Textual Relations in Sūrat al-Kahf

2007 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-186
Author(s):  
Hosna Abdel Samie
Keyword(s):  
New Age ◽  
Carl Jung ◽  
The Other ◽  
Collective Unconscious ◽  
Abrupt Transition ◽  
The One

This study aims to understand the textual relations within Sūrat al-Kahf – one of the longest suras of the Qur'an – in response to issues raised by the observations of the psychiatrist Carl Jung in his Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious. In this work he expounds on the Qur'anic narratives present in Sūrat al-Kahf in the light of a symbolic and psychological reading, which seeks to link the stories of the ‘Companions of the Cave’, ‘Moses and al-Khiḍr’ and ‘Dhū'l-Qarnayn’ on the one hand and his archetype of the ‘New Age’ on structural and spiritual levels on the other. Furthermore, the Qur'anic text is repeatedly described as ‘lacking coherence, which is not uncommon in the Qur'an’, and Jung endeavours, to use his own words, ‘to account for this apparently abrupt transition’ between the stories in Sūrat al-Kahf.

POSEBNA ODELjENjA ZA BORBU PROTIV KORUPCIJE U REPUBLICI SRBIJI

2021 ◽  
pp. 313-329
Author(s):  
Vladimir Šebek ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Organized Crime ◽  
New Age ◽  
The Other ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Specialized Institutions ◽  
The One

Specialized anti-corruption institutions are not product of the new age. First specialized departments in fighting against corruption went into effect in the middle of last century, but the beginning of creation of these departments has been connected with founding of the most significant specialized institutions. Although its effects on democratic institutions and economic and social development have long been apparent, the fight against corruption has only recently been placed high on the international policy agenda. The UN Convention Against Corruption, which came into force in 2005, is the most universal in its approach; it covers a very broad range of issues including the formation of specialised bodies responsible for preventing corruption and for combating corruption through law enforcement. It is the author’s intention to present to the public the organizational solutions of the anticorruption bodies predicted in the UN Convention against Corruption and folloving standards to act effectively. On the one hand, this text represents models of specialized anti-corruption bodies in the world, and on the other hand, it contains display of institutional anti-corruption model in Republic of Serbia as well, with the focus on the Department for Corruption Suppression (OBPK) in the Ministry of Interior and special departmens of Public prosecutor's offices. In order to compare efficiency of police and prosecutorial work, a data analysis was performed for the period before and the period after the Law on organization and competence of state bodies in supression of organized crime, terrorism and corruption, entry into force.

scholarly journals Philosophical contexts in Mary Shelley’s novel «Frankenstein»

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 61-66
Author(s):  
Konstantin A. Ozherelyev
Keyword(s):  
New Age ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Gothic Novel ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One

The paper analyzes the key philosophical contexts and subtexts of M. Shelley’s most famous work “Frankenstein”. According to the author of the article, the philosophical layer of this Gothic novel consists of ideas and maxims that directly inherit the concepts of the worldview platforms of Plato, J.-J. Russo, G. W. F. Hegel, K. F. Volney, W. Godwin, M. Wollstonecraft, as well as the philosophy of the New Age and romanticism. An assumption is made, on the one hand, about the proximity of some worldview attitudes of these philosophers and the author of “Frankenstein” and, on the other hand, about the deliberate introduction of philosophical passages into the fabric of the novel, which play the role of retardation elements.

scholarly journals Tensiones entre el esencialismo azteca y el universalismo New Age a partir del estudio de las danzas “concheroaztecas”

Revista Trace ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renée De la Torre
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
New Age ◽  
The Other ◽  
Transnational Movements ◽  
Identidad Nacional ◽  
The One ◽  
New Age Religion ◽  
Dance Groups ◽  
Los Grupos

