scholarly journals Old Times' Sake as a Moral Category

Diametros ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Yotam Benziman

In this paper I discuss the notion of old times’ sake, one which is hardly discussed by moral philosophers, and claim that it serves as a moral reason for us to act on behalf of the people we used to cherish: former friends, colleagues, neighbors, or spouses. While our relationship with them has ended, the building-blocks of our identity will continue to bear their fingerprints, and they will ever be an important part of our biography. Acting for old times’ sake reflects both our caring about them, and our caring about our own past, biography, and accumulated identity. Why the relationship has ceased will of course affect our attitude towards them. Although old times’ sake might not always be a decisive factor, it still serves as a moral reason for action.

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Afrinald Rizhan

 Abstract The law is always identified with justice, because the law must reflect justice and at the same time maintain justice. Law as a moral category is similar to justice. The word "justice" is of course also used in the legal sense, in terms of compatibility with positive law, especially in conformity with the Act. The only thing that is always demanded by the community is justice, not the law. Because justice is an irrational ideal, and justice is not the goal of knowledge, so what is learned in science is law, even though justice itself is indispensable to human will and action. Justice is something that is difficult to reach. Seeing the number of elements that affect or the parties related to justice itself. Justice that tends to be relatively large influenced by political elements. Legal politics is a legal policy or legal (policy) line of law that will be enforced either by the creation of a new law or by the replacement of the old law, in order to achieve the objectives of the State. In other words Political law is a series of concepts and principles that outline and basic plan in the implementation of a job, leadership, and how to act in the field of law. The purpose of this study is to determine the comparison between the State of Democracy and Islamic State when viewed from Politics and Justice. Type of research conducted is normative legal research, namely research conducted on legal principles and legal synchronization level. The analysis conducted in this research is qualitative analysis by drawing deductive conclusions that is drawing conclusions from things that are general to things that are special. The result of this research is Democracy State and Islamic State both using politics. Because, in simple terms politics is a strategy, a technique of governing. Politics has also been used in Islam since the time of Prophet Muhammad SAW. He as a person who spread the religion of Islam and in the spread of religion is using the same strategy as with politics. Justice is a thing that has always been the basis of the ideals of each State, whatever form the State certainly has a vision and mission that did not escape the desire of achieving justice. So also with the State of Democracy and Islamic State. In addition to the equality of vision and mission of justice, another apparent equation concerns the thought of the political system of the relationship between the people and the rulers and the responsibilities of government. Keywords: state, politics, justice, democracy AbstrakHukum selalu diidentikkan dengan keadilan, karena hukum harus mencerminkan keadilan dan sekaligus dapat menjaga keadilan. Hukum sebagai kategori moral serupa dengan keadilan. Kata “keadilan” tentu saja juga digunakan dalam pengertian hukum, dari segi kecocokan dengan hukum positif, terutama kecocokan dengan Undang-Undang. Hanya saja yang selalu dituntut oleh masyarakat adalah keadilan, bukan hukum. Karena keadilan adalah suatu cita-cita yang irasional, dan keadilan bukan sasaran dari pengetahuan, maka yang dipelajari dalam suatu ilmu pengetahuan adalah hukum, meskipun keadilan itu sendiri sangat diperlukan bagi kemauan dan tindakan manusia. Keadilan adalah sesuatu hal yang sulit di gapai. Melihat banyaknya unsur-unsur yang mempengaruhi atau pihak-pihak yang terkait dengan keadilan itu sendiri. Keadilan yang cenderung bersifat relatif banyak di pengaruhi oleh unsur-unsur politik. Politik hukum adalah legal policy atau garis (kebijakan) resmi tentang hukum yang akan diberlakukan baik dengan pembuatan hukum baru maupun dengan penggantian hukum lama, dalam rangka mencapai tujuan Negara. Dengan kata lain Politik hukum adalah rangkaian konsep dan asas yang menjadi garis besar dan dasar rencana dalam pelaksanaan suatu pekerjaan, kepemimpinan, dan cara bertindak dalam bidang hukum. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui perbandingan antara Negara Demokrasi dan Negara Islam apabila di tinjau dari Politik dan Keadilan. Jenis Penelitian yang dilakukan adalah penelitian hukum normatif, yaitu penelitian yang dilakukan terhadap asas-asas hukum dan taraf sinkronisasi hukum. Analisis yang dilakukan dalam penelitian ini adalah analisis kualitatif dengan menarik kesimpulan secara deduktif yaitu menarik kesimpulan dari hal-hal yang bersifat umum kepada hal-hal yang bersifat khusus. Hasil yang didapat dari penelitian ini adalah Negara Demokrasi maupun Negara Islam sama-sama menggunakan politik. Karena, dalam permaknaan yang sederhana politik adalah strategi, teknik mengatur. Politik juga sudah digunakan dalam islam sejak zaman Nabi Muhammad SAW. Beliau selaku orang yang menyebarkan agama islam dan dalam penyebaran agama tersebut menggunakan strategi yang sama halnya dengan politik. Keadilan adalah suatu hal yang selalu menjadi dasar cita-cita setiap Negara, apapun bentuk Negara tersebut tentu mempunyai visi dan misi yang tak luput dari keinginan pencapaian keadilan. Begitu juga dengan Negara Demokrasi maupun Negara Islam. Selain persamaan terhadap visi dan misi keadilan tersebut, persamaan lain yang tampak adalah menyangkut pemikiran sistem politik tentang hubungan antara umat dan penguasa serta tanggung jawab pemerintahan. Kata Kunci: negara, politik, keadilan, demokrasi 


