scholarly journals 1/f-fluctuations : Relating the human-being to the universe

1994 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 620-632
Author(s):  
Haruo SAJI
Keyword(s):  
Human Being ◽  
The Universe

scholarly journals REKONTRUKSI ECORELIGIUS ORANG MELAYU Solusi Penyelamatan Lingkungan

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Husni Thamrin, M.Si
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Deep Ecology ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Human Being ◽  
The People ◽  
Traditional Societies ◽  
The Times ◽  
The Universe

Anthropocentric paradigm has distanced humans from nature, as well as causing the humans themselves become exploitative in attitude and do not really care about the nature. In relation, ecological crisis also can be seen as caused by mechanistic-reductionistic-dualistic of Cartesian science. The perspective of anthropocentric is corrected by biocentrism and ecocentrism ethics, particularly Deep Ecology, to re-look at the nature as an ethical community. The concept of ecoculture is already practiced from the beginning by indigenous or traditional societies in elsewhere. The perspective of the human being as an integral part of the nature, and  the behaviour of full of resposibility, full of respect and care about the sustainability of all life in the universe have become perspectives and behaviours of various traditional people. The majority of local wisdom in the maintenance of the environment is still surviving in the midst of shifting currents waves by a pressure of anthropocentric perspective. There is also in a crisis because a pressure of the  influences of a modernization. While others, drifting and eroding in the modernization and the anthropocentric perspective.In that context, ecoculture, particularly Deep Ecology, support for leaving the anthropocentric perspective, and when a holistic life perspective asks for leaving the anthropocentric perspective, the humans are invited to go back to thelocal wisdom, the old wisdom of the indigenous people. in other words, environmental ethics is to urge and invite the people to go back to the ethics of the indigenous people that are still relevant with the times. The essence of this perspective is back to the nature, back to his true identity as an ecological human in the ecoreligion  perspective.

scholarly journals Verbal realism in a magic world: Carlos Santiago Nino vs. Jorge Luis Borges

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-99
Author(s):  
Katya Kozicki ◽  
Luis Gustavo Cardoso
Keyword(s):  
Jorge Luis Borges ◽  
Common Belief ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
The Common ◽  
Power Of Words ◽  
The Universe

This paper is an investigation of the reference made by Carlos Santiago Nino about Jorge Luis Borges, in the fifth chapter of his “Introduction to Legal Analysis”, in which he introduces the concept of verbal realism. The production by Borges mentioned by Nino is the poem “The Golem”, which tells the story of rabbi Judah Loew, who attempted to create another human being in his rituals. Thus, this study develops new considerations on the power of words to evoke things, and the common belief that words intrinsically relate to what they represent. In order to do that, the first objective of analysis is the immediate reference of Borges, the dialogue “Cratylus”, by Plato, together with other references, such as Goethe’s Faust, which has a similar narrative to the analyzed poem. The question raised is whether verbal realism offers definitions to constitute the universe built up by Borges. Hence, this article concludes that words, in normative contexts, are useful for summoning certain phenomena towards the events, and that verbal realism, then, has a dimension that Carlos Santiago Nino did not explore.

Ibn Bajja, Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn as-Say’igh (d. 1138)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shams C. Inati
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Universe

Ibn Bajja’s philosophy may be summed up in two words; al-ittisal (conjunction) and al-tawahhud (solitude). Conjunction is union with the divine realm, a union that reveals the eternal and innermost aspects of the universe. Through this union or knowledge, one is completed as a human being, and in this completion the ultimate human end, happiness, is achieved. Solitude, on the other hand, is separation from a society that is lacking in knowledge. Once united with the eternal aspects of the universe, one must isolate oneself from those who are not in the same state, who may therefore distract one from the supernatural realm through their ignorance and corruption.

Descartes’ Daydream and the Mind-Body Problem

1998 ◽  
pp. 100-105
Author(s):  
Peter Schuller
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Body Problem ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Physical Processes ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Levels Of Reality ◽  
Human Thinking ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Universe

After exhorting us to wake up from our ‘daydreaming’ and revolutionize our modality of thought to that of conceptualization, Descartes seems to forget about this crucial matter of a discontinuous leap. So, too, it seems has the profession generally and this has infected philosophical research and teaching. It is urged here that discontinuous processes are crucial in the universe, in human life, in human thinking. Such ontological events cannot be handled by dualism, materialism or postmodernism. Concentration on such discontinuous processes is urged, an alternative is briefly indicated, and a criterion for ordering levels of human levels of reality is offered. It follows in the line of Cantor and Marx. It is suggested that a human being is a transfinite entity and that such an entity has many levels of being, among which are cognitive processes, imaginative processes and physical processes. A person is ‘not other than’ these without being ‘nothing but’ any of these.

