Human Alienation Research Articles

Simple Life, Rich Soul

Henry David Thoreau was an outstanding American philosopher, writer and representative figure of transcendentism in the 19th century, and he was famous for his advanced ecological wisdom and profound naturalist philosophy. Combing the analysis of human alienation, Thoreau’s ecological thought, and its harmony with Chinese ecological thought, this paper can better understand Thoreau’s unique insights into ecological development and the expectations of different civilizations to learn from each other in peace.

다문화주의의 관점에서 본 SF 게임 속 포스트휴먼

Kara, Connor, and Marcus, the central characters of <Detroit: Become Human>, gain ontological status by breaking away from the typical. What is important to note here is how they acquire ontological status. They do not try to 'humanize' themselves in order to attain the same status as 'humans'. For example, while Bicentennial Man(1999) ends with the “humanization of the inhuman,” Detroit establishes its identity through the “inhumanity of the inhuman,” i.e., the “dehumanization of the defective.” For androids, the “defective” is the “inhumanity” of the defective. For the androids, the 'defective' is rather 'human' and therefore acts as a threat to the 'human', which presupposes an ontological difference. Therefore, the moment a human 'defect' takes on 'human-being', the android becomes a substitute for a human being, and the confrontation becomes even worse. However, it does not become 'non-human' as a result of human alienation, but when it becomes 'non-human', it acquires an ontological status as good as 'human' and can only become a 'free being'. The origins of the recognition of the posthuman problem in <Detroit> are rooted in the problem of racial or ethnic discrimination. The 'androids', which are placed as objects of discrimination and hatred, show a pattern of intensifying confrontation as they get closer to 'humans', which is similar to the position of marginalized minorities in mainstream culture. In other words, when a marginalized minority perfectly fulfills the tasks assigned to them by the mainstream culture, they become an intruder that threatens the mainstream culture. <Detroit> offers a response to this situation. While showing the aspects of 'submission' in Kara, 'subordination' in Connor, and 'antagonism' in Marcus, it can be seen that their narratives acquire an ontological status equal to that of 'humans' when they establish their identity as 'defective goods', that is, when they realize 'becoming non-human'. <Detroit> provides a glimpse into how the marginalized are viewed in mainstream culture.

Imbalance and Alienation: An Eco-Critical Interpretation of Shuggie Bain

Since its publication in 2020, Shuggie Bain, the debut novel by Scottish author Douglas Stuart, has attracted scholarly attention for its unique ecological perspective. Utilizing the theoretical framework of eco-criticism and drawing on the tripartite division of ecology proposed by Chinese scholar Lu Shuyuan, this paper provides an in-depth interpretation of the novel Shuggie Bain in three dimensions of natural ecology, social ecology, and spiritual ecology, aiming to reveal the ecological imbalance and human alienation in Glasgow, a major industrial city in Scotland during the 1980s. This interpretation will also provide readers with a new research perspective for analyzing Shuggie Bain, enhancing their understanding of the rich ecological implications of it.

Principles of digital humanism: A critical post-humanist view

Digital humanism emerges from serious concerns about the way in which digitisation develops, its impact on society and on humans. While its motivation is clear and broadly accepted, it is still an emerging field that does not yet have a universally accepted definition. Also, it is not always clear how to differentiate digital humanism from other similar endeavours. In this article, we critically investigate the notion of digital humanism and present its main principles as shared by its key proponents. These principles include the quest for human dignity and the ideal of a better society based on core values of the Enlightenment.The paper concludes that digital humanism is to be treated as a technical endeavour to shape digital technologies and use them for digital innovation, a political endeavour investigating power shifts triggered by digital technology, and, at the same time, as a philosophical endeavour including the quest to delineate its scope and to draw boundaries for the digital.Methodologically, digital humanism is an interdisciplinary effort to debate a broad range of digitisation shortfalls in their totality, from privacy infringements to power shifts, from human alienation to disownment. While it overlaps with a range of established fields and other movements, digital humanism reflects a new academic, engineering, and societal awareness of the challenges of digital technologies.

