scholarly journals The Evolution Within Human. Francesca Ferrando, Philosophical Posthumanism. (Theory in the New Humanities)

2021 ◽  
pp. 283-292
Author(s):  
Natalia Mikoś
Keyword(s):  
Western Civilization ◽  
New Horizons ◽  
Classical Humanism ◽  
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Philosophical Posthumanism is a unique intellectual proposition – one in which Francesca Ferrando not only presents and expands but also celebrates posthumanist thought. The monograph is an open invitation to explore new horizons by de-familiarizing classical humanist thought embedded within the Western civilization. Explicitly deconstructing classical humanism, Ferrando offers her readership a versatile insight into the complexity of the polyphony of new voices including, but not limited to, Posthumanism, Transhumanism, and Antihumanism – contributing to the discourse, which, as the author affirms, is tantamount to the “philosophy of our time.”

The End of Tourism as We Know It

2019 ◽  
pp. 14-28
Author(s):  
Maximiliano Emanuel Korstanje ◽  
Babu George
Keyword(s):  
Stock Market ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
Western Civilization ◽  
Human Suffering ◽  
Dark Tourism ◽  
New Horizons ◽  
The World ◽  
Interesting Discussion ◽  
Slum Tourism ◽  
Jihadist Terrorism

The present chapter posits an interesting discussion revolving around the term Thana Capitalism, which was originally formulated in earlier works. Originally formulated to serve as an opposite alternative against neo-pragmatism, neoliberalism toyed with the belief that the world can be united through the consumption and free trade. During 80s and 90s decades, the theory of development adopted tourism as an efficient instrument to struggle with poverty. Under the auspices of neoliberalism, modern tourism not only paved the ways for an “Kantian eternal peace,” but also conducted a much deeper process of democratization beyond the borders of Western civilization. After the recent, stock market crisis in 2008, tourism not only was placed in jeopardy by the advance of jihadist terrorism but mutated towards more morbid forms of consumption, which made from human suffering as a tantalizing criterion of attraction. Thana-Tourism, War tourism, Dark Tourism or slum tourism are indicators that the society is changing towards new horizons.

Changing the face of orthodontics with mini-implants

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard RJ Cousley
Keyword(s):  
Treatment Planning ◽  
New Horizons ◽  
Future Treatment ◽  
Mini Implants ◽  
The Face ◽  
Clinical Changes ◽  
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Orthodontists are increasingly using mini-implants as invaluable treatment adjuncts. They provide independent, stable anchorage in routine cases and, furthermore, their use expands the range of malocclusions treatable by orthodontics. Indeed, the observations of novel clinical changes are beginning to alter long-held views on orthodontic biomechanics and dentoalveolar remodelling. This article will provide insight into how mini-implants are opening new horizons in orthodontics and their relevance to all dental specialists in terms of future treatment planning.

scholarly journals Manifestations of contact allergy

2012 ◽  
Vol 140 (11-12) ◽  
pp. 786-791 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Jovanovic
Keyword(s):  
Immune Response ◽  
Contact Dermatitis ◽  
Allergic Contact Dermatitis ◽  
Contact Allergy ◽  
Contact Urticaria ◽  
New Horizons ◽  
Novi Sad ◽  
Allergic Contact ◽  
Repeated Contact ◽  
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Contact allergy (sensibilization, hypersensitivity) is a state of specific immune response in the skin occurring after repeated contact of the skin or mucous membrane with various environmental substances. At the Allergy Department of the Clinic of Dermatovenereology Diseases in Novi Sad, we patch tested the patients who were referred with a suspected contact allergy and who had been also coming for check-ups as outpatients over the last two years. Contact allergy was assessed in respect to the fact that not only allergic contact dermatitis, but also the whole spectrum of different clinical entities where allergic contact dermatitis and contact urticaria are only the two extremes, should be included. Our results provide further insight into etiology and pathogenesis of contact allergy, offering a better diagnostic and therapeutic approach to patients and opening new horizons to further researches.

