scholarly journals El espíritu de la materia

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martín López Corredoira
Keyword(s):  
Human Beings ◽  
Material World ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Ontological Claim

Resumen: Lejos de los discursos de sectas y religiones, se habla aquí del “espíritu” como una metáfora poética de lo que los hombres son o ansían ser dentro de un mundo material, un discurso para la vida y su sentido espiritual dentro del sinsentido nihilista implícito en el materialismo/naturalismo. ¿Cómo puede esta contradicción sostenerse? ¿Cómo puede el “espíritu” sostenerse en la “materia” si ambos términos se contraponen como el día y la noche? Sólo como juicio estético, fuera de cualquier pretensión ontológica, tiene sentido el término “espíritu”. Palabras clave: materia, espíritu, estética, vida, poesía Abstract. Aside from discourses of sects and religions, the term “spirit” is used here as a poetic meta­phor of what human beings are, or they strive to become within a material world. This is a discourse for life and its spiritual sense within the context of the nihilistic nonsense which is implicit in mate­rialism/naturalism. How can this contradiction be sustained? How can the “spirit” be sustained inside “matter” when both terms are as contradictory as day and night are? The term "spirit" has only sense as aesthetical assertion, away from any ontological claim. Keywords: matter, spirit, aesthetics, life, poetry Recibido: 29/10/2012 Aprobado: 18/04/2013

Epilogue

2018 ◽  
pp. 309-318
Author(s):  
Leora Auslander ◽  
Tara Zahra
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Material World

This epilogue argues that war is a profound reminder of human materiality and fragility. Conflicts are made and decided through the interaction of human beings and the material world. The inquiries started in this book offer the foundation for a historically informed investigation of this interaction in the new forms of warfare in an age in which the virtual often seems to have more presence than the material. Indeed, new technologies have radically changed the materiality of war. Rather than physically encountering the enemy on the battlefield or entering homes as they invade enemy territory, for example, many soldiers are now sitting thousands of miles away launching missiles or operating drones that do first the reconnaissance and then the killing for them.

scholarly journals Transdisciplinarni pristup u razmatranju odnosa znanost — teologija

2019 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 399-412
Author(s):  
Krešimir Cerovac
Keyword(s):  
Round Table ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Transdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Material World ◽  
Theology And Science ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Modes Of Thought

There are many reasons why a partnership dialogue between theology (religion) and the natural sciences is needed. However, first and foremost this must be a conversation between one human being and another regarding the most important of human interests. The most effective way to approach complex issues and problems in the dialogue between theology and science is the transdisciplinary approach. Transdisciplinarity can solve prob lems which cannot be resolved by separate attempts. This approach can connect different modes of thought, that is, thought beginning with different points of view on the material world or religion. The transdisciplinary approach takes on the role of mediator, which demands at the “round table” that which unites human beings on a universal human level. This is a new, challenging and demanding approach which requires researchers to leave their own field of interest and strive to learn about other fields. The transdisciplinary approach, as “critical rationality” and a new way of thinking, opposed to classical and reductive rationalism, emphasizing objectivity, is based on controlled conflict–induced paradoxes. Transdisciplinarity creates a new quality — which is not an arithmetic sum of individual disciplines — and enables articulation, i.e. a link between two, at first glance, controversial disciplinary modes of thought.

Nature

2016 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 19 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Bellamy Foster
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Intrinsic Properties ◽  
De Rerum Natura ◽  
Material World ◽  
Complex Word ◽  
Monthly Review ◽  
The World ◽  
Raymond Williams

This article is adapted from John Bellamy Foster, "Nature," in Kelly Fritsch, Clare O'Connor, and AK Thompson, ed., Keywords for Radicals: The Contested Vocabulary of Late-Capitalist Struggle (Chico, CA: AK Press, 2016), 279-86, http://akpress.org/keywords-for-radicals.html."Nature," wrote Raymond Williams in Keywords, "is perhaps the most complex word in the language." It is derived from the Latin natura, as exemplified by Lucretius's great didactic poem De rerum natura (On the Nature of Things) from the first century BCE. The word "nature" has three primary, interrelated meanings: (1) the intrinsic properties or essence of things or processes; (2) an inherent force that directs or determines the world; and (3) the material world or universe, the object of our sense perceptions—both in its entirety and variously understood as including or excluding God, spirit, mind, human beings, society, history, culture, etc.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.

scholarly journals Biblical Mandate and Emerging Theology: Integral Spirituality: A Transformative Practice