EMPIRISMA ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Limas Dodi

According to Abdulaziz Sachedina, the main argument of religious pluralism in the Qur’an based on the relationship between private belief (personal) and public projection of Islam in society. By regarding to private faith, the Qur’an being noninterventionist (for example, all forms of human authority should not be disturb the inner beliefs of individuals). While the public projection of faith, the Qur’an attitude based on the principle of coexistence. There is the willingness of the dominant race provide the freedom for people of other faiths with their own rules. Rules could shape how to run their affairs and to live side by side with the Muslims. Thus, based on the principle that the people of Indonesia are Muslim majority, it should be a mirror of a societie’s recognizion, respects and execution of religious pluralism. Abdul Aziz Sachedina called for Muslims to rediscover the moral concerns of public Islam in peace. The call for peace seemed to indicate that the existence of increasingly weakened in the religious sense of the Muslims and hence need to be reaffi rmed. Sachedina also like to emphasize that the position of peace in Islam is parallel with a variety of other doctrines, such as: prayer, fasting, pilgrimage and so on. Sachedina also tried to show the argument that the common view among religious groups is only one religion and traditions of other false and worthless. “Antipluralist” argument comes amid the reality of human religious differences. Keywords: Theology, Pluralism, Abdulaziz Sachedina


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rifa Nirmala ◽  
Hade Afriansyah

Thus can drawing conclusions about the relationship of the school with the community is essentially a very decisive tool in fostering and developing the personal growth of students in schools. If the relationship between the school and the community goes well, the sense of responsibility and participation of the community to advance the school will also be good and high. In order to create relationships and cooperation between schools and the community, the community needs to know and have a clear picture of the school they have obtained.The presence of schools is based on the good will of the country and the people who support it. Therefore people who work in schools inevitably have to work with the community. The community here can be in the form of parents of students, agencies, organizations, both public and private. One reason schools need help from the community where schools are because schools must be funded.


2010 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-73
Author(s):  
Helena Ruotsala

Nature and environment are important for the people earning their living from natural sources of livelihood. This article concentrates on the local perspective of the landscape in the Pallastunturi Fells, which are situated in Pallas-Ylläs National Park in Finnish Lapland. The Fells are both important pastures for reindeer and an old tourism area. The Pallastunturi Tourist Hotel is situated inside the national park because the hotel was built before the park was established 1938. Until the 1960s, the relationship between tourism and reindeer herding had been harmonious because the tourism activities did not disturb the reindeer herding, but offered instead ways to earn money by transporting the tourists from the main road to the hotel, which had been previously without any road connections. During recent years, tourism has been developed as the main source of livelihood in Lapland and huge investments have been made in several parts of Lapland. One example of this type of investment is the plan to replace the old Pallas Tourist hotel, which was built in 1948, with a newer and bigger one. It means that the state will allow a private enterprise to build more infrastructures for tourism inside a national park where nature should be protected and this has sparked a heated debate. Those who oppose the project criticise this proposal as the amendment of a law designed to promote the economic interests of one private tourism enterprise. The project's supporters claim that the needs of the tourism industry and nature protection can both be promoted and that it is important to develop a tourist centre which is already situated within the national park. This article is an attempt to try to shed light on why the local people are so loudly resisting the plans by a private tourism enterprise to touch the national park. It is based on my fieldwork among reindeer herding families in the area.


