scholarly journals Religia a poszukiwania metafi zyczne współczesnego człowieka

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 107-128
Author(s):  
MAREK SZULAKIEWICZ
Keyword(s):  
Closed World ◽  
The World ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Way

Contemporary post-metaphysical culture undertook the express fi ght against absoluteness and universality by propagating and defending pluralism. It seemed that if instead of the quest for what is universal and absolute there will be almost infi nite magnitude of views, opinions, meanings etc., everybody will fi nd something for himself what will be his own meaning. The loss of the reference to what is absolute and universal led though to the loss of concrete goals, values and meanings. But we cannot “manage diversity” if we lack this reference. What is more, the world becomes closed and limited and it recedes to the static and locked-in state in which admittedly everything is in fl ux, views are being liberally changed, meanings accepted and rejected depending on the moment, but actually everything is motionless in the closed world. If we know all of this and deeply experience the crisis of the meaning of existence that stems from the rejection of metaphysics and from the surrender of culture to the most important questions and to boot fragmentation of reality becomes dangerous and destructive, then the revival of metaphysical thinking becomes the need of our world. The man itself is not enough; neither the culture that tantalises itself with selfsuffi ciency; both of them lose the meaning of their existence. Man cannot indefi nitely recede from the world. On the contrary, he has to place this world within some meaningful order. All these needs are metaphysical. The quest for the foundation of all meaning has been the essence of metaphysics for ages. That is why we experience not only longing for metaphysics but we also enter the way of the search for it. However, before the quest for metaphysics there are metaphysical quests which purpose is to recall questions and to slowly teach the man these questions anew. For we are bonded with the absolute – not necessarily with the “existence of the absolute” but inescapably with “questions about it”.

Pharmacist’s age affect information provided for pharmacy clients about generic substitution

2017 ◽  
Vol 86 (2) ◽  
pp. 163
Author(s):  
Pawel Lewek ◽  
Janusz Śmigielski ◽  
Izabela Banaś ◽  
Przemyslaw Kardas
Keyword(s):  
Correlation Analysis ◽  
Generic Substitution ◽  
Generic Drugs ◽  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The World ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Way

Introduction. According to WHO, increase in usage of generic drugs may be one of the ways to reduce costs of healthcare systems around the world. However, according to scientific data, physicians and pharmacists doubt in their effectiveness – the reason for that is not well known. Due to this fact an evidence of factors affecting their opinion is being searched for. Aim. The aim of this study was to assess whether correlation exist between the age of pharmacist and the way information about generic drugs is provided.Material and Methods. This was a questionnaire‑based study. Especially prepared questionnaire was made available to pharmacists of Lodzkie province. Survey was conducted in Lodz (81.8%) and other towns of lodzkie province.Results. One hundred and forty eight pharmacists working in Lodzkie province have answered the questionnaire (84.5% women and 13.5% men, aged 23–59, working mainly in private pharmacies – 89.1%). Most of pharmacists (47; 31.8%) younger than 35 years provided information about generic drugs, after being asked about it. Most of pharmacists older than 35 years had given information before patients asked them about it. Correlation analysis revealed that strong statistically significant correlation between pharmacist’s age and the moment when he provides an information about generic drugs exist (P < 0.05).Conclusions. Age of pharmacists affect their commitment to provide information about generic drugs for pharmacy clients.

The Epoch of the Secular City

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harvey Cox
Keyword(s):  
World Views ◽  
Closed World ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

This introductory chapter provides a background of secularization, an epochal movement that marks a change in the way men grasp and understand their life together. Secularization is the loosening of the world from religious and quasi-religious understandings of itself, the dispelling of all closed world-views, and the breaking of all supernatural myths and sacred symbols. It represents what another observer has called the “defatalization of history,” the discovery by man that he has been left with the world on his hands, that he can no longer blame fortune or the furies for what he does with it. Secularization is man turning his attention away from worlds beyond and toward this world and this time. However, the forces of secularization have no serious interest in persecuting religion. Secularization simply bypasses and undercuts religion and goes on to other things.

