Mankind

One of the most important grants of God Almighty to mankind is iron. The reality that there is a Chapter named " Al-Hadid " (Iron) in the Holy Koran can be considered as a sign of its significance. The reality that there is not a Chapter called " adh-Dhahab " (Gold) might be a sign that iron is more crucial than gold since life would go on if gold did not exist but it would not be easy to mention human civilization without iron. Iron is (1) the essential of all of the arts, (2) the source of human development and progress, and (3) in the center of the strength of man. Due to its functions mentioned above and similar ones, the following is stated in the Koran: " …and We sent down Iron, in which is (material for) mighty war, as well as many benefits for mankind... ". The fact that this Verse particularly introduces iron is completely astonishing, taking into account that these findings were realized at the termination of the 20th century.

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"This is the text of an oral presentation made at the symposium "Altaique ou pas?", organized by Guillaume Jacques and Anton Antonov on 10 Dec 2011 in Paris.Part of this symposium was an invited exchange of ideas on the "Altaic hypothesis" between the undersigned and Martine Robbeets. I left the text by and large as read at the symposium, with minor edits (nor of which reflects anything which was said at the venue), and, thus preserved its character as an oral presentation, including direct addresses to members of the audience ("Martine" and, in most cases, "you" refers to Martine Robbeets, whom I wish to thank again for agreeing to participate in this journée, as of course, again, to its organizers and all participants in the discussion.The first part, "Avant-propos", is a short text which I prepared for distribution before the event. Bibliographical references were kept to a minimum, and it is clear that some statements would require them.The paper is not thoroughly proofread, my apologies for the plethora of typos still contained."

Note, 13. July 2013:
In a recently published paper (Genealogically motivated grammaticalization, in: M. Robbeets/H. Cuyckens (edd.): Shared Grammaticalization, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins 2013), M. Robbeets, speaking about the morphological comparanda between he languages in question she presents in several publications of hers, claims (p. 148) that, in this paper, I (St. G.) "have attempted to explain these correspondences in terms of borrowing".
A careful reading of the relevant passages of this paper (towards the end) will reveal to the attentive reader that this is not the case, and that the wording and the line of thought I use here does not lend itself to such an interpretation.


Note 6 July 2020 (sigh)

As of today, the opening remarks on Pallas and Abel-Remusat as "precursors" of something which was *later* to develop into the critique of Altaic as a genealogical (and linguistic) concept came under heavy shelling in some draft on academia.edu. While each and every correction of factual errors contained in this passage (which was also used in a few other public lectures) is of course justified and welcome, but I should add that this *ornamental* introduction is fully aware of the fact (and says so!) that Pallas' early words predate any coherent formulation of the Altaic hypothesis (while I am accused of precisely *not* saying this or, possibly, not even understanding this - there is more which I'm accused of "not mentioning", while I actually *do* mention it). Any careful reading of my passage will quickly reveal that (while everything could still be made and said better and clearer) the recent "criticism" is null and void, since it (I have ample reason to assume, deliberately) misstates content and intent of my words. I am, furthermore, repatedly, not to say constantly, accused of perpetuating a false view on Abel-Rémusat's position  and, an unforgivable sin, not to cite some paper from 1996 in which the record allegedly was set straight on this one. The author of these allegations should still remeber that he, in 2016, received a quite verbose private message from me, which states my reasons for viewing his opinions on Abel-Rémusat as insufficient and *not* dictating to cease repeating what I repeat here, to which the only answer I ever received was a kind of grunt (I am still in the possession of this exchange).

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The soul, duly prepared by exhortation to the study of true philosophy, finds herself in gradually advancing to the greater from the less. It should be noted that the one-paragraph reference to Olympiodorus herein (p. 9), while perfectly congruous with the exposition, is strictly impossible as he was in fact much posterior in historical time to Iamblichus. This editorial interpolation was mistakenly left in the final draft years before it was subsequently uploaded, an error for which the editor apologizes. No reader has ever noticed or objected to this mistake, and so we are not going to correct it now. Undoubtedly, neither Iamblichus nor Olympiodorus would object in spirit, for they were not mere philologists, and both of them are quoted correctly herein. They are in fact spiritual brothers and work together in this presentation for the true benefit of souls. It is like the friendly table talk between Callimachus (d. 240 B.C.) and Heraclitus portrayed in a beautiful and philosophically accurate woodcut published in 'The Dial' just before it ceased publication about a century ago--it could never have happened but it should have and (at least in the mind of Callimachus) did indeed occur, or so the artist surmised.

