The Path to Devekut: Ecstatic and Cordoverian Teachings

2010 ◽  
pp. 156-171
Author(s):  
Sharon Flatto
Keyword(s):  
Human Activity ◽  
Striking Similarity ◽  
The Universe ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
Reward And Punishment

This chapter analyses how Ezekiel Landau appropriates Cordoverian expressions, motifs, and ideals aside from availing zoharic teachings in all his works. It explains the central mystical goal of devekut that is promoted in both ecstatic and Cordoverian writings, which claims that nothing less than the structure of the universe, the purpose of human activity, reward and punishment, and the nature of the next world can relate to this state. It also mentions how Landau frequently advocates the ideal of devekut and related mystical concepts in terms borrowed from Maimonides' philosophical and legal works. The chapter considers ideas that bear a striking similarity to elements of ecstatic and Cordoverian Kabbalah, in which Landau promotes the ideal of devekut. It discusses the presence of the goal of devekut that are regularly incorporated into Cordoverian works.

scholarly journals Cultural Transfer and Dialogue of Cultures in the Russian and Latin American Civilizational Borderlands

2021 ◽  
pp. 110-127
Author(s):  
Yakov SHEMYAKIN
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Cultural Transfer ◽  
Planetary Scale ◽  
Intercultural Interaction ◽  
Basic Reason ◽  
The Universe ◽  
The Ideal

The article compares “cultural transfer” and “dialogue of cultures” as socio-cultural realities in two "border" civilizations of planetary scale – Latin America and Russia. The author develops and illustrates the thesis that identity of subjects of intercultural interaction is a necessary precondition and the key to cultural transfer. The focus is on the problematics of the dialogue of cultures. According to the author, the basic reason for all difficulties to put into practice the ideal of dialogue consists in what W. O. Quine described as the problem of "radical translation", that is, of understanding texts created within another culture based on essentially different views about the universe and life.

scholarly journals Keadilan Hukum Jeremy Bentham dan Relevansinya bagi Praktik Hukum Kontemporer

Humaniora ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 299
Author(s):  
Frederikus Fios
Keyword(s):  
Global Politics ◽  
Jeremy Bentham ◽  
Ideal Model ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Core Idea ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Universe Of Discourse ◽  
British Philosopher ◽  
The Ideal

Fair punishment for a condemned has been long debated in the universe of discourse of law and global politics. The debate on the philosophical level was no less lively. Many schools of thought philosophy question, investigate, reflect and assess systematically the ideal model for the subject just punishment in violation of the law. One of the interesting and urgent legal thought Jeremy Bentham, a British philosopher renowned trying to provide a solution in the middle of the debate was the doctrine or theory of utilitarianism. The core idea is that the fair punishment should be a concern for happiness of a condemned itself, and not just for revenge. Bentham thought has relevance in several dimensions such as dimensions of humanism, moral and utility.  

Discussions and Applications

1997 ◽  
pp. 60-106
Author(s):  
Elizabeth M. Kraus
Keyword(s):  
Alfred North Whitehead ◽  
Actual Entity ◽  
Modal Theory ◽  
Real Essence ◽  
The Universe ◽  
The Ideal

This chapter analyzes Part II of Process and Reality. It begins with a discussion of fact and form, and states that for Alfred North Whitehead, to be an actual entity is to be fully formed, fully definite, with no indeterminations left unresolved. From the welter of what it could be, an actual entity decides what it will be: realizing certain potentials and positively excluding others; taking a definite stance with respect to everything in the ideal and actual worlds. Its real essence, structured by its associative hierarchy, comprises the full particularity of its status in the universe and of the universe in it: its unique way of housing and pervading this world populated by these actual entities. The remainder of the chapter explains the extensive continuum; order, society, organisms, and environment; the modal theory of perception; and a theory of judgment.

Maxentius, the Dioscuri, and the Legitimisation of Imperial Power

Antichthon ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 161-180
Author(s):  
Gwynaeth McIntyre
Keyword(s):  
Fourth Century ◽  
Imperial Power ◽  
Ideological Conflict ◽  
The City ◽  
The Universe ◽  
The Ideal

AbstractMythological twin brothers played key roles in the establishment and preservation of the city of Rome. This article examines the use of one particular set of brothers, Castor and Pollux, by rival forms of government in the early fourth century ce. In his work on the representations of the Dioscuri on Roman coinage, Gricourt argues that the Dioscuri symbolise the same ideas on Maxentius’ coins as on other such imperial coinage, namely their role in maintaining the eternal order of the universe and their roles as protectors of soldiers.1 More recently, however, Marlowe and Hekster have successfully argued that Maxentius’ ideology was a counterclaim to that presented by the Tetrarchy.2 Developing this notion further with respect to Maxentius’ coinage, this article argues that, for the Tetrarchs, Castor and Pollux served as the ideal figures to symbolise the importance of concordia in the collective rule of like-minded individuals. Maxentius, however, used Castor and Pollux in connection with other symbols of the city of Rome (such as Romulus, Remus, and the she-wolf) on his coins to promote his restoration of the city of Rome (in conjunction with titles such as princeps and conservator urbis suae). The examination of this ideological conflict between Maxentius and the Tetrarchy, through their use of Castor and Pollux on their coinage, sheds light on the mutability of myth and its role in the promotion of particular aspects of mythological narratives and figures to support an individual’s own claims to power.