scholarly journals Online Language Teaching: Methods and Strategies, Possibilities and Opportunities

2021 ◽  
pp. 128-141
Author(s):  
Bharathi S. Rai ◽  
Rajeshwari M.
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Virtual Classroom ◽  
Age Group ◽  
New Horizons ◽  
Training Methodologies ◽  
Language Teaching Methods ◽  
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Online Teaching has been an effective method to meet a great number of learners at the global level. Learning this way leads the eager learners to find different ways to discover new horizons of knowledge. The online content of language learning has led many information seekers to concentrate on the acquisition of exuberant language skills. This paper study various methods and techniques that could be used to connect diverse information aspirants. Challenges are also being discussed in the existing eligible system for online language teaching. The virtual classroom here is designed with cyberspace to create a language learning atmosphere. The paper outlines the reasoning, design, including the use of these lesson plans that facilitate action and reflection across the learning cycle. The techniques and approaches set out in this paper will provide insight into the outcome of the initiative. This research also provides a look at the shots of online teaching. This study examines potential approaches and techniques and explores the wider possibilities and varied prospects for achieving the objective of helping the target group of students to achieve their goals. Possibilities have brought more benefits not only to the pupils, but also to the aspirants, irrespective of their age group. It also suggests some potential online training methodologies for teachers to take classes online.

Aristotle: Mentor for the Soul

2021 ◽  
pp. 104515952199758
Author(s):  
Julia Penn Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Adult Learners ◽  
Adult Learning ◽  
Current Practice ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Western Civilization ◽  
Practical Model ◽  
Human Attributes ◽  
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Aristotle serves as a valuable, and practical, model for mentors of adult learners. His writings give insight into mentoring even as we practice it today. Although he lived in ancient Greece (c. 384 BCE to 322 BCE) and his audience was aristocratic males, the tenets of his philosophy for adult learning hold true in the present age for learners of any race, class, or gender because they are built on human attributes common to us all. Written from the author’s perspective of more than 15 years of mentoring diverse adult learners, this article distills some principles for mentoring from Aristotle’s work that resonate with current practice: (a) mentor the soul, (b) understand the student’s “puzzle,” (c) trust our senses, and (d) develop excellence. Aristotle ideas give “form” to the task of mentoring, honoring excellence as a virtue to be sought—and achieved—in everyday actions. It is heartening to view the mentoring that we do today as part of a very long and very rich tradition, foundational to Western Civilization.

Emmanuel Levinas: Responsibility and Election

1993 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 63-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Chalier
Keyword(s):  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
World View ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Jewish Tradition ◽  
Western Civilization ◽  
Greek Language ◽  
Philosophical Work ◽  
Philosophical Writings ◽  
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Although some people argue Emmanuel Levinas is a Jewish thinker because he introduces in his philosophical work ideas which come from the Jewish tradition, I want to present him as a philosopher. A philosopher who tries to widen the philosophical horizon which is traditionally a Greek one but, at the same time, a philosopher who does not want to abandon it. In one of his main books Totality and Infinity (1969), he describes western civilization as an hypocritical one because it is attached both to the True and to the Good, but he adds:It is perhaps time to see in hypocrisy not only a base contingent defect of man, but the underlying rending of a world attached to both the philosophers and the prophets, (p. 24)When reading Levinas we may realize that such an ‘hypocrisy’ might well be a blessing from a philosophical point of view. One of Levinas's philosophical aims is to refer to the Greek language of philosophy—a language he asserts to be of universal significance—in order to elucidate ideas that come from the Hebrew world view, from the prophets and from the sages. He wants to give a new insight into Greek categories and concepts but he refuses to abnegate the philosophical requirements for accuracy. That is why when he refers to biblical verses or to Talmudic apologues, he does not want to prove anything. His philosophical writings are indeed philosophical because he does not yield to the temptation of substituting the authority of a certain verse or of a certain name to the philosophical requirement of argumentation.