El propósito del trabajo es describir y analizar comparativamente dos expresiones contemporáneas de la religiosidad mexhica que se manifiestan en los grupos de danza conocidos como concheros o aztecas. La primera es la versión mexicanista, que se opone al sincretismo con la religión católica y la cultura occidental y que plantea la esencialización de lo “auténticamente” azteca promoviendo la restauración del Anáhuac en el presente; la segunda es una versión sincrética, conocida como neomexicanidad que, aceptando la base de la religiosidad sincrética entre el catolicismo y la cosmovisión indígena, se interconecta en una red mística espiritual Nueva Era. De dicha comparación se pretende calibrar la manera en que se dan las tensiones entre la identidad nacional basada en el pasado indígena que nutre la idea de la mexicanidad y la transversalización de movimientos y redes transnacionales que retoman retazos de “lo mexicano” como una sabiduría universal, capaz de compartir concepciones religiosas y filosóficas con otras culturas dispares.Abstract: This article presents a comparative analysis of two contemporary expressions of Mexhica religiosity performed by the dance groups known as danza de concheros or Aztec dancers. The first one is Mexicanist in essence and opposes any form of religious syncretism that draws on Catholicism or other Western religions, while privileging Aztec essentialism and authenticy, referring to Anahuac’s existence in the present. The second one is syncretic, generally known as Neomexican and stands for its acceptance of syncretic ties between Catholicism and indigenous cosmology.It is associated with spiritual mysticism and New Age religion. The comparison between the two enables us to assess the ways in which current tensions between the national identity (that claims ties to an indigenous past as foundation for Mexicanity) on the one hand, and transnational movements and networks (that take an what is viewed as “authentically Mexican” as a form of universal knowledge that related to other forms of religious and philosophical views of lost cultures) on the other, play out.Résumé : Cet article a pour objet de décrire et d’analyser comparativement deux expressions contemporaines de la religiosité mexhica qui se manifestent dans les groupes de danse connus comme concheros ou aztèques. La première est une version mexicaniste, qui s’oppose à toute forme de syncrétisme avec la religion catholique et la culture occidentale en prônant l’essencialisation de l’authentiquement aztèque, grâce à la restauration de l’Anahuac dans le présent. La seconde est une version syncrétique, connue sous le nom de néomexicanité, qui accepte l’ouverture entre le catholicisme et la cosmovision indienne et qui se trouve connectée avec le réseau spirituel mystique du New Age. Avec cette comparaison, on prétend mesurer la manière selon laquelle se nouent les tensions entre l’identité nationale fondée sur le passé indien –et dont se nourrit l’idéologie de la mexicanité– et la dimension transversale des mouvements et réseaux transnationaux qui reprennent des fragments de l’« authentiquement mexicain » comme un savoir universel, à même de partager les conceptions religieuses et philosophiques d’autres cultures disparues.

scholarly journals Modern Ideas of God

1908 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur Cushman McGiffert
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
New Age ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Past ◽  
The One ◽  
European Thought ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Intellectual Leadership

Modern ideas of God are many and various, but all of them, so far as they are not mere reproductions of traditional views handed down from the past, are dominated by one or the other of two independent tendencies, which took their rise respectively from Spinoza and from Kant. In this article it is impossible to follow the various ramifications of these tendencies. They are often found together in the same theologian in curious and even inconsistent combinations. I desire to distinguish them sharply the one from the other, and to study them separately as they appear in a few of their most notable and consistent representatives. The former tendency, as I have said, took its rise from Spinoza. Despised and neglected by the leaders of European thought for nearly a hundred years after his death, he finally came to his rights, and was speedily a dominant force in Germany, which was about to assume again the intellectual leadership of Europe held in the eighteenth century successively by England and France. The time was ripe for Spinoza's philosophy. Reaction against the extreme individualism and superficial rationalism of the period was growing rapidly, and the profound and massive monism of the great Jewish sage was fitted to appeal to the imagination of the new age. The first important utterance was Herder's little work entitled Gott, which appeared in 1787 and had wide influence. In this book Herder interprets Spinoza in the light of Leibnitz's dynamic conception of the universe, and so supplements his unity of substance with an all-pervasive unity of force.

scholarly journals Historical Examination of Agent Concept

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 5188-5191
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
New Age ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
Xxth Century ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Historical Examination

Throughout the development of thought from the classical forms of philosophizing to the present, the understanding of the subject also changes. The transition from the Hegelian substance subject to the individual transcending subject is carried out, and then the “death of the subject” in all its forms (God, social, author, etc.). Such a fundamentally new understanding, the interpretation of human consciousness and being, is primarily associated with the emergence of a fundamentally new way of this consciousness functioning. This work is devoted to the consideration of this determining connection between the forms of theoretical problematization of a subject in philosophical thought and changes in social structure. They may consider the allocation of three main historical stages of the subject problematization and the corresponding forms of social as the main results. In the era of the New Age, there is understanding of a subject as a participant in history, who is the product of history and the creator. At the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this understanding is being transformed and refined. Now they deny subject rootedness in the transcendental field on the one hand, and this rootedness should seek and achieve on the other hand. The motive for a breakthrough towards the absolute and overcoming one's own “queerness” becomes the main one. In the second half of XXth century, they form a special view of the subject - he is now problematized as absent.

Note on Selection of Coordinate Systems for Geodynamics

1975 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 395-407
Author(s):  
S. Henriksen
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
The Other ◽  
Coordinate Systems ◽  
Mean Sea Level ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The One ◽  
Static Systems ◽  
Selection Of

The first question to be answered, in seeking coordinate systems for geodynamics, is: what is geodynamics? The answer is, of course, that geodynamics is that part of geophysics which is concerned with movements of the Earth, as opposed to geostatics which is the physics of the stationary Earth. But as far as we know, there is no stationary Earth – epur sic monere. So geodynamics is actually coextensive with geophysics, and coordinate systems suitable for the one should be suitable for the other. At the present time, there are not many coordinate systems, if any, that can be identified with a static Earth. Certainly the only coordinate of aeronomic (atmospheric) interest is the height, and this is usually either as geodynamic height or as pressure. In oceanology, the most important coordinate is depth, and this, like heights in the atmosphere, is expressed as metric depth from mean sea level, as geodynamic depth, or as pressure. Only for the earth do we find “static” systems in use, ana even here there is real question as to whether the systems are dynamic or static. So it would seem that our answer to the question, of what kind, of coordinate systems are we seeking, must be that we are looking for the same systems as are used in geophysics, and these systems are dynamic in nature already – that is, their definition involvestime.

