Showing papers on "Connotation published in 1983"
01 Jan 1983
TL;DR: The connotation of the word meaning often subsumes such terms as purpose, intentionality, significance, creativity, transcendence, ineffability, and meaninglessness, as though the referent of meaning were experienced to lie outside the self, occupying an objective reality distinct from the self as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: People never merely act. They mean something by their acts. They ascribe meaning to their deeds. Even their fatuous denials that “I didn’t mean anything by it” or “It doesn’t mean anything” protest about that hidden or unconscious meaning to which their acts might attest. Meanings govern relationships—from dyads to families to cultures and international diplomacy. Meaninglessness in turn refers to the loss or inadequacy of particular meanings or systems of meanings. The connotation of the word meaning often subsumes such terms as purpose, intentionality, significance, creativity, transcendence, ineffability. One speaks of finding, losing, appreciating, recognizing, rejecting, searching (etc.) for meaning, as though the referent of meaning were experienced to lie outside the self, occupying an objective reality distinct from the self.
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TL;DR: From time immemorial, Indians have called their culture manava sanskriti or human culture, which means to purify, to sublimate, to mould, and to perfect as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: From time immemorial, Indians have called their culture manava sanskriti or human culture, which means to purify, to sublimate, to mould, and to perfect. The essential characteristic of culture is an understanding of the nature of man and his relations with other beings in the universe and with the universe as a whole. It is this connotation that sets the orientation for the educational philosophy of India. Consequently Indian culture has been philosophical and theoretical.
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01 Feb 1983
TL;DR: In this paper, it is pointed out that ideology has increasingly gained the nature of civil religion because soteriological issues have come to be settled in terms of some immanent frame of reference.
Abstract: The author points out that the term ideology has changed to a negative connotation following the initially positive connotation it had. The negative connotation has been reinforced following its association with Marxism. In this article it is pointed out that ideology has increasingly gained the nature of civil religion because soteriological issues have come to be settled in terms of some immanent frame of reference. The author looks at White(Afrikaner) civil religion in South Africa as well as at Black civil religion. The conclusion is inevitably drawn that in both Black and White civil religion in South Africa the fundamental message of the Gospel has been identified with the suffering, oppression or nationalistic aspirations of some or other specific group. The author concludes by saying that to the extent that Afrikaners have done this in the process of history their experience of history ought to be subjected to a critical test in the light of Scripture. To the extent that Blacks are tempted to harness the fundamental message of the Gospel to their own cultural and national aspirations, the same test has to be applied.
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01 Jan 1983
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