A New Dimension of Etihcs of Global Responsibility

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 3-27
Author(s):  
Zdzisława Piątek
Keyword(s):  
Homo Sapiens ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Moral Obligations ◽  
Natural Knowledge ◽  
Global Responsibility ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Moral Condition ◽  
Human Responsibility ◽  
The Impact

The article addresses the issue of ethics of global responsibility approached from a new and cosmocentric point of view. Philosophical considerations enriched by current natural knowledge allow us to look at the world from a cosmic perspective and at human nature from the evolutionary point of view which should be taken into account when defining the scope of our moral obligations. Questions concerning the human moral condition and the scope of human responsibility and the impact of that responsibility on human behavior in relation to the Earth and the Universe gain a distinctive meaning in the fight against various global perils and problems. The paper provides a justification of why contemporary ethics requires reformulation and such a complementing that would broaden the scope of moral responsibility so it would include not only the current and future generations and other species, but also the whole living community of the earth. Responsibility is treated here as a link that is ontic, evolutionarily shaped and characteristic for the homo sapiens species, which connects the human beings with the surrounding world. Such a conceived responsibility is the foundation of the sense of planetary solidarity and provides reasons to include the whole cosmic ecosphere into the scope of moral care.

scholarly journals The Soul’s Need to Connect with God through the Language of Art: Analysis from an Islamic Perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 60
Author(s):  
Recep Dogan
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Islamic Perspective ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Important Means ◽  
Art Analysis ◽  
The Way

Human beings express their emotions through the language of art; it is therefore both the spirit of progress and one of the most important means of developing emotions. Consequently, those who cannot make use of this means are incomplete in their maturation. Ideas and other products of the imagination can be given tangible form with the magical key of art. By means of art, humanity can exceed the limits of the earth and reach feelings beyond time and space. Beauty in the realm of existence can be recognized through art. Moreover, the great abilities inherent in human nature can be understood and witnessed in works of art. However, from an Islamic point of view, there are some restrictions on certain fields such as sculpture and painting. It is therefore imperative to analyse the notion of art in Islam and its philosophy and then reflect upon the need of the spirit to connect to God through the language of art while meeting some religious obstacles on the way.

scholarly journals The educational aspects of ethics

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 167-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorota Probucka
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Homo Sapiens ◽  
Individual Development ◽  
Normative Ethics ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Moral Obligations ◽  
The Third ◽  
First Case

Abstract The purpose of my article is to show the importance of normative ethics for the education of young people in three areas: individual, social and natural. In the first case, ethics answers the question how we should treat ourselves. Thus, it teaches responsibility for oneself, for one’s life and individual development. In the second case, ethics answers the question how we should treat other people in order to minimize the risk of harming them. Thus, it teaches responsibility to other members of society. In the third case, normative ethics reminds us of moral obligations towards non-human beings, stressing that suffering has an interspecies character, and doesn’t pertain only to representatives of Homo sapiens.

CONTEXT-AWARE ENERGY SAVING SYSTEM WITH MULTIPLE COMFORTS

2020 ◽  
pp. 11-15
Author(s):  
Praveen Kumar M
Keyword(s):  
Energy Saving ◽  
Power Saving ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Energy Control ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Monitoring Mechanism ◽  
The Impact

Power saving and carbon discount becomes the worldwide issue for saving the earth. given that humans often forget about to show off the electric centers with carelessness, so the effect of passive to remind people for strength-saving changed into restricted, but if we constructed automobile and energetic monitoring mechanism to proceed to energy control, the impact of energy-saving could be a whole lot higher. the detecting of walking parameters of the strength-saving machine turned into affected by layout fee and efficiency, which incorporates electricity, strength thing, voltage and cutting-edge, harmonic. The gap parameters consist of class of facilities, variety of human beings, temperature, co2, humidity, luminance, the location of people and so forth.

scholarly journals Celebrating ‘Indian's’ in Shashi Deshpande’s The Dark Holds No Terrors and The Roots and Shadows

