The Human Condition.
TL;DR: In some religious traditions, the myth of the ‘Fall from the Garden of Eden’ symbolizes the loss of the primordial state through the veiling of higher consciousness.
Abstract: Human beings are described by many spiritual traditions as ‘blind’ or ‘asleep’ or ‘in a dream.’ These terms refers to the limited attenuated state of consciousness of most human beings caught up in patterns of conditioned thought, feeling and perception, which prevent the development of our latent, higher spiritual possibilities. In the words of Idries Shah: “Man, like a sleepwalker who suddenly ‘comes to’ on some lonely road has in general no correct idea as to his origins or his destiny.” In some religious traditions, such as Christianity and Islam, the myth of the ‘Fall from the Garden of Eden’ symbolizes the loss of the primordial state through the veiling of higher consciousness. Other traditions use similar metaphors to describe the spiritual condition of humanity:
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TL;DR: Hidayet et al. as mentioned in this paper put special emphasis on the Lefebvrian spatial triad as a methodological decoder along with the Actor-Network Theory (ANT) to analyse the 19th century-Regent Street.
Abstract: The main aim of this study is to analyse the production of space and how human and non-human entities function as space producers or devices. The scope of this study is the Regent Street from 1818 to 1848. This paper aims to answer the following question: could space be a product that we can produce or what other things involved in this production process? Numerous theorists contribute to the spatial analyses of this historical research. This paper puts special emphasis on the Lefebvrian spatial triad as a methodological decoder along with the Actor-Network Theory (ANT) to analyse the 19th century-Regent Street. The combination of the triad, as well as the ANT, will be deployed as an original tool to analyse spaces with their data; then they will be used to create a spatial map. To do so, visual and written sources will also be used as data to decode and re-map or re-paint the modern life of Regent Street during the Regency Period. JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY URBAN AFFAIRS (2019), 3(3), 51-66. https://doi.org/10.25034/ijcua.2019.v3n3-5 www.ijcua.com Copyright © 2019 Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs. All rights reserved. 1 . Introduction London is a striking place as it went through a rapid social transformation because of its quick adaptation to the machinery following the Industrial Revolution. Especially, the Regency period (1811-30) displayed a fascinating range of art, architecture, and literature. Considering the fact that the city of London had never been changed even due to the Great Fire of London (1666) until the Regency period, this was the first time in the history of London; the plan of the city was amended to design the Regent Street. The dictionary meaning of the term “production” is described as the “the process of making or growing goods to be sold or the amount of something that is made or grown by a country or a company”. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial NoDerivs 4.0. "CC-BY-NC-ND" *Corresponding Author: Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, MA Scenography Graduate, London, UKE-mail address: hidayet.tile@gmail.com A R T I C L E I N F O:
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...It is Regency where this awareness has started since the different classes start seeing and being aware of each other’s political body that was linked to visibility in the social realm because mobility and performances in the cities were not only to see but also to be seen by others since visibility was a condition to prove self-presence and even dependence (Arendt, 1969)....
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...…seeing and being aware of each other’s political body that was linked to visibility in the social realm because mobility and performances in the cities were not only to see but also to be seen by others since visibility was a condition to prove self-presence and even dependence (Arendt, 1969)....
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...Arendt notes: “The birth and death of human beings are not simple natural occurrences, but are related to a world into which single individuals, unique, unexchangeable, and unrepeatable entities, appear and from which they depart” (Arendt, 1958, pp. 96-97)....
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...Each individual has an intriguing “story” (Arendt, 1958, p. 97), worthy of a meaningful life....
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...She further explains that the human life is “[…] always full of events which ultimately can be told as a story […]” (Arendt, 1958, p. 97)....
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TL;DR: In this article, when political emotions are invoked in the classroom, can this be done without the process of democratic education degenerating into a form of emotional and/or political indoctrina?
Abstract: This paper asks: when political emotions are invoked in the classroom, can this be done without the process of democratic education degenerating into a form of emotional and/or political indoctrina...
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TL;DR: The authors explores the intertwined lives, careers, and writings of a group of prominent Jewish intellectuals during the mid-twentieth century, in particular, Theodor Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Isaiah Berlin, Albert Hirschman, and Judith Shklar, as well as Hans Kelsen, Emmanuel Levinas, Gershom Scholem, and Leo Strauss.
Abstract: This book explores the intertwined lives, careers, and writings of a group of prominent Jewish intellectuals during the mid-twentieth century—in particular, Theodor Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Isaiah Berlin, Albert Hirschman, and Judith Shklar, as well as Hans Kelsen, Emmanuel Levinas, Gershom Scholem, and Leo Strauss. Informed by their Jewish identity and experiences of being outsiders, these thinkers produced one of the most brilliant and effervescent intellectual movements of modernity. The book's starting point is that these thinkers faced migration, statelessness, and exile because of their Jewish origins, even if they did not take positions on specifically Jewish issues personally. The sense of belonging and not belonging, of being “eternally half-other,” led them to confront essential questions: What does it mean for the individual to be an equal citizen and to wish to retain one's ethnic, cultural, and religious differences, or perhaps even to rid oneself of these differences altogether in modernity? The book isolates four themes in their works: dilemmas of belonging and difference; exile, political voice, and loyalty; legality and legitimacy; and pluralism and the problem of judgment. Surveying the work of influential intellectuals, Exile, Statelessness, and Migration recovers the valuable plurality of their Jewish voices and develops their universal insights in the face of the crises of this new century.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on issues like government funding, student debt, and admissions diversity in higher education, however, increasing attention is being paid to issues of speech and polit...
Abstract: Current discourse about higher education focuses on issues like government funding, student debt, and admissions diversity; however, increasing attention is being paid to issues of speech and polit...
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TL;DR: A network simulation model used to study a possible relationship between echo chambers and the viral spread of misinformation finds an “echo chamber effect”: the presence of an opinion and network polarized cluster of nodes in a network contributes to the diffusion of complex contagions.
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