scholarly journals Remedies of Social Decadence in Context of the Life of Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him)

2019 ◽  
Vol 02 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ms Rabia
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary World ◽  
Current Article ◽  
Social Maladies ◽  
The Way

In this article, putrefaction of society has been discussed along with the counterstrategies adopted by the Prophet (Peace be upon him). Since social vices have been the vestigial part of the Arab society, the Prophet (Peace be upon him) took up the cudgels and bestirred to eradicate moral decay, existent among the Arabs from the days of yore. Analogous to the situation, in the contemporary world, the similar social vices are being erected on the pretext of ‘modernization’, which has become the cause of demoralization for many. For this, in the current article, social maladies and moral turpitude like fib, backbiting, adultery, grudge, rancor etc. have been delineated. After being involved in elusive bustling, an individual blemishes his or her life in this world and hereafter, affecting Peace and Stability in the society. The only way out that one can adopt to escape herself/himself from this, is the way that has been unfolded by the Prophet (Peace be upon him). So, by acting upon the Prophet’s (Peace be upon him) instructions we can curb these social vices and moral turpitude in our society.

scholarly journals Symbolic Survival and Harm: Serious Fraud and Consumer Capitalism’s Perversion of the Causa Sui Project

2019 ◽  
Vol 59 (5) ◽  
pp. 1237-1253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Tudor
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Symbolic Annihilation ◽  
Ernest Becker ◽  
Current Article ◽  
Stimulation Of ◽  
The Way

Abstract Based on empirical research carried out with those convicted of serious fraud, the current article explores the motivations behind engagement in acquisitive criminality. Drawing on the work of Ernest Becker, the article seeks to transcend superficial explanations of fraud which draw on notions of greed and individual pathology, locating causation instead at the level of consumer capitalism’s perversion of the contemporary causa sui project through its stimulation of deep human existential anxieties. It will be suggested that the acts of economic predation perpetrated by the men in the study represent attempts to escape anxiety through the avoidance of symbolic annihilation and that they are illustrative of the way in which the contemporary capitalism generates harm.

scholarly journals Prawa i godność człowieka we współczesnej bioetyce

2004 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 189-212
Author(s):  
Wojciech Bołoz
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Ethical Code ◽  
European Convention ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Application Of Law ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The World ◽  
Independent Life ◽  
The Way

In contemporary bioethics dominate two trends dealing with two basic ethical solutions. First of them is utilitarianism concerning utility as a criterion of judging between what is right and what is wrong. The second trend applies to human rights and human dignity, which are to be obeyed without any exceptions. Utilitarianism protects the strong and prosperous people in society and excludes those who are weak and not capable of independent life. The concept of human dignity protects each and every human being including the weakest ones. It is therefore characterized by real humanitarianism. In addition, it has one more outstanding virtue; in the contemporary world, it is the most widespread and understandable ethical code. It enables people of different civilizations to communicate with understandable ethical language. In the world constantly undergoing global processes, it is a great value. Although there are a number of discussions concerning the way of understanding human dignity and human rights, their universal and ethical meaning; there are certain international acts of law concerning biomedicine that support the concept of human dignity as the most adequate concept for the contemporary bioethics. As an example, the European Convention on Bioethics can be taken. The article includes the most significant topics concerning understanding, history, and application of law and human dignity in bioethics.

scholarly journals The problem of reality in writings of Richard Wagner reality of artwork as transition from „reality of the contemporary world“ towards „reality of the future world“

2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-273
Author(s):  
Dragana Jeremic-Molnar
Keyword(s):  
Actual World ◽  
Richard Wagner ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Way

