BOTANICAL MYTHS: FAKE NEWS OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD

The myths take many forms depending on the cultures in which we find them; however, their function is always to explain natural phenomena that occur in their surroundings. As observed throughout human history, it is an inherent condition for the human species to believe in the metaphysical and to use their individual and introspective thinking as a way to achieve their dreams and goals, something that works as a responsible 'driving force' in many cases, for governing and inspiring the human individual. Additionally, populations or part of communities that obtain their livelihood and/or subsistence directly from agricultural activity spontaneously express a greater willingness to believe in the 'infallible' agroforestry myths, which explain the possible botanical phenomena. In light of this, our present study lists the main physiological bases refuting different botanical myths based on evidence proven in original articles. Furthermore, our phenomenological approach was carried out in an eclectic way in the field of botany and is not linked to any specific authority or philosophical school. Finally, we explore and integrate different, mutually compatible approaches to provide the reader with a global understanding of the 'infallibility' of botanical myths.

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Base científico-técnica para un derecho agroclimático en Argentina

Przegląd Prawa Rolnego ◽

10.14746/ppr.2019.24.1.6 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 87-111

Author(s):

María Adriana Victoria

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Natural Resources ◽

Technological Knowledge ◽

Agricultural Activity ◽

Natural Phenomena ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Bidirectional Relationship ◽

Renewable Natural Resources ◽

Rural World ◽

Scientific Technical

There is a bidirectional relationship between the transverse and transdisciplinary phenomenon and the agricultural activity (technical fact) as they affect each other. Scientific, technical and technological knowledge constitute the basis of international public climate law that is made effective through national climate law, and can be conformed to a national agroclimatic law, authentic “ius novum,” “in fieri,” with specific norms of incidence in the agroclimate, referred to as: environment, renewable natural resources, natural phenomena and the agrarian activity of ecological substrate and regulated technical component. The implementation of international solutions could contribute to the sustainable development of the rural world and the resilience of agroecosystems and is recommended be adopted in the law on agroclimatic change proposed for Argentina.

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COMBATING INFODEMIC COVID-19: GOVERNMENT RESPONSE AGAINST FAKE NEWS ON SOCIAL MEDIA

Profetik Jurnal Komunikasi ◽

10.14421/pjk.v14i2.2386 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (2) ◽

pp. 255

Author(s):

Andi Luhur Prianto ◽

Abdillah Abdillah ◽

Syukri Firdaus ◽

Muhammad Arifeen Yamad

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Media Literacy ◽

Phenomenological Approach ◽

Public Trust ◽

Fake News ◽

Communication Performance ◽

Government Response ◽

The Social ◽

Media Channels

The global commitment to fighting the pandemic is not only about medical and epidemiological work, but also about how information about the disease is disseminated. The threat of the Covid-19 infodemic is no less dangerous than the pandemic itself. The phenomenon of infodemic has distorted the work of science and reduced public trust in state authorities. This research has identified, mapped, and analyzed official government responses to fake news attacks on social media. This study uses an interpretive-phenomenological approach, related to the spread and belief of fake news about Covid-19 in Indonesia. Data analysis uses the Nvivo-12 Pro application, as an artificial intelligence tool to support data exploration from various sources. The results show that the quality of media literacy, public communication performance, and the effectiveness of government regulations have become part of the challenges in mitigating infodemic. The level of public trust in information from social media contributes to the decline in trust in fake news about Covid-19. Stimulation from the social media news that does not control the belief in myths and false information about Covid-19. Content creators who have produced, posted, and shared on social media channels that are less critical, have an impact on the infodemic situation. The solution is to increase media literacy education and the effectiveness of law enforcement in mitigating the infodemic in Indonesia.

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Towards global architecture. The project between technique and technology

Budownictwo i Architektura ◽

10.35784/bud-arch.1640 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 14 (2) ◽

pp. 021-025 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Alberto De Capua

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Environmental Quality ◽

Driving Force ◽

Well Being ◽

Human Species ◽

Daily Lives ◽

Natural Systems ◽

Human Footprint ◽

Policy Statements

Environment, ecosystem, greenhouse effect emissions, public health, energy, sustainable development. This is an incomplete list of elements that are part of our daily lives, which show today’s human footprint responsibility over the health of the planet. Although these issues have been for decades on all policy statements on development the situation is not improving. Indeed, constantly, we are called to change our lifestyle and our models of well-being that are causing an exaggerated and increasing waste of energy and resources, along with the increase of the overall impact of human species on natural systems. I do believe the environment is a resource that has been exploited and neglected for too long, however I am also convinced that excessive (ab)use of certain terms, such as the concept of sustainability, has weakened its driving force and innovation. There is no doubt that the thematic areas related to the monitoring of environmental quality and sustainable development dominate the cultural and socio-economic scenery for the articulation program design and governance of the territory, but the risk we are running today is to flatten themes of 'environment only for propaganda or even worse for the market. The report is a reasoning on innovation, technology and the complexity that now accompanies any work of transformation and that should lead to a "possible future”.

