scholarly journals PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE DIGITAL HYGIENE OF LIFE

2021 ◽  
pp. 68-75
Author(s):  
Владимир Владимирович Буланов
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Worth Living ◽  
Philosophical Foundations ◽  
Human Thinking

Автор статьи утверждает, что вопрос А. Камю о том, стоит ли человеческая жизнь того, чтобы её прожить, потому до сих пор не нашел убедительного ответа, что на него нельзя ответить сугубо теоретически. По мнению автора статьи, надо не только обосновать необходимость любви к жизни, но и научиться её практиковать. Он полагает, что практика любви к жизни предполагает следование гигиене жизни. Пребывание в цифровой реальности сильно влияет на жизнь человека. Поэтому современный человек должен следовать цифровой гигиене жизни. Цифровая гигиена жизни не может быть сведена к набору ряда рекомендаций, поскольку их выполнение должно стимулироваться убедительными мотивами. Эти мотивы, согласно автору статьи, являются философскими основами цифровой гигиены жизни и представляют собой приятие трех взаимосвязанных утверждений: мир природы ценнее цифровой реальности, должно воспитывать в себе все большую любовь к живым существам, противодействие механизации человеческого мышления. The author of the article claims that the question of A. Camus whether a human life is worth living, has not yet found a convincing answer, because it cannot be answered purely theoretically. According to the author of the article, it is necessary not only to justify the need for love of life, but also to learn how to practice it. He believes that the practice of loving life involves following the hygiene of life. Being in a digital reality greatly affects a person's life. Therefore, a person, who is often present in a digital reality, should follow the digital hygiene of life. Digital hygiene of life cannot be reduced to the implementation of a number of recommendations, because their application must be stimulated by convincing motives. These motives, according to the author of the article, are the philosophical foundations of digital hygiene of life. They represent the acceptance of three interrelated statements: the natural world is more valuable than digital reality, it should cultivate an increasing love for living beings, and it should resist the mechanization of human thinking.

A Digital Nexus

2020 ◽  
pp. 185-218
Author(s):  
Nicola Green ◽  
Rob Comber ◽  
Sharron Kuznesof
Keyword(s):  
Human Computer Interaction ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Human Consumption ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Scarce Resources ◽  
Household Resource ◽  
Computer Interaction

Humans beings in the 21st century face significant social and global change. Ever-evolving digital technologies are increasingly embedded in the material, economic, and socio-cultural milieu; while global crises in climate change present challenges to human and global security and resilience. Social science and human-computer interaction research has investigated how digital systems might help to understand current environmental changes and intervene in the problematic human relationships to scarce resources of the natural world. This chapter reviews research contributions of sustainable human-computer interaction (HCI) and the social sciences on human consumption of resources most crucial to human life: water, energy, and food (WEF). Briefly outlining the current and ongoing evolution of digital technologies particularly concerned with embedded urban digital infrastructures in “smart” and automated technologies and the Internet of Things, it then touches on the scope and scale of the simultaneous environmental challenges posed by population growth and urbanization. It introduces sustainable HCI as one approach that directly addresses both trends. The chapter then outlines the most significant approaches that have informed the development of “sustainable HCI,” and reviews important empirical contributions underpinning the developing interdisciplinary research in the field. It outlines the current understanding of household resource use and considers how developing digital technologies might support domestic resource conservation and mitigate intensive domestically based resource consumption. The chapter closes with observations on the shifting relationships (and sustainable HCI research into them) that might constitute future ways of being in a sustainable digital age.

The measure of all things? The Anthropocene as a global biopolitics of carbon

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Atom ◽  
International Relations ◽  
General Circulation ◽  
Human Life ◽  
General Circulation Models ◽  
Earth System ◽  
Earth System Science ◽  
System Science ◽  
Philosophical Foundations ◽  
Human Construction