2006 ◽  
Vol 157 (9) ◽  
pp. 408-412
Author(s):  
Jörg Spinatsch

This study is an attempt to unravel the complexity of preindustrial illicit forest abuse. By means of a survey on forest crime, together with associated existing fields of conflict,the importance of the forest for the people of the time, with particular emphasis on the illicit aspect, are illustrated. As an example, we have looked at the relationship between the forest wardens and forest offenders in Chur between 1750 and 1840. The focus of the analysis is on the ambivalence of this relationship, conditioned as it is by both conflictual and cohesive elements. Exerts taken from court records of the time illustrate the proximity of disagreements and collaboration.


Author(s):  
Remus Runcan ◽  
Patricia Luciana Runcan ◽  
Cosmin Goian ◽  
Bogdan Nadolu ◽  
Mihaela Gavrilă Ardelean

This study provides the synonyms for the terms deliberate self-harm and self-destructive behaviour, together with a psychological portrait of self-harming adolescents, the consequence of self-harm, the purpose of self-harm, and the forms of self-harm. It also presents the results of a survey regarding the prevalence of people with non-suicidal self-harming behaviour, the gender of people with non-suicidal self-harming behaviour, the age of the first non-suicidal self-harming behaviour in these people, the frequency of non-suicidal self-harming behaviour in these people, the association of the non-suicidal self-harming behaviour with substance misuse in these people, the relationships of the people with non-suicidal self-harming behaviour with their fathers, mothers, and siblings, the relationships of the people with non-suicidal self-harming behaviour with their friends, the possible causes of self-harming behaviour in these people, and the relationship of people with non-suicidal self-harming behaviour with religion. Some of the results confirmed literature results, while others shed a new light on other aspects related to people with non-suicidal self-harming behaviour


Author(s):  
Zoran Oklopcic

As the final chapter of the book, Chapter 10 confronts the limits of an imagination that is constitutional and constituent, as well as (e)utopian—oriented towards concrete visions of a better life. In doing so, the chapter confronts the role of Square, Triangle, and Circle—which subtly affect the way we think about legal hierarchy, popular sovereignty, and collective self-government. Building on that discussion, the chapter confronts the relationship between circularity, transparency, and iconography of ‘paradoxical’ origins of democratic constitutions. These representations are part of a broader morphology of imaginative obstacles that stand in the way of a more expansive constituent imagination. The second part of the chapter focuses on the most important five—Anathema, Nebula, Utopia, Aporia, and Tabula—and closes with the discussion of Ernst Bloch’s ‘wishful images’ and the ways in which manifold ‘diagrams of hope and purpose’ beyond the people may help make them attractive again.


Author(s):  
Rhiannon Graybill

This chapter shows how embodiment plays an important role in constructing meaning in the book of Ezekiel. The text contains a number of bodies, including human bodies (Ezekiel, the people of Judah), supernatural or divine bodies (Yahweh, the cherubim, various divine messengers), metaphorical bodies (the female bodies in Ezekiel 16 and 23), foreign bodies (various foreign nations), and animate “dry bones” in Ezekiel 37. The body is central to the practice of prophecy in the book. It is likewise fundamental to performances of gender and to the negotiation of the relationship between Yahweh and the people, including Ezekiel himself. Focusing on the body also highlights the significance of masculinity in the text, as well as its instability.


Soft Matter ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiawei Lu ◽  
Xiangyu Bu ◽  
Xinghua Zhang ◽  
Bing Liu

The shapes of colloidal particles are crucial to the self-assembled superstructures. Understanding the relationship between the shapes of building blocks and the resulting crystal structures is an important fundamental question....


2020 ◽  
pp. 002198942097099
Author(s):  
Kit Dobson

This article considers ways in which solidarity across social locations might play a role in fostering resistance to vulnerability. My case study consists of the interplay between writer George Ryga’s 1967 play The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, and Okanagan Syilx writer and scholar Jeannette Armstrong’s 1985 novel Slash. While these important and compelling texts have received considerable critical attention, the relationship between them is less known. I am interested in the ways in which these works both hail and offer critique to one another. In the contemporary moment, in which questions of appropriation of voice have gained renewed urgency within Indigenous literary circles in Canada and beyond, the relationship between these texts speaks to a historical instance of appropriation, but also of complicated processes of alliance-building. These texts demonstrate how agency resides across multiple locations. I read Ryga’s Ecstasy in the context of Jeannette Armstrong’s engagement with the play within her novel Slash in order to witness the ways in which Ryga’s text, in the first instance, appropriates Indigenous voices into an anti-capitalist critique. In the second instance, I read these works in order to witness how they might simultaneously provide a compelling analysis of the vulnerability of the people who are the subject of both works. I compare the interplay between Armstrong and Ryga’s texts to contemporary debates around appropriation in order to argue for the historical and ongoing importance of these two works as precursors to the crucial interventions made by contemporary Indigenous critics and writers.


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