the future of human nature

2003 ◽  
pp. 79-97
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
The Future

The Nature of Degrowth: Theorising the Core of Nature for the Degrowth Movement

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pasi Heikkurinen
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Culturally Sensitive ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Radical Reduction ◽  
Nature Experience ◽  
Matter Energy

This article investigates human–nature relations in the light of the recent call for degrowth, a radical reduction of matter–energy throughput in over-producing and over-consuming cultures. It outlines a culturally sensitive response to a (conceived) paradox where humans embedded in nature experience alienation and estrangement from it. The article finds that if nature has a core, then the experienced distance makes sense. To describe the core of nature, three temporal lenses are employed: the core of nature as ‘the past’, ‘the future’, and ‘the present’. It is proposed that while the degrowth movement should be inclusive of temporal perspectives, the lens of the present should be emphasised to balance out the prevailing romanticism and futurism in the theory and practice of degrowth.

La Bête humaine

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Émile Zola
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Second Empire ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Context ◽  
The Future

Did possessing and killing amount to the same thing deep within the dark recesses of the human beast? La Bete humaine (1890), is one of Zola’s most violent and explicit works. On one level a tale of murder, passion and possession, it is also a compassionate study of individuals derailed by atavistic forces beyond their control. Zola considered this his ‘most finely worked’ novel, and in it he powerfully evokes life at the end of the Second Empire in France, where society seemed to be hurtling into the future like the new locomotives and railways it was building. While expressing the hope that human nature evolves through education and gradually frees itself of the burden of inherited evil, he is constantly reminding us that under the veneer of technological progress there remains, always, the beast within. This new translation captures Zola's fast-paced yet deliberately dispassionate style, while the introduction and detailed notes place the novel in its social, historical, and literary context.

Society Needs Morality

2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-117
Author(s):  
Robert A. Hinde
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Religious Belief ◽  
The Future ◽  
Current Reality

Morality must be resurrected in our societies. It must be a morality whose nature and sources are understood and are in keeping with current reality. Hitherto, morality has been seen as closely related to religion. That religious belief is helpful to many is indisputable, but religious narratives, treated literally, are unacceptable to modern minds, and the supposed nature of God, as discussed by sophisticated theologians, is inaccessible to everyman. Morality, based on an understanding of human nature as shaped by culture, offers hope for the future.

scholarly journals Prototype Aplikasi Pencarian Informasi Ayat Al-Quran Berdasarkan Suara Bacaannya Berbasis Android

Repositor ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 561
Author(s):  
Fakhrul Islami ◽  
Gita Indah Marthasari ◽  
Eko Budi Cahyono
Keyword(s):  
Speech Recognition ◽  
Success Rate ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Application Development ◽  
Speech Recognition Technology ◽  
The Future

AbstrakAplikasi Al-Quran dengan berbagai macam fitur telah banyak dikembangkan oleh para developer untuk memberikan kemudahan dan kenyamanan bagi pengguna aplikasi tersebut. Namun, inovasi untuk pengembangan aplikasi tidak akan berhenti sampai di situ saja. Dilatarbelakangi oleh sifat lupa pada manusia, seperti mengingat informasi suatu ayat: nomer ayat dan nama surah yang begitu banyak. Maka dibuatlah sebuah fitur pencarian informasi ayat Al-Qur’an dengan menggunakan suara bacaan ayatnya. Penelitian ini membahas tentang pengembangan aplikasi Al-Qur’an dengan penambahan fitur yang memanfaatkan teknologi speech recognition. Karena masih dalam bentuk prototype, aplikasi ini hanya berisi data surah sebanyak 37 surah pada juz ke-30. Pengujian aplikasi dilakukan sebanyak 10 kali percobaan dengan menggunakan beberapa ayat al-Quran secara random. Tingkat keberhasilan dari pengujian tersebut adalah 90%. Dengan demikian fitur ini dapat dijadikan solusi untuk pengembangan aplikasi Al-Qur’an kedepannya.AbstractThe Quran application with various features has been developed by devlopers to provide convenience and comfort for its users. But innovation for application development would not stop here. Due to the human nature is forgetful so it made human remember information of Quran (number of verse and the name of Quran Chapters) hardly. Then a feature of the Quran verse information was made by using the Quran recitation sound. This study discussed the development of Quran application with the addition of features of speech recognition technology. Due to the form of this application was still a prototype, it contained 37 chapters in the 30th section. The application testing was performed 10 times by using several verses of Quran randomly. The success rate of testing reached 90%. So this feature could be the solution of the Quran development in the future.

