scholarly journals Biocitizenship: The Politics of Bodies, Governance and Power (Review)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew James Shapiro
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Rich Diversity ◽  
As Species ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Biological Citizenship ◽  
The One ◽  
Health And Well Being

This collection offers a rich diversity of perspectives on what has come to be known as “biological citizenship,” or “biocitizenship.” Quoting Nikolas Rose, editors Johnson, Happe, and Levina define biocitizenship as comprising “all those citizenship projects that have linked their conceptions of citizens to beliefs about the biological existence of human beings, as individuals, as men and women, as families and lineages, as communities, as populations and as species” (P. 1). On the one hand, biocitizenship entails the positive, active efforts of human beings demanding their rights to health and well-being. On the other hand, biocitizenship is also understood as an extension of ‘biopolitics’ in the Foucauldian sense, so that biocitizenship disciplines and controls subjects even as it affords them certain rights. While this duality and its various complexities have generated a sizeable body of literature, there has to date been no edited volume on the subject of biocitizenship. Johnson, Happe, and Levina helpfully fill this gap, bringing together disparate voices from various disciplines into a volume that is provocative and insightful.

6. The why of creativity

2021 ◽  
pp. 82-96
Author(s):  
Vlad Glăveanu
Keyword(s):  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Creative Expression ◽  
The Other ◽  
Creative People ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Health And Well Being ◽  
Different Levels

This chapter addresses why people engage in creativity. This question can be answered at different levels. On the one hand, one can refer to what motivates creative people to do what they do. On the other hand, the question addresses a deeper level, that of how societies today are built and how they, in turn, construct the meaning and value of creativity. Nowadays, people consider creativity intrinsically valuable largely because of its direct and indirect economic benefits. However, creative expression also has a role for health and well-being. Creativity also relates to meaning in life. The chapter then considers how creativity can be used for good or for evil.

scholarly journals Under Darwin’s Cosh? Neo-Aristotelian Thinking in Environmental Ethics

2005 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 22-23
Author(s):  
Michael Wheeler
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Moral Status ◽  
General Position ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right ◽  
Individual Human

As a first shot, one might say that environmental ethics is concerned distinctively with the moral relations that exist between, on the one hand, human beings and, on the other, the non-human natural environment. But this really is only a first shot. For example, one might be inclined to think that at least some components of the non-human natural environment (non-human animals, plants, species, forests, rivers, ecosystems, or whatever) have independent moral status, that is, are morally considerable in their own right, rather than being of moral interest only to the extent that they contribute to human well-being. If so, then one might be moved to claim that ethical matters involving the environment are best cashed out in terms of the dutes and responsibilities that human beings have to such components. If, however, one is inclined to deny independent moral status to the non-human natural environment or to any of its components, then one might be moved to claim that the ethical matters in question are exhaustively delineated by those moral relations existing between individual human beings, or between groups of human beings, in which the non-human natural environment figures. One key task for the environmental ethicist is to sort out which, if either, of these perspectives is the right one to adopt—as a general position or within particular contexts. I guess I don’t need to tell you that things get pretty complicated pretty quickly.

scholarly journals Health and Well-Being Consequences for Gender Violence Survivors from Isolating Gender Violence

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (16) ◽  
pp. 8626
Author(s):  
Adriana Aubert ◽  
Ramon Flecha
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Health Effects ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Health And Well Being

Recent scientific literature has published about the Isolating Gender Violence (IGV), the violence exerted by harassers against those who support their victims. IGV provokes suffering to advocates with health and well-being consequences that have been analyzed by more recent research; but IGV provokes also suffering on the victims of gender violence when they see the suffering of those who have supported them and also for their isolation. Thus, the aim of the present study is to explore the health and well-being consequences of IGV on gender violence survivors. The methodology includes three narratives of gender violence survivors whose advocates supporting them were victimized by IGV. The results show, on the one hand, an increase of the health and well-being effects of gender violence already analyzed by scientific literature; on the other hand, new health and well-being effects appear. All survivors interviewed say that, besides those new consequences for their health, the support of those advocates has decreased the global health effects of the total gender violence they suffered.

androgyny

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luc Brisson
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Identity ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Object Choice ◽  
The One ◽  
Sexual Object

In the modern use, “bisexuality” refers to sexual object choice, whereas “androgyny” refers to sexual identity. In ancient Greece and Rome, however, these terms sometimes refer to human beings born with characteristics of both sexes, and more frequently to an adult male who plays the role of a woman, or to a woman who has the appearance of a man, both physically and morally. In mythology, having both sexes simultaneously or successively characterises, on the one hand, the first human beings, animals, or even plants from which arose male and female, and on the other, mediators between human beings and gods, the living and the dead, men and women, past and future, and human generations. Thus androgyny and bisexuality were used as a tools to cope with one’s biological, social, and even fictitious environment.

