scholarly journals Anthropocentrism: Existence against essence

Sociologija ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-36
Author(s):  
Slobodan Vukicevic
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Central Question ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Human Community ◽  
Human Essence ◽  
Generic Essence ◽  
The Way

Anthropocentrism apsolutizes existence in relation to human essence. In this, it may downgrade generic essence of human and its primeval need for nature. Principles of sustainable development are challenged. The way of life and work are out of step with these principles. Therefore, central question of sustainable development is: where are the causes of modern man alienation from principles of sustainable development. We have to search for the answers in human nature and nature of human community. Their synthesis can direct socioantropogenesis of modern man in direction of accepting principles of sustainable development, in which principle of need is more important than need itself.

Polis-Dwellers

2020 ◽  
pp. 171-198
Author(s):  
Sara Brill
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

This chapter offers an account of the bios of the human animal in light of Aristotle’s treatment of the lives of non-human animal collectives. This discussion is anchored in Aristotle’s claim that the regime (the politeia) is the way of life of the city, and it is argued that proper attention to the zoological lens informing Aristotle’s Politics requires us to view the relation between human being and polis as an intensified form of the relation between any animal and its proper habitat. Its intensity is due precisely to the forms of intimacy and estrangement made possible by the possession of language. The Politics’s sustained meditation on how to ensure the longevity of a city’s bios—its political ecology—must, then, be read as a necessary complement to its account of human nature, its anthropology.

scholarly journals Rabbani Political Leadership for Sustainable Development: A Case Study in Terengganu, Malaysia

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Hailan Salamun ◽  
Firdaus Khairi Abdul Kadir ◽  
Asyraf Hj Ab Rahman ◽  
Rofishah Hj Rashid
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Political Leadership ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Holistic Development ◽  
Leadership Quality ◽  
The Way

The objective of the current study was to clarify the role of ‘Rabbani’ to establish a balance of sustainable development in Terengganu political leadership, Malaysia. We propose Rabbani political leadership as a task of bridging the understanding of sustainable development in harmony that may influence followers to manage the development in political workplace. It then explores the underlying reason for the mobilisation of sustainable social development. This study classified as a fieldwork study based in Terengganu, Malaysia. The obtained data were analysed systematically according to selected themes. The argument constructed into the following stages, namely an overview of Islamic principles in setting an identity of Islam as the way of life, proposing unity as the foundation of a harmonious life in which the whole life system as a response to having a holistic development as a catalyst of progress. This study was able to benefit the local community of Terengganu and also amongst the rulers and politicians in order to understand and applying the value of Rabbani political leadership quality for the sake of better social lifestyle. Rabbani political leadership in the state of Terengganu could be one of the models that cover three types of political leadership work ethics in Islamic principles namely; building identity that Islam is the way of life; proposing unity ass the foundation of a harmonious life; and a holistic development as a catalyst of progress.   Received: 24 March 2021 / Accepted: 8 July 2021 / Published: 5 September 2021

Spinoza’s Moral Realism

2019 ◽  
pp. 40-60
Author(s):  
Youpa Andrew
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Moral Realism ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Moral Realist ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Objective Property ◽  
The Way

This chapter shows that Spinoza is committed to a type of moral realism. By “moral realism” is meant a theory of the way of life that is best for us as human beings, a theory based on a view on which good and bad are objective properties. By “objective property” is meant a property whose instance(s) does (do) not directly depend on anyone’s desires, emotions, or beliefs about its existence and nature. The author argues that, for Spinoza, the properties of goodness and badness are objective properties. Instances of goodness do not directly depend on someone’s desires, emotions, and beliefs about the existence and nature of goodness. The same holds for badness. His argument for this reading hinges on the conception of human nature that Spinoza appeals to in his definition of “virtue” (4D8). This conception of human nature serves as the foundation for the objectivity of the properties of goodness and badness, and the author contends that it is this that makes Spinoza a type of moral realist.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Youpa Andrew
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Theory Of Knowledge ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Theory Of Human Nature ◽  
Libertarian Free Will ◽  
The Way

