scholarly journals „Stoisz prosty albo cię prostują”. Psychosomatyczne podstawy racjonalistycznych praktyk stoickich

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 166-185
Author(s):  
Tomasz Mazur
Keyword(s):  
Good Life ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Spiritual Practices ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Body And Soul ◽  
Rational Control ◽  
Proper Translation ◽  
The Ideal

The essay discusses popular rationalistic interpretation of stoic spiritual practices as rational control over nonrational aspects of human life. On the course of analyzing ancient stoics texts and recommendations concerning a good life the essay proves that the word “controlling” is not really proper translation of stoic intentions. Much better picture is of reason that takes care of condition of body and soul, or of reason that follows body and soul. Stoic reason is a tool for understanding and nursing nod controlling. Thus the ideal for stoic life is not reason but harmony, which is the best way of translating ancient Greek word tonos.

scholarly journals Parameter “Hidup yang Baik”: Tegangan antara HAM, Agama, dan Sains

MELINTAS ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-95
Author(s):  
I. Bambang Sugiharto
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Moral Landscape ◽  
Religious Perspectives ◽  
The Ideal

In terms of the parameter of ‘Good Life’, the Declaration of Human Rights as well as the ideals of religions and science have in fact been criticized respectively, and considered flawed. While the Declaration of Human Rights is universal in character – hence they can become a point of convergence among different religions – it is also susceptible to political manipulation, and subject to criticism from particular religious perspectives as well as from scientific outlook. As with science itself, its perspective is considered too narrow and mundane, when viewed from religious perspectives, that is, science deliberately leaves out the mysterious transcendental dimension inherent in human life. On the other hand, religion has also been under severe criticisms these days, due to its contradictory tendencies. At this juncture, atheist scientists come up with a point of view which they claim to be more neutral and objective as far as it concerns the ideal of ‘good life’. At least this is what Sam Harris believes it to be, in his idea of “moral landscape”.

The portrayal of Social Evils in Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar in a Sieve and A Handful of Rice

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (12) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Pooja Shankar ◽  
Dr. Poonam Rani
Keyword(s):  
Good Life ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Abstract Concept ◽  
Indian English ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Kamala Markandaya ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday Reality ◽  
Urban People

Life is very precious for everyone. Life needs proper care and nurture. Human life depends on society. Only in a good society we can find a good life.  Life is simple, very little is needed to make it happy. But social evils insist on making it complicated. Social evils in society have become a serious concern in the present day world. It is gradually affecting roots of our culture and its blocking its rapid growth on the global chart. The aim of writing this research paper is to highlight Social Evils in rural and urban societies. This research paper will explore the meaning, reason, effect of social evils in the light of the analysis of two novels of Kamala Markandaya, an Indian English writer. The research paper entitled ‘The portrayal of Social Evils in Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar in a Sieve and A Handful of Rice.’ In this paper, the effort is made to study Kamala Markandaya’s Social Evils in Nectar in a Sieve and A Handful of Rice. We will find poverty, hunger, starvation, beggary, prostitution, crime, unemployment and many more social evils in both novels. Kamala Markandaya’s A Handful of Rice and Nectar in a Sieve nothing but an account of the suffering of the rural and urban people, and how the cruelty of social evil resulting in suffering, death and misfortune is more explicit in both novels. Poverty is the everyday reality of the characters in the both novels.  Poverty is not an abstract concept that one can really think about, it’s like wolf at the door that must constantly be staved off. Both novels are a jolt to awaken the society against social evils.  

Odyssey without Nostos, or, From Globe to Planet

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-156
Author(s):  
Hans-Christian von Herrmann
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Cosmic Scale

We are witnessing a return of cosmology in 20th and 21st century thinking. It is cosmology in the ancient greek sense of the word which addressed the entirety of what surrounds and carries us. Another term for this ongoing transformation is the ›planetary‹ which isn’t simply a synonym for the ›global‹. The planetary means a kind of boundless pervasion based on science and technology and transposing planet earth and human life from a culture-historical to a cosmic scale.

