scholarly journals Duša, njene (stran)poti, družbeno nadzorstvo in kapitalizem

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 985-1022
Author(s):  
Zoran Kanduč
Keyword(s):  
Modern Science ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
The Body ◽  
Single Individual ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Subjective Experiences ◽  
Violent Behaviour ◽  
Theory Of Evolution ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Liberal Humanism

The article deals initially with the relationship between the body and the soul or rather mental phenomena, for the soul as a metaphysical entity does not exist in objective and subjective world (what does exist is the concrete, continually changing stream of subjective experiences being something that is the most real for every person, although modern science still cannot explain how our consciousness emerges from the brain and what are its biological functions). Moreover, the existence of eternal, individual, immortal soul cannot be explained with the Darwinian theory of evolution. The soul, as the exclusive gift given to the humans by the God, exists only in the religious perspective, i.e. as „solely“ intersubjective, in the collective imagination and communication established and reproduced reality, still influencing thoughts and actions of considerable number of people (not only believers). Results of contemporary life sciences shake and tear up also the belief in free will and existence of one single, individual, authentic (or „true“) self which is in the perspective of liberal humanism (as dominant ideology) the most important source of meaning, economic decisions, and moral, political and legal judgements. The central part of the article deals with various cultural „constructions“ of human mind and their influence on the organisation of social control, execution of power, and justifications of hierarchies (that are at first almost always imagined, but in the course of time they become more and more empirical and ossified: just as sinister self-fulfilling prophecies existing until they are not questioned by the political struggles of supposedly inferior, exploited, and oppressed human beings, that is by successful rebellions that are surprisingly quite rare historical events). In that regard, we pay special attention to various meanings of the emotionally much burdened word „freedom“ (or „liberty“). The final part of the article focuses on troubled, disturbed, pathological and normal mental phenomena, particularly in connection with violent behaviour and coping with the „all too human“ problem of divers forms of suffering, as (probably not abolishable) sorrow being not just the effect of some sort of bad luck, evil destiny or bad constellation of stars and planets, but of the bare fact that you are alive and as a subject captured in the live organism and its natural urges, needs and mechanisms. What is more, these inevitable sources of human suffering are accompanied by socially, culturally and interpersonally generated woe. Boldly put: human existence equals psychic troubles. Nowadays, people try to „solve“ this hard problem mainly by means of commercial (consumer) goods and services (that promise much desired experience of pleasant feelings and eo ipso happiness), and by medical and (legal and illegal) drugs that directly change biochemical system of individuals. Yet, that has considerable effects on crime. Namely, most criminal behaviour is directly or indirectly connected to the human aspiration after happiness, i.e. striving after pleasant feelings and intolerance to unpleasant ones.

Threshold

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emanuele Castrucci
Keyword(s):  
Social Behaviour ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
The Body ◽  
Basic Material ◽  
Moral Order ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human History ◽  
Biological Basis ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Mind

The human mind has phased out its traditional anchorage in a natural biological basis (the «reasons of the body» which even Spinoza’s Ethics could count on) – an anchorage that had determined, for at least two millennia, historically familiar forms of culture and civilisation. Increasingly emphasising its intellectual disembodiment, it has come to the point of establishing in a completely artificial way the normative conditions of social behaviour and the very ontological collocation of human beings in general. If in the past ‘God’ was the name that mythopoietic activity had assigned to the world’s overall moral order, which was reflected onto human behaviour, now the progressive freeing of the mind – by way of the intellectualisation of life and technology – from the natural normativity which was previously its basic material reference opens up unforeseen vistas of power. Freedom of the intellect demands (or so one believes) the full artificiality of the normative human order in the form of an artificial logos, and precisely qua artificial, omnipotent. The technological icon of logos (which postmodern dispersion undermines only superficially) definitively unseats the traditional normative, sovereign ‘God’ of human history as he has been known till now. Our West has been irreversibly marked by this process, whose results are as devastating as they are inevitable. The decline predicted a century ago by old Spengler is here served on a platter....