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (15) ◽  
pp. 149
Author(s):  
Moanungsang Moanungsang
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
True Self ◽  
Material World ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Human Endeavor ◽  
Transformative Practice ◽  
The Church

In the present time, the church and the society often discusses about the need for a deeper spirituality. On one hand, people are faced with countless startling life realities such as, poverty, disparity and unemployment; domination and violence; corruption and exploitation of power; emergence of an individualist, consumerist and competitive culture; and the like, which does not allow humans to establish profound and durable relationships.  People experience uncertainty, which terrorize their lives in fear and despair.  In response, the humankind explores kinds of spirituality that offers consolation and hope. On the other hand, the material world has extended to us abundant opportunities to develop our inner as well as outer formation and living.  However, often human endeavor turns in a futile circle as we fail to become mature enough to discover the true self and to live on earth in love, in peace, in harmony with oneself, with fellow human beings and nature and with the totality of our being. 

Hacia el fin del dogma "voluntad es capacidad" en el derecho civil chileno

2018 ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Sergio Arenas Benavides
Keyword(s):  
Civil Law ◽  
Tort Law ◽  
Contract Law ◽  
Legal Capacity ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The Law

ResumenLa idea de que los incapaces absolutos no tienen voluntad no es acorde a la realidad natural de los seres humanos, y por tanto no debe seguir siendo invocada por los juristas chilenos. Sólo los bebés y los que han caído en comao tienen una patología enajenante severa carecen de una voluntad denida. Los demás sí tienen, sólo que el derecho no considera tales voluntades como sucientes para obligarse. Por otro lado, es poco congruente que no se reconozca voluntad en un área de nuestro derecho civil (materia contractual) y sí en otras (materia extracontractual).Palabras clave: Voluntad; Niños; Capacidad; Demente; Derecho civil.AbstractThe notion that persons with absolute incapacity have no will is not accordance with the natural reality of human beings, and therefore should no longer be relied upon by the Chilean jurists. Only babies and those who have fallen in coma or have a severe alienating pathology lack a denite will. Others have it, only that the law does not consider those wills as sucient to obligate oneself. Moreover, it is incongruous that such will is not recognized in some areas of our civil law (contract law) while it is in others (tort law). Keywords: Will; Children; Legal capacity; Insane person; Civil law.

scholarly journals Algunas implicaciones del cambio climático para la vida humana.

Xihmai ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Eduardo Dehays Rocha
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Environmental Conflicts ◽  
Social Unrest ◽  
Poverty And Inequality ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
New Development ◽  
Environmental Refugees ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Causal Nature

Resumen   El  artí­culo  tiene  por  objetivo  precisar  la  naturaleza  causal  del  cambio climático y sus implicaciones para la vida humana en el futuro. Se reconoce el papel de los seres humanos en la generación de un efecto invernadero más intenso, lo que provoca un desequilibrio del sistema climático. Para el efecto, se  revisó  literatura especializada  y reciente  sobre  el  tema  con  el  fin  de detectar la trascendencia de este cambio ambiental en la vida las personas. Las  dimensiones más intensamente  afectadas apuntan a  aspectos vitales como la disponibilidad de agua, la producción de alimentos, la conflictividad social y polí­tica a nivel nacional e internacional, el aumento del número de refugiados  ambientales, el incremento de la pobreza y la desigualdad, entre otros. Este desfavorable escenario precisa un replanteamiento del modelo de desarrollo actual, el que deberá estar encuadrado en estrategias de adaptación a nuevas condiciones y peligros ambientales. En suma, el nuevo desarrollo deberá centrarse en un proceso deliberado de adaptación que permita hacer sustentable la vida humana de todos los seres humanos, sin distinción.   Palabras Clave: Cambio climático, adaptación, vulnerabilidad, desarrollo, conflictos socioambientales.     Abstract   This article aims to clarify the causal nature of climate change and its implications for human life in the future. It recognizes and demonstrates the role the humans in the generating a stronger greenhouse effect, causing an imbalance in the climate system. For this purpose was reviewed and recent literature on the subject in order to detect significance of this environmental change in the lives of people. The dimensions suggest strongly affected vital aspects such as water availability, food production, social unrest and political national  and  international  level,  the  increasing  number  of  environmental refugees, increasing poverty and inequality, among others. This unfavorable scenario  requires  a  rethinking  of  the  current  development  model,  which should be framed in strategies to adapt to new conditions end environmental hazards. In short, the new development should focus on a deliberate process of adaptation that would enable sustainable life for all human beings without distinction.   Key words: Climatic change, adaptation, vulnerability, development, socio environmental conflicts.

