scholarly journals Młodość czasem marzeń i wyborów. Refleksje w świetle posynodalnej adhortacji apostolskiej „Christus vivit”

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021(42) (1) ◽  
pp. 95-106
Author(s):  
Stanisław Chrobak ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Young Person ◽  
Young Age ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject

As Pope Francis asserts, youth cannot be a period of suspension; on the contrary, it is the age of decision, which is precisely the essence of its charm and its greatest challenge. Young age is the time for commitment, creativity and proactive development of one's biography. Thus, building the young must be the subject of authentic concern, while a reflection on young age will not only help those who are currently achieving or experiencing that age, but also to anyone willing to maintain their young spirit forever. In this context, presentation of images that reveal the very essence of young age, encompassing a particular idea of a human being, a concept of the world and a hierarchy of values, demonstrates the originality and uniqueness of the enthusiasm expressed by a young person pursu- ing their dreams and choices. The Pope emphasizes that the features typical of a young heart include readiness to transform, an ability to rise and to accept the lessons of life.

scholarly journals Realms of the Youthful Biography of Yu. M. Lotman

2021 ◽  
pp. 157-174
Author(s):  
Tatiana Kuzovkina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Cognitive Activity ◽  
Young Person ◽  
Dynamic Interaction ◽  
Cultural Model ◽  
Interethnic Relations ◽  
National Cultures ◽  
Foreign Culture ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject

The essay focuses on the dynamic interaction of different spatial topoi in the biography of Yu. M. Lotman. The study bears on Lotman’s letters tohis family between 1940 and 1946 –a time when Lotman was in the army. His interests in the field of science and various national cultures, his cognitive activity were generated by hishighly intellectual family. While serving in the army, Lotman was engaged in self-education and actively absorbed impressions of the foreign culture. The worldview of the young person during the war became the subject of reflection in the works of his later years. Lotman’s letters contain examples of the centrist geographical cultural model he described in 1992: the USSR is the center of the world revolution, while Petersburg and the Hermitage are the center of the “cultural ecumene.”At the same time, the letters reflect an alternative eccentric cultural model. Lotman noted peculiarities of the foreign daily life and interethnic relations and described in detail the impressions of exhibitions and performances in Berlin. Interaction of real and mythological geography determined the evolution of Lotman’s personality and shaped his intellectual and scholarly fields of interest.

scholarly journals Metamodernism as a discourse of a new anthropological myth

2021 ◽  
pp. 191-202
Author(s):  
Ekaterina A. Nechaeva
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Axiomatic Method ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Western European ◽  
Epistemological Point

The present paper concerns the discourse of metamodernism problem as a type of the anthropological myth. The anthropological myth is considered as a project for describing reality, which models a systematic consistent idea of a human being, reality, status of reality and develops ethic, aesthetic, axiological views of a subject. The article aims to determine the peculiarities of metamodernism as a fictional discourse of the anthropological myth on the basis of XXI century European novel analysis. The analysis is carried out with the use of the comparative method, contextual description methods, axiomatic method, discourse analysis method etc. The topicality of the undertaken research is determined by the appearance of a new fictional discourse in art at the beginning of the XXI century as well as a new aesthetic paradigm, not described yet. The texts of Western European novels written in the first two decades of the XXI century reveal authors’ consistent refusal of the principles traditionally viewed as post-modernist – novels featuring a simulated nature of reality, novels problematizing the relationships between the signifying and the signified, decentralizing the subject etc. The attempts to describe a particular cultural situation as an alternative to postmodernism have been taken since the 80’s of the XX century; metamodernism acts as one of such projects for describing the modern cultural situation. The paper analyzes the interpretation models referring to XXI century art on the basis Western European novels of XXI century. The author of the paper concludes that metamodernism as a fictional discourse of the new anthropological myth reflects a different idea of the reality. Metamodernism as a cultural project aims to “return” ontology, assume the availability of reality outside the cognizing subject’s consciousness, and surpass the iconic nature of reality. From the epistemological point of view, metamodernism offers cognition of the world and “Ego” via experience of “Another Ego”.

