Man's Search Research Articles

An Inspiration to Modern Medicines: A Review

Medicinal plants have always been used to treat various ailments. Man's search for pharmaceuticals in nature has a long history, as proven by written documents, preserved monuments, and even unique plant treatments. As a result of a few years of sickness, man learnt to seem for medication within the barks, seeds, fruit bodies, and alternative elements of plants. Modern science has identified their active effect, and several plant-derived drugs, known to ancient cultures and used for millennia, have been incorporated into modern pharmacotherapy. Natural products and traditional medicines provide unequalled benefits when it comes to developing novel pharmaceuticals, such as a wealth of clinical experienceand a novel diversity of chemical structures and biological activity.

‘Real Orthodox men’: religious masculinities and the new Russian culture of military patriotism

AbstractThroughout the 1990s and early 2000s, radical nationalist and quasi‐fascist movements defining themselves in opposition to the Russian government dominated the country's paramilitary scene. This trend was almost completely reversed in the 2010s, with the relative decline of grassroots Slavic ethno‐nationalism and the emergence of a statist military‐patriotic culture centred on ‘traditional values’ and Orthodox faith. Drawing on field research with members of a Moscow‐based military‐patriotic club, this article shows how Orthodoxy emerged as an attractive ideological framework to give meaning to individual and communal practices of moral and physical self‐cultivation among patriotically oriented young middle‐class men. I argue that rather than a process of militarization of a religious public, the establishment of the Orthodox military‐patriotic milieu in the late 2000s is better understood as the Orthodoxization of the Russian paramilitary sphere, driven by young militaristically minded men's search for a sense of purpose and belonging. This post‐Soviet Orthodox paramilitary scene that combines militant masculinities with promotion of law abidance and civic values effectively works to curtail more extreme forms of ethno‐nationalism and thus invites us to rethink conventional wisdom on the relationship between religion, militarism, and violent radicalization.

Prof. Tarhan: "To escape from pain is not to fight it, but to share the pain"

Prof. Nevzat Tarhan was the guest of the Book Analysis event organized by the Genç İHH and made remarkable statements about the work "Man's Search for Meaning" written by Victor E. Frankl.

ANALISIS SINTAKSIS KONTRASTIF NOMINA DALAM BAHASA ARAB DAN BAHASA INDONESIA

Arabic as a flexion language of the Semitic language families has significant differences with Indonesian as an agglutinating language of the Austronesian families in terms of its outward characteristics and structure. Classes of ism and nouns when examined based on their syntactic linguistics in the grammatical categories, case, definite, number, and gender, it is found that there are many differences in their characteristics and markers. These grammatical categories relate to the principle of concordance or conformity to sentence construction. This analysis contrastive research aims to describe the comparison of isms and nouns based on case, definite, number, gender, and concordance so that similarities and differences can be identified. This research is library research with comparative descriptive method and data collection technique using documentation technique. The data in this study are sentences in Arabic and Indonesian containing these grammatical categories which are found in various sources, namely Arabic Syntax, Complete Guide to Learning Arabic in Nahwu Science, Man's Search for Meaning, and several print media like newspapers. The results of the study show that there are many differences and few similarities because the two languages ​​come from different families.

Kurinji People’s Works in Pathupattu based on Ethnographic Theory

Every human being in the world need essential materials to lead his life smoothly. That materials are earned by human beings by doing works. In general, in the early times, man's search for food was his one and only profession. Kurinji land is one of the lands inhabited by man. The land consists of high peaks, small hills and dense forest with irregular routes and various layers. The basic occupations such as food gathering, hunting and agriculture were carried out by the people who lived there. This article is analyzed and narrated based on ethnographic theory about the lifestyles of Kaanavar, Kuravar, and Vaedar who lived in Kurinji land.