We are now told to welcome ourselves to the Anthropocene, a new geological epoch where humanity is ‘literally making’ the planet (Dalby, 2014). Yet, the underlying philosophical foundations of this human-made epoch remain relatively unexplored. This article makes a new contribution by problematizing the Anthropocene using the philosophies of Arendt, Foucault and Heidegger. It argues that the Anthropocene is a new and global form of biopolitics that asserts the essence of all (human) life and industry — the carbon atom — as the measure and centre of everything. When Nature is pre-reflectively projected, quantified and conceived as a calculable and carbonic human construction, then every thinkable object becomes related back to the human as its creator and steward. This is argued by tracing the entwining of computerized general circulation models, nuclear technologies and Earth system science, as well as by critiquing applicationist uses of biopolitics and governmentality in International Relations. What emerges in the Anthropocene, therefore, is an implicit yet powerful form of subjectivism ranging from atomic to global scales, or what is defined here as ‘relationality’. Echoing Heidegger (1977a: 27), in the Anthropocene, ‘It seems as though man everywhere and always encounters only himself’. Welcome, Anthropos, not to an epoch you are making, but to your new global biopolitics of carbon.

The Observer Effect: The Artistic Image as a Metaphor for Scientific Interpretations of the Natural World

Leonardo ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-78
Author(s):  
Elena Gubanova
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Observer Effect ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Artistic Images ◽  
Life On Earth ◽  
Artistic Image ◽  
The Universe

In this article, the author presents some of her artworks in which she created artistic images and interpretations of time, space and light that define human life on Earth. In her multimedia installations of the last 10 years, her interest in the scientific study of the universe has been interwoven with her experience as the daughter of an astronomer. The author and her husband collaborate to express their thoughts on science and philosophy through a combination of art and engineering solutions and technologies.

Discovering Maine’s Intangible Cultural Heritage

2019 ◽  
pp. 283-294
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Boat Building ◽  
Fiddle Music ◽  
The Impact

This chapter reviews the historic and ongoing research of the state of Maine's intangible cultural heritage and shows how this work addresses the need for conservation, advocacy, education, and stewardship of this heritage. Maine is especially rich in intangible cultural heritage including the knowledge involved in crafting fine Native American basketry, boat building, fiddle music and dance, knowledge of the natural world among fishermen, woodsmen, millworkers, and farmers, folk singing, storytelling and much more. Cultural rights and ownership, the role of community scholars, and the impact of tourism is considered. The chapter concludes by suggesting that culturally-sensitive and engaged research has strengthened our understanding of how the ecosystem is essential to human life and culture.

Natural landscapes and human health: an introduction and overview.

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Alan W. Ewert ◽  
Denise S. Mitten ◽  
Jillisa R. Overholt
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Natural Landscapes ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Natural Settings

Abstract This book chapter approaches the linkage between natural landscapes and human health through the lens of two guiding questions, the first considering the various ways nature benefits human health from both historic and contemporary perspectives, and the second considering the mechanisms through which this relationship occurs. In doing so, we consider the ways societies and cultures have mediated our relationship with the natural world over time, and the ways human health and planetary health are intertwined. It also examines these influences by providing an overview of what is currently known about specific variables, such as physical activity in natural landscapes, as well as discussing some of the past and current theories that seek to explain how these connections actually work. The book provides a bridge between what we do (individually and collectively) in natural settings and how those actions impact our health and our relationships with the natural world. The hope is that the information presented here empowers students and professionals to learn more and to be part of the rich dialogue occurring in many disciplines to help find ways to increase well-being for all people. The aim is for the readers to think critically about research and be able to analyse and evaluate the results. The bottom line, based on the undertaking of this book and the experience of the authors, is that nature has been and continues to be essential and incredibly positive for human life, and that mutualistic and reciprocal connections with nature will positively influence human development, health, and wellbeing.

3. Animals and the environment

2020 ◽  
pp. 31-47
Author(s):  
Damien Keown
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Meat Eating ◽  
Plant Life ◽  
The World ◽  
The Buddha

Is Buddhism truly an ‘eco-friendly’ religion? ‘Animals and the environment’ examines the implications of Buddhist teachings such as that human beings can be reborn as animals and vice versa. While the Buddhist ‘sublime attitudes’ such as kindness and compassion seem at first to favour animals to a greater degree than we find in Christianity, human life still takes precedence in the hierarchy of living beings. Rules about plant life are unclear, with Buddhist writers acknowledging the beauty of both the wilderness and civilization. Vegetarianism is largely seen as a morally superior diet, but meat-eating was common at the time of the Buddha and is widely practised by monks today. Buddhist attitudes toward the natural world are complex and are to some extent overshadowed by the belief that the world as we know it is fundamentally flawed.

