scholarly journals Choosing ourselves, we choose all people ...

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 169-181
Author(s):  
Samira Dadashova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
World View ◽  
Ethical Relativism ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Secular Humanism ◽  
Secular Humanist

The article is devoted to the secular type of modern humanism, because it declares a person as the highest value, has a self-sufficient existence, independent from supernatural forces, and reflects the modern spiritual situation of the time. Secular humanism advocates the use of reason, justice, and equality. It proposes that only free using reason as a guide is the best capable of developing values that succeed in satisfying individual happiness and serving human interests. The purpose of this article is to critically examine the secular humanist world-view as well as show that it champions rationalism and irrationalism that have both positive and serious negative consequences in our society. The author proposes to replace the ethical relativism of secular humanism with a more rigid ideology – the ethical normativism.

Humanism in Europe

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Schröder
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Ideal Types ◽  
Secular Humanism ◽  
Group Type ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Environments ◽  
Free Thought ◽  
Multiple Secularities ◽  
Secular Humanist

This chapter addresses secular humanism in Europe and the way it is “lived” by and within its major institutions and organizations. It examines how national and international secular humanist bodies founded after World War II took up, cultivated, and transformed free-religious, free-thought, ethical, atheist, and rationalist roots from nineteenth century Europe and adjusted them to changing social, cultural, and political environments. Giving examples from some selected national contexts, the development of a nonreligious Humanism in Europe exemplifies what Wohlrab-Sahr and Burchardt call “Multiple Secularities”: different local or national trajectories produced a variety of cultures of secularity and, thus, different understandings of secular humanism. Apart from this cultural historization, the chapter reconstructs two transnational, ideal types of secular humanism, the social practice type, and the secularist pressure group type. These types share similar worldviews and values, but have to be distinguished in terms of organizational forms, practices, and especially policy.

Black Infidels

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sikiyu Hutchinson
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Structural Inequality ◽  
Secular Humanism ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Secular Humanist ◽  
Economic Injustice

African Americans are among the most religious groups in the United States. Consequently, secular humanism and atheism are largely anathema to mainstream African Americans. Nonetheless, secular humanist and atheist traditions have coexisted with religious traditions in African American social thought and community as a progressive political and cultural counterweight to black religious orthodoxy. Radical or progressive humanism is specifically concerned with the liberation struggle of disenfranchised peoples. Organized religion is one of many powerful forces solidifying inequity based on race, gender, class, and sexual orientation. Racism, classism, sexism, and heterosexism are amplified and reinforced by economic injustice institutionalized under global capitalism. Hence, humanism is especially relevant for people of color living in conditions of structural inequality in which the state serves only the human rights of the wealthy.

scholarly journals THE IMAGE OF A HARD WORKING / LAZY MAN IN THE KHAKAS PROFILE WORLD VIEW

2021 ◽  
pp. 79-92
Author(s):  
Мария Дмитриевна Чертыкова
Keyword(s):  
Sedentary Lifestyle ◽  
World View ◽  
Hard Work ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Conceptual Space ◽  
Folk Wisdom ◽  
Separate Layer ◽  
The World

