scholarly journals Teilhard de Chardin: um místico em comunhão com o universo

2018 ◽  
Vol 75 (299) ◽  
pp. 620
Author(s):  
Maria Clara Lucchetti Bingemer
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Theological Reflection ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Valuable Contribution ◽  
American Perspective ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Face ◽  
America Latina ◽  
The Universe

Síntese: Nossa proposta neste texto é fazer uma leitura da obra de Teilhard de Chardin a partir da América Latina e, nela, de uma situação bem concreta: o consumismo, característica da pós-modernidade, que se instalou aqui em nosso continente. Nossa premissa é que a fúria consumista em um continente marcado pela pobreza dissociou ser humano e cosmos, homem, mulher e natureza, criando uma falta de sensibilidade para os sentidos humanos, que chega a ser extremamente nociva ao próprio ser humano: torna-o sempre mais insensível àquilo que está à sua volta, seja a pobreza que padecem tantos, seja a negligência em relação ao Cosmos e à Terra, pondo em risco a vida e o futuro do planeta onde todos vivem. Em seguida, examinaremos a mística bíblica como mística de comunhão com o universo, de sintonia com o criado, incluindo e colocando em comunicação ser humano e mundo, de maneira a que juntos reflitam a face do Criador. Procuraremos, a seguir, ver como Teilhard se inscreve nessa mística de comunhão com o universo de maneira radical e profunda, fazendo com que a mesma passe a constituir o cerne de sua esplêndida espiritualidade. Finalmente, examinaremos alguns textos seletos de Teilhard, a fim de encontrarmos neles a inspiração para a teologia que hoje se faz em nosso continente. Embora Teilhard não tenha sido alguém com grande preocupação pelos pobres e embora estes não ocupem parte importante em seu pensamento e discurso, não se pode ignorar que seu pensamento sobre o cosmos e a natureza são uma contribuição preciosa para toda a reflexão teológica sobre a ecologia, que hoje se realiza no mundo inteiro, inclusive e de maneira forte e insistente, no continente latino-americano.Palavas-chave: Theilhard de Chardin. Espiritualidade. Consumismo. Ecologia. Pobres.Abstract: Our objective in this text is to do a reading of Teilhard de Chardin’s work from a Latin American perspective and, within this perspective, focus on a very concrete situation: consumerism, a characteristic of the post-modernity that settled here in our continent. Our assumption is that the consumerist fury in a continent marked by poverty dissociated the human being and the cosmos, man, woman and nature, creating a lack of sensitivity to the human senses that becomes extremely harmful for the human beings themselves. It makes them more insensitive to whatever is around them, be it the poverty that is the source of suffering for so many, be it the negligence towards the Cosmos and the Earth, a negligence that endangers the life and the future of the planet where we all live. Next, we will examine the Biblical mystique as a mystique of communion with the universe, of being in tune with the creation, including and fostering the communication between the human being and the world, in such a way that, together, they reflect the face of the Creator. We will then try to see how Teilhard inserts himself in this mystique of communion with the universe in a radical and deep way, so that this mystique becomes the core of his splendid spirituality. Finally, we will look at a few selected texts by Teilhard in order to find in them the inspiration for the theology practiced today in our continent. Although Teilhard may not have been someone particularly concerned with the poor and although they are not an important part of his thought and discourse, we cannot ignore that his ideas about the Cosmos and nature are a valuable contribution to the entire theological reflection on ecology that is being carried out worldwide, including, in a very strong and insistent way, in the Latin-American continent.Keyword: Theilhard de Chardin. Spirituality. Consumerism. Ecology. Poor.