This study is a necessary milestone in the author’s continuing effort to define the fundamental artistic and scientific problematics of the concrete human face. In this relatively brief teaching document readers will find a structured, helpful meta-analysis of Max Picard's 221-page masterwork, 'The Human Face' (1930 in English). The exposition is founded on an unpublished conspectus by the present author from 2002.

The precise location (the page number) sourcing each restatement of Picard's most important ideas is preserved and noted. The allusive but fundamental references of Picard to the thought of the far-famed idealist Plotinus (ca. 225 A.D.) are brought to a focus in an endnote. Intelligent readers will find the profundity and nuance of Picard’s conceptual grasp of the human face—a phenomenon of mystery and wonder—to be incomparable and unexampled.

The needs of artists, specifically portraitists, and museum curators are brought to the forefront in this analysis, which also presents a deft mini-summary of the emerging idealist anthropology of Trifurcated Man, finding that it comports exactly with Picard's prescient, sophisticated understanding of the matter published more than ninety years ago.

Please note that this document has been supplemented by a further helpful analyses on the author's Academia.Edu page, one entitled 'Thematic Apperceptions of Max Picard's "Human Face" (1930) With Ancillary Illustrations' and a second set forth as a 'Brief Exposition on the Depth of the Negrid Face.'

The present text is produced as a teaching document of the Society for Faces (SFF). (Note: Fair Use and Quotation freely granted to world scholarship.)

The Universe is a nested supœrganism of space=forms with time=motions. Earth is part of the galactic supœrganism, whose skin has evolved in 3 St-ages; Gaia (life) < History (Present: mankind) > Metal-earth (an evolving world of company mothers that re=produce machines, metalife systems humans consume, and its twins evil=antilive top predator weapons that consume us in the eco(nomic) system).
History is thus the present st=age on the evolution of information on the skin of Earth and as such huminds occupied it as a single global civilination in its paleolithic youth and reproductive mature neolithic age in balance, which then moved into the 3rd informative STage or 'metallic age'. Each of its geographical civilinations was born and hence its original memes that code its humans, developed in one of those STages.
IndoAsia (India, Indochina and the Pacific) was born in the organic age of maturity of History, origin of the Neolithic, which contrary to belief happened first on the 'rivers of paradise' falling from the Tibetan mountains... As such Indonasia reached an organic understanding of the Universe in terms of its 2 elements, space=form=yin=name and yang=time=motion=verb, both in language and philosophy. But all superorganisms of history moved through those ages. We study them according to the general laws of superorganisms in 'time', 'scale (and social classes', space (geography, vital Gaia that feeds us), entropy (the death of its civilizations tuned to the 800-80 years cycles of metal-earth) and mind (the languages and philosophies and cultures developed). As the nested superorganisms of the Universe have a fractal structure, those analysis can be as detailed and broken as possible - in the case of civilinations down to the 'corrupted' nations of military tribal origin that broke its cultures. But as mankind is a 'degraded' organism we also need to 'establish' the ideal form first to have a reference not only to realist history in its entropic age of extinction as AI machines substitute us in labor and war fields, but in its potentiality if bio-historians, the doctors of history who knows its laws, substituted our clueless neuronal class in control of our economic=blood, legal=informative and defensive-immunological networks to create an immortal world. The ought to be is then as important as the reality, and so it is to 'uncover' the 'disguised' placebo freedoms our capitalist, democratic nations have imposed as a surrogate of the ideal world.

Readers are advised that an up-to-date discussion of the author's fundamental thesis (’The Idea’), on the origin, operation, and destiny of the World, is now found at the top of the main page under the rubric, Thematic Evolution and Prospect of 'The Idea.'

