scholarly journals From Slyness to Moral Wisdom in the Era of Emergent Technologies

wisdom ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Ana Bazak
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Theoretical Level ◽  
Great Expectations ◽  
Emergent Technologies ◽  
The Third ◽  
Moral Wisdom ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Problems ◽  
New Type

The first aim of this paper is to circumscribe the concept of wisdom from the standpoint of op­posite as well as close notions. The second one is to relate moral wisdom to social conditions; this as­pect emphasises two states of moral wisdom or, ra­ther, two levels on which the concept has been conceived: that of a fragmented and separated cognisance and manners to manage one’s own existence – whether this entity is an individual per­son or a small or large community – and that of an integrated wisdom of humanity in a holistic app­roach. The third aim of this research is to question if and how moral wisdom should be redefined in the present “Era of Emergent Technologies”. Indeed, the abundance of rapid scientific discoveries and of technologies unimaginable before generates great expectations and strong technophile beliefs concer­ning a spectacular and fundamental improvement of human life, generally, thus of every human per­son and community. But as we can see, it is not quite the case: just this incongruent situation allows, more, requires the re-questioning of the concept of moral wisdom nowadays. This re-ques­tioning shows that the different traditional repre­sentations of moral wisdom have to be transcen­ded and that on the theoretical level the urgency is to think within new categories and support a new type of human action adequate to the world global problems whose climbing demonstrates the back­wardness of moral wisdom.

scholarly journals Human Being and Lifeworld: From Ontology to Phenomenology

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.A. Leontyev
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Value Orientations ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Fourth Section ◽  
The Third ◽  
Conceptual Connection ◽  
The World ◽  
Human World ◽  
Key Aspects

The paper is focused on one of the key aspects of Fyodor Vasilyuk’s contribution to the elabora¬tion of methodological foundations of psychology, namely, on the construct of lifeworld and ‘lifeworld ontology’ as a metatheoretical framework for the understanding of human life and activity in the world. The paper is subdivided into four sections. The first one gives the justification of Vasilyuk’s approach in terms of ‘lifeworld ontology’, reveals its conceptual connection with the ideas of A.N. Leontiev and S.L. Rubinstein. The second one is dedicated to the concept of lifeworld, its association with specifically human ways of existing in the world, its distinction from the environment and the idea of multiple hu¬man worlds. In the third section, the author reveals, basing on the conceptions of L. Binswanger, E. van Deurtzen and C. Popper, the multidimensional structure of human lifeworld and discusses the mutuality of human-world relationships. In the fourth section. a typology of lifeworlds is offered, based on three core criteria: past/present/future ratio, individual/society relationship, and factual/due/possible ratio as value orientations.

(Selektywne) zwierciadło bazy danych. O dwóch wymiarach baz danych w kontekście Archiwum Badań nad Życiem Codziennym

2015 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 85-111
Author(s):  
Przemysław Nosal
Keyword(s):  
Human Action ◽  
The Other ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Objective Information ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
Cultural Content ◽  
The One

The aim of this article is to show the socio-cultural ambivalence of databases. On the one hand, they are perceived as impersonal technological representations providing their users with objective information. On the other, they are the result of intentional human action, were created in a specific context, and serve the realization of some purpose defined by their creators. The metaphor that arises from this duality is that of a mirror—reflecting the image of the world, but at the same time deforming it in various manners. The author presents the three main aspects of databases’ ambivalence. The first is the question of selecting the material for the database: the material’s ostensible objectivity and the subjective nature of the choice. The second is the question of the exhibition of cultural content within the framework of the database: the tension between an ideologically neutral presentation of the world and the strategy of exhibition. The third subject raised is the use of databases: full access for users, a framework imposed by the creators, or somewhere in between.

scholarly journals BREAKTHROUGH METHODOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS OF A NEW POSTNON-CLASSICAL HUMAN-SCALE SCIENCE IN THE FIELD OF ECONOMIC SCIENCES

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Primary Role ◽  
Life Activity ◽  
The Third ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
Human Scale ◽  
Economic Production ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual

A way out of the deepening global crisis is possible through a fundamental change in the methodology for realizing holistic reality. The traditional mechanics-materialistic science clearly ignores the integrity of the world and man, his spirituality. Trialectics as a true method of comprehending the living integral world and developing in its course a new personal methodology is based on the recognition of the three-pointed personality ‒ the spiritual and bio-social nature of man, the specificity of which as a representative of a special conscious natural kind is determined by humanity, in which the freedom of personal benevolent creativity lies. The three-person nature of a man, his humanity, is reflected in unome as the initial deep-seated code of human life-unfolding — a potential universality-quality of the life process of unfolding a personality that reaches its highest form in every act of a personality when its self-realization acquires the personal quality of freedom-responsibility. The comprehension of the unom, which includes the genome and the memon, is aimed at setting the purity of the transformations of the economy of human senses-values, which allow exploring the deep spiritual and semantic unity of the separate economic entities. Unomics is a new fateful science of humanity, which aims to explore and substantiate the benevolent format of the life activity of the individual-microcosm act, based on the understanding-deployment of the syncretic dimension of the value-semantic Universe (macrocosm). It requires a spiritually experienced, existential basis for the knowledge of an economic person, which asserts the supremacy of the individual. The format «unomics ‒ globalistics» is revealed. In understanding the unom of the personality, the primary role is played by the problem of studying its existentials, which define the meanings of life ‒ economic production that is productive for humanity. Three main existentials of human existence are: spirituality, freedom and responsibility (V. Frankl). Their comprehension in the new format of trialectics allowed to go deeper into the understanding of the existential «freedom-responsibility». The third existential in the being of a human is love.

