Nature Of Order Research Articles

CLASH OF LEGISLATIVE COMPETENCY ON MATTERS OF OFFENCES RELATING TO DECENCY

The Legislative Assembly of the state of Selangor has criminalized sexual intercourse against the order of nature by virtue of S. 28 of the Syariah Criminal Offences (Selangor) Enactment 1995. The power to enforce such law is vested on Jabatan Agama Islam Selangor (“JAIS”). However, the Federal Court’s decision in Iki Putra bin Mubarak v. Kerajaan Negeri Selangor & Anor [2021] MLJU 213 has garnered the attention of the public when the apex court ruled that the Selangor State Legislative Assembly had no power to create the offence of sexual intercourse against the order of nature. The impact of this judgment is immense as it is taking away the power of prosecution of such offence by the Syarie Prosecutor in Selangor. Furthermore, the Federal Court’s judgment also points out that the Penal Code has a similar offence (Section 377A), hence excluding the legislative competence of the state of Selangor to regulate the same. The Iki Putra judgment has become the impetus of this research that aims at identifying and examining the provisions in the Penal Code and Syariah Criminal Offences (Selangor) Enactment 1995 that are considered redundant, with specific reference to offences relating to decency only. In doing so, the research employs qualitative research design. Since this is a doctrinal and library-based research, the research adopts a content analysis method on the primary and secondary materials which include the study into legislation, case law, textbooks and journal articles. The research also applies a comparative approach to determine similarities and differences (if any) between the Penal Code and 1995 Enactment. The finding shows that some offences in both legislations are redundant which will lead to conflict of jurisdiction between civil and Syariah courts. These redundancies will ultimately cause difficulties in the future with the enforcement of Syariah criminal offences.

Natural Order and Mathematical Imagination. The Use of Quoting Sapientia 11–21 in Oresme’s Works

Nicole Oresme quotes four times the passage from The Book of Wisdom (Wisdom of Solomon) or, in the Vulgate, Sapientia 11–21 (omnia in mensura et numero et pondere disposuisti), in several works covering his whole career. It goes to show the importance he gives to that passage: the order of nature arranged by God limits natural potencies within boundaries from which harmony follows, and at the same time it marks for man the path to perfection. But the human mind can know the natural order only to a certain degree of probability, as it results from De commensurabilitate. After all, it makes it possible to glimpse a more varied and complex order that one can imagine. Thus harmony results from a wise mixture of rationality and irrationality. From the point of view of his use of the passage of Sapientia 11–21, the skeptical Oresme appears as a scholar in search for a new synthesis, beyond that of mediaeval philosophy.

Boredom at the end of history: ‘empty temporalities’ in Rousseau’s Corsica and Fukuyama’s liberal democracy

In this paper, I consider what it might mean to approach boredom as a problem of post-history, rather than of modernity as such. Post-history, or ‘end of history’, in this sense, is linked with the impossibility or unlikelihood of political-systemic change, and thus with the disappearance of the contingency or temporal flux that had been understood as the context or prerequisite of political action and political freedom. I will, argue, firstly, that both Rousseau and Fukuyama depict societies that are ‘post-historical’, in this sense, and which are marked by ‘boredom’ of this specifically post-historical kind. Secondly, I will argue that both thinkers link post-historical boredom with the disappearance or diminution of the ‘drive for recognition’ that both understood as both an agent and effect of ‘history’. Thirdly, I will argue that while Fukuyama understands post-historical boredom as an ‘irritant’ that threatens to restart history without quite succeeding in doing so, Rousseau understands it as an essentially stabilising (and happy) condition that maintains post-historical man in an equilibrium modelled on the order of nature itself. And fourthly, I consider certain ways in which this ‘post-historical’ boredom might coexist and overlap with the ‘promise of intensity’ experienced in post-Fordist neoliberal society.

