scholarly journals Origen of Alexandria: The study of the Scriptures as transformation of the readers into images of the God of love

2011 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul B. Decock
Keyword(s):  
Reading Process ◽  
Broad Agreement ◽  
The Third ◽  
Origen Of Alexandria ◽  
Mystery Of God ◽  
Key Aspects

For Origen, the purpose of reading the Scriptures is to be transformed more and more into the likeness of God, who is Love, through the Logos embodied in the Scriptures. This article first situated Origen’s approach to the Scriptures in the broad agreement over the centuries that the Scriptures are meant to address the present readers and not merely the original readers. This has led to various approaches to actualise the text up to the present varieties of contextual exegesis. Secondly, the article showed how, for Origen, the aim of actualising the text is the transformation of the readers. It will be necessary, therefore, to briefly present some of the key aspects of Origen’s pre-understanding. The third part focused on Origen’s understanding of the reading process as a movement from the letter to the spirit, a process that involves the transformation of the reader. This process is a struggle to understand what love, which is both the mystery of God and the aim for which every being is created through the Logos, is.

scholarly journals Teach Reading

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernan Santiesteban Naranjo ◽  
Kenia María Velázquez Avila ◽  
Niurka Góngora Mena
Keyword(s):  
Reading Instruction ◽  
Reading Skill ◽  
Reading Process ◽  
Participatory Methods ◽  
Teaching Reading ◽  
Reading Competence ◽  
The Third ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Teaching Learning

Teach reading is a book that is composed by six chapters. The fist, is devoted for the definition of text and its taxonomy. It concludes with the requirements for choosing a didactic text. The second, is dedicated for the definition, analysis and classification of reading. The third is devoted to associated disorders related to the reading process. The fourth, contrasts the traditionalist reading instruction against dynamic-participatory didactic for the teaching-learning process of reading, where it is emphasized on reading participatory methods and techniques. The fifth, is attentive to the generalized reading skill, invariant skill and reading competence. Finally, the sixth is committed to dynamic-participatory didactic strategy for teaching reading,

The Cradle of Exotica

2020 ◽  
pp. 4-25
Author(s):  
Karen Polinger Foster
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Natural World ◽  
The Third ◽  
Political Status ◽  
Third Millennium ◽  
Commercial Enterprise ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
And Control ◽  
Clay Tablet

This chapter discusses the role of exotica in the Mesopotamian mind. By 1875, The Epic of Gilgamesh had begun to emerge from the thousands of clay tablet fragments freshly unearthed in the remains of the great royal library of Assurbanipal at Nineveh. Gilgamesh’s drive to possess the exotic is rooted in long-standing Mesopotamian tradition. From the third millennium on, when he supposedly reigned, scholar-scribes organized and classified nearly all aspects of the natural world. Thematic lists of flora and fauna, heavenly bodies, precious and semiprecious materials, and topographical features provided the educated elite with a means of conceptualizing patterns and interrelationships. For Gilgamesh, as for many Mesopotamian rulers, the acquisition and display of exotica were key aspects of kingship. Once secured within the walled, urban cores of Mesopotamian cultural identity, exotica offered tangible signs of wide-ranging military might, commercial enterprise, and political status and control.

HUMAN AUTONOMY AND ITS LIMITS IN THE THOUGHT OF ORIGEN OF ALEXANDRIA

2016 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 673-690
Author(s):  
Kathleen Gibbons
Keyword(s):  
Good Reason ◽  
Alternative Possibilities ◽  
Third Century ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Third ◽  
Human Choice ◽  
Origen Of Alexandria ◽  
Human Autonomy ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Church

As the church historian Henri Crouzel observed, questions about the nature of human autonomy were central to the thought of the third-century theologian Origen of Alexandria. On this question, his influence on later generations, though complicated, would be difficult to overstate. Yet, what exactly Origen thought autonomy required has been a subject of debate. On one widespread reading, he has been taken to argue that autonomy requires that human beings have the capacity to act otherwise than they do in fact act; that is, that alternative possibilities of action are causally available to them. As Susanne Bobzien has argued, however, there is good reason to think that the view that such alternative possibilities are required for the ascription of autonomy did not explicitly emerge until Alexander of Aphrodisias, a rough contemporary of Origen's of whose thought he was likely unaware. In revisiting Origen on the notion of ‘free will’, Michael Frede, against the ‘alternative possibilities’ reading, argued that his theory of the will was largely attributable to Stoicism, and in particular to Epictetus’ theory of will as προαίρεσις. George Boys-Stones, for his part, has claimed that, while Origen's theory of the descent of the pre-existent minds is aimed at providing an account of how human beings are entirely responsible for their characters, in the embodied state we find no evidence that he understood human choice subsequent to the fall to depend upon the existence of alternative possibilities in order to be autonomous.