Статья посвящена лингвокультурологическому рассмотрению хакасских пословиц и поговорок с целью выявления и описания образа трудолюбивого / ленивого человека в хакасской пословичной картине мира. Материалом для анализа послужили около ста единиц паремий с соответствующей семантикой, собранные автором, в основном, из сборника «Хыйға сöс. Мудрое слово» (2014), также для сравнения привлекаются паремии других народов. Выявлено, что трудолюбивый человек в хакасском языковом сознании — это надёжный, добросовестный, усердный, основательный работник. Он, благодаря своему трудолюбию, обеспечивает питанием себя и свою семью. В паремиях, описывающих труд как источник богатства, обычно присутствует репрезентант чағ «сало». Образ ленивого человека отмечен такими мотивационными признаками, как бестолковость, склонность ко сну, малоподвижный образ жизни, пустая и бесцельная трата времени, проживание и питание за чужой счёт. Однако лентяй в народном сознании не воспринимается совсем как безнадёжный и пропащий человек, о чём свидетельствуют пословицы, предупреждающие о негативных последствиях лени, и имеющие воспитательный характер. При этом отношение хакасов к проявлению лени суровое и бескомпромиссное; нами не зафиксировано ни одной паремии, оправдывающей данный человеческий порок. Отдельный пласт составляют паремии, раскрывающие контрастивные оценочные характеристики двух типов людей — трудолюбивого и ленивого, что позволяет слушающим чётко и ясно воспринимать имплицитные поучительные коды народной мудрости. Считаем, что сложная, полиаспектная система образа трудолюбивого / ленивого человека в хакасском языке обладает хорошим когнитивным и лингвокультурологическим потенциалом и имеет перспективу для будущих исследований. The article is devoted to the linguoculturological examination of Khakass proverbs and sayings in order to identify and describe the image of a hardworking / lazy person in the Khakass proverbial picture of the world. The material for analysis was about one hundred units of paremias with the corresponding semantics, collected by the author, mainly from the collection “Хыйға сöс. The Wise Word” (2014), also for the comparison there are the paremias of other nations. It is revealed that a hardworking person in the Khakass language consciousness is a reliable, conscientious, diligent, thorough worker. Thanks to his hard work, he provides food for himself and his family. In the paremias describing labor as a source of wealth, a unit of чағ “salo” is usually present. The image of a lazy person is marked by evaluations signs such as stupidity, a tendency to sleep, a sedentary lifestyle, an empty, aimless waste of time, living and eating at someone else's expense. However, in the popular consciousness it is not perceived at all as a hopeless and lost person, as proverbs display, warning about the negative consequences of laziness, and have an educational character. Moreover, the Khakass attitude to the manifestation of laziness is severe and uncompromising, and we have not recorded a single paremia justifying this human vice. Paremias constitute a separate layer, revealing the contrasting evaluative characteristics of two types of people — hardworking and lazy, which allows listeners to clearly perceive the implicit instructive codes of folk wisdom. We believe that the conceptual space of a hardworking / lazy person in the Khakass language has good cognitive and linguocultural potential for future research.

scholarly journals ОСОБЛИВОСТІ ФУНКЦІОНУВАННЯ ФРАЗЕОЛОГІЗМІВ УКРАЇНСЬКОЇ МОВИ В ПОЛІТИЧНОМУ ДИСКУРСІ

2019 ◽  
pp. 59-65
Author(s):  
Т. М. Князь
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
World View ◽  
Component Composition ◽  
The Political ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Emotional Information ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
The People ◽  
Current Events ◽  
Financial Issues

The political worldview as a part of the national worldview is an open structure that is constantly evolving. The language political worldview is a complex of representations of the people, recorded in the language units about political reality at a certain stage of society development. The phraseology of the Ukrainian language depends directly on the language political world-view, therefore the phraseological units (PhU) in some way form national and cultural peculiarity of political discourse. Investigation of the specific features of functioning phraseological units is an effective way to study the representations of the language speakes about political reality, its interpretation, indicating the relevance of the proposed article The article analyzes the peculiarities of the PhU functioning in the Ukrainian political discourse. The types of structural and semantic transformations of phraseological units are ellipse, substitution, expansion of component composition have been investigated. In political discourse both traditional and transformed phraseological units accurately characterize current events: financial issues, cooperation with partners, warning about the negative consequences of wrong actions, etc. Diferrent by semantics and structure phraseological units are used in accordance with the linguistic situation, context, author’s thought etc. Transformed phraseological unit загравав із проросійським електоратом (the traditional PhU гратися (грати) з вогнем «to behave carelessly, to do something dangerous») is applied to express the author’s assessment, the attitude to the political situation. The function of phraseological units in the political discourse makes it informative and expressive, and thus one of the main functions, influential, is realized. PhUs not only as nominative, but also as estimated units are used with the aim of realization of the unity of rational and emotional information in the text.

scholarly journals Sex Education: A Weapon of Mass Destruction?

