Reconstructing Faith: Religious Overcoming in Dewey’s Pragmatism

2004 ◽  
pp. 62-88
Author(s):  
Roger A. Ward ◽  
Roger A. Ward
Keyword(s):  
Intelligent Control ◽  
Common Life ◽  
Religious Attitude ◽  
The Third ◽  
Human Practice ◽  
Sources Of Authority

This chapter follows the structure of the three essays that comprise John Dewey’s A Common Faith. The first section examines Dewey’s notion of the transformation to the religious attitude in “Religion versus the Religious.” The second section focuses on the content aspects of “Faith and Its Object” that make this critical advance possible. Dewey wants to stabilize the sources of authority in human practice to enhance the products and consciousness of intelligent control. The third section follows Dewey’s ascending polemic against the supernatural in “The Human Abode of the Religious Function.” Conversion completes Dewey’s thought here in the sense that the religious function is necessary to produce a material effect on practice that manifests intelligent control of the sources of authority in common life.

Soteriology, Debt, and Faithful Witness: Four Theses for a Political Theology of Economic Democracy

2016 ◽  
Vol 98 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-89
Author(s):  
Luke Bretherton
Keyword(s):  
Political Theology ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Democratic Citizenship ◽  
Social Imaginary ◽  
Economic Democracy ◽  
Common Life ◽  
The Third ◽  
Finance Capitalism ◽  
Contemporary Context ◽  
Do So

The essay seeks to understand what is theologically at stake when challenging the power of money in shaping our common life. To do so it sets out four theses, with commentary, that are suggestive of how we might go about generating a critically constructive and theologically attuned vision of an earthly oikonomia within the contemporary context. The first thesis is that envisioning a contemporary economics of mutual and ecological flourishing necessitates teasing out how Christian doctrines of God and soteriology legitimate oppressive conceptions of debt, and, at the same time, can help dismantle capitalism as an all-encompassing social imaginary to which there is no alternative. The second thesis is that as part of reenvisioning contemporary soteriology we must reengage with scriptural, patristic, scholastic, and medieval rabbinic and Islamic conceptions of property, debt, and usury in order to generate robust theological frameworks through which to analyze finance capitalism and the forms of domination it produces. The third thesis is that a vision for a common life must move beyond notions of recognition and redistribution as the basis for a just public life. And the last thesis is that we need to recover a consociational vision of democratic citizenship and a commitment to economic democracy.

“Defining Sacred Boundaries”

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Benga
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Third Century ◽  
Christian Identity ◽  
Sharp Line ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Common Life ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
The Third ◽  
Mixed Marriages ◽  
The Bible

AbstractThe present paper examines the criteria by which the Christian communities of Syria demarcated themselves from the pagan society, on the basis of the Didascalia Apostolorum, a „church order” of the third century. The article shows that the theoretical Christian monotheism had countless practical consequences for the daily lives of the early Christians. The ban on idolatry, which had initially led Christianity into isolation, became an important pillar of the new Christian identity. From this perspective, the following areas of delimitation are examined: baptism as a criterion of delimitation from the pagan world; the rejection of pagan literature; the mixed marriages between Christians and pagans; balnea mixta etc. The touchstone of the delimitation criteria is the Bible with its provisions against idolatry and immorality. The boundary between the two antique religions appears in daily life to be an area in which common life was possible, rather than a very sharp line.

scholarly journals Interdisciplinarity as a pedagogical problem

2018 ◽  
pp. 47-53
Author(s):  
Nina Mikhailovna Malinovskaia
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Mathematics ◽  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
Information Revolution ◽  
The Third ◽  
Human Practice ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Mathematics

An emergence of abstract mathematics and philosophy in the VI–IV centuries BC is considered in this article as the third information revolution (IR) associated with the transition of human practice to a higher level of complexity. The author traces in detail the history of philosophy and mathematics as educational disciplines. The problem of renewal of the curricula on philosophy for non-philosophical faculties is clearly posed in the work. The article also proposes a scheme of programs on the course of the philosophy of mathematics.

