Dualistic Conception Research Articles

Letting go to let be: Psychoanalysis as creative flow.

This paper explores experiences of surrender to an aspect of mind that is unconfined, empty of dualistic concepts, and lucidly aware. Ghent's concept of surrender, Farber's unconscious will, and Buddhist philosophers' essence of mind all link to creative processes described by Poincaré and Mozart. This impressionistic collage points to the spaciousness to know beyond our usual stories. From this essential mind more wholesome actions proceed.

Some conceptual and legal questions of data gathering in criminal cases

Aim: The purpose of this study is to present some general questions and problems of data gethering in criminal cases in aspect of criminal procedure law and forensic sciences. Methodology: Presentation, analysis, evaulation and drawing conclusions of legal rules, studies, papers, and textbooks in the subject area, both in Hungarian and Anglo-Saxon literature. Findings: Data gathering is a well-known method in both forensic sciences and criminal procedure law. However its meaning is different in these two fields of criminal sciences. Before the current code of criminal procedure in Hungary the meaning and content of data-gathering was similar in forensic science and in legal rules. But the new code has integrated the instruments of crime detection purposed secret information-gathering appliapble before the starting of investigation, and made them criminal procedural instruments under the name of covert instruments. Besides that the new code significantly changed the system and legal rules of „open” data-gathering methods. Nowdays some data-gathering methods only aply as covert instruments with all its strict conditions, consequences and formal rules. In my study first I try to withdraw the conceptual borders of data-gathering and outlines some historical backgrounds. After it I explain the conception and content of data gathering in criminalistic literature, then I examine the rules of data gathering in criminal procedure law. In the end of my paper I summarize the problems of this conceptual dualism. Value: The (open) data gathering in criminal cases as a subject has not been examined recently, so this study can draw attention on the problems of the latest legal regulation and the extension and modernization of criminalistic recomendations.

Varieties of Revelation, Varieties of Truth—A Comparative Ontological Study of Revelation through Music and Sciences

Accounts of revelation and contemporary views of these are based on beliefs and historical citations. These accounts shall not be limited to the understanding and interpreting of historical and other events within writings but must present the possibility of an objective analysis of the nature of revelation as a phenomenon, an object of our sensory and mental conscious experiences. This paper approaches the act or phenomenon of revelation regardless of the revealer and its nature. Can we abstract the revealer and the revealed from revelation and have an ontological account of revelation solely focusing on the occurrence itself? The central part of the discussion is based on the object/property pair as ontological categories through which the means are analyzed. A comparative method is used where Scripture, musical writings, and mathematical/physical formulae (as potential means of revelation) are scrutinized. As a result, without any need to determine the revealer, revelation can be based on and described through pure properties (not tropes) in human experience, intellect, and understanding. The possibility of revelation beyond Scripture and Jesus Christ—following a type of liberal and general theory of revelation—presents itself in arts and sciences. The “true” of a musical work, when found and experienced during musical performances and scientific truths represented by the formulae, which describe the world and a meta domain, can be derived from the chains of signs and symbols as it is through Scripture. Human cognitive faculties present a universal natural limit to our direct experiencing of the transcendent, of the supernatural. A new dualist conception of logos as a metaphysical category marks the domain bridging the non-transcendent with the transcendent.

Materiality Versus Metabolism in the Hybrid World: Towards a Dualist Concept of Materialism as Limit of Post-humanism in the Technical Era

The point of departure of this article is the trend towards hybridisation in new technology development, which makes classical dichotomies between machines, human life and the environment obsolete and leads to the post-human world we live in today. We critically reflect on the post-human concept of the hybrid world. Although we agree with post-humanists that human life can no longer be opposed to machines but appears as a decentralized human-technology relation, alliance or network that constitutes a hybrid world, we ask for a limit to hybridisation. After rejecting the concept of metabolism as such a limit, we explore the concept of the responsive conativity of material entities. The principle of conativity of material entities provides a materialist perspective on metabolism, which enables us to conceive material entities as self-assertive material entities that are differentiated from the environment. The principle of responsivity of material entities provides a materialist perspective on the post-human world in which material entities are responsive to each other and form alliances and networks. We propose to differentiate between the conativity and responsivity of material entities and propose the conativity of matter as a limit to hybridisation in the post-human world.

