scholarly journals Digitalization of the human mind

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
Mr.Sc. Drita Mehmeti
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
World Order ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Industrial Civilization ◽  
Human Faces ◽  
The Way

The human faces with various problems already in its first steps in live, and carriers of such life situations are found in various ages which bring new currents in the way of life. Starting from the ancient Greek thought, the human and its mind made the centre of the world, already orienting the Western thought towards the study of the human mind (namely human reason), since it made the key tool for human survival. Although human problems have been discussed throughout various ages, they have not been able to resolve in full the human problems, and therefore, the same issues were taken by the representatives of the socalled “critical theory”, who used the theory to criticize the way of live Western civilization was offering, known as digitalization of the human mind. The human problems are addressed in a poly-dimensional manner. The factors affecting the human mind are: industrial civilization, technical progress, automation, overtly influence of machinery on humans, substitution of cultural values, which in sum have developed a new World Order, where the ruler is technology. In the modern world, the human fails to recognize himself, since he is out of himself and lives according to the rules set forth by the “remote control”. In the flow of this kind of livelihood, human alienates, or in other words, the human goes out of himself, trying to adapt maximally to the requirements of the new way of life.

Islam and Art: An Overview

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Modern World ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Human Creativity ◽  
Image Function ◽  
Cultural World ◽  
Direct Recognition ◽  
Modes Of Engagement ◽  
Religion And Art ◽  
The Way

Modern terms like “religion” and “art” offer limited access to the ways in which nonverbal human creativity in the Islamic world engages the “way of life” indicated by the Arabic word din, often translated as religion. Islam emerged within existing paradigms of creativity and perception in the late antique world. Part of this inheritance was a Platonic and Judaic concern with the potentially misleading power to make images, often misinterpreted in the modern world as an “image prohibition.” Rather, the image function extended beyond replication of visual reality, including direct recognition of the Divine as manifest in the material and cultural world. Music, geometry, writing, poetry, painting, devotional space, gardens and intermedial practices engage people with the “way of life” imbued with awareness of the Divine. Rather than externally representing religious ideas, creativity fosters the subjective capacity to recognize the Divine. Flexible enough to transcend the conventions of time and place over the millennium and a half since the inception of Islam, these modes of engagement persist in forms that also communicate through the expressive practices of contemporary art. To consider religion and art in Islam means to think about how each of these categories perpetually embodies, resists, and recreates the others.

scholarly journals Christian-orthodox view of the world and environmental problem

Sabornost ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 13-22
Author(s):  
Ignatije Midić
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Problem ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The World ◽  
Orthodox View ◽  
Entire Planet ◽  
Ecological Catastrophe ◽  
The Way

Pollution of environment and the irreversible destruction of nature has become the way of life of the modern world. The consequences of that are obviously tragic for human life and for the survival of the entire planet Earth. This article has an aim to answer the question: what can the Orthodox Church do to stop this problem, if it cannot regain what has already been lost? To answer this question, the author first analyzes the causes of the ecological catastrophe, and then offers a theological answer to the posed problem.

scholarly journals NILAI BUDAYA DALAM PERIBAHASA KEI TENTANG PENGELOLAAN WILAYAH PESISIR

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilma Akihary
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Coastal Area ◽  
World View ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Mutual Assistance ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
The Way

The cultural values that are covered in the way of life is manifested in men’s activities. The cultural values themselves are symbolized through the proverbs. As the expression, the proverb is basically the principle guideline of behavior. Within the proverb is contained a profound experience of the world view as well as the life wisdom that is tightly integrated to the society to which the language belongs. The proverb - known as misil-masal, liat daliat and sukat sarang - is still well recorded and used by Kei community as Kei language speaker.  The people who live in the coastal area especially at the Kei Besar Island are generally the fishermen and farmers.  However, in this research it will  focus on the Kei Besar people’s view in managing their coastal area through the proverbs they use. The uses of words as the expression is closely related to the sea and their way of life especially in connected with fish and boat.  The proverbs which are used by the people in Kei is the summary of their way of thinking about the values of life.  The cultural values in these proverbs are firmness, strength, simplicity, mutual assistance, respect for the elders and leaders, wisdom, thinking before doing, and obedience.<br /><br />Keywords: Nilai Budaya, Peribahasa, Wilayah Pesisir<br /><br />

scholarly journals Transformation Processes and Nutrition Factor in the Far North Residents' Resilience System