Philosophical Thoughts of Bharathi

In the explanation of the universe, the five gods, the planets, man, and the soul, science and philosophy are mutually exclusive. From time to time, scholars, poets, and mystics have been explaining philosophy depending on their field of knowledge. Philosophy is always man's search object and as such is the theme of the poetry of poets. Mahakavi Bharathiyar was the source of innovation in poetry and revolution in society, as well as giving richness and impetus to the development of Tamil literature in the twentieth century. It is noteworthy here that the poet who was a revolutionary who gave rise to the concept of innovation is also a patron who praises nature and God. In the works of Bharathiyar, who sees nature as God and God as an expression of nature, philosophy is woven through the leaves. This article explains the philosophical ideas expressed in Bharathiyar's works in terms of nature, God, and man and also in terms of Siddhas' doctrine.

The Relationship with the Qur'an Fıtrat and the Values of Managing Humanity

Yüce Kur’an insan hayatını anlamlandıran vahiy mahsulü ilahi kitaptır. Kur’an’ın Rûm suresi 30. âyetinde geçen fıtrat kavramı ile insanın anlam arayışı arasındaki münasebet önemlidir. Âyette yaratılış hikmeti gereği Kur’anî ilkelere göre hareket edip varoluşunu gerçekleştirmeye çağrılan insan, eylemlerinin sonunda elde ettiği kazanımlarına onu yöneten değerlerin kaynağı olan Kur’an ilkeleri doğrultusunda anlam vermelidir. İnsanı yöneten değerlerin vahiy temelli olması hayatına verdiği anlamın fıtrî (doğasına uygun) olduğunu gösterir. İnsan, hayatına inancıyla anlam verir. Aynı zamanda maddi-manevi çeşitli kültür kalıpları ile oluşan alışılmış değerleri de kullanır. Bu değerler ise insanın gelişim aşamalarında gösterdiği tarihe zamana, mekâna, uygun tavır almalarıdır. Kur’an’ın bizden istediği Oku-Düşün-Anla-Yaşa temel sorumluluğu çerçevesinde makalede şu sorulara cevap aranmıştır: İnsanın anlam arayışı ve fıtratın gereksinimlerine Kur’an nasıl cevap vermektedir? Kur’an insanın yapıp-etmelerini hangi temel yönlendirici ilkeler ve değerler üzerinden gerçekleştirmesini istemektedir? Bu soruları sorduk çünkü hayatın değişen görünümleri karşısında insanın takınacağı tavır bu sorulara verilen cevaplarla yakından ilgilidir. Bu maksatla makalede başlıklar: “İnsanın Anlam Arayışı ve Kur’an”; “Rûm Suresi 30. Âyet Bağlamında Din-Fıtrat İlişkisi”; “Kur’an’da Fıtrata ve Hayatın Anlamına İlişkin Değerler” şeklinde oluşturulmuştur. Araştırmamız işlevi bakımından tanımlayıcı bir özellik taşımaktadır. Bu nedenle deskriptif yöntemle meseleyi tasvir etmeye çalıştık. Makalede Kur’an-fıtrat ilişkisi açısından insanın anlam arayışı hakkında kendisini hidayet rehberi olarak tanıtan Kur’an’a ilişkin farkındalık oluşturmak hedeflenmiştir.

The Uncanny Mind

Abstract Among the psychological interpretations of Edgar Allan Poe's “The Black Cat,” trauma theory has yet to make an appearance. However, the confessional nature of the story shifts—via a trauma reading—from an attempt by the narrator to ease his guilt to his attempt to understand what happened to him. “The Black Cat” reveals a man's search to understand how he committed violent acts when trauma and preconceived self-understandings obscure his ability to reconcile his violent actions. The narrator's murder of his wife traumatized him, causing erasures in the timeline and several forms of dissociation. These erasures and dissociations cause an uncanny effect within the story, which show the narrator to be his own doppelganger as well as an instance of the biform. However, these symptoms suggest that the narrator does not have enough critical distance from the events, so telling his tale becomes a form of reliving that does not relieve the confusion he experiences. Ultimately, the narrator's confession does not provide the understanding he hopes for, which places the burden of creating an understanding of the story on the individual reader.

