scholarly journals Forståelsen af begreberne skæbne og fri vilje i moderne vestlig astrologi

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iben Egekvist Krogsdal
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Philosophical Approach

"Destiny, Free Will and Astrology". The relation between destiny and free will has, since Augustine, been crucial in the theological and philosophical approach to astrology and has led to the accusation that astrology represents pure fatalism. This article concentrates on two mainstreams in modern, Western astrology; esoteric astrology and humanistic astrology. The two different astrological schools solve the conflict between destiny and free will differently, yet stand together in rejecting the accusation of pure fatalism: Astrology is only fatalistic to the primitive unspiritual being. On higher levels of human development, will is introduced. The esoteric astrology claims that the ultimate aim of human existence through continuing incarnations is to become one with the divine. The Jungian inspired humanistic astrology emphasizes the capability of the inviduating individual to fill a structural emptiness set out be the horoscope. This is not achieved by becoming one with the divine, but by becoming one with oneself.

scholarly journals Self Development And Integral Theory

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Melissa Baker
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Integral Theory ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Gradual Evolution ◽  
Self Development ◽  
Personal Process ◽  
Experiential Process ◽  
The Moment

Development is a focal point of human existence from the moment of birth. A magnitude of options is offered in which to choose a path of growth and expansion as we progress. The following is a review of one such choice, the integral theory; included are both an explanation of theory and ideology of human development. This understanding is applied to my personal experience as I participated in P.L. Lattuada’s experiential process of organismic constellation. Through a gradual evolution of meditative processes Lattuada’s organismic constellation method offers a chance to explore one’s egoic translations. The second portion of this paper explores my personal process, revealing some of my personal egoic translations of traumas, fixations, complexes, and shadows. KEYWORDS Integral Theory, Organismic Constellations, Consciousness as Such Building, Human Development, First Attention Epistemology, Second Attention Epistemology

scholarly journals HUMAN: BEING BETWEEN NATURE AND CULTURE

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-13
Author(s):  
Alexey Volkov
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Mutual Influence ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Sociocultural Factors ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
Cultural Origins

The article investigates some issues connected with comprehending the specific features of human existence. The author uses genetic and cross-cultural studies to show that human development is affected by both genetic and sociocultural factors. The author believes that the conception of human existence that takes into account mutual influence and complementarity of genetic and cultural origins in human beings is justified not only in theory, but also in practice, since it responds to the need for harmonization of relations between people and their environment.

A Philosophy of the Improvisational Body

2019 ◽  
pp. 64-88
Author(s):  
Sondra Fraleigh
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Philosophical Approach ◽  
The Third ◽  
Dance Improvisation ◽  
Key Terms

This essay is both analytical and personal. The first section, ‘A Philosophical Approach’, develops key terms of the chapter through a philosophy of active embodiment and being seen. The second section, ‘Moving through Time’, is the author’s story of moving through nine historical phases of dance improvisation. The third section, ‘Why Improvise?’, inquires into the improvisational body in somatics and human development and reviews ascendant pyramidal conceptions of dance improvisation, preferring attributes relative to distinctiveness in motion, intimacy with body and others, inclusive aesthetics, and variables of intentionality. The chapter aims to show how improvisational qualities are both abstract and personal, and that they involve an interplay of possibilities—how things draw apart, alternate, disintegrate, or assemble throughout a creative whole. Love and faith both live in dance, stirring the intangibles of dance improvisation.

scholarly journals The problem of human transformation and the criteria of "good" and "evil" in meta-anthropology and transhumanism

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 64-72
Author(s):  
Natalia Terletska
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Human Values ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Human Transformation ◽  
Good And Evil

