097573
Author(s):  
Rika Tamura ◽  
Tomoko Yamazaki ◽  
Mayumi Uchibori
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Treatment ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Adult Men ◽  
Minor Children ◽  
First Time ◽  
Grounded Theory Approach

This study explored the experiences of Japanese fathers with cancer. Twenty-four adult men undergoing cancer treatment and raising minor children (aged ≤ 19 years) participated. Data gathered using semi-structured interviews were analyzed using the grounded theory approach. One main theme— “transformed identity: cancer made me into a father”—and eight additional sub-themes were identified from the analysis. Fathers with cancer experienced changes in work and income; weakening of their bodies and minds; and a transformation from the protector of their children to the protected, which severely challenging their identities. Through interaction with their children and self-reflection, fathers started to examine fatherhood for the first time, heightening their self-awareness as fathers. Nurses can support fathers by facilitating interactions with their children while receiving treatment and by understanding and respecting the range of emotions identified in this study.

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