DISKURSUS KETUHANAN DALAM PUSTAKA BRAHMAVIDYA-UPANISAD HASIL TRANSLITERASI OLEH BEBERAPA SARJANA BARAT DAN TIMUR

<p>Divinity discourse in the Vedas is very broad, so that it gave birth to many documents from the results of reflection and in-depth study of the search for God. This Brahmavidya-Upanisad is the centerpiece of the 39th Upanisad of 112 Upanisads translated by board scholars. This Brahmavidya-Upanisad is the result of contemplative research by ancient sages who used the paravidya-apaparavidya approach. This approach is a holistic approach, namely the paravidya approach is related to the investigation of the microcosm, and the aparavidya approach is related to the investigation of the macrocosm. The paravidya approach is a spiritual approach (subjective) and the aparavidya approach is a material approach (positive objective). The integration of this positivistic subjective-objective approach is a harmonious-integrative approach called a holistic approach, a blend of spirituality and science. The results of integrative contemplative research on the combination of spiritual-science found that the macrocosm and micro-cosm are the same but differ in intensity.<br />The results of the research of these sages have given space for mankind to seek God within themselves or to seek God in all of His creations that are in front of humans. There is nothing worse or better than man's search for God. If he is a layman then he can seek and place God outside of himself; but for spiritualists can worship God inside or outside themselves or both. This is a form of theology of freedom and theology of liberation that can liberate humans from alienation from God.</p>

Influencia de autoeficacia general y el sentido de vida, en estado nutricional del adulto mayor

Introducción: en la población de adultos mayores el deterioro del es­tado nutricional se ve afectado en el mantenimiento de la funciona­lidad física y/o cognitiva, por lo que, la autoeficacia para los adultos mayores reviste una importancia tanto en sus capacidades físicas como en las soluciones; asimismo, la búsqueda por parte del hombre de sentido de la vida constituye una fuerza primaria de sus impulsos instintivos. Objetivo: demostrar que la autoeficacia general y el sentido de vida influyen en el estado nutricional del adulto mayor. Material y métodos: investigación de aplicabilidad básica, enfoque cuantitativo y nivel de alcance descriptivo, con un diseño metodológico no experimental y tipo prolectivo transversal. Se trabajó con un universo de 2,863 adultos mayores, se utilizó una muestra probabilística para obtenerla de 174 adultos mayores. Limitaciones del estudio: falta de información en la investigación en cuanto al tema del sentido de vida en el momento del estudio. Resultados: predomino el sexo femenino con un 72.4%. De acuerdo a la EDSV el 99.4% de nuestros adultos mayores (AM) están en búsqueda de sentido de vida; asimismo, la escala de autosuficiencia general (EAG) da como resultado que 81.7% presentan un nivel moderado de autoeficacia general. La correlación del sentido de vida y la autoeficacia general con el estado nutricional del adulto mayor da como resultado p=0.135 existe una correlación positiva escasa30 entre las variables estudiadas. Conclusión: se comprueba que la autoeficacia general y el sentido de vida influyen en el estado nutricional del adulto mayor.