Real moments

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peggy D. Bennett
Keyword(s):  
The World ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Way

Can you remember a time when you were totally absorbed in the moment? When “the rest of the world” ceased to exist? When returning to your surroundings felt a bit jolting? If so, you may have experienced a “real moment.” Our “real moments” as teachers often happen when a stu­dent has an “aha!” experience. Or when we finally figure out how to present a confusing concept, and it works just the way we hoped. Or when there is such a meeting of the minds with fellow teachers that it feels like a wave of perfection has just rolled over us. And when they do occur, real moments can revitalize and invigorate us. The trick to relishing these real moments is to notice them. Then we can acknowledge and savor them as bits of bliss. According to Barbara De Angelis, “Real moments occur only when you are consciously and completely experiencing where you are, what you are doing, and how you are feeling . . . you are paying attention”. Paying attention is not neces­sarily as easy as it may seem. Having racing minds and darting attentions, we get in the habit of not paying attention. So may our students. What can we do to stop, drop, and be? Simply stop think­ing. Notice your surroundings. Listen and watch as others speak. Drop your hurry and worry long enough to breathe, feel, and notice what surrounds you. Be present to soak up all that your senses allow. You allow real moments to happen when you totally surren­der into whatever you are experiencing, and let go of trying to be in control.

Essential Education

2030 ◽  
2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rutger van Santen ◽  
Djan Khoe ◽  
Bram Vermeer
Keyword(s):  
First Year ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The People ◽  
Equal Chance ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Moment ◽  
First Year Of Life ◽  
The Brain ◽  
The Way

The helplessness of newborn babies is very endearing. They can just about breathe unaided, but they are otherwise entirely unadapted and dependent. Babies can barely see, let alone walk or talk. Few animals come into the world so unprepared, and no other species is as dependent on learning as human beings are. Elephant calves, for instance, can stand up by themselves within a few minutes of being born. Most animals are similarly “preprogrammed.” Female elephants carry their young for no fewer than 22 months, whereas we humans have to go on investing in our offspring long after they are born. Children need years of adult protection. They guzzle fuel, too; their brains consume fully 60 percent of the newborn’s total energy intake. In the first year of life, the infant’s head buzzes with activity as neurons grow in size and complexity and form their innumerable interconnections. The way the brain develops is the subject of the next chapter (chapter 5.2). Here we concentrate on the way we are educated from the first day on. There is virtually no difference between Inuits and Australian aborigines in terms of their ability—at opposite ends of the earth and in climates that are utterly different—to bear children successfully. Other animal species are far more closely interrelated with their environment. Other primates have evolved to occupy a limited biotope determined by food and climate. Humans are much more universal. Every human child has an equal chance of survival wherever they are born. As a species, we delay our maturation and adaptation until after birth, which makes the inequality of subsequent human development all the more acute. Someone who is born in Mali or Burkina Faso is unlikely ever to learn to read. A person whose father lives in Oxford, by contrast, might have spoken his or her first words of Latin at an early age. Inuit and aboriginal babies may be born equally, but their chances begin to diverge the moment they start learning how to live. We are not shaped by our inborn nature but by the culture that is impressed upon us by the people with whom we grow up.

scholarly journals On Ravenstein's Edition of Battell's Adventures in Angola and Loango

2007 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 321-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Vansina
Keyword(s):  
Central Africa ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Eyewitness Account ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
The Way

Between 1590 and ca. 1610 the English sailor Andrew Battell lived in Central Africa, first in Angola until 1606/07 and then in Loango. His reports about these lands are a priceless source for the otherwise poorly documented history of Angola between ca. 1590-1606, especially since his is the only known eyewitness account about the way of life of the notorious Jaga. He actually lived with one of their bands supposedly for at least twenty months (26-27). In addition his account is also one of the very earliest about Loango. Hence modern historians of Angola and Loango have relied extensively on him. They all, myself included, have used the text edition by E.G. Ravenstein of The Strange Adventures of Andrew Battell of Leigh (London, 1901) and did so without referring back to the original documents. These are, first Battell's information in Samuel Purchas' Purchas His Pilgrimage, or Relations of the World and the Religions observed in all Ages and Places discovered from the Creation unto the Present (London, 1613), and later, the more detailed “The Strange Adventures of Andrew Battell” in Samuel Purchas His Pilgrimes (London, 1625), also known as Hakluytus posthumus after its frontispiece. Given the absolute reliance of modern scholars on Ravenstein, it is worthwhile to evaluate its reliability compared to the original publications.

scholarly journals FROM THE ABSOLUTE SEMANTICORDER’ OF SOCIALIST SYSTEM TO AUTOMATIONS AS FORMS OF HARDENING OF DISCOURSE IN THE POETICS OF SOCIALIST REALISM

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-34
Author(s):  
Lirim Sulko
Keyword(s):  
Socialist Realism ◽  
Socialist Society ◽  
Human Relationship ◽  
Socialist System ◽  
The World ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
The Way