Stories and the Self

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Krause ◽  
Markus Appel
Keyword(s):  
Meta Analysis ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Lower Degree ◽  
Contrast Effects ◽  
Self Perception ◽  
Self Perceptions ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Implicit And Explicit

Abstract. Two experiments examined the influence of stories on recipients’ self-perceptions. Extending prior theory and research, our focus was on assimilation effects (i.e., changes in self-perception in line with a protagonist’s traits) as well as on contrast effects (i.e., changes in self-perception in contrast to a protagonist’s traits). In Experiment 1 ( N = 113), implicit and explicit conscientiousness were assessed after participants read a story about either a diligent or a negligent student. Moderation analyses showed that highly transported participants and participants with lower counterarguing scores assimilate the depicted traits of a story protagonist, as indicated by explicit, self-reported conscientiousness ratings. Participants, who were more critical toward a story (i.e., higher counterarguing) and with a lower degree of transportation, showed contrast effects. In Experiment 2 ( N = 103), we manipulated transportation and counterarguing, but we could not identify an effect on participants’ self-ascribed level of conscientiousness. A mini meta-analysis across both experiments revealed significant positive overall associations between transportation and counterarguing on the one hand and story-consistent self-reported conscientiousness on the other hand.

Radioimmunotherapy for treatment of acute myeloid leukaemia and myelodysplastic syndrome

2005 ◽  
Vol 44 (03) ◽  
pp. 107-117
Author(s):  
R. G. Meyer ◽  
W. Herr ◽  
A. Helisch ◽  
P. Bartenstein ◽  
I. Buchmann
Keyword(s):  
Acute Myeloid Leukaemia ◽  
Myeloid Leukaemia ◽  
Primary Tumour ◽  
The Other ◽  
Haematopoietic Stem Cell ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Primary Reduction ◽  
The One ◽  
Acute Myeloid

SummaryThe prognosis of patients with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) has improved considerably by introduction of aggressive consolidation chemotherapy and haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (SCT). Nevertheless, only 20-30% of patients with AML achieve long-term diseasefree survival after SCT. The most common cause of treatment failure is relapse. Additionally, mortality rates are significantly increased by therapy-related causes such as toxicity of chemotherapy and complications of SCT. Including radioimmunotherapies in the treatment of AML and myelodyplastic syndrome (MDS) allows for the achievement of a pronounced antileukaemic effect for the reduction of relapse rates on the one hand. On the other hand, no increase of acute toxicity and later complications should be induced. These effects are important for the primary reduction of tumour cells as well as for the myeloablative conditioning before SCT.This paper provides a systematic and critical review of the currently used radionuclides and immunoconjugates for the treatment of AML and MDS and summarizes the literature on primary tumour cell reductive radioimmunotherapies on the one hand and conditioning radioimmunotherapies before SCT on the other hand.

Das Ende der Postdemokratie, den Pessimismus überwinden.

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (188) ◽  
pp. 487-494
Author(s):  
Daniel Mullis
Keyword(s):  
Political Thought ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
The Other ◽  
Economic Decline ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Windows Of Opportunity ◽  
Political Events ◽  
Political Struggles ◽  
The One

In recent years, political and social conditions have changed dramatically. Many analyses help to capture these dynamics. However, they produce political pessimism: on the one hand there is the image of regression and on the other, a direct link is made between socio-economic decline and the rise of the far-right. To counter these aspects, this article argues that current political events are to be understood less as ‘regression’ but rather as a moment of movement and the return of deep political struggles. Referring to Jacques Ranciere’s political thought, the current conditions can be captured as the ‘end of post-democracy’. This approach changes the perspective on current social dynamics in a productive way. It allows for an emphasis on movement and the recognition of the windows of opportunity for emancipatory struggles.

Tolerance is theoretical and practical principles

1996 ◽  
pp. 13-23
Author(s):  
Mykhailo Babiy
Keyword(s):  
Religious Diversity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Nodal Points ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
The One ◽  
Ukrainian Society

Political ideological pluralism, religious diversity are characteristic features of modern Ukrainian society. On the one hand, multiculturalism, socio-political, religious differentiation of the latter appear as important characteristics of its democracy, as a practical expression of freedom, on the other - as a factor that led to the deconsocialization of society, gave rise to "nodal points" of tension, confrontational processes, in particular, in political and religious spheres.

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