ОСОБЛИВОСТІ ЦІННІСНО-СМИСЛОВОЇ СФЕРИ ВІЙСЬКОВОСЛУЖБОВЦІВ З РІЗНИМ ДОСВІДОМ УЧАСТІ В БОЙОВИХ ДІЯХ

У статті обґрунтовується актуальність і доцільність дослідження ціннісно-смислової сфери військовослужбовців. Метою дослідження є вивчення впливу досвіду участі військовослужбовців у бойових діях на їх ціннісно-смислову сферу. Аналізуються основні підходи до проблеми ціннісно-смислової сфери особистості у сучасній психології, зокрема, її зміни внаслідок виконання професійних обов’язків у галузі військової діяльності. Її специфіка пов’язана з небезпекою та прийняттям ризикових рішень, що зумовлює переосмислення життєвих цінностей. Тому було сформульовано припущення про деструктивний вплив досвіду участі в бойових діях на ціннісно-смислову сферу військовослужбовців. Подано результати емпіричного дослідження смисложиттєвих орієнтацій військовослужбовців (базового компонента ціннісно-смислової сфери); здійснено порівняльний аналіз їх показників у респондентів із різним досвідом перебування в зоні Операції об’єднаних сил (ООС). Встановлено, що середні показники та відсоткове зіставлення рівнів значущості смисложиттєвих орієнтацій військовослужбовців експериментальної (учасники бойових дій у зоні ООС) і контрольної (не перебували в зоні ООС) груп не мають статистично значущих відмінностей, проте мають деяку специфіку. Проаналізовано, що серед учасників бойових дій, на противагу тим, хто не має такого досвіду, достовірно більша кількість людей є задоволеними власним життям і здатні контролювати його залежно від певних обставин. Виявлено негативний вплив хронологічного (онтогенетичного) віку досліджуваних, які мають досвід перебування в ООС, на якість і показники їх смисложиттєвих орієнтацій. Ціннісні орієнтації учасників бойових дій загалом є більш диференційованими за їх значущістю й осмисленістю, порівняно з військовослужбовцями, які не перебували в зоні проведення ООС. Достовірно більша кількість респондентів із бойовим досвідом, порівняно з тими, хто його не має, виявляє полярність в осмисленні життєвих цінностей: дуже глибоко осмислює смисложиттєві орієнтації чи втрачає у них сенс.

Genomic research delivering on promises: From rejuvenation to vaccines and pharmacogenetics.

What is known and ObjectiveThere has been astounding progress made in the treatment of disease over recent years. This progress is particularly marked in cell therapy and in the personalization of therapy based on genetic insight, an approach known as genomic medicine. Our objective is to comment on the progress made in cell and genomic medicine against an historical backcloth of the search for rejuvenation.CommentIn 1741, close to seven decades after Antoine van Leeuwenhoek first saw his microscopic animalcules, Abraham Trembley, a tutor in Leiden, reported on an organism that could regenerate itself. The strange organism was thought to hold the secret of life. If it does, we have yet to prise the secret out. However, the ensuing study of cell programming and induced stem cells has shed considerable light on cellular development and provided new insights on the rejuvenative capacity of organisms. Inventive scientists have provided a deeper understanding of cell replication and, from this, developed new medicines for an increasing range of diseases. Targeted therapies, oligonucleotide therapy, therapeutic monoclonal antibodies and pharmacogenetics are all new therapeutic areas originating from the improved insights. More will surely follow.What is new and conclusionImmortality is for the gods, but man's search for its elusive secrets, perhaps as old as man himself, will continue. Huge leaps have been made, and effective medicines have been developed from our improved insights into the mechanism of life. However, only the foolish will predict how far this new knowledge will lead us, and more particularly, at what speed new therapies will follow.

Cultivating Meaningful Work in Healthcare: A Paradigm and Practice

The socioeconomic dynamics of the current healthcare system can challenge physicians to remain engaged with meaningful work, which is problematic given its role in mitigating burnout. In Man's Search For Meaning, Victor Frankl proposes that meaningful work is a prerequisite for a meaningful life. This article provides a road map for radiologists by applying key guiding principles outlined by Frankl as they intersect with current evidence in the field of physician burnout.

Mindful EM

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Albertine: From A to Z, the Journey of Combining Opposites