2021 ◽  
pp. 190-214
Author(s):  
Tatyana I. TROSHINA ◽  
◽  
Olga M. MOROZOVA ◽  
Nadezhda A. VOROBYEVA ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Social Research ◽  
World Order ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Data Set ◽  
The North ◽  
Short Period

One of the global challenges of our time is the conflict of man and human communities with the rapidly changing world order, which has an aspect lying at the intersection of culture and human physiology — the conformity of food behavior to lifestyle and the environment. The vitality and resilience of modern humans is subjected to special challenges. Comfortable conditions of existence in the modern world have a reverse side, expressed in diseases associated with sedentary lifestyle, psychotraumatization, violation of the usual nutrition pattern. These changes are especially noticeable on the example of indigenous peoples of the North, who have lived in relative isolation for a long time, as well as on the example of migrants forced to work in unusual natural and climatic conditions and, in general, abruptly and for a relatively short period of time (which does not allow "launching" the adaptation mechanisms) to change the whole habitual way of life. These categories of population are of special interest for researchers, including in connection with the reactions of body to changes in the food model. The idea of optimal food for the human body, formed in the course of nutriological studies, often contradicts the food traditions of peoples living in conditions far from being favourable. Since the end of the 19th century, balanced consumption of fats, proteins and carbohydrates was perceived as a civilization sign of mature modern society, and any deviations were treated as primitive practices. Over time, the approach to studying the lifestyle of traditional societies evolved from the perspective of the mechanism of human adaptation to different habitats. Traditions, including eating habits, are regarded as an optimum point of survival with the highest level of food, fuel and other material resources available in a given habitat. In addition to the problems of traditional and modernized food supply, the article focuses on the painful conditions associated with the disruption of the habitual way of life, work and nutrition of various groups of northern residents — in historical retrospect and at the present stage. Archive and literary sources, results of modern medical and social research and own field material (ethnosociological and biomedical) were used for the analysis. As a result of the generalization of the data set, which includes the authors' own research, it has been concluded that, in addition to ensuring the supply of basic foodstuffs, preventive medicines and high-quality preventive medicine for permanent residents and temporary workers in the Arctic, it is advisable to take into account the survival practices of indigenous peoples that have been developed over the centuries, creating the conditions for new settlers for assimilation. The credibility of these traditions is given by their high viability and their focus on the ethnic survival of indigenous people in the North.

scholarly journals Harmonization of the Human Heart, Mind and Hand

Illuminatio ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-161
Author(s):  
Mustafa Cerić
Keyword(s):  
Human Heart ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Human Hand ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Parallel Lives ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Way

The focus of this article is a reflection on the nature of the human heart (al-qalb), human mind (al-‘aql) and human hand (al-yad). The heart is the place of emotion - love or hate; the mind is the place of thought - right or wrong; the hand is the tool of power – justice or injustice. So, the question may be asked, what is the tipping scale for the heart from love to hate; what makes the mind to think right or wrong; and what causes the hand to do justice or injustice? Then, what is the role of faith/religion in harmonizing the human heart, mind and hand? How can the Sīrah, the way of the life of the messenger of God, teach the human heart to love, the human mind to thing right and the human hand to act justly? What can man learn from the parallel lives and trials of the early aṣḥāb, the Prophet’s companions, and their immediate tābi’ūn, the followers? Here, the article introduces the way of life of two aṣḥāb: ‘Abdullah ibn ‘Abbās and Mu‘ādh ibn Jabal and one tābi‘un: Al-Qāḍī Shuraikh ibn Al-Ḥārith Al-Kindī, to show that the heart is not a pump that drives the blood, but it is the blood of love that drives the heart to love; that the mind is not a vessel to be filled, but the light to be kindled; and that the hand is not a tool to be abused, but a means to be used for justice. The author aims to open the way for a critique of the pure faith of Muslims. Indeed, the Muslims need to examine their faith in a serious way to find out the right exit from the current crisis of the relationship between their heart, mind and hand. Where is the pure faith of Muslims? Is it in their heart only? Is it in their mind only? Is it in their hand only? How can the Muslims connect these three into a coherent whole for the good of humanity? The good examples from the Sīrah might provide us with the right answer to these questions provided that the Muslims open their hearts, employ their minds and educate their hands. This article is trying to guide them to that direction.