Embodiment and aesthetics in teaching and examinations

In a democratic society, knowledge and research grounding play central roles. To support students' learning, it is necessary for teachers to be able to motivate and create challenging and stimulating learning opportunities. Questions regarding academic literacy often lack embodied and aesthetic perspectives (Carlgren, 2015), leading to challenges in bridging the gap between knowledge and teaching. Studies have shown that traditionally academic teaching methods and dualistic conceptions of learning can be identified within certain higher education contexts (Pastorek et al., 2021; Østern et al., 2021). The aim of this paper is to highlight and discuss the potential of embodiment and aesthetics in teaching and examinations in higher education. To enhance student engagement, a more holistic approach to education is required, where individuals are touched and given space in various ways (Østern, et al., 2019). By paying attention to students' bodily communication, contact, and presence, the quality of the learning processes can improve (Winther, 2018). Based on research in preschool teacher education (Pastorek et al., 2021), a picture emerges where academic values, such as writing and speaking, take up a significant space in content, goals, and assessments at the expense of aesthetic and bodily perspectives. Instead, embodiment and aesthetic perspectives on knowledge and knowledge production in higher education can be a contribution to varied forms of teaching and examinations and a way to further develop in the discussion around Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Understanding the Organization Atmosphere and Culture

Despite a growing interest in atmospheric phenomena within management and organization studies, a distinct line of research on atmospheres can hardly be identified. The present article reviews existing concepts of atmosphere in management and organization studies to promote a common understanding of how to conceptualize atmospheres. On the uppermost level, dualistic and non-dualistic concepts of atmosphere are distinguished. This article shows that non-dualistic conceptions are more appropriate for researching atmospheres than dualistic conceptions, but still need further development. In case of this paper, it is shown that considering the socialites of atmospheres is especially important to foster such a development. Furthermore, it is suggested that a full-range consideration of atmospheres needs to take both aesthetic and anaesthetic elements into account. In sum, the article pleads for a more systematic discussion of non-dualistic conceptions of atmosphere and seeks to mark a starting point for a distinct and coherent area of research on atmospheres within management and organization studies

Methodological reflections on conducting online research with people with dementia: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

Conducting qualitative research with people with dementia (PwD) is inherently challenging due to their fluctuating mental capacity and symptom of forgetfulness. These challenges were compounded during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic when social distancing and lock down were enforced. This article critically discusses the researchers’ experiences on conducting online research with PwD on a sensitive topic based on an empirical study that aimed to explore the changing needs of PwD and how that affects their expectations of future. The focus is on: i) moving qualitative research to an online space, ii) the impact of joining online research on participants and iii) the impact on researcher (s). Participants were recruited via the Join Dementia Research platform. Narrative online interviews were conducted with 13 PwD and 4 dyads of PwD and carers.Moving to online interviews removed geographical barriers from researcher and participants thus making the study more accessible. The virtual elements of online interviews created a unique interaction since the researcher was simultaneously co-occupying the space virtually but not physically with participants. Disadvantages included internet connection instability and flexible informed consent procedures were required.The primary researcher's expressed identities positioned him variously as an ‘in-betweener’ which challenged the dualistic concept of researcher insiderness-outsiderness. PwD's familiar environment -their homes-appeared to enable them to take more control in the interview and potentially reduced their forgetfulness. The impact on researchers involved vicarious trauma that occurred during and after the interviews; the distress protocol was revised to include supports for the interviewer.

Rust, Mold, and Cracks: Post-Dualist Approaches on Spaces and Images

Using the piece of video art “Rust, Mold, and Cracks”, created by the author, this paper addresses questions related to space, ruins, and different temporalities. Calling upon the authors Georg Simmel and Milton Santos, the text proposes an approach to ruins that goes further than dualist concepts such as abandoned/not abandoned, or modern/outdated. It also discusses the role of Nature in this scenario. In light of this situation, space and time are under mutable reorganisation, as pointed out by David Harvey. Different arrangements between them shall produce diverse modernities. Considering images as objects resulting from this spatiotemporal modification, this article comments on their accumulation.

Modernity and the Politics of Newness: Unraveling New Time in the Chinese Cultural Revolution, 1966 to 1968

This article develops a new approach to the sociology of time by examining how the contentious politics of newness shapes modern revolutionary politics. It goes beyond the prevalent dualistic conception of social time and develops a tripartite model by distinguishing two kinds of unordinary time—carnival time and new time—that are conflated in the dualistic conception. We analyze the Chinese Cultural Revolution (CCR) as a crucial case for understanding the importance of new time to modern revolutionary politics. The effort to forge an ongoing, widely experienced “new time” created a series of contradictions and difficulties in the CCR regarding the power dynamics and boundaries of the experiences of radical newness. The eventual failure of the Jacobin politics of the CCR conditioned the post-CCR suspicion of mass movements and political changes. More broadly, the politics of the interpretation of time provides a different angle on the sociology of political modernity.