FORGOTTEN UNITY OF BODY AND SOUL AND THE NEED FOR A NEW PHILOSOPHY OF SPORT

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (7) ◽  
pp. 2523-2529
Author(s):  
Slobodan Marković ◽  
Zoran Momčilović ◽  
Vladimir Momčilović
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Greek Philosophy ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Constructive Dialogue ◽  
Ancient Greek Philosophy ◽  
Philosophy Of Sport ◽  
Body And Soul ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Present Text

This text is an attempt to see sport in different ways in the light of ancient philosophical themes. Philosophy of sports gets less attention than other areas of the discipline that examine the other major components of contemporary society: philosophy of religion, political philosophy, aesthetics, and philosophy of science. Talking about sports is often cheap, but it does not have to be that way. One of the reasons for this is insufficiently paid attention to the relation between sport and philosophy in Greek. That is it's important to talk about sports, just as important as we are talking about religion, politics, art and science. The argument of the present text is that we can try to get a handle philosophically on sports by examining it in light of several key idea from ancient Greek philosophy. The ancient Greeks, tended to be hylomorphists who gloried in both physical and mental achievement. Тhe key concepts from Greek philosophy that will provide the support to the present text are the following: arete, sophrosyne, dynamis and kalokagathia. These ideals never were parts of a realized utopia in the ancient world, but rather provided a horizon of meaning. We will claim that these ideals still provide worthy standards that can facilitate in us a better understanding of what sports is and what it could be. How can a constructive dialogue be developed which would discuss differences in understanding of sport in Ancient Greece and today? In this paper, the authors will try to answer this question from a historical and philosophical point of view. The paper is divided into three sections. The first section of the paper presents two principally different forms or models of focus in sport competitions – focus on physical excellence or focus on game. The dialectic discourse regarding these two approaches to physical activity is even more interesting due to the fact that these two models take precedence over one another depending on context. In the second section of the paper, the focus shifts to theendemic phenomenon of the Ancient Greek Olympic Games, where the topic is discussed from the perspective of philosophy with frequent historical reflections on the necessary specifics, which observeman as a physical-psychological-social-spiritual being. In the third section of this paper, the authors choose to use the thoughts and sayings of the great philosopher Plato to indicate how much this philosopher wasactually interested in the relationship between soul and body, mostly through physical exercise and sport, because it seems that philosophers who came after him have not seriously dealt with this topic in Plato’s way, although they could.

The pace of “the good life”: Connecting past, present, and future in the context of a housing affordability crisis

2021 ◽  
pp. 0961463X2098781
Author(s):  
Petr Kubala ◽  
Tomáš Hoření Samec
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Housing Affordability ◽  
General Question ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Ideal Types ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
The Ideal

This article focuses on the topic of the young adult’s cleft habitus influenced by a housing affordability crisis in the Czech Republic and examines how this situation affects the young adult’s relation to the imagination of a temporally structured life course and synchronization of life spheres (housing, family, and work). This article is based on qualitative in-depth interviews conducted in the four cities most affected by the house and rent price increase. The general question addresses if and how social inequalities, sharpened by the current housing affordability crisis, affect the process of narrative life course coherence creation (the connection of past, present, and future) in relation to an orientation toward a vision of “the good life.” We furthermore complement the already existing ideal types of the young adult’s relation toward time— confident continuity and cautious contingency—with two other two types— cautious continuity and total contingency—defined on the basis of our data. We argue that the ability of young adults to envision a coherent future is related to the feeling of secured housing and that the idea of the good life is depicted to a large extent through the ideal of homeownership, although the precarity of the housing market makes homeownership harder to reach for those from unprivileged backgrounds.

The Era of Environmental Derangement: Witnessing Climate Crisis in Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nupur Pancholi ◽  
◽  
Sanjit Kumar Mishra ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Cumulative Impacts ◽  
Environmental Deterioration ◽  
Human Interventions ◽  
Human World ◽  
Climate Crisis

Drawing on Amitav Ghosh’s novel Gun Island (2019) together with his nonfictional The Great Derangement (2016), the article strives to present that while advancing endless desires, human-centric culture and the idea of ‘good life’ drive climate change and environmental deterioration. It seeks to enumerate the devastating consequences of changing climatic conditions and degenerating ecosystems and their cumulative impacts on the humankind and non-human world. It aims to locate how human life at the margins has been affected by these cataclysmic consequences through analysing Ghosh’s Gun Island. It attempts to show that human interventions had significantly fuelled the global climate crisis in the seventeenth century, decoding the myth of Bonduki Sadagar that Ghosh identifies in Gun Island.