scholarly journals The Joy of Being as Anthropological Practice

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 66-73
Author(s):  
Agapov Oleg D. ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human Subjectivity ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
The Human Condition

The joy of being is connected with one’s activities aimed at responding to the challenges of the elemental forces and the boundlessness of being, which are independent of human subjectivity. In the context of rising to the challenges of being, one settles to acquire a certain power of being in themselves and in the world. Thus, the joy of being is tied to achieving the level of the “miraculous fecundity” (E. Levinas), “an internal necessity of one’s life” (F. Vasilyuk), magnanimity (M. Mamardashvili). The ontological duty of any human being is to succeed at being human. The joy of being is closely connected to experiencing one’s involvement in the endless/eternity and realizing one’s subjective temporality/finitude, which attunes him to the absolute seriousness in relation to one’s complete realization in life. Joy is a foundational anthropological phenomenon in the structure of ways of experiencing the human condition. The joy of being as an anthropological practice can appear as a constantly expanding sphere of human subjectivity where the transfiguration of the powers of being occurs under the sign of the Height (Levinas) / the Good. Without the possibility of transfiguration human beings get tired of living, immerse themselves in the dejected state of laziness and the hopelessness of vanity. The joy of being is connected to unity, gathering the multiplicity of human life under the aegis of meaning that allows us to see the other and the alien in heteronomous being, and understand the nature of co-participation and responsibility before the forces of being, and also act in synergy with them.The joy of being stands before a human being as the joy of fatherhood/ motherhood, the joy of being a witness to the world in creative acts (the subject as a means to retreat before the world and let the world shine), the joy of every day that was saved from absurdity, darkness and the impersonal existence of the total. Keywords: joy, higher reality, anthropological practices, “the height”, subject, transcendence, practice of coping

scholarly journals Misericórdia: opção fundamental para o agir cristão na atualidade

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellton Luis Sbardella ◽  
Clélia Peretti
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
The People ◽  
The Face ◽  
Sacred Scripture ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Church

O presente artigo apresenta reflexões bíblicas e do magistério da Igrejasobre o tema da misericórdia. A misericórdia é o fundamento para os desafios que a fé cristã enfrenta diante das diferentes manifestações de violência na nossa sociedade. O tema da misericórdia está presente na Sagrada Escritura e no Catecismo da Igreja Católica (CIC), o qual nos mostra a concretização da ação misericordiosa de Deus em Jesus para todo ser humano. A Bula Misericordiae Vultus, do Papa Francisco, na  proclamação do Jubileu Extraordinárioda Misericórdia, apresenta com clareza o rosto da misericórdia de Deus, sua presença e ações manifestas no caminhar e na história do povo. O desafio do cristão hoje é uma prática evangélica da misericórdia, que ofereça respostas de libertação àquilo que fere a dignidade do homem e da mulher.Palavras-chave: Misericordiae Vultus. Deus é misericórdia. Violência e misericórdia.Abstract: The present article presents biblical reflections and the magisterium of the Church on the subject of mercy. Mercy is the foundation for the challenges that the Christian faith faces in the face of the different manifestations of violence in our society. The theme of mercy is present in Sacred Scripture and in the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) which shows us the concreteness of the merciful action of God in Jesus for every human being. The Bull Misericordiae Vultus of Pope Francis in the proclamation of the extraordinary jubilee of mercy clearly presents the face of the mercy of God, his presence and actions manifested in the way of the people and in his history. The challenge of the Christian today is an evangelical practice of mercy offering answers of deliverance to that which hurts the dignity of man and woman.Keywords: Misericordiae Vultus. God is mercy. Violence and mercy.

scholarly journals Interpretácia ako konštituent človeka, komunikácie a porozumenia / Interpretation as a Constituent of Human, Communication and Understanding