2000 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-56
Author(s):  
M.C. Asuzu
Keyword(s):  
Sex Education ◽  
Sexuality Education ◽  
Bertrand Russell ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Mass Destruction ◽  
Educational Materials ◽  
Secular Humanism ◽  
Margaret Sanger ◽  
The Media ◽  
Secular Humanist

Education has rightly been understood as fundamentally good for man. In this regard, education is taken in the correct sense both of information and of formation of man, especially of the younger generations. It helps them to achieve the utmost good, individually and societally. Therefore, education concerns the proper nature and good of man. Once these are misunderstood, education will be ill-conceived and ill-delivered. Man's sexuality as the sum total of what makes him male or female in each case is an important component of his nature – physical and metaphysical. It deserves study and education. That aspect of man's sexuality that has to do with physical genital intercourse constitutes a mere 10 to 15% of his sexuality. 1 It is, however, the most emotive, delicate, and educationally troublesome aspect of man's sexuality. There has, therefore, been continuing concern that education in this aspect of man requires the most careful and culturally correct environment, tools, and methods. Some societal value systems understanding of man is exclusively physical and organic (in other words, merely materialistic), denying the metaphysical and seeing the purpose of life as nothing more than pleasure. Secular humanism is one such. For this system to take hold of sex to “educate” on it is surely a prescription for disaster, that is, for man as a created “Homo sapient.” Overcoming the problem of the current secular humanist sex education onslaught should be facilitated by a proper understanding of the value base and value indoctrination of secular humanism. With that, there can be healthy efforts to limit secular humanism to the circles where it rightly belongs, in a free and multicultural world. But the other value systems, particularly Christianity, should make more meaningful progress by going beyond mere objection to secular humanism. Christianity should develop its own educational materials for both home and internal group education. Furthermore, it should also develop programs for an entire public education in these matters, with content that presents their own theistic ideal together with the secular humanist one in a factual and balanced manner. Since the days of Marie Stoops. Bertrand Russell, Havelock Ellis, and Margaret Sanger, the secular humanists have imposed unethically on everyone through the media (and eventually the schools). Christians should find the resources and personnel to promote their ideals, much as the secular humanists have done for nearly a century. Without them doing so, it will be nearly impossible to overcome the secular humanists, in my humble opinion. The theists’ appropriate sexuality education will surely not be a weapon of mass destruction, as the secular humanist model has been, but indeed a most needed service in the present world.

scholarly journals The Challenge of Archaeological Interpretation and Practice that Integrates between the Science of the Past and Local Knowledge | ความท้าทายของการตีความและปฏิบัติการทางโบราณคดีที่บูรณาการระหว่างวิทยาศาสตร์ของอดีตกับภูมิปัญญาท้องถิ่น

SPAFA Journal ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rasmi Shoocongdej
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Local Knowledge ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
World View ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Policy Goals ◽  
Minority Ethnic Groups ◽  
Scientific World ◽  
Production Economic ◽  
Methodological Practice

