scholarly journals The symbol of «heart» in the linguophilosophical concept of H. Skovoroda

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (23) ◽  
pp. 211-217
Author(s):  
Lilia Ruskulis ◽  
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Inna Rodionova ◽  
Rymma Maiboroda ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Actions ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Reliable Source ◽  
The World ◽  
Human World ◽  
The Universe ◽  
The Ideal

The article examines the linguistic and philosophical research of H. Skovoroda – a symbolic perception and interpretation of the world around. It was found out that the thinker sought to allegorically interpret the Bible, which he perceived as the only reliable source of happiness, he believed that the world of the Bible is the ideal otherness of the human world (microcosmos) and the universe (macrocosmos). The authors of the article analyzed one of the brightest symbols of the linguist – the symbol of the heart, which is the basis of all human actions, bad and good thoughts, the place where thoughts and feelings are born and grow, where the truth opens, this symbol is the center of human moral actions, his inherent thinking and will.

scholarly journals Tata Ruang Kosmologis Masyarakat Adat Kampung Naga berbasis Naskah Sunda Kuno

LOKABASA ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-28
Author(s):  
Elis Suryani Nani Sumarlina ◽  
Rangga Saptya Mohamad Permana ◽  
Undang Ahmad Darsa
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Entire Life ◽  
The World ◽  
Human World ◽  
The Universe ◽  
The Ideal

Cosmologically, humans are seen as the microcosm of the universe whose entire life must always carry out all the torments or teachings of the Sanghyang Darma. That is the ideal human who can reach eternal heaven or nirvana according to the Sanghyang Raga Dewata (SRD) manuscript, one of the lontar manuscripts and the ancient Sundanese language of the sixteenth century AD. The cosmological concept of spatial Sundanese society, based on several Sundanese manuscripts of the XVI century AD, is triad, triune or triumvirate. Sundanese people have a view of parallels between the macrocosm and the microcosm, between the universe and the human world. This order seeks to find the meaning of the world according to its existence. This paper presents the cosmological layout of the Kampung Naga indigenous people, based on the Ancient Sundanese XVI century AD, which is examined through descriptive analysis research methods, and philological and cultural studies methods. The cosmological concept of the Kampung Naga community is closely related to the concept known as Tri Tangtu Di Bumi, which includes ‘tata wilayah', 'tata wayah', and 'tata lampah', all of which are interconnected with one another, according to their customs and traditions. AbstrakSecara kosmologis, manusia dipandang sebagai mikrokosmosnya jagat raya, seluruh kehidupannya harus selalu menjalankan segala siksa atau ajaran Sanghyang Darma.  Itulah manusia ideal yang kelak dapat mencapai surga abadi atau nirwana menurut naskah Sanghyang Raga Dewata (SRD), salah satu naskah lontar beraksara dan berbahasa Sunda kuno abad ke-16 Masehi. Konsep tata ruang masyarakat Sunda secara kosmologis, berdasarkan beberapa naskah Sunda abad  ke-16 Masehi, bersifat tiga serangkai, tritunggal atau triumvirate. Masyarakat Sunda memiliki pandangan tentang kesejajaran antara makrokosmos dan mikrokosmos, antara jagat raya dan dunia manusia. Dalam tatanan ini, berupaya mencari makna dunia menurut eksistensinya. Tulisan ini menyajikan kosmologis tata ruang masyarakat adat Kampung Naga, berbasis naskah Sunda Kuno abad ke-16 Masehi, yang dikaji melalui metode penelitian deskriptif analisis, dan kajian filologi dan budaya. Konsep kosmologis masyarakat Kampung Naga seperti itu, berkaitan erat dengan konsep yang dikenal dengan sebutan Tri Tangtu di Bumi, yang meliputi ‘tata wilayah’, ‘tata wayah’,  dan‘tata lampah’, yang ketiganya saling berhubungan satu sama lain, sesuai dengan adat dan tradisi mereka.