scholarly journals Nature of the common good as the foundation of the community

2021 ◽  
Vol XIX (1) ◽  
pp. 49-62
Author(s):  
Karol Jasiński
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Common Life ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
The Third ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Integral Development ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
Definition Of

The subject of interest of the author of the text is the common good as an inalienable element of the organization of the human community. The paper consists of three parts. The first part analyses the need for a common good as the basis of social and political life. The starting point was the distinction of four forms of common life (community, society, political body and state), defining the nature of society, presentation of three forms of relationship between man and society (individualism, collectivism and personalism) and identifying problems related to the definition of the common good. In the second part, the author presented a reflection on the procedural common good in the liberal tradition, the issue of impartiality and identification of the common good in the process of the debate. In the third part, attention is paid to the personalistic view of the common good, which is based on the integral development of personal human nature in the framework of the appropriate institutions and structures. This understanding of the common good is, in the author’s conviction, the best point of reference in social and political life.

The Architecture Research of the Building External Shading and Building Energy-Saving System Based on the Intelligent Control

2013 ◽  
Vol 724-725 ◽  
pp. 1714-1718
Author(s):  
Zhi Gang Hu ◽  
Peng Wei Guo ◽  
Xiao Li Wang
Keyword(s):  
Intelligent Control ◽  
Power Supply ◽  
Indoor Environment ◽  
Building Energy ◽  
Third Generation ◽  
Light Rain ◽  
The Third ◽  
Unit System ◽  
Building Energy Saving ◽  
Microcontroller Unit

In this paper, we present a solution without power consumption based on intelligently controlled action of the building external shading facilities, which is provided power supply by the third generation flexible solar cells. The signal, which is measured by wind, light, rain and temperaturesensors, is processed by the Microcontroller Unit system (MCU) controlling the motors of building external shading facilities, and then movement of the building external shading facilities is regulated to achieve the most comfortable of the indoor environment.

scholarly journals Errors in diagnosis of infective endocarditis

2018 ◽  
Vol 146 (3) ◽  
pp. 394-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
HR. Naderi ◽  
F. Sheybani ◽  
S.S. Erfani
Keyword(s):  
Infective Endocarditis ◽  
Clinical Syndrome ◽  
High Morbidity ◽  
Discharge Diagnosis ◽  
Common Life ◽  
The Third ◽  
Appropriate Care ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
History Of ◽  
Reason For Admission

AbstractInfective endocarditis (IE) is now the third or fourth most common life-threatening infectious disease. The high morbidity and mortality rates in the absence of appropriate care necessitate a thorough understanding of the obstacles towards the early diagnosis and management of IE. The aim of this study was to evaluate the frequency of discrepancy in diagnosis (i.e. discrepancy between the reason for admission and discharge diagnosis) and associated factors in patients with IE. It was a retrospective review of hospital records of all adult patients admitted in a 1000-bed academic general hospital in Mashhad, Iran with the discharge diagnosis of IE. Discrepancy in diagnosis on admission was observed in 64 (54.2%) of 118 episodes of IE. For patients with discrepant diagnosis, the odds of poor outcome were more than two times higher than the odds of those with the non-discrepant diagnosis. Multivariate analysis identified the only history of prosthetic valve replacement as an independent factor in predicting non-discrepant diagnosis. We suggest that in facing a patient with the complex clinical scenario, proposing a comprehensive clinical syndrome that includes predisposing factors instead of a symptom or finding-based diagnosis can help making the differential diagnosis more accurate.

scholarly journals The Earlier Wittgenstein on the Notion of Religious Attitude

Philosophy ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 88 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chon Tejedor
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Literature ◽  
Ethical Attitude ◽  
Religious Attitude ◽  
The Third ◽  
Conceptual Clarity ◽  
The World ◽  
New Interpretation

