Original Vocation Research Articles

Funzioni e responsabilità delle scienze sociali: note su alcune vicende nello sviluppo della società italiana

This article examines some important moments of the social research and the debate on its public function in Italy. The illustration starts from the last phase of the nineteenth century and ends with the current situation of Italian sociology, which presents many problems and limitations. These limits severely reduce the public function of this subject. Sociology could be a foundamental and essential tool for our society. But it would be necessary – among other things – to recover the capacity for general, but not generic, analyses; and to resume the original vocation of sociology to criticize society.

GAMBARAN PENGETAHUAN MAHASISWA TINGKAT II TENTANG LAUDATO SI DI STIKES SANTA ELISABETH MEDAN TAHUN 2023

Knowledge is the result of knowing through sensory processes, especially the eyes and ears of objects. Knowledge is a very important domain for the formation of open behavior. Laudato Si is the care of our common home, taking care of nature's house is the original vocation of humans since humans are created. This understanding influences human life behavior in treating nature as a home. The love for nature changed the way of life for Franciscus Assisi by repenting and making peace with nature. The Encyclical Laudato Si is written by Pope Francis, the figure who inspired him is Franciscus Assisi. The research objective is to find out the level II student's knowledge about Laudato Si at STIKes Santa Elisabeth Medan 2023. The research used a qualitative method where data collection is carried out using an interview technique of 4 questions so that they are able to dig deeper about Laudato Si's knowledge. The sampling technique used purposive sampling of 5 participants. The data analysis technique used is thematic analysis. The results of the study were: Laudato Si is environmental care, awareness of love for the environment in preserving the earth or the environment both from small things such as disposing of trash in its place, Laudato si can be said to be handling various types of waste that can transmit disease, Laudato si can be seen from the way of sorting and packaging various kinds of infectious and non-infectious waste, Laudato Si is waste handling by separating waste according to its type.

Philanthropia as Skopos of the Incarnation: The Deifying Vocation of Humanity in Maximus the Confessor

AbstractAbstract: Maximus the Confessor's belief that the Incarnation would have happened without a Fall is a key facet of his thought, yet contradicts portions of his corpus which state that God became human due to sin. I assert that Maximus affirms a prelapsarian motive of the Incarnation for two reasons: his conception of deification as participation and understanding of humanity's original vocation. Deification and vocation are presented by Maximus in such a way that they could have only been fulfilled through Christ's Incarnation; the joining of human and divine natures is not a soteriological necessity. Analysing accounts of the Fall of Adam in both the Questiones ad Thalassium and the Ambiguum demonstrate that the Confessor reconciles the historic need for salvation with the will of God from all eternity. I argue that a reading of Ambigua 41 in the context of the Maximian corpus reveals an all‐encompassing reason for the Incarnation. Philanthropy (φιλανθρωπία), God's love for humanity, is the motive (σκοπός) for the Incarnation that embraces the divine preexistent intention without contradicting soteriology.

Between Impact Research and Rootedness in the Community

The race for high ranking and the search for impact risks are exhausting universities and distracting them from their original vocation. This is all the more true if we are led to eliminate all training that cannot guarantee its usefulness (understood as a contribution to growth and economic development). In this game, theology is immediately eliminated. Conceived as “useless,” it cannot manage to maintain its place in the universities, defined as a place of training for the workforce—unless we come to otherwise define the usefulness of a university discipline. Pope Francis’s proposal, in the introduction to the Apostolic Constitution Veritatis gaudium, not only argues in favour of the usefulness of theology but invites ecclesiastical studies to a radical change of paradigm if they want to play a key role in the development of a new humanism. It is this original proposal that is presented here.

To read what is not written: from psychoanalysis to rhetoric and back

ABSTRACT One of the grand narratives of modernity, psychoanalysis can be read as a genre of speculative discourse that, recognizing the force of living speech, places itself in competition with philosophy and rhetoric. Performative through and through, it uncovers the ambiguity of meaning as it flows from speakers to addressees who stand to the former as more than themselves. Given its emphasis on language and the pragmatic contexts in which analytic discourse acts to establish and recreate reality, psychoanalysis bears undeniable affinity to rhetoric and, by extension, communication studies and media studies. This themed issue assembles four essays that explore the productive potentials of psychoanalysis to rhetoric and communication studies, and vice versa. Taken together, they demonstrate the relevance of psychoanalytic perspectives to rhetorical inquiries, especially when they respond to rhetoric's original vocation as technê and epistêmê.