The varieties of ethical experience

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-190
Author(s):  
Peter J. Rosan
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ethical Life ◽  
Precise Form ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One ◽  
Ways Of Being

This article offers original phenomenological descriptions of empathy, sympathy, and compassion. These descriptions are based on empirical research, and they sample the variety of ways the subject may respond to the suffering of another person. The structure of these different, but similar ways of being are then taken up as clues hinting at a sensibility bearing on the formation of an ethical life. This sensibility is essentially twofold in character. On the one hand, a pairing of the perceived similarities between subject and other opens the subject to a resonance with the humanity of the other. On the other hand, the other’s expressive life awakens the subject’s interest in wanting to know the meaning of these expressions for the other or calls forth a caring regard for the well-being of the other. The ways of being represented by empathy, sympathy, and compassion may be viewed as different ways of organizing or rendering a precise form to the constitutive strands of the aforementioned sensibility. The relevant literature in phenomenology and ethics is commented on as it informs the discussion, but is kept to a minimum.

Intensieve Geneeskunde ‐ therapeutisch beleid of therapeutische hardnekkigheid?

2009 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-142
Author(s):  
Karin Janssen van Doorn
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Life Expectancy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The One

These days people, both men and women, are growing older. Due to a wide variety of factors, such as medical cure, care and comfort life expectancy has risen. As a consequence, human beings are intent upon ameliorating the quality of their life. That is why they turn to the medical agencies. To the rising expectations physicians, nurses, etc. respond in two ways. On the one hand they develop therapeutic policies carefully and on the other they limit obstinate therapies, while promoting a smooth professional equilibrium, particularly in the field of intensive care. However, first of all they should deal with their patients as a goal and not as a means.

scholarly journals Science and Self: Aging as Woven

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 671-671
Author(s):  
Helen Kivnick
Keyword(s):  
Psychosocial Development ◽  
External Validity ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Knowing That ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One

Abstract Gerontology is a field both scientific and practice-based. Aging, the subject of this field, is an experience in which all human beings participate. But scientific pillars of objectivity, quantifiability, control, and external validity have long mitigated against gerontological scholars effectively moving back and forth between professional scholarship and practice, on the one hand, and personal experience, on the other. Qualitative research approaches, informed by the humanities and arts, utilize alternative ways of knowing that, when added to positivistic science, enable us to construct a body of gerontological knowledge that is robust and useful, and that also incorporates wisdom. Aging, wisdom, and integrality—these all matter. Although often mischaracterized, Erikson’s theory of healthy psychosocial development throughout the life-cycle (Erikson, Erikson, & Kivnick, 1986) weaves these constructs together in ways that can meaningfully inform professional and personal experiences of gerontology. This presentation illustrates one aging gerontologist’s engagement with such weaving.

scholarly journals IMAGE OF V. PETROV-DOMONTOVYCH IN MEMOIRS AND CORRESPONDENCE OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES-EMIGRANTS

2021 ◽  
pp. 45-54
Author(s):  
Nadiia Koloshuk
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Special Services ◽  
Reader Reception ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Post War ◽  
The One ◽  
Artistic Image ◽  
The Disappeared

Actuality. The modern study of literature now does not give the answer for a question, if it is possible to create a character of a man from the life by facilities of nonfiction narration, however, it is convincing and full-blooded in the reader’s perception as an artistic image. Stating the Subject of the Study: forming of character-image of writer V. Petrov-Domontovych in the circle of the Ukrainian emigrants of the post-war wave due to their remembrances, letters, and essays. Research methodology: through the comparative hermeneutic interpretation of texts, and also later fiction texts that formed the character-image of V. Petrov. Stating the Aim of the Study. Other mechanisms of reader reception work in nonfiction genres, then in fiction, id est it becomes possible another result – the character of real V. Petrov. Results of the Study and originality. The image of Victor Petrov, formed in the memory of representatives of Ukrainian literary emigration and recorded in their memoirs and correspondence, is no less ambivalent, than images of characters in the fictional works of Victor Domontovych. Expatriate contemporaries saw their colleague differently and remembered in different situations, however, it is significant that people, in many respects disagree with moral assessments, hostile to others (as Ihor Kachurovsky, who always biased towards Yuri Sherekh-Shevelov and even repeated stereotyped allegations against him after his death) they were largely controversial in the estimation of V. Petrov. On the one hand, V. Domontovych deserved respect as a talented prose writer; on the other hand, V. Petrov was a mystery as a person. His collaboration with the Soviet special services did not cause unequivocal condemnation, since the circumstances of his "disappearance" from Munich in 1949 remained unclear. Most of those people who spoke about this event immediately after it was treated to the disappeared man with compassion because they suspected the "human beings"-brothers (Yuriy Lavrinenko) from the Soviet side. Image of V. Petrov mostly appears "split", as well as images of characters in the novels of V. Domontovich. The practical significance. In non-fictional texts, the researcher can trace the path of the formation of the image and stereotype, returning and approaching the prototype.