Contemporary archaeologists can no longer focus only on scientific research, they must also work with different interest groups whose use of archaeology may have positive and negative consequences. The dichotomy of foreigner versus local has been prominent in the discourse of the post-modern era. Archaeologists seem to be aware of their ethical and political roles when archaeology is used for knowledge production, economic development, and other public policy goals at the local, national and international levels. Consequently, in recent years the ethical issues involved in working with multiple communities or multi-ethnic groups have become important concerns for archaeologists globally. In the case of Thailand, most archaeologists generally have not focused on these issues, although there are many minority ethnic groups there, especially near the borders with neighboring countries. The challenge now is to integrate professional theoretical and methodological practice with local wisdom from multiple communities even though these are forms of knowledge different from a “scientific” world view. This paper considers two major topics: (1) how archaeologists negotiate their ethical responsibilities in working with the multiple communities and, (2) how archaeologists can incorporate local knowledge into archaeological practice and interpretation, using an example from Highland Pang Mapha in Mae Hong Son province Northwestern Thailand. นักโบราณคดีร่วมสมัยไม่สามารถเน้นเฉพาะการทำวิจัย พวกเขาต้องทำงานร่วมกับกลุ่มคนที่มีความสนใจในงานโบราณคดีที่หลากหลายอันส่งผลกระทบทั้งทางบวกและทางลบ การแบ่งแยกระหว่างคนนอกและคนท้องถิ่นเป็นกระแสสำคัญในวาทกรรมสมัยหลังสมัยใหม่นิยม นักโบราณคดีตระหนักถึงบทบาททางจริยธรรมและการเมืองเมื่อโบราณคดีถูกใช้สำหรับการผลิตความรู้ การพัฒนาเศรษฐกิจ และเป้าหมายของนโยบายสาธารณะอื่นๆ ในระดับท้องถิ่น ประเทศ และนานาชาติ หลายปีที่ผ่านมามีผลกระทบในประเด็นจริยธรรมที่เกี่ยวข้องกับการทำงานร่วมกับชุมชนที่หลากหลาย หรือกลุ่มชาติพันธุ์ต่างๆ กลายเป็นสิ่งที่สำคัญสำหรับนักโบราณคดีทั่วโลก กรณีของประเทศไทย นักโบราณคดีส่วนใหญ่ไม่ได้ให้ความสำคัญกับประเด็นเหล่านี้ แม้ว่าจะมีกลุ่มชาติพันธุ์ที่เป็นชนกลุ่มน้อยจำนวนมากในประเทศไทย โดยเฉพาะบริเวณชายแดน ความท้าทายในปัจจุบันคือการเชื่อมโยงแนวคิดทฤษฎีและระเบียบวิธีปฏิบัติทางโบราณคดี กับภูมิปัญญาท้องถิ่นของหลากหลายชุมชน แม้ว่าจะมีความแตกต่างไปจากโลกทัศน์ทางวิทยาศาสตร์ บทความนี้พิจารณาสองประเด็นหลัก คือ 1) นักโบราณคดีต่อรองความรับผิดชอบทางจริยธรรมในการทำงานกับชุมชนหลากหลายกลุ่มอย่างไร 2) นักโบราณคดีสามารถหลอมรวมความรู้ท้องถิ่นเข้ากับการทำงานปฏิบัติและการตีความทางโบราณคดีอย่างไร กรณีศึกษาจากพื้นที่สูงในอำเภอปางมะผ้า จังหวัดแม่ฮ่องสอน ภาคตะวันตกเฉียงเหนือของประเทศไทย

Determining Emotional Tone and Verbal Behavior in Patients With Tinnitus and Hyperacusis: An Exploratory Mixed-Methods Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 660-672
Author(s):  
Suzanne H. Kimball ◽  
Toby Hamilton ◽  
Erin Benear ◽  
Jonathan Baldwin
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Verbal Behavior ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Anxiety And Depression ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Emotional Tone ◽  
Explanatory Mixed Methods ◽  
Quantitative Results

Purpose The purpose of this study was to evaluate the emotional tone and verbal behavior of social media users who self-identified as having tinnitus and/or hyperacusis that caused self-described negative consequences on daily life or health. Research Design and Method An explanatory mixed-methods design was utilized. Two hundred “initial” and 200 “reply” Facebook posts were collected from members of a tinnitus group and a hyperacusis group. Data were analyzed via the LIWC 2015 software program and compared to typical bloggers. As this was an explanatory mixed-methods study, we used qualitative thematic analyses to explain, interpret, and illustrate the quantitative results. Results Overall, quantitative results indicated lower overall emotional tone for all categories (tinnitus and hyperacusis, initial and reply), which was mostly influenced by higher negative emotion. Higher levels of authenticity or truth were found in the hyperacusis sample but not in the tinnitus sample. Lower levels of clout (social standing) were indicated in all groups, and a lower level of analytical thinking style (concepts and complex categories rather than narratives) was found in the hyperacusis sample. Additional analysis of the language indicated higher levels of sadness and anxiety in all groups and lower levels of anger, particularly for initial replies. These data support prior findings indicating higher levels of anxiety and depression in this patient population based on the actual words in blog posts and not from self-report questionnaires. Qualitative results identified 3 major themes from both the tinnitus and hyperacusis texts: suffering, negative emotional tone, and coping strategies. Conclusions Results from this study suggest support for the predominant clinical view that patients with tinnitus and hyperacusis have higher levels of anxiety and depression than the general population. The extent of the suffering described and patterns of coping strategies suggest clinical practice patterns and the need for research in implementing improved practice plans.

