scholarly journals Active surveillance as a collateral practice of contemporary pedagogical devices of the present time.

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla Cardinaletti
Keyword(s):  
Active Surveillance ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
The Other ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Phenomenological Perspective ◽  
History Of ◽  
Spanish Flu ◽  
Person Account ◽  
Key Steps

“A collateral victim”[1] of the Spanish flu epidemic: these are the words that Edgar Morin uses to define himself in his “Preamble: One hundred years of vicissitudes” (2020, p. 9), written during the lockdown imposed to stem the spread of Covid-19. Over a handful of pages, the French philosopher and sociologist gives a first-person account of his own personal life in relation to the history of the great crises of the 20th Century. His preamble to the book Let’s change lanes: Lessons of Coronavirus reads as follows: “The reader can now understand why I find it normal to expect the unexpected and to foresee that the unpredictable may happen”[2] (p. 22). Over the course of the text, Morin’s readers are also brought to understand why the author has not “completely lost hope” (ibidem). Hence, the beauty of the words of Morin, as a “transversal thinker” (Montuori, 2019, p. 408), is collateral: his lucid analysis does indeed retrace the catastrophic events that have arisen during the pandemic, underlining human beings’ predisposition to dystopian attitudes, yet it simultaneously highlights key steps towards fostering that humanism necessary to change the path. If aesthetics, according to the definition given by its founder Baumgarten (1750), is the “sensory theory”[3] (Tedesco, 2020, p. 9), perhaps the key to grasping the collateral beauty of adverse events lies in implementing knowledge of sensibilities, i.e. that ability to envisage the unexpected (Morin, 2020, 2001), to understand that pain is part of life (Han, 2020), to “think emotions, feel thoughts”[4] (Mortari, 2017), to listen to the Other because it concerns us (Levinas, 2002). This contribution aims to relate some findings of contemporary Italian pedagogy, which, in response to the Covid-19 crisis, are exploring those sensibilities able to deal with the unexpected, considering the concepts of uncertainty, margin and care from a phenomenological perspective (Mortari & Camerella, 2014). Educational practices, brought to the fore by the academic community in the field of education, become an active surveillance tool to provide a response to current issues that is not only theoretical, but also empirical and “operational”[5] – i.e. “capable of directing and orienting its choices in a strategic way in contexts where highly critical situations occur” (Isidori & Vaccarelli, 2013, pp. 16–17).

scholarly journals TANTANGAN PENGEMBANGAN ILMU-ILMU USHULUDDIN MENYONSONG PERUBAHAN IAIN AR-RANIRY MENJADI UIN

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdul Wahid
Keyword(s):  
Academic Community ◽  
The Other ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Islamic Theology ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Academic Communities ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Important Position ◽  
Theology Faculty

<p>Theology faculty as the vessel of developing basic Islamic studies that has an important position among the other faculties. The experience of changing institution to be university shown that theology faculty “desert” of applicants. Therefore, readiness and progress of Islamic Theology faculty under the State Islamic University (UIN) of course determine the future history of Islamic Theology.This struggle would be faced with all the seriousness of the academic community. Establishing the Faculty of Islamic Theology in the new form to be a demand. On the other hand, the academic communities of Islamic Theology Faculty are required to initiate a new paradigm in the world of work.</p>

GENDER nonetheless like oneself. The other also has self-conscious-ness, hence the reciprocity suggested by Hegel in the inter-subjective structure. Of this structure, Hegel remarks that 'a self-consciousness, in being an object, is just as much "I" as "object". With this, we already have the concept of Spirit. . . Spirit is . . . the absolute substance which is the unity of the different independent self-consciousnesses . . . Self-con-sciousness exists in and for itself, when, and by the fact that, it so exists for another, that is, it exists only in being acknowledged'. Thus Geist names the unity of distinct self-reflexive subjects qua social unity. Moreover, Hegel's think-ing on Geist implicitly shows how the concept is fundamen-tally empty unless it comes into being as a result of a hermeneutics of self-conscious reciprocity. Such a determi-nation on Hegel's part is what allows him to propose human history as a history of spirit, where spirit comes to manifest itself in and through the conscious relationships of human beings who acknowledge their shared being. More generally, the term denotes the manner in which we imagine or con-ceive of nationhood, culture and social or political move-ments, in the form of a shared 'spirit' which constitutes our identity as English, German, American, Liberal, Democrat, Socialist and so on. Hence, geist refers to our shared assump-tions - often unarticulated except as the idea of national identity, for example - or cultural ideology, by which same-ness is asserted at the expense of that which is different or other within the constitution of identity. However, because the term is doubled and divided 'internally' by its different meanings and is therefore haunted by the condition of undecidability, there is, as Jacques Derrida argues, always something 'invisible' within the idea of geist which disturbs the very premise of the shared assumption which is grounded on the notion of undifferentiated identity and what that seeks to exclude but which returns nonetheless. Gender—Term denoting the cultural constitution of notions concerning femininity or masculinity and the ways in which these serve ideologically to maintain gendered identities. In much sociological and feminist thought, gender is defined

