Identity, Belonging, and Conflict

2022 ◽  
pp. 153-168
Author(s):  
Ziya Kıvanç Kıraç
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Symbolic Forms ◽  
The World ◽  
Crisis Of Meaning ◽  
Nature And Society ◽  
Ways Of Life ◽  
Controversial Concept

The concept of community is a controversial concept in terms of social sciences. However, today, when considered together with the concepts of identity and belonging, it can be said that the community has strong connotations. Where the community begins and ends is explained by the concept of boundary. The inside or outside of the border is a map of meaning. Because giving meaning to complex nature and society is one of the most important needs of human beings, the crisis of meaning created by modern times for humanity has led to the strengthening of grand narratives. The narratives, which propose various ways of life for the salvation of humanity, especially make use of symbols and symbolic forms. Because symbols are carriers of meaning, in this study, the identity factor, which constitutes the essence of the endless conflicts in the world, has been investigated with the symbolic constructs of the ideological view. For this, a connection has been established between identity, belonging and the community, which includes the meaning of collective action.

How Cassirer explains myth and other symbolic forms through semiotic functions

Semiotica ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (233) ◽  
pp. 125-144
Author(s):  
Masoud Algooneh Juenghani
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Specific Form ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Symbolic Form ◽  
Ernst Cassirer ◽  
Symbolic Forms ◽  
Philosophy Of Culture ◽  
Independent Functions ◽  
Theoretical Assumptions ◽  
The World

AbstractErnst Cassirer (1874–1945), Neo-Kantian philosopher of Marburg school, studies myth as a component of symbolic forms. He considers myth as the cornerstone of philosophy of culture as well as the source of such other forms as language, religion, art and science. Cassirer, applying an epistemological approach towards myths and other realms of human culture, argues that human beings experience the world through a mediated process. Of course, this mediated encounter with the world has different aspects in the evolving course of culture. These aspects are completely dependent upon the symbolic form through which man experiences his world. However, it seems what Cassirer puts forth as an explanation of the cultural evolution of mankind is basically influenced by his semiotic viewpoints. Therefore, the present article tries to find the theoretical resources of Cassirer’s thought and analyze his reasoning in this regard. Emphasizing Cassirer’s theoretical assumptions as well as his methodology, we have tried to better understand his claims about myth and other symbolic forms. It has been revealed that Cassirer’s theory is mainly shaped by his particular models of semiotic functions. Analyzing the semiotic functions of each specific form indicates that Cassirer has differentiated three independent functions. Each of these functions works on an expressive, Ausdrucken. representative, Darstellungen. or signifying Bedeutungen. basis and is respectively correspondent with myth, language, and science.

La fonction héroïque: parole épidictique et enjeux de qualification

2009 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loïc Nicolas
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Present Contribution ◽  
Symbolic Forms ◽  
The World ◽  
Rhetorical Genre

Abstract The present contribution to the analysis of the rhetorical genre of eulogy and blame proposes to approach this oratorical undertaking from the point of view of its performative action on praxis. The question is to clarify the conditions of the possibility of this eminently ritual exercise of qualification of the world that attempts, by emphasizing the value of a figure that is rather singular, that of the “hero,” to express the present of a community and to program passing to the act. The goal of our reflection consists in showing how the epideictic genre, by the confirmation of a meaning actualized by the speech act, strives to establish and fix the properties of things and consecrate the symbolic forms that can present themselves as justification of a collective action.

Circuits of Apartheid

Glimpse ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 15-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nyasha Mboti ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Unsolved Problem ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Digital Networks ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
American President ◽  
The World ◽  
Password Protection ◽  
Global Exploitation

This keynote address is about the supply, maintenance and allocation of fungible, vulnerable human bodies—what American President Donald Trump would categorize as the shitholes of the world. Underlying our modern times is a large, unsolved problem about what is really going on in the world. I use the novel theoretical lens of Apartheid Studies to appreciate how we have neglected to read, recognize and call out the persistent circuits of apartheid that are at the heart of global capitalist modernity. Our contemporary age, built on interoperable digital networks, tends to reinforce global forms of apartheid. Apartheid Studies is a new field of studies that makes it possible to expose these circuits. Whereas human beings are human because we all possess a kind of strongly encrypted password which we reserve to give or not to give—so that we feel relatively protected and free to be what we want—this password protection has been eroded by institutions and powerful elites. Modernity itself, by its very nature, emerges when we start to share our passwords with strangers. Passing on the control of the passwords of our being to strangers causes global apartheid. Global capitalist modernity, expressed in invasive technology, generally undermines human beings’ sense of self, immunity, inviolability, indivisibility, and replaces it with social media and an internet of things which are predicated on sharing our privacy with strangers. I propose new emphases on restorative forensics and literacies that are appropriate to the task of generating a scholarship of the future that is ethical and opposed to systemic injustice, that exposes global exploitation, racism, deception, and corruption, and that promotes just worlds.

