Aristophanes' Speech in Plato's Symposium

1966 ◽  
Vol 86 ◽  
pp. 41-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. J. Dover
Keyword(s):  
Human Beings ◽  
The Real ◽  
Flat Fish ◽  
Two Bodies

Aristophanes' encomium on Eros (Smp. 189c 2–193d 5) is a story with a moral. Once upon a time, all human beings were double creatures, each with two heads, two bodies and eight limbs. Then, by the command of Zeus, each double creature was cut in half, and so humans as we know them came into being. Every one of us ‘seeks his other half’, and this search is Eros. If we are pious, we may hope to be rewarded by success in the search; if we are impious, Zeus may cut us in two again, and each of us will be like a flat-fish or a figure in relief.The story is amusingly told, and the comedies of the real Aristophanes are also amusing; but when Sykutris says that the story ‘reminds us of the plot of a comedy’ and when Robin constructs a hypothetical comedy out of it, they are confounding essence and accident. The affinities of Aristophanes' story do not lie with his own comedies or with those of his contemporaries, but elsewhere.The extant plays of Aristophanes are firmly rooted in the present, and each of them explores the possibilities of a fantasy constructed out of the present. Mythology was exploited by the comic poets—rarely by Aristophanes himself, more extensively by some others—in order to present humorously distorted versions of the myths which were the traditional material of serious poetry. Some comic titles point to theogonic myths (e.g. Polyzelos, Birth of the Muses and Birth of Dionysos) or to myths about the era before the rule of Zeus (e.g. Phrynichos, Kronos, and the younger Kratinos, Giants and Titans).

PERSPEKTIF JHON PAULO FREIRE DAN KI HADJAR DEWANTARA TERHADAP INTEGRASI INTELEKTUALITAS DAN MORALITAS PESERTA DIDIK DALAM MENYADARI KEMAJEMUKAN DI INDONESIA

Edupedia ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-83
Author(s):  
Ahmad Dahri
Keyword(s):  
Paulo Freire ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Real ◽  
National Education ◽  
Purpose Of Education ◽  
Plural Society ◽  
Knowledge And Practice

The real purpose of education is humanizing human beings. The most prominent thing in humanity is diversity, plurality or multiculturality. Indonesia is a country consisting of a plural society. This should be realized by all individuals in this nusantara society. Providing awareness of the existence of mulitikulturalitas or pluralism can be pursued in the educational process. For the sake of this interest, then in the educational process there must be some kind of integralization effort between forming the intellect and morality of learners. The function of integralization of moral and intellectual education is to know more about diversity then combine with knowledge and practice with morality then achieve the purposes of national education. The conclusions or findings of Freire’s and Ki Hadjar Dewantara’s analysis approach are the absence of differences in the educational portion, the absence of social classes as the limits of education, and the educator has a role as teacher not only as a facilitator but also as a identifierin diversity and be honest about the history, there is a link between learners and educators, mutual understanding, learners receive teaching, and educators learn to understand learners, and this function is summarized in education for freedom and ing ngarsho sung tuladha, ing madyo mangun karsha, tut wur handayani.

Animals in Religion

2014 ◽  
pp. 570-590
Author(s):  
Stephen R. L. Clark
Keyword(s):  
Human Beings ◽  
The Real ◽  
Real Presence ◽  
Religious Meaning

Both “animals” and “religion” are contentious concepts, with many possible meanings and associations. This chapter takes animals to be eukaryotes distinct from protists, plants and fungi, and “religion” as the attempt to “live a dream.” I describe four principal ways of dreaming animals: triumphalist humanism (for which only “human” beings are of any interest); traditional notions of good husbandry (which requires “human” beings to care for the non-human, within limits set by human interests); notions of metempsychosis and transformation (where “human” and “non-human” are constantly shifting characters); and awakening to the real presence of others, and so—paradoxically—evacuating them of merely “religious” meaning.

scholarly journals Promoting Education for Sustainable Development: Roles of Teacher

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 21-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pramila Bakhati
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Training And Development ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Problematic Situation ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Practical Life ◽  
Roles Of Teacher ◽  
Growing Population