scholarly journals The great Chinese transformation: From the third to the first world

2020 ◽  
Vol 70 (S) ◽  
pp. 71-83
Author(s):  
Grzegorz W. Kolodko
Keyword(s):  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
External World ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
Mutual Learning ◽  
The Third ◽  
Chinese Model ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Problems ◽  
Systemic Crisis ◽  
First World

AbstractIn the era of irreversible globalisation, the worldwide economic and political rules of play must take into account of the growing importance of China. Rather than fight the country, one should pragmatically cooperate on solving the mounting global problems. Contemporarily, both China should adapt to the external world and the world itself should adapt to China. There is no possibility of imposing on it a model developed elsewhere, especially that these days liberal democracy is experiencing a systemic crisis in many countries. Neither is there a chance to impose the Chinese model on others, though it seems tempting to a country; it is not an exportable ‘commodity,’ but its elements may prove useful elsewhere. China is not aiming for global domination; instead, it is consistently integrating with the world to maintain its own development. The only reasonable way forward is thorough observation, mutual learning and pragmatic collaboration based on the non-orthodox economic thought.

Sylvia Wynter’s Theory of the Human: Counter-, not Post-humanist

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 47-65
Author(s):  
Zimitri Erasmus
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Biological Properties ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
History Of

How does Sylvia Wynter’s theory of the human depart from Western bio-centric and teleological accounts of the human? To grapple with this question I clarify five key concepts in her theory: the Third Emergence, auto- and socio-poiesis, the autopoietic overturn, the human as hybrid, and sociogenesis. I draw on parts of Wynter’s oeuvre, texts she works with and my conversations with Anthony Bogues. Wynter invents a Third Emergence of the world to mark the advent of the human as a hybrid being. She challenges Western conceptions that reduce the human to biological properties. In opposition to Western teleology, her counter-cartography of a history of human life offers a relational conception of human existence which pivots around Frantz Fanon’s theory of sociogeny. She draws on Aimé Césaire’s call for a conception of the human made to the measure of the world, not to the measure of ‘Man’. This makes Wynter’s theory counter-, not post-humanist.

scholarly journals KONSEP PENDIDIKAN KARAKTER DALAM PENGEMBANGAN MASYARAKAT ISLAM (STUDI PEMIKIRAN BURHANUDDIN AL-ZARNUJI)

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Rahmat Hidayat
Keyword(s):  
Science Teacher ◽  
Character Education ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Theoretical Level ◽  
Theoretical Contribution ◽  
Living Together ◽  
The World ◽  
Special Concern ◽  
Social Phenomenology

A basic implementation of value in education is character. Growing the style and distinctive characteristic is not a job in reversing the palm. However, various processes and stages are done as an effort to achieve this. Burhanuddin Al Zarnuji is a reformer philosopher and provides a theoretical contribution in the world of Muslim renewal and Western . His opinion was expressed as a form of servitude to God for all the opportunities given to humans during his lifetime. Character education is a very much needed concept in today's world. Deterioration and slump morality in the joints of life has resulted in social phenomenology being a special concern from various groups of ordinary people to the elite. Deterioration of character caused by the nature of jumawa over scientific knowledge without propped up there is still the sky above the sky resulting in awareness of living together being blurred. Then the concept of building character is an awareness of how character is an interpretation of ahlakulkarimah in every human life. Society, practitioners and governments are a very similar pattern as an effort to run a concept of character education integration in a theoretical level. It is conceptualized in Zarnuji with several discussions; a). Understanding the science of Fiqh and its importance, b). Intention when studying, c). Choose a science, teacher, friend, and about fortitude, d). Respect for science and scholars, e). Diligent, continuity, and interest, f). Beginning, size and discipline of learning, g). tawakal, h). Fruit revenue from science, i). Compassion and advice, j). Benefit, k). When learning, l). Causes to memorize and forget, m). A good fortune and a fortune barrier, and lengthening and deduction of knowledge. The simplified into three concepts namely; 1). The division on knowledge, 2). The purpose of learning, and 3). Method of study.

scholarly journals Problems and Risks of the Modern World and the Ways of Their Solution

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.38) ◽  
pp. 1137
Author(s):  
Oleg Borisovich Ivanov
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Risk Groups ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Reliable Assessment ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Problems ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
World Economic ◽  
Global Threat ◽  
The Impact