Edge{s} of the “Anthropocene”

This article examines three distinct onto-political modes: the human-centric onto-politics of ‘centring the human’, post-human onto-politics of ‘de-centring the human’, and a third mode that rejects and argues against these options in favour of jettisoning the human/non-human dyad altogether. Instead of placing humans ‘in or on the loop’ with other species, a third model would place humans ‘out of the loop’ of command. I argue that contrary to claims, the post-human declaration of ‘de-centring the human’ cannot be considered ‘post-anthropocentric’ (implying the abolition of anthropocentrism), though it can be considered ‘anti-anthropocentric’. Only the onto-politics of abolition would truly be post-anthropocentric, because only it would eliminate the human/non-human conceptual dualism upon which the onto-politics of centring and de-centring is based.

An affective and posthumanist cosmopolitan hospitality

This conceptual article argues for revisiting and revising notions of cosmopolitanism and hospitality in light of the increasingly interconnected local to global domain of contemporary tourism. We briefly trace the contributions of three key philosophers in modernity who have contributed to the theorization of these concepts: Immanuel Kant, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jacques Derrida. We then note some shortcomings of these approaches for contemporary problems of cosmopolitan hospitality and argue that Gilles Deleuze's conceptual apparatus enables a novel theorization to overcome the limitations of current approaches. This is done through an affective and posthumanist perspective, which introduces a new ethical understanding of cosmopolitan hospitality, dissolves problematic conceptual dualisms, and puts the focus on relational encounters, beyond spatiality.

A Dualistic Concept of Personal Guarantee Responsibility and Its Relevancy with Law Number 37 of 2004 concerning Bankruptcy and Suspension of Debt Payment Obligation A Dualism Of Personal Guarantee Responsibility In Indonesia Bankruptcy Law

Indonesia's legal system recognizes the concept of personal guarantee, which is a promise or guarantee of an individual as a third party to fulfil the debtor's obligations. The concept of guarantee in Indonesia regulates the roles and responsibilities of personal guarantees if the debtor cannot pay his debts. However, the problem is a dualism in theory or approach to personal guarantee responsibility, especially in carrying out debt collection in the debt settlement process in Bankruptcy and Suspension of Debt Payment Obligations ("PKPU"). This dualism exists in the approach to justify actions for the creditor in determining who can be claimed to fulfil debt payment obligations - the debtor or personal guarantor. The main purpose of this journal is to analyze the existence of dualism problems in the concept of responsibility in personal guarantees and how to address the issues. In this journal, the author uses normative juridical research methods, which can be analyzed with conceptual and statutory approaches. This journal addresses an analysis that there are still inconsistencies in Indonesian legal practice in determining responsibility for the implementation of debt obligations, especially in deciding bankruptcy cases in Indonesia. Regarding whose debt responsibility is, there is still a dual approach, namely whether to use the "guarantor is always a guarantor" approach or the "guarantor is the debtor" approach. This journal concludes that there is a legal vacuum to resolve these circumstances. Regardless of the dualism of these circumstances, the author argues that it is necessary to unify the concept of responsibility for personal guarantees to provide legal certainty, especially concerning the implementation of debt collection in the bankruptcy process and at the time of PKPU.The dualism of personal guarantee theory has indicated that it is urgently needed to unify the concept of personal guarantee to provide legal certainty, especially concerning the implementation of debt collection in the process of settlement of debts in bankruptcy and at Suspension of Debt Repayment Obligation (Penundaan Kewajiban Pembayaran Utang/PKPU), where the creditor must determine who can be claimed to fulfill the debt payment obligations. In this paper, the author seeks who is responsible to pay the debt when there is a personal guarantor to guarantee the debtor, and also to examine the debt settlement process through PKPU or bankruptcy.