scholarly journals video Art of “Bannan0gsata Case Study”: Women Muteness

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-30
Author(s):  
I-na Phuyuthanon
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Conflict Of Interest ◽  
Video Art ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Southern Thailand ◽  
The World ◽  
Ways Of Life

Video art is conveyance of creation of human emotions from a person who share similar emotions using digital media. It is conveyed through spiritual and emotional movements of the creators with definite aims concerning traditions, customs, beliefs, religions, and local ways of life. A range of issues in three border provinces of southern Thailand: Yala, Pattani, and Narathiwat, were brought up. With depiction of separatist terrorism in the area, video art might be able to tell complicated, over-a-decade-long story triggered by two incidents: the Tak Bai Incident and the clash at Krue Sae Mosque, which brought the three provinces to public attention. The video art provides a way to understand the society, human empathy, and conflict of interest in Bannangsata District. These aspects were conveyed through the local’s ways of life with religion as a spiritual keeping by believing that God has determined everything and that they, as human, have to face any test they are given. The end of the video art presented what cannot be narrated by words about the area, and showed more than what the news may offer, which intensifies fear.The researcher studied various aspects of Bannangsata District and has shown them through a type of artistic media called video art, specifically about the issue of women’s suppression as experienced by those who survived series of tragic incidents. The video art aimed to raise awareness about changes of a way of life in the area and to create sympathy for fellow human beings there. The researcher realized that empathy for fellow human beings was significant for the existence of the world and that it cannot be relinquished. Thus, this art media was made to portray the issue of complicated troubles in the area.

scholarly journals video Art of “Bannan0gsata Case Study”: Women Muteness

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-30
Author(s):  
I-na Phuyuthanon
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Conflict Of Interest ◽  
Video Art ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Southern Thailand ◽  
The World ◽  
Ways Of Life

Video art is conveyance of creation of human emotions from a person who share similar emotions using digital media. It is conveyed through spiritual and emotional movements of the creators with definite aims concerning traditions, customs, beliefs, religions, and local ways of life. A range of issues in three border provinces of southern Thailand: Yala, Pattani, and Narathiwat, were brought up. With depiction of separatist terrorism in the area, video art might be able to tell complicated, over-a-decade-long story triggered by two incidents: the Tak Bai Incident and the clash at Krue Sae Mosque, which brought the three provinces to public attention. The video art provides a way to understand the society, human empathy, and conflict of interest in Bannangsata District. These aspects were conveyed through the local’s ways of life with religion as a spiritual keeping by believing that God has determined everything and that they, as human, have to face any test they are given. The end of the video art presented what cannot be narrated by words about the area, and showed more than what the news may offer, which intensifies fear.The researcher studied various aspects of Bannangsata District and has shown them through a type of artistic media called video art, specifically about the issue of women’s suppression as experienced by those who survived series of tragic incidents. The video art aimed to raise awareness about changes of a way of life in the area and to create sympathy for fellow human beings there. The researcher realized that empathy for fellow human beings was significant for the existence of the world and that it cannot be relinquished. Thus, this art media was made to portray the issue of complicated troubles in the area.

scholarly journals Por uma nova ética

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (253) ◽  
pp. 128
Author(s):  
José Wiliam Corrêa de Araújo
Keyword(s):  
Market Economy ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Ethical Discourse ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Nature And Society ◽  
International Social

A modernidade atrelou o ser humano ao dogma da racionalidade instrumental e aos mecanismos da economia de mercado. Conseqüentemente, hoje somos ameaçados pelo modo de pensar quantitativo, produtivista e impessoal a serviço do projeto de dominação da natureza e da sociedade. Vivemos hoje uma realidade de mundo que se caracteriza por uma ética apenas do provisório e da imediatez, que considera o comportamento utilitarista do ser humano como o móvel de toda atividade econômica. Nossa época está pedindo uma nova consciência do lugar do ser humano no mundo. As relações sociais hoje a nível mundial são de grande destrutividade da natureza e de grande exclusão social. Ante os desafios ambientais torna-se urgente resgatar novas experiências paradigmáticas que revelem a dignidade de toda criatura. É preciso uma nova compreensão do próprio ser humano, um modo diferente de construir o discurso ético, com uma visão de mundo que reconheça o valor inerente da vida não-humana.Abstract: Modernity has harnessed human beings to the dogma of instrumental rationality and to the mechanisms of the market economy. Consequently, we are now threatened by a quantitative and impersonal way of thinking geared only to production and in the service of a project to control nature and society. We experience a world reality that has as its main characteristic an ethics that seeks only provisional and immediate aims and that considers human beings’utilitarian behaviour as the prime motive of all economic activity. Our times are demanding a new awareness of the human being’s place in the world. International social relations promote nature’s destruction and great social exclusion. In the face of environmental challenges we must develop new paradigms that will bring to the fore the dignity of all creatures. And we need a new understanding of the human being him/herself, a different way of building the ethical discourse with a worldview that recognizes the inherent value of the non-human life.

