scholarly journals Kandinsky-Clérambault syndrome: Narration and psychosis

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petar Dimkov
Keyword(s):  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Objective Reality ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Cultural Belonging

Interpretation by means of retelling a story is an ordinary event in human life. However, under abnormal circumstances, e. g. delusions of the narrator, this process is altered and even distorted to various degrees in both qualitative and quantitative aspects. In such cases, the assumption of misrepresentation of the actual story emerges as most striking as it is in contradiction with the objective reality. In the current paper, I will focus on the discourse features in the narratives of patients with the Kandinsky-Clérambault syndrome since it provides some of the best cases that serve to support the main focus of my search, i.e. establishing to what degree we can believe the subjective interpretative narratives of mentally ill patients. This perspective, on its own, has given rise to some doubts in psychiatry as objective science. Our hypothesis is that there are clear-cut features of delusion, which can be outlined by linguistic analysis irrespective of the cultural belonging of the patient and described following the method of the omnipotence of language as a tool of semiotics. For our purpose, additional aspects of the problem will be developed in detail, such as the semantic levels in narration in general and outlined concepts of schizophrenia and delusion transparent in discourse carried out in any language.

scholarly journals Exploring International and Inter-Sector Differences of Social Enterprises in the UK and India

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 5870
Author(s):  
Philipp Kruse
Keyword(s):  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Social Enterprise ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Shape Features ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Uk

Social Entrepreneurship (SE) describes a new entrepreneurial form combining the generation of financial and social value. In recent years, research interest in SE increased in various disciplines with a particular focus on the characteristics of social enterprises. Whereas a clear-cut definition of SE is yet to be found, there is evidence that culture and economy affect and shape features of SE activity. In addition, sector-dependent differences are supposed. Building on Institutional Theory and employing a mixed qualitative and quantitative approach, this study sheds light on the existence of international and inter-sector differences by examining 161 UK and Indian social enterprises. A content analysis and analyses of variance were employed and yielded similarities as well as several significant differences on an international and inter-sector level, e.g., regarding innovativeness and the generation of revenue. The current study contributes to a more nuanced picture of the SE landscape by comparing social enterprise characteristics in a developed and a developing country on the one hand and different sectors on the other hand. Furthermore, I highlight the benefits of jointly applying qualitative and quantitative methodologies. Future research should pay more attention to the innate heterogeneity among social enterprises and further consolidate and extend these findings.

scholarly journals The Persuasive Power of Religious Metaphor in Selected Qur’anic and Biblical Verses

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (135) ◽  
pp. 11-32
Author(s):  
Hayder Sadeq Naser ◽  
Ali Badeen Mohammed
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Religious Texts ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Persuasive Power ◽  
Living Dead ◽  
Symbolic Meanings ◽  
Intensive Investigation ◽  
Metaphorical Analysis

The issue of identifying metaphors is not clear-cut in most religious texts (Charteris-Black, 2005). For metaphors that are dealt with by religious texts such as human life as a journey or as a game, a prayer as a flowing river, the living martyrs (the living dead), a taste of death, the journey of the dead and “die, yet shall he live” are mostly spiritual matters for which academic appraisal is essential (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980; Gibbs, 2008). That is, the quality of the explanations that are presented by such metaphors need an intensive investigation, because these are the key function of metaphor in religious texts. Moreover, metaphors in sacred texts may be misjudged due to: the absence of the image in the target language and the different symbolic meanings of metaphor in the source text. Therefore, we aim to tackle such a problem via analysing the different forms and functions of metaphors in selected Qur’anic and Biblical verses. To operate such metaphorical analysis, a two-dimensional model is adapted from two different discourse analysts: aI-Sakaaki (2000) and Lakoff & Johnson (1980). The study reveals how the persuasive power of metaphor in the Qur’anic and Biblical verses related are regulated around the diversity of ontological, structural and orientational forms, and how every correlation between two domains of metaphors can shape its functions.

scholarly journals Review of Safety Requirements Regarding Trading and Storing of Pyrotechnical Articles in Poland

2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 76-90
Author(s):  
Marzena Półka ◽  
Dorota Bielesza ◽  
Anna Szajewska
Keyword(s):  
Blast Wave ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Explosive Load ◽  
Safety Requirements ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Dangerous Goods ◽  
Class 1 ◽  
And Storage ◽  
Storage Facilities