Sustainable Strategies for the Adaptive Reuse of Religious Heritage: A Social Opportunity

The legacy of built heritage is one of the most critical questions of our time—the objective of preserving its immaterial values and exploiting its original vocation brings about challenges related to the history, the identity, and the quality of life of the concerned territory. This especially applies to religious buildings given their strong bond with collective memory. The aim of this research is to determine whether allocating new uses that pursuit social benefits for the community is a possible implementation of the aforementioned purposes and whether it better addresses a broader view of sustainable development, which encompasses equity and well-being. The methodology combines careful knowledge of the building, comparing residual performances of the fabric with new functions. We present a case study, with focus on healthcare-related accommodation facilities and the issue of healthcare migration, which aims to convert a dismissed capuchin convent, located in Villagonia (Taormina, Italy), into a shelter house to host families whose relatives are being treated at the neighbourhood medical centre. This proposal shows that heritage buildings, especially religious ones, have outstanding material and immaterial potential and, through good reuse practices, they provide a valuable opportunity to address the overarching objective of social sustainability.

Lake Garda lemon houses (Italy): Opportunities of a sensitive, marginal area in urban planning

AbstractThe lemon houses of Lake Garda provide Ecosystem Services, due to their history and their deep rooting in the landscape. Unfortunately, Urban Planning hasn’t ever taken into account these possible benefits. In fact, it has always allowed their reuse as residences and it has sustained the conservation of the buildings only. The lack of interest in reintroducing lemon growing or other agricultural activities has produced a noticeable impoverishment of the local landscape. To overcome these limits, Urban Planning should be oriented to implement practices, which take root in and bring out the variety of local landscapes. In order to reach this result, Urban Planning may help to bring some lemon houses, especially the abandoned or the most vulnerable ones, back to their original agricultural vocation, reintroducing autopoietic agricultural techniques, which are in balance with the environment. An interdisciplinary approach may be adopted in a profitable way, to strengthen the efficiency of the Urban Planning. Aiming at this interdisciplinary approach the paper reports our first investigations concerning the contribution of different disciplines, which will help Urban Planning to consider, in case of the reuse of Lake Garda lemon houses, immaterial benefits and to reintroduce activities linked to their original vocation.

Regulación del sector financiero y separación de poderes

El principio de separación de poderes, cuyo fundamento clásico reside en la garantía de la libertad de los ciudadanos, ha ido mutando conforme a los cambios históricos,desde una visión puramente institucional hasta otra más rica en la que también se tiene en cuenta la idea de equilibrio y contrapeso entre intereses sociales y económicos.En el contexto de ese proceso cobra especial relieve el nacimiento y propagación, dentro de los Estados democráticos constitucionales contemporáneos, de las denominadas autoridades independientes. Sin embargo, la influencia de poderosos intereses económicos y la fagocitación de las instituciones por el denominado Estado de partidos son susceptibles de afectar negativamente al buen funcionamiento de dichos organismos. Para lograr que el principio de separación de poderes continúe respondiendo a su vocación originaria de servicio a la igual libertad de los ciudadanos, el diseño de las autoridades independientes debe respetar una serie de requisitos. Finalmente, en el estudio se aplican dichas ideas a los actuales procesos de reordenación financiera y el organismo encargado de ellos, el Fondo de Reestructuración Ordenada Bancaria (FROB).

The Missiology of Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck’s fame as a novelist (best known for her beloved book The Good Earth) often overshadowed her original vocation as a Presbyterian missionary and her later role as a social activist. Her Christian values, however, provided an important foundation for humanitarian works. This article underscores her identity as a missionary and a humanitarian who formed a bridge between the East and the West. To understand her theology and worldviews, one must situate her within the rise of Protestant liberalism and emerging ecumenical Christianity. The first half of the article delineates her life, and the second half expounds on her missiology in close conjunction with her peer William E. Hocking.

The second best bed, or the female unique? Germaine Greer’s unlikely championing of love and marriage in Shakespeare’s Wife

ABSTRACTGermaine Greer’s remarkable career has obscured her original vocation as a Shakespeare scholar. Her drama criticism stands as a corrective check to the conservative, still male-biased, established word on the popular perception of Shakespeare’s legacy. As we perversely celebrate the four-hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, it is instructive to re-visit Greer’s contribution to our understanding of what his life and work meant, as well as exploring who best hears his voice today. It would have been an easy thing for Greer to let the world forget her formative years as a Shakespeare scholar, and accept the identity of feminist icon. However, with the publication of Shakespeare’s Wife (2009) she reasserted her scholarly and critical identity in a profoundly stimulating way, re-focusing the discussion of love and marriage she broached in The Female Eunuch back to Shakespeare. The most fascinating element of Greer’s biography of Ann Hathaway is her ability to shake us back to the fore play of Shakespeare studies with rigorous historical detail. This article explores the points of harmony and contradiction between Greer’s Shakespeare criticism and her oft-quoted views on society, sex, marriage and love.