AlbertineFrom A to Z, the Journey of Combining Opposites Loreto Núñez (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Albertine Zullo combines in her name A and Z, a pair of opposite letters. This fusion of contrasts is programmatic for her life and work. Albertine is deeply rooted in Switzerland, more specifically in Geneva and its countryside, where she was born and still lives today with her partner in love and art, author Germano Zullo. After her studies at the École des arts décoratifs and the École supérieure d'art visuel of Geneva, she opened a screen-printing workshop and started to collaborate as an illustrator with various Swiss and French newspapers. From 1996 to 2014, she taught screen-printing and illustration at the Haute École d'art et de design of Geneva. In parallel, she pursued a very productive artistic career: drawings, screen prints, lithographic works, wood engravings, notebooks, and objects of different types (such as dresses). She has been exhibited in Switzerland and abroad: Paris, Bologna, Rome, Valencia, and Tokyo. Thus, staying in her native Swiss village, Albertine travels around the world, as her books do—produced in a countryside house, but travelling from one country to the other, accompanied by texts in different languages according to their various translations. The journey is a very present theme in her production, too, again in an opposite perspective. On the one hand, she invites us on trips going so far as to another planet; on the other, she can play with total absence of travel, with many variations in-between. In the comic book Vacances sur Vénus (Holiday on Venus), a young man wants to go on holiday but takes the wrong way and makes a stop at Venus, where he meets a strange extraterrestrial girl. The anecdote ends up in a sort of distant love story. Albertine puts forward the difficulty of communication between the protagonists at the level of the images by presenting the young alien's words as pictograms. Furthermore, whereas she chooses cold and pale colors for the Earth (blue, yellow, and turquoise), the predominant colors of Venus are red, orange, and green. Colors are completely absent in A l'étranger (Abroad): Albertine depicts only in black and white a man's vain search for the foreign country where everything should be better. His journey concludes with the discovery that the foreign place he has been searching for may actually be his home. The choice of sober black and white images accentuates the poetic strength of the [End Page 20] text. Furthermore, the predominance of white spaces gives the possibility of pauses in the textual and iconic rhythm, thus giving the opportunity to reflect on what one reads and sees. In Des mots pour la nuit (Words for the night), the journey takes place in the young protagonist's dream. Staying in his bed, he travels around the pages—starting in his room with his colorful toys, going through landscapes full of flowers and sheep, and meeting figures and characters which become more and more oneiric, with the colors getting darker, at the limit of the nightmare atmosphere which transforms itself in a sort of intergalactic journey. Yet the protagonist finds his way home to his bedroom. Whereas in this picturebook there is a certain tension between travelling and staying at the same place, in La Java Bleue (The Blue Java), we face a static, almost claustrophobic story; it is the portrayal of a family whose existence revolves around watching TV until the day the television implodes. Until then, the space represented by Albertine remains the same one: the living/dining room. Following the TV implosion, the family has to find new activities. Even if they do not go out, Albertine makes them move in space (to other rooms) and in time (with objects of their past: a dress, a radio set and many toys). While the father and the mother dance, the boy plays with his toys, spread all over the living room. Albertine transforms the closed space of the page in a typical scene of so-called "wimmelbook," a teeming picturebook showing in a panoramic view many small figures...

Meaning-Centered Existential Analysis: Philosophy as Psychotherapy in the Work of Viktor E. Frankl by Peter Sarkany