Aim: The objective of the paper was to identify and analyse relevant requirements regarding the safety of storage and usage of pyrotechnic materials, intended for civil use. The review was based on binding applicable Polish and European legal acts. The results of the review pointed to the ambiguity of the provisions regulating the issues of safe usage and storage of pyrotechnical materials. Introduction: Some pyrotechnic articles, when triggered by a proper impulse, can lead to a violent reaction resulting in the release of a large amount of heat, and the creation of a blast wave. The effects of this reaction have a destructive impact on buildings situated nearby and pose a hazard to human life. Use and storage of pyrotechnic articles against the set rules is associated with the risk of fire or explosion, therefore a number of requirements have been introduced in this area. Methodology: In Poland there are many legal acts applicable to explosives. One of the most important one is the Act of 21 June 2002 on explosives designated for civil use, which presents pyrotechnic materials with respect to the safety of their usage and storage. Several key requirements have also been specified in agreements ratified in Poland and in other international acts, such as for example: the European Agreement concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road(ADR), and the Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council 2013/29/EU of 12 June 2013 on the harmonisation of laws of the Member States relating to the making available on the market of pyrotechnic articles. Results: It was established that there is a need of adopting a legal solution for storing pyrotechnical products for temporary sales in containers located near commercial facilities (and serving as back-up facilities). Although the regulations are not clear-cut, such a solution is used in practice, thus it would be advisable to determine by means of legal acts whether it is permissible and what requirements should be fulfilled, for example by a container, in which pyrotechnic articles are temporarily stored. Conclusions: The specification presented in the article allows to see the need to minimize the hazards associated with the marketing of pyrotechnical materials and justifies the necessity of adopting a particularly diligent classification and use of nomenclature for these products. In case of storing pyrotechnical materials, it is erroneous to adopt the determination of class “G” for two variable of net mass values of the explosive (when determining safe distances for explosive storage facilities, including among others class 1, sub-classes 1.3, 1.4). The same applies to the hexogen equivalent of an explosive load (when determining safe distances for explosive storage facilities including class 1, sub-classes 1.1, 1.5 and 4.1). Such provisions are misleading and may cause erroneous interpretations of regulations.

The Adversary System in Civil Commitment of the Mentally Ill: Does it Exist, and Does it Work?

1981 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 403-421 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert D. Miller ◽  
Paul B. Fiddleman
Keyword(s):  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Civil Commitment ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Adversarial System ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Adversary System ◽  
Effective Representation

Legal activists have argued for adversary counsel to represent patients in civil commitment hearings, and many courts and legislatures have responded by requiring effective representation for patients. The authors argue that a truly adversarial system requires full-time attorneys representing both sides (commitment and release) with clear-cut roles for each attorney, and that such systems are generally not in use at this time.

Communication in the Network Information Society: New Realities

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 8-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Рябова ◽  
M. Ryabova
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Semantic Network ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Modern Trend ◽  
Objective Reality ◽  
Network Information ◽  
Network Culture ◽  
New Type ◽  
Dual Character ◽  
The Individual

The problem of the new ontology of the communication in the information society is actualized. Communicational discourse of the modern reality got the semantic network character that penetrates all human life spheres and gives some program to the human activity. The formation of the phenomenon of realities’ communication (virtual and objective) is educed. The new type reality forms some new type of thinking namely network thinking. Network culture by no means replace culture of objective reality but only doubles it, completes, gives the person new liberty. Dual character of communication enlarges peculiarity that appears together with the legitimization of the interest to the individual. This circumstance points out that dialectical idea of the synergies between opposites doesn’t disappear from the today generalizing thought but it has been reconstructing according to new conditions. The main modern trend is striving for individual prominence, to be spotted, to confirm one’s identity. The conclusion is made about the necessity to develop modern methodology of communication reality’s research, because it is impossible to comprehend new reality using traditional methods.

scholarly journals BIOETIKOS METODOLOGINIO PAGRINDO PAIEŠKA (II): VIENAPRINCIPINĖ PRIEIGA

Problemos ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 81 ◽  
pp. 58-66
Author(s):  
Aistė Bartkienė
Keyword(s):  
Medical Ethics ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Human Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Traditional Values ◽  
Main Principle ◽  
Small Children ◽  
Methodological Basis ◽  
Respect For Autonomy ◽  
Traditional Notion

