scholarly journals A Study of Our Knowledge of Persons with Special Reference to the Work of Dr. Martin Buber

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Denzil J. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Martin Buber ◽  
Individual Organism ◽  
Common Life ◽  
The Common ◽  
Knowledge Of Persons ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Unwritten Law ◽  
The Universe

<p>The field of philosophy is wide and varied, and often appears to be remote from the common life of men. Yet this remoteness is only superficial for the problems with which philosophy deals arise in the first instance from questions which occur to the man in the street, though he may not pursue them systematically. He cannot avoid meeting them, though he may avoid trying to answer them. What is the meaning of life? What is the meaning of the universe? Is the ordering of nature, of society of the individual organism quite fortuitous or according to some unwritten law? How do we know other people and objects? What is the nature of God? That these questions are dependent upon human reflection is not hard to see. They arise out of reflection, and they depend to a greater or less degree upon reflection for their answer. But we may go further and question reflection itself: What is the nature of reflection? What is its subject matter? Is reflection reliable? In other words, “How do we know?” The examination of this question constitutes that aspect of philosophy known as “Epistemology”, and upon the answer to that question the fate of philosophy depends to a great extent.</p>

scholarly journals A Study of Our Knowledge of Persons with Special Reference to the Work of Dr. Martin Buber

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Denzil J. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Martin Buber ◽  
Individual Organism ◽  
Common Life ◽  
The Common ◽  
Knowledge Of Persons ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Unwritten Law ◽  
The Universe

<p>The field of philosophy is wide and varied, and often appears to be remote from the common life of men. Yet this remoteness is only superficial for the problems with which philosophy deals arise in the first instance from questions which occur to the man in the street, though he may not pursue them systematically. He cannot avoid meeting them, though he may avoid trying to answer them. What is the meaning of life? What is the meaning of the universe? Is the ordering of nature, of society of the individual organism quite fortuitous or according to some unwritten law? How do we know other people and objects? What is the nature of God? That these questions are dependent upon human reflection is not hard to see. They arise out of reflection, and they depend to a greater or less degree upon reflection for their answer. But we may go further and question reflection itself: What is the nature of reflection? What is its subject matter? Is reflection reliable? In other words, “How do we know?” The examination of this question constitutes that aspect of philosophy known as “Epistemology”, and upon the answer to that question the fate of philosophy depends to a great extent.</p>

Between Guess Work and Certainty in Psychiatry

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1958 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 949-949
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Scientific Method ◽  
Individual Animal ◽  
Fundamental Distinction ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Rational Inquiry

"The safeguards contained in the scientific method are repugnant to some who devote themselves to psychotherapy, and their argument against it always harks back to the uniqueness of the individual." The author points out that this is an obscurantist argument and it does not follow that because an individual is a unique reality, he cannot be compared with anyone else. On this basis there would be no science of zoology as every individual animal is also a unique reality, but this has not been an obstacle to comparison and collective study in this science. The argument is reminiscent of claims prevalent during the controversies about evolution when the opponents asserted that man was an improper subject for comparitive study because of his fundamental distinction from all other creatures. Only insofar as the common denominators between individuals can be ascertained may the subject matter of psychiatry become the object of scientific and rational inquiry and without this it could not be taught. We would be in the position of having to accept the pronouncements of supposedly singularly gifted individuals on faith, and continuity in the field would presumably depend entirely upon apprenticeship.

2 Corinthians 5.1–10

1957 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. F. Hettlinger
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Significant Development ◽  
Common Life ◽  
Rabbinic Judaism ◽  
2 Corinthians ◽  
Pauline Theology ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Church