scholarly journals An Efficient Feature Specific Neural Network for Multi Class Classification

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S3) ◽  
pp. 1223-1226
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Herbal Medicines ◽  
Modern Medicine ◽  
Herbal Drugs ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Synthetic Drugs ◽  
The World ◽  
Multi Class Classification

There has been global resurgence of interest in herbal drugs in the recent past. Though herbal medicines are effective in the treatment of various ailments very often these drugs are unscientifically exploited or improperly used. Therefore, these herbal drugs deserve detailed studies in the light of modern medicine. In spite of synthetic drugs, herbal drugs have their place in therapy. Their effectiveness, low-cost and comparative freedom from serious toxic effects makes these medicines not only popular but also an acceptable mode of treating diseases even in modern times. Medicinal plants are those plants that are used in treating and preventing specific and human has been using herbs for generations around the world, due to charm needed to cure the disease, many people have come to the conclusion that even chemical drugs their answers may already be sick of these medications may be harmful for health them in the future. Still, the use of plants as a source of medicine is very much important for human beings. Identify medicinal and how to use them is so important.

“Utopia First!” A Machiavellian Conception of Solidarity in More's Utopia

Moreana ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (Number 209) (1) ◽  
pp. 79-93
Author(s):  
Marie-Claire Phélippeau
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Farm Work ◽  
The World ◽  
Social Difficulties ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Democratic Elections ◽  
Communal Organization

This paper shows how solidarity is one of the founding principles in Thomas More's Utopia (1516). In the fictional republic of Utopia described in Book II, solidarity has a political and a moral function. The principle is at the center of the communal organization of Utopian society, exemplified in a number of practices such as the sharing of farm work, the management of surplus crops, or the democratic elections of the governor and the priests. Not only does solidarity benefit the individual Utopian, but it is a prerequisite to ensure the prosperity of the island of Utopia and its moral preeminence over its neighboring countries. However, a limit to this principle is drawn when the republic of Utopia faces specific social difficulties, and also deals with the rest of the world. In order for the principle of solidarity to function perfectly, it is necessary to apply it exclusively within the island or the republic would be at risk. War is not out of the question then, and compassion does not apply to all human beings. This conception of solidarity, summed up as “Utopia first!,” could be dubbed a Machiavellian strategy, devised to ensure the durability of the republic. We will show how some of the recommendations of Realpolitik made by Machiavelli in The Prince (1532) correspond to the Utopian policy enforced to protect their commonwealth.

The Integral Nature of Ethnicity and Religion during Northern Ireland’s Troubles

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 9-18
Author(s):  
Peter Crowley
Keyword(s):  
Religious Identity ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
The Troubles ◽  
Religious Conflicts ◽  
The World ◽  
Sectarian Conflict ◽  
Civil And Political Rights ◽  
Religious Other

Northern Ireland’s Troubles conflict, like many complex conflicts through the world, has often been conceived as considerably motivated by religious differences. This paper demonstrates that religion was often integrated into an ethno-religious identity that fueled sectarian conflict between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland during the Troubles period. Instead of being a religious-based conflict, the conflict derived from historical divides of power, land ownership, and civil and political rights in Ireland over several centuries. It relies on 12 interviews, six Protestants and six Catholics, to measure their use of religious references when referring to their religious other. The paper concludes that in the overwhelming majority of cases, both groups did not use religious references, supporting the hypothesis on the integrated nature of ethnicity and religion during the Troubles. It offers grounding for looking into the complex nature of sectarian and seemingly religious conflicts throughout the world, including cases in which religion acts as more of a veneer to deeply rooted identities and historical narratives.

Jalan Kesempurnaan Menurut Jamaah Insan Al-Kamil di Cijati Desa Cikareo Selatan Sumedang

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-37
Author(s):  
Syarifudin Syarifudin
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Religious Sect ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

Each religious sect has its own characteristics, whether fundamental, radical, or religious. One of them is Insan Al-Kamil Congregation, which is in Cijati, South Cikareo Village, Wado District, Sumedang Regency. This congregation is Sufism with the concept of self-purification as the subject of its teachings. So, the purpose of this study is to reveal how the origin of Insan Al-Kamil Congregation, the concept of its purification, and the procedures of achieving its purification. This research uses a descriptive qualitative method with a normative theological approach as the blade of analysis. In addition, the data generated is the result of observation, interviews, and document studies. From the collected data, Jamaah Insan Al-Kamil adheres to the core teachings of Islam and is the tenth regeneration of Islam Teachings, which refers to the Prophet Muhammad SAW. According to this congregation, self-perfection becomes an obligation that must be achieved by human beings in order to remember Allah when life is done. The process of self-purification is done when human beings still live in the world by knowing His God. Therefore, the peak of self-purification is called Insan Kamil. 

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