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The Human Condition.

Andrew J. McLean
29 Jun 2017-Academic Psychiatry (Springer International Publishing)-Vol. 41, Iss: 6, pp 771-771
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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Justice through transitions: Conflict, peacemaking, and Human Rights in the Global South

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César Rodríguez Garavito, Meghan L. Morris
01 Jan 2018

9 citations

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The ‘civic-minded’ professional? An exploration through Hannah Arendt’s ‘vita activa’.

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Carolin Kreber1•
University of Edinburgh1
28 Jan 2016-Educational Philosophy and Theory
TL;DR: In this article, the authors draw on the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt, identifying the strong affinities between professional professionalism and her concept of action as collective freedom through public deliberation.
Abstract: Recent reform initiatives calling for ‘civic’ (‘public-good’ or ‘democratic’) professionalism can be seen as a response to the widely reported decline in public trust in the professions and an attempt to partially remedy this problem through a more publically engaged professionalism. The author draws on the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt, identifying the strong, albeit in the professionalism literature rarely acknowledged, affinities between civic professionalism and her concept of action as (collective) freedom through public deliberation. Using the three modalities of the active life that Arendt discusses in The Human Condition (labour, work and action) as analytical tools, the author suggests that changing conditions in the public sector have led to professional life increasingly taking on the forms of labour and work, at the expense of action. The implications of these developments are highlighted before the author proceeds to show that a professional life oriented strongly towards acti...

9 citations

Cites background or methods from "The Human Condition."

  • ...This is what Arendt (1958) means by the unpredictability of action....

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  • ...Our power to influence is no more than a ‘potentiality in being together … not an unchangeable, measurable, and reliable entity’ (Arendt, 1958, p. 200)....

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  • ...In contrast to labour, which is integrated with nature, the activity of work is geared towards gaining control over and separating from nature (Arendt, 1958)....

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  • ...An exception can be found in Nixon (2012) who discusses the relevance of Arendt for higher education pedagogies that prepare students for participation in a deliberative democracy. Similarly, Biesta (2010), also arguing from the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt, interprets the role of democratic education as creating opportunities for political existence (and the implications for the teaching profession are implied), while his later article, exploring the nature of truly ‘public’ pedagogies as ‘spaces where freedom can appear’ (Biesta, 2012), does not fully address the implications for professional practices (including teaching). Some essays in Gordon’s (2001) edited volume on ‘Arendt and Education’ also address the democratic and political dimensions of education (and by implication the teaching profession). Higgins’ (2011) excellent book on the ethics of professional practice, on the other hand, although providing a thoughtful discussion of the practice of teaching explored through the lens of Arendt’s three vita activa, does not really engage much with the democratic or social justice dimension of the teaching profession....

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  • ...An exception can be found in Nixon (2012) who discusses the relevance of Arendt for higher education pedagogies that prepare students for participation in a deliberative democracy. Similarly, Biesta (2010), also arguing from the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt, interprets the role of democratic education as creating opportunities for political existence (and the implications for the teaching profession are implied), while his later article, exploring the nature of truly ‘public’ pedagogies as ‘spaces where freedom can appear’ (Biesta, 2012), does not fully address the implications for professional practices (including teaching). Some essays in Gordon’s (2001) edited volume on ‘Arendt and Education’ also address the democratic and political dimensions of education (and by implication the teaching profession)....

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Cybernetics and the 4D Smart City: Smartness as Awareness

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Emilia Rönkkö, Aulikki Herneoja, Essi Oikarinen
27 Apr 2018-Challenges
TL;DR: The benefits of a cybernetic urban management could, for instance, be related to dynamic service network planning with a real-time view to service network efficiency and lead to better services for citizens, resource efficiency, and better allocation of financial resources.
Abstract: The complexity of urban challenges obliges us to seek smarter paths for urban development and increase our awareness of urban dynamics in a more holistic manner. Stemming from the discipline of architecture and urban planning, this concept paper outlines an idea of a cybernetic urban management for anticipatory governance of smart cities. A cybernetic system absorbs information from different sources, such as buildings that are aware of their energy efficiency, a city aware of its traffic flows, and citizens who are aware of the affordances of urban life. Defined as context-aware cyber-physical social systems, smart cities of the future are planned and managed with increasing awareness of the manifoldness of physical, experiential, and virtual life. The benefits of a cybernetic urban management could, for instance, be related to dynamic service network planning with a real-time view to service network efficiency. This in turn could lead to better services for citizens, resource efficiency, and better allocation of financial resources. Cybernetic management and smart city production necessitates a shared view of urban processes that is not dedicated only for the eyes of a few experts but is widely accessible and supports information exchange and dialogue among city authorities, decision-makers, and citizens.

9 citations

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Educación Inclusiva para la Ciudadanía Europea: el doble itinerario

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Fran J. García-García1, Manuel López-Torrijo1, Vicent Gozálvez1•
University of Valencia1
07 May 2019-Aula Abierta
TL;DR: In this article, a literatura sobre this topic, realizando una interpretacion critica con el fin de argumentar como la Educacion Inclusiva for la ciudadania europea beneficia a todas las personas.

9 citations

Cites background from "The Human Condition."

  • ...Eso podría entrar en contradicción con la libertad como capacidad de asociarse de cara a la autogestión (Arendt, 1998); para actuar, decidire influir en la comunidad (Sen, 1999)....