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The Role of Nature in New England Puritan Theology: The Case of Samuel Willard

Abstract This article discusses the role of nature in the theological system of New England minister Samuel Willard (1640-1707). I focus specifically on his account of theological anthropology, the relationship of nature and grace, and the moral (or natural) law, and show how each relates to his views on civil government and civil law. Willard affirmed the natural law, natural religion, and natural worship, and he acknowledged and respected pagan civic virtue and grounded civil order and social relations in nature. Willard’s theological articulations are substantively the same as those found among the ‘Reformed orthodox’ theologians of 17th century Europe, which provides evidence for the thesis that Reformed orthodoxy was a transatlantic movement. His reliance on nature also corrects scholarship on the New England Puritans, which often assumes that they rejected the Christian natural law tradition.

Characteristics of superradiant optical phases occurring in the system of nondegenerate Λ atoms and radiation that are interacting inside a nonlinear quantum cavity

In the present article, we investigate the behavior of a large collection of three-level $\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Lambda}}$ atoms interacting with two quantized electromagnetic fields inside a second-order nonlinear quantum cavity. The nonlinearity of the cavity is supposed to be activated by the application of two classical pump fields. The total Hamiltonian of the combination, with due attention to the nonlinearity effects, is diagonalized. The corresponding ground-state energy then follows from minimizing the total Hamiltonian. The structure of the ground state indicates that four distinct optical phases can occur in such a system. These possible phases turn out to be trivial, dark, left-arm and right-arm superradiant ones. Conditions under which any of the four optical phases can actually occur are also analyzed and discussed. The analysis of the conditions, accompanied by several figures, then reveals that with a suitable choice of the pump field amplitudes and/or geometrical phases, one can intensify the two superradiant phases drastically. Moreover, we demonstrate that the dark optical phase cannot occur at all, while the trivial and superradiant ones can, in fact, coexist. Our calculations also show that transition from the trivial phase to left-arm (right-arm) superradiant one is continuous (discrete) and second (first) order in nature. Another important result of our investigation is that by adjusting the pump field strength, one can switch from the left-arm superradiant phase to the right-arm one and vice versa. This point, in turn, provides an alternative mechanism for the development of quantum optical switching devices.

Christian faith and science: Efforts to encounter the Christian faith and science in the work of Alister E. McGrath

This study aims to present an effort for an encounter between Christian faith and science in Alister E. McGrath’s thinking. The process of encountering both Christian faith and science is mediated by Christian natural theology. Christian natural theology is the result of rethinking conventional natural theology by McGrath. This is carried out because the meaning of conventional natural theology as an interface of Christian faith and science is not in accordance with Christian faith. The efforts to encounter Christian faith and science through conventional natural theology are something that is not possible, because conventional natural theology is denoted as pure theology centred on the rationality of scientific thought alone. In this article, we will show how Christian natural theology as a result of thinking by McGrath can be a medium for an encounter between Christian faith and science. The analysis of this article is generally based on the writings of McGrath, which are only partially reconciled with the views of several other theologies. Data collection was carried out through a literature study and described descriptively. The result of the research is a description of the encounter between Christian faith and science mediated by Christian natural theology. McGrath established Christian natural theology on observations in critical reality, Christian history and the word of God (Gn 1 and 2), allowing the human intellect to have a strong relationship with the order and beauty of nature that God created. This is the reason why the encounter between Christian faith and science based on McGrath’s concept of thought is more likely to reveal the truth in the reality of the Christian faith’s life.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: This study recommends that efforts be made to identify faith, science and natural theology in the work of Alister E. McGrath. This article has contributed to highlighting natural theology, which is still under long discussion, especially in the context of the Christian faith and the ambiguity of nature, which is also important in various disciplines, including theology, natural science and science.

