The Necessity for a Holistic Approach to Protecting Human Life

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Holistic Approach

Concept of vayu in ayurved and yogshastra – a comparative study

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (07) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr sunila h deo
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
The Other ◽  
Eligibility Criteria ◽  
Current Effort ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Goals And Objectives

Introduction and Background: Yogashastra and Ayurveda are two ancient Indian sciences that have evolved separately over millennia. Many masters have contributed to the growth and development of these sciences and they have produced seminal literature and body of knowledge in both these streams. The goals and objectives of these two sciences differ from each other and accordingly their approaches too differ from each other.  Both in Yogashastra and Ayurveda, the concept of Vayu has very important place. Current effort is undertaken from the viewpoint to unravel the complementary and contradictory aspects and explore the possibility of combining the concepts so as to evolve the holistic approach. Aim: To compare the concept of Vayu as described in Yogashastra and in Ayurveda. Discussion and Results: Yogashstra the concept of Vayus is aimed solely at attaining mastery over the bodily Vayus by following Yogic disciplines to attain Moksha or final emancipation of the soul from the unending cycle of birth and death. This puts the Yogic discussion of Vayus in the realm of highest spiritual practices with the ultimate conceivable goal of human life that can be taught only by the accomplished masters and eligible seekers who fulfil the strictest eligibility criteria stipulated by Yogic discipline. On the other hand in Ayurveda the concept of Vayus is from the perspective of knowing physiology and causes of various diseases and their treatment by means of various therapies and medicines. All these things are essentially corporeal in nature and do have worldly goals to achieve.

scholarly journals PERSPEKTIF AGAMA DAN KEBUDAYAAN DALAM KEHIDUPAN MASYARAKAT INDONESIA (Suatu Tinjauan Sosiologi Agama)

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Laode Monto Bauto
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Community Groups ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
Culture Influence ◽  
The One ◽  
Relationship Of

The relationship of religion, culture and community very important or is a system of life because of the interconnectedness of each other. But the question of keberagamaan and social development will not be complete if only seen from one particular aspect only. For that in looking at the question of societal must go through a holistic approach. Required studies as the study of the sociology of religion and vice versa. It means the study of the life of keberagamaan the community won't be completed without involving sociology, sociological stats helper monkeys do not judge the religion concerned. Each nation or group that actually live up to the mandate of each religion, therefore by itself will manifest harmony, brotherhood, peace and comfort in the life of bermayarakat. Because religions have taught the truth and goodness and distanced from all malice, strife, discrimination etc. Religious life looks on mindset, behaviour or attitude and way of living one's religious attitude embodiment and able to receive different neighbor any religion as a servant of God Almighty. Religion as a guide of human life created by God, the one true God through his life. Whereas culture is as a habit or an Ordinance of human life created by the man itself results from creativity, taste and karsanya given by the Lord. Religion and culture influence each other each other. Religion affects culture, community groups, and ethnic groups. The culture tends to be fickle to any people or groups who really lives in accordance with the mandate his religion each, hence will automatically be eventuate harmony, the peace and comfort in life bermayarakat. Because of religion have taught truth and goodness and removed from all philippic, dissensions, discrimination and others. Religious life looks on people think, behavior or attitude and manner embodiment attitude religious life someone and capable of receiving fellow different any religious as the servants of allah swt. Religion as a guideline human life created by god, of almighty god in lived his life. While culture is as habit or procedures of human life created by human beings themselves from the power copyright, taste and karsanya given by god. Religion and culture interplay each other. Religious affect culture, the group, and peoples. Culture capricious tending to any people or groups who really lives in accordance with each, amanah his religion hence with itself would be harmony, the fraternity, peace and comfort in life community. Because of religion have taught truth and goodness and badness, taking away from all dissensions, discrimination and others. Religious life seemed in a pattern of thought, of behavior or attitude and manner of living religious embodiment of the attitude of someone and capable of receiving a fellow who is different any religious a follower of allah swt. Religion as a guideline human life created by the lord of almighty god in lived his life. While culture is as the habit or procedures of human life created by human beings themselves from the power of copyright, taste and karsanya given by god. Religion and culture on each other. Affecting culture, religion community groups, and peoples.Keywords :Religion, cultural and society