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BACKGROUND: Cut wrist repair is commonest procedure done in Hand surgery, inspite of that there is dearth of literature on long term functional outcome & social rehabilitation of such patients, so we decided to study our patients retrospectively with self-devised scale which not only incorporated the combined assessment of nerve & tendon but also the patients self-assessment of his status of recovery. MATERIAL AND METHODS: we retrospectively studied a cohort of 32 patients by searching through hospital records from 2010 to 2013. RESULTS: Most common age group 21-30 yrs, M:F=9:1, glass cut most common injury, sensation improved with time but return of sensation not seen in period of observation, MN has better recovery than UN, except 2 patients significant 2PD was not observed. Cold intolerance/paraesthesia is a common problem in patients & persists for long, tendon function recovery is good to excellent at wrist level, majority of our patients were satisfied & were able to return to their original vocation within 1 yr.

The Impact of the Civil War on the Life and Work of Antonio Buero Vallejo

This essay begins with an account of the third decade of Buero Vallejo's life, from the outbreak of the Civil War to his release from imprisonment thereafter in 1946, in the course of which he abandoned his original vocation as a graphic artist to become Spain's leading playwright throughout the second half of the century. It proceeds to demonstrate the enormous influence of those ten years on almost all his thirty works for the stage, and concludes with a discussion of his last, Misión al pueblo desierto (1999). In this, characteristically an open-ended ‘tragedia esperanzada’, an imaginary episode early in the War is framed by a debate in the present which insists on the need to confront today the issues that that conflict raised.

Comunità internazionale’ e ‘famiglia umana’ nel pensiero e nell’azione di Giovanni Paolo II

The “international community and the “global affairs” in the teaching and activity of John Paul II
 During the course of John Paul II’s pontificate the Holy See gained considerable significance in the international system. Its diplomatic function was also renovated. The states that played the most important role in world politics and the main international institutions realized the existence of this change soon after the archbishop of Kraków was chosen as the head of the Holy See. Such a change, initiated and continued within a system which assumed more and more clear outlines, consisted above all in the considerable strengthening of universalism in which the Church tried to interpret its original catholic vocation in the face of the rhythms, the extent and the unexpected consequences of the process of globalization. At first glance, two fundamental phenomena: the increased global role of the pontificate (associated also with media broadcasting) and the change of the international (or global) situation seem separate. However, they seem to be so only, if not exclusively, due to analytical reasons. For historiographic reasons, a holistic treatment of the increasing role and the activity of the Holy See in the world arena in a wide array of contemporary international events would satisfy the requirements of in -depth and specialist research (e.g. the processes of changes and their transformations, the more or less stable balance of power and the lack of balance, efforts directed toward the rebuilding of the balance of power). And conversely – the following insights or research would prove partial and incomplete in the same way: research and insights which would consider the ever increasing “universalistic” presence of the Catholic Church, but which would perceive this phenomenon only through the perspective of the stages of the internal history of the church community, omitting and or dismissing as sideshows and remote phenomena certain forces of the global system, in which geopolitical and economic alliances started to appear with amazing rapidity in the last decades of the second millennium. Two phenomena, considering the order of events and the historical context, became indissolubly linked. As a result of this one cannot acquire in -depth knowledge about the reality of any of these two phenomena individually if one fails to understand the nature of the second phenomenon. The mutual overlap of the strictly ecclesiastical and political dimensions forms the basis (also the methodological basis) of this analysis, in which three basic statements are essentially considered. Firstly, the activity of John Paul II, even though when it seemed to respond to urgent circumstances in the majority of cases, or to the necessities caused by various events, was in reality directed and confirmed by a strictly defined and precise vision. This vision had both an ecclesiastical and political nature, and it was realized in an authentic manner. Secondly, the source and the power of the vision that was presented by John Paul II lay in the principles of constitutive traditions and the thinking of the Church, especially its social doctrine. This vision also defines the perspectives of the international community which go considerably beyond contemporaneity and the problems associated with it. Thirdly, the vision of the Polish Pope, if it were to be carried on and completely fulfilled, required the involvement and active participation of all of the members of the community of the faithful, according to what John Paul II himself said about the social doctrine. In the final chapter of the encyclical entitled Centesimus annus, the Pope emphasizes that the social message of the Gospel should not be perceived as a theory, but above all as the foundation and motive of action.Due to the fact that some recurrent concepts or main ideas constitute the basic elements of this vision of Pope John Paul II, they should be considered in their entirety as a sort of a constellation. The indissoluble links between the thought, the teaching of John Paul II and his personal engagement and activity proved decisive in the bringing about of this great turning point in the history of the world and the Church – a turning point which continues to amaze us. Such an impression is caused above all due to its extraordinary, almost inexplicable features, at least according to the known parameters of the logic of decision and human conduct.