Symbolic Macroconcept of the Universe in the Aspect of the First Cognitive Sign in Russian Linguoculture

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-101
Author(s):  
Marina V. Pimenova ◽  
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Aigul A. Bakirova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Part ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
The World ◽  
Symbolic Meanings ◽  
New Type ◽  
Human World ◽  
Internal Volume ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Universe Structure ◽  
The Universe

The article analyzes the cognitive signs of the macroconcept universe in Russian linguoculture. The relevance of the research is determined by the prospect of studying a new type of mental structures - symbolic macroconcepts. The purpose of the article is to describe the specifics of the macroconcept universe structure formation from the standpoint of the definition of syncretic primordial signs. The main methods in the work are the historical and etymological analysis of the studied macroconcept representative, descriptive and interpretive methods. During the study, seven motivating signs of the macroconcept universe were noted: 'earth', 'live', ‘world’，‘inhabit’，‘inhabited’，‘settlement’，‘light’. All identified motivating signs are syncretic symbolic primordial signs 'house' (conceptum, according to V. V. Kolesov). Motivating signs express two main symbolic meanings of Russian linguoculture: home is a place where people live, settle; home is the world of people and all living beings, this world-light (unlike that world-light where the souls of the dead go: that world-light is located in the sky), it is built on earth. The macroconcept universe is objectified by erased metaphors of a closed space (in particular, the metaphor of a key), which has an internal volume, center-middle, limits, parts, edges, corners, people live in this house, they live and exist in it, it is inhabited and settle down in Russian linguoculture. The model of the universe in the Russian language picture of the world is three-parted: the middle part in it represents the human world, in which the principle of anthropocentrism is manifested - a person measures space and chooses himself as a reference point. The syncretic primary sign ‘house’ unites in itself all the motivating signs of the studied macroconcept, keeping their relevance to our days. Keywords: macroconcept, motivating signs, first sign, language picture of the world, linguoculture, comparative studies

scholarly journals Autonomia świata a podmiotowość człowieka w ekoteologii

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-131
Author(s):  
Jarosław Horowski
Keyword(s):  
Modern World ◽  
Ecological Problem ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Inherent Value ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Teleological Argument ◽  
Christian Worldview ◽  
The World ◽  
Human World

One of the most difficult problems, which is to be solved by contemporary culture, is the ecological problem. It concerns the culture because the hedonistic and consumerist mentality of man plays an important part in it. Biocentrism states that the ecological problem results from traditional Western attitudes to the non-human world based on the belief that humans are the central and most significant entities in the universe. Biocentrism puts forward a teleological argument for the protection of the environment. It indicates that non-human species have inherent value as well and each organism has a purpose and a reason for being, which should be respected. Biocentrism states that the anthropocentric attitude to the non-human world results from the Christian worldview based on the Bible where it is written that God gives man dominion over all creatures. The author analyses the main issues of the Catholic concept of the relationship between human beings and other creatures. He indicates that ecotheology respects the inherent value of non-human creatures because, as the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the modern world Gaudium et spes says: “all things are endowed with their own stability, truth, goodness, proper laws and order”, but maintains that the purpose of the world is connected with its relationship to God. The author considers also what is the human subjectivity in behaving towards the environment and what is the dependence between the autonomy of the world and the subjectivity of man in ecotheology. In the end, the author comes to the conclusion that according to ecotheology the ecological problem results from the broken relationship between the human and God and in consequence it the broken relationship between the world and God.

scholarly journals Rabindranath Tagore’s Idea of Universal Humanism in the Light of Islamic World View

2019 ◽  
pp. 53-66
Author(s):  
Ichhimuddin Sarkar
Keyword(s):  
World View ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Eternal Truth ◽  
Ultimate Truth ◽  
Rabindranath Tagore ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The World ◽  
The Galaxy ◽  
Islamic Civilization ◽  
The Universe

