Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mette M. High
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Gold Rush ◽  
Asian Continent ◽  
Global Crisis ◽  
Strong Ties ◽  
Financial Investment ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
Spirit Beings ◽  
The Sacrifice

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the Mongolian gold rush. The gold rush, which has grown to become the largest ever on the Asian continent, involves major risks, perhaps even the sacrifice of human life itself. Although national and international commentators rejoice in Mongolia's immense mineral wealth, which is expected to help ease the global crisis in financial investment markets, gold is locally regarded as a volatile and inalienable material that is not readily exchangeable and commodifiable. In contrast to other kinds of metal, it is seen to retain strong ties to the landscape and its many spirit beings. Since these ties cannot easily be severed and are particularly strong at the point of extraction, the fortune of gold is inseparable from the fears that surround mining.

Fear and Fortune

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mette M. High
Keyword(s):  
Precious Metal ◽  
Gold Rush ◽  
Moral Problem ◽  
Personal View ◽  
Religious Knowledge ◽  
Strong Ties ◽  
The People ◽  
Knowledge And Practice ◽  
Illegal Activities ◽  
Spirit Beings

Mongolia over the last decade has seen a substantial and ongoing gold rush. The wide-spread mining of gold looks at first glance to be a blessing for a desperately poor and largely pastoralist country. Volatility and uncertainty as well as political and economic turmoil led many people to join the hopeful search for gold. This activity poses an intense moral problem; in the “land of dust,” disturbing the ground and extracting the precious metal is widely believed to have calamitous consequences. With gold retaining strong ties to the landscape and its many spirit beings, the fortune of the precious metal is inseparable from the fears that surround mining. This book considers the results of several years of fieldwork in Mongolia, time spent with the “ninjas,” as the miners are known locally, as well as the people who disapprove of their illegal activities and warn of the retribution that the land and its inhabitants may suffer as a result. As such, the book is a well-structured read on the Mongolian gold rush and the spirit forces that underpin it. It provides a uniquely up-close and personal view onto gold mining and its international circuitry, based on a sensitive study of Mongolian sociality, miners, religious knowledge and practice, and ways of envisioning and experiencing what counts as “value” in the Mongolian gold rush today.

Consciousness: The Most Critical Moral (Constitutional) Standard for Human Personhood

1987 ◽  
Vol 13 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 233-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald E. Cranford ◽  
David Randolph Smith
Keyword(s):  
Medical Profession ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Vegetative State ◽  
Persistent Vegetative State ◽  
Major Premise ◽  
Definition Of Death ◽  
The Past ◽  
Appropriate Care ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
Definition Of

For the past two decades, the medical profession and society have debated the definition of death. Some reasonable consensus has been reached on this issue, in theory and in practice. In the last few years, however, a far more important debate has been evolving — the definition of human personhood. Human personhood has been discussed extensively in the past with respect to the abortion question and other issues concerning the beginning of life. More recently, however, the definition of personhood has been raised with respect to termination of treatment decisions at the end of life and, in particular, on the appropriate care of patients in a persistent vegetative state.Our major premise is that consciousness is the most critical moral, legal, and constitutional standard, not for human life itself, but for human personhood. There is nothing highly original in our approach to this particular issue; others have advanced similar arguments in recent years.

Happiness Index and Gadget Radiation Analysis on Yajna and Mantra Chanting Therapy in South Asian Continent

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-46
Author(s):  
Rohit Rastogi ◽  
Mamta Saxena ◽  
Mayank Gupta ◽  
Akshit Rajan Rastogi ◽  
Pradeep Kumar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Human Health ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Race ◽  
Asian Continent ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
Body And Soul ◽  
Ancient Times

From ancient times, humans are striving for being healthy and to live with mental peace with family and society. In the previous centuries also, some manmade and mostly natural disasters have disturbed the pace of human life. There have been times when the whole human race has been in terror, danger, and utmost worry. The electrical gadgets also have made the human life comfortable, but also machines have dominated its consciousness. The stress, aggression, depression, and many more issues are also showing presence in all our lives. The chapter is a trial to establish the effect of yagna and mantra science over human calmness and its effect on human health irrespective to gender and age. The article also elaborates the effect of Sanskrit sound and mantra chanting on emission of radiations from electronic gadgets. It also presents the effect of spiritual practices on the human body and soul after the terror, stress, grief created due to COVID-19.