At all times, the socialist society, based on Marxist-Leninist ideology principles, claimed to be the master of the truth, having into the service of itself the conviction that the truth is one and every variant that competes with it is a lie. So the socialist system, as a semantic order (the way it understands the world, the human relationship with it), takes the place of truth, becomes the truth itself, after it has falsified the truth and itself. If a system is not falsified, as it happens in a normal society, its meaning in general is always below the truth, along with other orders of alternative meanings, with which it enjoys the same status of credibility. All these orders of meanings have the same opportunity to be true, but it is not possible to be all true. If we relocate or rather extend the concept of the order of prevailing meanings from the existential plane to that lecture plane, we notice that the prevailing order of meanings is embedded and transformed into a a habit (even as a vice), wherein the arbitrary relationship between the mark (the word) and the marked (the object) penetrate obligations that arise from the dominance of the order of meanings in power. This means that within the discourse there is the possibility that the prevailing meanings of the socialist order can guarantee themselves privileged and automatic places and positions.

Becoming Politicized

2017 ◽  
Vol 225 (4) ◽  
pp. 324-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitrios Barkas ◽  
Xenia Chryssochoou
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Political Socialization ◽  
Greek Society ◽  
Economic Vulnerability ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Identity Model ◽  
Beliefs About The Future ◽  
Of Greece ◽  
The Way

Abstract. This research took place just after the end of the protests following the killing of a 16-year-old boy by a policeman in Greece in December 2008. Participants (N = 224) were 16-year-olds in different schools in Attiki. Informed by the Politicized Collective Identity Model ( Simon & Klandermans, 2001 ), a questionnaire measuring grievances, adversarial attributions, emotions, vulnerability, identifications with students and activists, and questions about justice and Greek society in the future, as well as about youngsters’ participation in different actions, was completed. Four profiles of the participants emerged from a cluster analysis using representations of the conflict, emotions, and identifications with activists and students. These profiles differed on beliefs about the future of Greece, participants’ economic vulnerability, and forms of participation. Importantly, the clusters corresponded to students from schools of different socioeconomic areas. The results indicate that the way young people interpret the events and the context, their levels of identification, and the way they represent society are important factors of their political socialization that impacts on their forms of participation. Political socialization seems to be related to youngsters’ position in society which probably constitutes an important anchoring point of their interpretation of the world.

Restrained Airs: The Diegetic Surface and Nondiegetic Depth of British Film Music

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 429-443
Author(s):  
Paul Mazey
Keyword(s):  
Film Music ◽  
The World ◽  
British Cinema ◽  
Film Making ◽  
The Way

This article considers how pre-existing music has been employed in British cinema, paying particular attention to the diegetic/nondiegetic boundary and notions of restraint. It explores the significance of the distinction between diegetic music, which exists in the world of the narrative, and nondiegetic music, which does not. It analyses the use of pre-existing operatic music in two British films of the same era and genre: Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1952), and demonstrates how seemingly subtle variations in the way music is used in these films produce markedly different effects. Specifically, it investigates the meaning of the music in its original context and finds that only when this bears a narrative relevance to the film does it cross from the diegetic to the nondiegetic plane. This reveals that whereas music restricted to the diegetic plane may express the outward projection of the characters' emotions, music also heard on the nondiegetic track may reveal a deeper truth about their feelings. In this way, the meaning of the music varies depending upon how it is used. While these two films may differ in whether or not their pre-existing music occupies a nondiegetic or diegetic position in relation to the narrative, both are characteristic of this era of British film-making in using music in an understated manner which expresses a sense of emotional restraint and which marks the films with a particularly British inflection.

The World after the End of the World

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kas Saghafi
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
End Of The World

In several late texts, Derrida meditated on Paul Celan's poem ‘Grosse, Glühende Wölbung’, in which the departure of the world is announced. Delving into the ‘origin’ and ‘history’ of the ‘conception’ of the world, this paper suggests that, for Derrida, the end of the world is determined by and from death—the death of the other. The death of the other marks, each and every time, the absolute end of the world.

Profilometry. Using Corneo-scleral topography for scleral lens fitting

The Eye ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (128) ◽  
pp. 19-22
Author(s):  
Gregory DeNaeyer
Keyword(s):  
Ocular Surface ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Contact Lenses ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Way

The world-wide use of scleral contact lenses has dramatically increased over the past 10 year and has changed the way that we manage patients with corneal irregularity. Successfully fitting them can be challenging especially for eyes that have significant asymmetries of the cornea or sclera. The future of scleral lens fitting is utilizing corneo-scleral topography to accurately measure the anterior ocular surface and then using software to design lenses that identically match the scleral surface and evenly vault the cornea. This process allows the practitioner to efficiently fit a customized scleral lens that successfully provides the patient with comfortable wear and improved vision.

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