Existence Of Theory Research Articles

On Heidegger's Concept of "Dasein" A Discussion Based on Being and Time

"Dasein" is a central concept in Heidegger's philosophy, representing a unique form of existence among many. Unlike other existents, it takes priority over them, defining their existence. Unlike other theories of existence, the ontological treatment of "Dasein" is not an abstract idea but deeply rooted in everyday human life. This paper explores the concept of "Dasein" following the insights of Being and Time. This passage discusses the background and significance of Martin Heidegger's philosophy, as well as its research value and influence on subsequent philosophers. It then delves into Heidegger's philosophy of "Dasein," explaining its fundamental constructs, including the rejection of the Cartesian subject and the establishment of a solid philosophical foundation based on existence itself rather than the level of the existent. It further explores the basic ways in which Dasein unfolds, such as "thrownness," "projection," and "fallenness," deepening the understanding of the structure of being-in-the-world and its fundamental regulations.

The Interpretation of Organizational Ontologies

What does it mean for an organization “to exist”? Building upon the philosophical notion of ontologies as theories of existence, I outline a theory of organizational ontology supported by the premise that organizations contain implicit existential conventions that provide their members with an understanding of what their joint existence is. This study aims to answer two questions. First, what constitutes an organizational ontology? Second, how can this be accessed and represented? Using a methodology informed by cultural interpretation, I ground this study empirically in ethnographic fieldwork at a not-for-profit organization devoted to teaching math to “left behind” children.

COMMUNICATIVE-DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES OF EDUCATIONAL VALUES DEANTHROPOLOGIZATION

The article is devoted to the issues of Russian youth education in the conditions of the modern information society development. The purpose of the study is to analyze the communicative and digital technologies that have a destructive impact on the individual in the context of the development of the project “non-figurative education” in Russia. The article substantiates the position that “non-figurative education” is aimed at deanthropologization, which is designed to revise the ideals of humanism, subject the personality to spiritual and moral degradation, by primitivizing the value bases and orientations of the individual. Conclusions. Today, mankind as a specific way of existence is turning into a transforming force on a planetary scale. Understanding of a person in this way reveals the urgent need for interdisciplinary research focused both on the analysis of existing socio-humanitarian theories of human existence, and the search for new forms of his interaction with the multitude of all structures in reality.

Ensuring the priority of health care in the activities of the state

The legal provision of valeological education of the future teacher is regulated by several national and international documents according to the hierarchical principle. Ukraine acquires rights, duties, and, most importantly, opportunities in the development of the authentic valeological space at all levels of political and social activity, gradually entering the world social, medical, psychological, and valeological community. In the state documents on education, considerable attention is paid to the implementation of a social request, a social order related to the search for new forms of training of a specialist in the educational and recreational field, who should perfectly possess the main and related professions, can solve the tasks of training specialists in conditions of competitiveness, integrativity, and intensity of activity. Now in our state, several laws stimulate the introduction of valeological education for the general masses of the population. Although in the Ukrainian legal field valeological issues are solved dualistically (as medical and extra medical, therapeutic and preventive, special and general), now there is every opportunity to make valeological culture a publicly available component of universal humanity. Naturally, the subject of reflection of various forms of social consciousness at different times was a person, his spiritual and/or physical perfection. So, within the framework of philosophy, as a joint foremother of the humanities and, to a large extent, the natural sciences, psychological, pedagogical, and medical theories of human health and existence developed.

Existence, really? Tacit disagreements about “existence” in disputes about group minds and corporate agents

A central dispute in social ontology concerns the existence of group minds and actions. I argue that some authors in this dispute rely on rival views of existence without sufficiently acknowledging this divergence. I proceed in three steps in arguing for this claim. First, I define the phenomenon as an implicit higher-order disagreement by drawing on an analysis of verbal disputes. Second, I distinguish two theories of existence—the theory-commitments view and the truthmaker view—in both their eliminativist and their constructivist variants. Third, I examine individual contributions to the dispute about the existence of group minds and actions to argue that these contributions have an implicit higher-order disagreement. This paper serves two purposes. First, it is a study to apply recent advances in meta-ontology. Second, it contributes to the debate on social ontology by illustrating how meta-ontology matters for social ontology.

The Lessons of Community Rights Ordinances for Democratic Philosophizing

ABSTRACTJacques Rancière's account of the political demonstration of equality makes an important contribution to long-standing conceptualizations of democracy as occurring apart from state institutions. Rancière's performative account of democracy, however, recognizes the impurity of political language used within state institutions as well as in democratic events. Rancière's polemics against “metapolitical” theories of social existence and the state take issue with how such forms of philosophy assume the primacy of their own capacity to explain political language. Community rights ordinances (CROs) demonstrate how conceptualizing shared political language as doxa reveals the possibility that a metapolitical rhetorical style can occur within Rancière's method of equality. CROs also demonstrate how the method of equality can operate in the context of democratic philosophizing.

