Man and Cosmos: The Quest for Perfection

1983 ◽  
pp. 107-123
Author(s):  
Byron L. Sherwin
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Jewish Thought ◽  
History Of

This chapter discusses Judah Loew's views on perfection. In developing his notion of the centrality of man, Loew drew from the anthropocentric views of his predecessors in the history of Jewish thought; his ideas seem rooted in Jewish mystical speculation. Man's perfection is essential for the realization of the cosmos. According to Judah Loew, man both reflects and embodies the three dimensions of reality. The three aspects of man—intellect (seikhel), soul (nefesh), and body (guf)—correspond to the three worlds: celestial, intermediary, and terrestrial. Therefore, to understand Judah Loew's notion of man, one must consider the three aspects of existence and their representations in man. The goal of the human being must be the purification of his body, of his matter, in order for it to coexist with the soul (nefesh). The chapter then looks at the perfection of the body, the soul, and the intellect.

Myriad Aspects of Secular Thinking on Malayali Cuisine

GIS Business ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 202-206
Author(s):  
SAJITHA M
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Social Indicators ◽  
The Body ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Healthy Life ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Civilized Society

Food is one of the main requirements of human being. It is flattering for the preservation of wellbeing and nourishment of the body.  The food of a society exposes its custom, prosperity, status, habits as well as it help to develop a culture. Food is one of the most important social indicators of a society. History of food carries a dynamic character in the socio- economic, political, and cultural realm of a society. The food is one of the obligatory components in our daily life. It occupied an obvious atmosphere for the augmentation of healthy life and anticipation against the diseases.  The food also shows a significant character in establishing cultural distinctiveness, and it reflects who we are. Food also reflected as the symbol of individuality, generosity, social status and religious believes etc in a civilized society. Food is not a discriminating aspect. It is the part of a culture, habits, addiction, and identity of a civilization.Food plays a symbolic role in the social activities the world over. It’s a universal sign of hospitality.[1]

scholarly journals Prejudices on Concerning Human Rights Vis-a-Vis Islam

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 397
Author(s):  
Müfit Selim Saruhan
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
The Body ◽  
Religious Rhetoric ◽  
Human Being ◽  
History Of Thought ◽  
History Of ◽  
Reasonable Answers

In the history of thought, defending human rights and freedom, positivist and materialist views are critical of religion in general and Islam in particular. Islam as a divine religion with its theoretical and practical dimensions has been the guarantor of human rights. Positivist and materialist views on every occasion ready to blame and identify the Islamic concept of servitude (to God) with slavery. But if we examine Islam in-depth with a philosophical mind, we can see that the Islamic concept of devotional servitude accommodates genuine freedom which intends to protect the health of both the body and the soul. Positivist and materialist minds consider the issue of human rights as their own, and religious sides approach this issue reluctantly due to the rhetoric of human rights devoid of religious rhetoric. Finding reasonable answers to the questions of what the source of human honor is and what makes human being meaningful will bring closer to each other the positivist/materialist views and religious views.

Modernism and Interpretation

1999 ◽  
pp. 205-236
Author(s):  
Louis Jacobs
Keyword(s):  
Human Being ◽  
Jewish Thought ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Ideas

This chapter connects theological approach to the historical critical one by considering three significant Jewish themes: the purpose of creation, “enjoyment of life”, and the doctrine of imitatio dei. It examines the history of the three themes in Jewish thought with a view to showing how precarious is the position of moderns, to be so convinced both that their new ideas are valuable and that the sources they anticipated become guilty of anachronism in their interpretations. The chapter also discusses Sa'adya Gaon's topic on “creation” in his Sefer ha'emunot vehade'ot as response to those who wonder the purpose God's creation of all creatures. Sa'adya suggests that God, being God, does not, like a human being, need a motive for what He does and may not have had any motive in creating the world. He seems to be saying that arbitrary acts are possible for God.

scholarly journals Alma: expressão da singularidade, da axio-ontologia e da fenomenologia do ser humano

2018 ◽  
Vol 74 (294) ◽  
pp. 338-361
Author(s):  
Renato Alves de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Theological Anthropology ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
The Body ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Soul ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
History Of