scholarly journals The Concept of Diasporic Cultural Values of the Aceh Community in Yan, Kedah

2018 ◽  
pp. 237-243
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Traditional Sports ◽  
Diasporic Community ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Definition Of

Culture is embedded in the way of life of the society consisting oral traditions, languages, folklore, rites and faith, music and songs, performing arts, traditional herbal medicine, literature, traditional food as well as traditional sports and games. The culture of a society differs from one another. Value is a concept of culture that exists in the human mind and not in an object. Value can be defined as something that has benefits and interests shared by humanity. This study explores the culture of the diasporic community of Aceh in Yan, Kedah. The focus of the study are the cultural values of Aceh obtained from interviews, observations and library research. Aceh culture is filled with the diversity of prestigious values that are based from Islamic religious beliefs. This study will also describe the fundamentals of cultural values of the society’s present Aceh in dealing with outside influences in the era of globalization and the problems faced by the community in the context of the Aceh nation. Furthermore, the study will focus on moral values found in Aceh’s culture. The definition of the diasporic Aceh community is emotionally and politically committing oneself to their motherland however, this perception had changed and developed through movements and migration around the world including their current place situated in Malaysia. They brought along cultural values and world viewto be inherited by the younger generation who are the foundation for the expansion of Aceh culture in nowadays community.

scholarly journals Tradição e mudanças no modo de viver e habitar a Várzea do Médio Rio Solimões, AM

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (41) ◽  
Author(s):  
Edna F. Alencar ◽  
Isabel Soares De Sousa
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Electronic Products ◽  
Conceptual Schemes ◽  
Amazon Floodplain ◽  
Social Technologies ◽  
Solimões River ◽  
The Way

O artigo descreve os tipos de construção de casas em ambiente de várzea da região do Médio Solimões, Am, cuja arquitetura envolve esquemas conceituais e processos cognitivos, práticas e habilidades seculares expressas no modo como interagem com o ambiente, escolhem o local da casa, e selecionam os materiais na floresta. Esse tipo de construção reflete o modo de vida das famílias, suas formas de sociabilidade e tipos de uso de cada cômodo da casa. Novas habilidades e técnicas são desenvolvidas como respostas às trocas que realizam com o mundo urbano, moderno, e às mudanças que observam na natureza, que afetam o modo de viver e morar na várzea. Muitas famílias estão adotando outros tipos de construção, as casas flutuantes, e evitar a constante mobilidade e destruição das casas durantes as cheias. Concluímos que o estreitamento da relação rural-urbano com a facilidade de deslocamento, a adoção de novas tecnologias sociais de construção de casas, e acesso a produtos eletroeletrônicos afetam o modo de habitar na várzea.Palavras-chave: Amazônia. Várzea. Estilos de moradia. Mudanças sociais.Tradition and changes in live mode and dwell in the Lowland of Medium Solimões River, AmAbstractThe article describes the types of construction of houses in an environment of floodplain of the Middle Solimões region Am, whose architecture involves conceptual schemes and cognitive processes, practices and expressed secular skills in how they interact with the environment, choose the location of the home, and select the materials in the forest. This type of construction reflects the way of life of families, their ways of sociability and types of use of each room in the house. New skills and techniques are developed as a response to trade they do with the urban, modern world, and the changes they observe in nature, affecting the way of life and live in the floodplain. Many families are adopting other types of construction, houseboats, and avoid the constant mobility and destruction of homes in the floods. We conclude that narrowing the rural-urban relationship with the ease of travel, the adoption of new social technologies of building houses, and access to electronic products affect how you can dwell in the floodplain.Keywords: Amazon floodplain. Housing styles. Social change. 