S. Freud. Aggression: between Eros and Thanatos

2021 ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Vyacheslav N. Zhukov
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Death Instinct ◽  
Biological Phenomenon ◽  
Biological Phenomena ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
Inanimate Matter ◽  
Special Case

The article deals with the concept of aggression S. Freud. Aggression is shown as a biological phenomenon interacting with culture. According to Freud, biological phenomena (including human life) are permeated by two aspirations: the instinct of life and the instinct of death. The purpose of life is death, and life itself is a special case of inanimate matter. Aggression is a manifestation of the death instinct. Since the culture designed to restrain individual and mass aggression is itself permeated with both instincts (Eros and Thanatos), the outcome of the struggle between them is unknown.

Life

2019 ◽  
pp. 46-74
Author(s):  
Marc Crépon ◽  
James Martel
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Human Life ◽  
The World ◽  
Stefan Zweig ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
Good For

This chapter discusses not only how the fabric of relations binds people to all others, but also how its fissures are a part of the “nature” or the “essence of life,” at least “human life.” If it is true that all life, however it defines its belonging, is protected by the ideals and the institutions that constitute a common good for humanity, and if it is true, more importantly, that no one can elude murderous consent, then the paradox of murderous consent is that humanity's common good turns against life itself. Rather than merely accept, encourage, and promote the destruction of life, the fabric of relations that should prevent such annihilation assists it. All wars, all acts of violence, whether civil or between states, trample on the ideals of humanity, even as those who are responsible for the abuse proclaim these same ideals as their own. Nothing that safeguards life is immune from being invoked and exploited so as to effect this kind of reversal. This was the bitter conclusion—as expressed in his Reflections on War and Death—that Sigmund Freud reached in 1915 after the first of four long years of mutual devastation by Europe's nations. Stefan Zweig—in The World of Yesterday: Memories of a European, a retrospective on the war—came to this same conclusion regarding literature, though twenty-five years later.

General

2014 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 311-314
Author(s):  
Vedia Izzet ◽  
Robert Shorrock
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Tenth Century ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
Roman World ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
Imperial Period ◽  
Historical Outline

Originally published in Dutch in 1995, Antiquity. Greeks and Romans in Context by Frederick Naerebout and Henk Singor aims to provide (in its own modest words) a ‘reasonably comprehensive one-volume’ overview of the Greco-Roman world for undergraduates and a wider interested audience (xiii). The main focus of the work is the Greco-Roman world from 1000 bc to 500 bc (divided into the Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman Imperial periods). Each period is covered under the same three headings (in the interests of comparability): ‘Historical Outline’, ‘Social Fabric’, ‘Social Life and Mentality’. The wider context is, however, by no means ignored. The authors provide a valuable overview of the Palaeolithic and Neolithic periods (27–35) and of the early civilizations of Eurasia up to 900 bc (36–58). At the other end of the timeline, the book does not simply conclude with the Roman Imperial period but carries on the story up to the tenth century ad and beyond (369–94). A particular emphasis is placed in the introductory chapter on ‘The Ecology of History’ (11–23): [M]aterial factors can be called the ‘basics’ of history: they determine what, under given circumstances, is possible and what is not; they create preconditions for, and restraints on human life. Thus, every culture has been in many respects the expression of the ways in which some group of human beings managed to adapt to the ecosystem in which they happened to be living, which might also be described as ecological anthropology. (11)

scholarly journals Comparative research on Korean jangseungs and Lithuanian religious monuments