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Understanding spirituality as experienced by Catholic entrepreneurs

10.31219/osf.io/unpja ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Jozef Raco

Keyword(s):

Data Analysis ◽

Driving Force ◽

Strong Influence ◽

Phenomenological Approach ◽

Divine Power ◽

Daily Experiences ◽

Inner Self

The purpose of this paper is to find out the meaning of spirituality as described by Catholic entrepreneurs based on their daily experiences. The data were collected through open ended interviews. Eight entrepreneurs were interviewed. Data analysis and interpretation used phenomenological approach to get the essential meaning of their experiences. The findings of the study revealed that spirituality was understood as divine power and inner-self driving force that affects the entrepreneurs’ attitude and behaviour toward their business activities. This study is limited to Catholic entrepreneurs. This research has implication to the study of entrepreneurship to offer insight that inner factors have strong influence. For researchers, this study deepens the understanding of entrepreneurs. This research contributes to the theory of entrepreneurship and spirituality since there are still very few studies on this topic.

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Growing Up in the Twenty-First Century

Learning to Live Together ◽

10.1093/oso/9780195157796.003.0006 ◽

2004 ◽

Author(s):

David A. Hamburg ◽

Beatrix A. Hamburg

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Historical Record ◽

Weapons Of Mass Destruction ◽

Human Species ◽

Mass Violence ◽

Global Era ◽

Contemporary World ◽

System P ◽

Almost All ◽

Global World

During the twentieth century, within only a moment of evolutionary time, human ingenuity has produced an unprecedented vast increase in the destructive power of the human species. It is now possible to inflict immense damage on almost all countries everywhere and pose the threat of annihilation of the entire world. Shortly, there will be no part of the earth so remote that a committed group cannot do immense damage to itself and others far away. The events of September 11, 2001, in New York,Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania have made this clear. Like it or not, conflicts have become everyone’s business. The idea that countries and people should be free to conduct their quarrels on their own terms, no matter how deadly, is outmoded in the nuclear age and in a global world where local hostilities can rapidly become international ones with devastating consequences. Similarly, the notion that tyrants are free to commit atrocities on their own peoples is becoming obsolete, albeit with plenty of resistance. Today, the human species is engaged in an increasingly dangerous proliferation of lethal weaponry, including nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons of mass destruction, as well as the worldwide, wall-to-wall spread of deadly small arms. At the same time, in all parts of the world, we also see evidence of abundant prejudice, hatred, and threats of mass violence. Sadly, the historical record is full of every sort of slaughter based on invidious distinctions of religion, ethnicity, nationality, and other perceived group differences. This record confirms a part of our unique human heritage, one that we will address in more depth in the pages to follow as we seek to learn lessons from our past and search to find ways of overcoming human predispositions to violence in a technological and global era. In a contemporary world full of hatred and violence, widespread knowledge and understanding of deadly conflicts past and present, as well as paths to conflict resolution and prevention of deadly conflict, are an urgent agenda. Such an agenda deserves major educational efforts—not only in schools and universities, but also in community organizations, religious institutions, the media, and the public health system.

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Divine Revelation in Natural Phenomena

Phenomenological Approaches to Religion and Spirituality - Advances in Religious and Cultural Studies ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-4595-9.ch011 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 215-228

Author(s):

Menard Musendekwa ◽

Simbarashe Munamati

Keyword(s):

Phenomenological Approach ◽

Divine Revelation ◽

Natural Phenomena ◽

Presence Of God ◽

1 Kings

In 1 Kings 19:11-13, God revealed himself through a “gentle whisper” rather than his earlier manifestation through “powerful wind,” the “earthquake,” and “the fire.” A shift to the “gentle whisper” needs re-investigation. The problem is the inconsistences in divine revelation in natural phenomena. This chapter is responding to the question on why the natural phenomena which used to depict the presence of God to Moses depicted his absence to Elijah. Secondly, this chapter examines the revelation of Yahweh in a silent wind. A phenomenological approach can guide a better appreciation of God's attributive revelation even in current situations.

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Language does not modulate fake news credibility, but emotion does

Psicológica Journal ◽

10.2478/psicolj-2020-0005 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 41 (2) ◽

pp. 84-102

Author(s):

María Fernández-López ◽

Manuel Perea

Keyword(s):

Foreign Language ◽

University Students ◽

Driving Force ◽

Direct Relationship ◽

Native Language ◽

Negative Emotionality ◽

Fake News ◽

Bayesian Analyses ◽

News Stories ◽

News Credibility

AbstractThe proliferation of fake news in internet requires understanding which factors modulate their credibility and take actions to limit their impact. A number of recent studies have shown an effect of the foreign language when making decisions: reading in a foreign language engages a more rational, analytic mode of thinking (Costa et al., 2014, Cognition). This analytic mode of processing may lead to a decrease in the credibility of fake news. Here we conducted two experiments to examine whether fake news stories presented to university students were more credible in the native language than in a foreign language. Bayesian analyses in both experiments offered support for the hypothesis that the credibility of fake news is not modulated by language. Critically, Experiment 2 also showed a strong direct relationship between credibility and negative emotionality regardless of language. This pattern suggests that the driving force behind the engagement in an automatic thinking mode when reading fake news is not language (native vs. foreign) but emotionality.