2016 ◽  
pp. 52-56
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human History ◽  
Gendered Identities ◽  
Feminist Thought ◽  
Social Unity ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cultural Ideology

The Boundary of Animality

10.1068/d359t ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 787-793 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Christian Risan
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human Computer Interactions ◽  
Generalized Symmetry ◽  
History Of ◽  
Anthropological Fieldwork ◽  
The One

In this paper I explore some limits of the generalized symmetry of actor-network theory. The paper is based on a study on cows, farming technology, and farming science, and is empirically based on an anthropological fieldwork in modern, computerized cowsheds. By exploring differences in interactions between human beings and cows, on the one hand, and between human beings and computers, on the other, I argue that the partly common natural history of human beings and cows, and the lack of such a history in human–computer interactions, makes it impossible to be agnostic about where to find subjectivity in such a place as a cowshed. Animal bodies (including human beings) demand certain kinds of interactions, and thus produce certain distributions of subjectivities. The boundary of animality is not a purely ‘cultural’ distinction, and cannot be deconstructed as such.

scholarly journals Two opposing theories. On H.E. Wiegand's recent discovery of lexicographic functions

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (31) ◽  
pp. 171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henning Bergenholtz ◽  
Sven Tarp
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Modern Theory ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
German Scholar ◽  
History Of ◽  
Dictionary Use

In the history of lexicography, a lot has been said about dictionary users and their needs. This paper will focus on two theories that both share the postulate that dictionaries are tools made by human beings in order to solve specific problems. The first theory is developed by the German scholar H.E. Wiegand and it will be argued that his theory about dictionary use should be considered a linguistic reconstruction of information items in existing dictionaries. The other theory is the modern theory of lexicographic functions that takes all the theoretical and practical consequences of the basic postulate that dictionaries are utility products.

scholarly journals A Reconstruction of Matthew Jacha Rusike’s Contribution to the Re-humanisation of Dehumanised Children in Zimbabwe 1950–1978

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Mujinga
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
British Empire ◽  
The Other ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
Vulnerable Children ◽  
Orphans And Vulnerable Children ◽  
Children's Home ◽  
History Of ◽  
International Status

Abstract The Mathew Rusike Children’s Home (MRCH) in Zimbabwe is known for its philanthropic work of caring for orphans and vulnerable children. It is an institution viewed as a Christ-woven nest that re-humanises dehumanised children. This paper was motivated by the fact that, over the years, the MRCH has attracted partners and supporters locally and globally, thereby giving it international status. However, there is a gap in research that connects the founder, Rev. Matthew Jacha Rusike, and the institution. The gap is worrisome, because Rusike has been a pioneer in the history of Methodism in a number of ways. To start with, he was the first African Wesleyan Methodist minister to be appointed as circuit superintendent in a missionary-dominated church. Second, he was awarded the “Member of the Order of the British Empire” for his contribution to the formation of the first African children’s home in a country whose cultural values denied the existence of orphanages. Third, he also supervised many schools; and yet there is little research about him. The other motivation for this study was to reconcile the historical Rusike and the institution. The paper concluded that Rusike had challenged the African epistemology that orphans and vulnerable children are the responsibility of relatives—even if those homes are not safe for children. The paper starts by discussing the personal life of Rusike, followed by a description of his ministerial journey; how he founded the children’s home, and how the home developed from a family vision to be the church’s Christian social responsibility.

“How Other Peoples Dwell and Build”

2019 ◽  
Vol 78 (4) ◽  
pp. 409-421
Author(s):  
Marcel Vellinga
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Vernacular Architecture ◽  
International Perspective ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human Settlements ◽  
History Of

In 1953, architect, planner, and historian Erwin Anton Gutkind published a series of articles collectively titled “How Other Peoples Dwell and Build” in Architectural Design. At a glance, the series seems an anomaly in Gutkind's extensive oeuvre, and it remains little known in the field of vernacular architecture. In “How Other Peoples Dwell and Build”: Erwin Anton Gutkind and the Architecture of the Other, Marcel Vellinga aims to place the series within the broader context of Gutkind's writings. Running through Gutkind's work—and underlined in Vellinga's article—is the thesis that the historical development of human settlements mirrors the degenerating relationships between individuals and their communities, and between human beings and the natural environment. Thus, the Architectural Design series is an integral part of Gutkind's writings on the history of urban development. The series is one of the first architectural publications to focus on vernacular traditions from an international perspective and to emphasize the importance of studying vernacular architecture in its larger cultural and environmental contexts.