The poor woman’s energy: Low-modernist solar technologies and international development, 1878–1966

AbstractSolar energy often appears a resource without a history, perpetually novel and promising futuristic abundance. This overlooks a long episode of ‘low-modernist’ solar research in and for the global South. Focusing especially on India and detouring through Mexico, two important arenas for early solar experimentation, this article traces an alternative history of solar technologies as austere everyday fixes for developing countries. In parallel with the well-known postcolonial focus on high-modernist energy mega-projects, the narrow transnational community of solar experts retained a competing tendency to think small. At its heart lay a dualistic conception of the modern energy economy: flexible and resource-intensive grid electricity for urban centres, inferior off-grid devices to meet the minimal and static needs of the rural poor. This impoverished, feminized Third World projected user base resulted in persistent underinvestment and failed commercialization, helping to explain why solar technologies did not take off earlier. While solar experts emphasized the regional exceptionalism of the arid tropics, the teleological linkage between modernity and ever-rising energy abundance was rejuvenated from below as rural communities began to imagine the high-energy good life as a universal aspiration.

Lerlemeci Tarih Fikri Ekseninde Sosyolojide Dikotomiler ve Dualiteler

Dealing with the developmental stages of social changes and going to the roots of the effects of these transformations and changes is the main subject of historical sociology. The method of historical sociology for this purpose is the study of classical sociological works. In this study, we have tried to analyse the thesis of progressive history in terms of conceptual dichotomies and dualities. This is done in order to penetrate into the intellectual background of the birth of modern sociology on the European continent as an event and to analyse the system of meanings in this background. As we know, the idea of creating a new society in Europe is one of the main factors that crystallised the existence of modern sociology. In general, the idea of transformation and change depends on a philosophical understanding, which has emerged in the name of innovation in Europe. It can be said that the most powerful of the philosophical foundations of this idea is the philosophy of the Enlightenment, and the thesis of progressive history is one of the theses with high functionality in the transformation of that period. One of the aims of this article is to evaluate the strong relationship between the birth of sociology and the progressive historical thesis through the founding/leading names, and to reveal the intellectual codes and patterns of the developing course of sociology. In order to realise this aim, an attempt has been made to make historical sociology by considering the dichotomous and dualistic concepts in the theories of Auguste Comte, Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx, Max Weber and Herbert Spencer, who lived in the countries of France, Germany and England where sociology was born and went down in history as the founding names of sociology.

Geographies of nationalism

This review article considers recent scholarship on the geographies of nationalism by focusing on three key binaries that have defined the field of nationalism studies: inclusive/exclusive (geographies of community), love/hate (geographies of emotion), and past/future (geographies of time). It argues that asking who participates in constructing such conceptual dualisms, geographers can offer important insights about how nationalist discourses underpin contemporary practices of governing ourselves and others as political subjects—and their multifarious spatial dimensions. Geographers are well positioned to investigate the drawing of conceptual boundaries as political acts, with real effects in the world, rather than intellectually “wrong.” As such, this article calls for nationalism scholars not to outright reject binaries, but to take them seriously as a way to open up broader questions about the geographies of nationalism that all subjects of today's state system must confront.

Элементы теологической системы кумранской общины в корреляции с особенностями ее «гносеологии»

The article attempts to identify the specifics of the ways in which the Qumran authors “know” God, based on an analysis of a number of their key works. The Qumranites’ acquisition of “theological” Knowledge was mainly of direct intuitive “spiritual” comprehension, including elements of “noethics”. This cognitive phenomenon has sometimes been described directly as insight (cf., e. g., 1QHa 12:5-6, 27-29; 15:24-25). On the other hand, the Qumran teaching that God “formed understanding (bynh) for all who seek knowledge (d‘t)” and that “all reason (śkl) is from eternity” (4Q299, fr. 8, 7–8) suggests that human mind is initially a partaker of the eternal Mind of God. As one consequence of this, one has the potential gift of directly accessing the elements of Knowledge contained within the Divine Mind (śkl, bynh). There was also a mystical-“gnostic” way of knowing. Thus, the Qumranites probably practised some kind of mystical heavenly “voyages” in a kind of ecstatic state — in fact, probably implying mystical “death” and subsequent “rebirth”, involving the acquisition of heavenly Knowledge. The author has also tried to reconstruct elements of the Qumranite theological system and identify some features of the Qumran creationist doctrine and the closely related doctrine of predestination; views of history, eschatology and the creation of a new world; dualistic concepts in correlation with soteriology; the Qumran theology of Light and Darkness in ethical, gnoseological and soteriological aspects.