2013 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Juraj Dolník
Keyword(s):  
Major Part ◽  
Final Part ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Fundamental Relation ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
The Real ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject

AbstractThis paper is intended to be an introduction to the elucidation of the mutual understanding on the basis of the concept interpretation. The author raises the question about how is it possible to understand each other in spite of the fact that the mental world is immediately inaccessible. He argues that the possibility of the mutual understanding is an anthropological constant: the human being is set for understanding as a result of the evolutional mature of his interpretational ability. The major part of the text is an attempt at explanation of the role of interpretation in the process of shaping of the subject. It is argued that the germ of the subjectivity is the instinct for self-preservation which determines the fundamental relation of the human to the world: the world is seen through the lens of egocentrism. Showing that the possibility of the mutual understanding of egocentric subjects is a deceptive paradox helps us comprehend the anthropological foundation of this phenomenon. The final part of the text outlines the problem of the mutual understanding in the real interactional conditions and focuses the attention on three fundamental factors: ego, language, egoism

scholarly journals Relacja nauczania papieża Franciszka zawartego w adhortacji Amoris laetitia do dotychczasowego posoborowego Magisterium

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 55-79
Author(s):  
Jarosław Młot
Keyword(s):  
Pope Francis ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Amoris Laetitia

The apostolic exhortation Amoris laetitia, issued by Pope Francis on April 8, 2016, is the fruit of as many as two synodal sessions. The great interest in the subject of these synods, not only in Church circles, resulted from the expectations of some for a change in the position of the Church's discipline in the admission of the divorced and remarried persons to Communion. The publication of the exhortation caused a lot of discussion among scientists and priests alike. The article is only an attempt to indicate the subject of these discussions. The statements of people regarding the relation of the teaching contained in Amoris laetitia to the current post-Conciliar Magisterium can be divided into those that express doubts about the texts of this document and those that read it in the key of the hermeneutics of continuity. The article attempts to show the most important directions of interpretation of the exhortation. The Pope did not intend the exhortation as a document containing general norms applicable in all cases. That is why he set the bishops of individual regions of the world to create guidelines for this exhortation that would be adequate to the traditions and calls of their region. The article describes some sample local documents. The discussion merely outlined in the article and the differences in the interpretation of the exhortation texts shown in it show the need for further study on it.  

Adam as vicegerent of God

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Nestler
Keyword(s):  
Human Dignity ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Present Contribution ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Islamic Tradition ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Attributes Of God

Ibn ʿArabī is considered to be one of the best-known and most influential mystics within the Islamic tradition with an extremely extensive and complex oeuvre, which to this day has been the subject of numerous studies in both East and West. The present contribution is also dedicated to one of these writings, namely the work Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam, and examines in the chapter on Adam his role as a vicegerent of God (ḫalīfat Allāh), who in Ibn ʿArabī’s mystical doctrine of being is ascribed the status of a »perfect human« (al-insān al-kāmil). Starting from Q 2:30-34, where Adam is presented as ḫalīfat Allāh, the author presents a precise textual analysis of this first chapter in Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam based on three levels of relationship which Adam has to the world, to the angels and to God, showing how the perfection of Adam can be recognized and measured. In Ibn ʿArabī, Adam is by no means only considered to be the first man and forefather of mankind, as one could claim for the Koran and the Bible; first and foremost, he embodies the prototype of man or the essence of human being itself, which basically has the ability to manifest the attributes of God in such a way that it can attain the status of perfection and vicegerency. This fundamental potential testifies to a special human dignity, which is already expressed in the Koran using the figure of Adam and which is also the subject of this study.