Strong Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness

2020 ◽  
Vol 07 (01) ◽  
pp. 63-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gee Wah Ng ◽  
Wang Chi Leung
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Autonomous Systems ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Strong Ai ◽  
Strong Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Future Research Directions

In the last 10 years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has seen successes in fields such as natural language processing, computer vision, speech recognition, robotics and autonomous systems. However, these advances are still considered as Narrow AI, i.e. AI built for very specific or constrained applications. These applications have its usefulness in improving the quality of human life; but it is not good enough to do highly general tasks like what the human can do. The holy grail of AI research is to develop Strong AI or Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), which produces human-level intelligence, i.e. the ability to sense, understand, reason, learn and act in dynamic environments. Strong AI is more than just a composition of Narrow AI technologies. We proposed that it has to be a holistic approach towards understanding and reacting to the operating environment and decision-making process. The Strong AI must be able to demonstrate sentience, emotional intelligence, imagination, effective command of other machines or robots, and self-referring and self-reflecting qualities. This paper will give an overview of current Narrow AI capabilities, present the technical gaps, and highlight future research directions for Strong AI. Could Strong AI become conscious? We provide some discussion pointers.

Holistic approach to Geriatric Care

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. Sreelekshmi VS ◽  
Dr. Prashasth MJ. ◽  
Dr. Muralidhara .
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
The Body ◽  
Noncommunicable Disease ◽  
Degenerative Changes ◽  
Health Maintenance ◽  
Healthy Longevity ◽  
Detailed Classification ◽  
Clinical Consequences

Old age is an integral part of human life. The branch of medicine or social science dealing with the health and care of old people is called Geriatrics. Diseases prevention and health maintenance is more important in old age because sickness related morbidity is more frequent, serious, chronic and more expensive to treat in this age group. Geriatric problems are best confronted by preventive measures than curative ones. Clinical consequences in various system of the body due to changes with ageing are described in text books. Various Ayurveda classics gives detailed classification of Vaya based on the degenerative changes in the body. The Nidana, Poorvaroopa and Lakshanas of Jara is clearly mentioned in Madhava Nidana. Importance of Dinacharya and Ritucharya in preventing Jara is mentioned by Acharyas. Ayurveda has the abeyantto avert disease by health promotion and noncommunicable disease prevention. Jara is considered as one among the eight branches of Ayurveda. Rasayana (Rejuvenation) and Jarachikitsa promote healthy longevity. Jarachikitsa and Rasayana helps to delay Vruddhavastha (ageing) and control geriatric degenerative changes in body.

scholarly journals La morte e la tentazione dell’eutanasia nella riflessione di Marie De Hennezel: considerazioni etiche e risvolti pratici

2005 ◽  
Vol 54 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonella Ciabattoni
Keyword(s):  
Terminal Illness ◽  
Clinical Training ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Moral Dilemma ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Good Medical Practice ◽  
Ethic Of Caring ◽  
The One ◽  
Dying Patient

L’Autrice ripercorre, in questo articolo, le problematiche più rilevanti che emergono dalla riflessione sulla morte, attraverso l’analisi del lavoro di Marie De Hennezel. Chi si prende cura del malato terminale si trova spesso coinvolto in dilemmi morali e combattuto tra doveri apparentemente contrastanti: quello di difendere la vita fisica e alleviare le sofferenze da una parte, e di salvaguardare la dignità del morire dall’altra. In questo contesto, superare la “tentazione dell’eutanasia” significa riscoprire la dimensione della cura e dall’accompagnamento al morente, in senso olistico. La cura del malato nella sua totalità - e non della sola malattia e dei sintomi - è, infatti, un farsi carico del paziente, secondo un approccio olistico che è alla base della buona medicina: un “prendersi cura” che non ha fine, neanche quando la cura della malattia non è più possibile. Assumere la prospettiva di cura e sottrarre il malato terminale all’isolamento significa superare la paura della morte e del dolore in genere, ripensando la nostra relazione con il malato terminale a partire da “un’etica della cura” più che da “un’etica della guarigione”. Il presupposto fondamentale resta il riconoscimento prioritario della sacralità della vita umana, del primato della persona sulla società e del dovere di quest’ultima di rispettare la vita, specie quella sofferente ed indifesa, e l’alternativa principale quella della compassione e della condivisione, unitamente ad una solida formazione culturale e clinica, specie nell’ambito delle cure palliative. ---------- In this article, the Author runs through the most relevant issues rising from the reflection on death, through the work of Marie De Hennezel. Whoever takes care of a patient with a terminal illness is often founded to be in a moral dilemma which involves opposing duties. On the one hand, the duty of protecting a physical life and alleviating sufferance; on the other hand, the duty of safeguarding the dignity of a dying patient. In this context, overcoming the “temptation of euthanasia” means rediscovering the dimension of caring and of accompanying the dying patient, in a holistic dimension. Taking care of the patient as a whole - and not just of the illness and its symptoms - in fact involves making oneself responsible for him, following a holistic approach which is at the basis of good medical practice: a caring that does not have an end, even when finding a solution to the illness is not more possible. Using a caring perspective and removing the terminal ill patient from isolation means overcoming the fear of death and suffering in general, reconsidering our relationship with the dying patient starting from adopting “an ethic of caring” rather than “an ethic of curing”. The fundamental supposition remains the paramount understanding of the inviolability of human life, of the primacy of the person on society, and of the duty of the latter to respect life, especially that which is suffering and vulnerable; the main alternative is an approach based on compassion and sharing, together with a solid cultural and clinical training, especially in the sphere of palliative care.