Causality, Determinism And Freedom Of The Will

Philosophy ◽  
1964 ◽  
Vol 39 (149) ◽  
pp. 233-248
Author(s):  
Lionel Kenner
Keyword(s):  
Human Activity ◽  
Necessary Conditions ◽  
The State ◽  
Freedom Of The Will ◽  
Sufficient And Necessary Conditions ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Universe

The classical determinist argument is that every event has a cause, that every event in the universe is an effect whose sufficient and necessary conditions are the state of the universe immediately preceding it. For this reason we could not have done otherwise than we did. We do not have free-wills and hence we are not morally responsible for our thoughts and actions. The classical deterministmay, however, modify his position and agree that not every event inthe world has a cause, but only that every human activity—our thoughts and our actions—are causally determined. Butit would still follow that we could not have done otherwise than wedid. As the first formulation entails the second formulation, and is more usual, we shall adopt that one.

scholarly journals Mitos dan Budaya

Humaniora ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mia Angeline
Keyword(s):  
Human Activity ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Universal Themes ◽  
The Universe

This article describes the role of myth and some universal themes of myth, such as the creation of the world, a huge flood, death, and the end of the world. Almost all the world's myths concern this universal themes, as seen from the similarity of some of the myths followed by many cultures in the world. These myths have primary functions to human’s behavior and attitude because people keep telling almost the same myths to their predecessors. The goals for this research are (1) knowing the functions of myths with famous themes from various culture and (2) knowing the background and relationship between myths and modern culture. The result describes the relationship between the cultural myths, where the core of the story is the truth of humanity. In addition, myth acts as a template to organize their daily activities as well as human activity, but it also serves to introduce human to a greater power in the universe. The values in each story will be interpreted as rules and customs that must be met, and this has resulted in the emergence of a culture passed down from generation to generation. 

Information Space and Information Process:Genesis and Evolution

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatiana Fedorovna Berestova
Keyword(s):  
Human Activity ◽  
Information Space ◽  
Information Process ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Concept Of Information ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Qualitative Characteristics

In this article,the phenomenon of "information space" and its methods of study, its types, elementary structure and qualitative characteristics are discussed, the author's definition of the concept of "information" is given, the structure of the information process, and the phases, which are the basis for the evolution of the information space and the universe of human activity, are considered.

Contingent Continent

2017 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-49
Author(s):  
Rachel St. John
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
The Ideal

This article highlights how Americans used intertwined arguments about space and geography to justify and denounce different territorial configurations from the late eighteenth century through the Civil War. These arguments wove together ideas about geography (a set of physical, topographical features) and space (the human constructs that shape movement and human relations) in everything from theoretical arguments about the ideal size of republics to specific ideas about how rivers, mountains, oceans, and other features related to the proper shape of the nation. Americans evoked a variety of assumptions about how the physical landscape shaped human activity. They also made arguments about space and the ways that places were physically, and thus should be politically, connected. Highlighting an underappreciated current of manifest disunion, this article illustrates how different factions used geographic and spatial arguments not only to support and condemn varied expansionist visions, but also to justify disunion and secession.

Comparing Yin-Yang, the Chinese Symbol of Creation, with Ouroboros of Greek Alchemy

1989 ◽  
Vol 17 (03n04) ◽  
pp. 95-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Mahdihassan
Keyword(s):  
Posterior Half ◽  
Anterior Portion ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Anterior Half ◽  
Yin Yang ◽  
The Universe ◽  
The Ideal

The universe was early divided into Earth below and Heaven above. These, two as one, gave the idea of opposites but forming a unity. Each opposite was assumed to be powerful and so was their final unity. For creation of the universe they projected reproduction to conceive creation. Now reproduction results in the union of two opposites as male and female. Correspondingly, the Chinese believed Light and Darkness, as the ideal opposites, when united, yielded creative energy. The two opposites were further conceived as matter and energy which became dual-natured but as one. The two opposites were yin-yang and their unity was called Chhi, Yin-Yang was treated separately in Chinese cosmology which consisted of five cosmic elements. Since Chinese alchemy did reach Alexandria probably the symbol Yin-Yang, as dual-natured, responsible for creation, was transformed into a symbol called Ouroboros, It is a snake and as such a symbol of soul. Its head and anterior portion is red, being the colour of blood as soul; its tail and posterior half is dark, representing body. Ouroboros here is depicted white and black, as soul and body, the two as "one which is all". It is cosmic soul, the source of all creation. Ouroboros is normally depicted with its anterior half as black but it should be the reverse as shown here. With the name Chemeia taken to Kim-Iya, the last word would take Ouroboros to Yin-Yang.

scholarly journals The Hierarchy of Values in the Contemporary Science

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iurii A. Mielkov
Keyword(s):  
Moral Judgment ◽  
Goal Setting ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Scientific Activity ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Contemporary Science ◽  
Fundamental Value ◽  
The Ideal

<p>The author follows the philosophical conception of the contemporary science that presents it as “post-non-classical”—as an emerging paradigm of dialectical comprehension of scientific knowledge that resolves the contradiction between classical monism and non-classical plurality by enabling the approach to considering the reality as unity in plurality. In the light of that conception, scientific values and goals constitute an elaborate hierarchical system, its highest level being presented by the ideal as the embodiment of both the final goal of the whole activity and the fundamental value that defines the goal-setting on lower hierarchy levels. The current crisis of science, as well as crises visible in many other spheres of human activity, could in fact be traced to the crisis of values—particularly, to the latency of the higher levels of values, and especially that of the ideal, that forces lower “means” to serve as quasi-values while profaning the whole enterprise. That is, instead of searching for the truth, scientific community is engaged only in mundane activities like supporting its own institutional existence and providing profit for its members. The proposed solution to the current crisis could be presented in the form of asserting human personality as the autonomous subject of moral judgment and philosophical recognition of the ideal level as the ultimate determinant of scientific activity.</p>

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