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.

scholarly journals Verteilungsgerechtigkeit ohne Verteilungsgleichheit

1999 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Schramme
Keyword(s):  
Distributive Justice ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Equality Of Opportunity ◽  
Alternative Approaches ◽  
Equal Respect ◽  
Formal Justice ◽  
The Ideal

AbstractAlternative approaches in the discussion of distributive justice differ in their answers to the question „equality of what“? In this essay I intend to ask instead ,why equality?" The article rejects several arguments in favour of distributive equality, mainly on the grounds that they confuse two different kinds of justice, namely ,formal’ justice (equal respect) and distributive justice. The ideal of distributive equality is based on comparisons but equal respect does not necessarily involve relational considerations. Subsequently I will consider equality of opportunity which appears on first sight to be the most promising account. However, I will point out that this approach is not convincing as an attempt to give everyone the chance to live a good life. Finally I will submit that only a theory of absolute needs is adequate.

scholarly journals Experience teaching Christian ethics in a secular school

2005 ◽  
pp. 305-312
Author(s):  
T. Sannikova
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Christian Ethics ◽  
Spiritual Education ◽  
Experience Teaching ◽  
Moral Crisis ◽  
Good And Evil ◽  
The Ideal

The spiritual and moral crisis in society, which is a sign of the loss of clear ideas about good and evil, when the ideal of a person becomes "successful in human life" and no matter how successful it becomes, when moral laws and human life are worthless, needs urgent return to spiritual sources. As one of the means of spiritual education of adolescents, a Christian ethics elective was introduced at the secondary school №26 in Odessa.

scholarly journals KARAKTERISTIK KEPEMIMPINAN PENDIDIKAN ISLAM BERBASIS MASJID

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Hidayat Ginanjar ◽  
Wartono .
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Important Task ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Port Development ◽  
The Future ◽  
Wide Perspective ◽  
Good Leader ◽  
Islamic Society ◽  
The Ideal

Leadership is the ideal of quality, both in terms of physical, mental, and intellectual.Maturity in terms ofthis aspect will help a leader in carrying out the task. Knowledgeand a wide perspective is the key in solving many problems that block or makesome breakthroughs for the success of the important task of a leader. Islamencourage every Muslim to have these three types of power. The strong and goodbelievers are well loved by Allah more than the weak believers, each has a virtue.For that, the vision and values of leadership comes from the ideal practices ofRasulullah peace be upon him (Shalallahu 'alaihi wa sallam) and the Companions, itis necessary and must continue to be extracted, distributed and socialized tobecome a strong issue in the stage of leadership in society. Therefore, a goodleadership is absolutely needed by the community, and of course the leaders areexpected to appear is a leader that has a nature or character laudable. That is, onthe side of truth, justice, has the nature of trust, a worthy model, simplicity,greatness of the soul, forgive person, and others who emphasize kindness for thepeople.One of the leadership Islamic education models is leadership based mosque,the mosque is a place where Muslims join together in routines worship, both(hablum minallah) (relationship between human and Allah) or (hablum minannas)(relationship between human and human). For Muslims, the mosque become theheart moorings, the port development and the life energy of Muslims. mosques alsofunction as institutions of education and knowledge of Islam. In addition, the mosqueis also a place that can be delivered candidates Islamic leaders in the future, asevidenced (applied) by Rasulullah peace be upon him (Shalallahu 'alaihi wa sallam),he built with the friends so that future generations be able to lead the best andpeople through developments that centred in mosque. People were educated inmosques in a shelter of the high Islamic society and give priority in deliberation forsolving problems. The mosque which was established on the basis of devotion toAllah will inure to the influence of education in human life. Thus, the mosque-basedleadership can bear a good leader, the leader of a people-oriented development, sothat it can be delivered to devotee individuals, able to lead and bring the nextgeneration achieve their hopes; establishing a believer for himself, family,community, nation and state.Keyword: Islamic Education, Leadership, Caracter, Mosqul Based.

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