Kant and Frege on existence

According to what Jonathan Bennett calls the Kant–Frege view of existence, Frege gave solid logical foundations to Kant’s claim that existence is not a real predicate. In this article I will challenge Bennett’s claim by arguing that although Kant and Frege agree on what existence is not, they agree neither on what it is nor on the importance and justification of existential propositions. I identify three main differences: first, whereas for Frege existence is a (non-relational) property of a concept, for Kant it is a relational property pertaining between the concept and intuition of an object. Second, whereas for Frege truth about individuals presupposes their existence, for Kant truth is in many cases (including judgments about individuals) independent of the (possible) existence of objects. Third, whereas Frege binds logic to existence and removes modalities from logic, for Kant existence is a modal category that is emphatically removed from the domain of (general) logic and set in the core of metaphysics. Due to these differences in Kant’s and Frege’s theories of existence, Frege cannot be seen as giving logical clarity to Kant’s view.

Utopianism and the Quest Motif in Ben Okri

INTRODUCTIONBen Okri's aesthetic fervor evidenced in the weird cornucopia of the mythic and the real in his works is impelled by larger-than-life vision of Utopia in which man is untrammeled by any form of bondage, social and political, physical or spiritual. Burrowing beneath the surface turbulence of his prose fiction with its miasma of murders, political and spiritual oppressions, megalomania and concatenation of other human frailties and woes, it becomes manifest that Okri's aesthetic penchant for the phantasmagorical and the liminalities of human engagement with life transcends the satiric; rather, his unusual artistic effervescence encodes an enduring search for new man living in Jerusalem. Like Martin Luther King (Jr), Okri has dream of world in which there is equality for all men, world which abhors suffering and poverty, golden realm from which unbridled materialism and greed-driver leadership have been winnowed out by the magisterial alliance of positive human effort and constructive spiritual forces. This paper posits that Ben Okri's unusual characterization is one of the avenues explored by him to effectively work out and demonstrate his Utopian quest for the New Man.Ben Okri scholarship of recent tends to concentrate on other areas aside from the Utopian essence of his characterization. Such studies include Ikenn Kamalu's Language, Style and Ideology in Ben Okri's Fiction which demonstrates the linguistic can be used to illuminate the ideology that is encoded in literary (67); Sola Ogunbayo's Paradox as Prophecy in Ben Okri's Mental which is a demonstration of how paradox as style in Ben Okri's Mental Flight has lent the text to prophetic reading (186); and Alex Asakitipi's Engaging in Life's Dialogue: A Sociological Interpretation of the Notion of Abiku in the Works of Soyinka, J.P. Clark and Ben Okri can be integrated into sociological account of the experience of transcendental phenomenon is way that acknowledges both the biological and social facts as well as how this experience can be interrogated with the domain of the sociology of illness and diseases (65). None of these works as well as others mentioned below focuses on the Utopianism and quest motif in Ben Okri's characterization. This paper, therefore, fills gap in research and advances the frontier of the knowledge universe.Liminality and Utopian Characterization in the Literary TextM. H. Abrams avers that characters are the fictional persons involved in the plots of narrative works to whom readers ascribe moral and emotional qualities based on their actions and conversations (20). Ian Watt adds that the canons of realism demand that the author of realistic novel provides the readers with enough details about his characters to particularize their identity and individuality in the reader's imagination. In other words, it is incumbent on the author of realistic novel to make his readers so intimately acquainted with his characters that the creations of his brain should be to them speaking, moving, living human creatures (Trollop cited in Allot 285). A careful analysis of Okri's works, however, shows the interweaving of the mythic on the real in Okri's characters, and this paper argues that Okri's recur to luminal characters hacks back to man's archetypal quest for the Utopian ideal.Utopia, concept popularized by Sir Thomas More's 1516 novel of that title, refers to perfect or ideal society which ironically does not exist except in the cerebral realms of literary, social and religious creations. Etymologically, it is Greek word with contradictory significations of a good place and no place. In essence, the Utopian ideal remains tantalizing vision, pristine, desirable but unattainable. At the social-political level, Marxism, Feminism and many other theories of existence and social relations could be regarded as Utopianisms in their strident and passionate philosophical re-envisioning of man's milieu. …

