scholarly journals Self and Dignity: The Spirituality of Survival

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 233
Author(s):  
Christopher Turner
Keyword(s):  
Living Organism ◽  
Active Power ◽  
Human Species ◽  
Organic Life ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Biological Capacity ◽  
Natural Power ◽  
Individual Human ◽  
Secular Spirituality

This paper examines the nature of spirit and spirituality as organic response to threat in the context of a global pandemic. Drawing from the fields of neuroscience, philosophy and theology, the author defines spirit as the biological capacity of a living organism to maintain homeostasis in response to changes in its environment. The capacity of individual human organisms to respond to changes that are perceived as threats to homeostasis with passive and active power is posited as a spirituality that is crucial for the survival of the human species. The paper represents a form of secular spirituality that is synonymous with the natural power of organic life.

scholarly journals Grundtvig til undervisningsbrug

1973 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 217-219
Author(s):  
William Michelsen
Keyword(s):  
Living Organism ◽  
Human Being ◽  
The People ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Individual Human

Grundtvig for teaching purposes.N. F. S. Grundtvig: Tre Danne-Virke-artikler. Aarhus 1972. Studieserien, published by the Danish Teachers’ Association: Grundtvig og det folkelige (by Marianne Ju h l Christiansen and Lise Ettrup), Organisme tanken (by Aage Henriksen) and Tværsnit 1870 (by Peter Søby Kristensen). Copenhagen 1972 and 1973. Reviewed by W illiam Michelsen. These booklets show that it is not only Grundtvig’s best-known hymns and poems which are used for teaching purposes, but also the prose he wrote as a critic and a speaker. In the booklet about Grundtvig and the people, there is furthermore a definition of the idea of »det folkelige« (what pertains to the people), which accords with Grundtvig’s own ideas and which is supported by the texts that follow, which also include his imitators and critics.There is no doubt at all that Grundtvig regarded the people - the individual nation - as a living organism developing in a comparable manner to the individual human being. In this respect he was a romantic and can - in a way – be counted among the thinkers who suscribed to the »organism idea«, as Aage Henriksen expresses it. But when this idea is traced back to Spinoza and carried forward to Hegel, Marx and Freud, one must nevertheless protest against Grundtvig - along with Henrich Steffens and Paul Diderichsen - being the only Danish representative, from whose works a passage is quoted (from October 1810 – see Grundtvig-Studier 1956). He was in reality (from December 1810) an opponent of the whole of this school of thought, apart from in his acceptance of the idea of the people as an organism.

scholarly journals Myths versus Truths regarding the Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-2019) Outbreak

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kapil Amgain ◽  
Sujana Neupane ◽  
Laxmi Panthi ◽  
Pooja Thapaliya
Keyword(s):  
Social Distance ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
Rna Virus ◽  
Preventive Measure ◽  
Living Organism ◽  
Viral Disease ◽  
The Body ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

Background: The Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) is a novel infectious disease caused by the COVID-19 Virus. This virus belongs to the family of SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) and classified as SARS-CoV-2, a positive-sense single-stranded RNA virus that is causing an ongoing global pandemic. The outbreak of this novel Coronavirus (nCoV-19) is causing great fear in public due to its rapid spread over 200 countries worldwide and created a global Public Health Emergency. The virus is an intracellular obligatory parasite that can even infect bacteria called Bacteriophage. Unlike Bacteria, Virus is not a living microorganism and can’t multiply in the outer environment. If we draw a line in between the living and non-living, it lies in the border3. However, the peculiar characteristic of the virus is that it can be living after entering the body of the living organism, causing harmful effects. Since it behaves like dust or dirt outside of our body, it is better to wash them out and prevent it to enter our bodies. In this way, the best way of prevention of this novel COVID-19 viral disease is to wash it out from our hand, rather than killing it by using a disinfectant, hand sanitizer, alcohol-based rub, etc. Key Message: Don’t Get the Virus, Don’t Give the Virus. Since COVID-19 Virus can enter the body from the reservoir mainly through respiratory droplets during coughing, keeping social distance and proper hand-washing are the best way to preventive measure. To prevent the rapid spreading of COVID-19, please strictly follow the following five precautionary and preventive measures yourself and ask others too. HANDS – wash them often with soap and water ELBOW – cough into it FACE – don’t touch it SPACE – keep social distance (> 3feets) FEEL SICK? - Stay home (with proper nursing care)

scholarly journals Finding Archaeological Relevance during a Pandemic and What Comes After