Antrajame svarstomos temos straipsnyje (pirmasis – Bartkienė 2011) analizuojami bioetinių prieštarų sprendimo būdai, pateikti P. Singerio ir T. Engelhardto teorijose. Abu teoretikai naudoja vienaprincipinę prieigą, laikydamiesi nuostatos, kad užtenka vieno esminio principo nustatant normatyvines bioetikosgaires. P. Singeris, plėtodamas utilitarinę poziciją, kvestionuoja tradicinę asmens sampratą. T. Engelhardtas, pabrėždamas pagarbos autonomijai principą, pasiūlo deontologinę bioetikos versiją. Viena vertus, nagrinėjami autoriai formuluoja aiškias normatyvines gaires, reikalingas sprendžiant bioetinesprieštaras. Kita vertus, jų pateikti siūlymai vertintini ypač atsargiai, nes pabrėžiant asmens sampratos reikšmę atmetamos tradicinės medicinos etikos vertybės – geradarybė ir pagarba žmogaus gyvybei. Straipsnyje teigiama, kad aptariamos teorijos, marginalizuodamos labiausiai pažeidžiamas socialinesgrupes, tokias kaip protiškai neįgalūs asmenys ir maži vaikai, atveria kelią dehumanizuotai ir komercializuotai medicinai.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: bioetika, autonomija, geradarybė, žala, teisingumas.A Search for Methodological Basis in Bioethics (II): Monoprinciple ApproachAistė Bartkienė SummaryThe second paper in the series (see Bartkienė 2011) is designated to disclose the ways of solving the bioethical problems proposed by P. Singer and T. Engelhardt. Both thinkers use one principle approach maintaining that a single main principle is sufficient for acquiring basic normative guides in bioethics. Singer develops a utilitarian position and is questioning traditional notion of a person. Engelhardt is emphasizes the principle of respect for autonomy and proposes deontological conception of bioethics. On one hand, these theories offer clear normative guidance for resolving bioethical controversies in the sphere of medicine. On the other hand, these proposals should be evaluated very carefully because by stressing the significanceof the notion of a person both theories reject traditional values of medical ethics, such as beneficence and respect for human life. Marginalizing the mostvulnerable groups of society, such as mentally ill and small children, they open the path for dehumanized and commercialized medicine.Key words: bioethics, autonomy, justice, utilitarianism.  

scholarly journals On temporal and spatialconceptualization in typologically distant languages

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (23) ◽  
pp. 217-223
Author(s):  
Olena Taukchi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Single Model ◽  
Objective Reality ◽  
Objective World ◽  
Linguistic Data ◽  
Spatial Metaphors ◽  
Time Arrow ◽  
The World ◽  
Individual Consciousness

The article «On Temporaland Spatial Conceptualization in Typologically Distant Languages» continues the series on working by Olena Taukchi. It explores the process of the world conceptualization and internal reflective experience in English, Ukrainian and Russian; analyzes the dependence of conceptualization on various factors: society`s ethno-consciousness, culture and subculture, as well as individual consciousness. Time is a phenomenon that is directly related to people, seemingly understandable, but in fact, controversial and difficult to explicate. Can you describe time? And if so, what does it look like interms of modern linguistics? Our vision of time implies a perspective that cannot be set in objectivity. For example, if time goes horizontally or vertically; if the time arrow directed forward or backward, right or left, up or down; if time is going past us, or are we moving through it? We do not associate those aspects with our knowledge of the objective world, but, be that as it may, we learn about it through language, most of tenth rough spatial metaphors. Observations of this kind enable us to say that linguistic data can be used as a key to understanding and interpreting any culturally significant aspects of objective reality. From our perspective, it is linguistic analysis of lexical units denoting time that appropriately complements the over all picture of research. In the minds of people speaking various languages, time has a single model and is described in the same terms.

scholarly journals The language of science and religion: An approach to understand the encounter between science and religion according to Ian G. Barbour

HUMANIKA ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-68
Author(s):  
Vita Fitria ◽  
Haekal Adha Al Giffari
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Function ◽  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Belief System ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
Religion And Science ◽  
Language Of Science ◽  
Library Research