This passage must surely be unique in the variety and contrasts of the interpretations proposed by commentators and theologians. Not only are there at least three main lines of exegesis distinguishable, but within and across these general lines scholars disagree radically as to the source of St. Paul's teaching, its relation to 1 Cor. 15, its value as evidence of the Apostle's thought, and even its basic subject matter. Thus while Windisch (Commentary on II Corinthians, in loc), W. L. Knox (St. Paul and the Church of the Gentiles, pp. 128–43) and Rudolf Bultmann (Theology of the Mew Testament, I, pp. 201–2) regard the passage as evidence that St. Paul had modified traditional Jewish eschatology by introducing Hellenistic themes, Walter Grundmann (articles on εκδημεω,ενδημεω in Kittel's T.W.N.T. II, pp. 62–4), W. D. Davies (Paul and Rabbinic Judaism, pp. 308–14) and Schweitzer (The Mysticism of Paul the Apostle, p. 134) maintain that the language can be explained without recourse to direct Hellenistic influence. Whereas Davies (op. cit., pp. 310–11) and Bultmann (op. cit., p. 201) believe that between 1 Cor. 15 and 2 Cor. 5 the Apostle's thought had undergone a significant development, G. B. Stevens (The Pauline Theology, p. 343 note 1), H. A. A. Kennedy (St. Paul's Conception of the Last Things, pp. 264–72), Alfred Plummer (II Corinthians, pp. 160–4), L. S. Thornton (The-Common Life in the Body of Christ, pp. 284–6) and H. L. Goudge (The Second Epistle to the Corinthians, pp. 45–55) deny any such development.

scholarly journals Perspective of Direct Search for Dark Components in the Universe with Multi-Wavelengths Stimulated Resonant Photon-Photon Colliders

Universe ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 479
Author(s):  
Kensuke Homma ◽  
Yuri Kirita ◽  
Fumiya Ishibashi
Keyword(s):  
Weak Coupling ◽  
Pulse Compression ◽  
Near Infrared ◽  
Goldstone Boson ◽  
Mass Range ◽  
Frequency Bands ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Near Future ◽  
The Universe

We explore a possibility to detect dark components in the Universe via stimulated photon–photon collisions by focusing two-frequency coherent electromagnetic fields in a vacuum. Those fields are assumed to be pulsed reaching Fourier transform limits in near-infrared, THz, and GHz frequency bands, respectively. The numbers of signal photons as a result of exchange of a pseudoscalar-type pseudo Nambu–Goldstone boson have been evaluated in the individual frequency bands. Within presently available beam intensities, we found that the QCD axion scenarios are thoroughly testable in the mass range 10−6–100 eV based on the common method. Furthermore, we show a possibility to reach the weak coupling domain even beyond the gravitationally weak coupling strength if pulse compression in the GHz band is realized in the near future development.

The Grand Topography of the Universe

1959 ◽  
Vol 12 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 260-265
Author(s):  
E. G. R. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Reading Public ◽  
Simple Scheme ◽  
School Textbook ◽  
Arthur Koestler ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Universe

The two books considered here, despite the romantic title of the larger and more ambitious one, are complementary both in subject matter and in interest. In The Sleepwalkers, Arthur Koestler offers us a highly un-conventional, and in detail controversial, history of man's picture of the Cosmos. But he brings it to a close with the Newtonian synthesis since this afforded a simple scheme satisfying to mathematician and layman alike. This, he claims, is the picture still accepted by the majority today, and as regards the ‘man in the street’ and the school textbook he may be correct. But during the present century there has been an accelerating series of amazing astronomical discoveries which in their earlier stages were excitingly presented to the reading public by Eddington and Jeans. Last year Professor Lovell, in the Reith Lectures, brought listeners up to date, and dealt briefly with the individual man's place within the vast dimensions now revealed.

scholarly journals Application of Gene Classification in Cytogenetics

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (5) ◽  
pp. 43-50
Author(s):  
Huai Tang Gu
Keyword(s):  
Biological Evolution ◽  
Dialectical Materialism ◽  
Individual Organism ◽  
Individual Gene ◽  
Gradual Process ◽  
Evolution Of Life ◽  
The Common ◽  
Inherent Nature ◽  
The Individual ◽  
High Level

Generality and individuality are the inherent nature of everything, everything has both generality and individuality. Generality determines the basic nature of things, and individuality reveals the differences between things. According to the principle of dialectical materialism, the genes of organisms are divided into two types: General genes and individual genes. Genes shared by all biological individuals are called general genes, and genes unique to each individual organism are called individual gene. And use this classification method to discuss the three basic laws of genetics, heterosis theory and mutual affinity, and population genetics and biological evolution. It is concluded three basic laws of genetics are only relative to individual genes, unit traits controlled by general genes are not restricted by three basic laws of genetics, and the proportion of individual gene and general gene between parents has a decisive influence on the mutual affinity of parents and heterosis of hybrid generation, and the gradual process of the evolution of life from simple to complex, from low-level to high-level, is achieved by that the mutations to generate firstly new individual genes, and then the favorable individual genes are generalized, which the individuality genes are transformed into general genes that the individual characters can be transformed into the common characteristics of the population, and the process of natural selection is just to fix the favorable individual genes, make the traits controlled by them change into the general characteristics of this population, and to eliminate the unfavorable genes, and eliminate the unfavorable traits..