A substantial part of our work attempts to construct an adequate Theory of the Face. See 'The Soul of Life' (below) and other studies on the page, some of which remain in draft and others merely projected. (Five papers on this difficult subject are planned.)

Progressive and substantial concretion of the thesis has been recently demonstrated through focused studies (2018-2020), whose URLs are conveniently grouped below:

'The Spirit of War'
https://www.academia.edu/36536128/The_Spirit_of_War

'Carlyle and the Idea'
(https://www.academia.edu/37362600/Carlyle_and_the_Idea)

'The Last Day (Illustrated Essay)'
(https://www.academia.edu/41144933/The_Last_Day_Illustrated_Essay_)

'How the German Spirit Died (A History)'
(https://www.academia.edu/41745763/How_the_German_Spirit_Died_A_History_)

'How the Human Spirit Died (Meta-Analysis)'
(https://www.academia.edu/41985864/How_the_Human_Spirit_Died_Meta-Analysis_)

'Three Malefactors of the Communist Idea (Meta-Analytical Note)'
(https://www.academia.edu/42052811/Three_Malefactors_of_the_Communist_Idea_Meta-Analytical_Note_)

Our gradual (and still incomplete) conceptualization of absolute cosmogony, cosmology, and eschatology in its modern (often microphysical) aspects, which has arisen quite organically over several years of detailed study, may be briefly encapsulated and characterized (A-T) for the reader as follows:

A. The Idea is the fundamental reality of the World, whose existence was clearly intuited (as “hypodoche”) by Plato, operationally defined by Boehme (first as “das Rad Gottes” and subsequently as “Eternal Nature”), organically articulated by Hegel (as “the Idea”), and finally discovered to be the locus of proto-being and foundation of living motion by means of 20th century microphysics (and accurately named by it “the color vacuum”). The electron is its projection into the finite. Field theory is its "physical" basis.

B. This definition of “substance” as a completely immaterial and literally infinite, self-related, hebdomadic-triadic system of actuality within the Idea at the fundament or basis of reality constitutes the greatest discovery of the human mind which, before the end of the 21st century, upon full comprehension, will completely revolutionize religion and therefore geopolitics, as well as pedagogy, paleontology, and biophysics.  The seat of the animating principle in organisms can now be described and explained.

C. Briefly, the research for this book involves the cosmology, cosmogony, and eschatology (destiny) of the world as the finite projection of the Eternal Idea. The Idea itself was created by the Triune Absolute Spirit as a finite-infinite field to manifest, reward, and punish moral, aesthetic, and intellectual performances in a Living Matrix.

D. Through the vast and distributed powers of its microphysical basis, the Idea as the created conduit of Absolute Power has autonomously generated a pseudo-history in geology and astronomy. The powers of Light and Darkness guided by Eternal Life deep within the fundament sustain the finite living motion of which we are aware through biology and empower conscious awareness in animals. Biopsychological functioning and all positive intellectual achievement in Mankind have their roots in the Idea.

E. Moreover, though unseen, the silent workings of a vast cosmological Absolute Hebdomad (deduced through study of the Idea in the 17th century) mercifully overarch and limit the Inchoate Life of the Sinister Itself--a Cosmic Disruptor also previously unsuspected that is responsible for the nocturnal Dream Life of animals. Is this a conceptual solution to the mysterious phenomena of telepathy and clairvoyance?

F. Biological and psychic life thus have always been suspended between two great cosmological powers representing a generalized War Between Infinite and Finite Life that began with King Lucifer, and which in its present form continually tests, through Contention, War, and Worldly Contrariety, the whole of Living Being as it follows a tortured and fateful course between Life and Death according to the much-lamented plan chosen by the Mind ("Gemüt") of Adam.

G. Finally, the hidden existence of the Idea necessarily implies a universal negative unity as the ideal origin of all gravitational and inertial phenomena, offering to science a solution at last to storied and continuing, completely beguiling conundrums (e.g., "Dark Matter" and "Dark Energy") involving the ultimate structure of the cosmos.

H. By tracing the Idea's manifold determinations of physical, biological, and psychic being, then, the present study seeks to explicate the final, and heretofore unsuspected, links in the fabled Great Chain of Being for the edification of Mankind. Inherently opposing it, pathetically and even insanely, is guileless materialism.