scholarly journals Human Being and Lifeworld: From Ontology to Phenomenology

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.A. Leontyev
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Value Orientations ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Fourth Section ◽  
The Third ◽  
Conceptual Connection ◽  
The World ◽  
Human World ◽  
Key Aspects

The paper is focused on one of the key aspects of Fyodor Vasilyuk’s contribution to the elabora¬tion of methodological foundations of psychology, namely, on the construct of lifeworld and ‘lifeworld ontology’ as a metatheoretical framework for the understanding of human life and activity in the world. The paper is subdivided into four sections. The first one gives the justification of Vasilyuk’s approach in terms of ‘lifeworld ontology’, reveals its conceptual connection with the ideas of A.N. Leontiev and S.L. Rubinstein. The second one is dedicated to the concept of lifeworld, its association with specifically human ways of existing in the world, its distinction from the environment and the idea of multiple hu¬man worlds. In the third section, the author reveals, basing on the conceptions of L. Binswanger, E. van Deurtzen and C. Popper, the multidimensional structure of human lifeworld and discusses the mutuality of human-world relationships. In the fourth section. a typology of lifeworlds is offered, based on three core criteria: past/present/future ratio, individual/society relationship, and factual/due/possible ratio as value orientations.

A Mathematical Formula Predicts the Third Base Wobble in Codons

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brenda K. Krkosska Bayles
Keyword(s):  
Amino Acids ◽  
Mathematical Logic ◽  
Protein Synthesis ◽  
Reading Process ◽  
Specific Question ◽  
Complete Understanding ◽  
Mathematical Formula ◽  
The Third ◽  
Wobble Hypothesis ◽  
Do So

The 64 codons of the genetic code determine which amino acids are linked into a sequence to produce protein synthesis. Some of the codons specify the same amino acid by using only the first two letters of their codon triplet to do so, thus rendering their 3rd base irrelevant. Crick called this the wobble hypothesis, and a more complete understanding of the reading process could someday lead to a drug that can repair a misreading or to the creation of synthetic ribosomes capable of healthy protein synthesis. A step towards this goal is to apply mathematical logic to the 64 codons so that experimental results can be reproduced and to answer the specific question, how can the nucleotides in the three base positions be interpreted using mathematical code? Here it is shown that a mathematical formula derived from fluid mechanics predicts which codons in the dictionary will encode using their 3rd bases and which ones will not.

scholarly journals COVID-19 Effects on Cultural Heritage: The Case of Villa Adriana and Villa D’Este

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 1241-1252
Author(s):  
Andrea Jonathan Pagano ◽  
Francesco Romagnoli ◽  
Emanuele Vannucci
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Final Analysis ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Insurance Risk ◽  
Economic Management ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
The Eu

Abstract The paper aims to provide a clarification of assessing insurance risk related to an asset owned by a subject under public law and, more specifically, to an economic cultural asset. This study is aligned with key aspects proposed by the EU for the protection of the cultural heritage from natural disasters. In the first place, given the peculiarity of the material inherent to cultural heritage, a motivation underlies the search for the correlation between the latter and the commonality. Secondly, it appeared necessary to verify the differences, similarities and importance of the economic management of cultural heritage in order to understand the social, economic, material and intangible importance of an asset managed in an economic way within a social axis (municipality). The third reason relates to the general severity and the risk and subsequent damage that a hazard, such as a pandemic outbreak (COVID-19), can cause on one or more cultural heritage. In the final analysis, perhaps the most meaningful aspect underlies the verification of the possible consequences in the analysis of summations of losses generated by a hazard in order to allow a prospect of what could be the consequences of such a catastrophic scenario.

scholarly journals Marginality and the Third Space of Unadopted Plotlander Roads

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 485-499
Author(s):  
Richard Bower
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Third Space ◽  
Cultural Hybridity ◽  
The Third ◽  
The North ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
Hybrid Spaces ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Social Marginality