Very few studies are available to understand the philosophical views of Rabindranath Tagore in the light of his attitude and realization of Islam vis-à-vis idea of universalism. Fact remains that the Islamic civilization has thoroughly been recognized in the academic circles but its depth and learning have not been studied up to expectation. European historians and philosophers seem to be hesitant to acknowledge the contribution of Islamic civilization over the centuries. Even a majority of Eastern scholars are critical about welcoming the actual merit of Islam. Rabindranath Tagore being one of the brightest stars in the galaxy of poets and writers made a serious study on the philosophy and writings of many Muslim thinkers and ultimately brought to our notice an extraordinary feeling about Islamic ideas and philosophy. Rabindranth Tagore seems to have sought the inner meaning of Islam and developed a kind of value- based attitude towards human life and the universe. It is likely that through his Gitanjali and Religion of Man (Manusher Dharma) in particular were presented with an objective to stimulate and guide men in search of Ultimate Truth and Oneness of God. It is said that Rabindranth Tagore was acquainted with the verses of the Qur‟an in his childhood and in this respect his father Maharishi Devendranath Tagore imbibed in him many theological aspects of Islam as a religion. The paper intends to explore how Tagore was influenced by Islam and as a poet-thinker he nurtured the idea of eternal truth from the Upanishads, the Tripitakas as well as the Bible and through a particular discipline and inner uplift he came to the conclusion that aggregate of essentials of diversity cannot be judged in the light of mere logic and arguments. This feeling seems to have prompted Tagore to find out the inner truth of the universe and side by side to propagate the idea of universal humanism throughout the world. Philosophy and Progress, Vol#61-62; No#1-2; Jan-Dec 2017 P 53-66

Introduction

1991 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Keyword(s):  
Way Of Life ◽  
Loving Kindness ◽  
Moses Maimonides ◽  
The World ◽  
Virtuous Life ◽  
Active Intellect ◽  
Guide Of The Perplexed ◽  
The Universe ◽  
The Ideal

This introductory chapter provides an overview of Moses Maimonides’ discourse. Was the ideal of human perfection theoretical or practical? For Maimonides, it appears, the ultimate vision vouchsafed man is not a union with the active intellect, nor with the spiritual forms; it is contemplation of God’s governance in the world, of the orderly structure of the universe. True human perfection, then, is achieving, according to one’s capacity, apprehension of God and knowledge of his providence as expressed in creation and in his governance of the world. Having attained this apprehension, the way of life of this person will be assimilation to divine actions, and this comes about by always pursuing loving-kindness, righteousness, and judgement. Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed ends on this motif of assimilation to divine actions. Representing contrasting viewpoints and interpretations, this book discusses the contrast between Maimonides’ ideal of human perfection as intellectual fulfilment achieved in solitude and his extolling a virtuous life pursued within society.

The Lyre and the Cloak

2020 ◽  
pp. 243-276
Author(s):  
Emma Gee
Keyword(s):  
Ideal World ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Complete Synthesis ◽  
The World ◽  
Spherical Universe ◽  
The Universe ◽  
The Ideal

This chapter studies Plato’s Phaedo. In the Phaedo, the afterlife journey and the synoptic vision of the universe are collapsed into one another. In the myth of the dialogue, we are all, all the time, said to be on an underworld journey, since we live in the “creases” of the earth, not on its surface. At the same time, the True Earth of the Phaedo mirrors in its shape the spherical universe of the vision, as we also see it in the Spindle of Necessity in Plato’s Republic, and in the flight of souls around the universe in Plato’s Phaedrus. The Phaedo is a true geography of soul, in that the fate of the soul is integrated with the shape and motive forces of the earth seen as a whole. What we have in the Phaedo is a complete synthesis of the mythical underworld with the “geographic” earth. Tartarus (Phaedo 111e7–112e3) is the lowest point of the world, but it is also the center of the sphere. The result of Plato’s assimilation of the underworld, the landscape of the soul, with the “scientific” earth, is that earth and soul become analogous. They can be studied in the same way. In the ideal world, the universe itself is our eschatology.