Маркери філософії абсурду в романах Кобо Абе «Зошит кенгуру» та Валерія Шевчука «Срібне молоко»: порівняльний аспект

The article is devoted to the study of the philosophy of absurdity in the works of Japanese writer Kobo Abe and Ukrainian author Valery Shevchuk. The work examines the novels «Kangaroo Notebook» and «Silver Milk» with the aim of identifying common and different markers of absurdity, as well as analyzing their existential basis. The study of absurdity in these works allows a deeper understanding of their uniqueness for their time and relevance for the modern reader. Absurdity in the works of Abe and Shevchuk is presented as a way of reflecting human alienation in a world that has lost its meaning. They address the theme of an individual's search for his place in a world where traditional values and social structures cease to be effective. Existentialism, as the philosophical basis of their works, helps to reveal the inner conflicts of the heroes struggling with their own identity and the absurdity of existence. The novels of Kobo Abe and Valery Shevchuk are unique for their time due to their innovative approach to exposing human nature through the lens of the absurd. Abe's Kangaroo Notebook explores the boundaries between reality and illusion, using symbolism and metaphor to convey an absurd worldview. «Silver Milk» by Shevchuk, in turn, demonstrates the absurdity of human existence through fantastical elements and psychological portraits of heroes searching for meaning in a senseless world. A comparative analysis of these two works allows not only to identify common features in approaches to the topic of absurdity, but also to emphasize the cultural and national features of their expression. Such studies are important for the expansion of the literary base and a deeper understanding of the influence of different cultures on the interpretation of philosophical concepts. The relevance of the works of Kobo Abe and Valery Shevchuk does not diminish over time, because they offer universal answers to questions that remain important for humanity in any era. This article highlights the importance of intercultural dialogue in literature and the potential of such comparative studies to understand global literary processes.

Research on the Relationship between Ideology and Literature—Take Marcuse’s “One-Dimensional Man” as an Example

Research on the Relationship between Ideology and Literature—Take Marcuse’s “One-Dimensional Man” as an Example

A Comparative Study of Black Humor as Seen in Catch-22 and A Good Man Is Hard to Find

The purpose of this thesis is to find the similarities and differences between Catch-22 and A Good Man Is Hard to Find in the direction of literary genre in black humor. Based on works in both Chinese and English and a lot of literary criticism, the systematical research will be done in aspects of art style, language, the writing technique, major character and theme to obtain a more profound understanding of these two novels. According the research, the thesis gets conclusions as following: Catch-22 and A Good Man Is Hard to Find are both tragedies, but because of the implicit and calm expression of the two authors, both the two works have the effect of comedy. The former subverts the traditional narrative mode by describing absurd plots in a spider web structure, and portrays a alienated major character - Yossarian, who wants to escape from combat, while the latter uses the traditional linear mode to depict a hypocritical character - Grandma. The two characters are both anti-heroes. Nevertheless, Catch-22 mostly uses repetition and symbolism to reveal the cruelty of reality and wars and show human alienation, while A Good Man Is Hard to Find tends to use the metaphor to express the theme of original sin, violence and redemption.

EXISTENTIAL-PHILOSOPHICAL SYMBOLS AND MEANINGS IN THE SUFISTIC ROMAN “GHURBAH AL-GHARBIYAH” SUHRAWARDĪ

Suhrawardī, as the founder of illumination philosophy, has works in the field of literature that have philosophical nuances. Researchers through this article attempt to examine philosophically-hermeneutically the Sufistic Romance of Ghurbah al-Gharbiyah Suhrawardī which has not been extensively studied by researchers including Suhrawardī scholars. The novel is genealogically related to Ḥay bin Yaqẓān by Ibn Sīnā and Ibn Ṭufayl, so it is called the Ḥay bin Yaqẓān trilogy: Avicenna, Ibnu Ṭufayl, and Suhrawardī. Through Ricoeur’s Hermeneutic Approach and Corbin’s Epistemology of Sufistic Imagination, which is used as a research method, researchers intend to interpret the symbols and existential meanings of Ghurbah al-Gharbiyah's novel. The purpose of this study is to interpret the background, symbols, and meaning behind Suhrawardī’s novel. The conclusion of this study: Ghurbah al-Gharbiyah discusses the philosophical theme of human alienation in the world with the use of symbols: the city of Qairawan as the imprisoned phase, the Hudhud bird as the enlightenment phase, and the journey on Mount Sinai during the liberation phase and meeting with the "Light of all Lights". Three phases each characterize today's Sufistic consciousness of man: the experience of alienation, enlightenment, and liberation. On the other hand, this novel is a representation of Suhrawardī's subjective creative imagination (al-quwwah al-khayāliyyah) inspired by prophetic experiences: Prophet Muhammad's Ascension, Prophet Sulaiman's Hudhud bird, and Prophet Musa's Mount Sinai.

