The Nature of Degrowth: Theorising the Core of Nature for the Degrowth Movement

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pasi Heikkurinen
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Culturally Sensitive ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Radical Reduction ◽  
Nature Experience ◽  
Matter Energy

This article investigates human–nature relations in the light of the recent call for degrowth, a radical reduction of matter–energy throughput in over-producing and over-consuming cultures. It outlines a culturally sensitive response to a (conceived) paradox where humans embedded in nature experience alienation and estrangement from it. The article finds that if nature has a core, then the experienced distance makes sense. To describe the core of nature, three temporal lenses are employed: the core of nature as ‘the past’, ‘the future’, and ‘the present’. It is proposed that while the degrowth movement should be inclusive of temporal perspectives, the lens of the present should be emphasised to balance out the prevailing romanticism and futurism in the theory and practice of degrowth.

Adaptations of Time Travel Narratives in Japanese Multimedia: Nurturing Eudaimonia across Time and Space

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 136-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sung-Ae Lee
Keyword(s):  
Travel Narratives ◽  
Time Travel ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
Life Styles ◽  
Concern For Others ◽  
The Future ◽  
Live Action

To displace a character in time is to depict a character who becomes acutely conscious of his or her status as other, as she or he strives to comprehend and interact with a culture whose mentality is both familiar and different in obvious and subtle ways. Two main types of time travel pose a philosophical distinction between visiting the past with knowledge of the future and trying to inhabit the future with past cultural knowledge, but in either case the unpredictable impact a time traveller may have on another society is always a prominent theme. At the core of Japanese time travel narratives is a contrast between self-interested and eudaimonic life styles as these are reflected by the time traveller's activities. Eudaimonia is a ‘flourishing life’, a life focused on what is valuable for human beings and the grounding of that value in altruistic concern for others. In a study of multimodal narratives belonging to two sets – adaptations of Tsutsui Yasutaka's young adult novella The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Yamazaki Mari's manga series Thermae Romae – this article examines how time travel narratives in anime and live action film affirm that eudaimonic living is always a core value to be nurtured.

Psycho-analysis, Human Nature and Human Conduct

1974 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 99-120
Author(s):  
Ian Gregory
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Human Behaviour ◽  
Analytic Theory ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Philosophical Debate ◽  
Complex Problems ◽  
Human Conduct ◽  
The Future

There is, I gloomily suspect, little which is significantly new that remain to be said about psycho-analysis by philosophers. The almost profligate theorising that goes on within the psycho-analytic journals will, no doubt, continue unabated. It simply strikes me as unlikely that such theorising will generate further issues of the kind that excite the philosophical mind. Though in making such an observation, I recognise that I lay claim upon the future in a manner that many might believe to be unwise. The place of psycho-analysis upon the intellectual map, the implications that psycho-analytic theory and practice have for the various kinds of judgements that we make about human behaviour, have been exhaustively discussed in recent times. Rather more specifically, whether psycho-analysis should be accorded the dignity of being labelled a ‘science’, what the significance is of psycho-analysis for those complex problems bounded by the notions of Reason, Freedom, Motivation, have occasioned much fruitful philosophical debate. It is not any wish of mine to add to the literature on these problems in the forlorn hope that even slightly different answers might be forthcoming.

States of reason and reasons of state

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 266-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rukmini Bhaya Nair
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Context Sensitivity ◽  
Thought Processes ◽  
Half Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Noam Chomsky ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
The Future ◽  
Past Half

Over the past half-century, Noam Chomsky has established a powerful intellectual presence in two apparently unrelated domains of discourse — the field of theoretical linguistics and the arena of anti-establishment politics. This paper examines Chomsky’s use of metaphor across these domains, arguing that in Chomsky’s work metaphor enables an undercover, perhaps even classically ‘anarchic’ dialogue between disciplines. Organizationally as well as psychologically, the two major inquiries into human nature undertaken by him are, the paper suggests, structured and unified in relation to each other via the seemingly innocuous agency of metaphor. The paper also traces Chomsky’s innovative production of metaphors to engage in dialogue with both the past and the future. To reconstruct Chomsky through his metaphors is to attempt to read him not as a doctrinaire Cartesian but as someone who has responded with extreme ‘context-sensitivity’ to changing circumstances in both his fields. Finally, the paper contends that a study of Chomsky’s metaphorical practice could, inter alia, offer unprecedented insights into the creative and essentially unified thought processes of a major 20th century thinker.