scholarly journals AMA FROM AYURVEDIC AND MODERN PERSPECTIVE

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 3055-3062
Author(s):  
Archana Arun Kulkarni ◽  
Rashmi Arvindkumar Dohare
Keyword(s):  
Modern Science ◽  
Signs And Symptoms ◽  
The Body ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Disease Entity ◽  
Objective Parameter ◽  
All Diseases ◽  
Modern Perspective

Agni is one of most powerful transformative principles of Ayurveda. Deranged Agni leads to the formation of Ama. Ama is responsible for causing most of the diseases in human beings. The disease produced, clinically mani- fests itself in form of various signs and symptoms. These signs and symptoms are the principal tools for a physi- cian to diagnose the disease and treat it promptly. On the basis of these symptoms, all diseases can be classified in Samavastha and Niramavastha. If an objective Parameter that could measure the severity of Ama is searched, it will prove to be an advantage for the physician, who could then catch the cause (Ama) and save patients from this harmful disease entity. A definite line of treatment of Ama can be planned after considering the symptoms and severity of the condition. Keeping this approach, the review is carried out to understand Ama from Ayurvedic and Modern perspectives. After reviewing it can be concluded that Ama has no direct correlation in modern science but can best be equated to 'toxins'. They may be endotoxins like enzymes, hormones, catalysts, etc. when these are unable to function properly or entirely, different metabolites are formed which are not acquired by the body. On further process these go on accumulating in different systems, affecting the normal mechanism of that respective system or exotoxins produced by some bacteria or micro-organism when they enter into the body. Keyword: Agni, Ama, Toxin

Killing and the Principle of Double Effect

1988 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Van Den Beld
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Double Effect ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Good Thing ◽  
Single Individual ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Principle Of Double Effect

When we raise the question of whether the pleasures of the human body are as valuable as those of the human mind — whether, for example, pushpin is as good as poetry — it is quite possible that people will disagree on their answers. But we would also expect most people to agree with the assertion that the death of a human being would generally be a bad thing; whilst his continuing to live would be a good thing. Furthermore, we would expect most people to concede immediately that the death of five human beings is a worse evil than the death of one single individual: all other things being equal, I hasten to add. It seems to follow now, on the basis of this commonly held view, that saving the lives of five people, who would be doomed to a certain death without an intervention on the part of another, would be morally right, if not praiseworthy, even if the action which is necessary to save those five lives would also entail the death of another person. To liven up the proceedings, if you will pardon the expression in this context, let me put to you this specific case:organs distributed. In that case, there would be one dead but five saved.’

Materialism from Hobbes to Locke

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stewart Duncan
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Hobbes ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
The Body ◽  
Margaret Cavendish ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The World ◽  
Human Understanding ◽  
Ralph Cudworth ◽  
Henry More

Are human beings purely material creatures, or is there something else to them, an immaterial part that does some (or all) of the thinking, and might even be able to outlive the death of the body? This book is about how a series of seventeenth-century philosophers tried to answer that question. It begins by looking at the views of Thomas Hobbes, who developed a thoroughly materialist account of the human mind, and later of God as well. All this is in obvious contrast to the approach of his contemporary René Descartes. After examining Hobbes’s materialism, the book considers the views of three of his English critics: Henry More, Ralph Cudworth, and Margaret Cavendish. Both More and Cudworth thought Hobbes’s materialism radically inadequate to explain the workings of the world, while Cavendish developed a distinctive, anti-Hobbesian materialism of her own. The second half of the book focuses on the discussion of materialism in John Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding, arguing that we can better understand Locke’s discussion if we see how and where he is responding to this earlier debate. At crucial points Locke draws on More and Cudworth to argue against Hobbes and other materialists. Nevertheless, Locke did a good deal to reveal how materialism was a genuinely possible view, by showing how one could develop a detailed account of the human mind without presuming it was an immaterial substance.