This book offers a reading of Spinoza’s moral philosophy. Specifically, it is a philosophical exposition of his masterpiece, the Ethics, that focuses on his moral philosophy. Central to the reading I defend is the view that there is a way of life that is best for human beings, and what makes it best is that it is the way of life that is in agreement with human nature. I begin this study with Spinoza’s theory of emotions, and I do so because it is one of two doctrines that fundamentally shape the structure and content of his vision of the way of life that is best. The other is his view that striving to persevere in being is the actual essence of a finite thing (3p7). Together these make up the foundation of Spinoza’s moral philosophy, and it is from these two doctrines that his moral philosophy emerges. In saying this I am not denying that his substance monism, the doctrines of mind-body parallelism and identity, the tripartite theory of knowledge, and his denial of libertarian free will, among others, also belong to the foundation of his moral philosophy. Each of these contributes in its way to the portrait of the best way of life, and they play important roles in the chapters that follow. But it is his theory of emotions and the theory of human nature on which it rests that are chiefly responsible for the structure and content of his moral philosophy....

The way of Consumers’ Responsiveness to Green Advertising – an Indian Context

2019 ◽  
Vol 118 (6) ◽  
pp. 94-96
Author(s):  
Dr. B. KARTHIKEYAN ◽  
Dr. V. SITHARTHA SANKAR ◽  
Dr. G. LATHA
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Concern ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Advertising Campaign ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Green Advertising ◽  
Indian Context ◽  
Willingness To Buy ◽  
Green Form ◽  
The Way

Green Advertising – the word is a new way to attract modern consumers with the features of a green form of communication for the sustainable development of any country. Green Advertising will help in detailing those features which consumers are eagerly looking for and in require. Public opinion towards the environment and the way our finicky way of life damages it has increased from the last few decades. Accordingly, consumers expressed their willingness to buy more products with a less harmful impact on the environment. Companies sought to take advantage of this trend by launching ‘green' products and by introducing environmental concern in their advertising campaign.  This paper has dealt with the general concepts of green advertising and consumers' responsiveness of green advertising.

Management of Resources for Sustainable Development: Entropy "SHOWS" the way

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-299
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Entropy Generation ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Basic Question ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Institutional Policies ◽  
Management Of Resources ◽  
The Way

The purpose of “Sustainable Development” raises the following basic question: Which “indicator” should be used to identify the human activities that are contrary to this purpose? In this paper it will be shown that “Entropy Generation” constitutes this Indicator. To this purpose, we will use three examples where Entropy Generation takes place and demonstrate that this generation of entropy is always contrary to Sustainable Development. A forecast of future human activities will be then presented which will demonstrate that large Entropy Generation will continue. Sustainable Development can be thus achieved only by entering an “Era of Reduced Entropy Generation”, which requires however drastic changes from Institutional policies to our own values and way of life.

Invention of Judaism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John J. Collins
Keyword(s):  
Way Of Life ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

Judaism is often understood as the way of life defined by the Torah of Moses, but it was not always so. This book identifies key moments in the rise of the Torah, beginning with the formation of Deuteronomy, advancing through the reform of Ezra, the impact of the suppression of the Torah by Antiochus Epiphanes and the consequent Maccabean revolt, and the rise of Jewish sectarianism. It also discusses variant forms of Judaism, some of which are not Torah-centered and others which construe the Torah through the lenses of Hellenistic culture or through higher, apocalyptic, revelation. It concludes with the critique of the Torah in the writings of Paul.

PRIEST IVAN VELYCHKO (1836—1889): THE WAY OF LIFE, RELIGIOUS AND SOCIAL ACTIVITY

2020 ◽  
Vol 152 (2) ◽  
pp. 435-449
Author(s):  
Yuriy NESTERUK ◽  
Nazariy NESTERUK
Keyword(s):  
Social Activity ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The Way
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