Richard Wagner began perceiving the world in terms of decay as early as the mid-1840s and especially during the 1848-49 revolution. He did not critique the contemporary world (and its accompanying reality) as someone who merely understood it in his own way. Wagner actually developed his own version of the world that was meant to become the referential framework for creating an entirely different reality in the future. The most exhaustive source concerning Wagner?s idea of the world and reality is his famous letter to August R?ckel, from 25-26 January 1854. In it Wagner put together his earlier ref lections on reality into a relatively coherent and meaningful whole. He did it by the means of several different concepts: ?the World as a whole?, ?the actual world?, ?reality of the world?/?the modern reality?. In this letter and elsewhere, he failed to elaborate his idea of the world, as well as to explain its relationship with ?the modern reality? that was undergoing change. Instead, he developed another idea: that of the artwork which was supposed to be a sort of mediator between ?the actual world? and ?the world of the future?, as well as between their accompanying realities. Wagner?s version of the ?actual world? (as well as its appropriate reality) comprised two components: ?the actual world? itself and the artwork, which was already changing it. Such a work contained a description of the change, understood in terms of regeneration, and thus also a prediction of the way reality itself should change in the future, as well as the direction of the change.

scholarly journals Progress and Free Will: On the Buddhist Concept of “Time” and Its Possibilities for Modernity

Asian Studies ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bart DESSEIN
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Buddhist Philosophy ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Way

An even only cursory glance at the way Buddhism is experienced, interpreted, and lived in the contemporary world––both Western and Oriental––reveals Buddhism’s multiple “modern faces”. This paper does not intend to describe all or even a selected group of these many faces, but attempts to contribute to our understanding of how peculiar developments within Buddhist philosophy have made it possible that such a variety of “Buddhist modernities” could develop. It is shown that it is the peculiar Buddhist interpretation of the concept of time that has provided the basis on which the various modern features of Buddhism could build, because the Buddhist interpretation of time contains an aspect of progress and free will. It is suggested that these two aspects increased the prominence given to the individual adept in the Mahāyāna. The article then claims that it precisely are the ideas of rationality, progress and individualism that are also characteristic for the modern world that contain the possibility for Buddhism to develop its multitude of modern faces. 

Construal Level Theory and Spatial Distance

2011 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 165-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlone D. Henderson ◽  
Cheryl J. Wakslak ◽  
Kentaro Fujita ◽  
John Rohrbach
Keyword(s):  
Construal Level Theory ◽  
Spatial Distance ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Construal Level ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Bidirectional Relationship ◽  
Current Article ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The Way

Growing evidence points to a bidirectional relationship between spatial distance and level of mental representation, whereby distant (vs. near) events are represented by a higher level of representation, and higher levels of representations increase perceptions of distance. In the current article, we review research that establishes this association and explores its implications. We begin by briefly describing construal level theory, the theoretical framework that gives rise to this associative prediction, and then review a set of theory-consistent findings that serve to illuminate the way that spatial distance influences cognition and behavior and the way in which people make judgments about spatial distance. Finally, we discuss open questions for future research on spatial distance using a construal level theory approach.

THE DRAMA OF HARRISON BIRTWISTLE'S ‘THE TRIUMPH OF TIME’

Tempo ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 66 (262) ◽  
pp. 2-11
Author(s):  
Martin Kier Glover
Keyword(s):  
Major Aspect ◽  
Analytical Review ◽  
Current Article ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Harrison Birtwistle ◽  
The Way

AbstractAlthough The Triumph of Time is one of Birtwistle's most celebrated early pieces very little has been written about it to date. Probably the most comprehensive analytical review appeared in Michael Hall's 1984 biography Harrison Birtwistle. This was largely valuable for presenting, in the context of a well-informed account of the composer's early output, particular aspects of Birtwistle's intention. Others have added little, while some remarks made by the composer in various interviews have seemed so strangely contradictory that they can only be evaluated by an independent idea of how the structure works from the evidence of the score itself. The method of approach becomes a major aspect of the discussion and analysis presented. In considering the dramatic superstructure, the way detail fits into this, and the relationship with the eponymous Bruegel etching, the aim of the current article has been to consider the work ‘on its own terms’ as far as possible.