Metaphor, Embodied Realism, and Sacramental Truth

2021 ◽  
pp. 21-57
Author(s):  
Stephen R. Shaver
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Critical Realism ◽  
Prototype Theory ◽  
Conceptual Blending ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Material World ◽  
Embodied Realism ◽  
Core Concepts ◽  
Objective Observer ◽  
Independent Reality

This chapter and the next provide an introduction to the field of cognitive linguistics. This chapter focuses on core concepts including conceptual metaphor, metonymy, polysemy, and prototype theory (conceptual blending is explored in Chapter 3). Based on this overview, the author argues that language “means” not through referential correspondence to objective, observer-independent reality but by prompting for embodied simulation on the part of hearers and readers. Language, then, is true insofar as these simulations are apt to reality as experienced by embodied human beings. The chapter proposes that this epistemological perspective of “embodied realism” is congruent with the critical realism endorsed by many recent theologians and with a sacramental worldview in which the material world can be the arena for God’s self-communication.

Cosmic Liturgy: The Theological Dignity of Creation as a Basis of an Orthodox Ecotheology

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 332-344
Author(s):  
Daniel Munteanu
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Material World ◽  
New Creation ◽  
The World ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Orthodox Theology

AbstractOne of the most important contributions of Orthodox theology to ecotheology consists in its understanding of matter as an expression of the divine rationality. The logoi of the world are connected with the divine Logos and have an inner aspiration towards communion with God. Maximus Confessor’s view of the material world as potential church leads to a cosmic ecclesiology with direct significance for the overcoming of our contemporary ecological crisis. His theology of creatio originalis and of the new creation as transfigurated universe allows us to speak about the theological dignity of matter as the ‘home of God’, as well as a field of dialogue between creator and human beings. The Orthodox spirituality, as spirituality of theosis, of the transfiguration of matter through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit is deeply ecological and, at the same time a source for a culture of healing communication, dialogue, love and respect of the ecosystems as expression of God’s rationality.

scholarly journals El apodo en Cartagena: propuesta de una tipología semántica

2014 ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Victoria Olaya Aguilar
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The World ◽  
Linguistic Sign ◽  
The Subject

ResumenLa lengua desempeña un papel muy importante en la vida humana, pues a través de esta un individuo puedemanifestar sentimientos y emociones; estrechar relaciones con un grupo o tomar distancia de este. En fin, puede manifestar sus visiones de mundo. Es por ello que estudiar la lengua no solo permite abordarla desde su estructura, sino que también permite analizar al hombre en interacción, al hombre circunscrito en un espacio social. Dentro de esas interacciones encontramos el uso de apodos, como unamanera de interpretar la realidad, práctica muy común en Cartagena, y que constituye el objeto de estudio del presente trabajo, cuyo propósito es, entre otros, caracterizar desde un punto de vista sociosemántico los apodos empleados por los miembros de dicha comunidad. Palabras clave: apodo, signo lingüístico, semántica, motivación, arbitrariedad, denotación, connotación.AbstractLanguage plays an important role in human life; through language,individuals can express their feelings and emotions, strengthen relationships with a group or keep distance fromit. In other words, they can express their perspective of the world. That is why studying language not only allows the study of its structure, but also the analysis of interaction between human beings, circumscribed in social space. Among these interactions we find the use of nicknames as a way to interpret reality, a very common practice in Cartagena, which is the subject of study in this paper. The purpose of this work is to characterize the nicknames used by members of this community from a sociosemanticpoint of view.Key Words: Nickname, linguistic sign, semantics, motivation, arbitrariness, denotation, connotation.

Persons

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Garrett
Keyword(s):  
David Hume ◽  
John Locke ◽  
The Self ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Western Tradition ◽  
Material World

We are all persons. But what are persons? This question is central to philosophy and virtually every major philosopher has offered an answer to it. For two thousand years many philosophers in the Western tradition believed that we were immaterial souls or Egos, only contingently attached to our bodies. The most well-known advocates of this view were Plato and Descartes. Few philosophers accept this view now, largely because it is thought to face a number of intractable metaphysical and epistemological problems (for example: how can an immaterial soul or mind interact with the material world? How can I know that you have a soul?). The recoil from Cartesianism has been in three different directions. One direction (the animalist) emphasizes the fact that persons are human beings, evolved animals of a certain sort. A second direction (the reductionist) is represented by David Hume: the self or person is not a Cartesian entity, it is a ‘bundle of perceptions’. Finally, there is a theory of persons influenced by the views of John Locke, according to which persons are neither essentially animals nor reducible to their bodies or experiences.

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