From Russian Icaria to Russian Cosmism

2021 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 361-368
Author(s):  
Fedor I. Girenok
Keyword(s):  
Space Flight ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Problems ◽  
History Of ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Universe

In the article the author analyzes the phenomenon of Russian cosmism and shows its difference from other possible varieties of cosmism. The author understands Russian cosmism as the idea of extending the definition of the universe by the human beings. A human being doesn’t simply have his place in history, on the Earth and in space, but also broadens it by means of his material and spiritual actions. The idea of the world broadening was popular among Russian naturalists in the 19th and the 20th centuries. The most prominent figures among the Russian cosmism followers were N.F. Fedorov and K. E. Tsiolkovsky. The author distinguishes three directions in the history of Russian cosmism – religious, natural-scientific and artistic-poetical. According to the author, only after Gagarin’s space flight the idea of Russian Icaria transferred itself into Russian cosmism. The article studies the sources of Russian cosmism and explains the meaning of anthropocosmism. The author arrives at the conclusion that Russian cosmism offers its own approach to solving modern global problems that differs from the ideas in the reports to the Roman club.

scholarly journals The Royal Institution in Ancient Iran

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Jafar Aghazadeh ◽  
Hasan Mohammadi
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Method ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Main Obstacle ◽  
Ordinary Life ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Royal Institution ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Right

<p>In the thoughts and beliefs of Iranians, kingdom has had a history of the creation of human beings on the earth. Accordingly, Iranians believe that the first creature and human being on the earth was the first king of Iran. Iranians connects the history of their mythical royal dynasties to the creation of humanity. For Iranians, the mythical kings of Iran are the creators of the royal institution and the functions and duties of the royal institution have been established, developed and transferred to next generations by the measures of these kings. The objective of the present study is to investigate the establishment of the royal institution and the development of royal institution in ancient Iran by a descriptive-analytical method. The findings indicate that Iranians had specific sacredness for their kings and called the first creature of Ahura Mazda as the King. In addition, they believed that kings should perform particular tasks whose formation was attributed to the mythical kings of Iran. Further, they believed that only those persons had the right of being a king who were from the race of kings and were approved by Ahura Mazda. to examine Lessing’s elucidation of authentic knowledge in <em>Shikasta</em>. The methodology appropriated in the paper entails depiction of visible world as an illusion of the Real pointed in Plato’s allegory of Cave and Nagarjuna’s Mundane Truth. We clarify emotion as the main motivator of such illusionary status stressed in both Plato and Nagarjuna’s thoughts. We argue that while the importance of reason and eradicating emotion cannot be ignored, what adjoins people to Truth is mindfulness and intuitive knowledge which is close to Nagarjuna’s non-dual patterns. By examining ordinary life as the illusion of Real, and emotion as the main obstacle to achieve the Truth emphasized in both Nagarjuna and Plato’s trends, we depart from other critics who undermine the eminence of essentialist trace in Lessing’s works and examine her approach towards Truth merely under postmodern lens. This departure is significant since we clarify while essentialism has been abandoned to a large extent and supporters of Plato have become scarce, amalgamation of his thoughts with spiritual trends opens a fresh way to earn authenticity in Lessing’s novel. </p><p> </p>

Social Movements in Latin America: Paradigms, People, and Politics

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 20-39
Author(s):  
Ronaldo Munck
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
American Perspective ◽  
Power And Resistance ◽  
America Latina ◽  
Theoretical Paradigms ◽  
Sobre Todo ◽  
Movimientos Sociales

Social movements in Latin America have always attracted attention, but there is no agreed-upon paradigm, certainly not one accepted in Latin America. A review from a Latin American perspective of the strengths and weaknesses of the theoretical paradigms used to understand these movements suggests a revitalized paradigm that foregrounds the agency of people and, above all, brings politics back in. A proposed new, poststructuralist Marxist frame for research on both theory and practice puts a Foucauldian emphasis on the dissoluble links between power and resistance and a Laclau-inspired emphasis on the national-popular. Aunque los movimientos sociales en América Latina siempre han llamado la atención, no hay un paradigma acordado; ciertamente, no uno que se acepte en la región. Un análisis desde una perspectiva latinoamericana de las fortalezas y debilidades de los paradigmas teóricos utilizados para entender estos movimientos sugiere un marco revitalizado que pone en primer plano la agencia de las personas y, sobre todo, recupera el tema de la política. El nuevo paradigma marxista postestructuralista aquí propuesto para la investigación tanto teórica como práctica pone un énfasis foucauldiano en los vínculos disolubles entre el poder y la resistencia, así como un énfasis en lo nacional y popular inspirado por Laclau.