The advancement of science is considered a reflection of age’s development. At the same time, religion is placed as a relatively fixed essence. Their encounter creates undeniable continuous tensions. The problem generally lies in the question of how to apprehend unchanged issues within a dynamic context. This paper analyzed the encounter of science and religion with an observation of their language from the perspective of Ian G. Barbour. The library research method used in this paper to delve more in-depth the works of literature related to the topic discussed. Barbour responded with an argument that it is incorrect to keep polarization to choose between science and religion. The belief system of religion offers a broader frame of meaning in life. In comparison, science reveals a no more expansive range of human experience nor articulation of the possibility to transform human life as witnessed by religion. In observing their language as a tool for communication in religion and science, looking at their principles of verification and linguistic analysis, the contrast and comparison of their cognitive and non-cognitive function are emerged, including the evaluations and its limitations. Barbour states that basically, science and religion share synergic similarities. The dialogue to do to compare them is by sharing their similarities in method and concept prediction. One of those is by comparing their method, which shows their similarities and diversities. Science and religion share similar characteristics, namely coherence, comprehension and usefulness, and their methodology.Perkembangan sains bisa dianggap sebagai refleksi dari perkembangan zaman. Sementara Agama, ditempatkan sebagai essensi yang relatif tidak berubah. Pertemuan antara keduanya memungkinkan terjadinya ketegangan dengan perubahan yang terus menerus. Secara umum, persoalannya adalah bagaimana memahami hal-hal yang tak berubah itu dalam konteks yang selalu berubah. Ian Barbour menanggapi hal ini dengan argumen bahwa keliru melanggengkan dilema tentang keharusan memilih antara sains dan agama. Pertentangan yang terjadi di dunia Barat sejak abad lalu sesungguhnya disebabkan oleh paradigma yang keliru dalam memaknai hakikat sains dan agama. Kepercayaan agama menawarkan kerangka makna yang lebih luas dalam kehidupan. Sedangkan sains tidak dapat mengungkap rentang yang luas dari pengalaman manusia atau mengartikulasikan kemungkinan-kemungkinan bagi tranformasi hidup manusia sebagaimana yang dipersaksikan oleh agama. Barbour mengatakan  bahwa pada dasarnya antara sains dan agama terdapat kesamaan yang bisa disinergikan. Dialog yang dilakukan dalam membandingkan sains dan agama adalah menekankan kemiripan dalam prediksi metode dan konsep. Salah satu bentuk dialognya adalah dengan membandingkan metode sains dan agama yang dapat menunjukkan kesamaan dan perbedaan. Antara sains dan agama memiliki kesejajaran karakteristik yaitu koherensi, kekomprehensifan dan kemanfaatan. Begitu juga kesejajaran metodologis.

scholarly journals “The Meaning of Life” during a Transition from Modernity to Transhumanism and Posthumanity

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sirkku K. Hellsten
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Technological Evolution ◽  
Historical Experience ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Universe

The articles argues that due to the rapid development of new technology the boundaries of life and death, as well as the different phases of our physical, social and spiritual life are getting less clear-cut and evident than they have been before in the Western, traditionally dualistic cultural and historical experience. Thus, at the moment we are in a transitional stage in our understanding of “human life” is gaining new dimensions in form of “post-humanism” and “trans-humanism”. The current neo-holistic view of the universe and the human place in it requires us to consider the “existential risks” and seriously ponder the effects of the technological evolution to our social, cultural, ethical and metaphysical frameworks and normative principles.

scholarly journals Designing the reference architecture of human ecology on the basis of the methodology of the function oriented modelling

2021 ◽  
Vol 101 ◽  
pp. 02016
Author(s):  
Svetlana Mukhametdinova ◽  
Evgenia Tyumentseva ◽  
Oleg Patlasov ◽  
Oleg Luchko
Keyword(s):  
Human Ecology ◽  
Human Life ◽  
External Environment ◽  
Reference Architecture ◽  
Dynamic Nature ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Integrated Research ◽  
The Impact

The dynamic nature of changes in the conditions of existence and functioning of modern communities requires comprehensive and integrated research in order to develop a reference architecture of human ecology, as a system of scientifically substantiated criteria for a qualitative and quantitative assessment of the impact of the external environment on various aspects of human life and the formation of a balanced strategy for managing social development. The paper presents one of the approaches to the design of the reference architecture of human ecology based on the methodology of the function oriented modelling and provides examples of models developed in accordance with the IDEF0 notation. The study identified the main stages in the design of the reference architecture of human ecology from collecting information to developing software that makes it possible to automate the processing of input information characterizing various factors affecting the quality of life of the population to developing the architecture of human ecology in a particular region or city and comparing it with the reference one.

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