Climate Change as Dark Magic in <em>Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir</em> Animation

Climate Change as Dark Magic in <em>Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir</em> Animation

4차 산업혁명 시대의 정신적 문제에 대한 클래식 음악을 통한 음악치료

The purpose of this study is to suggest a method of using classic music to treat psychological and mental problems that are considered adverse effects of the 4th industrial revolution. This study examined problems by referring to the preceding studies and materials related to the 4th industrial revolution and used the classic music and music therapy-related preceding studies to suggest improvement measures.
 It is expected that the 4th industrial revolution will rapidly develop science technologies, enrich human lives, and enhance convenience of people to create a new world. Nevertheless, there are concerns over harmful consequences like what happened during the 1st to 3rd industrial revolutions. Among them, humans may experience worsening problems, such as technology addiction, identity confusion, human alienation, loss of humanity, anharmonic human behavior, and inequalities. Thus, this study suggested a classic music-based therapy for treating those problems.

TERRORISM AS A FORM OF ALIENATION OF MAN FROM MAN

The paper gives an overview of the phenomenon of terrorism as a form of man from man alienation starting from the ancient philosophical schools and ending with Hegel, Marx and Fromm. In the paper is used the method of analysis of the philosophical (ethical) aspects of human alienation from man with special reference to Hegel, Marx and Fromm theory of alienation as a general phenomenon in interpersonal relations and terrorism as a special form of human alienation of man from man. According to philosophers, especially to Hegel, Marx, and finally Fromm, modern man is a slave to objects, be they immovable and movable objects, and above all, a slave to money, as objects. As a slave to objects, running after them and grabbing them in order to have as many, as possible and as modern, better, bigger, etc. man forgets himself. He is alienated from himself, from his generic being and instead of enjoying life, he is enslaved to it. By alienating oneself, the man alienates himself from other people, as well. Alienated people do not live emotionally with their fellow citizens. They live next to them. They are lonely in the crowd around them. Individually or organized in social groups: associations of citizens, parties or states, understood as human organizations, ie national societies, they, in the struggle to have, strive to have alien: alien power, alien space, alien territory, alien natural wealth, oil, gas etc. Loaded with that aspiration, they work to conquer alien. Striving for alien, they often reach for it. People who own alien, strive to preserve their ownership. There is a conflict between those who strive to take the ownership of other and those who want to keep it as their own. The conflict evolves to unintended proportions. The fruit of the evolution of the conflict, among other things, is terrorism, as the highest form of man from man alienation in peace time. Contemporary forms of terrorism, as a form of man from man alienation, have their own historical evolution. The philosophical-historical approach to them will contribute to a deeper understanding of terrorism as a form of alienation of man from man, which is very important for its prevention in the present and the future.

Based on Ku Hongming’s “The Sprite of the Chinese People” to Explore the Formation of Cultural Self-Confidence from Cultural Conservatism

Conservatism, as a cultural trend, was accompanied by the process of modernizations. Its basic feature is that it attempts to critique the overextension of instrumental rationality in modernization and the resulting social problems such as human alienation and moral loss. Its humanist tendencies and reflections on the modernization movement have their own unique cultural value. As a kind of critical and constructive thinking, Ku Hongming’s cultural conservatism can participate in historical dialogue. In the new era, how should we view modernization and Chinese culture, how to maintain our national identity in the midst of the cultural storm of globalization, how to correctly treat Chinese traditional culture in the construction of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics, and how to promote the formation of cultural self-confidence, Ku Hongming’s cultural perspectives have somehow given us deep thought and inspiration to some extent. The Spirit of the Chinese People is one of Ku’s major works, and its contents are a direct reflection of Ku’s thinking. Reading and Studying on this book will help us to understand his true thoughts and appreciate his cultural confidence and independent personality.

Ethical and Legal Considerations behind the Prevalence of ChatGPT: Risks and Regulations

In response to the prevalence of ChatGPT, this paper summarized its technical model, core capabilities, and application scenarios, analyzed the ethical risks such as autonomy, moral misconduct, human alienation, and value reconstruction, as well as legal risks such as legal entity status, copyright ownership, data security, and algorithmic black box. Then proposed the regulating principles of tool positioning, safety, legality, transparency, credibility, fairness, shared responsibility, and the regulating path of encouraging the development of autonomous, safe and controllable technologies, improving artificial intelligence legislation and justice, and establishing a diverse governance system.