Protecting Humanity

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
MATTI HÄYRY
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Reproductive Technologies ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Future

In this article, I present what I believe to be the core of Jürgen Habermas’s views on the morality, ethics, and regulation of emerging genetic and reproductive technologies in his book The Future of Human Nature.

scholarly journals Probabilistic and dynamic colloid equations

2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 33-41
Author(s):  
Boris A. Markov ◽  
◽  
Yury I. Sukharev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Dipole Moments ◽  
Magnetic Moments ◽  
Charged Particles ◽  
Structural Data ◽  
Magic Numbers ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Partial Randomness ◽  
Small Clusters

We obtained two equations that characterize the structure of the colloid: the equation of the Schrodinger type that specifies the redistribution of heat and potential energy in the colloid and material equation – the diffusion equation with the operator of Liesegang associated directly with a substance that allows you to find the discontinuities of the structures caused by the vibrations of electrically charged particles. This procedure based on the assumption of the instability of the colloidal state, caused by the movement of charged particles. The reality is not collected in parts from the particles of matter in the course of evolution from the past to the future, and is all at once from the past to the future for a given pattern, that is, for specific PATTERNS, as defined by quantum theory. Without going deep into the theory of Kulakov, we will accept its fundamental provisions as a certain given. The forms of this structural data were obtained experimentally and mathematically confirmed. Let there be a certain angle of the skeleton, where due to the unevenness and partial randomness of the structure of the core grids forms "defects" – that is, electrical or magnetic moments of a particular order. Then small mobile clusters are attracted to it by electrostatic or electromagnetic forces, which are then adsorbed and somehow arranged on the "defects" in accordance with their dipole moments. This circumstance can be determined by "magic numbers", that is, as the number of clusters "stuck" to the defect of the core structure, with the formation of chemical bonds in the future. We can assume that the spanning structure of Coxeter can form small clusters form regular polyhedrons, and may occur or other structure having more complicated form.

scholarly journals View from the Past – the Way to the Future

Upravlenie ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-66
Author(s):  
Мельник ◽  
M. Melnik
Keyword(s):  
National Economy ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Scientific School ◽  
State University ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Way

This article describes the main developments and results of the emergence, formation and development of the scientific school of management theory. The article estimated place, role, contribution of the scientific school of State University of Management to the improvement and development of the theory and practice of management of the national economy of Russia.

The Problem of Time

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Callender
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Albert Einstein ◽  
Problem Of Time ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Core Features

In early childhood we come to model the world as having a special present that carves the world up into a past, present, and future. We regard the past as fixed and the future open, and we feel that this structure updates itself, or flows. The core features of this conception of time—manifest time—appear to be virtually universal, and they pervade our language, thought, and behavior. Yet manifest time seems to conflict with time as understood by physics. This conflict worried Albert Einstein, but the philosopher Rudolph Carnap pointed toward a way forward.

Lies, Sex, and Suicide: Teaching Fundamental Accounting Concepts with Sordid Tales from the Seamier Side of Accounting History

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Badua
Keyword(s):  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Accounting History ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Accounting Theory ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Over Time

The Academy of Accounting Historians has as its motto the Latin proverb praetera illuminet postera, the past illuminates the future. It is an apt motto in many ways. Certainly, many thoughtful accounting academics and professionals will consider how accounting theory and practice have evolved over time, and thereby gain a deeper insight into how both professional and scholarly endeavors should be conducted. But this AHJ Salmagundi article suggests another way by which the past can illuminate the future. Accounting history provides concrete examples of fundamental accounting concepts. And, because many of these examples are found in scandalous, shocking, and sordid events, the lessons could be more compellingly and vividly illustrated to the audience, by the operation of the rhetorical phenomena collectively known as the Aristotelean Triad.

The lingering core of legal scholarship

Legal Studies ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Bartie
Keyword(s):  
Past Century ◽  
Legal Scholarship ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Way

The purpose of this paper is to consider how leading scholars are interpreting the role and status of the core tenets of legal scholarship in England and Australia – the tenets that have provided an element of unity in legal scholarship over the past century or so. Instead of focusing on the way that scholarship has diversified and expanded, the paper considers whether elements of the prior orthodoxy have remained: do the tenets persist, what status are they afforded and what impact will their presence have on the future identity of the discipline and its conception of law? The paper captures insights into the way that scholars – as opposed to administrators or managers – are interpreting changes in the discipline. It is based on the premise that scholarly attitudes can shape the discipline and that therefore such attitudes are worthy of study.

The future of evolutionary economics: can we break out of the beachhead?

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 613-644 ◽  
Author(s):  
SIDNEY G. WINTER
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Economics ◽  
Primary Research ◽  
The Core ◽  
Scientific Revolutions ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Business Behavior ◽  
Evolutionary Role ◽  
Paradigm Conflict

AbstractThis essay contemplates the possible futures of evolutionary economics in terms of two contrasting images. In the first, the primary research emphasis of the future will continue to be on the topics that have interested evolutionary economists in the past, such as technological change, business behavior, and the role of institutions. Research contributions in these focal areas and in some related areas are briefly characterized. In the second image, there is a breakout from this ‘beachhead’ and a broader conflict with the reigning paradigm, neoclassical economics. Thomas Kuhn's theory of scientific revolutions provides a framework and stimulus for thinking about the latter case, and the 20th century paradigm conflict in physics provides a baseline for thinking about it. The core strengths of evolutionary economics in the paradigm conflict are noted, and the evolutionary role of intentionality is examined No definitive prediction about the future is offered.

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