2008 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-135
Author(s):  
Martynas Šiaučiūnas-Kačinskas
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Research ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Strong Ties ◽  
Shaped Body ◽  
The World ◽  
Axis Mundi

Kyung Hee UniversityThe research deals with Korean jangseungs and Lithuanian religious monuments, which include various kinds of Christian crosses, chapels, chapel pillars, and roofed pillars. The latter two are sometimes referred to as chapel pillars and roofed pillars (or collectively, decorative crosses) in English. This research focuses on chapel- pillars and roofed pillarsdecorative crosses only. Such monuments are seen quite often all over both countries, and they attract the eyes of tourists visiting the countries. The shape of the monuments is quite different: Korean jangseungs are pillars with a human-shaped body and the Lithuanian monuments are pillars having many Christian symbols. After deeper analysis, it can be concluded that both monuments are closely related by their functions. They are erected at the boundaries of villages, in the most important places in villages, near roads and dangerous places, etc. These monuments from both countries are supposed to protect the sphere of human life and ensure prosperity, health, a good harvest, etc. They also have strong ties with the veneration of ancestors, still very vivid in these two countries. And since both monuments are pillars, they have deep relations with the world pillar (axis mundi): a belief widely known throughout the world.

scholarly journals Pengalihwujudan dalam Kerangka Konsep Hukum Hak Cipta

Humaniora ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Besar Besar
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Copyright Law ◽  
Advanced Technology ◽  
Human Intelligence ◽  
Great Ability ◽  
Copyright Laws ◽  
Life Itself

Power of human intelligence and reasoning power as God's creation that has such a great ability and accompanied with such advanced technology to create or creation something, make something that is often beyond the limits of existing rules at the level of human life itself. The result of creativity and creations that appear either truly original creation or a form can not be separated from adaptations of copyright law. Copyright laws are made with the intent to regulate and protect the rights, in fact, considered to still have the weakness, therefore this paper tries to lift the adaptations within the framework of copyright law. In this article the author uses qualitative and descriptive methods are based on secondary data. From the results have not been found the regulations or laws that specifically deal about adaptations 

scholarly journals Perbandingan Kurikulum Pendidikan Sejarah di Rusia dan Indonesia

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 44
Author(s):  
Jumardi Jumardi
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
History Teaching ◽  
Models Of Teaching ◽  
Teaching History ◽  
Russian State ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
History Of ◽  
Teaching Curriculum ◽  
Spiral Model

Learning of history very real associated with human life itself. Learning the history of studying thehuman role in the nation’s history and history itself . Learning curriculum history becomes important instudying the role of every human being . This should be reviewed when learning materials and learningoutcomes are not proportional . The educational system of a country determines how a curriculum isapplied to all subjects . Comparing a learning curriculum Indonesian history becomes necessary to obtaina picture of how the teaching of history in Indonesia and the Russian State history teaching curriculum. Models of teaching history in Indonesia using the spiral model ( repetition ) while Russia using linearmodels . Learners and citizens of Russia have the pride of the history of his country.

scholarly journals The Value of Education in a Marriage

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-47
Author(s):  
Azmil Mukarrom
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Peace Of Mind ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Value Of Education

Background of the Problem Islam is a religion that is Shamil or covers all aspects of human life from the fundamentals of one's life even to the very small and trivial things in life itself. Among the things that are very urgent that every human will experience is the process of marriage. What is certain is that Islam does not escape giving signs and teachings that must be known by every human. With the hope that everything he does is in accordance with the guidance of Islamic shari'ah itself. Marriage in Islam is peace of mind, peace of mind, and determination. Truly marriage is a relationship of two hearts that is very powerful. Allah binds both of them to provide peace and inner peace in a household full of love and warmth. The Qur'an describes the eternal bond between men and women with a very beautiful picture. It can provide security and calm. In it there is a very noble educational process. Alloh l explained through His Messenger n will be a very valuable education in the bond of marriage.

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