scholarly journals METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES IN PRACTICE OF PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF FUTURE SPECIALISTS ON HEALTH OF HUMAN

2018 ◽  
pp. 134-138
Author(s):  
O. MIKHEIENKO ◽  
T. MIKHEIENKO
Keyword(s):  
Professional Training ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Quality Criteria ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Integrated System ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
Study Process

The article deals with the role of methodology in the process of professional training of specialists. An overview of pedagogical and methodological literature on this problem has been carried out, which shows that the methodology plays a decisive role as it is the basis for the integrity, systematic, and the effectiveness of educational and professional activities. The effectiveness of the professional training of a specialist depends to a large extent on the formation of its methodological culture, which defines both general outlooks and specific principles, conditions, methods, forms, means, and peculiarities of solving theoretical and practical problems during the study process and in the process of further professional activities. The essence and content characteristics of holistic, synergistic, competency and activity approaches are revealed. The expediency of their application as a methodological basis for ensuring the effectiveness of the educational process and the success of practical and applied activities of human health specialists has been substantiated. The holistic approach regards man as an integrated system, and therefore, the effectiveness of health-improving influence can provide a complex of remedies for the physical, mental, spiritual and social spheres of human life. Synergetics provides an opportunity to find optimal and effective means, methods, forms, ways of making efforts for improvement, development, self-improvement. Competency approach involves rethinking the purpose, content, quality criteria and learning outcomes, their focus on the development of creative initiative, autonomy, competitiveness and mobility. Activity approach considers activity as the main source of personality formation and the factor of its development, through which the person becomes the subject of knowledge and transformation of reality.

scholarly journals PERSPEKTIF AGAMA DAN KEBUDAYAAN DALAM KEHIDUPAN MASYARAKAT INDONESIA

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yusri Viana Foenale
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Religious Attitude ◽  
The One ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
To Receive ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship of religion, culture and community very important or is a system of lifebecause of the interconnectedness of each other. But the question of keberagamaan andsocial development will not be complete if only seen from one particular aspect only. For thatin looking at the question of societal must go through a holistic approach. Required studiesas the study of the sociology of religion and vice versa. It means the study of the life ofkeberagamaan the community won't be completed without involving sociology, sociologicalstats helper monkeys do not judge the religion concerned. Each nation or group that actuallylive up to the mandate of each religion, therefore by itself will manifest harmony,brotherhood, peace and comfort in the life of bermayarakat. Because religions have taughtthe truth and goodness and distanced from all malice, strife, discrimination etc. Religious lifelooks on mindset, behaviour or attitude and way of living one's religious attitude embodimentand able to receive different neighbor any religion as a servant of God Almighty. Religion asa guide of human life created by God, the one true God through his life. Whereas culture isas a habit or an Ordinance of human life created by the man itself results from creativity,taste and karsanya given by the Lord.

scholarly journals Kematangan Beragama dalam Perspektif Psikologi Tasawuf

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 305-325
Author(s):  
Zulkarnain Zulkarnain
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Illness ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
Religious Behavior ◽  
Religious Activities ◽  
Strong Connection ◽  
Religious Maturity ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Worship Practices