scholarly journals Posthumanity and the Prison-House of Gender in Douglas Coupland’s Microserfs

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 197-213
Author(s):  
Murat Göç-Bilgin
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
The Body ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Vitro Fertilization ◽  
Memory Space ◽  
Politics And Gender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gender Theories

This article aims to analyze Douglas Coupland’s Microserfs with a deliberate emphasis on posthuman theory, body politics, and gender to construe the transformation of the human body, human-machine nexus, and captivity in inhumanity with a struggle to (re)humanize minds and their bodies. One of the arguments of the paper will be that posthumanism offers a new outlet for breaking the chains of captivity, that is, escaping into non-human to redefine humanity and to emancipate the human mind and human body to notch up a more liberated and more equitable definition of humanity. As gender and sex are further marked by the mechanical and mass-mediated reproduction of human experiences, history, and memory, space and time, postmodern gender theories present a perpetual in-betweenness, transgression and fluidity and the dissolution of grand narratives also resulted in a dissolution of the heteronormative and essentialist uniformity and solidity of the human body. Gender in a posthuman context is characterized by a parallel tendency for reclaiming the possession of the body and sexual identity with a desire to transform the body as a physical entity through plastic surgery, genetic cloning, in vitro fertilization, and computerization of human mind and memory. Therefore, the human body has lost its quality as gendered and sexed and has been imprisoned in an embodiment of infantile innocence and manipulability, a “ghost in the machine,” or a cyborg, a hybrid of machine and organism (Haraway). The human-machine symbiosis, then, is exteriorized and extended into a network of objects switching “natural human body” to an immaterialized, dehumanized, and prosthetic “data made flesh.” In this regard, Coupland’s Microserfs boldly explores the potential of posthuman culture to provide a deconstruction of human subjectivity through an analysis of human and machine interaction and to demonstrate how human beings transgress the captivity of humanity by technologizing their bodies and minds in an attempt to become more human than human.

scholarly journals Evolusi Embrionik Manusia dalam al-Qur’an

MUTAWATIR ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Suhermanto Ja’far
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Darwinian Evolution ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Creation Process ◽  
The Real ◽  
Theory Of Evolution ◽  
The Creation

This article attempts to reread passages of the Koran on human creation process; QS. al-Hajj [22]: 5, QS. Hûd [11]: 61, QS. al-Sajdah [32]: 7, QS. al-Saffât [37]: 11, QS. al-Rahmân [55]: 14 and others. The verses are read in order in accordance with the process of the creation of man. The recitation of this time directed at scientific interpretation. Therefore, some of the views of modern science such as medical and others taken into consideration and presented back in it. These readings provide information about the stage of evolution in human creation, not Darwin’s theory of evolution, but the evolution of embryonic, is called Darwinian evolution that occurs in the womb, not in the real world. Based on this it can also be known that man is not the off spring of other animals-which can be said to be lower than beings. This is because human beings as “I” or “<em>nafs</em>” is not limited to a combination of physical and spiritual, but also has a sense or <em>qalb</em>

All Animals Are Equal, or Are They? The Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ’s Animal Epistle and its Unhappy End

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 42-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarra Tlili
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Final Outcome ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Main Text ◽  
Nonhuman Animals ◽  
Privileged Status

The Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ’s animal epistle is an intriguing work. Although in the body of the narrative the authors challenge anthropocentric preconceptions and present nonhuman animals in a more favourable light than human beings, inexplicably, the narrative ends by reconfirming the privileged status of humans. The aim of this paper is to propose an explanation for this discrepancy. I argue that the egalitarian message reflected in the body of the narrative is traceable back to the Qur'an, the main text with which the authors engage in the fable, whereas the final outcome is due to the Ikhwān's hierarchical worldview.

