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The Human Condition.
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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:read more
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The Life of Lines
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.
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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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Echo chambers and viral misinformation: Modeling fake news as complex contagion.
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Do Humble CEOs Matter? An Examination of CEO Humility and Firm Outcomes
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.
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Antibiotic Resistance and the Biology of History
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.
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Analysis of urban coffeehouses in the context of public space theories
Abstract: ANALYSIS OF URBAN COFFEEHOUSES IN THE CONTEXT OF PUBLIC SPACE THEORIES This thesis, with its general scope, aims to investigate the position of the public space, in the socio-cultural context. For this research, coffee houses are examined as micro public spaces. In doing so, this study reveals two different literature review. The first literature is an examination of the emergence of coffeehouses in history. Since its discovery, coffee has become a popular consumer good that has had a global value, and coffee consumption has become one of our everyday practices with its tagged along routines. This daily practice has created its spatial types of space and has led coffeehouses and cafes to emerge in different forms in many geographies. The second literature survey includes different descriptions and classifications of public space. Since public space research is the product of an interdisciplinary field, there are different definitions and various theoretical approaches to the public space. While correlating the two literature review, this thesis investigates the relationship between public space and coffeehouses also in two main contexts which are the political and social examination of the public space. Collaterally, coffeehouses were also studied through these two contexts. In other words, this study aims deal coffeehouses as micro-public spaces with these two different contexts to reveal their various forms in different histories and geographies. In the last chapter, this thesis concluded that coffeehouses were transformed in parallel with the changes in public space and social structure and since the day they opened they received many different public practices due to their pluralistic pattern.
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Arendt and political realism: towards a realist account of political judgement
Gisli Vogler,Demetris Tillyris +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that Hannah Arendt's thought can offer significant insights on political judgement for realism in political theory, and they identify a realist position which emphasises the need to account for how humans judge politically, contra moralist tendencies to limit its exercise to rational standards.
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Understanding conflict resolution philosophically in a school setting: three different kinds of violence and dialogue
TL;DR: According to Galtung, violence can be divided into two kinds: (i) direct violence, which is always physical in a wider sense (e.g. bodily harm or verbal abuse) or (ii) indirect violence that is either structural or cultural.
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A transactional and action-oriented methodological approach to young people’s political socialisation:
TL;DR: The research field of young people's political socialisation faces methodological challenges in (1) handling individual agency and political culture as simultaneous and mutual, (2) handling the r... as discussed by the authors.
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Artificial intelligence and philosophical creativity: From analytics to crealectics
TL;DR: The tendency to idealise artificial intelligence as independent from human manipulators, combined with the growing ontological entanglement of humans and digital machines, has created an "anthrobot" as discussed by the authors.