Nonideal Rayleigh–Taylor mixing

Rayleigh-Taylor mixing is a classical hydrodynamic instability that occurs when a light fluid pushes against a heavy fluid. The two main sources of nonideal behavior in Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) mixing are regularizations (physical and numerical), which produce deviations from a pure Euler equation, scale invariant formulation, and nonideal (i.e., experimental) initial conditions. The Kolmogorov theory of turbulence predicts stirring at all length scales for the Euler fluid equations without regularization. We interpret mathematical theories of existence and nonuniqueness in this context, and we provide numerical evidence for dependence of the RT mixing rate on nonideal regularizations; in other words, indeterminacy when modeled by Euler equations. Operationally, indeterminacy shows up as nonunique solutions for RT mixing, parametrized by Schmidt and Prandtl numbers, in the large Reynolds number (Euler equation) limit. Verification and validation evidence is presented for the large eddy simulation algorithm used here. Mesh convergence depends on breaking the nonuniqueness with explicit use of the laminar Schmidt and Prandtl numbers and their turbulent counterparts, defined in terms of subgrid scale models. The dependence of the mixing rate on the Schmidt and Prandtl numbers and other physical parameters will be illustrated. We demonstrate numerically the influence of initial conditions on the mixing rate. Both the dominant short wavelength initial conditions and long wavelength perturbations are observed to play a role. By examination of two classes of experiments, we observe the absence of a single universal explanation, with long and short wavelength initial conditions, and the various physical and numerical regularizations contributing in different proportions in these two different contexts.

Five theories of the human existence.

Soren Ventegodt*, Niels Jorgen Andersen, and Joav Merrick The Quality of Life Research Center, Teglgardstraede 4-8, DK-1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark; Norwegian School of Management, Sandvika, Norway; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Office of the Medical Director, Division for Mental Retardation, Ministry of Social Affairs, Jerusalem and Zusman Child Development Center, Division of Pediatrics and Community Health, Ben Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Aliens Who Are of Course Ourselves

The cultural theorist and novelist Albert Murray once remarked that the mandate of the black intellectual was to provide “technology” to the black community.2 By technology, Murray didn't mean mechanics, new media, or the Internet. Rather, he defined it as those novel analytic approaches he believed necessary to understanding black life “on a higher level of abstraction.”3 For Murray, this process was one of distillation and complication. He advocated theories of African American existence that, like a blueprint, would be sufficiently robust to reveal the larger patterns of society and do justice to its intricacies and complexities. By Murray's definition, the artist Laylah Ali is a technologist of the highest order. In spite of their striking clarity, her gouache images reflect the contradictions of the human condition.Ali's work explores the tragic lives of the Greenheads, her hypercephalic, thin-limbed, brown-skinned creations. Using a limited palette, she composes provocative visual fields noticeably lacking in scenery, save the humanoid figures that inhabit them. A master at sleight of hand, she uses bright comic-strip colors in a way that recalls the Sunday funnies; but these images have more in common with sardonic political cartoons, for the figures she depicts inflict all manner of insult and injury on one other. Although Ali provides no script for her images, their despair and anger is unmistakable. But there is no violent haste in her brush stroke; the images are controlled—eerily exact. As befits the work of a technician, these tortured lives are rendered with the sharpest precision.

Personal survival and the closest-continuer theory

Philosophical sophisticates can easily trot out arguments against the likelihood of life after death. Many of these arguments are quite compelling. Indeed, I believe that a couple of them may provide us with exceedingly good evidence that western theism's conception of personal survival of biological death is impossible. One common argumentative strategy for establishing such a substantive philosophical and religious conclusion, however, is deeply flawed. Several contemporary philosophers have offered analyses of the concept of personal identity that suggest the following argument. Personal survival requires strict personal identity between the pre-mortem individual whose survival is in question, and the post-mortem individual whose continued existence would seem to provide the answer. Unfortunately, so this argument goes, the notion of personal identity that is at the heart of this story is logically incoherent. A logically necessary condition for the required strict personal identity is strict bodily identity - physico-spatio-temporal continuity. Biological death is by definition an interruption of bodily continuity, whether or not the interruption is temporary in theories of bodily resurrection, or permanent in theories of disembodied existence. Thus, philosophical analysis of what is meant by the concept of being the same person over time rules out any possibility of personal survival. If life after death is a logical impossibility, this has obvious theological significance. My purpose in this essay is to offer one reason for being highly skeptical about the claim that strict bodily continuity is any kind of logical precondition for personal identity. On methodological grounds I doubt that philosophical proof is ever possible for substantive theses like these. I make no attempt to argue for this general methodological position

Theories of Existence, by T. L. S. Sprigge

<b>Theories of Existence</b>, by T. L. S. Sprigge

Theories of Existence.

Theories of Existence.