I. The war of materialism against idealism eventually culminated in the death of the German Spirit (1918). The main intellectual cause of German spiritual morbidity, however, is traceable to events within the Reformation (1517-1546). This did not prevent a period of optimism within Prussian education and science (1800-1840).

J. The theft of Silesia (1946) was an intentionally demoralizing spiritual crime against Germany with major consequences for the spiritual life of the world. The German Spirit's whole turbulent career constituted a vacillation on renunciation of self-will, and this latter always was the essential content of the Absolute Mind in Germany.

K. Germany's fatal spiritual debility can be considered to be a world "contagion" that spread centrifugally from the center of Europe to the whole Human Race which, therefore, is itself now in the throes of an analogous spiritual death, self-contemplation, and deliverance from the finite. The Zero-Hour is imminent.

L. Each of the Six Days (in Moses) is now fundamentally understood to mean a thousand-year period. Thus, Creation has all along been continuous and--after 6,000 years--will soon be completed (the argument proposes a means to confirm or deny the asserted beginning of 3,970 B.C.). Thus, the Day of Rest (for the Community of Heaven) will soon arrive for the self-elect of Mankind.

M. This tortured path was, of course, divinely foreseen but nevertheless represents an accommodative posture which was not at first understood. The Creator's response achieves a wise and just outcome despite the wreck and pain arising from myopic creatural assertion and pathetic gratification, as recounted in the mosaic story of old.

N. In fact, Talmudic commentators reached this conclusion in the 2nd or 3rd century A.D.--amending (in 'Sanhedrin 97a') the original mosaic interpretation of once-and-for-all Creation in favor of Continuous Creation with a clear Limit or End, specified as 6,000 years (each "day of creation," as mentioned above, being 1,000 years).

O. Thus, Moses (properly cogitated) was right but his dicta were for a long period taken wrongly--perforce leading the Christians astray through an accident of church history that remains a stumbling block up to the present day. See the author's 'The Last Day (Illustrated Essay).'

P. We know from modern physics that the "physical" world at the fundament is sustained by completely immaterial field relations that never cease, or else creation-in-process would not maintain itself. The creative motion is mathematically and physically infinite but disguises its own infinity--the chief insight, credited to Dirac, supporting Absolute Physics.

Q. Hence, it is now clear that the Creation--continuous since the beginning--is approaching its End and Goal. The Last Day is thus imminent and will arrive within the present decade, according to the wisest Christian view, this actually having been announced four centuries ago in German idealism.

R. The Eternal Word's role has always been to Shine Divinely (inwardly) in the gloom and darkness of the outward finite (the "Field of the Reprehensible") for salvation's sake (see 'Carlyle and the Idea'). It is this that Jesus of Nazareth spoke of, and it is this his followers embody, when they speak of the "true bread from heaven," etc..

S. This is why Christians can claim that the finalized ("Third") Temple of God is already in existence and is composed of living stones (minus the winnowed Condemned and Damned) whose essence will endure forever in God.

T. Our thesis is only now emerging in its final form. This is because the horizon of knowledge keeps receding as the true depth is revealed--the world is a set of nested dolls and the innermost doll is God, who is unknowably deep (but friendly, since we are Him in disguise when we abandon our finite wills).

This new four-volume collection from Routledge brings together the major works of scholarship concerned with the ‘language isolates’ of the world. ‘Isolated’ languages are languages without any known relatives, languages which are not demonstrably part of any ‘language family’, with Etruscan, Basque, and Ainu being arguably some of the best-known examples of such ‘linguistic orphans’. The language-specific materials collected here are arranged geographically, and each language-chapter is preceded by a short introduction to the linguistic situation of the language(es) involved and, if not given in anthologized works themselves, to the current state of research and past and present scholarly debates. The volumes are preceded by a problem-oriented general introduction, which deals with the basic concepts and methodological principles of language classification, the present state and the nature of ongoing controversies, an epistemiological typology of language families, and, in the light of this, a theoretical justification of the concept of isolates as well as the choice of languages covered in the volumes.