Contesting Civilization: Louis Riel’s Defence of Culture at the Collège de Montréal

2021 ◽  
Vol 102 (s1) ◽  
pp. s285-s308
Author(s):  
Max Hamon
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Education ◽  
Western Civilization ◽  
Moral Reform ◽  
Canadian Society ◽  
Civilizing Mission ◽  
Public Issues ◽  
Successful Student ◽  
Political Sovereignty ◽  
Colonial Archive ◽  
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A newly discovered manuscript of a debate between two college students sheds new light on Louis Riel’s experience in Montreal. By the time the young Métis left Montreal, he was an accomplished public speaker with a sophisticated understanding of Canadian society and culture. This article argues that Riel’s education was not isolating and frustrating but, rather, encouraged him to engage with public issues and moral reform. It demonstrates that Riel, in responding to the debate sparked by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, could engage meaningfully with Western theories of civilization. This debate is examined in the light of mid-nineteenth-century elite Catholic education, missionary and colonial thought, the nature of the civilizing mission, and Riel’s theories of political sovereignty. Tracing Riel’s unique intellectual genealogy provides insight into the diverse and dynamic ways Indigenous people experienced colonialism. Finally, it offers a critique of the “colonial archive,” particularly when it comes to Indigenous identities. Ultimately, Riel was a successful student who could act as an exemplar of “Western civilization” while confidently maintaining his own identity as an Indigenous person.

Calibration problems in hydrogen luminosities

1966 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 322-330
Author(s):  
A. Beer
Keyword(s):  
Galactic Structure ◽  
B Stars ◽  
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The investigations which I should like to summarize in this paper concern recent photo-electric luminosity determinations of O and B stars. Their final aim has been the derivation of new stellar distances, and some insight into certain patterns of galactic structure.

Stochasting modeling of planetary ring systems

1984 ◽  
Vol 75 ◽  
pp. 461-469 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert W. Hart
Keyword(s):  
Maximum Entropy ◽  
Ring System ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Ultimate State ◽  
Interparticle Interactions ◽  
Ring Systems ◽  
First Order ◽  
Planetary Ring ◽  
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ABSTRACTThis paper models maximum entropy configurations of idealized gravitational ring systems. Such configurations are of interest because systems generally evolve toward an ultimate state of maximum randomness. For simplicity, attention is confined to ultimate states for which interparticle interactions are no longer of first order importance. The planets, in their orbits about the sun, are one example of such a ring system. The extent to which the present approximation yields insight into ring systems such as Saturn's is explored briefly.

Skeletal elements of crinoid echinoderms: High-resolution structural and microanalytical results

1983 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 194-195
Author(s):  
D. F. Blake ◽  
L. F. Allard ◽  
D. R. Peacor
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Marine Invertebrates ◽  
Sea Urchins ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Sea Stars ◽  
High Resolution Tem ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
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Echinodermata is a phylum of marine invertebrates which has been extant since Cambrian time (c.a. 500 m.y. before the present). Modern examples of echinoderms include sea urchins, sea stars, and sea lilies (crinoids). The endoskeletons of echinoderms are composed of plates or ossicles (Fig. 1) which are with few exceptions, porous, single crystals of high-magnesian calcite. Despite their single crystal nature, fracture surfaces do not exhibit the near-perfect {10.4} cleavage characteristic of inorganic calcite. This paradoxical mix of biogenic and inorganic features has prompted much recent work on echinoderm skeletal crystallography. Furthermore, fossil echinoderm hard parts comprise a volumetrically significant portion of some marine limestones sequences. The ultrastructural and microchemical characterization of modern skeletal material should lend insight into: 1). The nature of the biogenic processes involved, for example, the relationship of Mg heterogeneity to morphological and structural features in modern echinoderm material, and 2). The nature of the diagenetic changes undergone by their ancient, fossilized counterparts. In this study, high resolution TEM (HRTEM), high voltage TEM (HVTEM), and STEM microanalysis are used to characterize tha ultrastructural and microchemical composition of skeletal elements of the modern crinoid Neocrinus blakei.

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