The End of the Universe in Medieval Jewish Philosophy

AJS Review ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seymour Feldman
Keyword(s):  
General Principle ◽  
The Other ◽  
Greek Philosophy ◽  
Cosmological Principle ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Strict Interpretation ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Medieval Jewish Philosophy ◽  
The Universe

Both the Bible and the earliest Greek philosophers begin with accounts of the world's genesis. It is thus not surprising that medieval cosmological thought was preoccupied, perhaps obsessed, with the issue of creation. But what about the end of the world? If the universe had a beginning, does it necessarily have an end? Does creation imply destruction? On this topic the Bible is not so explicit and unambiguous. Greek philosophy, however, was virtually unanimous in claiming that whatever has a beginning will have an end, and that whatever will have an end had a beginning. If this cosmological principle is construed strictly, then the world's past and its future are essentially and necessarily linked together, such that the finitude of one entails the finitude of the other. This would mean that if the temporal history of the world is finite a pane ante, then by virtue of this cosmological principle it will have a temporal end a pane post. The most vigorous and detailed defense of the strict interpretation of this general principle was given by Aristotle, who attempted to prove it in his treatise On the Heavens. Henceforth, I shall refer to this principle as “Aristotle's theorem.”

scholarly journals Aristotelian Theories in Abraham ibn Ezra's Commentaries to the Bible

2018 ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Mariano GÓMEZ ARANDA
Keyword(s):  
The Bible ◽  
The World ◽  
Genesis 1 ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Biblical Commentaries ◽  
The Universe

Some of Abraham ibn Ezra’s philosophical ideas exposed in his biblical commentaries are the same as those of Aristotle. The purpose of this article is to analyse some of the Aristotelian ideas appearing in Abraham ibn Ezra’s biblical commentaries and explain how he adapts the Aristotelian concepts to the explanation of the specific biblical verses. Ibn Ezra uses these concepts in his explanation of the structure of the Universe as found in some Psalms, the creation of the world in Genesis 1, and the origin of evil according to the book of Ecclesiastes. This paper also attempts to provide a hypothesis on how Ibn Ezra was able to apprehend Aristotelian philosophy.

scholarly journals ONE NOSTALGIC COUNTER-NARRATIVE:THANK YOU EVER SO MUCHBY MARKO VIDOJKOVIĆ

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 262-277
Author(s):  
Mirjana M. Bečejski ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Theory ◽  
First Person ◽  
Shared History ◽  
Counter Narrative ◽  
The World ◽  
Parallel Universes ◽  
The Universe ◽  
The Ideal

Relying on the virtual narrative theory and the theory ofpossible worlds as a basis for interpreting narrative multiverses, this paper focuses on Marko Vidojković’s Thank You Ever So Much as a nostalgic counter-narrative in which the idea of nostos is realized by creating an alternative history. The events thatthe hero narrates/ writes in the first person take place in two parallel universes, “upward” (the world of the ideal SFRY, from which he comes) and “downward” (the world modelled after is the existential reality of the divided Yugoslav states) namely in the narrative present. At the diachronic level, the time axes, depicted in the form of the hero’s memories or dialogue, multiply backwards only until June 3, 1989, when the splitting of the universe(s) occurred. Further regressing introduces a motif of shared history and, through a wealth of details, reveals the position of the Yugo-nostalgic author of the narrative (Mirko Šipka or Marko Vidojković?), who avoids pathos with the help of irony, parody and vulgarisms while narrating us his anguish over all losthistorical possibilities to create the best country in the world, and his inability to return to his desired homeland.

scholarly journals On the quantum description of the early universe

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2 Jul-Dec) ◽  
pp. 263
Author(s):  
Gabriel R Bengochea
Keyword(s):  
Early Universe ◽  
Quantum Physics ◽  
Niels Bohr ◽  
Werner Heisenberg ◽  
Quantum Description ◽  
Realistic Theory ◽  
The World ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Origin Of The Universe ◽  
The Ideal

Why is it interesting to try to understand the origin of the universe? Everything we observe today, including our existence, arose from that event. Although we still do not have a theory that allows us to describe the origin itself, the study of the very early era of the universe involves the ideal terrain to analyze the interface between two of today’s most successful physical theories, General Relativity and Quantum physics. But it is also an area in which we have a large number of observational data to test our theoretical ideas. Two of the fathers of Quantum physics, Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg, shared some thoughts that could be described with these words: Quantum physics tells us that there is a line between the observed and the observer, and therefore science should be limited to what is observed. We must give up a complete, objective and realistic theory of the world. This article will orbit around these ideas and summarizes how it is that today, from recent works, we are in a position to try to challenge them (at least in part) through cosmology, seeking the quantum description of the early universe.

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