Human beings are considered as the most intellectual living beings in this Universe because they are able to cope with all the natural resources for their personal needs and preserving the things as well. Due to the growing population and immense using of resources, the things which we get from the nature are being destroyed by using in improper way. Our common home: the Earth is now in crisis as a result of limited awareness, egotism and understanding about the real values of nature and natural resources. In this problematic situation, Sustainable Development (SD) is emerged as a window of hope and later Education for Sustainable Developed (ESD) is appeared to promote the SD. However, if the knowledge is not transformed into behavior and practical life, the knowledge will be nothing or the meaningless.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jtd.v1i0.13086 Journal of Training and Development Vol.1 2015: 21-26

The Risk, the Real, and the Impossibility of Life

2017 ◽  
pp. 163-177
Author(s):  
Maximiliano Emanuel Korstanje
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Ethical Dilemma ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Liberal Thought

The discourse of the Matrix not only wakes up philosophy from the slumber they are, but reflects the rise of fears which are proper of a culture, that manipulates anxieties to fix policies otherwise would be rejected. Basically, Neo is subject to an ethical dilemma which means that we are free to make the decision to live in a fake without suffering or in “the real of the dessert” as Morpheus put it. At this extent, if technology is used to protect humankind, Matrix evinces under some circumstances, it can oppress human beings when they renounce to their “free-will”. This chapter not only explored the limitations of the society of risks within liberal thought but taking into consideration the role of authenticity serves ideologically to legitimate suffering. Indeed, accepting to live as Neo did, may lead to oppression or liberation.

‘I’ll hurt you if you stay.’ The Fly scene-by-scene: Act Two

The Fly ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 87-96
Author(s):  
Emma Westwood
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Cellular Level ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Real ◽  
Natural Processes ◽  
Science Fiction Films ◽  
Emotional Resonance

This chapter describes the scenes of Act Two of David Cronenberg's The Fly (1986). In Act Two, Seth Brundle makes the transition from amiable and reclusive scientist to predatory and misogynistic Brundlefly — a seamless character transition that creeps up on the audience through Cronenberg's screenplay and direction, and Jeff Goldblum's subtle yet defined performance. As the Brundlefly persona comes to the fore, the audience still sympathises with the overtly animalistic, egregious person he has become. They know this is not the real Seth; it is the corruption of Seth at a cellular level. Cronenberg's patented brand of body horror is coming into its own right here with Seth finally admitting to himself that something is wrong. He questions whether he is dying, and if this is what dying is like, which directly references Cronenberg's own explanation of the film: that it is an allegory for our mortality as human beings and the natural processes that lead to old age and death. It is by way of the computer that he discovers his DNA has fused with a fly — the vital ‘reveal’ — in a cinematic moment common to many great science-fiction films where pivotal information of emotional resonance is not communicated between human beings but between human and machine.

scholarly journals Voorzienigheid en verantwoordelijkheid

2001 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Van de Beek
Keyword(s):  
Human Beings ◽  
The Real ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Genesis 22 ◽  
Existential Problem ◽  
Theological Concept

Providence and responsibility Providence is usually regarded as a theological concept that sets human hearts at rest. God rules our lives, and in particular those of Christians. Modern people often have problems with this idea. How can a good God rule a world with diseases and disasters? And can we actually imagine such an all-controlling power? Nevertheless, these are not the real issues concerning the concept of providence. The existential problem is that providence in the Bible has to do with responsibility: God takes responsibility for his world. This responsibility is total; it even implies responsibility and punishment for sin. Thus providence and atonement are not two separated fields of theology, but coincide. The chapter in the Bible to which the concept is originally related makes this plain: Genesis 22, and verse 8 in particular, states, “God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son”. (The Vulgate reads: “the victim for the holocaust”.) In Genesis 16-22 the word “to provide”, literally “to see” (r’h), turns out to be a key concept. Who sees? The Lord sees, Abraham sees and Hagar sees – and it is always in a situation of life and death in which they are called to responsibility to save lives. But actually these are lives that have already been sacrificed. Thus providence demands the ultimate from human beings, as it asks the ultimate from their God. Noordmans highlights this in a meditation on Matthew 6:34: “Jesus does not say this in order to lay worries to rest but in order to raise worries”. If you search for the kingship of God, all things that are needed will be given to you – such as feet to walk the second mile.