From the position of meta-anthropology, at the article are analyzed the values of being: the value of the archetypes of good, freedom, love, unity of freedom and love, as well as the value of such an existential as the meaning of human existence.The value of the sense of being is analized in a research from such points of view as: life not only for the sake of self-preservation and minimization of suffering, but also for the development, holistic harmonious realization by a humanity of such qualities that make a person capable not only for the consumering of the benefits of civilization, but also becoming a creator of culture, seeking for the harmony of spiritual, soul and physical needs, the ability to express empathy and to overcome the existential problems of despair and fear of death, remaining a human creator, maintaining traditional human values and existentials, such as love and freedom.The value of the archetypes of good, freedom, love and the criteria of good and evil are analyzed in the field of such existentially important concepts as free will and the human right for the traditional and sacred values.The study focuses on the important theme of the loss of criteria of good and evil, which, as a rule, is proposed by transhumanism, having a basis for this in the philosophy of the postmodern era, as well as the search for ways out of the existential, spiritual, soul and moral-ethical crisis in order to preserve the human values.The theoretical basis of the study was the work of philosophers of different periods, studies of psychologists and psychoanalysts, including contemporary, recent work of domestic researchers in meta-anthropology, as well as recent work of foreign representatives of transhumanism.There is made a conclusion that the preserving the existantials of the culture in human existence is impossible without maintaining the traditional criteria of good and evil in the context of sacred transcendental values.

scholarly journals Patočka’s Socrates: The Care for the Soul and Human Existence

2021 ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
L’ubica Učník
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Philosophical Reflection ◽  
Dead End ◽  
The World

In order to get out of present day discussions between (for example) determinism and free will, creationism and evolution, bios and zoē, human existence and biological life – those dead end binaries of our present day thinking into which we have manoeuvred ourselves – we need to revisit the Ancient discussions relating to the care of the soul and human existence. I will draw together these two themes from Jan Patočka’s writings by anchor-ing them in his account of Socrates who was the first to emphasise the idea of human re-sponsibility not only for thinking but also for human acting in the world. I will argue that the significant common feature – the care for our own being, our existence – brings Patočka’s reflections on the care for the soul and care for our human existence together. While, according to Patočka, the notion of the care for the soul was displaced from the philosophical reflection by the modern scientific venture, the idea of human existence is, although problematic from the scientific point of view, still a part of our experience.Para librarnos de discusiones contemporáneas entre (por ejemplo) determinismo y libre albedrío, creacionismo y evolución, bios y zoē, existencia humana y vida biológica, estos binomios, callejones de salida del pensamiento de hoy en los que nos hemos metido, tenemos que volver a escuchar las discusiones de la Antigüedad sobre el cuidado del alma y la existencia humana. Voy a recuperar estos dos temas de escritos de Jan Patočka, anclándolos en su interpretación de Sócrates, el primero en poner énfasis en la idea de responsabilidad humana no solo de su pensamiento sino también de su actuar en el mundo. Argumentaré que el significativo rasgo común, esto es, el cuidado por nuestro propio ser, nuestra existencia, es lo que une las reflexiones de Patočka sobre el cuidado del alma y el cuidado de la exitencia humana. Mientras que, según Patočka, la noción del cuidado del alma ha sido desplazada de la reflexión filosófica por la empresa científica moderna, la idea de la existencia humana, a pesar de lo problemático que puede resultar desde un punto de vista científi-co, todavía forma parte de nuestra experiencia.

scholarly journals Islamic Perspective on Human Development Management: A Philosophical Approach

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abang Mohd. Razif Abang Muis ◽  
Mohd Syahmir Alias ◽  
Musmuliadi Kamaruding ◽  
Mohammad Zulfakhairi Mokthar
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Philosophical Approach ◽  
Development Management ◽  
Islamic Perspective

scholarly journals Ukraine as a civilizational subject: a new method-ology for human development and society (review of monograph by S. Pyrozhkov, N. Khamitov Ukraine as a civilizational subject: from potencies to a new worldview and human existence)

2021 ◽  
pp. 44-48
Author(s):  
Vasyl H. Kremen ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Naukova Dumka ◽  
Security System ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
New Method ◽  
Society Review ◽  
Hybrid War

