Time, Eternity, and the Prospects for Care. An Essay in Honor of Jürgen Moltmann’s 90th Birthday

2016 ◽  
Vol 76 (5) ◽  
pp. 345-354
Author(s):  
Miroslav Volf
Keyword(s):  
90Th Birthday ◽  
Critical Dialogue ◽  
Ordinary Life ◽  
Radical Atheism ◽  
Human Desire

AbstractThe eternal God is not merely an illusion, as traditional atheism claims; God is an undesirable illusion, in fact, an illusion which is, on closer inspection, impossible to desire. This, roughly, is the thesis of Martin Hägglund’s »radical atheism,« one of whose primary claims is the essential temporality of all human desire. To see eternity and absolute fullness as the ultimate goal is to desire nothingness, he argues; this desire as such (and not just its practical outworking) entails denial of care for and joy in ordinary life. This essay is a critical dialogue with Hägglund, a friendly dispute about time and eternity as they bear on the possibilities of care and joy.

Clarissa and Tom Jones

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. Downie
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Samuel Richardson ◽  
Henry Fielding ◽  
Critical Dialogue ◽  
Narrative Technique ◽  
Ordinary Life ◽  
Tom Jones ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Epistolary Form ◽  
Narrative Method

This chapter further examines the creative and critical dialogue between Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding. From the publication of the two original volumes of Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded in November 1740 onwards, Fielding responded not only to the subject matter of Richardson's fiction, but also to what he regarded as shortcomings in his narrative technique. He takes particular note of Richardson's use of the epistolary form. According to Ian Watt, the private letter provides the ‘nearest record...in ordinary life’ of ‘this minute-by-minute content of consciousness which constitutes what the individual's personality really is, and dictates his relationship to others’. Yet this belief about letters tends to downplay, if not discount altogether, not merely the disadvantages of what one of Richardson's characters (Lovelace) calls ‘this lively present-tense manner’, but also the full complexity of his narrative method in Clarissa (1747–8).

Ordinary Life Therapy

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carina Hakansson ◽  
Lina Lundquist
Keyword(s):  
Ordinary Life ◽  
Life Therapy

PROTOTYPE ALAT PEMANTAU SALURAN AIR BAWAH TANAH DENGAN MENGGUNAKAN WEBCAM C170 BERBASIS RASPBERRY PI

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-45
Author(s):  
Irwansyah Irwansyah ◽  
Hendra Kusumah ◽  
Muhammad Syarif
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Monitoring System ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Underground Water ◽  
Raspberry Pi ◽  
Laptop Computer ◽  
Web Browser ◽  
Disaster Monitoring ◽  
The Times ◽  
Human Desire

Along with the times, recently there have been found tool to facilitate human’s work. Electronics is one of technology to facilitate human’s work. One of human desire is being safe, so that people think to make a tool which can monitor the surrounding condition without being monitored with people’s own eyes. Public awareness of the underground water channels currently felt still very little so frequent floods. To avoid the flood disaster monitoring needs to be done to underground water channels.This tool is controlled via a web browser. for the components used in this monitoring system is the Raspberry Pi technology where the system can take pictures in real time with the help of Logitech C170 webcam camera. web browser and Raspberry Pi make everyone can control the devices around with using smartphone, laptop, computer and ipad. This research is expected to be able to help the users in knowing the blockage on water flow and monitored around in realtime.

Universal Values and Muslim Democracy

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Anwar Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
World Today ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Universal Values ◽  
Human Desire ◽  
Dignified Life

This study deals with Universal Values and Muslim Democracy. This essay draws upon speeches that he gave at the New York Democ- racy Forum in December 2005 and the Assembly of the World Movement for Democracy in Istanbul in April 2006. The emergence of Muslim democracies is something significant and worthy of our attention. Yet with the clear exceptions of Indonesia and Turkey, the Muslim world today is a place where autocracies and dictatorships of various shades and degrees continue their parasitic hold on the people, gnawing away at their newfound freedoms. It concludes that the human desire to be free and to lead a dignified life is universal. So is the abhorrence of despotism and oppression. These are passions that motivate not only Muslims but people from all civilizations.

The Modern Aristotle: Michael Polanyi’s Search for Truth against Nihilism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald Hoinski ◽  
Ronald Polansky
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Michael Polanyi ◽  
Contemporary Philosophy ◽  
The Face ◽  
Human Desire ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Theoretical Science

David Hoinski and Ronald Polansky’s “The Modern Aristotle: Michael Polanyi’s Search for Truth against Nihilism” shows how the general tendencies of contemporary philosophy of science disclose a return to the Aristotelian emphasis on both the formation of dispositions to know and the role of the mind in theoretical science. Focusing on a comparison of Michael Polanyi and Aristotle, Hoinski and Polansky investigate to what degree Aristotelian thought retains its purchase on reality in the face of the changes wrought by modern science. Polanyi’s approach relies on several Aristotelian assumptions, including the naturalness of the human desire to know, the institutional and personal basis for the accumulation of knowledge, and the endorsement of realism against objectivism. Hoinski and Polansky emphasize the promise of Polanyi’s neo-Aristotelian framework, which argues that science is won through reflection on reality.

Echohistoricism: Aristotle, Dryden, Montgomery, Conrad

Romanticism ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 278-293
Author(s):  
Thomas H. Ford
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Joseph Conrad ◽  
John Dryden ◽  
Modern Literature ◽  
Critical Dialogue ◽  
Lecture Series ◽  
Narrative Frame ◽  
Definition Of

The contingencies of military decisions and their outcomes have always shaped the course of literary history, determining even the languages in which it has been conducted. But modern literature takes a new bearing on its determinant military contingencies. This paper describes a modern literary scene that self-reflexively attributes to literature the potential to suspend these determining military events, and so to communicate the unactualised possibilities contained in past contingencies, even those that have been violently foreclosed. It is a scene of interested observers, adrift in a boat, who listen for the sounds of a distant naval battle. Having first located this scene's classical antecedents in Aristotle, I then track it through three pivotal and distinctively modern moments of literary self-periodization. In each instance, the scene is differently configured, articulating a specific conjuncture of war, textuality and literary self-definition. It appears in John Dryden as the setting of a modern critical dialogue on theatre, with James Montgomery as a Romantic definition of the poetry of sound in a lecture series on literature, and with Joseph Conrad as the narrative frame of a modernist tale within a tale. But the same scene re-echoes in all three – the scene of literary inscription as one in which, contingently, a war neither did nor did not take place, a battle was and was not fought.

Gerasim Matveevich Eliashberg (on his 90th birthday)

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (9) ◽  
pp. 940-941
Author(s):  
A F Andreev ◽  
V M Galitskii ◽  
B I Ivlev ◽  
I V Kolokolov ◽  
L S Levitov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
90Th Birthday

Andrei Viktorovich Gaponov-Grekhov (on his 90th birthday)

2016 ◽  
Vol 186 (6) ◽  
pp. 687-688
Author(s):  
F.V. Bunkin ◽  
Grigory G. Denisov ◽  
V.V. Zheleznyakov ◽  
Vladimir E. Zakharov ◽  
Lev M. Zelenyi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
90Th Birthday

Yurii Georgievich Abov (on his 90th birthday)

2012 ◽  
Vol 182 (12) ◽  
pp. 1359-1360
Author(s):  
Viktor L. Aksenov ◽  
A.D. Gul'ko ◽  
Mikhail V. Danilov ◽  
G.V. Danilyan ◽  
Fridrikh S. Dzheparov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
90Th Birthday
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