Stephen Hawking: The Scientific Sublime Embodied

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan G. Gross
Keyword(s):  
Code Of Conduct ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Rachel Carson ◽  
Electric Wheelchair ◽  
Stephen Hawking ◽  
Professional Reputation ◽  
The World ◽  
Virtual Presence ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Richard Feynman

Lucy Hawking has had the good fortune of being the daughter of the most famous living physicist; she has had the better fortune of having been a teenager before Stephen Hawking became famous, a time when he was known and respected only by other theoretical physicists. In this less hectic time, he was just a father, a man with a disability, to be sure, but not a disabled man, a sufferer from Lou Gehrig’s disease who defied the odds. Who could view as disabled a man who zipped through the streets of Cambridge in a Formula 1 electric wheelchair driven at reckless speeds and, on one occasion at least, almost disastrous consequences? Hawking is now, perhaps, the most famous physicist since Einstein. While his work significantly expands the territory of the scientific sublime, his life embodies that sublime. This is not the ethical sublime that Rachel Carson, the subject of the next chapter, embodies; it is not a code of conduct. Rather, it is our firm sense that we are dealing with an extraordinary human being who has overcome daunting challenges to become an impressive virtual presence, a man who, alone among contemporary scientists, is a star, nay, a superstar. Confined to a wheelchair, he towers above us, an exemplar, a demonstration of just how deep a deep-seated commitment to science can be. But is he any good at physics? Is it all hype? His heroes—Galileo, Newton, and Einstein—are models he cannot hope to emulate. Those on whom he consistently relies—Werner Heisenberg, Paul Dirac, and Richard Feynman—are clearly his superiors. True, he is an elite physicist honored by his peers, but he is more a Dom than a Joe DiMaggio, excellent, though not the very best. As he says himself, “To my colleagues am just another physicist.” But his professional reputation hardly matters, because, as he asserts with characteristic good humor: . . . To the wider public I became possibly the best-known scientist in the world. This is partly because scientists, apart from Einstein, are not widely known rock stars, and partly because I fit the stereotype of a disabled genius. I can’t disguise myself with a wig and dark glasses—the wheelchair gives me away. . . .

Apophatical Metaphysics of a Subject

1998 ◽  
pp. 90-94
Author(s):  
Igor D. Nevvazhay
Keyword(s):  
Moral Education ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Existing Structures ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Philosophical Understanding

In this paper, the inevitability of the metaphysics of a subject for the philosophical understanding of a person’s being in the world is established, and the apophatic character of this type of metaphysics is discussed. Analysis of the categories of being and non-being which allow the interpretation of a subject as transcendent and as transcendental being that is characterized by uniformity, spontaneity and irreversibility is also mentioned. The suggested interpretation of a subject discloses both the rational sense of the classical points of view on the absolute, unconditional, timeless and spaceless character of the subject of knowledge, and the compatibility of the notions of the absolute character of a subject and the ontological condition of a human being in society and culture. The main idea of the suggested conception of a subject is the fact that the subject’s being cannot be "housed" into the world, nor can it be characterized as impossible existence for the world. The world can be understood only from the point of view of being impossible (symbolic) existence. The discussion of the problem of identification of a subject shows that the presumption of a subject as one of the existing structures of the world leads to paradoxes and contradictions in the interpretation of the processes taking place in the world. To understand the process of education, it is necessary to bear in mind that it is not only cognitive, but also moral: education is the process of the formation of a subject of knowledge through identification with transcendental symbolic existence, which fact demands making efforts to be on the part of the thinking person.

scholarly journals Relacje między teologią a naukami przyrodniczymi w kontekście edukacji

2006 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 439-444
Author(s):  
Sławomir Śledziewski
Keyword(s):  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Human Being ◽  
The World ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Way Of Thinking

Man, wanting to progress, must educate himself, the sense of attaining education is formed both by „the deeper desire in the human being”, which leads him to reflect on the subject of God and by the will to study natural sciences, which have permanently changed our way of thinking about the world surrounding us and about ourselves. In the process of cognition faith cannot take the place of reason, nor reason the place of faith, these are two ways of arriving at the truth, which must collaborate in agreement with each other, thus education should concentrate on outlining the relation between theology and natural sciences. Such complementing leads to the cognition and fathoming of the truth, and this, besides the attainment of wisdom, is one of the main assumptions of education.

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