The monograph by S. Pyrozhkov, N. Khamitov “Ukraine as a civilizational subject: from potencies to a new worldview and human existence” (Kyiv, Naukova Dumka, 2020) is devoted to understanding the civilizational subjectivity of Ukraine: a state of development when our country decides its civilized destiny, chooses identity and partners. The authors pose and solve the problem of inventing an effective methodology for understanding the country as a subject of history and geopolitics, propose the development of a humanistic civilization project that would contribute to a decent human self-realization. The paper substantiates the need for the formation of a new security system in a hybrid war, as well as the Euro-Atlantic vector as a catalyst for the subjectivity of Ukraine.

scholarly journals The Art of Stopping when it’s Time to Stop. A Philosophical Approach to the Daoist Notion of Wú wéi

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-18
Author(s):  
Agnė Budriūnaitė
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Philosophy ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Philosophical Approach ◽  
Chinese Thought ◽  
Wu Wei ◽  
Critical Investigation ◽  
The Ideal

Abstract One of the most significant current discussions in Chinese philosophy is the problem of interpreting the notion of wú wéi. As one of the popular concepts of ancient Chinese thought, wú wéi was used and differently interpreted in various philosophical schools from the very beginning. In this article, the Daoist notion of wú wéi will be explored as the “art of stopping when it’s time to stop”, taking the philosophical approach and appealing to the text of the Zhuangzi. The critical investigation into the sinological literature allows us to reveal several different contemporary attitudes towards wú wéi as the aim, process, and ground for the “ideal” human existence

Man in the Religious Philosophy of Blaise Pascal

2019 ◽  
pp. 72-86
Author(s):  
Михаил Степанович Иванов
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Blaise Pascal ◽  
Actual State ◽  
Religious Philosophy ◽  
Philosophical Approach ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Divine Wisdom ◽  
The World

Цель исследования - выявить отличительные черты религиозно-философского подхода Паскаля к человеку. Философ рассматривает человека в апологетическом ключе. Придать своей мысли такое измерение французского философа побудила эпоха, в которую он жил и в которой непререкаемым авторитетом в богословии стал Фома Аквинат, верный последователь аристотелизма. Иллюзорным представлениям Аквината о мировой гармонии, якобы царящей в окружающем мире, Паскаль противопоставляет описание мира, «лежащего во зле», и человека, «висящего над бездной». В этом описании звучат экзистенциальные мотивы. Однако духовный поворот, произошедший в душе философа, оградил его от философии экзистенциализма, и парадоксальность человеческого бытия начинает осмысливаться Паскалем в православном ключе. В этом же ключе он начинает отличать философию как любовь к мудрости Божественной от философии по стихиям мира, а не по Христу (Кол. 2, 8). Здесь философом даётся прекрасное описание человеческого разума в его потенциальном и актуальном состоянии, а также ничтожество человека и его величие, достигаемое им на пути его верности и любви к Богу. The aim of the study is to identify the distinctive features of Pascal’s religious and philosophical approach to man. The philosopher considers man in an apologetic way. To give his thought this dimension of the French philosopher was prompted by the era in which he lived and in which the indisputable authority in theology was Thomas Aquinas, a faithful follower of aristotelism. Pascal contrasts Aquinas’ illusory notions of the world harmony supposedly reigning in the surrounding world with the description of the world «lying in evil» and the man «hanging over the abyss». There are existential motives in this description. However, the spiritual turn that took place in the soul of the philosopher, shielded him from the philosophy of existentialism, and the paradox of human existence begins to comprehend Pascal in the Orthodox way. In the same vein, he begins to distinguish philosophy as the love of divine wisdom from philosophy by the elements of the world, and not by Christ (Col. 2, 8). Here the philosopher gives a beautiful description of the human mind in its potential and actual state, as well as the insignificance of man and his greatness, achieved by him in the way of his faithfulness and love for God.

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