Historical materialism as mediation between the physical and the meaningful

2020 ◽  
pp. 019145372091991
Author(s):  
Jeff Noonan
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Historical Materialism ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Scientific Understanding ◽  
Historical Change ◽  
Scientific Models ◽  
Philosophical Significance ◽  
German Ideology

The article argues that historical materialism is not only a theory of historical change but more generally a mediation between the natural foundations of human life and its meaningful symbolic expressions. The article begins with an interpretation of the general philosophical significance of the basic premises of historical materialism as they are sketched in the German Ideology. I argue that these premises point us in two different directions: down, towards a scientific understanding of the natural world, and up, towards interpretations of meaningful human expressions. Reductionist scientific models are appropriate for the understanding of natural forces, but these reveal their own limitations when applied to social life. Social life cannot be understood outside its symbolic expressions, but these are not free floating ideal abstractions, but remain connected to fundamental human purposes and must be understood as such.

Descartes’ Daydream and the Mind-Body Problem

1998 ◽  
pp. 100-105
Author(s):  
Peter Schuller
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Body Problem ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Physical Processes ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Levels Of Reality ◽  
Human Thinking ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Universe

After exhorting us to wake up from our ‘daydreaming’ and revolutionize our modality of thought to that of conceptualization, Descartes seems to forget about this crucial matter of a discontinuous leap. So, too, it seems has the profession generally and this has infected philosophical research and teaching. It is urged here that discontinuous processes are crucial in the universe, in human life, in human thinking. Such ontological events cannot be handled by dualism, materialism or postmodernism. Concentration on such discontinuous processes is urged, an alternative is briefly indicated, and a criterion for ordering levels of human levels of reality is offered. It follows in the line of Cantor and Marx. It is suggested that a human being is a transfinite entity and that such an entity has many levels of being, among which are cognitive processes, imaginative processes and physical processes. A person is ‘not other than’ these without being ‘nothing but’ any of these.

The Politics of Life Extension in Francis Bacon's Wisdom of the Ancients

2015 ◽  
Vol 77 (3) ◽  
pp. 351-375
Author(s):  
Natalie Elliot
Keyword(s):  
Political Thought ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Life Extension ◽  
Francis Bacon ◽  
Worth Living ◽  
Political Strategies ◽  
Life Worth Living ◽  
Scientific Project ◽  
Politics Of Life

AbstractThe extension of human life is one of the central goals that Francis Bacon posits for science, and this goal shapes his political thought significantly. Bacon's interest in life extension appears throughout his corpus, but the Wisdom of the Ancients contains his most extensive treatment of its political and philosophical consequences. Here, I interpret a series of myths in the Wisdom of the Ancients and argue, first, that through them Bacon presents key political strategies for promoting life extension and tending to its hazards; and, second, as he does so, he sketches a new portrait of philosophy, which directs some of its energies to understanding what makes longer life worth living. My reading addresses a profound and neglected subject at the heart of Bacon's politico-scientific project, and advances the growing literature on Bacon that turns to the Wisdom of the Ancients to explain unexamined goals of his science.

Oedipus and Socrates on the Quest for Self-Knowledge

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-43
Author(s):  
Ann Ward
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Private Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Worth Living ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Family ◽  
Self Knowledge

This article explores how Sophocles’ Oedipus the King and Plato’s Apology of Socrates address the question of whether reason can ground the good human life. Sophocles’ tragedy and Plato’s dialogue both tell of the search for rational self-knowledge. Both Oedipus and Socrates are recognized for human wisdom and are presented as skeptical toward the gods. Yet, whereas Oedipus’ life ends in tragedy, Socrates’ life does not. Sophocles thus suggests that the rational search for truth must be limited by a pious respect for the gods. Plato, on the other hand, preserves Socrates’ belief that the ‘unexamined life is not worth living for a human being’. Four lines of inquiry into the causes of this divergence are then explored: 1) Socrates’ order of knowledge from particular to universal, 2) Oedipus’ proneness to anger, 3) Socrates’ private life in contrast to Oedipus’ public life and, 4) the differing status of the family.

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