Serum Vitamin B12 Concentrations among Mothers and Newborns and Follow-up Study to Assess Implication on the Growth Velocity and the Urinary Methylmalonic Acid Excretion

2009 ◽  
Vol 79 (56) ◽  
pp. 297-307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laila Hussein ◽  
Sahar Abdel Aziz ◽  
Salwa Tapouzada ◽  
Boehles
Keyword(s):  
Early Diagnosis ◽  
Growth Velocity ◽  
Methylmalonic Acid ◽  
Post Partum ◽  
Serum Vitamin ◽  
Vitamin B ◽  
Postnatal Life ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Metabolic Marker ◽  
Biochemical Measurement

Objective:Cobalamin (B12) deficiency has been reported in infants born to mothers with low cobalamin intake. Early diagnosis of vitamin B12 deficiency in infants is critical for the prevention of neurobehavioral disorders. We investigated the relationship between serum vitamin B12 level in newborns and in their healthy mothers who consumed an omnivorous diet. Anthropometry was studied longitudinally to assess the growth velocity of the infants. Urinary methylmalonic acid (MMA) excretion of 6-month old infants was compared retrospectively as the biomarker correlated with the initial serum vitamin B12 concentrations. Methods: Serum cobalamin and blood hemoglobin were determined in 84 pairs of newborns and their mothers. Urinary MMA excretion was measured in the same subjects during the first 6 months of the post partum period. Results: At birth, median serum cobalamin levels were 152.0 pmol/L in the mothers and 296.6 pmol/L in the newborns. Maternal and neonatal serum cobalamin levels had no effect on growth velocity during the first six months of postnatal life. Serum maternal and neonatal cobalamin levels were inversely associated with urinary MMA excretion. Conclusion: Early diagnosis of vitamin B12 status in neonates and infants is crucial, particularly in nutritionally deprived areas. Biochemical measurement of plasma cobalamin or its metabolic marker MMA is highly recommended. Urinary MMA measurement in cobalamin diagnostics provides an advantage in that blood sampling is not required. A vitamin B12 taskforce should be created to alleviate vitamin deficiency and its negative consequences.

The Hierarchical Model of Exercise Dependence

2015 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 247-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gayatri Kotbagi ◽  
Laurence Kern ◽  
Lucia Romo ◽  
Ramesh Pathare
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analysis ◽  
Physical Exercise ◽  
Exploratory Factor Analysis ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Large Population ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Preliminary Version

Abstract. Physical exercise when done excessively may have negative consequences on physical and psychological wellbeing. There exist many scales to measure this phenomenon. The purpose of this article is to create a scale measuring the problematic practice of physical exercise (PPPE Scale) by combining two assessment tools already existing in the field of exercise dependency but anchored in different approaches (EDS-R and EDQ). This research consists of three studies carried out on three independent sample populations. The first study (N = 341) tested the construct validity (exploratory factor analysis); the second study (N = 195) tested the structural validity (confirmatory factor analysis) and the third study (N = 104) tested the convergent validity (correlations) of the preliminary version of the PPPE scale. Exploratory factor analysis identified six distinct dimensions associated with exercise dependency. Furthermore, confirmatory factor analysis validated a second order model consisting of 25 items with six dimensions and four sub-dimensions. The convergent validity of this scale with other constructs (GLTEQ, EAT26, and The Big Five Inventory [BFI]) is satisfactory. The preliminary version of the PPPE must be administered to a large population to refine its psychometric properties and develop scoring norms.

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