An ayurvedic tablet formulation for ulcer protection

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 35-38
Author(s):  
Shiva Kumar K ◽  
Purushothaman M ◽  
Soujanya H ◽  
Jagadeeshwari S
Keyword(s):  
Pharmacological Activity ◽  
The Body ◽  
Gastric Ulcers ◽  
Antiulcer Activity ◽  
Herbal Drugs ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Synthetic Drugs ◽  
Scientific Investigations ◽  
System A ◽  
The World

Gastric ulcers or the peptic ulcer is the primary disease that affects the gastrointestinal system. A large extent of the population in the world are suffering from the disease, and the age group of people those who suffer from ulcers are 20-55years. Herbs are known to the human beings that are useful in the treatment of diseases, and there are a lot of scientific investigations that prove the pharmacological activity of herbal drugs. Practitioners have been using the herbal material to treat the ulcers successfully, and the same had been reported scientifically. Numerous publications have been made that proves the antiulcer activity of the plants around the world. The tablets were investigated for the antiulcer activity in two doses 200 and 400mg/kg in albino Wistar rats in the artificial ulcer those are induced by the ethanol. The prepared tablets showed a better activity compared to the standard synthetic drug and the marketed ayurvedic formulation. The tablets showed a dose-dependent activity in ulcer prevention and treatment. Many synthetic drugs are available for the ulcer treatment, and the drugs pose the other problems in the body by showing the side effects and some other reactions. This limits the use of synthetic drugs to treat ulcers effectively. Herbs are known to the human beings that are useful in the treatment of diseases, and there are a lot of scientific investigations that prove the pharmacological activity of herbal drugs.

The antitoxic and protective effects of Curcuma longa and it`s active agent, Curcumin: оverview

2020 ◽  
pp. 66-72
Author(s):  
A. Khisamova ◽  
O. Gizinger
Keyword(s):  
Curcuma Longa ◽  
Physiological Activity ◽  
Active Agent ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Physical Exertion ◽  
The Body ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Protective Effects ◽  
Daily Stress ◽  
Anti Cancer

In the modern world, where a person is exposed to daily stress, increased physical exertion, the toxic effect of various substances, including drugs. The task of modern science is to find antioxidants for the body. These can be additives obtained both synthetically and the active substances that we get daily from food. Such a striking example is turmeric, obtained from the plant Curcuma longa. Recently, it has been known that curcumin has an antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer effect and, thanks to these effects, plays an important role in the prevention and treatment of various diseases, in particular, from cancer to autoimmune, neurological, cardiovascular and diabetic diseases. In addition, much attention is paid to increasing the biological activity and physiological effects of curcumin on the body through the synthesis of curcumin analogues. This review discusses the chemical and physical characteristics, analogues, metabolites, the mechanisms of its physiological activity and the effect of curcumin on the body.

A Rapture of the Nerds? A Comparison between Transhumanist Eschatology and Christian Parousia

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 343-367
Author(s):  
Roberto Paura
Keyword(s):  
Human Brain ◽  
Point Theory ◽  
The Body ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human Species ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Universe

Transhumanism is one of the main “ideologies of the future” that has emerged in recent decades. Its program for the enhancement of the human species during this century pursues the ultimate goal of immortality, through the creation of human brain emulations. Therefore, transhumanism offers its fol- lowers an explicit eschatology, a vision of the ultimate future of our civilization that in some cases coincides with the ultimate future of the universe, as in Frank Tipler’s Omega Point theory. The essay aims to analyze the points of comparison and opposition between transhumanist and Christian eschatologies, in particular considering the “incarnationist” view of Parousia. After an introduction concern- ing the problems posed by new scientific and cosmological theories to traditional Christian eschatology, causing the debate between “incarnationists” and “escha- tologists,” the article analyzes the transhumanist idea of mind-uploading through the possibility of making emulations of the human brain and perfect simulations of the reality we live in. In the last section the problems raised by these theories are analyzed from the point of Christian theology, in particular the proposal of a transhuman species through the emulation of the body and mind of human beings. The possibility of a transhumanist eschatology in line with the incarnationist view of Parousia is refused.

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