POSTSECULAR RELIGIOSITY AND ITS CONCEPTUAL VERSIONS: FROM "INVISIBLE RELIGION" TO "RELIGION WITHOUT ESSENCE"

The article is devoted to the theoretical reconstruction of the of the conceptual version of postsecular religiosity. All the theories clame that the traditional religion can survive today through cover-up it’s religious identity. This is accompanied by the marginalization of religious organizations and an increase in the influence of religion at the level of individual interest. Theological analysis is limited mainly by negative characteristics when describing post-secular religiosity: the devaluation of transcendence and the rejection of dualism (Daniel HervierLeger), the absence of doctrinal boundaries (Thomas Luckmann), the weakening of the ideological core of the doctrine (Roberto Cipriani). The author argues that post-secular religion is an implicit ideology in terms of the way it functions. In the late XX - early XXI century, a number of researchers (U. Eco, S. Zizek, G. Marcuse and others) noted that the imaginary post-ideology of modern society is associated with the formation of a specific type of ideology, which can be designated as "implicit". The post-Christian secular world is also "implicitly" religious. The author reveals the commonality of the processes taking place in the field of religion with the characteristics of the "post-ideological" world and concludes that the religiosity of the post-secular society is most productive to study precisely as part of an implicit ideology.

UNA VERSIÓN LINEAL DEL PROBLEMA DE KURATOWSKI

El presente estudio se enmarca dentro del paradigma de la investigación básica matemática. Nuestro trabajo está orientado hacia el planteamiento de una nueva versión conceptual y la construcción de una prueba formal del reconocido problema de clausura-complemento de Kuratowski en el marco de la teoría de los espacios vectoriales. Palabras clave: Espacios vectoriales, Problema de Kuratowski, problema de cerradura y complemento. Abstract This study is framed into the basic mathematics research paradigm. This work is geared towards the statement of a new conceptual version and to the construction of a formal proof of the well-known Kuratowski closure-complement problem in the vector space theory frame. Keywords: Kuratowski’s problem, Vector spaces, Closure-complement problem Resumo O presente estudo está enquadrado no paradigma da pesquisa matemática básica. Este trabalho está voltado para afirmação de uma nova versão conceitual e para a construção de uma prova formal do bem conhecido problema de complemento de roupas de Kuratowski no quadro da teoria linear do espaço. Palavras chave: Problema de Kuratowski, Espaços vetoriais, Problema de fechamento-complemento

What is Normativity?

The thesis that the concept of a reason is the fundamental normative concept is in the air. In this paper, I examine what it amounts to, how to formulate it, and how ambitious it should be. I distinguish a semantic version, according to which any normative predicate is definitionally reducible to a reason predicate, and a conceptual version, according to which the sole normative ingredient in any normative concept is the concept of a reason. Although I reject the semantic version, I examine its potential in some detail. And I claim that the conceptual version is plausible.

Synchronization of Two Common-Base-Coupled Nonlinear Rotating-Eccentric-Driven Shakers

The synchronization, or lock-in, of two coupled, similarly sized rotating-eccentric-driven shakers is studied. The shakers are coupled only by being mounted on a common base, which is suspended on springs and dampers and constrained to translate along a line. This setup models a simplified conceptual version of a no-synchronizing-gearing counter-rotating-eccentric-driven telephone-cable-burying vibrating plow. An approximate quantitative theory of the synchronization of the rotors of these coupled nonlinear autonomous systems is developed in a form that is simple to understand and numerically evaluate. This analysis allows predicting, with good accuracy, whether or not the rotors will synchronize, and if so, to also predict transient and steady state properties of the locked-in motion.