scholarly journals Reflections on the Great Transformation in Turbulence

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (11) ◽  
pp. 74-83
Author(s):  
K. Gadzhiev
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
World Order ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Modern World ◽  
World Religions ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Great Transformation ◽  
Industrial Civilization

The present article attempts to identify and analyze the complex of those large-scale and profound shifts that have taken place in the most important spheres of public life on a global scale over the past three to four decades (late 20th – early 21st century). Based on the analysis of these and other related trends and processes, it is concluded that the modern world has entered a qualitatively new stage in its development, its radical transformation. The meaning and purpose of this transformation consist in reassessing all the values of democracy, human rights and freedoms, their systemic characteristics, place and role in a modern rapidly changing world, reshaping the paradigm foundations of world outlook, world order and life organization of the modern world. The main focus is on those tectonic shifts that have occurred in the basic infrastructures of the modern world in the last three to four decades in the context of globalization and the information and telecommunication revolution. It has been shown that the revolutions generated by these shifts in the most important spheres of social life erode the very foundations of the modern Western civilization. Thus, the thesis is substantiated that we are witnessing a deep existential change, which is possibly surpassing in its consequences the transition from paganism to new world religions, or the so-called “Great Transformation” – the transition from the Middle Ages to a rationalistic capitalist civilization of the Euro-Atlantic world. These tectonic transformations are viewed through the prism of the axial time theory, the essence of which is to reappraise all the values that have prevailed in the Western capitalist industrial civilization up to the present day. The information and telecommunication revolution has created the conditions for the onset of the twilight of the liberal/unipolar world order and for the formation of foundations of a new polycentric world order.

scholarly journals Semantics in cultural perspective overview

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-31
Author(s):  
Virginia Smith ◽  
Karrie Florence ◽  
Franklin Maria
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Cultural Tradition ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
High Culture ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
Social Habits ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The Way

The article was to aim to investigate the semantics overview based on the cultural perspective. The aim of semantics is to discover why meaning is more complex than simply the words formed in a sentence.  Culture is a word for the 'way of life' of groups of people, meaning the way they do things. The excellence of taste in the fine arts and humanities, also known as high culture. An integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior. The outlook, attitudes, values, morals, goals, and customs shared by a society. Culture is the characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people, encompassing language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music, and arts. The word "culture" derives from a French term, which in turn derives from the Latin "colere," which means to tend to the earth and grow, or cultivation and nurture. Well, cultural tradition can take on many forms. A tradition is usually some kind of action or event that is passed on through the generations of a certain group that practices said traditions. So WE would guess that cultural tradition is where a group of people practices certain traditions from a culture. Cultural values are the core principles and ideals upon which an entire community exists. This is made up of several parts: customs, which are traditions and rituals; values, which are beliefs; and culture, which is all of a group's guiding values.

Current address behaviour in China

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ziran He ◽  
Wei Ren
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Current Address ◽  
Address Terms ◽  
The Way

The way in which people address each other is crucial for expressing interpersonal relationships and is closely linked with cultural values. Address terms are pragmatically important, especially in languages that do not express sociopragmatic values through pronouns such as Chinese. Due to the rapid change of sociocultural values and the advancement of globalisation and new technologies, many Chinese address terms are falling out of use, and new terms are emerging and prevailing in people’s use. However, many landmark studies on Chinese address terms are no longer up-to-date. This article investigates the current use of address terms in Mainland China. Four categories of Chinese address terms are analysed: obsolete terms with restricted uses, revived negative politeness forms with semantic shifts, emergent new address terms, and address terms adopted from online communication. The article then discusses factors that may influence people selecting address terms and factors affecting the changes of address terms in Chinese.

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