This article explores the characteristics and relationships of marginality in informal space and plotlander housing in the context of Homi K. Bhabha’s cultural hybridity and Third Space. To illustrate and examine the processes of marginalization that defined informal space in the United Kingdom, this article will critically analyze the previously undocumented plotlander community at Studd Hill on the North Kent coastline.1 Examining key aspects of this sites social origins and its marginal spatial context reveals the positive implications and challenges of informal space and social hybridization. In this analysis, issues of spatial vulnerability and marginality of plotlander communities are critically reframed as analogous to the sociospatial characteristics and innovative practices highlighted by Bhabha in postcolonial hybrid space. Focusing specifically on the challenges of the unadopted roads at Studd Hill, this article’s comparisons reveal how the anarchistic emergence of plotlander housing in the United Kingdom has produced innovative solutions to their social marginality that reflect the spatial values of postcolonial hybrid spaces.

scholarly journals A neuro-computational model of economic decisions

2015 ◽  
Vol 114 (3) ◽  
pp. 1382-1398 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aldo Rustichini ◽  
Camillo Padoa-Schioppa
Keyword(s):  
Decision Process ◽  
Neural Circuit ◽  
Neuronal Populations ◽  
The Third ◽  
Economic Decisions ◽  
Input And Output ◽  
Neuronal Mechanisms ◽  
Lesion Studies ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Open Question

Neuronal recordings and lesion studies indicate that key aspects of economic decisions take place in the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC). Previous work identified in this area three groups of neurons encoding the offer value, the chosen value, and the identity of the chosen good. An important and open question is whether and how decisions could emerge from a neural circuit formed by these three populations. Here we adapted a biophysically realistic neural network previously proposed for perceptual decisions (Wang XJ. Neuron 36: 955–968, 2002; Wong KF, Wang XJ. J Neurosci 26: 1314–1328, 2006). The domain of economic decisions is significantly broader than that for which the model was originally designed, yet the model performed remarkably well. The input and output nodes of the network were naturally mapped onto two groups of cells in OFC. Surprisingly, the activity of interneurons in the network closely resembled that of the third group of cells, namely, chosen value cells. The model reproduced several phenomena related to the neuronal origins of choice variability. It also generated testable predictions on the excitatory/inhibitory nature of different neuronal populations and on their connectivity. Some aspects of the empirical data were not reproduced, but simple extensions of the model could overcome these limitations. These results render a biologically credible model for the neuronal mechanisms of economic decisions. They demonstrate that choices could emerge from the activity of cells in the OFC, suggesting that chosen value cells directly participate in the decision process. Importantly, Wang's model provides a platform to investigate the implications of neuroscience results for economic theory.

scholarly journals PATHOGENETIC TREATMENT OF ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION: THE PLACE OF CALCIUM ANTAGONISTS

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-88
Author(s):  
E. O. Taratukhin ◽  
N. N. Teplova
Keyword(s):  
Arterial Hypertension ◽  
Calcium Antagonists ◽  
Therapeutic Strategies ◽  
Channel Blockers ◽  
Third Generation ◽  
Peripheral Vascular ◽  
The Third ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
New Evidence

The paper describes the key aspects of arterial hypertension pathogenesis and the relevant therapeutic strategies. The authors discuss the role of increased peripheral vascular resistance and hypervolemia as factors which can be targeted by calcium channel blockers. The new evidence on this medication class, including the third-generation calcium antagonists, is presented. 

scholarly journals Discourse Analysis of the New Colombo Plan funded Australian Outbound Student Mobility Programs

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (Winter) ◽  
pp. 81-84
Author(s):  
Mila Arden
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
Australian Government ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
The Third ◽  
Mobility Programs ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Colombo Plan

This study aims to investigate the key aspects of Australian outbound student mobility programs (OSM), such as their benefits and obstacles through three different discourses. The study draws attention to three different emerging discourses of OSM between the academic literature, the policy and the Australian university students. In the context of OSM, the literature is examined as the first emerging discourse. The recent Australian government policy, The New Colombo Plan is examined as the second discourse. The third discourse, which is Australian university students’ perspectives, is offered to the emerging discourses in this study as it seems majorly missing from the Australian higher education mobility literature (Arden, Manathunga, & Bottrell, 2017). The research has employed qualitative data and data analysis has already been conducted for this thesis. In the following, what theories, methods and techniques have been utilized for the thesis are reported. However, this paper only presents one aspect of the research in detail.

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