scholarly journals Weeping in the Face of Fortune: Eco-Alienation in the Niger-Delta Ecopoetics

Humanities ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abba A. Abba ◽  
Nkiru D. Onyemachi
Keyword(s):  
Niger Delta ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Delta Region ◽  
Niger Delta Region ◽  
Cultural Implications ◽  
The Face ◽  
Oil Wealth ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Universe

Scholarship on Niger Delta ecopoetry has concentrated on the economic, socio-political and cultural implications of eco-degradation in the oil-rich Niger Delta region of the South-South in Nigeria, but falls short of addressing the trope of eco-alienation, the sense of separation between people and nature, which seems to be a significant idea in Niger Delta ecopoetics. For sure, literary studies in particular and the Humanities at large have shown considerable interest in the concept of the Anthropocene and the resultant eco-alienation which has dominated contemporary global ecopoetics since the 18th century. In the age of the Anthropocene, human beings deploy their exceptional capabilities to alter nature and its essence, including the ecosystem, which invariably leads to eco-alienation, a sense of breach in the relationship between people and nature. For the Humanities, if this Anthropocentric positioning of humans has brought socio-economic advancement to humans, it has equally eroded human values. This paper thus attempts to show that the anthropocentric positioning of humans at the center of the universe, with its resultant hyper-capitalist greed, is the premise in the discussion of eco-alienation in Tanure Ojaide’s Delta Blues and Home Songs (1998) and Nnimmo Bassey’s We Thought It Was Oil but It Was Blood (2002). Arguing that both poetry collections articulate the feeling of disconnect between the inhabitants of the Niger Delta region and the oil wealth in their community, the paper strives to demonstrate that the Niger Delta indigenes, as a result, have been compelled to perceive the oil environment no longer as a source of improved life but as a metaphor for death. Relying on ecocritical discursive strategies, and seeking to further foreground the implication of the Anthropocene in the conception of eco-alienation, the paper demonstrates how poetry, as a humanistic discipline, lives up to its promise as a powerful medium for interrogating the trope of eco-estrangement both in contemporary Niger Delta ecopoetry and in global eco-discourse.

scholarly journals Eating Human Beings: Varieties of Cannibalism and the Heterogeneity of Human Life

Philosophy ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 91 (4) ◽  
pp. 483-501
Author(s):  
Mikel Burley
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Important Task ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The Face ◽  
Human Flesh ◽  
Ways Of Being

AbstractPhilosophy as well as anthropology is a discipline concerned with what it means to be human, and hence with investigating the multiple ways of making sense of human life. An important task in this process is to remain open to diverse conceptions of human beings, not least conceptions that may on the face of it appear to be morally alien. A case in point are conceptions that are bound up with cannibalism, a practice sometimes assumed to be so morally scandalous that it probably never happens, at least in a culturally sanctioned form. Questioning this assumption, along with Cora Diamond's contention that the very concept of a human being involves a prohibition against consuming human flesh, the present article explores how cannibalism can have an intelligible place in a human society – exemplified by the Wari’ of western Brazil. By coming to see this, we are enabled to enlarge our conception of the heterogeneity of possible ways of being human.