O conceito de “alma”, no curso da história da teologia, foi visto em um horizonte mais psicológico racional do que propriamente como elemento da antropologia teológica. A alma, considerada a parte excelsa da constituição ontológica, era vista como o princípio intelectivo do ser humano. Por motivos escatológicos, historicamente houve um primado da alma sobre o corpo. No entanto, a visibilidade histórica que a alma conquistou não a privou de passar por um desgate em seu conteúdo (uso excessivo de termos para nomeá-la, redução do ser humano à sua dimensão física etc), um silenciamento (excesso de valorização do corpo) e uma secularização (reduzida à mente humana). A alma humana tem sido redescoberta nas últimas décadas com um novo sentido e conteúdo: fundamento da singularidade, da especificidade, do valor, da dignidade e da vocação humana para o Transcendente. É o desejo de comunhão com o Eterno.Abstract: The concept of the soul, in the course of the history of theological, was seen in more psychological rational horizon than as a component of theological anthropology. The soul, considered the sublime part of the ontological constitution was seen as intellective principle of human being. For eschatological reasons, historically there was a rule of the soul over the body. However, the historical visibility that the soul has conquered not deprived of going through a wear for your content (overuse of terms to name et, reducing the human being to its physical dimension). A silencing (excess valuation of body) and a secularization (reduced to the human mind). The human soul has been rediscovered in recent decades with a new meaning and content: foundation of uniqueness, value, dignity of the human vocation to the transcendent. It is the desired communion with the eternal.Palavras-chave: Soul. Singularity. Axiology. Ontology. Human being.

scholarly journals Homo educandus through the prism of educational anthropology

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (6) ◽  
pp. 22-30
Author(s):  
Alexey V. Volkov ◽  
◽  
Svetlana V. Volkova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Mental Image ◽  
Research Field ◽  
The Body ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Multidisciplinary Study ◽  
Educational Anthropology ◽  
Anthropology Of Education ◽  
Close Relationship

An important area which has not received adequate attention within philosophy and educational theory is a close relationship of the human way of being and education. In the light of this the purpose of the article is Janus-faced, looking both inward at reconstructing a mental image of a man that is central for scholars’ worldview and outward at designing a philosophical model that would be keeping with the current challenges of education. Drawing attention at the widespread of electronic technologies in our life it is argued that the idea of a man as embodiment has significant educational consequences. The most important one is the possibility to reveal the meaning-making dimension of consciousness which the modern education urgently needs today. The claim that perception and cognition of the world does not take place from the standpoint of “pure” mind detached from the body, but rather on the basis of embodiment is considered to be a convincing one. In this regard, one of the primary missions of education is to reveal and activate the consciousness-body system as a source of man’s meaning-making activity. Furthermore the issue states that the pedagogical vision of the human being as someone who doesn’t have but search for meaning would succeed only if the human being is viewed as an integral whole rather than as separate parts. In conclusion it is stated that both philosophy and theory of education need to develop a multidisciplinary study of education – anthropology of education. The research field related to inquiry on the subject of education in the integrity of his three dimensions – mind, body and language.

The problem of periodization of the history of religion

1997 ◽  
pp. 3-8
Author(s):  
Borys Lobovyk
Keyword(s):  
Religious Studies ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Religious Development ◽  
History Of Religion ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Role Of Religion

An important problem of religious studies, the history of religion as a branch of knowledge is the periodization process of the development of religious phenomenon. It is precisely here, as in focus, that the question of the essence and meaning of the religious development of the human being of the world, the origin of beliefs and cult, the reasons for the changes in them, the place and role of religion in the social and spiritual process, etc., are converging.