Fear and stigma in Kenya

Any person who—has carnal knowledge of any person against the order of nature; or permits a male person to have carnal knowledge of him or her against the order of nature, is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for fourteen years.Article 162, Kenya Penal Code

Nature Is Healing

Nature Is Healing

Permutation Variation and Alternative Hyper-Sphere Decomposition

Current covariance modeling methods work well in longitudinal data analysis. In the analysis of data with no nature order, a common covariance modeling method would be inadequate. In this paper, a study is implemented to investigate the effects of permutations of data on the estimation of covariance matrix Σ. Based on the Hyper-sphere decomposition method (HPC), this study suggests that the change of data’s permutation breaks the consistency of covariance estimation. An alternative Hyper-sphere decomposition method with permutation invariant is introduced later in this paper. The alternative method’s consistency and asymptotic normality are studied when the observations follow a normal distribution. These results are tested using some example studies. Furthermore, a real data analysis is conducted for illustration purposes.

Schopenhauer and the Two Orders of Purposiveness in the World

In this paper, I intend to argue that the emergence of the material conditions for the suppression and denial of the will in the human organism (the extraordinary and to some extent “unnatural” development of the brain) is not something like an “accident on the way” of will's manifestation in the world. It is rather, as it were, an intentional result of the whole process of objectivation of the will, a result that emerges from a teleological order. This teleological order is primary and more fundamental than the teleological order of nature that produces each phenomenon and each organic structure according to its ability to promote the emergence, conservation and expansion of life. This means that we have to understand the problematic principle of nature's purposiveness in Schopenhauer's thought as containing two distinct and largely contradictory orders of purpose. We can call these two orders of purposiveness “order of nature” and “order of salvation” (in analogy to Schopenhauer’s “kingdom of nature” and “kingdom of grace”). These two orders of purpose correspond to what I understand to be two forms of teleology that coexist in constant tension in his system: a functional and an ethical-soteriological teleology.

Meitei Umanglaiharaoba and the Order of Nature

While the debate between climate change activists and sceptics continues, we sure know that nature has suffered exceedingly at the hands of human beings. It is a complicated issue, and we can only blame ourselves and our attitude towards nature for such a knee-jerk response to the crisis at hand. In this paper, the author explores nature as Manipuris/Meiteis perceive it in the traditional Manipuri faith system and the sub-system called umanglais and their appeasement festival called umanglaiharaoba. Nature in the Meitei faith system is inclusive of all living and non-living organisms. They consider nature as a source for their survival and subsistence. The author believes, quite contrary to popular belief that human beings have created chaos of culture after separating themselves from the order of nature. The dichotomy of doctrinal and non-doctrinal faith systems has also put up an extended argument regarding nature and its place in human discourses. It is to be seen how nature is placed in umanglaiharaoba and other associated rites and rituals and explore how much space and traction nature has lost over the centuries in the said activities and practices.

“Against Nature”, or On How Scientific Description Becomes Ethical Prescription. Review of: Daston, L. (2019). Against Nature. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 96 p., il.

Against Nature, a book of L. Daston, is devoted to the historical transformations of the term “nature” and its significance in the formation of moral categories from Aristotle to our days. Daston pays special attention to the period between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries when “modern science” emerged. Daston clarifies the essential contents of such terms as “nature”, “normativity”, and “universal natural laws”, reconstructs the contexts underlying the introduction of these categories into scholarly discourse and finds out their significance in a situation of the growing social importance of scientific knowledge. All these let Daston trace the logic of at least three ways for the “order of nature” to transfer into “moral order” and conclude that the order of nature only had a representative function. The review contains parts of the Russian translation of Daston’s main ideas and conclusions, its critical and historiographic evaluation. Daston’s thesis about the weakness of naturalisation as discoursive strategy is contemplated in the context of the criticism of anthropocentrism, vividly illustrated by works of M. Serres, B. Latour, D. Haraway and T. Morton.

Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors

The transition to synchronization on branching hierarchical lattices.