Racial Identities in China: Context and Meaning

1994 ◽  
Vol 138 ◽  
pp. 404-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Dikötter
Keyword(s):  
Yellow River ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Racial Identities ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Face ◽  
Skin Pigment

This yellow river, it so happens, bred a nation identified by its yellow skin pigment. Moreover, this nation also refers to its earliest ancestor as the Yellow Emperor. Today, on the face of the earth, of every five human beings there is one that is a descendant of the Yellow Emperor.

scholarly journals A teologia da cidade segundo José Comblin

2018 ◽  
Vol 74 (295) ◽  
pp. 564-598
Author(s):  
Alzirinha Rocha de Souza
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Human Dimensions ◽  
Theological Reflection ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Urban Structures ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The City ◽  
Do So

Em 1968, José Comblin publicou Théologie de la ville.1 Desde então, o assunto “cidade” tornou-se tema de reflexão teológica. Elaborado a partir da percepção das mudanças em curso nas cidades e, mesmo, a partir da formação de metrópoles latino-americanas, este tema será recorrente em sua vida e em suas obras. Mas, o presente artigo busca demonstrar: 1) que a reflexão de Comblin é, antes de tudo, uma reflexão sobre o ser humano; 2) que a centralidade antropológica é colocada a partir do papel que as estruturas urbanas desempenham na constituição e na integração das dimensões humanas; 3) que, o ser humano perfaz um caminho processual. Para tanto, estruturamos o texto em três partes: 1) Contextualização histórica; 2) Teologia da cidade; 3) Perspectiva humana e pastoral.Abstract: In 1968, Joseph Comblin published Théologie de la ville. Since then, the topic «city» became the subject of theological reflection. Drawn on the perception of the changes underway in the cities and even on the development of Latin American metropolises, this theme will recur in his life and in his works. This article, however, seeks to demonstrate: 1) that Comblin’s reflection is above all a reflection on the human being; 2) that the anthropological centrality is a result of the role that urban structures play in the creation and integration of human dimensions; 3) that the human being’s path is a procedural one. To do so, we structured the text into three parts: 1) Historical context; 2) Theology of the city; 3) Human and pastoral perspective.Keywords: Joseph Comblin. Anthropology. City. Theology of the city. Pastoral.

scholarly journals PENDIDIKAN ISLAM DI ERA MILENIAL

Conciencia ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-28
Author(s):  
Abuddin Nata
Keyword(s):  
Education System ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
National Education ◽  
Global Era ◽  
National Education System ◽  
The Face ◽  
New Challenges

Today humans live in the millennial era. The era that is a continuation of this global era has created new challenges that must be transformed into opportunities that can be put to good use, so that challenge brings a blessing for everyone to do. Since the millennial era besides having similarities also has differences, especially in the use of digital technology that goes beyond the computer era, this kaeadaan has invited a number of experts to speak out and at the same time offer a number of thoughts and ideas in dealing with it. Islamic education with various types and levels, ranging from traditional pesantren that is non-formal, hinggapesantren modern with various programs, ranging from kindergarten to college, is institutionally part of the national education system. With such a position, Islamic education will inevitably have to contribute, even responsible menak prepare human beings in the millennial era. That is a human being who is able to change challenges into opportunities, and can use them for his own material and spiritual welfare. This paper seeks to explore the potential contained in Islamic education with various types and levels in the face of challenges in the millennial era. This paper begins by presenting the characteristics and challenges of the millennial era, social problems and their impact on life.

scholarly journals PLURALISMO JURÍDICO COMO ALTERNATIVA EPISTEMOLÓGICA PARA A CULTURA DE DIREITOS HUMANOS DESDE O CONTEXTO LATINO-AMERICANO

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 653
Author(s):  
André Luiz Pereira Spinieli
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Legal Pluralism ◽  
General Terms ◽  
Current State ◽  
Constitutional Culture ◽  
The Face ◽  
America Latina