AbstractI defend a new interpretation of Wittgenstein's notion of religious (or ethical) attitude in the Tractatus, one that rejects three key views from the secondary literature: firstly, the view that, for Wittgenstein, the willing subject is a transcendental condition for the religious attitude; secondly, the view that the religious attitude is an emotive response to the world or something closely modelled on this notion of emotive response; and thirdly, the view that, although the religious and ethical pseudo-propositions of the Tractatus are nonsensical, they nevertheless succeed in expressing the religious attitude endorsed by Wittgenstein. In connection to the first, I argue that the notion of willing subject as transcendental condition is abandoned by Wittgenstein in the Notebooks and is no longer a feature of his position in the Tractatus. In connection to the second, I argue that the religious attitude is dispositional rather than emotive for Wittgenstein: it is a disposition to use signs in a way that demonstrates one's conceptual clarity. Finally, in connection to the third, I argue that the religious or ethical attitude is strongly ineffable in that it cannot be described, expressed or conveyed by language at all.

Progress report on 21-cm observations at low latitude between longitudes (l 11) 0° and 66°

1967 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 177-179
Author(s):  
W. W. Shane
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Progress Report ◽  
Galactic Centre ◽  
Low Latitude ◽  
The Third ◽  
Introductory Lecture ◽  
Centre Region

In the course of several 21-cm observing programmes being carried out by the Leiden Observatory with the 25-meter telescope at Dwingeloo, a fairly complete, though inhomogeneous, survey of the regionl11= 0° to 66° at low galactic latitudes is becoming available. The essential data on this survey are presented in Table 1. Oort (1967) has given a preliminary report on the first and third investigations. The third is discussed briefly by Kerr in his introductory lecture on the galactic centre region (Paper 42). Burton (1966) has published provisional results of the fifth investigation, and I have discussed the sixth in Paper 19. All of the observations listed in the table have been completed, but we plan to extend investigation 3 to a much finer grid of positions.

The orbit of Pluto over a long interval of time

1966 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 227-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Brouwer
Keyword(s):  
Periodic Orbit ◽  
Numerical Integration ◽  
Restricted Problem ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
The Third ◽  
Circular Restricted Problem ◽  
Resonance Relation

The paper presents a summary of the results obtained by C. J. Cohen and E. C. Hubbard, who established by numerical integration that a resonance relation exists between the orbits of Neptune and Pluto. The problem may be explored further by approximating the motion of Pluto by that of a particle with negligible mass in the three-dimensional (circular) restricted problem. The mass of Pluto and the eccentricity of Neptune's orbit are ignored in this approximation. Significant features of the problem appear to be the presence of two critical arguments and the possibility that the orbit may be related to a periodic orbit of the third kind.

Monte Carlo Algorithms for Moments of Transition Arrays

1988 ◽  
Vol 102 ◽  
pp. 79-81
Author(s):  
A. Goldberg ◽  
S.D. Bloom
Keyword(s):  
Monte Carlo ◽  
State Vector ◽  
Basis Vector ◽  
Collective State ◽  
Dispersion Characteristics ◽  
Dipole Strength ◽  
The Third ◽  
Monte Carlo Algorithms ◽  
Third Moment ◽  
Very High

AbstractClosed expressions for the first, second, and (in some cases) the third moment of atomic transition arrays now exist. Recently a method has been developed for getting to very high moments (up to the 12th and beyond) in cases where a “collective” state-vector (i.e. a state-vector containing the entire electric dipole strength) can be created from each eigenstate in the parent configuration. Both of these approaches give exact results. Herein we describe astatistical(or Monte Carlo) approach which requires onlyonerepresentative state-vector |RV> for the entire parent manifold to get estimates of transition moments of high order. The representation is achieved through the random amplitudes associated with each basis vector making up |RV>. This also gives rise to the dispersion characterizing the method, which has been applied to a system (in the M shell) with≈250,000 lines where we have calculated up to the 5th moment. It turns out that the dispersion in the moments decreases with the size of the manifold, making its application to very big systems statistically advantageous. A discussion of the method and these dispersion characteristics will be presented.

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