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The Faith in Humanity and International Criminal Law

10.1093/oso/9780198805878.003.0015 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Immi Tallgren

Keyword(s):

Criminal Law ◽

International Criminal ◽

International Criminal Law ◽

Emile Durkheim ◽

Human Species ◽

Human Individual ◽

Auguste Comte ◽

Ritual Practices

International criminal law is at times taken to manifest fundamental consensual boundaries against violence and destruction of the human species. The faith in law is celebrated in a cult with rituals, symbols, and mythologies where law is saving humans from evil. This chapter takes issue with the transcendental reference in ‘humanity’ by situating it within discussions on religion, the non-deist religions in particular. Three French thinkers: Henri Saint-Simon, Auguste Comte, and Emile Durkheim are stimulating intellectual figures—often neglected or caricatured. They developed new visions for society as religions–creating dogmas, symbolism, and ritual practices. Yet they declared the transcendental divinities dead. The human individual and ‘humanity’ were further elevated yet declared ‘positive’, victorious over superstition. Their religions aimed to capture the best of two worlds: secular and religious, rational and affective. But what difference does it make to see ideas, beliefs, faith, or commitment as religious or as something else, such as politics or ideology?

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Experiences of Turkish Teachers Working Abroad

SAGE Open ◽

10.1177/2158244020914655 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 215824402091465

Author(s):

Çetin Toraman ◽

Hasan Fehmi Özdemir ◽

Şenol Orakcı

Keyword(s):

Driving Force ◽

Interrater Reliability ◽

Phenomenological Approach ◽

Structured Interview ◽

Analysis Process ◽

A Value ◽

Audio Recordings ◽

The Common ◽

Qualitative Phenomenological ◽

Work Abroad

Turkish teachers seek to work abroad for a variety of reasons with a mixed degree of success. This study examined the common essence of the experiences of Turkish teachers, through 25 interviews with teachers commissioned to teach Turkish and Turkish culture to Turkish students in Germany and France. Interviews were conducted using semi-structured interview questions and audio recordings. The analyses used an appropriate content analysis process for a qualitative phenomenological approach. Krippendorff’s alpha coefficient showed high interrater reliability with a value of .83, and to ensure the credibility the codings have been submitted to internal and external checks. The direct quotations of the participants’ discourses were shared in the text. The results of the study showed that there was a particular driving force that directed teachers to teach abroad. This driving force embodied itself in a sense of curiosity and pride for being chosen to work abroad.

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Kręgi ludzkiej wspólnoty

Etyka ◽

10.14394/etyka.611 ◽

1980 ◽

Vol 18 ◽

pp. 199-219

Author(s):

Ija Lazari-Pawłowska

Keyword(s):

Human Dignity ◽

Moral Obligation ◽

Good Reason ◽

Individual Characteristics ◽

Logical Necessity ◽

Moral Concern ◽

Human Being ◽

Human Species ◽

Human Individual ◽

Moral Convictions

The widely acclaimed components of the humanistic ethical program are to be found at present in personalism, universalism, and humanitarianism. The author unreservedly subscribes to this program and postulates that the value of every human individual be recognized irrespective of his individual characteristics, that all actions which affect any human being be performed only with due respect to the autonomous good of the human being, and that no man be ever treated only as an instrument in his existence. Trying to supply a justification for these postulates most authors point out that human dignity is presumably founded on such merits as reason and conscience. The author resolved to expose the weakness of this line of argument. A recourse to empirical features that allegedly distinguish human species from the others may not serve as a good reason in defense of those particular human individuals who clearly lack them. The author endavours to show that universalism which gives ~very man a minimum rights may justly be treated as unacceptable particularism, as typically ‚human speciesism’, indeed. It excludes from the regions of moral concern all animals, which like humans, are capable of suffering. Many authors take the sentience to be the single most important feature shared by animals and humans, which imposes on us the obligation to take care of animals as well as humans. The author contents that the delineation of the range of creatures with respect to whom we have moral obligation is one of the axioms which cannot be argued for or against. There are no logical reasons for drawing the boundaries here or there. We must rely on our ultimate moral convictions that we perceive as our feeling of being morally right. The delineation of the range of the creatures whose autonomous good we will take into account in our activity is a question of an axiomatic decision. We will not find any empirical features either in men or animals, which could impose a logical necessity for counting certain specimens in or others out. We must rely on the most elementary sense of solidarity which makes another creature our fellow-creature. The numerous controversies between different degrees and different kinds of particularism, or between particularism and universalism with respect to humans, or between universalism encompassing only humans and universalism extended to the whole reach of creatures capable of suffering has its source not so much in the differences in knowledge of facts but as in different emotional evaluative attitudes towards them.

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