We study the transition to synchronization on hierarchical lattices using the evolution of Chaté-Manneville maps placed on a triangular lattice. Connections are generated between the levels of the triangular lattice, assuming that each site is connected to its neighbors on the level below with probability half. The maps are diffusively coupled, and the map parameters increase hierarchically, depending on the map parameters at the sites they are coupled to in the previous level. The system shows a transition to synchronization, which is second order in nature, with associated critical exponents. However, the V-lattice, which is a special realization of this lattice, shows a transition to synchronization that is discontinuous with accompanying hysteretic behavior. This transition can thus be said to belong to the class of explosive synchronization with the explosive nature depending on the nature of the substrate. We carry out finite-size-finite-time scaling for the continuous transition and analyze the scaling of the jump size for the discontinuous case. We discuss the implications of our results and draw parallels with avalanche statistics on branching hierarchical lattices.

Lattice Instability and Raman Spectra of Bao Under High Pressure: A First Principles Study

Alkaline-earth metal oxides, in particular MgO and CaO dominate Earths lower mantle, therefore, exploring high pressure behavior of this class of compounds is of significant geophysical research interest. Among all these compounds, BaO exhibits rich polymorphism in the pressure range of 0-1.5 Mbar. Static enthalpy calculations revealed that BaO undergoes a pressure induced structural phase transition from NaCl-type (B1) $\rightarrow$ NiAs-type (B8) $\rightarrow$ distorted CsCl-type (d-B2) $\rightarrow$ CsCl-type (B2) at 5.1, 19.5, 120 GPa respectively. B1 $\rightarrow$ B8 $\&$ B8 $\rightarrow$ d-B2 transitions are found to be first order in nature whereas d-B2$\rightarrow$ B2 is a second order or weak first order phase transition. Interestingly, d-B2 phase shows stability over a wide pressure range, $\sim$19.5-113 GPa. Mechanical and dynamical stabilities of ambient and high pressure phases are demonstrated through computed elastic constants and phonon dispersion curves, respectively. Under high pressure, significant phonon softening and soft phonon mode along M-direction are observed for B8, d-B2 and B2 phases, respectively. Pressure dependent Raman spectra suggest a phase transition from d-B2 to Raman inactive phase under pressure. Overall, the present study provides a comprehensive understanding of underlying mechanisms behind pressure-induced structural phase transitions in BaO.

Women in Nephrology: The Journey, Barriers, Challenges and the Future

Women in Nephrology: The Journey, Barriers, Challenges and the Future

A Pantheology of Pandemic: Sex, Race, Nature, and the Virus

A Pantheology of Pandemic: Sex, Race, Nature, and the Virus

William James, Radical Empiricism, and the Affective Ground of Religious Life

William James, Radical Empiricism, and the Affective Ground of Religious Life

Processing Nature, Beyond the Antinomy Of Ecological Pretence In Contemporary Planning. A Critical Understanding Urban Ecosystems, The Epitome Of Liveable Cities

In the still dominant perception of a hierarchical order of nature, humans are disturbing ecosystems factors. We should move away from the one-dimensional dichotomy between natural and human interaction towards a more effective representation without nostalgia. The contact between human and natural habitats is close to the idea of maintaining and conserving a certain state of equilibrium, instead of letting natural habitats evolve into new ecosystems. In other words, energy management and the capacity of a system to self-organize (autopoiesis) defnes the difference between human and natural habitats. Where this capacity is not limited, a natural habitat is present. Contemporary landscapes (tourist coasts, reclaimed land, etc.) demonstrate this thesis by highlighting how human intervention is an indispensable factor in their maintenance. It is necessary to provide precise and sophisticated tools capable of synthesizing agents and forces within territorial transformations starting from a global understanding of natural processes. Ecological dynamics must be transformed into project parameters involved within design process. Here a further degree of integration is suggested above the level of simple natural ecosystems, where human is assumed as a key factor in landscape transformation and geography construction. Considering other paradigms that interfere with the same epistemological area, the contribution questions the theoretical and practical implications of rethinking the interaction between natural and artifcial ecosystems within the framework of landscape resilience. This perspective allows a territorial update by increasing the level of compatibility between the evolution of human habitat and the maintenance of natural regeneration times. This articulation, however, requires a reconsideration of landscape aesthetics beyond the beautiful and the consolatory, as well as a fundamental shift in landscape thinking from representation to action.