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Sportsmanship and Politics: Xenophon on Ponos and Democratic Competition

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Richard Avramenko1, Thomas David Bunting2•
University of Wisconsin-Madison1, Shawnee State University2
03 Jul 2018-Perspectives on Political Science
TL;DR: The authors argue that sport, properly defined, offers an appropriate experience with Ponos (toil, suffering) that teaches citizens perseverance, humility, generosity, empathy, and stewardship.
Abstract: Even though agonistic democratic theory espouses and celebrates competition, it seemingly lacks a coherent ethic for decent winning and losing in everyday political life. This article is an effort to fill this void by suggesting a practice-based, non-perfectionist ethic drawn from sport. Focusing on Xenophon's On Hunting, we argue that sport, properly defined, offers an appropriate experience with ponos (toil, suffering) that teaches citizens perseverance, humility, generosity, empathy, and stewardship. This sporting ethic, we argue, provides a more suitable model for winning and losing in public life than the martial basis of agonistic democratic theory.

9 citations

Cites background from "The Human Condition."

  • ...Instead, as Hannah Arendt points out, such activities are “idiotic” and usually the domain of ponetikoi, i.e., women and slaves (Arendt 1998, 72)....

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The Life of Lines

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Tim Ingold
27 Mar 2015
TL;DR: In this article, a series of meditations on life, ground, weather, walking, imagination and what it means to be human are presented, with a focus on the life of lines.
Abstract: To live, every being must put out a line, and in life these lines tangle with one another. This book is a study of the life of lines. Following on from Tim Ingold's groundbreaking work Lines: A Brief History, it offers a wholly original series of meditations on life, ground, weather, walking, imagination and what it means to be human. In the first part, Ingold argues that a world of life is woven from knots, and not built from blocks as commonly thought. He shows how the principle of knotting underwrites both the way things join with one another, in walls, buildings and bodies, and the composition of the ground and the knowledge we find there. In the second part, Ingold argues that to study living lines, we must also study the weather. To complement a linealogy that asks what is common to walking, weaving, observing, singing, storytelling and writing, he develops a meteorology that seeks the common denominator of breath, time, mood, sound, memory, colour and the sky. This denominator is the atmosphere. In the third part, Ingold carries the line into the domain of human life. He shows that for life to continue, the things we do must be framed within the lives we undergo. In continually answering to one another, these lives enact a principle of correspondence that is fundamentally social. This compelling volume brings our thinking about the material world refreshingly back to life. While anchored in anthropology, the book ranges widely over an interdisciplinary terrain that includes philosophy, geography, sociology, art and architecture.

410 citations

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From ‘gender equality and ‘women’s empowerment’ to global justice: reclaiming a transformative agenda for gender and development

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Andrea Cornwall1, Althea-Maria Rivas2•
University of Sussex1, Centre for Development Studies2
24 Mar 2015-Third World Quarterly
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the fact that gender equality and women empowerment have been eviscerated of conceptual and political bite compromises their use as the primary frame through which to demand rights and justice.
Abstract: The language of ‘gender equality’ and ‘women’s empowerment’ was mobilised by feminists in the 1980s and 1990s as a way of getting women’s rights onto the international development agenda. Their efforts can be declared a resounding success. The international development industry has fully embraced these terms. From international NGOs to donor governments to multilateral agencies the language of gender equality and women’s empowerment is a pervasive presence and takes pride of place among their major development priorities. And yet, this article argues, the fact that these terms have been eviscerated of conceptual and political bite compromises their use as the primary frame through which to demand rights and justice. Critically examining the trajectories of these terms in development, the article suggests that if the promise of the post-2015 agenda is to deliver on gender justice, new frames are needed, which can connect with and contribute to a broader movement for global justice.

271 citations

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Echo chambers and viral misinformation: Modeling fake news as complex contagion.

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Petter Törnberg1•
University of Amsterdam1
20 Sep 2018-PLOS ONE
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.
Abstract: The viral spread of digital misinformation has become so severe that the World Economic Forum considers it among the main threats to human society This spread have been suggested to be related to the similarly problematized phenomenon of “echo chambers”, but the causal nature of this relationship has proven difficult to disentangle due to the connected nature of social media, whose causality is characterized by complexity, non-linearity and emergence This paper uses a network simulation model to study a possible relationship between echo chambers and the viral spread of misinformation It 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, and there is a synergetic effect between opinion and network polarization on the virality of misinformation The echo chambers effect likely comes from that they form the initial bandwagon for diffusion These findings have implication for the study of the media logic of new social media

223 citations

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Do Humble CEOs Matter? An Examination of CEO Humility and Firm Outcomes

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Amy Y. Ou1, David A. Waldman2, Suzanne J. Peterson2•
National University of Singapore1, Arizona State University2
01 Mar 2018-Journal of Management
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a mediation model to explain the relationship between CEO humility and firm performance and found that when a more humble CEO leads a firm, its top management team is more likely to collaborate, share information, jointly make decisions, and possess a shared vision.

215 citations

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Antibiotic Resistance and the Biology of History

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Hannah Landecker1•
University of California1
01 Dec 2016-Body & Society
TL;DR: The turn to the study of antibiotic resistance in microbiology and medicine is examined, focusing on the realization that individual therapies targeted at single pathogens in individual bodies are environmental events affecting bacterial evolution far beyond bodies.
Abstract: Beginning in the 1940s, mass production of antibiotics involved the industrialscale growth of microorganisms to harvest their metabolic products. Unfortunately, the use of antibiotics selects for resistance at answering scale. The turn to the study of antibiotic resistance in microbiology and medicine is examined, focusing on the realization that individual therapies targeted at single pathogens in individual bodies are environmental events affecting bacterial evolution far beyond bodies. In turning to biological manifestations of antibiotic use, sciences fathom material outcomes of their own previous concepts. Archival work with stored soil and clinical samples produces a record described here as ‘the biology of history’: the physical registration of human history in bacterial life. This account thus foregrounds the importance of understanding both the materiality of history and the historicity of matter in theories and concepts of life today.

204 citations