Some of the gathered works are general introductions to their object language (in terms of sociolinguistics, attestation, documentation, history of scholarship, guides to published studies, overviews of linguistic characteristics), others highlight and discuss particularly salient and interesting typological characteristics of an isolate (some of them are breakthrough studies for the understanding of a particular language), and others focus on the very status of the language under discussion as an isolate in the first place. Some isolated languages are still very much alive; at least one of them, Korean, is a major national language. The majority of the languages and small families covered here are endangered, and some will certainly cease to be used during the coming decades. Thus, isolated languages are particularly interesting objects for students of language endangerment, but they are also prime research objects for linguistic descriptionists, for, when they are gone, not only will another of the 6,000 or so human languages have disappeared, but, in those cases, whole linguistic lineages (and their ways of coping with the world) will be gone forever.

This PowerPoint program, and its accompanying Notebook, provide an overview of the whole  Bible in 10 lessons.  With adaptation it can be, and has successfully been, used with high school and adult classes and in weekend seminars.  See Tags for key subjects.

In the article, Karl Jaspers' thesis of axiality is analyzed from three points of view: as a historical claim, as a diagnosis of the present time and as a philosophical challenge. After a discussion of the tripartite structure of his argument, three aspects of the theoretical challenge of axiality are investigated in the final part of the essay: (1) the question of human unity in diversity; (2) the evolutionary significance of the discovery of «transcendence», understood as the inclusion into the struggle for existence of an ideal struggle for recognition; (3) the would-be impact that a purely immanent and horizontal life-form could have on the dialectics of sacralization and de-sacralization, which is a common trait of all axial and post-axial civilizations.

The aim of the research is to test Spinoza's universal law of self-preservation for all mankind. This embodies the different levels of desire to exist, and on higher levels, the desire for knowledge, on the highest levels, the entire scope of practical knowledge according to which human beings function in daily life and how all this is expressed in a unified way. 512 examinees from different ethnic groups, ages and genders at the Zefat Academic College in Israel were tested during course of four academic years, where they learned how to apply theories using actual cases. Method Research population included 383 students in Zefat Academic College (183 Jewish, 93 Moslem, Druze and Christiann the rest were other or absent. Each student was given a questionnaire with ten questions. Results showed a strong tendency towards unity among the groups. The unity of human nature stipulated by Spinoza is based on the notion that after removing the environmental influences that shape humans from early childhood, and observing them through the basic existential lens, a higher correlation is achieved because they act according to their nature – the human one. The research results support Spinoza's claims from 350 years ago.

The right to life is a fundamental human right, and the main and indispensable for its implementation condition is a presence of necessary for the life of every human being means of existence, the main source of which is his labor for getting them and property in some form or another. Internationalization of public life, the growing education level of people, their awareness of the laws of nature and peoples lead to gradual awareness of, along with individual, group, community and transnational forms of ownership, and common property of all humankind. Contemporary international law recognizes this fact, but there is a necessity in finding ways, forms and mechanisms for the practical use of this common property for the benefit of all peoples of the Earth. This article suggests one of the possible variant of solutions to the problems of global importance.

The face is not only a finite object of art but also an infinite art object, yielding three inimitable standards of facial beauty, but what these really entail remains essentially unexplored owning to unaccountable neglect within art practice and aesthetic concern. This paper argues that exhibitions of portraiture can be better focused (through selection criteria) to yield answers of fundamental scientific and artistic value. The true depth of the human face has so far evaded Mankind's grasp but with courage this can be rectified. Cf. our 'Analysis of Max Picard's 'Human Face' With Implications for Portraiture and Its Exhibition' and 'Thematic Apperceptions Surrounding Max Picard's 'Human Face' (1930) With Ancillary Illustrations.'

The discussion of the Totenmask in the lengthly commentary to this draft paper (2019-2020) has uncovered the possibility of a correlation, long possible but heretofore unrealized, of the face in death with the face in first maturity for a cross-section of individuals within each of the faces of Trifurcated Man. The author is very excited about the potential value of this newly intuited idea and its pertinence to the longstanding proposals in 'Prospectus of the Society for Faces' (2000, 2010). This will be discussed more fully in the finalized paper or in its successor, to be entitled 'Convergences of the Human Face in Life and Death.'