반려동물을 위한 IoT 기반 이동식 캐리어 디자인과 위치추적장치 개발

As the society developed into a highly industrialized society, familyization of companion animals was promoted, and the basic growth of related industries such as feed, beauty, and pharmaceuticals developed. Recently, wired and wireless communication technology based on sensors, semiconductors, and IoT is also being applied to the location tracking of companion animals that are active outdoors. In particular, various studies are being conducted on theft, accident, location tracking and advance warning of accidents when the blind, disabled, or the elderly are outdoors with companion animals. Therefore, as artificial intelligence (AI) technologies that can comprehensively analyze and determine a large amount of information required between companion animals and humans are applied, so-called ‘pet-tech’ is attracting attention. In monitoring and analysis based on sensor data and momentum, a service centered on the behavior, emotion, and situational awareness of companion animals is provided to consumers, and it is a technology that enables consulting and connection services on the behavior, situation, disease, and abnormal behavior of companion animals. development is gradually increasing. These technical studies related to companion animals lead to the cross-section of animals that accompany humans and become humanized, but on the contrary, it is a case that proves that psychological panic is growing in urbanized human life such as human alienation and loneliness. do. In addition, due to the sharing of space, a product design that can manage cleanliness, hygiene, and health is required, and a planar heating element using nano-carbon is applied as a basic material for antibacterial and odor removal. Nanocarbon is a material that maintains human health, and has been used for a long time because of its excellent life-sustaining power and resilience, such as deodorization, antibacterial action, air purification, early cell activation, pain relief, dehumidification effect, and deep sleep purification. It is also used as a material. In this study, we propose “a mobile carrier and location tracking device based on a planar heating element and IoT for cleanliness, hygiene, and health management where pets and owners coexist”. It tests its performance by supporting a platform that can converge with IoT and track location through product design.

Culture and law in the theoretical and methodological foundations of the study of social progress by domestic Marxists in the XXI century

In the present paper from the positions of dialectical method and comparative-historical analysis the problem of culture and law in relation to social progress and its study by modern domestic Marxists is considered. The authors prove that the study of social transformations at the level of theoretical generalizations or specific conditions of development of systems of social relations by modern authors is based on the original ideas of historians and philosophers of the 1960s. The paper focuses on the analysis of the interaction between culture and law in the spatial and temporal dimensions. Particular attention in the article is paid to methodological contradictions in approaches when analyzing social progress in the society of "real" socialism. The authors consistently prove why the conclusions of representatives of the neo-Marxist school of T. Adorno and H. Marcuse about the forms of human alienation of late capitalist society cannot be considered fair to societies at the legal level that deny private property. According to the conclusions of the article, culture and law in the idea of social progress in the theory of modern domestic Marxists develop on two levels. The first level is characterized by theoretical rethinking of the category of socio-economic formation and statement of social progress in the analysis of large historical epochs. The second level focuses on the development of Marx's humanistic ideas, which are based on the principle of identifying social progress with man's acquisition of full freedom.

Stagnasi Agama dalam Pusaran Kapitalisme di Kabupaten Sumenep

Contemporary issues persist throughout human history, prompting religion to participate and offer solutions to the prevalent problems. Religion must play a significant role in resolving humanitarian issues. The exploitative practices of the capitalist system and human alienation from society need to be confronted with a revolutionary understanding of religion. Islam, in particular, possesses a spirit of liberation to uplift and advocate for the oppressed. This research aims to examine the religious understanding of the Sumenep community amidst the development of capitalism and ongoing development. It also seeks to explore the role of religion in liberating individuals from various threats of globalization and shielding them from various forms of social sins. The research employs a qualitative method with a descriptive approach, aiming to depict and summarize various conditions, situations, and variables that arise within society. To better understand the desired outcomes of this method, a social approach is employed. Consequently, liberation theology offers a paradigm to rectify the social system that has been damaged by various human-made systems and ideologies, in order to enhance the community's struggle in critically addressing these issues.