4. Religion

2021 ◽  
pp. 81-103
Author(s):  
James A. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
History Of Religion ◽  
Natural Religion ◽  
Treatise Of Human Nature ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of

‘Religion' discusses Hume’s various treatments of religion, particularly in the essay ‘Of Miracles’, Dialogues concerning Natural Religion, and ‘The Natural History of Religion’. Hume's earlier writings show some interesting implications for religion, including A Treatise of Human Nature and the essay ‘Of National Characters’. Looking at ‘Of Miracles’ shows that Hume’s theme was not the possibility of miracles as such, but rather the rational grounds of belief in reports of miracles. Considering the Dialogues emphasizes the distinction between scepticism and atheism. Meanwhile, ‘Natural History’ emphasizes Hume’s interest in the dangerous moral consequences of monotheism. What is the future for religion? Perhaps Hume was unlikely to have supposed that his writings would do anything to reduce religion’s hold on the vast majority of human beings.

Psycho-analysis, Human Nature and Human Conduct

1974 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 99-120
Author(s):  
Ian Gregory
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Human Behaviour ◽  
Analytic Theory ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Philosophical Debate ◽  
Complex Problems ◽  
Human Conduct ◽  
The Future

There is, I gloomily suspect, little which is significantly new that remain to be said about psycho-analysis by philosophers. The almost profligate theorising that goes on within the psycho-analytic journals will, no doubt, continue unabated. It simply strikes me as unlikely that such theorising will generate further issues of the kind that excite the philosophical mind. Though in making such an observation, I recognise that I lay claim upon the future in a manner that many might believe to be unwise. The place of psycho-analysis upon the intellectual map, the implications that psycho-analytic theory and practice have for the various kinds of judgements that we make about human behaviour, have been exhaustively discussed in recent times. Rather more specifically, whether psycho-analysis should be accorded the dignity of being labelled a ‘science’, what the significance is of psycho-analysis for those complex problems bounded by the notions of Reason, Freedom, Motivation, have occasioned much fruitful philosophical debate. It is not any wish of mine to add to the literature on these problems in the forlorn hope that even slightly different answers might be forthcoming.

The Fate of Nebuchadnezzar

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Tabb
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Scientific Activity ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Future ◽  
Science And Politics ◽  
Fundamental Cause ◽  
Human Difference ◽  
Difference Makers

This paper makes a case for the centrality of the passion of curiosity to Hobbes’s account of human nature. Hobbes describes curiosity as one of only a few capacities differentiating human beings from animals, and I argue that it is in fact the fundamental cause of humanity’s uniqueness, generating other important difference-makers such as language, science and politics. I qualify Philip Pettit’s (2008) claim that Hobbes believes language to be the essence of human difference, contending that Pettit grants language too central a place in Hobbes’s psychology. Language is, for Hobbes, a technology adopted on account of curiosity. Further, curiosity is necessary not only for linguistic but also for scientific activity. Only after what he calls original knowledge has been gathered are names employed to generate the conditional propositions that constitute science. Finally, curiosity can resolve another puzzle of Hobbesian psychology that Pettit leaves unanswered: our tendency towards strife. Hobbes believes that insofar as human beings have an implacable hunger for knowledge of the future, we are unable to rest content with present gains and must always aspire to secure the best possible outcome for ourselves.

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