Medieval English drama examines the relationships between Latin and English and the amount of authority each language holds with relation to the other. This focus on the relation between these two languages derives its impetus from the debates about Latin and English taking place in society at the time the plays were composed, performed, and written down. In several plays, Mankind in particular, the devil characters show that the authority of Latin, the authority of the characters who speak Latin, and the messages contained in Latin words can all be parodied. In fact, several of the plays suggest that the words and the texts, such as the ones quoted in the plays, are open to multiple and troubling interpretations. Language can mislead-in terms of morality, political ideas, and religious propositions-as much as guide.

Foreword
“War begins in the minds of men”, yet the minds of men begin in civilization.
The history of the development of mankind and brutal wars seem to be intertwined, namely, civilization is in a sense the result of war!
War was engaged by a nation for the purpose of taking the land from other ethnic groups to expand its own territory; the expansion of its territory was aimed at the natural resources underneath, and this led to the mix of politics and economy. With the political means that determined the economy, the economic power in turn drove the political ambition of expansion and aggression, and so politics became twinned with the economy. The twins of this political and economic integration, under the power of the ruler and driven by the increasing desire for money, would be the cause of human wars and predation.
The law of the jungle of the weak and powerful is the "nature" of everything between the heavens and the earth and of the reincarnation of the natural rules which mutually reinforces and neutralizes each other in an endless succession. As the soul of all beings, mankind, owing to this natural recuperation and multiplication, develops its civilization, thinking and reflection, as well as the lingering barbaric genes and nature. Therefore, whenever the civilized gene cannot "suppress" the "barbaric" gene, the actions of human beings will be under the mercy of the barbaric and primitive nature! Hence, any desire to stop this kind of barbaric gene latent in the human body and the spirit will have to be fulfilled only through improving the civilized elements in the human body and "suppressing" the barbaric gene wanting to "rebel" at every opportunity. Perhaps the civilized dialogue between people is another solution to "suppressing" and the gradually elimination of this barbaric gene, thereby undertaking the engineering of human spirit to "...build in the minds of men a defense of peace"!

The following study examines the ways that Middle English (ME) writers work in productive tension with a variety of contemporary concerns: First, Marie de France's Lanval,  originally written in Norman French but also translated into ME, explores the antagonisms between gender and genre, and society and sexuality, in court culture. Second, representations of the 1381 Revolt describe the principal players, especially the labourers, in ways that shape the reader's interpretation of the rebels' motivations, actions and outcomes. Third, Margery Kempe's Book,  a story of the worldly and spiritual life of a fifteenth-century woman and the first autobiography in English, shows how her very public mystical experiences reiterate and reveal normative societal codes of gender and Latinity. Finally, the morality play, Mankind,  whose bawdiness nevertheless teaches religious truths and moral concepts, is set in contrast to The Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge,  a contemporary document that objected to plays to illuminate the risks involved in pedagogical methods that have the potential both to reinforce and to disrupt societal norms. Each of these texts, therefore, explores medieval writers' difficult and telling engagements with the world around them.

The research article is an outcome of a survey
undertaken among the students after joining anthropological
course. The core objective of the research is to understand the
views of students towards the importance of anthropology and its
application in the human welfare and planning the societal
development. The various important findings were analyzed and
highlighted in this article. It discussed in detail the various
branches of Anthropology along with its importance. The
findings include the various inputs of the students on why should
be study Anthropology. The survey also took into account on the
realization of the students on the importance of the discipline
after studying anthropology.

Toward framing human genetic engineering in the Anthropocene, (1) the latter needs a theory of humankind quite beyond its traditional focus on the capacity to impact nature; (2) analyzing our species in terms of genetic engineering offers one promising avenue; (3) the normative analysis of human genetic engineering reflects the Anthropocenic concern with the human-nature interface; (4) genetic engineering, like anthropogenic change, generates both problems and prospects; for both, (6) problems include subjective market preferences and unequal access, while (7) prospects include greater autonomy from nature where it threatens human welfare, and (8) the pursuit of ‘biotic justice’ engages issues of justice, inequality, social possibilities, marginalized groups, and group-based prejudices.