2020 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-22
Author(s):  
Lynn H. Gamble ◽  
Cheryl Claassen ◽  
Jelmer W. Eerkens ◽  
Douglas J. Kennett ◽  
Patricia M. Lambert ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Disease Vectors ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
Human Populations ◽  
Human Species ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
Global Pandemic

This article emerged as the human species collectively have been experiencing the worst global pandemic in a century. With a long view of the ecological, economic, social, and political factors that promote the emergence and spread of infectious disease, archaeologists are well positioned to examine the antecedents of the present crisis. In this article, we bring together a variety of perspectives on the issues surrounding the emergence, spread, and effects of disease in both the Americas and Afro-Eurasian contexts. Recognizing that human populations most severely impacted by COVID-19 are typically descendants of marginalized groups, we investigate pre- and postcontact disease vectors among Indigenous and Black communities in North America, outlining the systemic impacts of diseases and the conditions that exacerbate their spread. We look at how material culture both reflects and changes as a result of social transformations brought about by disease, the insights that paleopathology provides about the ancient human condition, and the impacts of ancient globalization on the spread of disease worldwide. By understanding the differential effects of past epidemics on diverse communities and contributing to more equitable sociopolitical agendas, archaeology can play a key role in helping to pursue a more just future.

AGAINST SIMPLICITY AND COGNITIVE INDIVIDUALISM

2008 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 523-532 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathaniel T. Wilcox
Keyword(s):  
Distributed Cognition ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Neoclassical Economics ◽  
Implicit Assumption ◽  
Cognitive Artifacts ◽  
Human Species ◽  
Individual Cognition ◽  
Cognitive Artefacts ◽  
Individual Human

Neuroeconomics illustrates our deepening descent into the details of individual cognition. This descent is guided by the implicit assumption that “individual human” is the important “agent” of neoclassical economics. I argue here that this assumption is neither obviously correct, nor of primary importance to human economies. In particular I suggest that the main genius of the human species lies with its ability to distribute cognition across individuals, and to incrementally accumulate physical and social cognitive artifacts that largely obviate the innate biological limitations of individuals. If this is largely why our economies grow, then we should be much more interested in distributed cognition in human groups, and correspondingly less interested in individual cognition. We should also be much more interested in the cultural accumulation of cognitive artefacts: computational devices and media, social structures and economic institutions.

Research on Cell Model of a Housing Unit

2011 ◽  
Vol 183-185 ◽  
pp. 225-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Gang Shi ◽  
Kun Shi
Keyword(s):  
Cell Model ◽  
Human Person ◽  
Living Organism ◽  
Housing Unit ◽  
Biological Cell ◽  
Urban Management ◽  
Individual Human

Housing unit is studied as cell in this paper. The cell model analyzes structure and usage of each primary apartment and room of a housing unit in a view of a biological cell. Individual human person is abstracted as ATP and electron in this model, and it is demonstrated that human has the dominant impact on urban management and social administration as an electron in a living organism.

scholarly journals Towards Moral and Authentic Generalization: Humanity, Individual Human Beings and Distortion

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 661-678
Author(s):  
Nigel Rapport
Keyword(s):  
Human Science ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human Species ◽  
Rational Models ◽  
Thing In Itself ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Human Embodiment ◽  
Individual Human

The article treats the issue of generality. How may one conceive of the relationship between the uniqueness of individuality and the commonality of the human (species and society) without reduction? Can generalization be made moral – es-chewing stereotypes in society – and can it be made authentic – enacting a human science which treats the individual as a thing-in-itself? Simmel’s seminal inter-vention was to see generality as a necessary kind of distortion. In contrast, this article offers rational models of the one and the whole which expect to retain the uniqueness of the one; and it suggests characteristics of human embodiment (ca-pacities, potentialities) that speak to individuality and generality at the same time. The article ends with a reconsideration of distortion as a humane artistic represen-tation, by way of the work of Stanley Spencer.