Regionalism and Finance: A Conceptual Approach

1996 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 357-378
Author(s):  
Randall D. Germain
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
World Economy ◽  
International Political Economy ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Regional Finance ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Commercial Exchange ◽  
Fernand Braudel ◽  
The Way

There is a widespread debate within the field of international political economy (IPE) regarding the causes and consequences of regionalism in world politics. Rarely, however, has this debate considered the effects of regionalism on finance. This article contributes to this debate by reaching beyond conventional categories of political economy to explore the way in which the organization of finance is being shaped by regionalism in Europe. By employing a theoretical framework adapted from the work of Fernand Braudel, it locales the effects of regionalism within the context of the market economy, or what Braudel identifies as the domain of transparent commercial exchange. It explores the changing nature of identity among selected financial institutions in order to ask how far a regional dimension is emerging within the organization of finance, and concludes that what may be called regional finance is in fact emerging in Europe. Such an approach contributes to existing debates on regionalism in world politics by drawing our attention to the changing motivations, practices and dynamics of finance in Europe, and the way in which this may be seen as part of the overarching structure of the contemporary world-economy.

The torture convention, rendition and Kant's critique of ‘pseudo-politics’

2010 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 195-214
Author(s):  
HOWARD WILLIAMS
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Convention Against Torture ◽  
Kantian View ◽  
Ordinary Morality ◽  
The Way

AbstractBy what standards ought we to judge politicians? The article addresses the question in the light of the treatment of two controversial issues in contemporary world politics: the implementation of the 1984 UN Convention against Torture; and the post 9/11 rendition of terrorist suspects to US authorities by European governments. Their treatment brings out the way in which the role of political leaders is popularly conceived and understood. This conventional understanding is contrasted with the role recommended by Kant's political philosophy. An answer to the question depends on how we conceive politics in the first place. If politics is seen as a ‘free for all’ where all strategies can be canvassed then the response will be entirely different from a situation where we consider ourselves bound by rules of legitimacy and its attendant problems of morality and law. The article represents a rejection of certain received accounts of politics and approval of a Kantian view. The account of politics which in one respect or another tries to drive a wedge between politics and ordinary morality is seen as inferior to a Kantian concept of politics which is always conditioned by morality.

Fashion in the globalized world and the role of virtual networks in intrinsic fashion design

2003 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 413-427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nobukaza Azuma ◽  
John Fernie
Keyword(s):  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Psychological Needs ◽  
Fashion Design ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Strong Focus ◽  
The Right ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
The Way

The emergence of global fashion has transformed the way fashion is perceived in the contemporary world. While it has brought the consumer the in‐vogue style at the right price, a strong focus on standardization and low‐cost advantage has disbanded the traditional ethos of fashion design which is inspired by a variety of physical and psychological needs in a given precinct. Migration of fashion production offshore and resultant dependence on economies of scale not only threatens the existence of domestic small fashion manufacturers, but also prohibits up‐coming designers from creating intrinsic fashion on a small but sustainable scale. This paper, through a case study of a Japanese non‐profit organization, explores the way in which such an intrinsic fashion creation restores its salience as a counter style of global fashion capitalism. Emphases are placed on corroborating the necessity of intrinsic fashion in today’s society vis‐à‐vis the drawbacks of global fashion in cultural, ethical, ergonomic, and environmental terms.

scholarly journals Book Review: Asma Afsaruddin, The First Muslims History and Memory (Oxford: Oneworld Publication, 2011) pp. xx + 254. Paperback: $19.95

Lentera Hukum ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 237
Author(s):  
Muhammad Bahrul Ulum
Keyword(s):  
Constitutional Law ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
History And Memory ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The University ◽  
The Way

This is one of remarkably few recent books devoted to the Islamic theoretical conversation of constitutional law, by considering the genesis of polity within the Muslim community through historical, political, theological, and legal perspectives. The book provides the contentious concept of jihad and Islamic state which is perceived as the early Muslims’ legacy in this contemporary world. Specifically, it opens a window into the way of understanding the Muslim history by contesting Muhammad’s tolerant polity and the current extremism notion attached to Islam. Beginning the chapter, Asma Afsaruddin, an associate professor at the University of Notre Dame, presents an account of the dawn of Islam brought by the Prophet Muhammad. She takes the lifetime of Muhammad into an account of how the early Muslim community would be shaped from the age of ignorance (Al-Jahiliyya). The term Al-Jahiliyya refers to the time of recklessness and disregard for certain moral, spiritual, and social values revered by Muslims and other righteous people (p. 3).

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