scholarly journals Linguagem, individuação e performatividade em Paolo Virno | Language, individuation and performativity in Paolo Virno

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonora Corsini
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Immaterial Labor ◽  
Embodied Language ◽  
As Species ◽  
Biological Capacity ◽  
Language And Politics ◽  
Linguistic Dimension ◽  
The One

Resumo O artigo busca articular as teorizações de Paolo Virno sobre a linguagem enquanto capacidade, potencialidade “natural” da espécie, e a dimensão linguística do trabalho no regime do trabalho imaterial. Assim como Negri, Lazzarato, Gorz e outros autores que podemos situar no terreno teórico e filosófico do trabalho imaterial, Virno propõe um novo tipo de trabalho na contemporaneidade, um trabalho que é, cada vez mais, biopolítico; podemos verificar, entretanto, uma bifurcação entre os postulados de Negri e Virno, em que Negri critica o discurso naturalista das capacidades e prefere adotar uma ontologia da produção mantendo como centrais as categorias do trabalho vivo, sujeito/classe da produção – a multidão – e o antagonismo. Por sua vez, a tese defendida por Virno da linguagem encarnada, a tomada da palavra que se faz carne, vista por ele como faculdade biológica, capacidade linguística que distingue os seres humanos enquanto espécie, não prescinde da dimensão política e histórica. Trata-se, com efeito, de uma faculdade que é imanente à própria vida e está permanentemente se recriando, se constituindo. Além disto, para Virno linguagem e política estão sempre juntas, são inseparáveis: o ser da linguagem é sempre ser político.Palavras-chave linguagem; virtuosismo; dimensão linguística do trabalho Abstract This paper aims at articulating Paolo Virno’s theorization about language as capacity, a natural potentiality of the species, and the linguistic dimension of labor under the regime of the immaterial. Like Negri, Lazzarato, Gorz and other authors who could be placed in the theoretical and philosophical field of Immaterial Labor, Virno postulates a new kind of labor, which is above all biopolitical; we can identify, however, a bifurcation between Negri’s and Virno’s theories; while Negri, on the one hand, criticizes the naturalistic discourse of capacities and prefers to adopt an ontology of production instead, keeping at its core the categories of living labor, subject/class of production – the multitude – and antagonism, on the other hand, the hypothesis sustained by Virno of the embodied language, the becoming flesh of language, seen as a biological capacity which distinguishes human beings as species, does not eliminate the political and historical dimensions of language. Indeed, it is a faculty immanent to life, which is constantly recreating and constituting itself. In addition, according to Virno, language and politics cannot be separated: the being of language is always a political being.Keywords language; virtuosity; labor’s linguistic dimension  

scholarly journals Under Darwin's Cosh? Neo-Aristotelian Thinking in Environmental Ethics

2005 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 259-289
Author(s):  
Michael Wheeler
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Moral Status ◽  
General Position ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right ◽  
Individual Human

As a first shot, one might say that environmental ethics is concerned distinctively with the moral relations that exist between, on the one hand, human beings and, on the other, the non-human natural environment. But this really is only a first shot. For example, one might be inclined to think that at least some components of the non-human natural environment (non-human animals, plants, species, forests, rivers, ecosystems, or whatever) have independent moral status, that is, are morally considerable in their own right, rather than being of moral interest only to the extent that they contribute to human well-being. If so, then one might be moved to claim that ethical matters involving the environment are best cashed out in terms of the dutes and responsibilities that human beings have to such components. If, however, one is inclined to deny independent moral status to the non-human natural environment or to any of its components, then one might be moved to claim that the ethical matters in question are exhaustively delineated by those moral relations existing between individual human beings, or between groups of human beings, in which the non-human natural environment figures. One key task for the environmental ethicist is to sort out which, if either, of these perspectives is the right one to adopt—as a general position or within particular contexts. I guess I don't need to tell you that things get pretty complicated pretty quickly.

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