An Attempt to Apply the Principles of Progressive Education to the Teaching of Geometry

1933 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 163-175
Author(s):  
Leroy H. Schnell
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Progressive Education ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Individual Child ◽  
Common Practices ◽  
The Common ◽  
Teaching Of Mathematics ◽  
The Individual

For some time teachers of mathematics have been verbalizing the ideals and principles of progressive education and at the same time have proceeded to conduct their teaching along conventional lines. No one familiar with the common practices of the classroom will deny the statement that instruction in mathematics has been largely concerned with subject matter acquisition, and the “mastery” of skills unconnected with their value and meaning in life situations. Nevertheless there are indications of a mild revolt against outworn methods in the teaching of mathematics. Furthermore there is increasing dissatisfaction with a curriculum unadjusted to the needs and abilities of the individual child. There is a growing conviction, that will sooner or later be translated into widespread action, that the mass instruction technique, with all it implies, is inimical to the best interests of the child.

The Red Neuronal Pigment in the Nervous System of the Mussel, Mytilus Edulis: Localization and Its Effect on Lateral Ciliary Activity with Spectral and Analytical Changes

1981 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 494-495
Author(s):  
Anthony A. Paparo ◽  
Judith A. Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Nervous System ◽  
Mytilus Edulis ◽  
Neuronal Cell ◽  
Ciliary Activity ◽  
Neuronal Cell Bodies ◽  
The Central Nervous System ◽  
Intracellular Organelles ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Cryostat Sections

The purpose of this study was to localize the red neuronal pigment in Mytilus edulis and examine its role in the control of lateral ciliary activity in the gill. The visceral ganglia (Vg) in the central nervous system show an over al red pigmentation. Most red pigments examined in squash preps and cryostat sec tions were localized in the neuronal cell bodies and proximal axon regions. Unstained cryostat sections showed highly localized patches of this pigment scattered throughout the cells in the form of dense granular masses about 5-7 um in diameter, with the individual granules ranging from 0.6-1.3 um in diame ter. Tissue stained with Gomori's method for Fe showed bright blue granular masses of about the same size and structure as previously seen in unstained cryostat sections.Thick section microanalysis (Fig.l) confirmed both the localization and presence of Fe in the nerve cell. These nerve cells of the Vg share with other pigmented photosensitive cells the common cytostructural feature of localization of absorbing molecules in intracellular organelles where they are tightly ordered in fine substructures.

Causality Then and Now

1993 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-177
Author(s):  
Karen Harding
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Theory ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Mechanical Model ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Universe ◽  
The Way

Ate appearances deceiving? Do objects behave the way they do becauseGod wills it? Ate objects impetmanent and do they only exist becausethey ate continuously created by God? According to a1 Ghazlli, theanswers to all of these questions ate yes. Objects that appear to bepermanent are not. Those relationships commonly tefemed to as causalare a result of God’s habits rather than because one event inevitably leadsto another. God creates everything in the universe continuously; if Heceased to create it, it would no longer exist.These ideas seem oddly naive and unscientific to people living in thetwentieth century. They seem at odds with the common conception of thephysical world. Common sense says that the universe is made of tealobjects that persist in time. Furthermore, the behavior of these objects isreasonable, logical, and predictable. The belief that the univetse is understandablevia logic and reason harkens back to Newton’s mechanical viewof the universe and has provided one of the basic underpinnings ofscience for centuries. Although most people believe that the world is accutatelydescribed by this sort of mechanical model, the appropriatenessof such a model has been called into question by recent scientificadvances, and in particular, by quantum theory. This theory implies thatthe physical world is actually very different from what a mechanicalmodel would predit.Quantum theory seeks to explain the nature of physical entities andthe way that they interact. It atose in the early part of the twentieth centuryin response to new scientific data that could not be incorporated successfullyinto the ptevailing mechanical view of the universe. Due largely ...

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