O debate sobre o pluralismo jurídico no contexto político e social latino-americano não é recente, de modo que suas percepções foram renovadas a partir do movimento neoconstitucionalista operado no continente, responsável por desencadear alternativas epistêmicas para se pensar a efetividade dos direitos humanos e dos direitos de cidadania, tudo a partir da lógica de emancipação social e descolonialidade, como possibilidade de rompimento com o constitucionalismo tradicional, de cunho conservador, hegemônico e colonialista. Em termos gerais, como uma das respostas à concepção juspositivista, o pluralismo jurídico surge como modelo de pensamento para a práxis dos direitos humanos, em face de uma sociedade na qual impera a lógica das exclusões concretas em contrariedade às inclusões abstratas. Dessa forma, tomando por base a abordagem bibliográfica, este trabalho propõe oferecer reflexões a respeito do atual estado da cultura de direitos humanos instalada na América Latina, com enfoque nas contribuições epistemológicas advindas da teoria críticados direitos humanos e do pluralismo jurídico wolkmeriano.Palavras-chave: Pluralismo jurídico. Direitos humanos. Cultura constitucional. América Latina. Teoria crítica dos direitos humanos.LEGAL PLURALISM AS AN EPISTEMOLOGICAL ALTERNATIVE FOR THE CULTURE OF HUMAN RIGHTS SINCE THE LATIN AMERICAN CONTEXTAbstractThe debate on legal pluralism in the Latin American political and social context is not recent, so that their perceptions were renewed from the neo-constitutionalist movement operated on the continent, responsible for triggering epistemic alternatives to think about the effectiveness of human rights and human rights of citizenship, all based on the logic of social emancipation and decoloniality, as a possibility of breaking with traditional constitutionalism, of a conservative, hegemonic and colonialist nature. In general terms, as one of the answers to the juspositivist conception, legal pluralism emerges as a model of thoughtfor the practice of human rights, in the face of a society in which the logic of concrete exclusions prevails in opposition to abstract inclusions. Thus, based on the bibliographic approach, this work proposes to offer reflections on the current state of human rights culture in Latin America, focusing on the epistemological contributions arising from the critical theory of human rights and legal Wolkmer’s pluralism.Keywords: Legal Pluralism. Human rights. Constitutional culture. Latin America. Critical theory of human rights.

scholarly journals Ser persona en la sociedad del conocimiento y el espectáculo: Aprendiendo a vivir, pensar y comunicar más allá de los espejos

1970 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 159-176
Author(s):  
Martín Caeiro Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Cognitive Model ◽  
Mirror Image ◽  
The Body ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Society Of The Spectacle ◽  
Sociedad Del Conocimiento ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Universe

La Sociedad del Conocimiento propone un modelo cognitivo que procura referencias estables de la naturaleza, el ser humano y el universo, mientras que si pensamos en la Sociedad del Espectáculo hay un modelo que procura que como espectadores no nos establezcamos en ninguna imagen ofreciéndonos referentes temporales, identidades efímeras que la industria, la moda, la publicidad y el aburrimiento nos hacen desear constantemente. En este hábitat cultural, mediático y contradictorio intentamos comunicarnos, pero ¿cómo encontrar lo que puede definirnos en medio de tanta información? ¿cómo alcanzar una imagen especular en un mundo metamórfico?, y, en consecuencia: ¿cómo ser personas? En esta situación, como veremos en este artículo, el rostro y el cuerpo se significan en un mismo territorio de relación y aparecen la disipación, la monstruosidad, la desconexión, la descomunicación y la práctica de la borrosidad como estrategias de construcción de identidad, pasando de la representación a la cognición. Al final de este recorrido se proponen seis ideas y soluciones a la construcción de la identidad desde la perspectiva del educador artístico, enlazando en las propuestas conocimiento, entretenimiento y comunicación. The Knowledge Society proposes a cognitive model that seeks stable references of nature, the human being and the universe, whereas if we think about the Society of The Spectacle, there is a model that tries that as spectators we do not establish ourselves in any image offering us temporary referents, ephemeral identities that fashion, advertising and boredom make us wish constantly. In this cultural, mediatic and contradictory habitat, we try to communicate, but how do we find what can define us in the midst of so much information? How to achieve a mirror image in a metamorphic world? and, consequently: how to be a person? As we will see in this article, the face and the body are signified in the same territory of relation, and they appear the dissipation, the monstrosity, the disconnection, the discommunication and the practice of the blur as strategies of identity construction. At the end of our research we will propose six ideas and solutions for the problem of linking knowledge, entertainment and communication.

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