Design and Implementation of Green Design in Architectural Design System

2014 ◽  
Vol 716-717 ◽  
pp. 215-218
Author(s):  
Jing Xi ◽  
Xin Jian Chu
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Personal Space ◽  
Green Design ◽  
Design System ◽  
Sound Insulation ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Green Consumption ◽  
The Real

In this paper, green design in modern society has many applications; green design has become a kind of fashion, people's consumption consciousness also gradually turned to green consumption. The real green design has not only the design itself, it was elevated to a kind of culture; promotion is a kind of spirit. For a nation, a community and all the field of culture and cultural phenomenon is of universal significance, is the nationality, is also the world, the real green design will never be out of date, it will develop with the development of the times, and always with people's life, and thus influence people's fife. The environmental protection, the "green building", beautiful and comfortable, it includes day lighting is ventilated, environmental pollution, noise insulation, sound insulation, traffic, beautify, etc. This is all indoor stylist people bring sensuous pleasure. The relationship between human beings and the environment is very harmonious with the environment; make the person, and style, forms, a full expression to care, An environmental atmosphere, A complete and free of personal space.

Religion, Science, and Environment

2003 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-88
Author(s):  
Michael T. Seigel
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
World View ◽  
Environmental Movement ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Symbiotic Relationship ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
World Views ◽  
The Real

Much theological discussion of ecology has focussed on responding to criticism such as that of Lynn White, but there are aspects of Christian tradition that need more attention: the loss of a sense of symbiotic relationship between humanity and nature, and the belief that human beings can effectively and harmlessly manipulate nature to their own ends. The viewpoint of White and many other ecological thinkers that our behaviour derives from our world-views and religiosity has set substantial portions of the environmental movement in search of a new world-view and a new religiosity. If, however, our world-views and religiosity derive, even in part, from our social structures and therefore ultimately from our behaviour, then we must also focus on changing these. The question of science then is not only whether it is sufficiently holistic but also whether it can contribute to determining appropriate behaviours and social structures. Dialogue between science and religion has already come a long way in terms of developing new world-views. It is necessary now that they work together to guide and motivate the real decisionmaking processes in politics, economics, and so forth.

By Way of Introduction: Posing and Solving Problems: The Essence and Legacy of Mathematics

2005 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 115-116
Author(s):  
José Contreras
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Real

Mathematics, the queen of the sciences, has evolved and continues to evolve because of the frantic and interminable quest of passionate human beings to solve problems that arise within mathematics itself and in the real world. Yes, mathematics is not complete without concepts, definitions, axioms, theorems, proofs, algorithms, or formulas: They are all integral components of mathematics. But problems—posing and solving them—are the heart, the spirit, the essence of mathematics.

Etiology of illness in traditional Bhutanese medicine

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-61
Author(s):  
Jigme Singye
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Medicine ◽  
Narrative Review ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Real ◽  
Medical Text ◽  
Religious Text ◽  
Ultimate Source ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Real Phenomenon ◽  
All Diseases

According to the philosophy of traditional Bhutanese medicine, ignorance (Ma-Rig-Pa) is considered as the main causeof all diseases of mankind. However, other factors such as seasons, psychiatric emotions, behaviour and dietary habitsalso acts as the triggering agents. This paper is a narrative review based on the medical text of traditional medicine(Sowarigpa) and religious text available in the country. All the medical text states that our defective mind (ignorance)is the main source of all kinds of ailments in the living beings. Due to ignorance, we the human beings are unable tosee the real phenomenon and therefore leading to enclosed knowledge of oneself, which in turn gives rise to the threemental poisons; attachment, anger and delusion. Ignorance is the ultimate source of these three mental poisons whichcompel people to follow wrong lifestyle that disturb the balance of the three humours – wind, bile and phlegm. Thus,in turn gives rise to the four hundred and four different types of diseases as described in gSo-ba Rig-pa.

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