The Place of Psychoanalysis in the History of the Jews

2006 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eli Zaretsky
Keyword(s):  
Jewish History ◽  
The Other ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Hebrew Language ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Abstract Notion ◽  
The One

Situating psychoanalysis in the context of Jewish history, this paper takes up Freud's famous 1930 question: what is left in Judaism after one has abandoned faith in God, the Hebrew language and nationalism, and his answer: a great deal, perhaps the very essence, but an essence that we do not know. On the one hand, it argues that ‘not knowing’ connects psychoanalysis to Judaism's ancestral preoccupation with God, a preoccupation different from that of the more philosophical Greek, Latin and Christian traditions of theology. On the other hand, ‘not knowing‘ connects psychoanalysis to a post-Enlightenment conception of the person (i.e. of personal life), as opposed to the more abstract notion of the subject associated with Kant.

The Religious Position of Livy's History

1967 ◽  
Vol 57 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 45-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Liebeschuetz
Keyword(s):  
Intermediate Position ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Traditional Beliefs ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Philosophical System ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
History Of ◽  
Religious Factor

The History of Livy is extraordinarily full of references to the gods and their worship. In this way it differs strikingly from the writings of Sallust and Tacitus, not to mention the Commentaries of Caesar. This fact has been interpreted in various ways. Kajanto has argued that, the frequent references to religious matters notwithstanding, events in Livy's History are mainly determined by human beings, not by gods and fate. Bayet sees in Livy a pure agnostic who has grasped the importance of the religious factor in history. On the other hand, Stübler maintains that Livy was traditionally orthodox and supplemented tradition with a belief in the mission of the emperor Augustus as a god and son of a god to save Rome. An intermediate position is taken up by Walsh who sees in Livy a Stoic who can continue to respect traditional beliefs and practices because they have been given a symbolic place in a comprehensive philosophical system.

Necessary Being

1961 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 353-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
John H. Hick
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Logical Necessity ◽  
Paul Tillich ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Philosophical Literature ◽  
Concept Of God ◽  
Necessary Being ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Christian Thought

Necessary being' is one of the terms by means of which Christian thought has sought to define the difference between God and man. The notion of necessary being, applied to God and withheld from man, indicates that God and man differ not merely in the characteristics which they possess but more fundamentally, in their modes of being, or in the fact that they exist in different senses of the word ‘exist’.That such a distinction, however it may be best expressed, is essential to the Christian concept of God is agreed virtually on all hands. Paul Tillich in our own day emphasises the distinction to the extent of using different terms to refer to the reality of God and of man respectively. Human beings and other created things exist; God, on the other hand, does not exist, but is Being-itself. This is the most recent way of formulating a discrimination which has been classically expressed in the history of Christian thought by the idea of the necessary being of God in contrast to the contingent being of man and of the whole created order. There are, however, two importantly different concepts which may be, and which have been, expressed by the phrase ‘necessary being’. ‘Necessity’, in a philosophical context, usually means logical necessity, and gives rise in theology to the concept of a being such that it is logically impossible that this being should not exist. But this is not the only kind of necessity referred to in philosophical literature.

scholarly journals Sunil Yapa’s Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist: Protest, Fiction and the Ethics of Care

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-24
Author(s):  
Isabel Alonso-Breto
Keyword(s):  
World Trade Organization ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Life Conditions ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

Sunil Yapa’s politically engaged first novel vindicates the massive pacific protests that occurred during five days in Seattle in November-December 1999. These protests were summoned against the World Trade Organization summit. The novel responds to the wish to inscribe in the history of fiction a crucial event which would inspire and inflect the later anti-globalization movement and protests, and which according to some has not yet received the attention it deserves by media or criticism. This article discusses Yapa’s work in the light of the Ethics of Care, and develops an exegesis, which, incorporating elements of Hardt and Negri’s ideas about the Multitude, understands the novel mainly as a reflection of the crucial preoccupation thathumans have for other human beings, and the innate wish to actively take care of the Other and improve his or her life conditions.

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