The psychology of Sufism has a strong connection in all areas of human life in modern times. The modern human is not enough to be able to understand the material, scientific, technological and cultural needs. Certainly, modern humans demand answers on how to display spirituality in religious practices. Psychology and Sufism as a holistic approach oration that integrates psychic and spiritual can provide solutions to human problems. Through spirituality, a person will be able to purify the soul in religious behavior, improve morals, the reference lines in the noble values ​​of the religion he believes. Religious maturity contains patterns of adjustment with religious awareness and religious beliefs adopted. Applying the noble values ​​of religion that are embraced comprehensive in aspects of daily life. As a spiritual door (Sufism) is a container for the formation of a person's religious behavior carried out in religious activities. The purpose of this paper is to describe and certainly to know the maturity of religion from the perspective of Sufism psychology based on theorization. The psychology of Sufism is a typical paradigm to overcome the problem of human psychiatric illness through religious worship practices, healthy mental processes in life. Certainly able to find peace and happiness in living in diversity.

The purpose and objectives of the pedagogical process in the works His Holiness Patriarch Kirill

2020 ◽  
pp. 3-15
Author(s):  
Ivan Viacheslavovich Moiseev
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Pedagogical Practice ◽  
Scientific Level ◽  
Holistic Approaches ◽  
Religious Teaching ◽  
Goals And Objectives ◽  
Pedagogical Approaches

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill is known for his extensive activities in various spheres of life, from the diocesan (regional) significance to the level of a world scale. A considerable place in the biography of Patriarch Kirill is occupied by pedagogical service. His Holiness Patriarch uses in his views a holistic approach to the world and man, considering his physical, mental and spiritual aspects of being, which allows him to form the most fully pedagogical system. This article deals with the problem of setting the goals and objectives of pedagogy for building the corresponding pedagogical system and the pedagogical practice arising from it. The aim of the work is to review and analyze the goals and objectives of the pedagogical process set by His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill. The methodological basis of the research is three levels of methodology: at the philosophical level, this is an idealistic methodology, at the general scientific level, it is systemstructural, functional, activity-based and holistic approaches, and at a concrete-scientific level, cultural, axiological, environmental, and personal pedagogical approaches. The results of this work is an analysis of the pedagogical views of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill concerning the goals and objectives of the educational process, consideration of the factors and areas of human life that affect the formation of personality, as well as the classification of the goals of pedagogy depending on the pedagogical approaches of the religious teaching about the meaning of life. Thus, the pedagogical views of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill must be studied and analyzed in order to use the experience of His Holiness’s ministry in modern educational theory and practice.

Mechanistic understanding and holistic approach of phytoremediation: A review on application and future prospects

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lungwani Muungo
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Heavy Metal Contamination ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Waste Production ◽  
Potential Efficacy ◽  
Contaminated Irrigation Water ◽  
Further Development

Rapid industrialisation, increased rate of waste production, higher agricultural inputs, mining, industrial waste,and contaminated irrigation water are increasing the heavy metal contamination in agricultural land andfreshwater sources. These heavy metals contaminated resources are used by humans for food production thatultimately get accumulated in the food chain. Biomagnification of heavy metals can pose solemn health threatsto human life, such as mutations, endocrine disruption, nephro-toxicity, etc. There has long been a need fordecontamination of these resources and prevention from the further contamination to avert the negative effectson human health. The “phytoremediation” process is a very promising and eco-friendly approach for heavymetal remediation from contaminated sites with some limitations. An effort has been made to present thescattered information of phytoremediation technique in a single paper through this review. The present reviewdescribes the fundamentals of phytoremediation including the different associated processes, mechanism, andinfluencing factors. The mechanism of tolerance and detoxification of heavy metals by plants has also beendiscussed in brief. The possible amelioration/modification of a particular phytoremediation strategy has beenadvocated to increase its potential efficacy and further development of these strategies for future reference. Thereview tries to cover all the essential and adequate information of the relevant published data with some recentadvances in phytoremediation approaches. It is recommended to apply the combination of different availabletechniques or phytoremediation techniques with modern chemical, biological and genetic engineering tools foran easy and effective decontamination of heavy metals from soil and agricultural land. The review advocates thedevelopment of site specific, farmer driven, sequential and phytoremediation strategies along with policy supportfor effective decontamination.

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