The article deals with global problems and threats that greatly impact society in our time. The political and economic situation in the modern world is characterized by extreme tension and instability. Crisis phenomena cover all spheres of human life. In this situation, a reliable assessment of global risks is extremely important. Experts of the World Economic Forum conduct systematic work on the analysis and synthesis of the most dangerous risks for the world community. The theme of the current forum, “Creating a common future in a split world”, points to the main world problem – disunity in today’s global society. The main global risks of 2018 and the following period, according to experts, are the problems of climate and the environment; threats of a new technological wave and an increasing stratification of the level of incomes of the population. The destabilizing factor in the world was also the crisis of globalization. Prime Minister of India N.Modi called the crisis of globalization one of the main problems of mankind, along with climate change and terrorism. He stressed that protectionism becomes a global threat hampering world development.The paper examines the impact of risk groups and certain global threats on society, analyzes views on the problem of various expert centers, and formulates conclusions.  

Tragedy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan L. Feagin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Human Life ◽  
The United States ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Moby Dick ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Critical Tradition ◽  
The World ◽  
Shakespearean Tragedy

Tragedy began in ancient Greece as a type of drama and has become an important part of the literary and critical tradition in Europe and the United States. Nondramatic poetry (‘lyric tragedy’) and some novels (for example, Moby Dick) have laid claim to being tragedies, or at least to being tragic, explicated as a type of plot or as a way of seeing the world. In general, concepts of tragedy reflect the ways humans think about and try to manage some of the most important features of human life – family, moral duty, suffering, and the noble heights and barbaric depths of human experience – in an unpredictable or intractable world. Greek and Shakespearean tragedy provide two different exemplars of tragedy as a dramatic genre. The tradition inspired by the former typically emphasizes more formal constraints; French neoclassic tragedy is part of this tradition. Shakespearean tragedy, in contrast, is written partly in prose and includes comic scenes and characters who are not nobly born. Lessing and Ibsen also favoured drama that was more realistic and relevant to a bourgeois audience. Arthur Miller’s ‘Death of a Salesman’ has been the centre of much debate in the twentieth-century over the viability of the genre for modern times. The philosophy of tragedy also has two exemplars: Aristotle and G. W. F. Hegel. In the Aristotelian tradition, protagonists bring suffering as an unforeseen consequence of their actions. Hegel proposes that tragic plots essentially involve a protagonist’s struggle with conflicting duties rather than with unintended or unforeseen consequences. A persistent though not universal feature is a protagonist who comes to a catastrophic end, bringing others down in the process. In general, philosophies of tragedy have attempted to define the genre and elucidate how it depicts human action in relation to reason, morality and emotion. In what follows, I provide a glimpse of the state of the genre for a particular time or place, and then describe the main theories about its potential and purposes.

Janusz Kuczyński’s Philosophy of Universalism

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-57
Author(s):  
Michael H. Mitias ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Human Life ◽  
World Order ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
The Third ◽  
Short Overview ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

This paper is a critical analysis of the conditions under which a decent world order is possible, an order in which the different peoples of the world can thrive under the conditions of peace, cooperation, freedom, justice, and prosperity. This analysis is done from the standpoint of Janusz Kuczyński’s philosophy of universalism as a metaphilosophy. More than any other in the contemporary period, this philosophy has advanced a focused, systematic, and comprehensive analysis of these conditions on the basis of a universal vision of nature, human nature, and the meaning of human life and destiny. The paper is composed of three parts. The first part is devoted to a short overview of activism in the history of philosophy. The second part is devoted to an analysis of the main elements of universalism as a metaphilosophy, especially the theoretical conditions of establishing a decent world order. The third part is devoted to a discussion of the practical steps that should be taken to establish a decent world order.

scholarly journals Innovation and Education

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bulent Tarman
Keyword(s):  
Charter Schools ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Educational Innovation ◽  
Educational Innovations ◽  
Education And Health ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Problems ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Technology And Economy

We are living in a world that is changing rapidly and becoming more globalized. Especially the changes in the areas of science, technology and economy are becoming effective in the areas like education and health that are closely related to human life. We are experiencing a quick process named "globalization" that changes economic, social and political structures of the world and that no one can predict the outcome. These changes create new opportunities while opening new challenging areas. In order for countries to compete with each other, they need to be creative in all areas and they also need to be reformist to cope with domestic, national and global problems. In this study, the innovations in the area of education throughout the world will be examined and the place of Turkey compared to other countries in educational innovations will be analyzed. Also the concept of "˜Charter Schools" as acceleration in educational innovation in the United State of America, who is the leader in terms of innovation in the World, will be analyzed. This study will also analyze the Charter Schools in the USA and discuss whether the concept can be implemented in Turkey and bring dynamism to education or increase the quality of education. While looking for the answers of these questions, the researcher conducted a literature review and also used the data he gathered while staying in the USA for nine years for pursuing his MA and PhD degrees.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document