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 72-82
Author(s):  
K. Maheswari
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Education System ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The West ◽  
Value System ◽  
Indian Women ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Education ◽  
The Impact

The aim of this paper is an attempt that Indian cultural values should be revised meticulously and   accurately leaving behind western impact and the paper rides on a new pride, as a revival of inspiration, a recuperation from centuries of British domination of India in which Hindu dignity was systematically undermined through the Macaulay education system and the invasion of Mogul. Values are what human beings live by. The value-system of any given culture determines the sense of fulfillment and degree of happiness of its members. Indian value system had been misinterpreted from the point of view of the west and imposed  on the psyche of Indian women  through new education. The new education has gradually made her conscious of futility or emptiness of the various long-preserved notions and taboos about the woman, and she has started opposing and breaking them. And this crusade at times makes her feel alone  and alienated. Their conscious had been colonized according to the impact of western. Nevertheless, it is high time that contemporary Indian women are in position to realize their roots, meaning of life and great value system of India. Hence, tradition is the best of the past that has been carried forward for the future.

scholarly journals Estimation of the Perceived Time of Presence of Sources in Urban Acoustic Environments Using Deep Learning Techniques

2019 ◽  
Vol 105 (6) ◽  
pp. 1053-1066 ◽  
Author(s):  
Félix Gontier ◽  
Catherine Lavandier ◽  
Pierre Aumond ◽  
Mathieu Lagrange ◽  
Jean-François Petiot
Keyword(s):  
Positive Impact ◽  
Noise Pollution ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Sound Sources ◽  
Detection Model ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Acoustic Environments ◽  
The Impact

The impact of urban sound on human beings has often been studied from a negative point of view (noise pollution). In the two last decades, the interest of studying its positive impact has been revealed with the soundscape approach (resourcing spaces). The literature shows that the recognition of sources plays a great role in the way humans are affected by sound environments. There is thus a need for characterizing urban acoustic environments not only with sound pressure measurements but also with source-specific attributes such as their perceived time of presence, dominance or volume. This paper demonstrates, on a controlled dataset, that machine learning techniques based on state of the art neural architectures can predict the perceived time of presence of several sound sources at a sufficient accuracy. To validate this assertion, a corpus of simulated sound scenes is first designed. Perceptual attributes corresponding to those stimuli are gathered through a listening experiment. From the contributions of the individual sound sources available for the simulated corpus, a physical indicator approximating the perceived time of presence of sources is computed and used to train and evaluate a multi-label source detection model. This model predicts the presence of simultaneously active sources from fast third octave spectra, allowing the estimation of perceptual attributes such as pleasantness in urban sound environments at a sufficient degree of precision.

Introduction: Being in Outer Space

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Adam Pryor
Keyword(s):  
Homo Sapiens ◽  
Outer Space ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Geological History ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
Ways Of Being

This work represents a transdisciplinary theological project. It is committed to fostering mutual understanding that stretches transversally across disciplinary boundaries by thinking through how tenets of astrobiology intersect with various reflections on human ways of being in the world and belonging to the world. The structure of the book is broadly inductive. The chapters provide a series of specific examples drawn from astrobiology, doctrinal reflection on the imago Dei, and reflections on the Anthropocene, to suggest an alternative approach to framing how human beings meaningfully are in the world and belong to it. Braiding together these diverse traditions, I suggest the Earth is not only a living planet but an artful one. To be an artful planet requires we take seriously geological history and the significance of the geological agency of homo sapiens. It also requires that we, as members of a species, own our responsibility for inducing new technobiogeochemical cycles into our planetary history.

scholarly journals Assessment of the Psychological Well-Being of Teachers in the Covid-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vaccaro M
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Quality Of Life Scale ◽  
The Impact