Habit

2019 ◽  
pp. 110-128
Author(s):  
Nathan Lyons
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Evolutionary Time ◽  
Human Species ◽  
Second Nature ◽  
Organic Life

This chapter takes up the theory of habit developed by Félix Ravaisson (1813–1900) to consider how culture proceeds in non-human species. It argues that the biological body is the fundamental medium of meaning-making. Ravaisson takes Aristotle’s notion of habit as a second nature and extends it beyond the human polis to include the whole biological order. Habit takes the intentional ideas of organisms and embodies them in their real bodies; it is a universal power of ‘second-naturing’ that integrates matter with mind. Ravaisson’s account of habit can combine with Poinsot’s account of semiotic custom, so that the whole of organic life—its meanings and its materiality—can be understood as the locus of second-naturing. The biosemiotic Ravaissonism that emerges here makes a bold proposal: nature is not only the producer of cultures; nature is itself cultural, because its form is shaped over evolutionary time by the semiotically executed habits of organisms.

scholarly journals HLA, Immune Response, and Susceptibility to COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fataneh Tavasolian ◽  
Mohsen Rashidi ◽  
Gholam Reza Hatam ◽  
Marjan Jeddi ◽  
Ahmad Zavaran Hosseini ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Immune Response ◽  
Viral Infections ◽  
Hla Antigens ◽  
Differential Susceptibility ◽  
Human Leukocyte ◽  
Leukocyte Antigen ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Subsequent Exposure ◽  
Original Antigenic Sin ◽  
Individual Human

The severe acute respiratory syndrome caused by Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that appeared in December 2019 has precipitated the global pandemic Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). However, in many parts of Africa fewer than expected cases of COVID-19, with lower rates of mortality, have been reported. Individual human leukocyte antigen (HLA) alleles can affect both the susceptibility and the severity of viral infections. In the case of COVID-19 such an analysis may contribute to identifying individuals at higher risk of the disease and the epidemiological level to understanding the differences between countries in the epidemic patterns. It is also recognized that first antigen exposure influences the consequence of subsequent exposure. We thus propose a theory incorporating HLA antigens, the “original antigenic sin (OAS)” effect, and presentation of viral peptides which could explain with differential susceptibility or resistance to SARS-CoV-2 infections.

scholarly journals ON SOLUTIONS OF ANTIMILITARIST FEMINIST THINKING IN THE PANDEMIC ERA

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Social Bonds ◽  
Feminist Criticism ◽  
Living Organism ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Death Drive ◽  
Liberal Feminism ◽  
Organic Life ◽  
Feminist Politics

The article analyses discussions in modern feminist theory about perspectives for promotion of feminist politics and criticism of neoliberal and anti-gender politics in pandemic situation. In particular, the critical arguments of C. Arruzza, T. Bhattacharya and N. Fraser in their manifesto Feminism for 99% (2019) against liberal feminism and their project of "another feminism" as alternative to the liberal one, which will be focused not on elites but on masses of "real women". The controversial character of the thesis of Manifesto authors is shown: in the situation of a pandemic as a radical rupture of social bonds, an effective argument for international feminist solidarity can be their proposition that all women, regardless of their ethnic, class and racial affiliation, should be united on the basis of their unpaid reproductive and domestic work. The reflections of J. Butler on opportunities of restoring social bonds and resisting the forces of destruction and militarism are analyzed in her book Forces of Nonviolence (2020), in which she develops S. Freud's ideas about the possibility of overcoming the death drive, which in his opinion is the driving force and cause of any war. It is shown that Butler, following Freud, identifies mania as a force capable of overcoming death drive and understands mania as a protest of a living organism against its destruction or self-destruction. The article analyses Butler's thesis about modern feminism, that if uncovering appropriate forms of education, it can develop in human beings a manic aversion to violence and war as means of destroying organic life. In the conclusion, author suggests that it is possible to reconsider feminist criticism of liberal feminism and return to its slogans, while radicalising them.

scholarly journals Age Differences in Emotion and Coping During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 546-546
Author(s):  
Nathaniel Young ◽  
Alyssa Minton ◽  
Joseph Mikels
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Age Differences ◽  
Older Workers ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Human Species ◽  
Younger Adults ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Appraisal Processes

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic unleashed a relentless stressor on the human species with numerous deadly risks. These risks have been disproportionately threatening to the health and wellbeing of older adults. Since April 2020, we have been studying how the pandemic has affected the emotional experiences of older and younger adults broadly in several studies. For instance, in one study, we found that older adults (N=176) experienced fewer negative emotions and coped with greater levels of agency than younger adults (N=181). In additional work, we have been examining how these age differences differ for older workers versus retirees as well as in minority populations. This work broadly supports and illuminates our recent theoretical framework that focuses on how evaluative appraisal processes underlie and contribute to age differences in emotional experience generally, but especially in the context of the stress experienced during a global pandemic.

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