From Divided to Diasporic: Re-envisioning Italian American Texts through Transformative Translingual Practices

From Divided to Diasporic: Re-envisioning Italian American Texts through Transformative Translingual Practices

The sources of the personalistic concept of fertility

Human fertility is a broad concept, encompassing the human biological, mental, and spiritual spheres. It can be referred to the procreation as the multiplication of the number of beings or it can be considered in the aspect of the human ontic structure, taking into account the ontic founds of the soul. Fertility was also understood as the ability to transmit life in the sense of the function of an organic body or a spiritual element. Finally, the issue of fertility was related to the mutual relations of parents and their children, and its understanding was broadened to include the context of transcendence. The purpose of this study is to reflect on the concept of human fertility that underlies the personalistic view of human fertility. In connection with this goal, the research problem was formulated in the form of the question: "What were the origins of the understanding of fertility of a person?" In the research work, the method of text analysis and the method of historicism was used. As a result of the study, it was possible to distinguish and outline the pre-philosophical approach to fertility, as well as ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary concepts concerning fertility. Their review shows that human fertility was considered in the context of human sexuality. Moreover, the materialistic concepts related to the monistic vision of man were accompanied by the understanding of fertility as the ability to procreate, while the dualistic concepts, assuming the presence of the spiritual element, attributed to it the ability to animate the material body. The hylomorphic concept of the human structure, proper to the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas and supplemented with a reference to individual existence was presented in the context of the approach to Aristotle's understanding of the soul, along with his discussion of human procreation as a special case of animal reproduction, and then supplemented with a personal context in the contemporary sense. An attempt was made to answer the research question, but the issue was not discussed exhaustively, which leaves room for further research.

The legal nature of the author’s personal non-property rights

In this article, the author analyzes the essence of the legal nature of the author’s personal nonproperty rights. It is noted that copyright studies conducted in Germany based on the philosophical concept of I. Kant (a right related to the personality of the creator) played an important role in protecting the author’s personal rights in continental Europe. These scientific investigations played a decisive role in the emergence of the doctrine of personal nonproperty rights of the author, which are designed to ensure the protection of the personality of the creator in his work.The monistic and dualistic concept of personal non-property rights of the author is considered. It is argued that the monistic concept interprets all the powers of a personal (non-property) nature recognized by the author as a manifestation of a single and indivisible copyright, where the significant difference between the legal regime of personal non-property and property rights to works does not mean that the question of the legal nature of the author’s non-property rights is resolved in advance . The author supports a dualistic approach in revealing the legal nature of the author’s nonproperty personal rights, since it is still better argued and contains practical points that are important both for the process of using personal non-property and property rights, as well as for law enforcement activities, where it is necessary to observe a clear distinction between the understanding of the legal regime of the author’s non-property and property rights.The essence of the author’s personal nonproperty rights is revealed through the analysis of the attributive features of these subjective rights, which ensure the connection of the creator with the work created by him and protect his personality embodied in it. The specified features include the non-property nature of the author’s personal rights, the inherent nature of the fact of authorship, their absoluteness, essentiality and inalienability. The last feature is optional, while the others are mandatory. The optionality of such a feature as the inalienability of the author’s personal non-property rights is associated with the possibility of transferring such a non-property right of the author as the right of state registration of copyright to the work to other persons.

Play and liberty: A brief incursion into some ideological currents in the history of systems-oriented family therapy.

We reflect on family therapy and its history from two points of view, as an entity that becomes understood with the help of a twofold concept of a game, and a twofold concept of liberty. Systemic family therapy has always been comprehended with the help of game theory. Its development becomes more properly understood if we keep in mind that game itself is a dualistic concept entailing both a cultural and a logico-mathematical interpretation of a game. We show how cultural ethos has molded the ways how game metaphor have been implemented to systemic thinking. In the same manner we show how Isaiah Berlin's idea of two incompatible concepts of liberty helps to contextualize family therapy in a way that its connections to sociopolitical theories of liberty become obvious. We believe that we have been able to demonstrate, how this twofold recontextualisation enriches the understanding of the ideological history of the family therapy. We claim that our reflections imply that family therapy is essentially a dualistic endeavor, that in the amid of it is a rift that cannot become repaired but only contemplated, that integrity of family therapy requires that we preserve both conflictual views, and don't try to simplify situation by abandoning one or the other. As a result, our article intends to develop further and deepen the idea that is originally presnted in the article "Strategy and intervention or non-intervention: A matter of theory" by Harold Goolishian and Harlene Anderson.