Individualism is one of the fundamental traits of our time, based on an emphatic and recurrent defense of individual freedom, as experienced by consciousness. This point of view seems to entail a refuse of all kinds of transcendence, cosmological or onto-theological, characterized by an authoritarian and undisputed heteronomy. However, this perspective does not take into account a third type of transcendence, one that occurs in that radical immanence, in the core of individual freedom and autonomy. This type of transcendence takes shape as an ethical and aesthetic relationship carved in the heart of each individual human being, each one of his particular conscious states and the simultaneous consciousness of his Humanity. The aim of this essay is to present an understanding of Ludwig Feuerbach's The Essence of Christianity and its philosophy of Revelation as a reflection on religion and its anthropological origins. In our viewpoint, The Essence of Christianity is an effort to ascertain the genetic elements of human religiosity and clarify its meaning as a movement of reconnecting the human individual with a transcendence that is his own Humanity, given in the immanence of his conscious life. Religion remains a law of transcendence, as the feeling that binds the individual to his Humanity, an everlasting commandment coming from an Otherness that projects itself as a horizon to his free actions.

The measures to contain the rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic presented a myriad of challenges worldwide. The control measures included lockdown, social distancing and quarantine of infected people, among others. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of social distancing on international students at Central China Normal University (CCNU) in Wuhan, China, where COVID-19 first emerged in December 2019. The research design was exploratory, using a semi-structured interview guide to gather data from a sample of 20 international students at CCNU. Furthermore, secondary sources were used to validate the data. Data were analyzed using thematic content analysis. The findings showed some impacts related to social distancing: psychological distress, mental problems, relationship breakdown, fear, health problems, poor diet, and boredom. However, some students cited that social distancing enabled them to save money, focus on their lives, and improve their grades. Many informants re...

Individualism is one of the fundamental traits of our time, based on an emphatic and recurrent defence of individual freedom, as experienced by consciousness. This point of view seems to entail a refuse of all kinds of transcendence, cosmological or onto-theological, characterized by an authoritarian and undisputed heteronomy. However, this perspective does not take into account a third type of transcendence, one that occurs in that radical immanence, in the core of individual freedom and autonomy. This type of transcendence takes shape as an ethical and aesthetical relationship carved in the heart of each individual human being, each one of his particular conscious States and the simultaneous consciousness of his Humanity. The aim of this essay is to give an understanding of Ludwig Feuerbach’s The Essence of Christianity and its philosophy of Revelation, as a reflection on religion and its anthropological origins. In our viewpoint, The Essence of Christianity is an effort to ascert...

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Here is the Truth: Your Life Is a LIE! Your Beliefs Are False! You Are Haunted by The Mysteries of Life and Death! Beyond The Lie was written to awaken you to these truths. Then, by using a simple step-by-step program, The Salvation Regimen, you can escape your present programmed lie of a life and enter a place beyond it where you will be motivated to act and think in ways that infuses your life with genuine meaning and self-esteem. There is a dread lurking within the depths of your soul whispering that your life lacks meaning and purpose that indeed, your life is a meaningless lie. This book will help you get beyond that lie by teaching you to embrace a new authentic way of life in which your actions and thoughts improve your life and the lives of others; enhance the survival of the human species; and, takes you on a quest to discover the true nature of God and the Cosmos. By Getting Beyond The Lie of Your Life: You Will Become Authentic You Will Find True Happiness You Will Be Saved.

While human beings are without any doubt orders of magnitude removed from animals in the degree of development, no difference in degree alone can constitute a difference in kind. The formalization of this phenomenological inability to define the demarcation of species is not only of utmost highest importance with respect to the conception of human dignity but also to the ethical classification of the human ability to design hybrid-creatures. The heuristic principle of inability motivates an ontological consideration suggesting an unambiguous species-barrier defined by a generic and specific analysis of the human incarnation.

The Mara (pronounced with flap r) are a small Australian Aboriginal language group whose traditional territory is centred around the mouth of the Limmen Bight River in the southwestern Gulf of Carpentaria (Northern Territory).&#39;The first-hand ethnographic sources ...