The Covid-19 pandemic has led to changes in the habits of human beings with repercussions on psychological well-being from an emotional and affective point of view. So far, research in the literature has focused on the critical elements of distance learning from a connection point of view and software used. It is necessary to expand the research aimed at assessing the impact that the pandemic has had on the psychological well-being of teachers who have been asked not only to change their habits but at the same time the working context and teaching tools. The research was born as an observational study through structured interview, conducted on a sample of 38 randomly selected teachers, representative of the Calabria region. Each respondent was subjected to a questionnaire which explored the perceived psychological well-being and demographic descriptors, such as age, sex, marital status, city of residence, profession, city where they work, years of work, experience, duration of the working week, and the impact that the pandemic has had on their work. To assess the quality of life at work over the last 30 days, the Hundall Self Report proQOL – Professional Quality of Life Scale Questionnaire (2009) was used, consisting of 30 questions on a Likert scale (from 1”never” to 5 “very often”), which can be traced back to 3 dimension: Compassion Fatigue, Burnout and Compassion Satisfaction. The results have shown that a sudden and radical change in one’s habitual behaviors, as well as the way and context of work, have led teachers to have a reduced perception of the quality of life in one’s work environment. The man by nature has enchored to his daily habits and asking him to change his routine behavior involves a decompensating in the perception of his quality of life as demonstrated by the study conducted.

‘Satan Mourns Naked upon the Earth’: Locating Mormon Possession and Exorcism Rituals in the American Religious Landscape, 1830–1977

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-94
Author(s):  
Stephen Taysom
Keyword(s):  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Careful Study ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Historical Accounts ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Religious Landscape ◽  
The Devil

AbstractSince its inception in 1830, an important feature of Mormonism has been its belief in a literal Devil and in the ability of the Devil to possess human beings. Despite the pervasiveness of these beliefs and practices, Mormon possession and exorcism is a largely unstudied phenomenon. What follows is a careful study of four historical accounts of Mormon exorcism rituals dating from 1830, 1839, 1888, and 1977, and their narrative presentations. This article traces the development of Mormon possession/exorcism beliefs and practices and situates them within their larger historical contexts. The article also describes the relationship between Mormon dispossession rituals and the dispossession rituals of Protestant and Catholic groups in American history and presents through a consideration of the impact of broader American cultural trends on the theory and practice of Mormon exorcism from 1830 to 1977.

scholarly journals Modernity, Mass Culture, and Self-Delusion in Nabokov’s Lolita and Martin Amis’ Money

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-101
Author(s):  
Juan A. Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Self ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Martin Amis ◽  
Moral Aspect ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Human Spirituality ◽  
Commit Suicide

Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita (1955) and Martin Amis’ Money (1984) discuss the disadvantages of mass media. Amis uses John Self to reflect the disintegration of the self in the modern, Capitalist society of England in 1980s. Self represents the failure of the postmodern world by portraying a dystopian society. Amis and Nabokov tackle subjects pertaining to money, incest, delusion, and disappointment. Lights are shed on the moral aspect of the characters. The modernity of Amis’ fiction lies in its double deception of its characters; there is the American motif and a character who is not able to resist the magic of such motif. It is about consumerism or how aspects of post modernity and the consumer culture are portrayed. This paper aims to show the impact of mass media on the characters who are self-deluded and indulged in loving money, advertisements, and sex. It also aims at showing duality and corruption in both texts, John Self is bankrupt and wants to commit suicide. Humbert cheats many and is imprisoned and Lolita dies. Lolita becomes the victim of incest. It is an attempt to urge human beings to refuse cultural divisions and encourage human spirituality instead of Materialistic point of view.

Formation of Lunar Craters and Bright Rays as a Result of Meteorite Impacts

1962 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 415-418
Author(s):  
K. P. Stanyukovich ◽  
V. A. Bronshten
Keyword(s):  
Explosive Charge ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Meteorite Impacts ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Lunar Craters ◽  
The Impact

The phenomena accompanying the impact of large meteorites on the surface of the Moon or of the Earth can be examined on the basis of the theory of explosive phenomena if we assume that, instead of an exploding meteorite moving inside the rock, we have an explosive charge (equivalent in energy), situated at a certain distance under the surface.

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