Reviewed by: Meaning-Centered Existential Analysis: Philosophy as Psychotherapy in the Work of Viktor E. Frankl by Peter Sarkany Margarete Landwehr Peter Sarkany, Meaning-Centered Existential Analysis: Philosophy as Psychotherapy in the Work of Viktor E. Frankl. Translated by Emese Czintos. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2016. 121 pp. The insightful studies in Peter Sarkany's Meaning-Centered Existential Analysis: Philosophy as Psychotherapy in the Work of Viktor E. Frankl examine the third Viennese school of psychotherapy, known as logotherapy, founded by the eminent philosopher Viktor Frankl (1905–1997) as a philosophical trend of psychotherapy. Each essay focuses on the relationship between this meaning-centered existential analysis and various fields such as phenomenology, philosophical counseling, ethics, and religion. The initial chapter introduces the concept of the "philosophical care of the soul" and its relationship to psychotherapy, whereas chapters 2, 3, and 4 provide "methodological approaches to the philosophical importance of logotherapy and existential analysis" (13). Of particular interest is chapter 4, which deals with the philosophical method of Socratic dialogue. The last four chapters discuss the further philosophical dimensions of Frankl's work with comparisons to the thought of Heidegger, Hartmann, and Ingarden with a final chapter on Frankl's philosophy of religion in contrast to Freud's ideas on religion. In chapter 1, Sarkany states that the philosophical care of the soul does not focus primarily on the individual's salvation, health or physical, spiritual or social well-being but on "the concrete meaning of man's lived existence, the comprehensive meaning of a contemplative life, and on the contemplation of meaning" (24). This "life-philosophical approach" (24) considers the striving for wisdom and for happiness as one unity. Sarkany defines this approach as "the care of thinking" (25) and outlines three dimensions of this approach: (1) problem-solving or thinking that focuses on concrete problems; (2) life-philosophical/ethical thinking that deals with the care of the self, including [End Page 177] the formation of values and duties that shape one's conduct; and (3) contemplative thinking which involves a "transcendental" condition that enables the consideration of the relationship between one's self and another. The subsequent three chapters offer the core of Sarkany's depiction of a meaning-centered existential analysis. The foundations of this analysis are based on Frankl's Philosophy and Psychotherapy (1938), in which the terms logotherapy and existential analysis appear together to denote a "spiritually approached" (32) psychotherapy aimed at "a responsible being" whose goal is creating or finding meaning. Frankl clearly distinguishes between traditional psychoanalysis and logotherapy: "Psychotherapy endeavors to bring instinctual facts to consciousness. Logotherapy […] seeks to bring to awareness spiritual realities. As existential analysis it is particularly concerned with making men conscious of their responsibility" (32). This responsibility is always a responsibility toward a meaning and encompasses other existential issues such as freedom, challenges (such as suffering, sin, death), and possibilities (work, love). Frankl states that humans can find meaning in three ways: (1) through the creation of something, such as a work of art; (2) through an emotional experience, such as loving someone; and (3) through attitudinal meaning in which meaning can be found in the attitude one chooses within even the most hopeless and unchangeable situations such as a severe illness. As a concentration camp inmate, Frankl discovered these options as a means to survive the horrendous camp conditions. In his landmark memoir Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy, Frankl discusses the improvised cabaret inmates created with songs, poems, and ironic jokes that helped them endure their suffering and the redeeming value of loving another, even when the beloved is absent. Reflecting on his love for his wife enabled Frankl not only to survive but also to create meaning in a senseless and brutal existence: "In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way—an honorable way—in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment" (49). In a similar vein, the logotherapist guides the client toward the possibilities of achieving meaning in his or her...

Book Review: Man's Search for Meaning (Victor Frankl)

Book Review: Man's Search for Meaning (Victor Frankl)

Understanding Man's Search for Meaning, Love, and the Art of Loving in Relation to Thomism Philosophy on Ultimate Happiness

It is in our nature as human beings to search and strive for a meaningful life, to love and be loved in order to find genuine happiness in our lives. In my view, it takes for us to rekindle our humanity and not our mechanistic tendencies as modern people in our search for a meaningful life, love, and happiness in our everyday life which is a complex collective endeavor and not an individual effort to successfully accomplish. In this perspective, this paper highlights man's search for meaning, love, and happiness to feel an ethically fulfilled life. In doing so, this reflection essay defines and explains: (1) "Man's Search for Meaning" (Frankl, 1959/2006), (2) "All About Love" (Hooks, 2000), (3) "The Art of Loving" (Fromm, 1956/2000), and (4) happiness base on Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics (Irwin, 199). In addition, I relate these four paradigms on meaning, love, and happiness to Thomism philosophy on ultimate happiness (Aquinas in Sigmund, 1988). And finally, I draw my conclusion in this writing.

John Steinbeck's Beacon in Darkness: East of Eden as a Morals Paradigm for Sons

Abstract Like Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning, Steinbeck's East of Eden centers around choices and responsibility, and he bases his story on a most memorable human choice: the biblical story of Cain and his deliberate choice to murder his brother, Abel. Robert DeMott states that “Steinbeck used Genesis (4:1–16) for the action, characterization, and title of his novel.” At its core and always in its backdrop, then, Steinbeck's Cain-and-Abel story in East of Eden sets forth a paradigm of right choice and right behavior for his two young sons. In truth, Steinbeck states clearly his intention to elucidate this biblical passage with greater scrutiny than it had ever undergone before, exploring its fuller meaning: “Certainly I do not think that the Cain-Abel story has ever been subjected to such scrutiny. Nor has any story been so fruitful of meaning.”

Loss and gain: the story of a convert

John Henry Newman, one of the greatest religious figures of the nineteenth century, also had a successful career as a gifted novelist. Loss and Gain, his first novel, tells the story of a young man's search for faith in early Victorian Oxford. This edition is the first one to appear in eighty years.