Aspergillus Spondylodiscitis After Spinal Stenosis Surgery: A Case Report

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3 And 4) ◽  
pp. 155-160
Author(s):  
Mohsen Aghapoor ◽  
◽  
Babak Alijani Alijani ◽  
Mahsa Pakseresht-Mogharab ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Antifungal Drugs ◽  
The Body ◽  
Lower Limbs ◽  
Lumbar Pain ◽  
Case Presentation ◽  
Delay In Diagnosis ◽  
Death Case ◽  
Therapeutic Results ◽  
History Of ◽  
Probable Diagnosis

Background and Importance: Spondylodiscitis is an inflammatory disease of the body of one or more vertebrae and intervertebral disc. The fungal etiology of this disease is rare, particularly in patients without immunodeficiency. Delay in diagnosis and treatment of this disease can lead to complications and even death. Case Presentation: A 63-year-old diabetic female patient, who had a history of spinal surgery and complaining radicular lumbar pain in both lower limbs with a probable diagnosis of spondylodiscitis, underwent partial L2 and complete L3 and L4 corpectomy and fusion. As a result of pathology from tissue biopsy specimen, Aspergillus fungi were observed. There was no evidence of immunodeficiency in the patient. The patient was treated with Itraconazole 100 mg twice a day for two months. Pain, neurological symptom, and laboratory tests improved. Conclusion: The debridement surgery coupled with antifungal drugs can lead to the best therapeutic results.

Event and De-cision: Towards an Appropriation of Heidegger’s Last God

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tyler Tritten
Keyword(s):  
Human Being ◽  
History Of

This chapter compares Heidegger, primarily utilizing his notion of the last God in Contributions to Philosophy and his analysis of the contingency of reason The Principle of Reason, with Schelling. A number of similarities are drawn while also being careful to explicate their essential differences. For instance, although Schelling offers a very elaborate philosophy and history of mythology, Heidegger proves more pagan insofar as the last God is to be ushered in by poets rather than by philosophers. Of particular interest is a certain ambivalence in Heidegger. Does the last God arrive because beckoned by the human being or does the last God arrive completely of its own accord?

Re-imagining Reproduction: Unsettling Metaphors in the History of Imperial Science and Commercial Surrogacy in India

Somatechnics ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kalindi Vora
Keyword(s):  
Assisted Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Reproductive Technologies ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
Commercial Surrogacy ◽  
Art Practices ◽  
History Of ◽  
Travel Industry

This paper provides an analysis of how cultural notions of the body and kinship conveyed through Western medical technologies and practices in Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) bring together India's colonial history and its economic development through outsourcing, globalisation and instrumentalised notions of the reproductive body in transnational commercial surrogacy. Essential to this industry is the concept of the disembodied uterus that has arisen in scientific and medical practice, which allows for the logic of the ‘gestational carrier’ as a functional role in ART practices, and therefore in transnational medical fertility travel to India. Highlighting the instrumentalisation of the uterus as an alienable component of a body and subject – and therefore of women's bodies in surrogacy – helps elucidate some of the material and political stakes that accompany the growth of the fertility travel industry in India, where histories of privilege and difference converge. I conclude that the metaphors we use to structure our understanding of bodies and body parts impact how we imagine appropriate roles for people and their bodies in ways that are still deeply entangled with imperial histories of science, and these histories shape the contemporary disparities found in access to medical and legal protections among participants in transnational surrogacy arrangements.

Receptions of the Past: Commemoration, Racism, Desire

Somatechnics ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 288-303
Author(s):  
Michael Connors Jackman
Keyword(s):  
Critical Point ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
White Privilege ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
The Body ◽  
Race And Racism ◽  
Lesbian And Gay ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of

This article investigates the ways in which the work of The Body Politic (TBP), the first major lesbian and gay newspaper in Canada, comes to be commemorated in queer publics and how it figures in the memories of those who were involved in producing the paper. In revisiting a critical point in the history of TBP from 1985 when controversy erupted over race and racism within the editorial collective, this discussion considers the role of memory in the reproduction of whiteness and in the rupture of standard narratives about the past. As the controversy continues to haunt contemporary queer activism in Canada, the productive work of memory must be considered an essential aspect of how, when and for what reasons the work of TBP comes to be commemorated. By revisiting the events of 1985 and by sifting through interviews with individuals who contributed to the work of TBP, this article complicates the narrative of TBP as a bluntly racist endeavour whilst questioning the white privilege and racially-charged demands that undergird its commemoration. The work of producing and preserving queer history is a vital means of challenging the intentional and strategic erasure of queer existence, but those who engage in such efforts must remain attentive to the unequal terrain of social relations within which remembering forms its objects.

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