On the Problem of philosophical understanding of virtual reality

The article provides a philosophical and historical analysis of the phenomenon of virtual reality from the standpoint of socio-cultural typology; an attempt is made to identify the specifics of the functioning of alienated reality, to show trends, changes and their features. The features of the philosophical reflection of G. Anders and J. Baudrillard in their relation to the otherness of virtual reality are considered. The article focuses on the identification and reflection of the forms of human alienation in virtual reality. The author of the article pointed out the problems and factors of the loss of individuality, the dominance of virtual communication, and the simplification of personal life. Through the methodological distinction between the concepts of “knowledge” and “information”, the position of the author of the article is presented, according to which the perception of information by a modern person is a phenomenon that is distinguished by ambiguity, reality, specificity of manifestations and is fixed in the concept of “information reality”. The article provides a brief methodological review of the ontological, epistemological, axiological problems of this new kind of reality from the standpoint of philosophy. The scientific position of the author of the article, according to some conclusions, is consistent with post-non-classical philosophy: the recognition of the idea of virtual existence and virtual reality as a special type of worldview, a new reality.

Louise Althusser’ S Theory of Interpellation in the Merchant of Venice

The research is a qualitative textual analysis of Shakespeare’s tragedy, disguised as the comedy. The Merchant of Venice, through Louis Althusser’s theory of Interpellation. Althusser defines ideology as a system of representation through discourse and language which control our existence. So, this research paper aims to analyze the play’s language associated with the character’s power, identity, and ideology. Moreover, this research also highlights how the play The Merchant of Venice depicts the relationship between Christians and Jews and their unyielding disdain for each other’s cultures. In addition, it reflects Venetian’ society’s psyche through Shylock. Also, it gives an account of a society filled with capitalism and its anxieties, class stratification, religious extremism, hypocrisy, racism, homophobia, and human alienation. Althusser argues that self-consciousness is painted through “contrast differentiation,” and language is a way to create ideology and its fixation. Meanwhile, ideology is unable to function beyond language, which is called Interpellation. Althusser also substantiates that individual and collective human behaviors rise through the underlying structures of society as reflected through Christian’s ingrained prejudices against Jews and Jew’s behavior by absurd stereotypes. Althusser also addresses that material actions are incorporated through quantifiable practices governed by material ideological apparatus. Further, he elaborates that an individual has no intrinsic signification; instead, he is merely a subject in social divisions designated by hierarchical ideology, as Shylock is treated as “other” under the preeminent doctrine of Christianity. Furthermore, he sheds light on the hegemony of powerful discourse through which superiors keep subservient to the level of conformity and dehumanization. Thus, by depicting the ideology of societal conditioning and reinforcement, capitalism, colonialism, racism, anti-Semitism, and patriarchy, this paper delves deep into Althusser’s “Repressive or Ideological State Apparatuses and its functions both by violence and ideology highlighted in The Merchant of Venice.

Marcuse's Critical Theory of Technical Rationality

As a representative of the Frankfurt School, Marcuse has repeatedly discussed the relationship between technology and freedom. He attributes human alienation to the fact that technological rationality has become a covered ideology in developed industrial society, thus making people lose negativity, transcendence and criticism, and then become 'one-dimensional people '. This paper takes Marcuse's "comfortable non-freedom" as the starting point, and discusses Marcuse's critical theory of technical rationality from three aspects: loss of freedom, paralysis of freedom and return to freedom. It further analyzes how Marcuse reshapes subject freedom and achieves social liberation from the perspective of aesthetics and art.

신속통합기획을 적용한 공공보행통로 가이드라인 개발

The Public Pedestrian Routes, a representative space in the city, is a road centered on the daily lives of local residents, and not only provides living benefits but also cultural activities to form homogeneity of local communities, helping local residents enjoy walking, convenience of living, and revitalize local communities. Recognizing the importance of Public Pedestrian Routes, one of the alternatives to solving urban problems such as human alienation and disconnection, this study aims to present guidelines for Public Pedestrian Routes Wooshin villa maintenance in Gungdong, Seoul, applying a rapid integration plan. The plan will focus on the function of a circular pedestrian network so that not only the residents of Wooshin villa but also the residents of nearby areas can use the public space in the complex. To achieve the purpose, open parks and biotops in the complex are connected to Public Pedestrian Routes to form a green circulation system. The outer space that circulates through Biotop, open parks, and Public Pedestrian Routes is planned as a park for communication with local residents such as pedestrian-centered slit expansion, creation of three-dimensional spaces for various purposes, unit welfare facilities, and parking lots.