Whitehead's Theory of Human Agency

Dialogue ◽  
1964 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 424-441
Author(s):  
Douglas Browning
Keyword(s):  
Microscopic Theory ◽  
Human Agency ◽  
The Self ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Macroscopic Theory ◽  
Actual Entity ◽  
Adequate Theory ◽  
The Universe

An adequate theory of the self must provide for the fact of human agency. I would like to show that (1) we can put together a theory of human agency from Whitehead's later writings, but that (2) this theory is not satisfactory. This discussion will be, first, expository and then critical of Whitehead's position. An elaboration of Whitehead's theory has two moments. For Whitehead, all factors of the universe are finally derivative from the ultimately actual things, which he calls actual entities. The fact of agency is no exception. The establishment of such agency is the job of what I shall call Whitehead's microscopic theory. We are interested here, however, in the human being as agent. A person, according to Whitehead, is not an actual entity, but a society of actual entities. Whitehead's theory of human agency may be called the macroscopic theory. After an examination of these theories, I shall conclude by briefly criticizing them in two ways. First, for Whitehead there are no acts but only processes. Second, an adequate theory requires a doctrine of the persistence of the agent which Whitehead is unable to provide.

Is Personal Dignity Possible Only If We Live in a Cosmos?

2018 ◽  
Vol 92 ◽  
pp. 223-240
Author(s):  
John G. Brungardt ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Dignity ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Human Person ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Catholic Theology ◽  
Personal Dignity ◽  
The Universe ◽  
The Catholic Church

The Catholic Church has increasingly invoked the principle of human dignity as a way to spread the message of the Gospel in the modern world. Catholic philosophers must therefore defend this principle in service to Catholic theology. One aspect of this defense is how the human person relates to the universe. Is human dignity of a piece with the material universe in which we find ourselves? Or is our dignity alien in kind to such a whole? Or does the truth lie somewhere in between? The metaphysics of creation properly locates the human being in the universe as a part, ordered to the universe’s common good of order and ultimately to God. Human dignity is possible only in a cosmos; that this is concordant with modern scientific cosmology is briefly defended in the conclusion.

The Emergence of Time: Kant, Bergson, and Modern Physics

KronoScope ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-111
Author(s):  
Christophe Bouton
Keyword(s):  
History Of Science ◽  
Big Bang ◽  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Modern Physics ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Big Bang ◽  
The Universe

Abstract This paper deals with the problem of the emergence of time in three different ways, at the intersection of the history of philosophy and the history of science: 1) the emergence of time with subjectivity examined on the basis of Kant’s idealism; 2) the emergence of time with life, considered in the light of the work of Bergson; 3) the emergence of time with the Universe, in relation to the notions of ‘The Big Bang’ and ‘The Planck Wall’. It concludes that the idea of the emergence of time is inconsistent in a diachronic sense, and problematic in a synchronic sense. One meaning could, however, be accorded to this notion: with life, a new relation to time has emerged and has attained one of its most developed forms with the human being.

scholarly journals Special Feature: The Space, the Universe and Human Being

2005 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 7-7
Author(s):  
Hiroshi Ezawa
Keyword(s):  
Human Being ◽  
The Universe

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.

scholarly journals Kritik Atas Modernitas Dalam Novel Bilangan Fu Karya Ayu Utami

ATAVISME ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Bramantio Bramantio
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Tzvetan Todorov ◽  
The Universe

Artikel ini bertujuan untuk mengungkap kritik atas modernitas dalam novel Bilangan Fu karya Ayu Utami. Dengan memanfaatkan naratologi Tzvetan Todorov, dapat dipahami aspek verbal Bilangan Fu, yaitu sudut pandang, pencerita, dan tuturannya. Berdasarkan penceritaannya, novel ini merupakan novel polifonik, karnivalistik, sekaligus metafiksi. Berdasarkan kontennya, novel ini menghadirkan sejumlah kritik atas modernitas, khususnya berkaitan dengan semangat modernitas yang cenderung melihat segala sesuatu secara monodimensional, hanya ada satu kebenaran, dan liyan diabaikan. Bilangan Fu merupakan novel yang merefleksikan zamannya. Novel ini berhasil menyegarkan cara pandang masyarakat Indonesia, atau setidaknya menghadirkan sesuatu untuk dipikirkan dan dipertimbangkan kembali, berkaitan dengan diri, lingkungan, dan semesta raya. Novel ini mengembalikan manusia ke hakikatnya, yaitu kemanusiaan. Abstract: This article aims to reveal criticism on modernity in Ayu Utami’s novel Bilangan Fu. Tzvetan Todorov’s theory of narrative provided a framework to understand the novel’s verbal aspects, which are point of view, narrator, dan its voice. Based on its narrative, this novel is polyphonic, carnivalistic, and metafictional. Based on its content, it presents criticism on modernity, particularly on spirit of modernity that tends to see everything in monodimensional; there is only one truth, and the other is ignored. Bilangan Fu is a novel that reflects its time. It successfully refreshes the perspective of Indonesian society, or at least brings something to think about, related to the self, environment, and the universe. In the end, it brings back human being to their core, their humanity. Key Words: novel; point of view; narrator; criticism; modernity

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