On economists and garbagemen: Reflections on Šťastný (2010)

In his book on the economics of the economic profession, Sťastný (2010) provides a valuable service not only to professional economists, but also to the broader public who ought to be aware of the incentive structure of economic research and therefore cautious of accepting the advice of expert economists. In his book, Sťastný makes two broad claims, or two series of claims. The first revolves around the disconnect that exists between economists’ policy prescriptions and reality. In spite of the consensual views of economists on subjects like trade protectionism, rent controls, or agricultural subsidies, these demonstrably harmful policies remain in place, and sometimes even enjoy popular support. Hence the frustration experienced by many economists who were lured into economics with the ambition of changing, reforming, and improving the world. The second series of claims tries to account for the peculiar interaction between the supply and demand for economic ideas. Sťastný claims that the growing irrelevance of economists in shaping public policy has led them to embark on less and less salient lines of inquiry and to indulge in solving obscure mathematical problems instead of addressing empirically relevant questions and being a significant voice in public debates. Worse yet, professional economists have abandoned their original vocation and, instead of speaking truth to the powerful, they have started to accommodate the politicians’ demand for a ‘scientific’ and ‘scholarly’ justification of their actions. As a result, Sťastný argues, economists have become less socially useful than garbagemen. Our ambition is not to denounce individual economists or economists as a group— and neither is that Sťastný’s ambition. What we wish to subject to critical scrutiny, Rev Austrian Econ (2012) 25:173–183 DOI 10.1007/s11138-011-0160-6

Il tempio, la città santa e i sacerdoti nel libro di Geremia

The scope of this contribution is to highlight the theological concept of the book of Jeremiah regarding the Temple, the Holy City and the priests. After a short introductory note on the priestly origin of Jeremiah, the analysis concentrates on the passages which focus on the controversy against priests as leaders of the people, those relating to the cult and those that show the relationship of the prophet with some priests who are responsible for the security of the temple. Furthermore, some of the words of salvation present in chaps. 30-31 and 33, show the positive attitude of the prophet towards priests and the Holy City. Though the book gives great importance to the prophetical character of the existence and mission of Jeremiah, it does however offer a good amount of details regarding the familiarity and the bond of the prophet with these institutions, which underline for the present time the original vocation and a future prospective of their defining role in the construction of the new Israel.

Epithelioid Sarcoma of the Forearm Arising from Perineural Sheath of Median Nerve Mimicking Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

We report here a case of epithelioid sarcoma in the forearm of a 33-year-old male presenting with symptoms and signs of carpal tunnel syndrome originating from the direct involvement of the median nerve. Due to the slow growing of the tumor, the patient noticed the presence of tumor mass in his forearm after several months from the initial onset of the symptoms. Magnetic resonance imaging showed an 8 × 4 cm mass involving the median nerve in the middle part of the forearm, and histological analysis of the biopsy specimen revealed the diagnosis of epithelioid sarcoma. Radical surgical resection was performed in conjunction with adjuvant chemotherapy. The function of the flexors were restored by the multiple tendon transfers (EIP → FDS; ECRL → FDP; BrR → FPL; EDM → opponens) with superficial cutaneous branch of radial nerve transfer to the resected median nerve. The function of the affected hand showed excellent with the DASH disability/symptom score of 22.5, and both the grasp power and sensory of the median nerve area has recovered up to 50% of the normal side. The patient returned to his original vocation and alive with continuous disease free at 3.5-year follow-up since initial treatment.

Designed for the job

Infosecurity magazine was re-launched three years ago to translate its publisher's historic strength in computer security academic research into the commercial sphere. We sought to continue the magazine's original vocation as a promotional vehicle for the Infosecurity Europe show, but also set out to buttress that with independent journalism in the service of the infosec community. Brian McKenna, Editor.

James Legge and the Strange Saga of British Sinology and the Comparative Science of Religions in the Nineteenth Century

AbstractJames Legge (1815–1897) is primarily remembered today as the heroic translator of the Chinese Classics (1861–1872, 1893–1895). Allowing for changes in stylistic taste, these massive translations are still considered the “standard” versions of works that “classically” and “scripturally” defined a so-called Confucian “great tradition” in China. Unfortunately a fixation on this singular scholarly accomplishment has tended to brand Legge as merely a great, though plodding, translator – someone primarily remarkable for his indefatigable habits of working. Certainly it was often felt that his contributions to the emergent Sinological Orientalism of the nineteenth century in no way matched the achievements of the great Parisian academicians (Abel Rémusat and Stanislas Julien); nor was he seen as a particularly significant figure in any other aspect of British tradition in the nineteenth century. Even worse, and seeming to make him a fit candidate for Lytton Strachey's debunking criticism of all insufferably righteous Victorian paragons of virtue, was that his identity as a sinologist and scholar was forever tainted by his original vocation as a Congregationalist missionary agent for the London Missionary Society.

Shakspeare's Original Vocation

Shakspeare's Original Vocation